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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] syrena_of_the_lake 2020-02-06 02:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Any, any, rejected first drafts
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Fill: Little Wome, Jo, rejected first drafts

[personal profile] lirazel 2020-02-06 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
There's another version of the manuscript that gets printed as Little Women, that has to be reprinted three times, that becomes a favorite of girls everywhere and ensures that Josephine March's name will live on. That version is rougher, rawer, honest in ways she couldn't not write but also couldn't send out to publishers, and it will stay always locked away in the bottom of Jo's trunk.

There are some things that are too private to share with the world, no matter how many names you change.
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Re: Fill: Little Wome, Jo, rejected first drafts

[personal profile] theseatheseatheopensea 2020-02-06 06:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Wonderful!
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Re: Fill: Little Wome, Jo, rejected first drafts

[personal profile] lirazel 2020-02-06 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you!
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Re: Fill: Little Wome, Jo, rejected first drafts

[personal profile] sawthefaeriequeen 2020-02-07 12:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Ooh yeah, I just bet there is. This reminds me of Jo tearing up her sisters poem in the end because (I think?) it's too personal.
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Re: Fill: Little Wome, Jo, rejected first drafts

[personal profile] lirazel 2020-02-07 02:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't remember that part, but I'm rereading the book right now, so I'm sure I'll come to it soon!
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Fill: Orig, "Rejected First Drafts"

[personal profile] thetransintransgenic 2020-02-06 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
The marched eagerly to the enlistment centers, technically.

The war was just and righteous, godly!, the hawkers had proclaimed -- glorious! honorable! heroic!, the generals had cried -- patriotic! defensive! (profitable!), the politicians had shouted.

And the people, tired and weary, had heard, and had considered -- and had eagerly marched to the enlistment centers and eagerly entered, and eagerly grabbed at the uniforms for their tattered shirts, eagerly grabbed at the rations for their empty stomachs, and eagerly, eagerly!, sat down right where they were, in the halls and the drives and the roads and the tracks,
and they marched not an inch further.

and on the distant and foreign battlefield, not a single boot fell.

(I'm sorry for the deliberate misinterpretation it was just RIGHT THERE.)
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Re: Fill: Orig, "Rejected First Drafts"

[personal profile] alexseanchai 2020-02-07 12:01 am (UTC)(link)
what are you apologizing for? this is brilliant!
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Re: Fill: Orig, "Rejected First Drafts"

[personal profile] thetransintransgenic 2020-02-07 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
I ALWAYS apologize for my unsolicited puns-for-primarily-their-own-sake.
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Re: Fill: Orig, "Rejected First Drafts"

[personal profile] silveradept 2020-02-08 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Brilliant interpretation.
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The Silmarillion - Fëanor, The Shibboleth

[personal profile] ladybrooke 2020-02-07 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
The first draft of the Shibboleth is written even before Fëanor makes his own script and is frantically scribbled as he cries over the news his mother will not be permitted to return and his father will remarry.

He never shows anyone else. It remains under a loose floorboard in Fëanor's childhood bedroom until Finarfin finds it one day when his brother is long dead and adds his own tears to Fëanor's.
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Perfection (Naruto; TobIndra & Hikaku)

[personal profile] kalira 2020-02-09 05:51 am (UTC)(link)
Hikaku paused before taking a single step into his brother's studio, looking at the floor, which was covered in scraps of paper of varying size, and at least two brushes. He collected those as he made his way carefully towards where Indra leaned over his desk, still writing.

"It- It has to be perfect." he said softly, voice rough, as he shoved away scrap bearing beautiful words praising crimson eyes and sparkling snow, letting it drift to the floor like one of a hundred poem-adorned snowflakes.

Persona 3

(Anonymous) 2020-02-12 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
"...It doesn't seem fair, does it?" Elizabeth asks, watching Minato's face turn unfamiliar. She can feel how Thanatos aches, even from within the Compendium.

Blue hair fades to red, and Igor says, slowly, as if she were a guest, still green and clueless and unused to hopes shattering, "There is little that is fair about anything, Elizabeth."