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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] paxilam 2021-02-05 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)
killing eve, villanelle/eve, villanelle talking foreign languages in her sleep

Re: FE15, Kamui -> Leon -> Valbar

[personal profile] runespoor 2021-02-05 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
oh.

i love this story.
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[personal profile] paxilam 2021-02-05 10:27 pm (UTC)(link)
any, any, singing in the shower

Re: Pokémon, Red & Blue

[personal profile] runespoor 2021-02-05 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
oooh, I love the way Samuel has seen this story before informs his perspective. That last line is nice.
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Re: Narnia: historical England, canon Narnia

[personal profile] wingedflight 2021-02-05 10:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Ooooooo
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[personal profile] wingedflight 2021-02-05 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Narnia/Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Uncle Andrew, a proper English magician

(Anonymous) 2021-02-05 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
After, after she’d gained the alliance of the wolves and the loyalty of Brotherhood Without Banners (after she’d finally put her mother to rest), after she had gathered the scattered River Lords around her, after they had sacked the Twins and re-taken Riverrun - there is a coronation.

They do not give her Robb’s crown- that crown was lost, somewhere along the way- but secretly Arya is glad for it: at least this crown, for all its rushed ironwork and unpolished shine and lack of adornment, is entirely her own.

“To the Queen of the Trident!” her uncle shouts, his fist raised, “Queen of the Trident! Queen of the Trident!” echo her people, and in the distance wolves begin to howl.

Re: ASOIAF, Brienne of Tarth (/Jaime Lannister)

(Anonymous) 2021-02-05 10:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Love this! I don't see Queen!Brienne very often, but honestly that is a shame (and of course with Jaime at her side is even better ;)

Re: ASOIAF, Brienne of Tarth (/Jaime Lannister)

(Anonymous) 2021-02-05 10:45 pm (UTC)(link)
(Not the anon who prompted this)
fallen_stage: Kuja standing in the wind, facing down Bahamut (Default)

[personal profile] fallen_stage 2021-02-05 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Sheik/Link, duet

-sheik is zelda, not an oc please
-ideally id like at least sheik (if not both) to be BIG TRANS, but how is up to author (genderfluid counts!)
fallen_stage: Kuja standing in the wind, facing down Bahamut (Default)

[personal profile] fallen_stage 2021-02-05 10:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Leverage, Hardison/Parker/Hardison, cooking lessons

Re: Fill: Naruto, Naruto/Sasuke/Sakura

[personal profile] runespoor 2021-02-05 10:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks! And yeah, Kakashi would just... just really like to have the power to make things okay for his team.

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

[personal profile] runespoor 2021-02-05 10:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Even better then, and I'm glad you liked it!

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

[personal profile] runespoor 2021-02-05 10:58 pm (UTC)(link)
very much a badass, yeah. Thank you!

Re: Fill: The Untamed, Jin Guangyao

[personal profile] runespoor 2021-02-05 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
JGY is that guy whose life makes you go "i don't believe in history being the product of individuals, but writing a biography of that dude would be A BLAST"

I'm glad you like it, i had fun writing it!

Re: Fill: The Untamed, Jin Guangyao

[personal profile] runespoor 2021-02-05 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm sitting here, imagining students frantically realizing "wait, the second Jin Chief Cultivator was once part of the Nie sect?... that doesn't seem right... Wait, he was Jin Guangshan's bastard SON, not bastard BROTHER? but his na-- oh shit, he personally killed HOW MANY sect leaders? What is this guy?" and so on and so forth

Re: Fill: The Untamed/MDZS, Yu Ziyuan (+Jiang Cheng+Wei Wuxian)

[personal profile] runespoor 2021-02-05 11:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! I like to think even she had moments of contentedness.
sincereously: night sky above mountains (Default)

[personal profile] sincereously 2021-02-05 11:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Brandon shook the snow out of his hair and glared at Ned, which might have come across as more intimidating if they hadn't all just heard him yelp when several well-aimed snowballs hit his back. "You were supposed to be on my side!"

Ned only smiled and tossed the last snowball he was holding at Brandon, who ignored it in favor of launching himself at Ned, tackling him into the snowbank. Behind them, Lyanna and Benjen peeked out from behind an oak tree and burst into laughter.

Brandon laughed himself as he shoved handfuls of snow down the back of Ned's shirt, saying, "Traitor! Turncloak! I was going to give you a holdfast when I become Lord of Winterfell, but if that's how you're going to treat your liege lord - "

"That won't happen for ages, anyway," Lyanna said as she threw herself into the snowbank - her brothers never did something without her wanting to be in the middle of it - and started to pile snow on them both.

Benjen nodded, leaning back against the oak tree. "She's right. Father's never been ill a day in his life."

"You'll be an old, grey man before you get Winterfell," Lyanna declared.

Brandon threw a snowball at her for that, but halfheartedly - the energy was beginning to go out of all of them as the sun started to set over the walls of Winterfell. He pulled himself up, offering his hands to his brother and sister where they lay in the snowbank. "Come on, then. If we have so much time before we have to worry about Winterfell, we might as well spend it someplace warmer."

Re: Fill: Utena, Wakaba

[personal profile] runespoor 2021-02-05 11:06 pm (UTC)(link)
she does and I'm glad you liked it!

Re: Fill: The Untamed/MDZS, Jiang Cheng, Wei Wuxian (cw: war, necromancy, implications of torture)

[personal profile] runespoor 2021-02-05 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
u_u

Re: Fill: The Untamed, Nie Mingjue (+subtext)

[personal profile] runespoor 2021-02-05 11:08 pm (UTC)(link)
yes. ;_;

Re: Fill: The Untamed, Nie Mingjue (+subtext)

[personal profile] runespoor 2021-02-05 11:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! (And what are three sentences fic for if not twisting the knife of dramatic irony, right?)
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[personal profile] archersangel 2021-02-05 11:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you!

Re: Fill: The Untamed, Jin Guangyao/Nie Mingjue

[personal profile] runespoor 2021-02-05 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)
He probably is, but not enough for nmj to go anything about it (regrets are a perfectly acceptable fuel for anger)
sincereously: night sky above mountains (Default)

[personal profile] sincereously 2021-02-05 11:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Poor guys! The "Take care of yourself" is also a good callback to ANH; this time Luke means it completely seriously. Nice work!