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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.


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





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the incomparable [personal profile] alexseanchai  made these gorgeous banners

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Nine Tenths of the Law

[personal profile] edenfalling 2020-02-10 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)
"And I tell you, when I learned that not only do humans bar all women from voting, they also bar a shameful percentage of men, I entertained half a thought of defecting to France!" said Gloriana, the Regal Copper currently recuperating at Loch Laggan from a badly sprained left wing.

"What, really?" asked Sharl, who had heard earful upon earful about duty, sacrifice, and other apparently vital concepts ever since she'd ventured down from the Highlands into the Loch Laggan covert (at the promise of regular meals and the chance to stockpile shinies in return for the easy work of flying messages back and forth to London), and was thoroughly annoyed at being looked down upon for her lack of true patriotic spirit.

"No, of course not," said Gloriana; "England has its share of problems, but it's my country and one doesn't toss aside possessions the moment they get scratched; one has them repaired or refurbished until they look better than before, and I'll be damned if I let those bloody French dragons have any excuse to claim they have a better country than ours."
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Re: Nine Tenths of the Law

[personal profile] edenfalling 2020-02-11 05:15 pm (UTC)(link)
The name just came to me and then I couldn't possibly NOT use it. :D

I figure that draconic possessiveness could make a very good basis both for patriotism and for social activism: this is MY country and therefore I will make it be the BEST country, with all the shiniest and most valuable rights and laws in the world.
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Re: Nine Tenths of the Law

[personal profile] kaffy_r 2020-02-12 05:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, I think this is marvelous!
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Re: Nine Tenths of the Law

[personal profile] edenfalling 2020-02-12 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you!
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Re: Nine Tenths of the Law

[personal profile] scytale 2020-02-15 11:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Wonderful! I love Gloriana's practicality and haughtiness, and Sharl seems adorable. <3 And the comparison of England to possessions (I keep thinking of coffee tables!).
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Re: Nine Tenths of the Law

[personal profile] edenfalling 2020-02-16 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! :)