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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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snacky: (narnia peter & caspian)

Re: a wingspan unbelievable

[personal profile] snacky 2021-02-08 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
If someone asks Caspian if he believes in love at first sight, he thinks of Peter and says, “no, second sight though.” :D
snacky: (narnia susan older smile)

Re: For This Moment When I’m Free

[personal profile] snacky 2021-02-08 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
Susan is the perfect LBD, right? And well, if it’s gonna be a threesome, it totally works!
vindoletta: (Default)

[personal profile] vindoletta 2021-02-08 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
It's always been Diego, her brother Antonio, and her, ever since the very beginning when the three of them were tykes running through the streets of Trujillo. Eva loved them dearly, and she'd been heartbroken when she'd thought they had perished, then elated when she discovered that they, too, had become vampires. The centuries had buried in her memory how exasperating their particular brand of brotherly smothering could be, however.

"You are not going to spike Elmer's coffee and that is final. Am I understood?"

"Yes ma'am."


(fanfic based on Havenfall is for Lovers, a story published on the dating sim app Lovestruck. Eva is an actual trans vampire in the story! She's a side character though, she has few appearances and lines as far as I know. But she was the very first binary trans to be included in one of the app's stories.)
Edited 2021-02-08 01:02 (UTC)
snacky: (narnia peter & susan)

Re: what died didn't stay dead / you're alive, you're alive in my head

[personal profile] snacky 2021-02-08 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
Right? Right? It haunts me! I just think of Edmund and Lucy being young enough to still be kids in Narnia and forgetting all about England and becoming all Narnian, but Susan and Peter are old enough to still remember life before Narnia and to know they have to be the ones who truly commit to the country and working together, even though they’re still young too.
metogator: (Default)

[personal profile] metogator 2021-02-08 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
It’s a rare night out together for the four of them, blown homeward for once and soon to part again. Edmund doesn’t feel like pretending to be young and lively, so he’s sitting with a watery drink and a growing headache, the edge dulled by watching his siblings swing from partner to partner.

The jazz number drops off to a final, golden horn note, and his head snaps up, finds Susan’s mouth pressed into a sudden harsh line, Peter’s fist clenched, Lucy’s eyes suddenly bright with tears - and the call he wishes he felt tugging at his soul nothing but a memory.
snacky: (Default)

Re: a wingspan unbelievable

[personal profile] snacky 2021-02-08 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
Lemme see what I can do! :D

(Anonymous) 2021-02-08 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
The Winternight Trilogy, any, seasons
metogator: (Default)

[personal profile] metogator 2021-02-08 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
Yessss, seeing this while I just opened your time travel fic is excellent, I’m here for all the Charn worldbuilding.
vialethe: (Narnia Group)

[personal profile] vialethe 2021-02-08 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
Oh my god, this is so good! I love the focus on Ed, on how he doesn't feel like pretending to be young (but is still enjoying that the others do), and how he doesn't feel anything but memory in the end. Ouch, but I love it! Thank you.
metogator: (Default)

Re: yesssss it's witchy jill tiiiiime

[personal profile] metogator 2021-02-08 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
Yesssssss witchy Jill!

Part of me desperately wants to play in this sandbox, but at the same time you just do it so perfectly! I want all the witchy Jill!
tellshannon815: (larry the cat)

Larry the Cat from Downing Street

[personal profile] tellshannon815 2021-02-08 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
There were news stories once about Larry the Cat being an ineffective mouser after he had been seen allowing a mouse to go by, and his record was compared negatively to Palmerston’s (was it any wonder they fought?)

Foolish humans and their tabloid rags, Larry thought - did they not know that Larry was the one truly running the country as opposed to that scruffy haired philanderer? What with photo ops, tweeting out the sense his housemate wasn’t giving, and mouse catching, a cat’s work was never done.
wingedflight: (Default)

Re: yesssss it's witchy jill tiiiiime

[personal profile] wingedflight 2021-02-08 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
omg play with meeee! I want all the witchy jill from anyone and everyone!
wingedflight: (Default)

[personal profile] wingedflight 2021-02-08 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
Narnia, Jill, witchy jill in an english schoolroom
wingedflight: (Default)

Re: the history of the future

[personal profile] wingedflight 2021-02-08 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
Yessssssss oh this is so chilling

(Anonymous) 2021-02-08 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
Any, any, shadow on the crown
metogator: (Default)

WHY DO YOU DO THIS

[personal profile] metogator 2021-02-08 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
“Dear ones, you mustn’t be alarmed - we recovered your brother, but he has come back much changed from the Witch’s home,” Aslan pauses at the entrance to the tent, then ripples his shoulders (a Lion’s shrug, Susan thinks, suddenly fearing him more) and leads them in.

“Oh, Edmund!” Lucy cries, and there is a slicing clatter and a hubbub of gasps cut short. Peter meant to go straight to Ed and hug him and give and get forgiveness, but now he steps back, tries to turn Lucy away - she ducks him to land by Edmund’s side, reaching out warily to touch the gleaming silver-white blades now attached to his wrists.

“Shall I try - the cordial?” She asks, looking to Aslan. “It will not work,” he says, and Lucy throws herself over her brother in a hug, careless of the scissors.

“It’s ok,” Edmund says, “They don’t really hurt anymore, and I guess the Witch just didn’t want me to feel bad I missed out on Christmas gifts!”


[I’M SORRY, it was going to be serious? But now it’s too serious and his joke doesn’t work??]

(Anonymous) 2021-02-08 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
Any, any, the price of blood

(Anonymous) 2021-02-08 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
Any, any, the steel beneath the silk
raisedbymoogles: (Default)

Castlevania: Lament of Innocence, Joachim Armster

[personal profile] raisedbymoogles 2021-02-08 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
Walter had told Joachim that becoming a vampire would freeze him in place, unchanging for all time. It was only the first lie the old bloodsucker told, and the one that was easiest to disprove - in retrospect, that probably should have been a hint.

But Walter's dust now, and Joachim survives, and his name and form and destiny are his own.
wingedflight: (Default)

Re: fire in their bones

[personal profile] wingedflight 2021-02-08 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
Yesssss I want all the adventures of Susan and Lucy with the southern witches
wingedflight: (Default)

Re: the bravest of them all

[personal profile] wingedflight 2021-02-08 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
What an adorably bold mouse :)
wingedflight: (Default)

Re: A bird and a fish sitting in something other than a tree, K I S S I N G

[personal profile] wingedflight 2021-02-08 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
LOLOLOLOL
wingedflight: (Default)

[personal profile] wingedflight 2021-02-08 01:24 am (UTC)(link)
Ahaha what amazing TIMEing ;) ;) ;)