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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!



      


















(Anonymous) 2022-01-15 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
"Heads up!" Ironhide roars, bends and twists and grabs Cliffjumper by an arm and a leg and, before Cliffjumper can do more than squawk his indignation, surges up and sends him flying clear across the battlefield.

"Hey!" he yells, and then "Oof!" when he lands in Skyfire's oversized mitts, and before he can start to really protest the oversized probably-a-Decepticon-sympathiser says "Sorry!" and tosses him all the way up the mountain overlooking the fight, which is further away from the mayhem than Cliffjumper ever wants to be.

"What in the name of Primus' creaky boron compressor," he yels, pinwheeling in midair, and by the time yet another pair of too-big hands catches him he's about ready to haul off and punch someone right in their big smug-

"Apologies Cliffjumper," Optimus Prime says, and Cliffjumper might throttle it back just a tiny bit for the Prime. "But do you still have that rocket launcher in your subspace?"

Despite everything, Cliffjumper starts to grin. "Well if that's all you needed, Prime, why didn't you say so?"
vialethe: (Narnia/GoT - Blue Susan)

[personal profile] vialethe 2022-01-15 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Narnia/GoT, Susan/Jon Snow, it’s still always you that i think of every morning no matter what/how i want you here
syrena_of_the_lake: (Default)

[personal profile] syrena_of_the_lake 2022-01-15 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Any, any, the last item on a length to-do list
elementalraven: (Default)

Re: crossover-ish with Buffy

[personal profile] elementalraven 2022-01-15 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
oohh I love this! Mirabel is definitely in character and Luisa is completely badass. The Buffy vibes are great as well, Luisa would fit the Slayer mentality I think.
vialethe: (S&B - Darklina hot)

[personal profile] vialethe 2022-01-15 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Shadow & Bone/TGT, The Darkling/Alina,, just between us, did the love affair maim you too?
undeadrobins: (Untamed: Jiang Cheng)

[personal profile] undeadrobins 2022-01-15 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh yes! He's so much stronger than people think he is!
smallhobbit: (Default)

[personal profile] smallhobbit 2022-01-15 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
"What's all the shouting about?" Gertrude demanded as she came into the main hall to find her new husband confronting an angry man wearing a kilt. She listened as Claudius explained that the newcomer was accusing him of usurping the throne that he himself had just usurped, and, what was worse, that he hadn't been at all subtle about the usurping, having used a dagger and not poison. She thought for a moment and then said, "It's simple really, we stick both Macbeth and Hamlet in the same ship and send them off together."
syrena_of_the_lake: (Default)

[personal profile] syrena_of_the_lake 2022-01-15 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Any, any, how to cope when you're surrounded by idiots
vialethe: (Stars & Space)

[personal profile] vialethe 2022-01-15 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
The Mandalorian, Din Darjin/Bo-Katan Kryze, and he closed his eyes and heard no sound/but her breathing warm against his mouth
vialethe: (Narnia/GoT - Blue Susan)

[personal profile] vialethe 2022-01-15 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Narnia/GoT, Susan/Jon Snow, arm kissing
syrena_of_the_lake: (Default)

[personal profile] syrena_of_the_lake 2022-01-15 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Harry Potter, Luna Lovegood, "I've connected the two dots"
ruanchunxian: (Default)

[personal profile] ruanchunxian 2022-01-15 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
After the Dweller-in-Darkness and Great Protector have disappeared beneath the depths of the dark lake both, one in pieces and one in rest, after they have brought Ba back from the other side, Xialing pretends that she does not want to scream at the realisation that the last memory she has of Ba saying anything meaningful to her instead of simply talking at her occurred before Mama died, a memory she is sure she’s only holding on to until now out of pure spite. After all of that, her exhausted heart wilts even more when she sees Razor Fist – no, Mattias, because Razor Fist is such a ridiculous name – turn to Ge for instructions.

Of course, Ge was the heir, and Xialing – she doesn’t know what she is, to Ba, anymore.

“If you want someone to tell you what to do, don’t look at me, I’ve never so much as successfully run a bake sale,” Ge said, making Xialing stare at him in hopes of disbelief. Jerking his head to Xialing, Ge continued, “She’s the one with a fight club. Army, fight club, same thing, right?”

