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rthstewart) wrote2020-02-01 12:08 pm
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Three Sentence Ficathon
THIS POST IS NOW CLOSED TO NEW PROMPTS. PLEASE POST NEW PROMPTS HERE.
You can go ahead and continue to respond to prompts and comment on them here but please don't post any new prompts .
Welcome to the Three Sentence Ficathon!
UPDATE 1 HERE- 2 Feb
UPDATE 2 HERE 6 Feb
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 first?
You can start 3SF by posting prompts! When posting a prompt please format it this way:
Only one prompt per comment please. So, for example,
Open ended and anthropomorphic fills are popular too, such as:
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 are allowed and even encouraged! (We get really fun stories going this way).
Can I still post if I need more than 3 sentences? Or should I just abuse grammar in ways the English language never contemplated?
Yes. Yes.
But I'm not a member of Dreamwidth
No problem. You can comment anonymously or through open ID
Can anyone play?
Yes! Please signal boost this to your flist, followers, and any other places you frequent. Come one, come all!
The more people who come and play, the better!
Can I spread the word?
Yes, please. I generally fail at creating banners and embed codes but if you create one and make it really idiot-proof, I might manage it. Or we can just cross-post. If you create one, I'll try to post it and everyone can use it.
How long will it go?
Until February 29, 2020. But the entry stays open permanently.
Are there any rules about cross-posting?
Nope, you can post wherever you want, whenever you want. A lot of folks collected their responses together and posted them on AO3 under the 3 sentence fiction tag. 3SFs are a terrific prompt for remixes and could be helpful for Yuletide bears, too.
Here, have some icons and banners and let me know if you've created your own!
text box you can try to cut and paste
the incomparablealexseanchai made these gorgeous banners
You can go ahead and continue to respond to prompts and comment on them here but please don't post any new prompts .
Welcome to the Three Sentence Ficathon!
UPDATE 1 HERE- 2 Feb
UPDATE 2 HERE 6 Feb
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 first?
You can start 3SF by posting prompts! When posting a prompt please format it this way:
fandom, character(s), prompt word/sentence.
Only one prompt per comment please. So, for example,
Star Wars, Obi-Wan Kenobi, I don't like sand."
Open ended and anthropomorphic fills are popular too, such as:
Any, Any, "I don't like sand."
or
Earth geography, sand, "I don't like humans very much, either."
or
Earth geography, sand, "I don't like humans very much, either."
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 are allowed and even encouraged! (We get really fun stories going this way).
Can I still post if I need more than 3 sentences? Or should I just abuse grammar in ways the English language never contemplated?
Yes. Yes.
But I'm not a member of Dreamwidth
No problem. You can comment anonymously or through open ID
Can anyone play?
Yes! Please signal boost this to your flist, followers, and any other places you frequent. Come one, come all!
The more people who come and play, the better!
Can I spread the word?
Yes, please. I generally fail at creating banners and embed codes but if you create one and make it really idiot-proof, I might manage it. Or we can just cross-post. If you create one, I'll try to post it and everyone can use it.
How long will it go?
Until February 29, 2020. But the entry stays open permanently.
Are there any rules about cross-posting?
Nope, you can post wherever you want, whenever you want. A lot of folks collected their responses together and posted them on AO3 under the 3 sentence fiction tag. 3SFs are a terrific prompt for remixes and could be helpful for Yuletide bears, too.
What about spoilers, content and archive warnings, triggers, pairings, ratings, tags, and squick?
I thought a lot about this. It wasn't an issue the last 3 times I ran this. In my experience, this typically gets too big, moves too fast, and the stories are too short for content warnings and ratings to even apply. It is too big for me to moderate in this way. You should assume spoilers are fair game and that the initial poster and the responder have opted to use no content warnings or tags. This means AO3 content warnings for dubcon, violence, canon character death, underage, etc. COULD be present. I've found personally that I can skim and scroll by stuff that, from the prompt, I can tell isn't my favorite flavor of delicious cake. Use your best judgment and be prepared to skip over things that aren't your thing. In this format, the obligation is on you, the reader, to protect yourself from triggering content.
Here, have some icons and banners and let me know if you've created your own!
text box you can try to cut and paste
the incomparable
alexseanchai made these gorgeous banners
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As someone whose suffered in clothes without pockets I know who the true winner is
"That may or may not be true, but-" there was a startled gasp from the others as she suddenly produced a rock from the folds in her fur, "can you do this?"
Lucy sat back, impressed, and whispered "sea otters have pockets-!"
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Otters. You knew I had to do it - not 3 sentences
“What?” Edmund replied, stopping his cheerful whistling to answer.
Peter had tried getting a read of the situation from Edmund’s Guard, for what the King feels the Guard reveals. But the normally surly and sullen Tiger appeared, alarmingly, chipper as he’d not snarled at anyone for no reason for nearly quarter an hour.
This was, obviously, very, very bad if both Edmund and Jalur were happy about something.
“You and Jalur in such high spirits typically portends something I have to cover up or apologize for,” Peter replied. “To whom do we owe exorbitant reparations?”
“On not this time! I’m indeed in a terrific mood. All due to the Otters.”
“Otters?” Otters were typically harbingers of disaster and worse tempers. “If you have finally let Jalur eat Bitel and Gnash, I shall offer Royal Clemency,” Peter said feelingly. “And a reward.” Bitel and Gnash were the ringleaders of the River Otters at the Bathing Pond and no creatures were more reviled at Cair Paravel up to and including the Hummingbirds.
“No! Peter! Much better! There was ferocious betting on whether Bitel and Gnash would be able to out-curse the Sea Otters at the Quay. After a morning of the foulest language I’ve heard in my life, I’ve won two bottles off the Swordmaster, and the Crows owe me three buttons lost off my coat, and a bucket of shiny rocks.”
“Because?”
“Because I won the wager that no one would be able to understand a thing the Sea Otters said – I’m certain that shut ye geggie ya numpty nyaff awa' n bile yar jobby heid an yer maw's git balls n yer da' loves it means something utterly reprehensible but no one knew what it meant.”
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