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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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metogator: (Default)

Re: welp i'm here now

[personal profile] metogator 2021-02-08 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
BETSY, this is awesome. The harshness, the struggle! perfection!
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Re: ASOIAF, Brienne of Tarth (/Jaime Lannister)

[personal profile] booksarelife 2021-02-08 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
I love this!!
be_themoon: I want a better world. By me. (Default)

[personal profile] be_themoon 2021-02-08 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
She signs her name neatly on the book plate, hands it to her fan with a smile on her face.

"I lost my dad," the fan says, "and this book helped me learn how to deal with it. I can't tell you how much it meant."

Susan keeps smiling, the whole time. She always smiles at these events.
booksarelife: Tilted photo of Peggy Carter's head, shoulders and torso, where she is wearing a navy dress with two red stripes across the middle (Default)

[personal profile] booksarelife 2021-02-08 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
I love this!
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[personal profile] wingedflight 2021-02-08 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
Yesss of course she establishes her own little coven at the experiment house!
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[personal profile] booksarelife 2021-02-08 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
Aww, I love this!
metogator: (Default)

[personal profile] metogator 2021-02-08 03:06 am (UTC)(link)
OMG WHY. This is extremely perfect and absolutely devastating.
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Re: WHY DO YOU DO THIS

[personal profile] wingedflight 2021-02-08 03:06 am (UTC)(link)
ITS HIS CHRISTMAS GIFT OH MY GOD
booksarelife: Tilted photo of Peggy Carter's head, shoulders and torso, where she is wearing a navy dress with two red stripes across the middle (Default)

[personal profile] booksarelife 2021-02-08 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
Ooh, I love this!
metogator: (Default)

Re: WHY DO YOU DO THIS

[personal profile] metogator 2021-02-08 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
IT’S LARM’S FAULT OKAY!
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Re: Iron Fist, post-season-one, Ward

[personal profile] booksarelife 2021-02-08 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
I love this!!
be_themoon: I want a better world. By me. (Default)

[personal profile] be_themoon 2021-02-08 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
Padme is quiet, much of the time. But that doesn't mean that she isn't there, present, helping with the children every moment.

But she is quiet, and there are bruises on her neck.

But there are still so many things to do, and the children need attention, and she is always there when they need her -

And she is so tired.
booksarelife: Tilted photo of Peggy Carter's head, shoulders and torso, where she is wearing a navy dress with two red stripes across the middle (Default)

[personal profile] booksarelife 2021-02-08 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
Ooh, I love this!
be_themoon: I want a better world. By me. (Default)

[personal profile] be_themoon 2021-02-08 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
oh no, this is so good
snacky: (narnia peter and caspian)

Re: welp i'm here now

[personal profile] snacky 2021-02-08 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
Ugh, perfect!
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[personal profile] wallwalker 2021-02-08 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
The voice of this is perfect, thank you so much! Poor Reeve, and I appreciate Barret trying his best.
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[personal profile] booksarelife 2021-02-08 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
Yessssss!!! I very well know that scene and it is very awkward and this is wonderful!!
be_themoon: I want a better world. By me. (Default)

[personal profile] be_themoon 2021-02-08 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
It has never been easy, to talk to Peter and ignore Narnia. It never will be. Sometimes they speak and he asks and she refuses to acknowledge and it becomes something entirely terrible and scarce, something that cannot be answered or followed or anything at all but the shrug of her shoulders, the turn away and she doesn't want to, she doesn't mean it entirely, but there has to be a way to leave.

There has to be a way to be free.
be_themoon: (fire at will)

[personal profile] be_themoon 2021-02-08 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
The train station is so close. She starts to run, even with her heels, because at this moment she doesn't want to leave them behind the way she has before.

There is smoke in the air ahead of her.
vialethe: (Eowyn)

Scrap and Bone

[personal profile] vialethe 2021-02-08 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
(With apologies to [personal profile] wingedflight )

“I am quite good at roasting meat, you know,” he says, a touch more defensively than is really appropriate for the King of Gondor, “and potatoes - you just wrap them in leaves and stick them in the ashes,” he says, gesturing as if to show her, ignoring Eowyn’s skeptical “mhmm”, and continuing, “and putting together a delightful wild salad comprised entirely of plants one might find growing wild in Arnor!”

“But?” she asks, crossing her arms over her chest, smirk barely suppressed; nothing for it, then.

“But I’m utterly atrocious at baking,” he confesses, “and as the one thing Arwen claims she would like for our anniversary is a cake baked with my own hands - I beg you, my lady, if you ever truly meant your vows of allegiance, help me now.”
metogator: (Default)

[personal profile] metogator 2021-02-08 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
Part of me wanted to do it maybe a touch more sincerely but then I sort of just felt like dunking on Aragorn lol.
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Re: i am so sorry

[personal profile] wingedflight 2021-02-08 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
I AM CRYING