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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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kaminagi: (Default)

Matilda

[personal profile] kaminagi 2021-01-31 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Matilda tires of the belittling, the disdain, and considers briefly what would her heroes do.

Rise above, the greatest and noblest of voices from her favourite books say, disregard the slights to build your character, revenge is for the weak.

"Nonsense," she murmurs, and begins mixing peroxide into her father's hair products.
ranalore: (Default)

[personal profile] ranalore 2021-01-31 08:08 pm (UTC)(link)
The Untamed, Lan Xichen/Nie Mingjue, diplomacy
ranalore: (Default)

[personal profile] ranalore 2021-01-31 08:10 pm (UTC)(link)
The Untamed, any, regret
kalira: cartoon representation of Kalira (pale skin, long brown hair, fangy smile, with thumb and two fingers raised), wearing a black tank top and cardigan (cartoon Kalira)

[personal profile] kalira 2021-01-31 08:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh goodness, I loved that you did that last year (thank you so much!) and thanks so much for even considering doing it again! <3 Your post was super easy to browse and search through and helped me find things I missed (even though I go through every prompt myself >.>) and I will totally haunt it again if you do another one~
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[personal profile] kalira 2021-01-31 08:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I mean entirely reasonable, yes, you go for it, Artemis. >.> Excellent!
brithistorian: (Default)

[personal profile] brithistorian 2021-01-31 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)
River watched the blonde with interest - obviously she was doing the same sort of watching and modelling that River had to do in order to fit in. She wondered if Parker had been to the Academy, or if she had always been this way. She wondered so many things.

(River Tam [Firefly] & Parker [Leverage])
last_haven: (Default)

[personal profile] last_haven 2021-01-31 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I ~love~ this. Still my favorite canon pairing in that series yet and this is wonderful.
kalira: cartoon representation of Kalira (pale skin, long brown hair, fangy smile, with thumb and two fingers raised), wearing a black tank top and cardigan (cartoon Kalira)

[personal profile] kalira 2021-01-31 08:20 pm (UTC)(link)
any, any, bloody fluff

(I use 'bloody fluff' as a genre, but hey, genre, literal description, cursing. . .)
kalira: cartoon representation of Kalira (pale skin, long brown hair, fangy smile, with thumb and two fingers raised), wearing a black tank top and cardigan (cartoon Kalira)

[personal profile] kalira 2021-01-31 08:21 pm (UTC)(link)
any, any, cosy sweaters
kalira: cartoon representation of Kalira (pale skin, long brown hair, fangy smile, with thumb and two fingers raised), wearing a black tank top and cardigan (cartoon Kalira)

[personal profile] kalira 2021-01-31 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
any, any. the joy of a summer storm
kalira: cartoon representation of Kalira (pale skin, long brown hair, fangy smile, with thumb and two fingers raised), wearing a black tank top and cardigan (cartoon Kalira)

Re: Original fic

[personal profile] kalira 2021-01-31 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, this is lovely~
silverwill: (cute)

A Strange Dream

[personal profile] silverwill 2021-01-31 08:26 pm (UTC)(link)
“I’ve started having dreams,” Tang Rou said one evening in the middle of a dungeon run as her fingers swiftly danced across the keys, “where I’m playing Glory in my sleep… my fingers are still moving when I wake up.”

Chen Guo laughed nostalgically and said, “Ah, I was the same way when I first got into Glory, though most of my dreams had me as the character instead of the player – it’s fun being able to live like a real Launcher and – oh Ye Xiu, have you ever had these types of dreams?”

Ye Xiu, who hadn’t dreamt about Glory in years but was perhaps still thinking about that odd player he met the previous day, nodded and said, “Today actually… I was inside the game fighting Blood Gunner Yagg, and then suddenly there was a steamed bun invasion – not the player, a literal one.”

sorry, i'm a little rusty at these ^^"
loveandrockmusic: (Default)

[personal profile] loveandrockmusic 2021-01-31 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Narnia/GOT, Dragon!Eustace/Daenerys, longing
brithistorian: (Default)

[personal profile] brithistorian 2021-01-31 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
"We should turn my bedroom into extra cargo space," River said, rolling over in Mal's arms. "I never use it anymore."
Mal gulped nervously - apparently when she'd said "forever," she really meant it.
last_haven: (writer)

Re: The secret garden - Mary & Colin & Dickon + flower crowns

[personal profile] last_haven 2021-01-31 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Once upon a time, Colin used to be jealous of what Mary and Dickon had--Mary had the strength of foal (trembling at first, then racing in no time) and Dickon had all the magic in the world tucked into the corner of his smile. When they gazed at each other, he had felt locked out of their own little world.

And yet, as Dickon hands her another flower and Mary weaves it into a circlet, Colin sits up straight as they crown him and knows the door to their world was like the gate to the garden--open and waiting for him to come in.
brithistorian: (Default)

[personal profile] brithistorian 2021-01-31 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Eliot listened with bated breath as Parker climbed through the ventilation shafts into the sheriff's office.
"This is why I never wanted to get emotionally involved," he said to himself. "I'd be miserable if something happened to her."
brithistorian: (Default)

[personal profile] brithistorian 2021-01-31 08:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Ford Prefect pointed out the window at the spot where Earth used to be. "You see," he said, "you earthlings spent all that time worrying about the end of the world, and when it finally came, it was just routine road construction that didn't even wipe out all the earthlings."
Arthur just stared at him as if he'd sprouted a second head.
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College First (Addams Family, Wednesday)

[personal profile] kalira 2021-01-31 08:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Wednesday looked out at the shimmering full moon and sighed; it would be a perfect night to dance, to run wild, to weave a spell of enslavement that would bring any who beheld her to their knees. . . She turned away and settled at the desk in her small dorm, opening her anthropology notes and uncapping her blood-red highlighter.

Her parents' rule wasn't unreasonable, really; there would be plenty of time for that later, as her mother said, after all - and Wednesday intended to not just match, but better Great Aunt Calpernia's incredible feat.
undeadrobins: (King's Avatar: Ye Xiu)

Re: A Strange Dream

[personal profile] undeadrobins 2021-01-31 08:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Hahaha! Baozi ♥♥♥ I love this!
kaminagi: (Default)

Matilda at 30, a world traveller

[personal profile] kaminagi 2021-01-31 08:38 pm (UTC)(link)
After discovering the world through books, it seems natural that Matilda should see it with her own eyes.

The Ovaltine is pleasant and hot as she pours it from her Thermos, enjoying it as she watches the sunrise over the mountain peaks.

Mount Fuji is breathtaking in the morning, she writes in her journal, her own little book, a world traveller at long last.

laughingpineapple: (Solaire)

[personal profile] laughingpineapple 2021-01-31 08:38 pm (UTC)(link)
;________; I love this!!! They could cancel each other maybe...
paraprosdokia: (Default)

Jason Todd, Dick Grayson

[personal profile] paraprosdokia 2021-01-31 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Dick looks around at the collapsed building around them, scattered brick and exposed girders and small fires.

He picks his way over to where Jason is laying flat on his back staring up at the moonlit sky and holds out a hand, “This is not what I meant by subtle.”

Jason takes his hand but instead of using it to lever himself up, pulls Dick until he collapses down next to him with a sigh, like the building around them had, knowing not to resist the inevitable.

“This was subtle.”

(Anonymous) 2021-01-31 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Love this, Eliot begrudgingly caring is the best
laughingpineapple: (Dido)

[personal profile] laughingpineapple 2021-01-31 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh heck, wonderful little moment!
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[personal profile] kalira 2021-01-31 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
any, any ship, soulmates by choice