rthstewart | 3 Sentence Ficathon Part 2!!!

THREE SENTENCE FICATHON IS NOW CLOSED. REALLY. REALLY AND TRULY OVER. RIGHT NOW. UNTIL NEXT YEAR. REALLY. GO FORTH AND WRITE MORE FIC WITHOUT LIMITING IT TO 3 (OK SOMETIMES MORE) SENTENCES! FREE THE PLOT BUNNIES! WRITE EPIC SUSAN/MAGLOR! EXPRESS YOUR RICHARD III FEELS IN HAIKU! REMEMBER IT'S ALWAYS BETTER WITH DRAGONS! OR BACCHUS! TELL US ABOUT CASSANDRA AND PENELOPE, CLEOPATRA AND CLYTEMNESTRA! IN FIC!

I'm not going to close the post to comments because already filled-prompts deserve love and attention. If someone wanders in and fills a prompt or offers a new one, that's cool and I'm not going to go all stompy boots. This has been awesome and my thanks to all of you for a great exchange. I'll certainly host this again next year!

Wow. Well, the votes are in and after almost 5,000 prompts, fills and comments, I decided to start a new post that will carry us through the conclusion of the 3 Sentence Ficathon which will conclude on April 7, 2013.

We have lots and lots of unfilled prompts still. So, if you posted or saw a prompt you really would love to see filled, please post again here in the new thread and hopefully someone will give you an awesome fill! Please continue to commented upon filled prompts and thank authors, but all new prompts and fills should come here.

My thanks to everyone for the incredible participation. Interest has flagged the last couple of days and I'm not sure if it's just that 4900 comments and 49 pages is just too daunting or if everyone has run out of ideas. With a new thread, maybe this will make it easier for people to navigate it again, or maybe everyone is off on Spring Break!

To recap:

What is the 3 Sentence Ficathon?
This all started with the lovely CaramelSilver (Banner courtesy of CaramelSilver and thanks so much!). 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 !)

And thanks to Metonomia for the spiffy icon!

How long can it go?
The 2013 3 Sentence Ficathon will close on Sunday, April 7, 2013.

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.

lady_songsmith has reactivated the archive on delicious for this challenge, 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!)

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.

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.

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Temeraire/historical RPF; Dragons, RAF; Never was so much owed by so many to so few

Operation Chastise

"Bombs away!" cried Gibson as George sent Wallis' bouncing bomb spinning down towards the darkly shining water with a single flick of his curved talons.

Gibson peered down past the Lancaster's olive-green shoulder to follow the bomb as it fell, and in the erratic light of the flashes of anti-aviator fire that lit up George's cloud-pale belly as if it was already Christmas morning, he saw the bomb bounce once, bounce twice and sink without a trace before it even reached the dam.

"Dammit!" Gibson swore briskly through his teeth and called to George for more height, feeling the massive wings beat slowly below him as they curved away to make room for Hopgood and his dragon to take their own run.

AN: No disrespect is meant to any veterans of World War Two by this story.

Operation Chastise was the 'Dambusters' attack on the Mohne and Eder dams in 1943 led by 24 year old Guy Gibson. Gibson made the first run in the Lancaster bomber 'G for George' and Hopgood made the second run in 'M for Mother'

No disrespect at ALL. Oh gosh, he's a "Lanc" dragon. I LOVE this. As I see it, telling the same story with Dragons allows us to learn about a bit of real history and real people that we would not have learned of otherwise. Thanks so much. And the dragon's name is George. <3

My grandfather fought in WW2 and one of my earliest memories is pulling one of his books about the Dambuster raids down from the shelf to read. So this got a little bit personal. Thanks for the wonderful prompt. :D

I just responded to your other fill, and realized now in finding and re-reading that Gibson is George's aviator. Thank you for sharing this and your memory with me and with this 3SF. As I mentioned above, historical fic like this can allow us to learn history we would not have otherwise known of. I did not know of the Dambuster raids and it sent me scurrying off to learn of it. This is a very, very good thing and so I learn of another piece of the War that I did not know and so the memory of it stays alive and fresh as we discover and rediscover the heroism again and again. It's uncomfortable at first because you do not want your fictional to overtake the real -- it's a balance I struggle with a lot and there's often, especially at first, a vague sense of unease. Others might disagree but I really enjoyed this and while granted the audience for something like this is vanishingly small I would gladly read more of it.

I'm glad you liked it:D.
The prompt really inspired me.
AN: Hopgood was the pilot of the second Lancaster to dive upon the dam-'M-Mother'. Their plane was hit and crashed as they dived upon the dam but the crew bailed out.
When I wrote the fic I thought that he survived, but after doing some more reading after discovering a typo in my original source it seems that only two members of the crew lived to tell the tale and they weren't Hopgood. A good symbol though.It could be anyone. I didn't realise until I wrote this that they were all so bloody young.

I suspect we'll see more playing with the WW2 tropes once all those involved are dead.There was a recent SF/F/steampunk novel which name I can't remember, that got panned for being disrespectful towards those who died and the author responding that she thought the war was fun when questioned. I'm a Brit, and WW2 directly influenced the lives of all four of my grandparents and their families: where they lived, who they married, what their jobs were, and that's not even the combat itself. I remember them talking when I was a kid about what happened, and they were lucky compared with many people.
The monument in Hyde Park and its wording is taken from the real-life Animals At War memorial plaque.

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