(Starting off strong with 6 sentences for my first fill lol. Ge 哥 = Older Brother.)
vialethe: (Narnia - Adult Susan)

[personal profile] vialethe 2022-01-15 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Narnia, Susan/& any, cold patrol
cofax7: climbing on an abbey wall  (Default)

Re: Many happy returns

[personal profile] cofax7 2022-01-15 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
OK that's perfect!
silveradept: A kodama with a trombone. The trombone is playing music, even though it is held in a rest position (Default)

Re: Miraculous Ladybug, Chat Noir's Sense of Self-Worth

[personal profile] silveradept 2022-01-15 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh no is exactly right.
ravenlilyrose: (Default)

[personal profile] ravenlilyrose 2022-01-15 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Obi-Wan Kenobi has been many things, has seen countless possibilities stretching out before him, has nearly started down thousands of paths, has loved a million people, and watched a billion stars go by, but what he has never been (no matter how often he wished it) is insignificant to the galaxy.
He never gets taken to the Jedi and stays as a farmer with a mother who wished for a daughter and a father who cares very little for his family beyond their physical needs, but still the galaxy doesn't leave him alone, because when he crosses paths with a tall young man in the market one day, he allows himself to be dragged along on a world-saving adventure, taking that young man under his wing (because, honestly, he isn't sure how the idiot managed to keep himself alive this long without Obi-Wan's help).
Or he leaves the Jedi Order sometime during his apprenticeship (he had a thousand choices and saw twelve million paths, he just chose something different this time around) and he settles as best he can on one of a hundred planets, right up to the point when someone needs his help (and maybe, it's not the universe who won't leave Obi-Wan alone, but rather his own conscience and need to help that forces him into the center of a galaxy-sized shatterpoint).

Bonus extra minibot

(Anonymous) 2022-01-15 10:04 pm (UTC)(link)
"Incoming!" someone yells; Starscream's panicked screech, and Megatron wheels about ready to shoot either the incoming threat or Starscream himself, depending on what's actually coming at them.

"What in-"

"Hi there," Windcharger called cheerily, and engaged his magnetic fields to send himself flying fists-first into Megatron's face.
cofax7: climbing on an abbey wall  (Default)

[personal profile] cofax7 2022-01-15 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Star Wars, any, war crimes investigation of the massacre of a Tusken settlement
ravenlilyrose: (Default)

[personal profile] ravenlilyrose 2022-01-15 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
This is perfect! I love it so much!
undeadrobins: (Untamed: Zheng Fanxing cuddling Yu Bin)

The Untamed, Nie Huaisang

[personal profile] undeadrobins 2022-01-15 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Nie Huaisang has perfected the art of fading into the background; even when he's calling attention to himself, it's in a way designed to distract from what he's actually trying to do. He knows what it will take, how long he'll have to live like this, and he doesn't mind, not if he can achieve his goals at the end of it.

He's a cultivator; he can live as long as he needs to - unnoticed, unremarkable, unseen - in order to get his revenge for his brother's murder... and he will.
raisedbymoogles: (Default)

Transformers (G1, between S2 and the Movie), Optimus Prime and Daniel

[personal profile] raisedbymoogles 2022-01-15 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
The feral cat in the footwell of Optimus's cab hissed when Daniel opened his door, but settled down when Daniel set a paper plate full of wet food down in front of her and slid it within her reach. Her clowder of kittens, still so new their fur stuck up in damp spikes, slept on unperturbed as their mother devoured the food in neat little bites.

Resting his chin on his folded hands, Daniel asked, "Named them yet?"

"We cannot keep them, Daniel," Optimus answered, ever so reasonable and stoic despite the fact that he'd been refusing to move or transform since the mother cat had claimed his cab and both of them knew damn well he would continue his exiled vigil until she and the kittens could be safely moved. "They must go to keepers who can provide them proper care and attention, and war does not make for a consistent and safe environment." Daniel gave Optimus Prime's steering wheel a dubious look. ".......the little gray one on the end is Epsilon."
syrena_of_the_lake: (Default)

[personal profile] syrena_of_the_lake 2022-01-15 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Any, any, Cards Against Humanity as played by nonhuman species
syrena_of_the_lake: (Default)

[personal profile] syrena_of_the_lake 2022-01-15 10:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Narnia, any, misconceptions about human procreation
smallhobbit: (Default)

[personal profile] smallhobbit 2022-01-15 10:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you very much!
syrena_of_the_lake: (Default)

[personal profile] syrena_of_the_lake 2022-01-15 10:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Firefly, any, space sirens