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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: (Susan)

[personal profile] vialethe 2021-02-08 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
Narnia/Star Wars, Susan Pevensie/Obi-Wan Kenobi, I won’t ask you to wait/if you don’t ask me to stay
loveandrockmusic: (Default)

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

[personal profile] loveandrockmusic 2021-02-08 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
I AM HERE FOR THIS.
loveandrockmusic: (Default)

Re: i am so sorry

[personal profile] loveandrockmusic 2021-02-08 04:26 am (UTC)(link)
NOT SORRY AT ALL, THIS IS BRILLIANT
loveandrockmusic: (Default)

Re: i am so sorry

[personal profile] loveandrockmusic 2021-02-08 04:27 am (UTC)(link)
fucking DEAD rotfl
wingedflight: (Default)

Re: So many ideas, so little time!

[personal profile] wingedflight 2021-02-08 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
OOOOOOOH i love this! Sailing to meet a star!
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: Lost in Translation (Chronicles of Narnia)

[personal profile] alexseanchai 2021-02-08 04:30 am (UTC)(link)
OUCH. 😭
edenfalling: stylized black-and-white line art of a sunset over water (Default)

Re: Lost in Translation (Chronicles of Narnia)

[personal profile] edenfalling 2021-02-08 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
Telmarine backstory is a tragedy on so many levels. :(
loveandrockmusic: (Default)

Re: WHY DO YOU DO THIS

[personal profile] loveandrockmusic 2021-02-08 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
omg when he gets back to England and has to relearn HANDS. be still my everloving heart. my mind is positively spinning with these possiblities
ravenlilyrose: (Default)

Observation and Comfort

[personal profile] ravenlilyrose 2021-02-08 04:33 am (UTC)(link)

The mission had been a strange one, even for them, with Doctor McCoy being the main instigator of chaos and a talking circle of rock that sent people back in time.


Their Captain had come back down and subdued, a far cry from his usual brightness, and both the Doctor and Mr. Spock kept shooting him worried looks, which only made her more worried for him.


That week, when she sang for the crew, she sang both the saddest and the happiest of Captain Kirk's favorite songs, and when he left the room following her performance, he squeezed her shoulder and gave her a grateful smile; he wasn't okay, she gathered, but he was getting better.

Edited 2021-02-08 04:37 (UTC)
lonespark: Cassidy from "Far Beyond the Stars" (Default)

Re: The Old Guard, Andy, Paris 1791

[personal profile] lonespark 2021-02-08 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
excellent!

Obsidian & Blood, Acatl

[personal profile] notapaladin 2021-02-08 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
He was tired down to his bones--no, past his bones, tired all the way down to every part of his soul--but sleep stubbornly refused to come. No matter how much he tossed and turned on his mat, no matter how much he desperately wished for unconsciousness, the room was too warm or his neck hurt or, for all he knew, the stars weren't in position for him to succumb.

Fighting the urge to beat his head against the ground--it wouldn't help, and would just make him sore in addition to his rising ill-temper--he rolled over again and buried his head in the crook of his arm until sunrise.
loveandrockmusic: (Default)

Re: Narnia, Peter/Caspian, I’m In A State / Nothing Can Touch Us, My Love

[personal profile] loveandrockmusic 2021-02-08 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
Literally panting and fanning myself omfg, this is GORGEOUS and so very hott
loveandrockmusic: (Default)

Re: welp i'm here now

[personal profile] loveandrockmusic 2021-02-08 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
FUCKING FANTASTIC. This is the macaron made edible gold foil of 3SF right here.
loveandrockmusic: (Default)

Re: Narnia, Peter/Caspian, I’m In A State / Nothing Can Touch Us, My Love

[personal profile] loveandrockmusic 2021-02-08 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
Ohohohoho so very very hot. Dangerously sexy Peter, i am here for it
sidhehound: Image of the Valkyrie Brunhilde denying Gutrun (Default)

Killing Eve, Eve/Villanelle

[personal profile] sidhehound 2021-02-08 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
There was a kind of silence this far north that Eve wasn't used to. The wooden beams creaked every so often, and the firewood sometimes popped in the fireplace, but there was no shouting, no distant police sirens or muffled arguments from neighbors.

No human noises. Only nature, all around her.

Not even a ping on her cellphone to help either.

If Eve wasn't so damn tired, she'd be mad at Villanelle for going so long without sending any sign of her well-being.

