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rthstewart ([personal profile] rthstewart) wrote2022-01-15 12:00 pm

Three Sentence Ficathon 2022

This post is NOW CLOSED TO NEW PROMPTS!  PLEASE POST YOUR NEW PROMPTS HERE, IN POST 2!  Do continue to fill prompts here but please put all new prompts in Post 2.






 
Welcome to the Three Sentence Ficathon!

Here's a Friending meme!

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 at bit after about 2 weeks and especially once we open a new post because this one is approaching 4,500 comments.
  • 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.

Here's my attempt at a text box that might go horribly awry.






How long will it go?

The 3SF closes to new prompts on February 13, 2022. The entry stays open permanently and people post fills all year long.  (There were a bunch of new posts to the 2021 3SF this week!)

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 (and much more). 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, protect yourself, 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 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.

 

Here, have some icons and banners and let me know if you've created your own!



      


















kalira: cartoon representation of Kalira (pale skin, long brown hair, fangy smile, with thumb and two fingers raised), wearing a black tank top and cardigan, on a galaxy in ace flag stripes/colours (Default)

Introductions (Beetlejuice x Addams Family; Lydia & Wednesday)

[personal profile] kalira 2022-01-18 05:13 am (UTC)(link)
"Idiots. Why should that be scary?"

Lydia turns to the new girl from school - she'd seen her walk in and already been able to hear the taunts from the bullies, many of the same ones Lydia hears herself, even before anyone else saw her - and frowns just a little before glancing aside to find that, yes, Barbara and Adam - who have just scared away a boy who followed her home - are still there.

"My family talk to our ghosts all the time," Wednesday says simply, then extends a hand; Lydia isn't sure if it's to her or Barbara, close at her side, "I'm Wednesday Addams. Dead people have the best stories."
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[personal profile] ruanchunxian 2022-01-18 05:14 am (UTC)(link)
You push me against the stone wall and crushed ivy dampens the back of my shirt, its heady scent assault me, and for a moment, I can’t tell whether the drunken feeling intoxicating me is due to the smell of ivy or due to your lips hot on mine.

“Stay with me,” you say.

“In my dreams,” I say, “I always stay forever.”
Edited 2022-01-18 05:15 (UTC)
kalira: cartoon representation of Kalira (pale skin, long brown hair, fangy smile, with thumb and two fingers raised), wearing a black tank top and cardigan, on a galaxy in ace flag stripes/colours (Default)

Re: Bitter Growth (Greek Mythology; Demeter, Hestia, Hades/Persephone)

[personal profile] kalira 2022-01-18 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
Aww, that's awesome. *chinhands* Also cats are wonderful that way. >.>
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[personal profile] ruthchinn 2022-01-18 05:16 am (UTC)(link)
Intelligence (Canadian tv show from 2006-2007), any, legal marijuana
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[personal profile] ruthchinn 2022-01-18 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
Awaken the Stars, any, favorite book
archersangel: (reading)

[personal profile] archersangel 2022-01-18 05:22 am (UTC)(link)
very nice.
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Re: Introductions (Beetlejuice x Addams Family; Lydia & Wednesday)

[personal profile] last_haven 2022-01-18 05:22 am (UTC)(link)
Hell yeah, my spooky sassy girl bonding! I love that Lydia genuinely isn't sure if Wednesday is talking to her or Barbara--because of course Wednesday would see ghosts. (Also, I love that her second set of parents is still looking out for Lydia.) I love this.
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[personal profile] cornerofmadness 2022-01-18 05:23 am (UTC)(link)
thanks
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[personal profile] ruthchinn 2022-01-18 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
"Hello, Mrs. Pevensie," is what the strange man in long, sparkly robes and a pointy hat says when Helen opens the door. "I don't suppose your daughter is in? She's been accepted to a very prestigious school up in Scotland."
A little in shock at the stranger's odd form of dress, she invites him in. Helen hears the girls' door past the landing creak open, but no footsteps; her children have learned subtlety, it seems, since their stay with Professor Kirke. She turns back to her guest. "Now, would you care to explain what this school business is all about?"
"I'm a professor at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry." With that pronouncement, he turns her dining room table into a pig.
Both of them hear the gasps of horror from up the stairs.
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[personal profile] ernest 2022-01-18 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
wow, i love this, and the range of their magic is delightful. each of these little changes fits their personalities so well, too.
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to sleep, no more (Hamlet/Ophelia, Laertes/Reynaldo)

