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rthstewart ([personal profile] rthstewart) wrote2020-02-01 12:08 pm

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?
T
his 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."

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.


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[personal profile] priscipixie 2020-02-03 08:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Vorkosigan Saga, any, homesick

(Anonymous) 2020-02-04 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
Cordelia shucked off her Barrayarran skirt and blouse and left them in a crumpled heap on the floor—not something Alys would approve of, but today she absolutely couldn't give a shit what Alys would approve of—rummaged in a drawer and came up with her old Survey fatigues and a package of freeze-dried ice cream. For tonight, just tonight, she'd pretend she was home. That she could ever go home again.

[personal profile] priscipixie 2020-02-04 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
Yes! Sometimes you just need tangible reminders of home, adaptation be damned. (I was thinking of Cordelia when I wrote this prompt too. In the later books, you often forget that she burned her bridges when she left Beta. If she hadn't, you wonder at what point she might have been tempted to go back home, what was the breaking point of Barrayar...)
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[personal profile] sholio 2020-02-04 05:29 am (UTC)(link)
OH MY HEART. ♥ This is lovely!
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[personal profile] sholio 2020-02-04 05:28 am (UTC)(link)
You can't miss something you've never known, but there are times when Mark misses the idea of home; times when he feels something akin to the hate he once felt for Miles when the topic of Aral and Cordelia and Barrayar comes up and he sees a look on Miles's face that Mark can never relate to. He appreciates Aral and Cordelia, and probably loves them, and he supposes that what he feels for them is at least some shade of what children normally feel for their parents (but how could he possibly know?), and as for Barrayar, the best Mark can say for it is that he doesn't actually feel the need to waste time hating it anymore.

But then there are also those times when he turns his face into the soft crook of Kareen's neck, and he thinks that he might know more than just what home isn't; he might know what it is, too.
Edited 2020-02-04 05:29 (UTC)
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[personal profile] edenfalling 2020-02-05 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, Mark.

[personal profile] priscipixie 2021-06-15 06:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, this is so lovely -- breaking our hearts first, and then patching it up, gently, softly, imperfectly. Reminds you of what Aral told Piotr a generation earlier: "My home is a person. People."
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[personal profile] sholio 2021-06-15 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you so much!! Awwww, Mark. ♥