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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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vialethe: (Jon Snow)

[personal profile] vialethe 2021-02-06 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Narnia/GoT, Susan Pevensie/Jon Snow, I wish to know/the fatal flaw that makes you long to be/magnificently cursed
vialethe: (Susan)

[personal profile] vialethe 2021-02-06 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Narnia, Susan, I’m still a believer, but I don’t know why/I’ve never been a natural, all I do is try, try, try
vialethe: (Jon Snow)

[personal profile] vialethe 2021-02-06 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Narnia/GoT, Susan Pevensie/Jon Snow, would it be enough/if I could never give you peace
vialethe: (River+Mal)

[personal profile] vialethe 2021-02-06 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm glad you made an exception, I've really been enjoying your Firefly bits so far!

Re: Narnia, The Problem of Susan

(Anonymous) 2021-02-06 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Ooooh I love this!
kaminagi: (Default)

Rogue One, Jyn/Cassian

[personal profile] kaminagi 2021-02-06 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Through his scope, he watches Jyn lay waste to an entire squad of stormtroopers, as brutal and beautiful as she had on Jedha the first time he saw her fight.

As awe-inspiring as she is to watch each time, Cassian is alert enough to ensure no far reaching combatants interrupt her performance.

"How appropriately heroic of you," she tells him, and he knows that she trusts him like no one else to watch her back.
ladyjax: (Default)

Re: Star Trek: Discovery, Jett Reno, Michael Burnham, For Science!

[personal profile] ladyjax 2021-02-06 11:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you!

I'm convinced that Admiral Vance is half afraid that the crew on Discovery will do things like this because, at the end of the day, said crew is a bunch of scientists who are all almost a thousand years old. Which Vance tries really hard not to think about.
snacky: (narnia dawn treader)

Re: For This Moment When I’m Free

[personal profile] snacky 2021-02-06 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay, new ship established! :D
snacky: (narnia dawn treader)

Re: narnia, eustace/jill

[personal profile] snacky 2021-02-06 11:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Ahhhh, my heart!
snacky: (Default)

Re: Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me no match

[personal profile] snacky 2021-02-06 11:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, fun times with Lucy, lol!
alexseanchai: Katsuki Yuuri wearing a blue jacket and his glasses and holding a poodle, in front of the asexual pride flag with a rainbow heart inset. (Default)

Re: [Miraculous Ladybug] taking stock

[personal profile] alexseanchai 2021-02-06 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
I mean also this bit is from the perspective of the guy who's embracing supervillainry for a number of reasons, even the most sympathetic and least selfish of which is twisted and unhealthy at slightly closer examination, and who doesn't seem to realize—except for a couple minutes here and a couple minutes there, right after he's personally seen his son getting or narrowly avoiding getting the worst of the day's damage, and not even all of those times!—that he's the bad guy of the piece
vialethe: (Dany)

Re: For This Moment When I’m Free

[personal profile] vialethe 2021-02-06 11:34 pm (UTC)(link)
You know me and my crackships! When I was assigned to Syrena a couple years ago for NFE, Eustace & Dany was one of her prompts, and even though I didn't end up writing it, it clearly stuck with me - and well, here it is. There's a follow up to this one buried somewhere in the subsequent pages too.

(Anonymous) 2021-02-06 11:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Any, any, go tell the bees that I am gone

(Anonymous) 2021-02-06 11:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Any, any, for we must be sailing to know where we are / we are ships on the sea and must keep moving on
raisedbymoogles: (Default)

Re: Brooding (Final Fantasy IX, Mr. 33 + Mr. 111)

[personal profile] raisedbymoogles 2021-02-06 11:45 pm (UTC)(link)
awwwww they are BEST chocobo dads
mad_madam_m: Mad Madam Mim as a dragon (Default)

Leverage, Parker/Eliot/Hardison, Something to Share

[personal profile] mad_madam_m 2021-02-06 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Hardison does not have the disposition to cook well. He's too focused on gadgets and tricks and hacks and the new, latest thing; it's something Eliot loves about him deeply, but it also means that even though Hardison has learned to cook things that are edible and even good, it's not something that they can really share.

But Parker—Parker will stand in the kitchen with him and listen and watch, her sharp eyes catching every one of his movements and her sharp mind cataloguing everything that he says; she learns to see the beauty in it, just like he does, and the joy on her face when he and Hardison moan over her chicken parmesan is worth a hundred priceless paintings.
raisedbymoogles: (Default)

Re: Fill: FFX, Summoner Tidus/Al Bhed Yuna

[personal profile] raisedbymoogles 2021-02-06 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
i am desperately intrigued by this AU
smallhobbit: (Default)

[personal profile] smallhobbit 2021-02-06 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you very much.
smallhobbit: (Default)

[personal profile] smallhobbit 2021-02-06 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you. I'm glad you like it.
mad_madam_m: Mad Madam Mim as a dragon (Default)

Great Pretender, Edamura/Laurent, Cover Story

[personal profile] mad_madam_m 2021-02-06 11:57 pm (UTC)(link)
"What are you doing?" Makoto hissed, grabbing onto Laurent's shoulder so he wouldn't lose his balance.

Laurent spun him into a waltz with the rest of the couples on the dance floor without missing a beat. "I am trying not to blow our cover, Edamame. You are the one who told the mark that we're engaged. They'll think it strange if we don't join in on the dancing."

Makoto's cheeks heated—he had come up with the fake engagement as their cover story and Laurent had, shockingly, not objected—but if he had known it was going to end up with them slow-dancing together, he'd have come up with anything else.
violsva: full bookshelf with ladder (Default)

[personal profile] violsva 2021-02-07 12:04 am (UTC)(link)
Ooh, I like this!
primeideal: Lando Calrissian from Star Wars (lando calrissian)

[personal profile] primeideal 2021-02-07 12:09 am (UTC)(link)
The Ministry of Magic has had its own equivalents to Professor Binns--bureaucrats who resent the possibility of change so much that they refuse to take notice of their own deaths, and steadfastly continue pushing papers. None of them have lasted more than five or six years on the job. There are forces, locked away behind walls (at least from corporeal employees), that can defy even the most intransigent fear of the next great adventure.