As it was, Eve could only wait. She had gotten her target, now Villanelle needed to get hers.

If only Eve could sleep. That would make time fly by faster. Unfortunately, all Eve could do in nights like this was to sit by the fire, and let her mind exhaust itself with worry.

Villanelle would be here by dawn. Then, they could sleep.
loveandrockmusic: (Default)

Re: paging rthstewart and snacky! TSG-AU

[personal profile] loveandrockmusic 2021-02-08 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
Rth this payoff is fucking MAGNIFICENT. SWEET MERCY. Peter and his hanging shirttails and Mary going after him with a tape measure are burned in to my brain. YASSSSSSSSS
mad_madam_m: Mad Madam Mim as a dragon (Default)

Xanatos Family, Again!

[personal profile] mad_madam_m 2021-02-08 04:52 am (UTC)(link)
"Again!" Alex said as soon as they disembarked from the Ferris wheel. "Go again? Go again peez Daddy?"

"Alex, we've gone on the Ferris wheel three times in a row," Xanatos said. "Are you sure you don't want to go on a different ride?"

"How about the carousel?" Fox suggested.

Alex looked between his parents, and then turned to Owen with the largest pleading eyes ever seen on a toddler. "Owen go again peez?"

Owen cleared his throat. "I could take him on the Ferris wheel again, sir, if you and Fox would rather do something else."

Xanatos glanced at Fox, who was fighting a smile. "I guess we're all going again."

Alex cheered.
ravenlilyrose: (Default)

Freeze

[personal profile] ravenlilyrose 2021-02-08 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
Minerva McGonagall walks into the room and the inhabitants freeze in the act, making it quite simple for her to collect their materials and march all four of them back to her office to give them a good talking to and a single detention each because they weren't in danger of harming anyone this time and really everyone does need some fun in these dark times.

Minerva McGonagall walks into the middle of a battle and the young fighters freeze because they forget for a moment that she is no longer their teacher, making it easy for her to disarm and take into custody those with tattoos on their forearms and quickly heal the ones without because as much as she wants to remove them from the battle, she knows that they need every fighter they have if they are going to come out of this ahead.

Minerva McGonagall stands from her chair to address the assembled students and despite the fact that they all immediately quiet and freeze, she feels uneasy being where she is until she looks into the eyes of the oldest students and sees the trust and respect and she begins to speak, welcoming and kind, but also making it very clear that she will take absolutely no nonsense from anyone.
sholio: Jack from Agent Carter looking pretty (Avengers-Jack)

[personal profile] sholio 2021-02-08 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, this is really nifty! JAAACK. <3
metogator: (Default)

[personal profile] metogator 2021-02-08 04:57 am (UTC)(link)
The card is a perfectly friendly little note, really. She does miss them, and almost considers going, but then she pictures the inevitable Talk and rips Lucy’s message into pieces.

(She find the scraps on her vanity a month later, and pastes them back together, shaking, sobbing.)
sholio: Ward looking moody (Defenders-Ward at window)

[personal profile] sholio 2021-02-08 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
Aaaahhhh, this is wonderful! I just want to hug him! ;___; I love that he's got Danny and Colleen there to be a good influence and help pick up the pieces.
lonespark: Cassidy from "Far Beyond the Stars" (Default)

Huge, Athena/Trent

[personal profile] lonespark 2021-02-08 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
¨Now that your family knows, they probably want you to date boys, right? We´re friends, and I wouldn´t mind pretending...¨

Athena frowns and says, ¨We could date for real, do you want to?¨

¨I´m not sure,¨ Trent responds, ¨But I know I want to kiss you!¨
conuly: (Default)

[personal profile] conuly 2021-02-08 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
All right! I've done it, I've updated with all the new prompts that have been posted since the last time I left this comment. Yesterday I also cleared out all the prompts that had been filled by that point, and today I also cleared out any fills people told me about. (If nobody tells me, I clear it within a few days anyway, no worries.)

https://conuly.dreamwidth.org/3128453.html

I'm sorry I haven't been quite as up-to-date as I would have liked. Between snow and family stuff, I just haven't had the time. And I do apologize for not personally replying to people who commented "thanks" or told me about filled prompts - again, snowstorms and family stuff.

Tomorrow I'll add and delete more.
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 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
Eeee, I’m so glad you like it! Yes, this fic is probably going to make everyone go Jaaaack! a lot 😄