rthstewart: (3SF 2020_3)
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.


Here, have some icons and banners and let me know if you've created your own!





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lirazel: An outdoor scene from the film Picnic at Hanging Rock (Default)

[personal profile] lirazel 2020-02-05 05:12 pm (UTC)(link)
BtVS, Buffy/whoever, "It takes just two people to bring the world / to ruin. So goes the history of love."
ultra_fic: (Moon)

Us vs The World

[personal profile] ultra_fic 2020-02-05 06:26 pm (UTC)(link)
"The things you've done... just to bring me back... why?"

"Because it's you, Buffy. It's always been you."


Take your pick who was answering her question. Personally, I hear Spike ;)
lirazel: An outdoor scene from the film Picnic at Hanging Rock (Default)

Re: Us vs The World

[personal profile] lirazel 2020-02-05 07:16 pm (UTC)(link)
That definitely sounds like Spike to me.
ultra_fic: (Moon)

Re: Us vs The World

[personal profile] ultra_fic 2020-02-05 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Huh. After all these years, the fic-writing part of my brain still has a hard-wired Spuffy section. Who knew? lol
lirazel: An outdoor scene from the film Picnic at Hanging Rock (Default)

Re: Us vs The World

[personal profile] lirazel 2020-02-06 01:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, same. Once you go Spuffy, you never go back.
beer_good_foamy: (Wild as the wind)

Regret Is The Final Emotion (BtVS, Buffy/Faith)

[personal profile] beer_good_foamy 2020-02-05 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
They talk about it over wine, once and never again, about what happened between them all those years ago between the dance at the Bronze and the death in the alley; Buffy assures her she doesn't regret it, it might have been nice to pursue, but blood and apocalypse and going evil and well, she's in a different place now, and so are you, right? Yeah, sure, I mean.

Sometimes it makes Faith want to scream that Buffy can look back and see something that was, neatly wrapped up with a beginning and an end, where all she can see is a big fat never-was.
Edited 2020-02-05 22:39 (UTC)
lirazel: An outdoor scene from the film Picnic at Hanging Rock (Default)

Re: Regret Is The Final Emotion (BtVS, Buffy/Faith)

[personal profile] lirazel 2020-02-06 01:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Ooof. Yeah. That feels very in character for both of them.
beer_good_foamy: (Default)

Re: Regret Is The Final Emotion (BtVS, Buffy/Faith)

[personal profile] beer_good_foamy 2020-02-07 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks! And thanks for making me look up that poem, it's a good one.