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rthstewart ([personal profile] rthstewart) wrote2021-01-30 02:31 pm

Three Sentence Ficathon 2021

We have now opened a new post, for new prompts! Please leave all new prompts there. You may continue to fill existing prompts here. If you didn't get a prompt filled here, feel free to post it on the new post!





Welcome to the Three Sentence Ficathon!
2 Feb. 2021 See important edit below regarding where to find unfilled prompts.


What is the 3 Sentence Ficathon?
This is an open exchange where you answer a prompt with a fic consisting of only three sentences. It's open to all fandoms and you can post and fill 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 happens after that?
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

I'm really overwhelmed by all the prompts and how much there is and how fast it goes. I can't read 1,000 prompts and fills. It's too much. 
I hear this a lot and it keeps a lot of people from participating.  The 3SF is big and it moves fast, especially at first. 
I get overwhelmed, too, and I'm hosting the thing. With 2020 and 2021 sucking so badly you don't want something that's supposed to be fun cause you anxiety.  I have a couple of suggestions for managing the 3SF volume. 
  • First, really, you don't have to read every prompt and fill on every page.  You can start at the last page of this and just go forward, or back a page or two.  It's fine.
  • You can come and go as time and energy allow, you don't have to participate the whole time, and it drops off quite a bit by mid-February.
  • Even after the 3SF and new prompting end, people fill prompts all year long.
  • You can fill an already filled prompt and you can can leave a prompt that's already been prompted before.  People do it all the time. 
Always make sure you're looking at top-level comments only, not threaded. That helps a lot. Your screen should look like this.




But shouldn't I read everything to see if someone already prompted the same prompt I want to leave if someone already filled it? 

No.  Prompt as many times as you want, as much as you want.  It doesn't matter if someone prompted the exact same prompt.  Go ahead and prompt again!

I left a prompt and no one filled it.  Can I prompt it again?
Absolutely!

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 be able to post and share it.  Feel free to cross-post this entry. If you create your own banners or icons, let me know and I'll share!
Please share the 3SF with your followers, friends, and any channels and comms you are active on.  I'll post on fandom calendar, Tumblr, and Twitter, but I don't have many connections in other spaces such as Discord.


How long will it go?

The 3SF closes to new prompts on February 28, 2021. The entry stays open permanently and people post fills all year long.

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 boils down to reader beware.  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.
Some posters do include warnings and spoiler tags in subject lines or include spoiler space, but they don't have to do so.

Why is 3SF split among several posts?  That seems confusing.
It is confusing and we always lose momentum once we have to move to a second post. The reason is because at 5,000 comments to a single post, DW installs a human test CAPTCHA, which is a pain for users.  So, once this entry gets to the upper 4,000 comments, I open a new post.  If you've been waiting until things slow down to participate, when we open a second post is often a good place to join.

If I have questions, what do I do?

I'm rthstewart everywhere, here, Twitter, Tumblr, gmail and AO3.

A special thank you to [personal profile] conuly  .
Last year, Conuly started logging all unfilled prompts.
This year's (2021) unfilled prompts are here.
Last year's (2020) unfilled prompts are here.
Conuly asks that you not reply, as they want to be able to edit and add more prompts to the list.
Conuly does this just because they are an awesome person but should you want to write them fic in thanks, you can find a birthday wish list here.

Here is the 3SF 2021 Friending Meme to show of your new DW account.

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

 






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[personal profile] sawthefaeriequeen 2021-02-04 09:51 am (UTC)(link)
Lmao, Squall doesn't give a damn. It's for the #aesthetic! Love it!
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[personal profile] deemoyza 2021-02-04 09:52 am (UTC)(link)
You're very welcome, and thank you for the prompt and the compliment! I'm so glad you enjoyed this. :)
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[personal profile] sawthefaeriequeen 2021-02-04 09:54 am (UTC)(link)
THEM.

