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rthstewart) wrote2013-03-11 10:23 pm
rthstewart) wrote2013-03-11 10:23 pm
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3 Sentence Ficathon
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.
As lady_songsmith explains, for the 2011 3 Sentence Ficathon, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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.
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. 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 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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(More than a little taken from Robin McKinley's Outlaws of Sherwood)
In Sherwood Forest, and throughout Nottinghamshire, it had been more of a game, for those few years; oh, yes, he had killed, but in self-defense, for the most part, and so many of the Sheriff's men had been Normans that it had been more than half patriotism, the century-old resistance of the Saxon to the Norman invader--justifiable, if not always entirely honorable, and what should that kind of honor matter to the son of a forester?
But in the brutal sun of the Holy Land, with the screaming of the horses and the men; the links of his mail blistering the skin beneath; and the women of the towns weeping over their dead--well, he wondered sometimes if he had not made the wrong choice after all, that day the King had taken up the lot of them, John and Much and Will and Marian and all (and Robin himself), and made them choose. Death or the cross, the King had said, and of course Robin had taken the cross; but oh, the blood on his hands, the smell of death all around, and the weary, heart-broken look on Marian's face were enough to make him doubt his every decision.
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Outlaws of Sherwood Robin--*flaily hands of glee*
Oh, but this breaks my heart in the best of ways. The loss of the outlaws' idealism in their horrifying circumstances--and why not, they're on Crusade, for heaven's sake! This is a heartbreaking--but beautiful, and utterly historically accurate look at what comes next, and I love it so. ♥
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Oh, Richard, you're a bastard; this was awesome.
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Thank you.
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My early opinions of Richard were formed by Jennifer Roberson's Lady of the Forest. I found the treatment of Richard interesting; Richard had this very forceful, charismatic personality that made Robin adore him and want to follow him, even while he recognized that Richard was a violent zealot who had abandoned his country. And the handling of Richard's (alleged) homosexuality was really interesting. I haven't read it since the eighth grade, so I dunno if it'd still be interesting now.
In other news, I recently just rewatched the Errol Flynn Robin Hood. As a sequel to Lion in Winter it's even more wonderfully ridiculous.
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That said, it had Nicholas Grace chewing the scenery, and Ray Winstone smoldering dangerously, and Michael Praed looking incandescent, and a Marian who fought right alongside the rest of them, and for that I will forgive it a great deal. (And if you ever saw the first edition of Lady of the Forest, I swear the artist used Michael Praed as the model for the cover art...)
On edit: did you ever read Parke Godwin's take on the story? I've forgotten the title, but it's worth hunting down. I liked Roberson's version on the first read, but didn't on the second, and bounced hard off the sequel, but I'm damned if I can remember why now...
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2) The first edition is the only cover for LotF. Am disgusted with all new covers for the book. You're the only person I've ever talked to who's ever read it. The sequel was horrible. I've tried not to reread LotF on the suspicion that it's actually bad and that I only loved it because I was 13.
3) I haven't read Godwin's version. For a while I was really into different versions of the legend, which means I was kind of slogging through loads of dreck. It put me off for a while; I'm so glad for the rec! Thank you!
4) I wrote a bajillion Mary Sues before I knew fanfic was a thing that other people did. In fact I was a Mary Sue!hobbit with whom Strider was very taken, so I probably have you beat on embarrassment. (When I got to the revelation that he was Aragorn, I totally lost interest in him.)
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...and, of course, anything that has anything to do with Robin KcKinley makes me happy.
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