[personal profile] ernest 2022-01-18 05:30 am (UTC)(link)
i. ophelia sits on the side of hamlet’s bed, afraid to move too fast and break him somehow, but afraid to leave him alone with a grief that will consume him whole.
ii. unpolluted her flesh may be, but this is one sleep his sister will not rise from, and the heartless men staring down at him will not even give him the comfort of a blanket of earth.
iii. it really did seem to be getting better, for a while, as laertes ventured outside and spoke to people, but when he was finally overwhelmed by the unfairness of color and light he retreated back to his bedroom and hasn’t emerged since, so reynaldo ventures in there with food and overtures of comfort.
demigodscum: Screencap of Geralt and Ciri hugging in s1e8 of The Witcher. (destiny hugging)

[personal profile] demigodscum 2022-01-18 05:31 am (UTC)(link)
Ciri can't quite stop... pouting, really, complaining about how she was confined to her room again last night, how she was left to be bored all on her own after waiting for months for winter to come so she could see the pack — and all because the men wanted to "spar" without any "cubs" around.

"There are — heh — there are weapons for kids and weapons for adults, Princess, and nights are definitely for adult weapons," Lambert tells her over breakfast, thinking, probably, that that's supposed to deter Ciri.

She gets up, glaring at Lambert and ignoring Geralt's low chuckling, and when she's made it around to the other side of the table, she wriggles and pushes her way into sprawling over Geralt's and Lambert's laps and, with the prissiest voice she has, says, "Are you sure? Because I'm a pretty fast learner, you know."
canon_is_relative: (De!Bones: Facepalm)

Re: Enterprise senior staff, some time post The Voyage Home

[personal profile] canon_is_relative 2022-01-18 05:31 am (UTC)(link)
Bless him 😆 love this.
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[personal profile] ruthchinn 2022-01-18 05:36 am (UTC)(link)
It's for Ashlesha (book 1 in Awaken the Stars) by Jer Keene. It's *awesome*. And yep, Ambrus can throw lightning, it is very badass.
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[personal profile] ruanchunxian 2022-01-18 05:41 am (UTC)(link)

Xialing wonders what would happen if she just doesn’t show up for meals anymore, and whether Ba would even bother looking for her. The tunnel is damp and as she steps in deeper, flashlight tight in hand, she hears mountain dew dripping in the distance, and then, all at once, there is a gush of wind. Turning a corner, Xialing manages just in time to avoid the cameras watching over the huge garage.


Sometimes it seems like the only perk of her life is that there is no parental control on the internet, and so it seems no one is the wise when Xialing spends the next few weeks almost religiously watching driving videos on Youtube. She has already figured the passcode that opens the garage door, and now, all she needs to do is get into a car and drive off without being seen. With half of the army turned to dust, it can’t be that hard, surely.


“Hey boss, I have a new contender for you, if we can get him in, I guarantee we just need to sit back and watch the gold flood in,” Jon-Jon says, offering Xialing an iPad.

Her heart almost stops as she watches the video, which already has a few million views. He hasn’t changed so much that she no longer recognises him, and even if he has, no one else in the world has a pendant like that…


“Hey boss, I know you said you don’t want to have anything to do with him, but Bus Boy just showed up on Cam 3,” Jon-Jon says the next night.

Xialing stares at the security feed on Jon-Jon’s iPad, and feels her heart hardening, pushing against the tears of the once-little-girl that threatens to choke her. “Get him into the central ring,” she said, her voice like ice, “I’ll take care of him myself.”


How dare he say he is here to help her? If he never left, she wouldn’t need help. Not like this.


The elevator has just moved about five floors before Xialing slammed her palm against a button to stop it on the next floor down.

“Where are you going?” Jon-Jon called after her.

Xialing didn’t bother answering; she just knows, regardless of what has happened before, whatever is happening, her brother isn’t allowed to leave her again, not like this.

(Blip timeline might be a little wonky, who knows anymore.)

