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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OMG YES!
I mean, the meta in this, where these two are always made into such signs of undying love without any consideration as to how they might feel about their own stories (Alcestis, especially, but the many reinterpretations of Eurydice have really changed my mind about her story!) ♥ ♥ ♥

YES YES which is always interesting to me because a lot of greek/roman myths actually pay some fair attention to women's pov, but these stories it is just a side note. Alcestis at least did volunteer, with Eurydice it always feels so much like shit just happens to her so that we can tell the superawesome story of superawesome Orpheus, so I LOVE the retellings in which she gets more and differing voice in it.

(It doesn't help that in so many paintings of them in the underworld, before the moment of Orpheus looking back, *she* is depicted looking back at Hades and Persephone lakjepoajeporahjapoij THIS IS MY FAVORITE ONE: http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5277/5832488357_290340140f_z.jpg BECAUSE KLDJAPOWEJAP OIJ THE OBVIOUS LOVE QUADRANGLE BETWEEN THEM, THE WAY ORPHEUS IS TRYING TO PULL HER FORWARD BUT SHE AND HADES AND PERSEPHONE ARE ALL LOOKING AT EACH OTHER dlkajpeoiajropij)

tl;dr I go bananas for any reinvention of Orpheus/Eurydice

Eurydice, ugh, yes--especially since half the myths can't agree on how she wound up in the Underworld in the first place, and I have a longstanding hatred for women getting stuffed in the fridge just so their husbands/sons/whatever can angst.
And that picture--Hades and Persephone just sitting around looking Totally, Definitely, 100% Nonchalant, and Orpheus just doggedly moving alone, and that look on Eurydice's face, what even--

YES ALKJEPOAJWPdJ one of my biggest academic Things is the medieval version, Sir Orfeo, in which there are wow so many things about how Eurydice dies/is zombified/may only be valued for her womb/is silenced, BUT BUT BUT she gets told ahead of time that the fairy king is stealing her away to Dis, and she gets to give vent to her breakdown over that, she gets to actually talk to Orfeo about it, and then he actually succeeds in getting her back - she is essential to the ending of it. Still a fridging, but the loss and return of the queen is also the big deal about the story, which is cool.

OMG I am not super-familiar with Sir Orfeo, but it looks like Orpheus/Eurydice meets Tam Lin/fae stories? (With bonus non-fridging and Eurydice actually getting a voice/reaction!!!!) In which case, AWESOME. I will have to check this out ASAP.

THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT IT IS. Underworld = Faerie, etc etc it is FABULOUS.

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