rthstewart | 3 Sentence Ficathon

EDIT! THIS POST IS NOW CLOSED TO NEW PROMPTS, PLEASE POST NEW PROMPTS HERE!

CaramelSilver isn’t running the awesome 3 sentence ficathon this year, but she said I could do it in her place!! (Banner courtesy of CaramelSilver and thanks so much!)

What is the 3 Sentence Ficathon?
This is a challenge where you answer a prompt with a fic consisting of only three sentences. It's open to all fandoms and you can post and answer as many prompts as you like, as many times as you want.

What do I do?
You post prompts! When posting a prompt please format it this way:

fandom, character/pairing, prompt word/sentence.

Only one prompt per comment please.

What else?
You answer other posters' prompts in three sentences (or more if you can't stop yourself) and fill as many prompts as you want, as many times as you wish. If you see that a prompt you loved has already been filled, go ahead and fill it again! Multiple fills of the same prompt allowed.

I'm not a member of Dreamwidth
No problem. You can comment anonymously or through open ID

Can anyone play?
Yes! Please pimp this to your flist, I'd like as many as possible to come and participate!

I'm cross-posting to LJ but we will keep all prompts and fills here, so they are in one awesome place (and with less spam).

Here's a link for spreading the word to all your friends and comms (thanks

snacky !)

How long can it go?
CaramelSilver kept the 2011 3 Sentence Ficathon up for a month. I'd suggest closing it on Sunday, April 7, 2013. How does that sound? (edit: If we reach 5,000 comments sooner, I'll start a new one).

Are there any rules about cross-posting?
Nope, you can post wherever you want, whenever you want. Last year, a lot of folks collected their responses together and posted them on AO3 under the 3 sentence fiction tag.

Gosh who are all these people writing such great prompts and fills?
Good question! Come to the friending meme and introduce yourself if you like.

lady_songsmith explains, for the 2011 3 Sentence Ficathon,

grim_lupine created a delicious account to archive the 3 Sentence Ficathon.

lady_songsmith has reactivated the archive on delicious for this challenge, so, here is the account ~~(nothing current added yet, though~~): https://previous.delicious.com/3sentence She asks that if anyone would be willing to help knock down the backlog of the prolific-ness thus far, let her know!! (She adds: I know folks are kinda down on delicious with the changes, but, hey, it's an archive already set up with useful tags!)

On the subject of archiving, I really encourage people to collect and post their fills elsewhere. That way, we can find your work more easily again, redundancy is always good and it's really useful for future remixes and other challenges and gift exchanges you might participate in. I'll start a linking post so that if you do collect all your fills and post them on your own blog or an archive like AO3, you can give give us the link in comments.

edited March 12, 2013
edited March 13, 2013 to fix box coding problem (thanks to those who helped!) and to add link to friending meme
edited March 15, 2013 to add information on archiving.
edited March 24, 2013 to close post to new prompts.

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Therewith from his belt of battle he raised the golden sheath,
And showed the peace-strings glittering about the hidden death:
Then he laid his hand on the Branstock, and cried: "O tree beloved,
I thank thee of thy good-heart that so little thou art moved:
Abide thou thus, green bower, when I am dead and gone
And the best of all my kindred a better day hath won!

Mac's voice rose exuberantly, clear and rich, knowing just what emphasis to put on what cadence, as he read from Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs (it'd been his turn to pick the book; hers had been Twain's newest, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, but Mac of course had come home with epic Norse poetry, and she could not deny her poet his verses.) Rose gave up trying to concentrate on her mending and instead watched him breath life into the noble king, the brave shieldmaiden, the "son of Signy with the fierce and eager eyes"; it was all too easy to picture the hero Sigurd not as a Nordic warrior but a man with dishevelled hair, eyes that brightened under shining glasses, and lips that spoke both genius and love.

Author's notes: Sigurd was published in 1876 by the poet William Morris, and would go on to influence Tolkien and other fantasy authors (Sigurd's sword, "The Wrath," is forged from the shards of Odin's shattered blade: These shards shall be knit together, and shall hear the war-wind blow.). Tom Sawyer was also published in 1876, the year that I'm assuming for the conclusion of Rose in Bloom.

Oh my GOSH so perfect!!! It's SO Mac all over, the poetry, the lines you picked. And Rose loving him reading about nobility and courage. *incoherent with happy bouncing*

I don't know this verse except through your lovely Yuletide. This is just terrific. It is SO exciting and passionate, just as I've seen Mac and Rose developed in your writing.

BRB, going in search of said Yuletide.

LOL, I've already read it, I just forgot it was by Starbrow. Figures I would have read all the Louisa May Alcott fic available.

Edited 2013-03-20 00:46 (UTC)

MAC. ROSE. MAC READING NORSE POETRY TO ROSE ASDKFHASKJDHFALDJLKJKASJD SQUEE <3333333333333. If I had more times I'd reply with all the Mac-and-Old-English feels but for now just flail this is great.

3 Sentence Ficathon

The library was not so quiet, but it was their own, after all

Re: The library was not so quiet, but it was their own, after all

SQUEEEE!

Re: The library was not so quiet, but it was their own, after all

Wait, there's more?

Re: The library was not so quiet, but it was their own, after all