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NEW POST FOR PROMPTS AND RESPONSES - Three Sentence Ficathon Part 2
THE THREE SENTENCE FICATHON FOR 2020 IS OFFICIALLY OVER!
PLEASE DON'T POST ANY NEW PROMPTS!
SAVE NEW PROMPTS FOR NEXT YEAR! DON'T POST NEW PROMPTS AS THEY ARE UNLIKELY TO GET ANY LOVE.
DO CHECK OUT EXISTING PROMPTS AND KEEP FILLING THEM AND COMMENTING ON THEM! (Seriously, I still get notifications of 3SF fills from the exchange last year! I'll get them all year and that's great. But posting a new prompt isn't likely to get any attention and, at some point, we all move on in our lives (until next year!).
A huge thanks to
conuly for posting and updating all unfilled prompts in a separate post. Link below.Thank you everyone and we'll see you next year!
THIS IS THE NEW POST FOR PART 2 OF THE 3 SENTENCE FICATHON -- ALL NEW PROMPTS SHOULD BE POSTED HERE
Welcome to the Three Sentence Ficathon!
At over 4600 comments and responses to Entry 1, it's time to move to Entry 2. Please post all new prompts and responses here. You can still respond to and comment on old prompts here.
To that end, the incomparable [Unknown site tag]conuly has collected all unfilled prompts, organized them by fandom, and linked them back so you can search that list for anything that you missed and fill it!!! a huge thanks for doing this [Unknown site tag]conuly!!
Please post all your new and unfilled prompts here.
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
To that end, the incomparable [Unknown site tag]conuly has collected all unfilled prompts, organized them by fandom, and linked them back so you can search that list for anything that you missed and fill it!!! a huge thanks for doing this [Unknown site tag]conuly!!
Please post all your new and unfilled prompts here.
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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A Kind of Paradise Enow
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By the time everything went to hell, a lot of the bigger libraries had maker-spaces attached to them so it just made good sense to add printing (actual mechanical presses, mostly, now that there wasn't an easy way to make microchips and all the fiddly rare-earth pieces necessary to make portable computers work) to a library's list of services. But the thing was, transporting a hundred or a thousand copies of the same book over long distances was a waste of resources. The libraries took to sending galley proofs instead, so each library or unaffiliated press could print their own local run.
Hauling texts through the badlands on the library circuit wasn't the easiest job Gabby and Ashrita had done since the Collapse, nor the best paid, but getting first look at new stories was worth a hell of a lot on the intangible compensation front -- and it was gratifying how quick half the assholes taking potshots at them would back off once Ashrita waved a library courier flag. Sometimes the hard-lucks even invited them back to their camps, and Gabby let them sneak a preview of some new tale in return.
The ones who didn't back off, well, there was a reason Gabby and Ashrita didn't need to bargain over their job rates any more. They left those ones dead or dying and shed no tears.
Someday, Gabby told Ashrita one evening over another cold trail supper of bean mush on stale bread, she might even turn her hand to writing a story of her own. "Some kind of hard-boiled murder mystery with a romance subplot," she said. "You know, the world-weary ex-police private eye falls for the shady dame who brings her a case the police won't touch -- three sex scenes, two shootouts, a comedy bit where they pretend to be sisters despite the obvious sexual tension, and at least one double-cross, before they outwit the mafia and go into business together."
"I'd read it," Ashrita said, "but just so I'd know if it's worth hauling around the circuit."
Gabby tossed a pebble across their campsite to land in Ashrita's left boot, her aim flawless as always. "My words are priceless and you know it."
"Everything's got a price. For your words, I'd say maybe three reams of good rag paper, a nanny goat, or two laying hens. Except I love and respect you, so let's kick it up to four reams and the hens."
"Fuck you, clearly the goat's a better choice," Gabby said through her laughter. "You can take a goat anywhere but chickens need a home."
Ashrita nodded and swallowed her last mouthful of dinner. "Right, right, fair point. But you know, I was thinking we might look in to setting up a more steady base. We're not getting any younger, and I think we might do more good training up a handful of couriers to our standards than just running the circuit until some hard-lucks have one good day and plug us. And it's got to be easier writing stories with an actual desk and chair than trying to scribble notes on the road -- to say nothing of easier on whatever poor typesetter has to read your chicken-scratch."
Gabby was quiet for a long moment, elbows propped on her knees as she stared over the scrub and gravel of their campsite toward the cracked asphalt of old I-80, still the beating artery of transport across America despite its dangers. Then she shrugged and said, with a wry little smile, "I was thinking of how to say the same to you, you know? That we could settle down, make a garden, maybe take up gunsmithing -- god knows we've fixed enough pieces over the years to pick it up. But it feels different hearing it out loud than just thinking it quiet inside my head."
"Yeah."
"But still. It's not a bad plan. There's just one thing that might be a problem."
"That being?" Ashrita said, tensing slightly at Gabby's solemn tone. "Don't tell me you've secretly gambled away all our savings."
"Don't be ridiculous. No, we've got to make sure the library in whatever town we pick still gives us first look at any new texts, even if we're not the ones running the circuit anymore. I need my noir detective series or I might literally die!"
Ashrita threw her boot at Gabby, and tackled her to the ground while she was off-balance from dodging.
After that, they had better things to do than talk.
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