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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)

Re: OH i love this crossover????

[personal profile] wingedflight 2021-02-03 05:34 pm (UTC)(link)
"I have to admit, I've never seen this before and I have been doing my job for quite a while now," says Lirael softly as she studies the anomaly that's found purchase in the river's shallows. "I've seen the dead manage to hold their own against the current, and I've even seen a number of them wade all the way back to the living, but this is something else entirely."

She is speaking, of course, to the little soapstone dog tucked into her pocket. The soapstone dog, of course, does not speak back.

But the remnant peering at her through the little window of the impossible house does: "Yes, hullo," he calls, "Are you a necromancer of the second? Or is that the uniform of another house? I feel like I should know this, but that's beside the point. Do you think you could get a message to Camilla Hect for me, please? She's my cav, and she's got the anchor for my spirit. Or so I hope, at least."
tiny_ninja: (quotes;; none of your scars)

MCU, Loki

[personal profile] tiny_ninja 2021-02-03 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
The babe squalled, tiny hands scrunched into fists, kicking off their blankets. The Midgardian child reminded Loki of his own youth, how Odin could have left him to die a child of Jotunheim but chose a different destiny for him.

Loki scooped up the small child, noting how the crying stopped immediately, and murmured, "Worry not, little one, you're not alone anymore."

(Anonymous) 2021-02-03 05:39 pm (UTC)(link)
The Untamed, Jiang Yanli, strength
conuly: (Default)

[personal profile] conuly 2021-02-03 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Whew! I am updated as of now!

You can find unclaimed prompts here.

I may seriously reconsider how I'm sorting all DC and Marvel properties. I have the uneasy sense that I'll never be happy with any solution, though. Still, it should work for now. If you spot any glaring errors, please let me know.

And I won't be editing this comment, so yes, you can reply here if you like :D
Edited 2021-02-03 17:43 (UTC)
eagleoftheninth: (Default)

Fill: Final Fantasy IX/Final Fantasy XV, Eiko and Noctis

[personal profile] eagleoftheninth 2021-02-03 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Eiko rubs at the base of her horn, but it doesn't help much; the headache has already set in. "I've told you," she repeats for what feels like the hundredth time since she set foot on this world, "they're not gods! Eidolons should be our partners, and sometimes they can be our friends, but they're not our masters and they don't get to run our lives!" Because when you do let them do that, you get...well, Eos, basically. Eidolons who're swollen with power from being thought numinous and infallible, too drunk on worship to realise that they don't actually know what's best for mortals.

The prince glowers at her, mutinous. "Yeah, well," he grumbles, "how're we supposed to stop them?" Or, huh—maybe not mutinous so much as just defensive. Unwilling to risk hoping. (Which...she can understand, actually, after all she's heard about what his eidolons have been putting him and his people through.) "They might as well be gods, what with how they can just do whatever they want."

Definitely afraid to hope. But she can fix that. Holy Summoner Eiko Carol grins at Prince Noctis Lucis Caelum, and pokes him lightly in the solar plexus with one finger. (She'd have aimed higher, but the people of Eos are ridiculously tall. It's way too reminiscent of being six years old and having to look up at everyone else in Zidane's party.) "We're going to stop them by being summoners," she tells him. "You may not have horns, but you've got the gift, that annoying guy in the hat's got the gift, and since your girlfriend had it I bet her brother does too." Sure, this world says that it's only the girls in his family who get the magic, but Eiko's prepared to bet that that's a crock of shit based on stereotyping. If 'everyone knows' that the white magic gift is linked to the summoning one in his clan, and that that clan's men can't be white mages, they might well not have bothered to check him for any potential at all. "What we can call up, we can send away or seal, too."

"...I don't know how," Prince Noctis admits, and for a moment Eiko sees Dagger in him; not Dagger as she is now, but Dagger aged sixteen, a kingdom hanging heavy on her shoulders, cut off from her birthright and with no idea how to properly use her power. Wanting so badly to do the right thing, but with no idea how to even start.

Dagger became a power to be reckoned with, once she'd gotten the right sort of help to start her off. Eiko's grin turns very sharp. "Well, yeah," she agrees. "You don't know how yet. But I do. And I'm gonna teach you."
wallwalker: Venetian mask, dark purple with gold gilding. (Default)

[personal profile] wallwalker 2021-02-03 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Disco Elysium, Elizabeth/Ruby, a long walk along the coast (to meet someone)
eagleoftheninth: (Default)

Re: OH i love this crossover????

[personal profile] eagleoftheninth 2021-02-03 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
<3 <3 <3

And of COURSE it's Lirael. Ms Read-The-Book-Of-The-Dead-In-One-Sitting is the perfect necrogeek friend for Palamedes.
conuly: (Default)

[personal profile] conuly 2021-02-03 05:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Any, any, this poem

When I Say I Forgive You, Know This

I did not bury the hatchet.
I have the hatchet in my hands.
I am building myself a new house.
Edited 2021-02-03 18:02 (UTC)
conuly: (Default)

[personal profile] conuly 2021-02-03 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Any, any, this other poem

Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle.
Everything I do is stitched with its color.

