Three Sentence Ficathon Part 2

[rthstewart]

THE 2021 3 SENTENCE FICATHON IS NOW CLOSED TO NEW PROMPTS!

THIS IS THE NEW POST FOR PART 2 OF THE 3 SENTENCE FICATHON -- ALL NEW PROMPTS SHOULD BE POSTED HERE
You may continue to fill prompts (but not leave new ones) at the original Post 1 here.

conuly 's unclaimed prompt list here

Thank you all for participating! We had a rush of prompts at the end so be sure to check it out and if you want someone to fill something in particular, and assuming they don't mind being contacted (I know I  don't!), be sure to let them know!

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 does this just because she is an awesome person but should you want to write her 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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Shuri almost wished someone would challenge (no one does). She's not sure whether she wanted to lose or just needed a way to channel her rage and grief.

Because there was so much grief, filling her, surrounding her, from her mother to Nakia to her people and what is left of the Dora Milaje. They still heavily felt the effects of what took place just mere months ago and the loss of their King, taken from them far too soon.

Yet T'Challa may have been their King but he was (is) her brother first, and Shuri felt the ache in her bones over his death in every waking moment, his voice and steady presence always in the back of her mind as she was going about her day. There wasn't a second that went by that she didn't wish she could talk to him, see his smile. She was constantly thinking back to their conversations in her lab, regretting all that she never got a chance to say. Her lab. She missed being her lab most of all, where she had always been most comfortable, surrounded by science and technology. That was where her heart was. What was left of it anyway.

Instead, she is forced to steel herself, and take her place on the throne, doing what she knows he would've wanted, trying her best to do right by her people, even the ones who weren't sure whether she was fit to rule. She would do right by them as well, prove them wrong. Prove the whole world wrong.

So she dealt with the other tribes, saw to their needs, and didn't back down in the face of the UN and any other country that thought there was an opening to take advantage of them. Made it clear Wakanda was a strong nation capable of taking care of itself, no matter who was in charge.

She played the role of the leader, the perfect daughter, and was a Queen that her family and country could be proud of. Learned to fight alongside the Dora. All while never letting anyone see her heart. In the face of loss and devastation, she would be strong.

After all, there was no heart shaped herb to bring T'Challa back.

The only way they could go now was forward.

What choice did they have?

[vindoletta]

Thank you for this. It reminds me of some thoughts I've been having lately about mental illness and other difficult life circumstances - that the best option available and the only option left in these cases are both one and the same. In Shuri's case, keep going forward, salvage whatever and whoever is left, adapt to her new position fast, and reinforce the country to avoid opportunistic parties that would sense weakness and rush to prey on the sudden vacuum of power. We are never shown how life was after Thanos's finger snap for the ones left behind, but there's potential there for a lot of interesting stories.

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Thanks for the great prompt! I've never written Shuri (or any MCU character) but your prompt was very inspiring. I scrolled past it, and then it really stuck with me so I had to go back and write whatever was on my mind. There's definitely a lot of stories that could be told in that five year gap, and Steve's therapy group only showed the tiniest glimpse of what everyone must've been going through. I definitely felt like Shuri would do what she had to and with Wakanda's reveal so recent, there definitely would be a few vultures she would have to fight off right after T'Challa's death. I could definitely see this expanded into a couple thousand word fic, which I wish I had the time and energy to do. I should see if anyone's done more fics for that time. It would be interesting. :D

[paxilam]

Amazing insight

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Thank you! There really is so much to explore in those five years and I loved this prompt. It probably could've worked even better for a multi chapter fic really.

Thanks for reading and leaving a comment!