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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)

Narnia, jadis

[personal profile] wingedflight 2021-02-09 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
For a long time, Jadis bides her time in the wastes: at first, she camps within sight of the walled garden until the wind turns and drives her away with its stench of apples; later, she crafts a fortress among craggy cliffs where she can look out across the world and confirm that no one dares approach.

But she's ruled an empty land before, and the echoing halls of her fortress reflect no memories but her own, and so she finds herself driven out into the wilds yet again.

This is her life for several hundreds of years: intermittent wandering between failed sanctuaries.
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Re: Ouran High School Host Club, the twins and Haruhi.

[personal profile] wingedflight 2021-02-09 09:51 pm (UTC)(link)
hAHAHAHA
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Re: Diplomatic Envoys

[personal profile] wingedflight 2021-02-09 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Ooooh this is SO GREAT. I feel like Susan and Lasaraleen would have a great time trading thinly veiled threats at each other before uniting against a common enemy.
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[personal profile] wingedflight 2021-02-09 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Narnia, Susan and Lasaraleen, united against irritating men
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Re: A Cold-hearted God

[personal profile] wingedflight 2021-02-09 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
YES this is so ominous. Her heart froze!
edenfalling: stylized black-and-white line art of a sunset over water (Default)

Re: Keeping Faith

[personal profile] edenfalling 2021-02-09 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! :)
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Re: A Trick of the light

[personal profile] metogator 2021-02-09 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
The YEARNING! The sensual, sensory detail here is sooooo wonderful, so perfect to the DT setting! Love the thread of self-doubting Lucy who has obviously enraptured Caspian, almost flirtatious just in trying to manage her own complex history and feelings. Stunning!
edenfalling: stylized black-and-white line art of a sunset over water (Default)

Re: Pinky Promise

[personal profile] edenfalling 2021-02-09 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
I am very fond of these three ridiculous, idealistic brilliant dumbasses. ♥

Re: Narnia, jadis

(Anonymous) 2021-02-09 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
I had completely forgotten that aspect of the apple. No wonder she put herself in stasis on Charn.
mad_madam_m: Mad Madam Mim as a dragon (Default)

Re: Gargoyles, Derek & Xanatos, Trendsetter

[personal profile] mad_madam_m 2021-02-09 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Point.
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[personal profile] metogator 2021-02-09 10:25 pm (UTC)(link)
“Hmm,” Susan lifts her eyebrows delicately.

“Oh, darling, no,” Lasaraleen frowns and flutters a hand in dismissal.

The young Tarkaan who compared the Narnian Queen to “a delicate snowflake penetrating the heat of the day” went home and never wrote poetry again.

(Anonymous) 2021-02-09 10:32 pm (UTC)(link)
I love this! What a team they make, and then they completely eviscerate him in so few words, wow!
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Re: Star Wars, Luke & Vader

[personal profile] sheenianni 2021-02-09 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
IKR.
It did say "bad ending"... :(
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[personal profile] sheenianni 2021-02-09 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
She is :)
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[personal profile] sheenianni 2021-02-09 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you :)
We seriously need more Shmi fics.
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Re: A Trick of the light

[personal profile] vialethe 2021-02-09 10:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow, this is so lovely! The trick of the light! He takes her hand!! She heard the possessive omg yes, that is my favorite part right there. Thank you for this, it's a wonderful fill.
vialethe: (Narnia Group)

[personal profile] vialethe 2021-02-09 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Ooh, so cold and creepy! Like Ruth, I was definitely thinking of book!Jadis here, all wrapped up in suffocating winter and the sticky sweetness of greed for Turkish Delight. It's very well done.
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Re: firefly // river // song for the taken

[personal profile] sheenianni 2021-02-09 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Oooh, this is beautiful. Poor River.
There's so much of her broken and hurt in canon, it makes the moments when she's happy all the more powerful. That scene in 'Safe' when she joins the dance always has me in tears. I think it might be the first time that she really smiles on the show - when she looks whole.
Screw the Alliance :(
vialethe: (Narnia Group)

[personal profile] vialethe 2021-02-09 10:55 pm (UTC)(link)
It makes sense, on some level, that Eustace's greatest fear would be returning to that bestial state, and losing control of himself in the process. Poor dear.
vialethe: (River)

All I Ever Knew of Love (Firefly, Serenity)

[personal profile] vialethe 2021-02-09 11:12 pm (UTC)(link)
She hums, she flies, she burns bright, her yellow tail a soft glow in the black.

They all leave something of themselves behind as they go about inside, tickling, stroking, bumping into her; the gun-man and the preacher in the cargo bay, playing with their heavy things, the doctor and the first mate in the cool blue of the infirmary, patching scrapes and trading veiled-soothing barbs; the companion in her shuttle, so pretty, so elegant, so different from her other bare metal; the pilot on the bridge and her mechanic at the engine, their combined touch making her shiver and jump; her captain, his hands always on the metal of her, idly, casually, possessively; and her ghost, the slender little thing tucked up inside her, crawling around between the walls, speaking to her - and hearing back.

Serenity speaks, she laughs, she dances, the plume of her burn a trail of love in the darkness.
vialethe: (River face)

A Good Defense (The Expanse, The Rocinante)

[personal profile] vialethe 2021-02-09 11:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Once, she’d been Martian, but that was so long ago it was hard to remember; back before a crew so tiny it was almost insulting they managed to run her at all, back before a name change and bullet holes and blue goo and so many dodged missiles she’s not certain how the hell they’ve managed to stay in the air; her targeting systems are good, her defense systems are better, but goddamn, do these people love themselves some trouble - and now, what is this new bullshit they’re attaching to her?

Oh - a rail gun? Fuck yeah, she loves them.

I uh, really liked this prompt.
vialethe: (Susan)

[personal profile] vialethe 2021-02-09 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Hahahaha omg. AS HE SHOULD HAVE. I love their different styles of dismissal here, Susan is so polite and Lasaraleen is just like NEXT.

(Anonymous) 2021-02-09 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
The Untamed, Nie Huaisang, presents