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

(Anonymous) 2021-02-09 07:31 am (UTC)(link)
Oh my god, this is hilarious, I love it so much!
silveradept: A kodama with a trombone. The trombone is playing music, even though it is held in a rest position (Default)

Final Fantasy X, Rikku and Lulu

[personal profile] silveradept 2021-02-09 07:33 am (UTC)(link)
"Why all the belts, Lulu?" Rikku asked.

"There was a shortage of quality leather before Braska completed his pilgrimage," Lulu replied. "And, before you ask," she added, holding up a hand to forestall Rikku's next question, "I keep it because it's the only dress that has been made for me that I can freely move around in."
Edited 2021-02-09 07:34 (UTC)
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Kingdom Hearts and Sailor Moon

[personal profile] silveradept 2021-02-09 07:41 am (UTC)(link)
"Well, you see," Xigbar said unrepentantly, "sometimes the corridors dump you out on a world where, I don't know, they don't have Keyblades, but they do have heroes who can harness the power of their own heavens."

"I assume this is the reason for your failure, then," Xemnas said, unimpressed.

"Look," Xigbar replied, "heroes we can handle, but when the damn cats get involved, and they've got powers just as good as the girls do, it's not worth the effort to try and take the place, you know?"

[personal profile] notapaladin 2021-02-09 07:50 am (UTC)(link)
"The Great Aslan does not have--does not have hairballs!" shrieked the Faun.

The Beaver nibbled on a likely-looking fallen branch without looking up, swishing his tail idly in the shallows. "Don't see why not. He's a Lion, isn't he? And aren't Lions a kind of cat? And cats groom themselves with their tongues, even the talking ones, on account of how they don't have thumbs. Hence, hairballs."

The Faun stomped off with a strangled sort of furious scream, and the Beaver grinned to himself as he dove back under the water; that was one annoying neighbor sorted!
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Miraculous Ladybug, Adrien and Marinette

[personal profile] silveradept 2021-02-09 07:57 am (UTC)(link)
There's coffee waiting for her when she drags herself into the classroom. Adrien slightly tips his own similarly-branded cup to her in a tiny salute.

She hopes the smile on her face is enough to tell him how much the gesture is appreciated.
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[personal profile] sheenianni 2021-02-09 08:03 am (UTC)(link)
Decades from then, Shmi will go on to become one of the greatest Jedi in history - infinitely patient and kind, yet with a spine of steel; a diplomat, a healer and a warrior - but right now she's a nine year old girl, she's terrified and she has no idea what to do with the bloody sheets.

A thirteen year old Jedi explains it to her. "It's a female thing," the Twi'lek girl says as she hands her an old handwritten notebook with a crude explanation, observations and different tips for the various species; and also some pads before Shmi can request her own ("there's a form, you give it to the med droid," her new friend says). "You're a woman now," she pats Shmi on her shoulder and tells her to pass on the notebook when the time comes.

Centuries later, Shmi will be known as the great abolitionist who fought against slavery in the Outer Rim, because she still remembers the weight of the collar around her neck before the Jedi rescued her at age three. But the Jedi girls (and boys) of her time will revere her for another reason, when Shmi finally wins her argument with Yoda and brings them all proper sex education.

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Re: Miraculous Ladybug, Adrien and Marinette

[personal profile] alexseanchai 2021-02-09 09:26 am (UTC)(link)
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: Kingdom Hearts and Sailor Moon

[personal profile] alexseanchai 2021-02-09 09:26 am (UTC)(link)
😹
queenlua: <user name=felwakame site=twitter.com> (claude von riegan pre-timeskip cropped)

[personal profile] queenlua 2021-02-09 09:32 am (UTC)(link)
Yuri tells Claude that he’s got no love for the Empire, that his alliance to the Emperor was only ever instrumental, that of course he’s happy to play for the winning side—whatever keeps him and his wolves safe, right?

Claude, sitting atop his still-too-new throne, is squinting as he strains to process what the turncoat spymaster is saying—it’s a bit hard to think straight, the morning after you’ve slept with someone you shouldn’t have, particularly when the impermissibility of it made it all the better, and particularly when you’re talking directly to the someone in question.

