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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"Othryoneus of Cabesos has promised us his allegiance," Aeneas pauses, struggling to find the right words to announce this diplomatic triumph, " in exchange for the chance to make his regard known to the Princess Cassandra."

Priam's eyes shine with triumph; his daughter Creusa's smile (...and how had Aeneas never noticed her before, as kind and good as she is?) wavers with sympathy; and Cassandra's expression is as inscrutable as it has ever been.

"I will also," he adds as an afterthought, "return to Dardania with the morning tide."

...ouch. You're really making me pay for that prediction of Richard's!

I love that he can't read her (and really, maybe he doesn't want to), how this is the moment he notices Creusa, and that he can't stand to stay there another minute longer. Poor babies, it gives it very much of a Tristan/Isolde feel.

...well, yes. Though this was pretty awful to write. And oh god, yes, I feel terrible for everyone involved here, even poor Cassandra's suitors, who all came to pretty tragic ends themselves:(

You should be glad I didn't go with my original idea for that Richard/Anne prompt! Trust me, it was much worse.

I don't feel too awful for Cassandra's suitors, but that might be because I have possessive OTP feelings now...everyone else, yes, I feel terrible for.

Do I...want to know? *gives wary look*

Well, it involved the phrase "we're still young" said in some kind of hope...

I could still write it out, if you really wanted! But you'd be asking for it.

Oh god, and then moves on to "rocks fall [TB strikes, battle ensues], everyone dies," doesn't it? Well, I am never going to say no to wonderful Richard/Anne, but I trust you to gauge exactly much sadness it will cause, haha!
(BTW, left a...hopefully happy Henry/Eleanor prompt, just FYI :)

Alright, I left another fill on the original Richard/Anne prompt.

I saw your Eleanor/Henry prompt - such a delightful line! Definitely calls for a happy fill.

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