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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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little_lady_d: (Default)

[personal profile] little_lady_d 2021-02-04 04:41 pm (UTC)(link)
aaah battler. he's so steady and mature in this, he's able to tell kanon just what he needs to hear from him, and you know and i know how much it took for battler to get there. it's something sweet and sad at the same time.
wallwalker: Venetian mask, dark purple with gold gilding. (Default)

[personal profile] wallwalker 2021-02-04 04:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Any, Any, You'll dance to anything!
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[personal profile] little_lady_d 2021-02-04 04:44 pm (UTC)(link)
ooh love this interpretation of the prompt with blore and camoulflage, and love the panther imagery for lombard, as always.
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Re: And Then There Were None, Lombard/Marston

[personal profile] little_lady_d 2021-02-04 04:46 pm (UTC)(link)
lol this is excellent. miniseries lombard's so judgy with himself, and honestly he's right, book lombard is a dick, but he is also a dick. and the marstons are flirting with each other, of course they are. good luck to book lombard getting in on that.
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[personal profile] ernest 2021-02-04 04:49 pm (UTC)(link)
yesss, battler's such a good kid, but he's also a dumb well-meaning rich kid, so he's had to go through a lot to learn how to give kanon what he needs. i'm glad that in this Fragment at least they're able to get here!
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Re: Fill:Pathologic

[personal profile] little_lady_d 2021-02-04 04:49 pm (UTC)(link)
such good and bloody imagery, and 'he knows that it hurts to be born, so he prepares himself to be the midwife of this wound' is just. everything.
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Original // the siren call of hell's gates

[personal profile] thesebonesaregood 2021-02-04 04:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Siren drums pull you forward, calling out to you to keep walking. You move your blistered feet just that much more, aching limbs and bloody footprints making everything around you feel surreal, like a distant horror that you can't qui9te wrap your head around.

There's a part of you that wants to stop, to breathe, to rest, but you know there's a long way down to Hell and the drums will keep going until you've found your way to their gates.
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[personal profile] little_lady_d 2021-02-04 04:53 pm (UTC)(link)
oh wow, i love how you built on the imagery in verse to make a metaphor out of ink-stained fingers. love these two, beautifully done.
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[personal profile] little_lady_d 2021-02-04 04:54 pm (UTC)(link)
eee this is such a good characterization of horatio, and of horatio's relationship with hamlet, all summed up in a line.
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Re: Fill: Hamlet

[personal profile] little_lady_d 2021-02-04 04:57 pm (UTC)(link)
'as palpable as cursed hebenon' nice metaphor. there's so much feeling in this, meaning in every word, and you can see how they both get swept up in it, the grief and the fury and the not insignificant chemistry.
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[personal profile] undeadrobins 2021-02-04 05:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[Yes, I purposely misinterpreted the 'any ship' part of the prompt!]

Enterprise only ever wanted what she'd seen in others - companionship, love, protection - but they insisted it was impossible for her, a ship, an inanimate (or so they say) object to have a soul, let alone a soulmate.

Until her engineer came along, with his smile and his soft touches and his whispering endearments, and she knew that he truly loved her for what she was, rather than what she could never be.

Together they discovered that whatever a soul was, they were wrong about her lack of one; after all, if she didn't have a soul, she could never have a soulmate.

And yet she did.

Re: Fill: Hamlet

(Anonymous) 2021-02-04 05:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Ohhh this is so good!
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[personal profile] ernest 2021-02-04 05:05 pm (UTC)(link)
they could have been so good together, if only they stopped assuming they knew what the other one was thinking, and if they talked they'd realize that they both want the same things from each other. oh boys...
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Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty

[personal profile] undeadrobins 2021-02-04 05:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Tang Fan sits as still as he can - his fingers continue to tap on his leg and his feet kick gently at the ground - as Wang Zhi teases the comb through his hair.

"I have never met anyone who could get their hair into quite this state - " Wang Zhi mutters under his breath, one hand firm on the top of Tang Fan's head as the other forces the comb through a particularly bad knot, "- especially not just in just one day."

Sui Zhou sits on the floor at Tang Fan's feet, his head resting on Tang Fan's knee and smiles up at both of them. One day Wang Zhi will discover that Tang Fan does this on purpose, and Tang Fan will discover that Wang Zhi enjoys his role, but for now, he's the only one who doesn't have to pretend.
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Re: Fill: Hamlet

[personal profile] ernest 2021-02-04 05:21 pm (UTC)(link)
thank you! they really are getting swept up in the grief and fury, and in each other. i love them a lot, and they don't love each other yet but they're going to.
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Re: Fill: Hamlet

[personal profile] ernest 2021-02-04 05:24 pm (UTC)(link)
thank you so much! i'm deeply invested in this ship because of a specific production i saw where these two have a *ton* of chemistry.
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[personal profile] undeadrobins 2021-02-04 05:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Sam has his arms wrapped around Bucky, holding him tightly as he glides through the air.

"What do you think?" he yells in Bucky's ear, "You jealous of my beautiful wings yet?"

Bucky twists around, confident that Sam will keep a hold of him (and pretty sure he'd survive a fall from this height even if he somehow let go) and smiles at Sam before he winks and replies, "Not jealous, bird-boy, but pretty damn turned on right now."

Sam does drop him, but in his defence, he caught him again well before he hit the ground.
ernest: (lemony snicket)

Umineko, George/Shannon

[personal profile] ernest 2021-02-04 05:38 pm (UTC)(link)
“Can I… see her face?” George asks through his tears, but he already knows the answer before his father says it would be better to remember Shannon’s smile as she accepted the ring he offered her the night before.

Their world of two was a completed eternity from the moment they declared it to each other, and that will always have been the case, even though it’s over forever from now on.

He wipes his eyes, not for the last time, and pledges to become an excellent man, the promise somehow meaning more when the person to whom he first made it no longer walks by his side.

(Anonymous) 2021-02-04 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Bridgerton, Colin Bridgerton/Penelope Featherington, cleavage
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[personal profile] undeadrobins 2021-02-04 05:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Wei Wuxian doesn't know which of them has moved in their sleep, but the space he'd purposely left between himself and Jiang Cheng has all but vanished during the night; instead of a respectable distance between their bodies, Jiang Cheng has one arm thrown across Wei Wuxian's chest and his leg curled around Wei Wuxian's ankle.

Wei Wuxian considers sliding out from the embrace, moving back to the far side of the sleeping area, but he can't convince himself to actually break the contact (he tells himself he doesn't want to wake Jiang Cheng and have to deal with his crankiness, but he's aware enough to know he's lying to himself).

Instead, he closes his eyes, lets his fingers rest gently over Jiang Cheng's, and allows himself a few more minutes to pretend that this is real.

(Anonymous) 2021-02-04 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Bridgerton, Eloise Bridgerton/Penelope Featherington, in the know
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[personal profile] ilthit 2021-02-04 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Original, any, waiting
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[personal profile] ilthit 2021-02-04 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Original, any female/any female, witchcraft
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Re: Fill:Pathologic

[personal profile] ernest 2021-02-04 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
thank you so much! pathologic is about plague, meat, and theater, so blood is compulsory. and thank you, i was particularly pleased with the midwife line <3
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[personal profile] ilthit 2021-02-04 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Original, any male/any male, witchcraft