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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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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, on a galaxy in ace flag stripes/colours (Default)

Incidental Heroics (Naruto; Sakumo, Kakashi, OC)

[personal profile] kalira 2021-02-02 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh! White Fang! Bless you," Ryoko cried, clutching his arm for balance as she scrambled out of the rapidly-dissolving rubble around her feet, "when Pein claimed his minions had the Konoha Hero League all occupied we thought-" her voice broke. "We're so relieved he was lying, of course he was, but to think-"

"Ah, well," White Fang grinned at her, showing off gleaming fangs, "that may be the case, I haven't checked - but whoever said I was a hero?" he asked, putting her safely on solid ground before leaping down into the pit where Pein had dragged a white-blonde boy, disappearing with a sizzling flash of lightning.

Fill: The Untamed/MDZS, Yu Ziyuan (+Jiang Cheng+Wei Wuxian)

[personal profile] runespoor 2021-02-02 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
Zidian crackles on her finger hours before the clouds thicken and swarm, but Madam Yu knows her weapon and Yunmeng weather enough not to dismiss the warning; an afternoon off for the disciples.

Not for her - she catches up on paperwork she's been putting off - but she keeps the window open, listening to the pouring rain and letting the echoes of gleeful shouts coax her lips into a smile without witness.

Two drenched, hollering figures keep shoving each other and jumping into the lake; at this distance, in this weather, she couldn't tell them apart - maybe one is louder and the other a stronger swimmer - they remain to play and challenge each other long after every other disciple has sought shelter, utterly unafraid of the storm.
superflight: they'll say that i was clever (VTMB: they'll say you could do anything)

Spider-Man, a lot of death implied

[personal profile] superflight 2021-02-02 12:13 am (UTC)(link)
Spider-Man always tried to save lives; it was why he did why he did, why he put on the costume every single day he chose to continue, and he always did his best, he tried, he tried and sometimes it just wasn't enough.

Five years, and there were only so many people you could save, and each failure burned; ironically, the safest had been those most prepared to fight, to kill, to make protective lairs, and so Spider-Man's enemies had fared so much better than the civilians.

But after five years of the living dead tearing through every warm body in their path and making the innocent like them, old animosity faded and "superheroes vs. supervillains" just didn't seem important anymore, and when the Sinister Six shared in the same crying, the same screaming nightmares, the same exhausting rebuilding efforts as him... well, Spider-Man could at least be there for them, after it all.
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Queen of Heroes (Tiger & Bunny; Keith/Agnes)

[personal profile] kalira 2021-02-02 12:14 am (UTC)(link)
". . .isn't that your emergency alert?" Keith asked softly, nodding towards the bright band on Agnes' wrist; the green bands were flashing. "Don't you need to go?"

"Mm. . ." Agnes tapped a finger against her lips, her eyes going unfocused and limned with electric blue as she focused her power, looking beyond their surroundings and presumably tracking the emergency. "No, I think they can handle it without me for one night." she grinned, holding out her glass, and Keith happily reached for the bottle of wine to top it off.

I could not actually resist, though this is more of a role reversal, perhaps, considering. . .
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Re: Queen of Heroes (Tiger & Bunny; Keith/Agnes)

[personal profile] mad_madam_m 2021-02-02 12:17 am (UTC)(link)
FANTASTIC. <3 Queen of Heroes indeed!!
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, on a galaxy in ace flag stripes/colours (Default)

[personal profile] kalira 2021-02-02 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
Excellent, thank you!
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, on a galaxy in ace flag stripes/colours (Default)

Re: Cooking Casualties (Leverage; Hardison, Eliot, Parker, Sophie & OC child)

[personal profile] kalira 2021-02-02 12:19 am (UTC)(link)
So very much. XD
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, on a galaxy in ace flag stripes/colours (Default)

Re: Queen of Heroes (Tiger & Bunny; Keith/Agnes)

[personal profile] kalira 2021-02-02 12:21 am (UTC)(link)
X3 She would be! . . .I don't know that I can see Keith doing her job though. *laughs* He probably runs a dog rescue or something. >.>
silverwill: (Juna)

This was probably funnier in my head but....