Edited 2022-01-18 05:42 (UTC)
kalira: cartoon representation of Kalira (pale skin, long brown hair, fangy smile, with thumb and two fingers raised), wearing a black tank top and cardigan, on a galaxy in ace flag stripes/colours (Default)

Re: Introductions (Beetlejuice x Addams Family; Lydia & Wednesday)

[personal profile] kalira 2022-01-18 05:44 am (UTC)(link)
Glad you enjoyed, thanks! I have never written Lydia before and I haven't seen Beetlejuice in yeas, but I love this idea and I had to give it a shot.
kalira: cartoon representation of Kalira (pale skin, long brown hair, fangy smile, with thumb and two fingers raised), wearing a black tank top and cardigan, on a galaxy in ace flag stripes/colours (Default)

[personal profile] kalira 2022-01-18 05:45 am (UTC)(link)
any, any, wolf moon
(Which is the full moon in January, but you know. Whatever~)
demigodscum: Fanart of Din Djarin in his Mandalorian armor. (mando)

Re: The Hero Flying Around Saving Face (The Mandalorian, Din/Bo-Katan)

[personal profile] demigodscum 2022-01-18 05:47 am (UTC)(link)
Mmmm, the tension in this is delicious. "It would be a lie to say it doesn’t spark something in her, and an even bigger one to say she doesn’t welcome it" is SO Bo-Katan, okay, just *chef's kiss*. So well done.
kalira: cartoon representation of Kalira (pale skin, long brown hair, fangy smile, with thumb and two fingers raised), wearing a black tank top and cardigan, on a galaxy in ace flag stripes/colours (Default)

Incomplete Studies (Naruto; Naruto & Sakura)

[personal profile] kalira 2022-01-18 05:48 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh! Ooh. . . No, no, I can fix it! I swear I can change you back!" Naruto yelled hurriedly, holding out his hands as Sakura hissed at him, pointed pink ears laid back and long tail lashing. Her hands, which were dangerous enough as it was, had developed long claws, as well, he saw with a wince.

"Naruto. . ." Sakura growled warningly, and Naruto hurriedly began skimming through the scroll he'd been studying - looking for the rest of the information on the fuinjutsu he'd accidentally sprung on Sakura.
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Naruto Founders, Tobirama

[personal profile] dawen 2022-01-18 05:53 am (UTC)(link)
Tobirama absently reached up, patting at his head until he plucked out the offending bug. "Thank you, I'd wondered where the centipede got to," he said, sounding genuinely grateful. "But it's not an insect, it's an arthropod; you really should make an effort to use the correct word."
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[personal profile] cornerofmadness 2022-01-18 05:59 am (UTC)(link)
Lucifer, Lucifer & Mazikeen, the first day Luxe opened
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Re: The Hero Flying Around Saving Face (The Mandalorian, Din/Bo-Katan)

[personal profile] vialethe 2022-01-18 06:03 am (UTC)(link)
She's so angry (and horny) and I love her so much.
demigodscum: Fanart of Ahsoka Tano, done in emerald-adjacent shades of green. (Default)

[personal profile] demigodscum 2022-01-18 06:22 am (UTC)(link)
They've been sitting on the bridge for hours now, legs hanging over the side and hands laced together between them, catching up on the music they've listened to and the books they've read in the time they've been apart, but there's an answer Jess keeps dancing around and around.

"Come on, just tell me already," Rory whines, at once enjoying the game and tired of being patient.

Jess groans defeatedly, but finally he says, "All right, all right, I'll tell you. Jeez. I've... I've been listening to Norah Jones' Come Away with Me a lot, okay? Like, really a lot, because apparently... I missed you, I guess."
demigodscum: Fanart of Ahsoka Tano, done in emerald-adjacent shades of green. (Default)

[personal profile] demigodscum 2022-01-18 06:42 am (UTC)(link)
*giggles* delightful.
kalira: cartoon representation of Kalira (pale skin, long brown hair, fangy smile, with thumb and two fingers raised), wearing a black tank top and cardigan, on a galaxy in ace flag stripes/colours (Default)

Worse (BtVS; Xander, Spike, Buffy, Willow)

[personal profile] kalira 2022-01-18 06:56 am (UTC)(link)
"Hey, girls, cheer up! It could be worse!" Xander said with determined cheerfulness, swiping his rain-soaked fringe out of his eyes. "I'm not sure how, but-"

"Horde of g'zanthrr demons." Spike said, flicking his cigarette to the concrete.

"Yes, that!" Xander said, gesturing at Spike. "As Fangless says, there could be . . . whatever-"

"No, you berk, there's a horde of g'zanthrr demons. There." Spike jerked his head and Xander looked, taking in the electric blue and sickly yellow creatures rushing towards them as he heard Buffy and Willow groan behind him.