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It's That Time of Year Again!

That's right!! It's almost Three Sentence Ficathon season! Now that we've all (in theory) arisen from our holiday food comas it's time to write, and what better way to kickstart a new year than no stress no pressure abuse of every grammatical structure known to language?

So dust off those prompts! This year's Three Sentence Ficathon schedule will be as follows:

First post opens: Friday, January 10th Closing to new prompts: Sunday, February 9th

As always, fills can be posted year-round.

Get ready to prompt and fill like mad! You can also add any fills from past years to the AO3 3SF Collection!

We can't wait to see what you all come up with this year.

Info post HERE.

Mod contact post HERE.

We're all very excited to see you all there.

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The Pevensie Children

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It’s always

“When will fanfic writers update their stories?”

And never

“Does this fanfic writer have adequate enrichment to engage in writing behaviours?”

Fanfiction writers (Scriptor fictus) are intelligent animals who need plenty of enrichment as well as encouragement! If they’re stuck in poor conditions (e.g. have studies, work, have to actually write to have something written) then they require the proper enrichment to engage in more healthy behaviours, like writing. Remember, due to poor breeding and socialisation, over half of all fanfic writers suffer from low self confidence and executive dysfunction so take care of them!

Give your fanfic writers proper care. Fanfiction writers are a life long commitment.

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And JRR just losing his mind over Jack's lack of linguistic shift in Narnia.

it's sad to me that cs lewis decided that after living in Narnia all the pevensies started talking in high fantasy early modern english mostly because it's so much more fun to imagine that what's considered a Narnian accent is just a London/cockney one given where its rulers have historically been from but Also because I feel it deep in my soul that High King Peter the Magnificent starts all of his important council meetings by going Aight chaps whotve we got to do today

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Some Jewish kids go to Narnia and the White Witch is endlessly frustrated because she wants to make it always winter but never Hanukkah, but she doesn’t follow the Hebrew calendar so she can’t accurately predict when it’s supposed to be.

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god but the narnia set/prop design though. like especially on the pevensies' christmas gifts and thrones, but also the armor. there are tiny rising suns at the bottom of peter's pauldrons and lions etched into the centaurs' armor. there are lions everywhere, not just on peter's shield. susan's quiver has a lion's face. her horn is fashioned after a roaring lion, and they're made to look like they've both been carved from the same ivory tusk. the pommels on lucy's dagger and peter's sword? lion heads. so is the stopper on lucy's cordial, and the buckle of peter's shield strap. their initials are wrought into the quiver, the cordial, the shield. the prophecy from the books is inscribed on peter's blade. susan's quiver strap has tiny bird clasps, and the tips of her arrows look like leaves. there are flowers tooled into lucy's belt. the thrones all have their gifts carved at the top, and edmund's is his sword breaking the witch's wand. it looks like the scales of justice. they literally did not have to do all that. thank god they did tho because i think of it constantly

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angst with no happy ending ???? in this economy ????

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forget Susan and Lucy (don’t) but please don’t tell me Lewis didn’t like female characters when Polly “don’t touch the obviously cursed bell, you absolute walnut” Plummer, Jill “my litigious bestie and I are here to fight the Antichrist” Pole and Aravis “‘I did not do any of these things for the sake of pleasing you’” Tarkheena exist

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The snow queen from Narnia

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day 2 & 3 - together again & open doors

did you know that amy originally wrote the song 'together again' for the first narnia film? did you also know that when we adopted my cat narnia, her name was originally nadia, but i thought narnia sounded way cooler? well! now you do!! anyway, here's a drawing of my cat narnia entering narnia through an evanescence-inspired wardrobe (i used some of the designs from the actual door on the 'open door' album cover)

(ignore the fact that this wardrobe doesn't actually have any doors, it was too hard to draw and i couldn't be bothered, and now it just looks even more like a magical portal <3)

also. i did not expect this to turn out so well! i'm gonna frame it and hang it up somewhere around the house 🐈

🌙 i'm using cyndline's 2024 evtober prompts

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Fandom: The Chronicles of Narnia Character/theme: Susan Pevensie after The Last Battle Song: ‘Keep Us Connected’ by Celia Rose Gooding

I've included some thoughts and a general plot summary below the cut...

I was absolutely devastated when I first learned of Susan losing her whole family to a train crash in The Last Battle. And that Peter, Edmund and Lucy were still so young at the time. That was far too tragic an ending for all of them and I don’t think I’ll ever be over it :(

Right from the very first moment that I heard this song in the musical episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, it immediately made me think of Susan in this stage of her life and I knew I had to make a video with it. Then I proceeded to take a whole year to actually finish it lol

The general story here is that Susan initially has a tough time dealing with the loss of her family. Over time, this eventually turns to acceptance and with it, she also finds her way back to her memories of Narnia and all that she shared there with her family. She goes on to live a long fulfilling life and when she eventually dies, she is reunited with her family in Aslan’s Country. So, the beach scene at the end of the video is meant to be representative of that reunion in Aslan’s Country :)

Additional footage used from: - The Little Mermaid (2018) - The Last Birthday (2017) - Smallville S03E12 - Hereafter

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I did 2 Golden Age stories for the Narnia Fic Exchange with extensive notes on the first one, The Doctor Is In. I also describe where I am with a planned update on Heart and Crow Make The Peace. More coming soon!!

I received 2 wonderful stories and recommend you go read them and tell the authors how wonderful they are!!

A wonderful Silver Chair AU by @syrena-of-the-lake with DINOSAURS

And a lovely exploration by a FIRST TIME AUTHOR of my crack ship Susan Pevensie/Obi-Wan Kenobi.

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How good is your Narnia trivia knowledge?

I’d like to think I got a little tricksy with this one, but let’s see how you all do!

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“Aleksis and Sasha Kaidanovsky, husband and wife pilot team. They hold the record for longest sustained neural handshake, over eighteen hours.”

“I’ve heard of them. Perimeter patrol on the Siberian Wall.”

“That’s right. Under their watch, it went unbreached for six years.”

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NFE 2024

The collection opens today at 4 pm ET. Finish up those last minute treats!

If anything changes, we'll post an update.

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