[personal profile] silverwill 2021-02-02 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
“Let me if I’ve understood this correctly,” it was rare for Xemnas to wear any sort of expression that wasn’t smug, but the scouting report from the Organization’s best and brightest could only surface memories of startled disbelief. “You are telling me that we unleashed countless heartless onto this trite peasant world, only for all of them to flee back through the Door to Darkness because of a catapult, the world's largest lightbulb, and - what was the last one? A platypus? They don’t even do much!”

Xaldin, Vexen, and Lexaeus, the Organization’s best and brightest, shared grim looks, before Lexaeus, the designated speaker of the group, stepped forward. “He kicked the world's largest light bulb through the door... it's still stuck, sir.”

Taking over the Tri-State Area was going to be difficult.
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[personal profile] raisedbymoogles 2021-02-02 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
omg awwww yes Quina does have a soft side
raisedbymoogles: (Default)

Re: The Tide Will Turn

[personal profile] raisedbymoogles 2021-02-02 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
damn right (get rekt, Beckett)
tellshannon815: (emma swan)

Once Upon A Time, Emma

[personal profile] tellshannon815 2021-02-02 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
When Emma and Mary Margaret had talked about doing Thanksgiving that year for the first time as a family since the curse was broken, they’d envisioned it being just themselves, David and Henry, and God knew it would have been easier. Then Henry had decided he wanted his whole family present, which meant Rumple, Neal and Regina too.

It involved a complicated seating plan, keeping Regina away from Mary Margaret, and Neal didn’t want to sit with Rumple, but they managed it, because Emma knew that Henry wanted them all there for him on the day, and who knew, maybe the next year it would be easier for them all.
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[personal profile] raisedbymoogles 2021-02-02 12:45 am (UTC)(link)
love the detail of Furiosa only seeing herself in warped ways, and only gets a true glimpse of herself by looking at a like-minded other, very true to the experience of someone who's been through trauma and healed a bit crooked, if that makes sense
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, on a galaxy in ace flag stripes/colours (Default)

Akihito's Aunties (Voltron; Shiro/Keith, OC kid, Pidge/Allura)

[personal profile] kalira 2021-02-02 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
"We had the most fun ever, Papa!" Akihito declared, bouncing even as Keith leaned around Shiro to fasten his five-point seatbelt. "Why can't I stay with my Aunties every time you gotta go away?"

How worried should I be about that glee? Shiro wondered, but smiled, ruffling Akihito's hair. "Your Aunties can't always babysit you, they have to go save the day sometimes too!" he said, tapping Akihito's pouting lip.

"Also," Keith muttered, too low for Akihito to hear, "they would go crazy watching a kid too often." That was . . . entirely fair, aside from the concern of what Allura and Pidge might think was a reasonable diversion to occupy their son.
raisedbymoogles: (Default)

Re: This was probably funnier in my head but....

[personal profile] raisedbymoogles 2021-02-02 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
My thought process reading this:

*scroll scroll* -??? *reads*

*doesn't get it*

*continues scrolling*

-wait.

Platypus?

*scrolls back up, reads again*

Perry the Platypus!!!???
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[personal profile] archersangel 2021-02-02 12:49 am (UTC)(link)
Friends, Any, The coffee at Central Perk is not that good.
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Re: A Different Day in New York

[personal profile] loveandrockmusic 2021-02-02 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
AHHHHHHHH lovely!!!!
tellshannon815: (quirrell)

Re: Harry Potter, Penny Haywood, cheese-based potions

[personal profile] tellshannon815 2021-02-02 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
Awesome, great job!
loveandrockmusic: (Default)

Re: Shore Leave (cw: violence)

[personal profile] loveandrockmusic 2021-02-02 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
OH MY GOD???? I AM DROWNING IN THE FEELS. thank you so much!!!!
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[personal profile] loveandrockmusic 2021-02-02 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
ROTFL