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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Richard really was such a bastard, and I love versions of the legend that get that right. (John Rhys-Davies, anyone?)

Thank you.

I haven't seen Robin of Sherwood; do you recommend it?

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.

Um. I'm not entirely reliable on Robin of Sherwood, as it was the first show for which I wrote honest-to-god fanfic (including, godhelpme, a MarySue, long before I knew the term). It had its strong parts: it was a creatively pagan take on the myth, with some fairly good casting, and the music wasn't bad. But the filming & editing don't age well: it's all dreadfully slow, and the "night-time" scenes are laughably obvious as daytime with a red filter over the lens. Oh, and the hair, all so very feathered and mid-80s. And some of the stories are fairly cheesy.

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...

Edited 2013-03-21 05:51 (UTC)

1) Imo, TV is still really bad at day for night. And nothing's worse for hair than the 80s Pride and Prejudice. I'll give this a try; thanks for answering.

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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