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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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Equivalent Exchange (original)
"You've stated it with admirable clarity," said the person sitting on the other side of the glittering mosaic table, hands (...probably hands? though admittedly she didn't have many points of comparison anymore) folded neatly before a cloth-wrapped torso and underneath a toothy (...too toothy? not enough teeth? she kept losing track when she tried to count them) smile. "This is why the transaction is voluntary rather than compulsory -- I like to keep potential sources of regret to a minimum, so while I'm afraid I can't show you the contents of your memories without a down payment, the least I can do is ensure that you understand your options. This is also why the exact method of payment is entirely at your discretion, providing, of course, that it's of equivalent value -- one doesn't last long in business selling below market rate, you understand -- but whether you pay with time, emotions, senses, abilities, or any other item of worth is all one to me."
She pondered this information for a time, while the person with the cloth-wrapped torso and face sat patiently and without breathing. Then she said, "If I asked how you came to have possession of my memories, would you tell me or would that also require payment?"
The cloth-wrapped person's smile grew more teeth (or perhaps the teeth simply enlarged?) and the answer came quickly. "Neither; one doesn't last long in business by disclosing confidential details about one's sources and transactions."
"Which... could mean that you bought my memories from me, or bought them from someone else, or simply picked them up at the side of the road," she said, puzzling through the options. "I begin to see how you define clarity of statement. In that case, I believe I would like to purchase one memory -- specifically, the memory of how I came to lose or sell my memories -- in return for the memory of this conversation, and with the addendum that if we've been through this transaction before, the memory of trading a previous iteration of this conversation doesn't count as the sale or loss in question."
"Done," said the cloth-wrapped person, and reached across the mosaic table to press a finger (it must be a finger, because what else could it be?) to her forehead. As the world dissolved into laughter and the click-clack-clatter of falling tiles, Elise (her name was Elise! she'd traded her memories for a map... which she'd promptly lost, and had no idea why it had been important in the first place) could only think, That was too easy. How long until the catch?
Re: Equivalent Exchange (original)
Re: Equivalent Exchange (original)
I think a lot of my original characters share a reaction pattern that can be summed up as, "I am very tired/frustrated/busy, but I'm fairly sure there are shenanigans afoot somewhere and figuring them out might be important. This is a problem." Which is probably unavoidable given that, "I am very tired/frustrated/busy and don't want to deal with more things," is one of my own core personality traits, and the nature of fiction requires me to throw shenanigans at characters for them to deal with. *wry*
As for the negotiation, I just like competence, you know? I think it's more interesting if people are good at their jobs and take reasonable precautions but things still go wrong due to factors beyond their control, than if they just blunder in and of course things go wrong because they're idiots.
Re: Equivalent Exchange (original)
(Anonymous) 2020-03-06 09:22 am (UTC)(link)Re: Equivalent Exchange (original)
an honest remembrance of you [Overwatch | Widowmaker]
She recognizes the cramped, rushed handwriting, otherwise she'd already have her rifle in hand and one boot breaking through the window to run; instead, she just looks at the little rectangle in her palm for a moment before she pulls out the laptop she'd stolen yesterday on her way out of Puerto Peñasco, plugs the drive in, and opens it to see an endless list of folders painstakingly broken apart into chunks of time, from her old date of birth all the way up to the day before her new one…all of them chalk full of documents and videos and pictures and audio files about this woman named Amélie.
For a long time, Widowmaker just clicks in and out of folders, reads the different file names, hovers the cursor over a few different things for a handful of seconds before scrolling on—then she rips the drive out, smashes it beneath her heel into a dozen sharp, jagged pieces, then wraps it back up in the note and lights the whole thing up with her lighter, letting it all burn to ashes and charred silicon in the sink before shovelling the blackened mess into the toilet and flushing.
[title from Everything Looks Better (In Hindsight) by The Wild Reeds.]