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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Comments

[mouseyear]

Diana meets Peggy early on in World War II, the Princess refusing to sit back and watch. Peggy’s fire is refreshing. It is a breath of fresh air in the cloud that is the war. They keep in touch and phantom pangs hit her heart when Diana reads of Peggy’s love story. It is so familiar, so identical to her own. When she sees Peggy again the woman reminds her of herself, chasing after a lost love but moving on and creating a life alone regardless. Diana has not yet associated herself with an organization and had no plans to. Peggy convinces her otherwise. Peggy is her friend and she is willing to help her with her dream of a better world. She is sitting in Peggy’s office having tea when she lays eyes on Sarah Miller for the first time. Diana is immediately aware that the girl is not the woman she is currently pretending to be. She is not certain how old Sarah is, but she knows she is certainly not eighteen. She walks into the office with such confidence for her age and Diana knows she should scold her, should send her back to her home but the confidence impresses her, and she says nothing. Diana’s not certain if Peggy picked up on Sarah’s dishonesty but she agrees to give the girl a chance. It is uncomfortable to be in Sarah’s presence as she pretends to be something she’s not, as she treats Diana and Peggy as if they were all adults when Diana knows full well that Sarah is not. Peggy trusts her though and that is enough for Diana. Peggy even starts including Sarah in their top secret missions. The second time Sarah joins them Peggy brings them to a bar afterward to celebrate. Peggy is the only one to drink that night, though there was no lack of trying on Sarah’s part. Peggy leaves first, leaving them alone and Sarah soon follows her. Diana doesn’t know what to do with this child, and she waits before following her. She loses the trail far too quickly for a girl so young and Diana stands in an alleyway for a moment before she senses a presence behind her and strikes. It is Sarah, and she is a better fighter than expected, especially for one so young. Actually, she is a much better fighter than expected and does not go down easily. It takes a few minutes for Diana to finally wrap the lasso of truth around her. And once she does she gets the sinking feeling that this has all gone according to Sarah’s plan. Or rather, Susan’s plan. Apparently the girl’s real name. The truth about Susan’s age is less straightforward. According to Susan she’s over fifty but that can’t be true, must just be what she believes. Diana looks at this girl and knows she is a spy – for only a spy can fool oneself so thoroughly.

Peggy meets Diana on front lines neither of them are supposed to be on. She sees in Diana a kindred spirit, a woman who stands up for what she believes and will not let a man tell her no. Not even her own father. Peggy’s parent’s don’t know where she is right now. She’s twenty-five and still her parents refuse to let her live her own life. Her parents think she is a nurse and she writes home of healing people. She gets the impression that Diana doesn’t write home at all. Diana is why Peggy stops writing to her parents. Diana is why she invites her parents to her promotion ceremony – they don’t come but that hardly matters. Diana is the one person Peggy wants to fight side-by-side with. Diana is the one person Peggy trusts to watch her back. Until she’s not. Peggy never expected to find anyone else she trusted like the older woman, she is very wrong. This realization opens so many doors for her as Peggy expands her heart and her trust, she becomes aware of what she can do to make things better. When Steve dies she writes to Diana first then throws herself wholeheartedly into her new project. She is very aware that she draws others into her circle and very aware that Diana is fascinated with her. For an immortal woman Peggy cannot fathom herself to be that interesting but she is more than willing to use that fascination to her advantage. Diana is an invaluable help in bringing her project up from the ground, in increasing its visibility. Their weekly teatimes become invaluable to Peggy and everyone knows not to disturb them during these times. Which is why it is so surprising when young Sarah Miller waltzes in, head held high, chin set and shoulders back. She walks like Diana does, but unlike Diana Peggy gets the feeling that Sarah will not dedicate herself to Peggy’s cause. Oh sure, Sarah clearly wants to be included but Peggy knows that Sarah is keeping a respectful emotional distance. Something she and Diana never managed. Peggy knows that Diana is beyond curious about this girl but Peggy is beyond fascinated. Sarah is the most interesting thing since Steve in Peggy’s life and she doesn’t care where the woman came from or what her motives are, all she cares about is what Sarah can do because Sarah can clearly do a lot of things. She passes her first test in a matter of hours, and Peggy gets the impression that she could have completed the mission much faster – nevermind that Peggy had initially thought the mark to be easy pickings, she stopped once her first five applicants had failed. If Sarah can get her that indecipherable notebook than what else can she do? It is their first mission together and it goes wrong, horribly wrong and at first Peggy is worried for Sarah, after all she had trained the woman in spywork, not fighting but before she can attempt to assist her, the three men threatening them are dead, shot with Peggy’s second pistol which Sarah silently passes back to her. Peggy can only stare. This, this is not a spy. No matter what happened at the bar during that first test. Sarah is not a spy. Sarah is a warrior.

