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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 2021-02-01 08:59 pm (UTC)(link)
"Hold up," said Nile, studying the holograph screen with the details of their flight arrangements, "who booked us for cryochambers? You realize the point of these is to halt the aging process, right? I, at least, am going to enjoy every single second of our space travel."
vialethe: (Jon Snow)

Re: [MCU/Thor] Hope Ever-Burning

[personal profile] vialethe 2021-02-01 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Aww, I hope it was.

Re: His One Weakness

(Anonymous) 2021-02-01 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
This is amazing! Eliot willing to do anything for his family

Fill: Utena, Wakaba

[personal profile] runespoor 2021-02-01 09:03 pm (UTC)(link)
She's not the prettiest or the bravest or the meanest, and when she starts to think, maybe my strength is resilience, when she starts to romanticize normality - the attentive support through ordinary routine, the girl-next-door you're rooting for - she breaks. It turns out the designated best friend (sidekick, a voice whispers in her mind) isn't even the most reliable.

When she picks herself up from the glittery shards of superlative roles she could never fit, the broken reflections will crunch under her shoes, and maybe this time she won't stop to look.
silveradept: A kodama with a trombone. The trombone is playing music, even though it is held in a rest position (Default)

Re: Surfing Sister (Lilo & Stitch; Nani & Lilo)

[personal profile] silveradept 2021-02-01 09:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Awww, that's adorable.
wingedflight: (Default)

[personal profile] wingedflight 2021-02-01 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Ahahaha what a save!

[personal profile] runespoor 2021-02-01 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh no, oh nooooooo

this is so good. (oh noooooooo)

"the unassuming crowd of extras", "It is about being valued, being special, being seen." and that last line T_T great fill
wingedflight: (Default)

Re: Avengers, but like... The version they thought it would be 8 years ago

[personal profile] wingedflight 2021-02-01 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
AHAHAHAH oh gosh, amazing.
wingedflight: (Default)

Re: In Other Lands, Elliot and Luke

[personal profile] wingedflight 2021-02-01 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Yessss love it hahaha
wingedflight: (Default)

Re: this is the headcanon i've been thinking about all month

[personal profile] wingedflight 2021-02-01 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
SHE JUST LAUGHS. Ahhhh I love this.
vialethe: (River)

[personal profile] vialethe 2021-02-01 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Very funny! It's hard to disagree with Luke, really...
autumnia: Central Park (Default)

[personal profile] autumnia 2021-02-01 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Haven't read the books but giving this a shot based on the TV series and those images from tumblr...

"Anthony would not approve," Eloise declared with certainty, one eyebrow raised as she ran her hand over the delicate embroidery of the waistcoat, her fingers lingering on one of the golden bees set in the deep sky of sapphire silk, "but it is beautiful even to my untrained and unworthy eye."

Knowing his sister cared not so much for fashion as books, Benedict smiled and with a casual shrug of his shoulders, replied, "Well, it is a good thing this was given to me and not him."

"And as you are seeing Madame Delacroix tonight, you simply have to wear it as a token of appreciation of her handiwork, dear brother," Eloise finished as she returned her brother's grin with a knowing wink.
Edited 2021-02-01 21:14 (UTC)
vialethe: (River)

Re: take 2

[personal profile] vialethe 2021-02-01 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
But geology is destiny What a great line, and a perfect explanation for two things that are so similar, but not at all the same.

(Anonymous) 2021-02-01 09:13 pm (UTC)(link)
I mean, obviously!

[personal profile] runespoor 2021-02-01 09:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Homestuck, Vriska/Terezi, reincarnation
wingedflight: (Default)

The Magicians (tv), the Watcherwoman

[personal profile] wingedflight 2021-02-01 09:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Thirty-nine times, the students died; thirty-nine times, their books were reshelved. "We'll change something different this time," Dean Fogg tells Jane at the end of every loop, his voice more weary every time he says it. It would have been kinder, she thinks, if she'd never told him about the loops--maybe he'd carry less weight if only one life rested upon his shoulders.
silveradept: A kodama with a trombone. The trombone is playing music, even though it is held in a rest position (Default)

Re: It's my actual birthday! - Pilot and Crichton

[personal profile] silveradept 2021-02-01 09:18 pm (UTC)(link)
"Officer Sun reports that someone," Pilot emphasizes the the word to indicate there is no actual confusion about who is responsible, "has placed conical hats upon all of the D.R.D.s, emblazoned with the words 'Happy Birthday.' Moya and I appreciate the sentiment, Officer Crichton, but the passageways for the D.R.D.s do not permit…embellishments."

The unrepentant grin on Crichton's face indicates to Pilot how swiftly the additions will be removed, and he begins to reroute the D.R.D.s so they will still be able to achieve their necessary tasks, if more visibly than he would like.
ultra_fic: (Gilmore Girls)

A Different Day in New York

[personal profile] ultra_fic 2021-02-01 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
She was the last person Jess expected to see when he opened the door, a well-timed lightning flash making her look like an incoming angel.

"Rory, what are you doing here?"

Pushing her soaked hair back from her face, she shook her head and swallowed hard before she found her voice; "You didn't say goodbye."
vialethe: (Lion in Winter)

Re: Bridgerton, Lady Whistledown (SPOILERS, BEWARE)

[personal profile] vialethe 2021-02-01 09:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Yesssss, you tell them all, Penelope! I love how she's privately pleased with herself, and that the grumbling is even more satisfactory than the praise.
vialethe: (River)

Re: Shore Leave (cw: violence)

[personal profile] vialethe 2021-02-01 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, Anakin. Always so close to asking for help and yet eternally so far away. (Great title for it, btw!)

(Anonymous) 2021-02-01 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
The Untamed/mdzs, Jin Guangyao, how history will remember
vialethe: (Narnia Group)

Re: narnia, eustace/jill

[personal profile] vialethe 2021-02-01 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I love it, they're too cute!
rymenhild: Manuscript page from British Library MS Harley 913 (Default)

[personal profile] rymenhild 2021-02-01 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, this is lovely. Tristan is human, as Morgon has long forgotten to be, and she has the strengths of her humanity.
wingedflight: (Default)

The Old Guard, Joe/Nicky

[personal profile] wingedflight 2021-02-01 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
They spend the pandemic helping others in small ways--a lot of which turns out to be running grocery errands for their most vulnerable neighbours. In the evenings, they return to their loft and curl up together, sharing hot tea and binging rom-coms on Netflix.

This is not the first plague they've weathered and it may not be their last, but the end times always pass eventually.
vialethe: (Narnia)

Re: things to say that will always start a fight

[personal profile] vialethe 2021-02-01 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Quite practical of Willa, really - why bother with elaborate plans and subterfuge when you can just ask for what you want?