Three Sentence Ficathon 2021

[rthstewart]

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 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!

 

text box you can try to cut and paste

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[elementalraven]

(So.... ehm, my friend and I have been watching Fate: The Winx Saga to make fun of it, and... well, here you go.)


Tecna is floating, drifting between worlds, trying to find a way to go home but not having much luck- until she suddenly hears someone say something very familiar: “Bloom, don’t!” Tecna grabs on to that voice tightly, she follows the echo of it until she flying high above a building, and then closer, through the halls, until she finally ends up in a room filled with five people.

The world rights itself and Tecna stands and looks around: “This is stupid Bloom,” the voice from before says, and now Tecna sees it belongs to a tall, dark-skinned woman, who is talking to an angry-looking red-head.

Tecna tries to get their attention, but they ignore her even when she waves her hand in front of their faces. Frustrated, Tecna goes to the other occupants in the room, but they also seem too focused on their activities to pay her any mind.

It is only when Tecna stands directly in front of the blond woman admiring herself in front of the mirror, and the woman continues like nothing has happened, that Tecna realizes that they can’t see her.

For the first time Tecna really looks at the room and it’s occupants. The first two girls are still arguing about “Bloom’s” activities (something to do with a so-called “Burned One”). In front of the mirror, the stately blonde turns from side to side, a constipated look on her face. The last two occupants are a dark-haired girl lying on the bed with headphones on, and a pale, heavy-set woman who is coaxing a nearly dead plant back to life, using what looks like plant-fairy magic.

A suspicion starts to form at the back of Tecna’s mind- that tall girl had called the red-head Bloom: and she supposes the girl herself does somewhat resemble Aisha (and she is even wearing work-out clothes), and that blonde in front the mirror could be Stella: she seems to be self-involved enough. The girl with the headphones- Musa? A bit of stretch, but possible. But the one by the plant doesn’t look like Flora at all, even though she is clearly using Flora-like magic, and where is Tecna herself?

As Tecna watches, the mirror versions of Stella, Musa and Flora are also drawn into the conversation between not-Bloom and not-Aisha, all seeming to take an entirely different side, and Tecna slowly gets more and more appalled. Why is the Bloom-girl being so self-centered and moody? She doesn’t seem to care about anyone in the room beside herself. The Stella-figure seems completely uninterested in the conversation yet all too willing to offer her opinion, and the Flora-figure (who Tecna learns is called Terra) seem nice enough, but is constantly talked over. And did not-Musa just say she was an empath? Musa?? At first Tecna thinks that alternate Aisha, at least, seems responsible, but it becomes increasingly clear that she is much too focused on not-Bloom’s activities, not seeming to have much of a life of her own.

But the worst thing about it all is that none of them really seem to like each other; so much so that Tecna wonders if they are even friends at all.

Tecna backs away and reaches back out to the multi-verse: whatever this universe is, she is quite sure she doesn’t want to spend any more time in it. She’d rather take her chances in the in-between.

[wingedflight]

Ahahaha yes Tecna, get out of there ASAP.