Love how she loves his laugh; LOVE how she gets him back!
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[identity profile] ruanchunxian0.livejournal.com 2021-02-04 09:55 am (UTC)(link)
Good Omens, Crowley/Aziraphale, "Life was a willow and it bent right to your wind"
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[identity profile] ruanchunxian0.livejournal.com 2021-02-04 09:56 am (UTC)(link)
Good Omens, Crowley & Aziraphale & Warlock, found family
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[identity profile] ruanchunxian0.livejournal.com 2021-02-04 09:57 am (UTC)(link)
Ouch this is devastating!
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Re: Uhm...not 3 sentence I guess. Also, rthverse

[identity profile] ruanchunxian0.livejournal.com 2021-02-04 10:03 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks! And yes it is such a seamless crossover!!
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Good Omens

[personal profile] nea 2021-02-04 10:07 am (UTC)(link)
What happened to the baby Crowley removed to bring Adam in?
nea: (dw: crying rory)

Years and Years, Daniel Lyons/Viktor Goraya

[personal profile] nea 2021-02-04 10:10 am (UTC)(link)
Fix it.
Edited 2021-02-04 10:11 (UTC)

Re: Power Rangers (2017), Kimberly Hart

(Anonymous) 2021-02-04 10:14 am (UTC)(link)
Nice!
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strange brew (Monica, Friends)

[personal profile] sawthefaeriequeen 2021-02-04 10:24 am (UTC)(link)
The truth is, she knows she could whip up a great cup of coffee at home in no time, one that could kick all of these cups' asses and take their money for good measure. But that would mean no ganging up with Phoebe to tease Ross over the crossword (really, the best part is Rachel swinging in for the kill when she brings their next orders); no squeezing beside Chandler on couch at the end of a long day while they both moan over work and their love lives (or, lack thereof. Whatever).

So Monica orders yet another mediocre cup and a couple of so-so pastries to go and calls it a good day (she knows perfectly well that Joey will sneak them out of her fridge later).
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[personal profile] sawthefaeriequeen 2021-02-04 10:25 am (UTC)(link)
Haha, Gunther! I feel like he'd judge (or struggle not to) people based on their orders.
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[personal profile] halcyonine 2021-02-04 10:31 am (UTC)(link)
hades video game, ares & achilles, harsh truths
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[personal profile] sawthefaeriequeen 2021-02-04 10:50 am (UTC)(link)
The Karate Kid | Cobra Kai; Johnny to John Kreese and/or Daniel to Terry Silver; I did not bury the hatchet / I have the hatchet in my hands / I am building myself a new house -brenna twohy

Re: not-quite-a-Fill: MDZS, Jiang Yanli & her brothers

(Anonymous) 2021-02-04 11:19 am (UTC)(link)
I didn't specify the Untamed, but that's okay! I love the way you wrote Yanli!
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[personal profile] laughingpineapple 2021-02-04 11:26 am (UTC)(link)
Oh my goodness YES AND THANK YOU. Delightfully on point and funny, I looove it!
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[personal profile] smallhobbit 2021-02-04 12:00 pm (UTC)(link)
It would be so much easier if one could get from one side of the road to the other without running the risk of being trampled to death in the process. A bridge would be the answer, with perhaps a trampoline which would take one straight into the centre of the Unseen University. Or even better, a directional trampoline which could catapult the user to various pre-selected destinations.
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[personal profile] schoolsasaint 2021-02-04 12:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Ocean's 8, Rose/Daphne, chocolate
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[personal profile] schoolsasaint 2021-02-04 12:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Dragonriders of Pern, Lessa, vengence
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[personal profile] schoolsasaint 2021-02-04 12:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Dragonriders of Pern, Menolly's flair (& Mirrim's trio), play that funky music
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[personal profile] schoolsasaint 2021-02-04 12:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Temeraire, Jane Roland & Catherine Harcourt, let us drink and be merry
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[personal profile] schoolsasaint 2021-02-04 12:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Discworld, Tiffany, Buffo
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[personal profile] primeideal 2021-02-04 12:45 pm (UTC)(link)
"Okay, flyboys," says Rachel. "What's the first rule of battle?"

"Don't leave the dock if you suspect you might be a sleeper cylon," calls one of the little guys. Tuan, she thinks his name is.

"Uh, that's rule two. Rule one is never, ever, break away from your team."

"How many times have you broken that one?" Jake asks, afterward.

"Who cares," says Rachel. "They look about thirteen or fourteen. They shouldn't be here."

"They're all we have. And how old were you when we started?"

Rachel ignores him and heads off to beat the pants off Tobias Baltar at poker.
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[personal profile] marnanel 2021-02-04 01:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Ron walks into the bar, tunelessly reciting under his breath, "He drinks a whisky drink, he drinks a… cola… drink?"

Hermione looks up from her drink, shaking her head, and says, "Whisky, vodka, lager, cider— in that order."

"I dunno what this muggle thing is with drinking, nothing else on their minds, half the time— oh, mine's a butterbeer, if you're buying?"