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

[buttonloops]

Many of these books don't exist yet he'd said, but she'd found she could read them, could slip into the world and believe in telephones and magic wardrobes and hippogriffs just as she believed in Athena springing from Zeus's head or Poseidon striding across the waves and shaking the earth, though she had seen none of these things. And if she didn't think about it too much, if she threw herself at the ground and missed, to borrow a line from one of the odder books, the magic of the place let her read without troubling about things like language, as long as she didn't try to translate what she read into her own speech and as long as she didn't puzzle over grammar or etymologies.

But sometimes, sometimes she thought hard about it, until the meanings of the words faded away and the letters scrolled across the pages—the evenly flowing u-shaped Italic uncials script, elaborately barbed Gothic calligraphy, and even the elegant Greek letters like a balanced dance she could still read; but others were utterly foreign: round letters with hooks and crooks and spiky flourishes; strange triangle-wedge letters that seemed to run both ways, and strange words that marched across the page in the wrong direction, somehow solemn and exotic all at once.

[starbrow]

WOW WOW WOW like ALL THE WOWS you stuffed SO MUCH AWESOMENESS INTO THIS, starting with the Robin McKinley "Beauty" crossover, all the books that don't exist yet, how she can understand the gist of the books if she stops THINKING about the grammar and things (oh, I want that magic!). And of course, the LETTER DESCRIPTIONS EEEEEE I HEART THIS SO MUCH, the beauty of the new strange alphabets (which are really Old Old Old strange alphabets), the way she is drawn to them for their own sake and not even just for the meaning of the words behind them. That's just so HER!! (ALSO HIPPOGRIFFS AND MAGIC WARDROBES GREEK MYTHOLOGY AND SHE HAD SEEN NONE OF THOSE THINGS BUT SHE STILL BELIEVES IN THEM NOW I WANT ALL THE CROSSOVERS)

[buttonloops]

EEEEE THANK YOU DEAR IT WAS SO MUCH FUN TO WRITE AND ALL THE ALPHABET FEEEEEEEEELLLLLLSSSSSS LET US STUDY GEORGIAN.

ALSO CROSSOVERS WHEE.

[metonomia]

OK SO I SEE FROM VICTORIA'S COMMENT THAT THIS HAS TO DO WITH AN XOVER I DON'T FULLY KNOW, BUT THIS IS SO MUCH BOOK/READING/LANGUAGE DELIGHT I ADORE IT.

[starbrow]

Err, you need to get on this. Right now. "Beauty" by Robin McKinley, I guarantee the library will have it. It will be a delightful treat after finals. Beauty reminds me of YOU! She is in love with her Greek and Latin authors...names her horse "Odysseus" when she is eight...yeah you'll love it.

[metonomia]

:DDD OKAY I WILL DO.

I am at my parents' house for five whole days next week, three of which are week days, so I will just pop over to the library muahahahhahahaha

[rthstewart]

This is a wonderful take on the question Belle and also lovely in all the awesome cross over possibilities!

[buttonloops]

Thank you!

you know you want footnotes

[buttonloops]

Italic
Gothic
Greek

Georgian: typeface, alphabet, script, manuscript, and calligraphy. OKAY I'LL STOP NOW I JUST REALLY LOVE THIS ALPHABET. must. learn. georgian.

And then of course cuneiform which I guess wasn't written in boustrophedon, ah well; and the solemnly exotic Hebrew, which might not be the absolute prettiest alphabet, but it has vowel points, so that's a plus.

Also, because I'm already spamming with alphapics, there is Russian and Tengwar (also my italic-inspired Tengwar) and Glagolitic and the ever-lovely English Copperplate and Roundhand.

[psyche29]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I barely have words, I love this so much.

And I see you there, Hitchhiker's Guide, and adore you.

[buttonloops]

Thank you! Hitchhiker's FTW!

[alexseanchai]

*wanders in six years later with Starbucks*

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[buttonloops]

OMG THANK YOU. I'd forgotten entirely about this and gosh, high school me was really good at some things.