Edited 2021-02-03 17:54 (UTC)
little_lady_d: (Default)

[personal profile] little_lady_d 2021-02-03 06:02 pm (UTC)(link)
omg this drama queen. love it, love them.
siver: (Default)

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

[personal profile] siver 2021-02-03 06:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes please and thank you <3<3<3
You had to be right once, blue detective!
smallhobbit: (Default)

[personal profile] smallhobbit 2021-02-03 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you very much :)
shinon: Shinon and Gatrie from Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance. (Default)

hello I hope some sad Setzer/Daryl is acceptable :D;

[personal profile] shinon 2021-02-03 06:16 pm (UTC)(link)
You don't get what you're supposed to have, and you don't get what you deserve - you get what the universe decides to give you that day. You get lucky.

You get a woman like Daryl blowing into your life, and -

some part of him is thinking, grimly, the whole while he's searching for the place the Falcon went down: No run of good luck ever lasts this long.
wingedflight: (Default)

Re: OH i love this crossover????

[personal profile] wingedflight 2021-02-03 06:16 pm (UTC)(link)
RIGHT? It couldn't be anyone else!
wingedflight: (Default)

[personal profile] wingedflight 2021-02-03 06:17 pm (UTC)(link)
You are awesome! What a champ :D
smallhobbit: (Default)

[personal profile] smallhobbit 2021-02-03 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)
This is a wonderful resource, thank you! I filled the 'any, catnip' one.

not-quite-a-Fill: MDZS, Jiang Yanli & her brothers

[personal profile] runespoor 2021-02-03 06:24 pm (UTC)(link)
sorry, i wrote this then realized you specified the Untamed... not sure how well it stands with the differences between canons, but hopefully it fits some until something closer comes along!


When Jiang Yanli is twelve, and it’s been clear for a while that her childhood illness would never allow her to grow into more than the most mediocre of cultivators, she carries one brother on her back and one brother wrapped around her front all the way back home and whispers promises of warmth and safety through the dark - doesn’t fall, doesn’t falter, and no-one is ever the wiser.

At twice that age, she comes to stand in front of her brother and - polite and precise; not all of her parents’ lessons beyond her - demands respect on his behalf. Draws on the Jiang name and her own heart, and wills love like a shield around the three of them.
eagleoftheninth: (Default)

[personal profile] eagleoftheninth 2021-02-03 06:27 pm (UTC)(link)
that's my witchy girl! <3

[personal profile] runespoor 2021-02-03 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you for doing this!! \o/
siver: (Default)

Fill: Ghost Trick, Jowd, Cabanela, (spoilery)

[personal profile] siver 2021-02-03 06:30 pm (UTC)(link)
They said the Inspector only cared about climbing the ladder—that he was fueled by ambition and power only, and Jowd himself said that spotless white coat hid shadows. The coat’s not spotless anymore, but it’s not stained either. There’s pain in the eyes watching him now, but over it all is triumph and hope, and a feeling Jowd doesn’t dare put a name to because he’d lost; he lost from the moment he allowed himself to forget what that coat really covered.

Re: FE 8, Eirika

[personal profile] runespoor 2021-02-03 06:33 pm (UTC)(link)
;____________;

poor Eirika, hiding her pain behind her smiles... "a night that seems never-ending" is such a nice turn of phrase too.

very ouchy, well done
zdenka: The Doors of Khazad-dum. (tolkien)

Fill: lotr, éomer (& any), dealing with a lost horse

[personal profile] zdenka 2021-02-03 06:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Éomer tends the exhausted horse carefully, with his own hands. He was away guarding the borders at the time, but the King’s son Théodred told him afterward how he picked out a suitable mount for Boromir of Gondor, and Éomer could tell that Théodred liked and admired the man.

Now the horse has come back riderless, bearing the marks of long travel through pathless wilderness, and Théodred’s grave is still too new for the simbelmynë to grow there.

(Anonymous) 2021-02-03 06:37 pm (UTC)(link)
“Aslan isn’t coming”, Susan kills her way to the heart of the castle, and this time there is no-one to stop her from putting an arrow through Miraz’s heart.

“Aslan isn’t coming”, Peter drives the Telmarines to the courtyard with pitiless eyes, but it is Edmund who draws first blood – and at dawn there is no-one left.

“Aslan isn’t coming”, Lucy’s voice is flat and empty, and her heart as cold as a hundred years of winter.
zdenka: Jiang Cheng from MDZS donghua (mdzs)

Re: not-quite-a-Fill: MDZS, Jiang Yanli & her brothers

[personal profile] zdenka 2021-02-03 06:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I love this! Exactly Jiang Yanli's kind of strength, unfaltering in protecting the people she loves.
siver: (Default)

Re: FE 8, Eirika

[personal profile] siver 2021-02-03 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you <3
It's a cruel time for her...