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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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wingedflight: (Default)

[personal profile] wingedflight 2021-02-08 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
"What happened?" cries Lucy as the dejected raiding party arrives back at the Howe after their failed attempt on taking Miraz's castle.

Caspian glowers. "Ask him," he spits and, before Peter can draw his sword in an angry defense, adds, "He's the one who kept alerting the guards to our presence as we tried to sneak around the castle!"
fucktheg0ds: (Default)

Fill: The Expanse, Bobbie/Monica, can I get your help translating some jargon...

[personal profile] fucktheg0ds 2021-02-08 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
"You should ask Naomi - or Amos or Holden," Bobbie says, because Monica would be better off asking anyone other than Bobbie to explain this to her.

"They're not around." Monica puts a bottle and two glasses on the table and, with a flirtacious smile, says, "Besides, I have an ulterior motive."
vialethe: (Narnia Group)

[personal profile] vialethe 2021-02-08 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
GOODBYE I AM DEAD.

(That's basically essentially exactly what I wanted to prompt. Absolute perfection.)
wingedflight: (Default)

Re: Fill: The Expanse, Bobbie/Monica, can I get your help translating some jargon...

[personal profile] wingedflight 2021-02-08 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Yessssss perfect

(Anonymous) 2021-02-08 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you!!
vialethe: (Susan)

[personal profile] vialethe 2021-02-08 09:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, Susan! I love her standing up for herself here, and snarling back!! That's just perfect, thank you.

(Anonymous) 2021-02-08 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
atla, katara, the good uses of bloodbending

(Anonymous) 2021-02-08 09:39 pm (UTC)(link)
atla, sokka & katara, mutual respect and admiration

(Anonymous) 2021-02-08 09:45 pm (UTC)(link)
narnia, the narnians/the pevensies, what if Aslan didn't show up in LWW

(Anonymous) 2021-02-08 09:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Narnia, any, bonobos

(Anonymous) 2021-02-08 09:50 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm glad you liked it!
tiny_ninja: (bucky;; knowing how it ends)

Re: MCU, Bucky Barnes

[personal profile] tiny_ninja 2021-02-08 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
♥ ♥ ♥
tiny_ninja: (Default)

Re: MCU, Bucky Barnes

[personal profile] tiny_ninja 2021-02-08 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you!! ♥
tiny_ninja: (stock;; regrets collect like old friends)

Re: MCU, Bucky Barnes

[personal profile] tiny_ninja 2021-02-08 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! Now I'm tempted to write a full story with this idea...
tiny_ninja: (ff;; badass ladies)

Re: Mine (FFVI, Edgar + Sabin, SFW)

[personal profile] tiny_ninja 2021-02-08 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
My heart!!
metogator: (Default)

[personal profile] metogator 2021-02-08 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
*chefs kiss*
raisedbymoogles: (Default)

Transformers G1, Starscream

[personal profile] raisedbymoogles 2021-02-08 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)
...for all these reasons, I am CLEARLY the superior leader, and yet everyone acts like I'm the unreasonable one - AITA?

It took little over an hour for the post to be deleted, which was just enough time to garner a flood of YTA votes and one "NAH, please keep trying to kill him it's hilarious" post. "Humans just don't understand interpersonal workplace dynamics," Starscream concluded with no small amount of disgust.
metogator: (Default)

[personal profile] metogator 2021-02-08 10:14 pm (UTC)(link)
“They say Aslan is on the move,” the rumor continues to creep, trading dominance back and forth with the frost, throughout Narnia, through three more Christmases, three small springs. Just before the fourth Christmas, they win Edmund back in a brief and bloody skirmish near the Witch’s castle, and the True Narnia Army crowns the four siblings on the spot, never mind that all the Pevensies are broken, desolate children. They don’t have to be glorious, the centaurs say - they just have to get to Cair Paravel and seat four of Adam’s blood.
vialethe: (Narnia Group)

[personal profile] vialethe 2021-02-08 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Ooh, this is chilling. What an insight into what a sad, desperate reality they might have lived in without Aslan's aid, and the major events he forced into play.
autumnia: Central Park (Default)

[personal profile] autumnia 2021-02-08 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Even when she was a human, she always thought Monday was the worst day of the week, the depressing follow-up to weekends of parties and boys.

When she became a vampire she thought life would be better since being dead meant she didn't have to worry about mortal things such as school and work, but to her profound disappointment it was even worse: less humans out and about on Monday evenings meant slimmer pickings for dinner and she had to settle for lackluster fare in the form of UC Sunnydale college freshmen who inevitably became lost on finding their way around town.

After carelessly dropping the skinny, freckled-face boy she just finished feasting upon, she wiped her mouth with a dainty napkin and as her face resumed its human guise, she sighed, "Why isn't it Friday already?"
vialethe: (Narnia Group)

Re: Swinging with the Wild Apes of the Western Wild by P. Porcupine, Cair Paravel Physician

[personal profile] vialethe 2021-02-08 10:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Well...do they?

I love how Lucy and Edmund are using this as an opportunity to have their own curiosities satisfied, and also, to make their siblings incredibly uncomfortable as a wonderful side effect. Of course bonobos are absolutely perfect for this!
raisedbymoogles: (Default)

[personal profile] raisedbymoogles 2021-02-08 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Sephiroth is aware of the existence of the Silver Elite, but does his best to ignore the whole business. He doesn't want to read the wishful speculation on his innermost thoughts and feelings, nor the creative manipulations of press photos, racy or otherwise. He gets enough of being edited in his daily life, whether on the sharp edge of President Shinra's tongue or the business end of a syringe. He doesn't want the reminder that he is - somehow, unfathomably - wrong.