Of all the things Susan expected of the director of SHIELD, she was not expecting this. She very carefully showed no surprise on her face for the two others in the room to pick up on but inwardly as they stared at her she was cataloguing what she was expecting. Some one old perhaps, with gray hair and wisdom in their eyes and definitely a man. She had the feeling that neither woman would be willing to call the other a superior which meant that only one of the two worked for SHIELD and that one was going to be the director. Both women held themselves up straight, but while one gazed at her in curiosity the other was downright suspicious. She could try to guess which was the director but if she was wrong that would completely undermine her goal. So instead Susan stood in front of them both, head held high and eyes assessing both women as she waited for them to acknowledge her. The one who spoke to her first would be the director. The women didn’t consult with each other wordlessly as she and Peter might have done a lifetime ago but Susan saw how the director looked quickly between herself and the other before speaking, as if comparing like to like. Susan saw how Diana picked up on her lies about her name and her age and looked to Peggy to see if the director had noticed too. Peggy gave her the easiest job ever for her initiation – wrangling Edmund was an old hand for her. Somehow succeeding at gaining her brother’s notebook had made her invaluable to Peggy and though Susan feels slightly bad for cheating, the benefits outweigh any doubts she has. Later Peggy will say the mission went wrong, at the time Susan hadn’t thought anything out of the ordinary, it was to be expected – Narnians after all, left a trail. But she sees the shock on Peggy’s face as she hands the woman back her gun and inwardly curses – she is being too obvious with her skills, Peggy is already too interested in her. Diana on the other hand is interested in a completely different way. After a particularly successful mission, they go to a bar and Diana spends the whole night stopping her from drinking. It is funny she thinks, just how easily they switch roles. Peggy after all, is supposed to be the suspicious one. It should be Peggy there, glaring at her for trying to order a bourbon. That is what spies are for after all, to sus out secrets. Diana is the warrior here, and in Susan’s experience warriors cared little for lies and secrets and ages and names, so long as you were on their side and were skilled. If you were skilled you could get away with anything and Susan was skilled. But instead their roles were reversed and Diana wanted to know her secret. Susan knew she’d compel it one way or another – may as well make it quick and on her own terms. Diana would be unprepared. Diana doesn’t notice Susan’s rather pointed removal of her surname, instead she focusses on Susan’s age – the one that is quite impossible but also quite true and Diana’s face reflects disbelief and startled admiration. Susan wonders what she must think of her for only a moment before dismissing the thought and returning to the place she has rented for the night. She notices the next morning though that both Peggy and Diana look at her with admiration in their eyes.

[harmony_lover]

OH, my goodness. I have no idea how I missed this when you posted it, but it is glorious. Peggy and Diana becoming friends and working together! Susan waltzing in so fearlessly! Peggy and Diana both being suspicious of her but also invested in her for different reasons - I love that, and I think it's so spot-on as far as Diana and Peggy's personalities. Peggy might know Susan is lying, but she will take Susan's skills, while Diana knows she's lying and is suspicious of her past and motives. It makes so much sense on both counts. And then having the three of them work together!

Also, I LOVED that Edmund was the person who Peggy was trying to catch (or his notebook, at least). Five people failed! Because of course they did. And then Susan is able to best Edmund without a problem. One wonders if he let her. :)

Thank you, thank you, thank you so much for this. It's wonderful! <3

[mouseyear]

I'm so happy you liked it! The Peggy and Diana interactions are my favourite to think about, particularly how they balance & contrast each other with their different backgrounds and outlook on life is just fun to explore.

[harmony_lover]

Absolutely! They are very different people, but would work together so well, and I love how well you showed that here. :)