3 Sentence Ficathon

[rthstewart]

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 !)


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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.

As  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. 

Comments

[katharhino]

He read to her, in his growly voice, from a book whose binding had gone crumbly with age; a story about a goddess, a goddess more beautiful than the dawn, and her husband, a hunched and silent blacksmith whom everyone called ugly. But when he reached the part where the beautiful goddess betrayed her husband with a handsome warrior, Belle snatched the book from his hand and tossed it so hastily on a side table that it slid off and hit the floor with a thump, the cover splitting in protest against such disrespect.

"That's a very stupid story," she said, catching her breath.

[rthstewart]

I love this blending of myth and fairy tale. Great stories that repeat themselves, over and over. This is so moving, how she cares for him in the best way possible, by tossing the story aside and to make their own where the beauty does not betray the ugly beast.

[buttonloops]

This is gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous. I just watched Beauty and the Beast for the first time recently and still have all the feels, so thank you.

[vialethe]

Aww, I love the intensity of her reaction! She won't be leading the same life as Aphrodite, that's for sure.

EEEE

[starbrow]

{More flailing} You guys...you...I JUST LOVE YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS because it hits feels I didn't even know I had, and this is so much better than I could have imagined when I wrote that prompt, even though I knew you all were awesome, I still am blown away. I love that you chose Aphrodite to contrast with Belle - that she wouldn't let Beast read about that story, because that wouldn't be their ending. I literally gasped when she knocked it out of his hand. Wonderful.

[metonomia]

OH MY HEART wow this is gorgeous, the retelling of the myth and her ANGER oh Belllllle!

[lettered]

I LOVE THIS.