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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Beowulf/Narnia/LoTR; Freawaru, Susan, Eowyn; all fair in love and war

(not a typo in the phrasing, hint hint)

boudicca.signy.brynhildr

By some miraculous Wyrd-cheat, no blood stained the flagstones at her wedding feast, though the warriors circled each other warily and cast dirty glances across the board. She hid the shaking of her hands—if Mother could remain calm through fourteen winters of terror . . . —and swirled the honey mead with honeyed words of peace. She hardly allowed herself to hope, but neither did she let herself glance more than once toward the weapons stacked like cordwood by the hall-door.

artemis.judith.athena

The day it happened, she stripped off her flimsy, treasured nylons, pulled on an old and sturdy Land Girls smock, and slung the quiver they'd given her for her fourteenth (or so) Christmas across her back; then walked straight out of town and into the woods. After hours of driven, desperate archery practice, when her arms quivered and she could no longer bend her bow, she strode home and straight to the telephone, dialed the number pressed into her hand the other night, and said yes, she had thought it over carefully, no, she had no family to leave behind, no, she was not afraid of blood or danger or death, and yes, she could come for training right away. As long as there is work to do, I cannot sit at home.

ungit.frigg.airmed

Long did she toil as shieldmaiden, striving for love and honor, or if denied those for the quiet of death, even death on a battlefield amid the clangor of bitter brands and snickering arrows. Yet while she fought, love stole up behind her and wooed her softly until her taut muscles softened and she let fall her guard. I will be a shieldmaid no longer, nor do I long to be a queen, said she at last, halsing him in her arms, and there was great joy betwixt those twain, so that none could put it into speech.

Edited 2013-03-20 07:06 (UTC)

I love ALL of these for such brave, powerful women. Amazing. I also adore the different tones you achieved for each story, and the other inspirational women as the header to each. Wonderfully written!!

Thank you!

You did a wonderful job weaving mythology, folklore, tales and great women together. I love Susan's best, I think, as long as there is work to do. These are gorgeous in how they capture the strength and purpose of three women, three different ways, three different voices. Amazing.

I thought you'd like Susan! It was interesting to think about how things would be different if she only got into espionage after the train crash, and I had such fun with the three voices and the progression of waiting for doom to making decisions and moving forward to letting go and finding love after hopelessness.

I am going to diiiiiiiiiiiie this is so PERFECT! Obviously I prompted this for you, and you have filled it so perfectly beyond my expectations djapeowiajrpoihj

MY LADIES and all the divine and heroic ladies behind themmmmmmm - I love that each gets a triad, that it's not a matter of embodiment of a single feminine archetype but that they can hold so much in them and do so much - I love that joy and love and emotion never ever negates strength of many kinds here - it's too perfect for words.

swirled the honey mead with honeyed words of peace
this is my absolute favorite akdajoeiwjrgpotija because it captures so much of the feel if not the necessitated actions of each of these ladies, but especially Freawaru, and the poetry of it, the alliterative sounds - it's magic.

Thank you thank you thank you for this fill!

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE SO GLAD YOU LIKE IT SO MUCH. YES THEY HAVE TRIADS, although if I could change it I'd give Eowyn Yavanna, Este, and Varda instead, but it's a very triplish sort of ficlet, with three sentences and three goddesses for each of three heroines. :-D

YAY YOU LIKE MY ALLITERATION I really didn't want to use names, so as to emphasize the parallels and how they could all be versions of each other's stories, so I had to bring out the contrasting voices instead. Also peaceweaver feels, and Susan feels relating to her needing people to take care of to be whole, and just all of it THANK YOU FOR PROMPTING.

YAVANNA ESTE AND VARDA OH MAN I LOVE THE ONES YOU'VE GIVEN HER BUT GODDESSES FROM HER OWN WORLD THAT WOULD BE AWESOME TOOOO

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