“Look,” Yuri adds impatiently, “if I’d wanted to backstab Almyra I could’ve done it years ago,” and Claude barks a laugh, because he’d say the same thing if he were in Yuri’s place—if you call attention to the obvious-point-of-vulnerability, you seem more honest, even if you aren’t—and then Yuri adds, “It’d be a shame to off someone who’s so much fun,” which is also what Claude would say, so Claude laughs again, and raises a hand to stop him: “Gods, Yuri, you’ve got it, alright? be my spymaster, for now at least, and I’ll just have to hope you don’t screw me—at least, not any way I don’t like,” he adds with a wink.
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Re: Transformers G1 post-S3, Optimus/Hot Rod

[personal profile] raisedbymoogles 2021-02-09 09:55 am (UTC)(link)
^_^ Hot Rod is very protective of Optimus's down time.
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Re: Transformers G1, Starscream

[personal profile] raisedbymoogles 2021-02-09 09:56 am (UTC)(link)
He's certainly an entertaining asshole! :D
fucktheg0ds: (xena/ares/gabrielle)

Fill: Torchwood, team, to everybody's silent disappointment there are actually more than enough beds

[personal profile] fucktheg0ds 2021-02-09 10:36 am (UTC)(link)
The receptionist of the smallest motel in South Wales handed a key each to Gwen, Jack, Ianto, Owen, and Tosh.

"Great," Gwen and Owen said at the same time, while Tosh forced a smile.

"But that never happens; it's a thing," said Ianto, exchanging stunned looks with Jack.
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Re: Fill: Chuubo's Marvellous Wish-Granting Engine, Hugh Rosewood and Entropy II

[personal profile] eagleoftheninth 2021-02-09 12:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, do you know of the fandom?
smallhobbit: (Forever Henry)

[personal profile] smallhobbit 2021-02-09 12:08 pm (UTC)(link)
He supposed at first it had been a bit of a joke; Lucas inserting Henry's figure in various historical pictures with the comment, 'What would Henry deduce?' But by the time some of the others around him were doing the same, it was going a bit far, especially when Abe produced a picture of what was purportedly King Canute failing to order the tide back, with Henry in the background, still deducing. The real trouble was that for far too many of the pictures, Henry could quite clearly remember what he had thought at the time.
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[personal profile] eagleoftheninth 2021-02-09 12:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Any, any, 'only those with heart as light as feathers can cross over the Bridge of One Hair'.
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[personal profile] eagleoftheninth 2021-02-09 12:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Final Fantasy IX, Zidane, when he forgets to pretend to be cool and lets the theatre geek within shine forth

(Anonymous) 2021-02-09 01:46 pm (UTC)(link)
any, any, want vs. need

(Anonymous) 2021-02-09 01:48 pm (UTC)(link)
any, any, sudden warmth in the middle of a long winter
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[personal profile] simplecoffee 2021-02-09 02:14 pm (UTC)(link)
😭😭😭😭😭😭

Just the perfect bittersweet note my heart needed, thank you. 💛
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[personal profile] simplecoffee 2021-02-09 02:15 pm (UTC)(link)
LOL! Poor Jay. 💛
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[personal profile] smallhobbit 2021-02-09 02:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you :)
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Re: Re: Silk

[personal profile] ravenlilyrose 2021-02-09 02:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks!!! I'm glad you like it!

Piranesi, The Other, after being saved from drowning

(Anonymous) 2021-02-09 03:05 pm (UTC)(link)
I have better control of my emotions than most people, but death by water is something that absolutely terrifies me, and I swear this fucking place knows it - losing my mind in a labyrinth (and that one I wasn't aware of until I set foot here the first time) and drowning, those are my biggest fears and I'm positive this world is going out of its way to create nightmares to torment me.

I suppose I should be grateful to Piranesi for saving me, but what I most want to do is shove his imbecilic kindness down his throat until he chokes; he's calm, he's caring, he treats me like a child - the tides are predictable, he says, but what he doesn't say is how a man of such a superior intellect like myself can't figure out when the entire blasted room is gonna fill in with rushing water, he doesn't say it, but I can see it in his eyes that he's thinking it. I am wet and cold, this blanket stinks, the soup stinks, the fucking fire stinks, is there anything, anything at all he wouldn't put seaweed in?

Also on my ao3
https://archiveofourown.org/works/29201325