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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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schoolsasaint: (Default)

[personal profile] schoolsasaint 2021-02-03 09:33 am (UTC)(link)
The Old Guard, possibly? including Quynh.
zdenka: Jiang Cheng from MDZS donghua (mdzs)

Re: Perspective

[personal profile] zdenka 2021-02-03 09:35 am (UTC)(link)
I like this! Go Mianmian!
schoolsasaint: (Default)

[personal profile] schoolsasaint 2021-02-03 09:35 am (UTC)(link)
Fluff and angst? Talented, showstopping, spectacular.
zdenka: Mei Changsu playing the flute. (flute)

[personal profile] zdenka 2021-02-03 09:52 am (UTC)(link)
So sad and beautiful!
zdenka: Yellow leaves. (sad)

Re: Unbroken Record

[personal profile] zdenka 2021-02-03 09:54 am (UTC)(link)
I really like this, even though it's terribly sad. MXTX makes them all suffer so much. :( I can see NHS doing that.
zdenka: Jiang Cheng from MDZS donghua (mdzs)

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

[personal profile] zdenka 2021-02-03 09:57 am (UTC)(link)
This made me smile! I can really picture the scene.

[personal profile] runespoor 2021-02-03 10:25 am (UTC)(link)
Fire Emblem Three Houses, Ingrid + any, food insecurity

[personal profile] runespoor 2021-02-03 10:26 am (UTC)(link)
Fire Emblem Three Houses, any, culture shock

[personal profile] runespoor 2021-02-03 10:32 am (UTC)(link)
Fire Emblem, any thief/beloved pairing, promise

[personal profile] runespoor 2021-02-03 10:36 am (UTC)(link)
Fire Emblem, any Haughty Troubadour-ish type, stubborn

[personal profile] runespoor 2021-02-03 10:38 am (UTC)(link)
Fire Emblem, any Jeigan, fondness

[personal profile] runespoor 2021-02-03 10:39 am (UTC)(link)
Fire Emblem, any jerk archer, the exception

[personal profile] runespoor 2021-02-03 10:42 am (UTC)(link)
Fire Emblem, any Lord, lies
zdenka: The Doors of Khazad-dum. (tolkien)

[personal profile] zdenka 2021-02-03 11:01 am (UTC)(link)
Hee! I like this.
laughingpineapple: Jowd! (laughing mango)

the always has been meme but unironic, feat. blue detective

[personal profile] laughingpineapple 2021-02-03 11:17 am (UTC)(link)
Nobody falls for the spotless act, of course.
They admire that he can pull it off, of course, would it that any of them could fake perfection that proficiently, but it’s such an obvious blinding smokescreen and, as smokescreens do, it gets all sorts of gossip projected on it, so as the months go on, watercooler talks see the Inspector act out of greed, deflection, hubris (well that’s got to factor in one way or another), blackmail inflicted and/or received, dancing around an unnamed black hole of a secret motive that only gets more lurid as the chitchat bounces back and forth.
“Or maybe a man in love would be that gallant,” says mister mediocrity in a blue suit, as if his hero needed whitewashing of all things, and the rest of the office can’t help but laugh.
thesebonesaregood: (Default)

Modern Greek Myth // Persephone // stars in her eyes, flowers in her hair

[personal profile] thesebonesaregood 2021-02-03 11:20 am (UTC)(link)
There once was a girl who danced in meadows, who sang out to the birds, who helped the flowers grow. She was young, she was beautiful, she was a maiden who smiled like the sun and had the eyes of glittering stars.

That girl, long ago, grew into a woman.

That woman, who bloomed into a queen, grew again, but in the way, you think. Not in that way at all.

She wanders, lost and curious about where she came from, who she'd been. A girl again, hands shoved into jeans, a hood pulled over her head. It's raining as she walks but she doesn't see the growing things behind her and she doesn't hear the ghosts calling her home to the Underside of the world.

She just sees a man with open arms and dark eyes, she sees the recognition in his eyes, even though they barely know one another. She doesn't know all the things out there waiting for her, but she knows, somewhere inside her, waits for a woman with stars in her eyes and flowers in her hair.
laughingpineapple: Jowd! (laughing mango)

Ghost Trick, Cabanela&Jowd, the points matter very much actually

[personal profile] laughingpineapple 2021-02-03 11:30 am (UTC)(link)
“Oh no no no baby don’t even try… see, heeere, it says a-n-y-b-o-d-y who passes thirty points wins, and guess who’s staaandin’ at thirty-two as we speak – unless you blinked, then make it thirty-three?”
“Cabanela, you just wrote this, on your napkin.”
“Yeees, and?”
paxilam: (Default)

[personal profile] paxilam 2021-02-03 11:48 am (UTC)(link)
ahahahha great! XD
paxilam: (Default)

[personal profile] paxilam 2021-02-03 11:52 am (UTC)(link)
any, any, cottage in a forest
paxilam: (Default)

[personal profile] paxilam 2021-02-03 11:54 am (UTC)(link)
lotr, éomer (& any), dealing with a lost horse
eagleoftheninth: (Default)

[personal profile] eagleoftheninth 2021-02-03 12:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Locked Tomb series/Old Kingdom series, any necromancer(s) + anyone from the Abhorsen family, different kinds of death magic
wallwalker: Venetian mask, dark purple with gold gilding. (Default)

[personal profile] wallwalker 2021-02-03 01:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, this is gorgeous, thank you so much :D
wallwalker: Venetian mask, dark purple with gold gilding. (Default)

Re: Final Fantasy 7, Sephiroth & Zack

[personal profile] wallwalker 2021-02-03 01:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, his deadpan humor going unappreciated. Too bad. :D I love it.
shinon: Shinon and Gatrie from Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance. (Default)

Fill: FE9/10, Shinon & Rolf

[personal profile] shinon 2021-02-03 01:36 pm (UTC)(link)
At some point between the wars Uncle Shinon stops acting like their archery lessons are some big deadly secret - no more sneaking around, just, "hey Rolf, go grab us some lunch and I'll show you something cool."

One day Mist says, "Rolf, I haven't seen you at mealtimes all week," and Rolf figures, Oh, that's what he's doing, I'm how he gets out of being social.

But that can't be all, because Uncle Shinon never says anything nice if he can help it, and he says Rolf is a natural.
shinon: Shinon and Gatrie from Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance. (Default)

[personal profile] shinon 2021-02-03 01:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Tales of Symphonia, Sheena, weapons