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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!



      


















raisedbymoogles: (Default)

[personal profile] raisedbymoogles 2022-01-15 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Probably safer to toss the minibot than toss the rocket launcher, rly. XD ...also pffffft
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Re: Bonus extra minibot

[personal profile] raisedbymoogles 2022-01-15 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
WOOOOOO GO WINDCHARGER WOOOOOOOOO

(Anonymous) 2022-01-15 10:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I mean, you are not wrong. Always be careful when handling ordinance. ...though I am willing to bet Cliffjumper bites. XD

Re: Bonus extra minibot

(Anonymous) 2022-01-15 10:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Windcharger: :cheery little salute-flick!:
ruanchunxian: (Default)

Re: Many happy returns

[personal profile] ruanchunxian 2022-01-15 10:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh perfect, especially the Plummber vs plumber pun!!
raisedbymoogles: (Default)

Re: crossover-ish with Buffy

[personal profile] raisedbymoogles 2022-01-15 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
She would, Buffy even experiences burnout multiple times so Luisa would be in good company. XD
vialethe: (Stars & Space)

Re: Rogue One, Jyn/Cassian

[personal profile] vialethe 2022-01-15 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Ugh, that hearing her name is a such a revelation to her! That he thinks it's a good name!! HIS SMILE. I'm in pain and it's your fault.

(Anonymous) 2022-01-15 10:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Any, anyone who never got involved in superwholock and know only of it, "wait, I thought the super was for Superman!"
ernest: (Default)

Re: Transformers: G1 cartoon

[personal profile] ernest 2022-01-15 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
i don't know the fandom but this is absolutely adorable, omg
syrena_of_the_lake: (Default)

[personal profile] syrena_of_the_lake 2022-01-15 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
DC Comics, Bruce Wayne & Harley Quinn, the best friendships start with hyenas
topaz_eyes: (blue cat's eye)

[personal profile] topaz_eyes 2022-01-15 10:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Any, any, the skin around every city looks the same
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[personal profile] elementalraven 2022-01-15 10:17 pm (UTC)(link)
This is fantastic! I love Xialing battling her past and her future, and Shang-Chi being completely sure of her capabilities. I do feel really sad that Xialing never really got to have some sort of resolution with her father, but at least she has her brother back.

(and I don't think anyone has ever complained about a fill with more than three sentences, lol)
vialethe: (Myth - Lamia - Waterhouse)

@loveandrockmusic, ahem

[personal profile] vialethe 2022-01-15 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Pellinor, Maerad/Cadvan, HOT MAKEOUTS
last_haven: (narnia)

Working off an old fanon idea that I've seen in multiple fics

[personal profile] last_haven 2022-01-15 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Edmund asked once, who was the shipwright that designed the Dawn Treader--her beauty and her make sang an echo of old Narnia, even if seafaring had become a lost art. He was told that shipwright was a young man who had remained in Narnia to care for his newborn child. "He said he based it on a painting he saw in the palace once," Caspian said, "but the funny thing is that we could never find the painting afterward!"

When they got back to their aunt and uncle's home, the three of them crowded in the backroom, watching as Edmund quietly pulled the painting down. "You don't suppose it's really the same picture?" Lucy asked, but hope made her voice hungry. "Could Aslan have seen to it that it got here in time for your parents to receive?"

Eustace wondered about how a painting could through time and worlds, but any argument was stillborn when Edmund muttered "Aslan's crafted greater miracles than getting one painting to England."

There was no painter's mark on the front, but Edmund flipped it around--on the back, there was an extremely out of place, yellowed piece of paper glued to the middle. Lucy hushed Eustace's protests as Edmund used a fingernail to gently pry the paper away. Underneath, a large, looping signature left Edmund ashy and Lucy gasping.

Eustace only grimaced. "Who's Peridan?"

Lucy bit her lip and could only murmur "an old friend" as she watched Edmund sit heavily upon the guest bed, fingers trembling as he touched a painting once painted with the hands of a man he planned to marry once.
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[personal profile] elementalraven 2022-01-15 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Xu Xialing, she is both her mother and her father's daughter
elementalraven: (Default)

[personal profile] elementalraven 2022-01-15 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Narnia, any, ladies with swords
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[personal profile] elementalraven 2022-01-15 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
any, any, a coven

Re: Original D&D

(Anonymous) 2022-01-15 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Eeeee, thank you!
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[personal profile] ernest 2022-01-15 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
"but rather his own conscience and need to help that forces him into the center of a galaxy-sized shatterpoint" oh yesss, that's obi wan all over. this is beautiful and heartfelt.

Re: Kingdom Hearts, Aerith & moogles

(Anonymous) 2022-01-15 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
WOOOOOOO GO MOOGLES GOOOOOO \o/
ruanchunxian: (Default)

[personal profile] ruanchunxian 2022-01-15 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
They manage to make it through the entire movie without Xialing exchanging a single word one-on-one with her father. He speaks to Katy even more that he speaks to her! It really does drive home the whole "nod, don't speak" thing, but urgh...

also, lol @ me, what are tenses...this is why 99% I don't write present tense. I forget after two sentences and revert back to past tense.
rosage: (Default)

[personal profile] rosage 2022-01-15 10:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Last Legacy, Anisa/Tulsi, polish
rosage: (Default)

[personal profile] rosage 2022-01-15 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Last Legacy, Anisa/Saaros, huddle
syrena_of_the_lake: (Default)

Something rotten in midsummer

[personal profile] syrena_of_the_lake 2022-01-15 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Puck watched with wide eyes as everyone around him took leave of their senses: madness, ghosts, death, mistaken identities, usurped thrones ... people stabbing curtains with swords, tossing around insults and tossing back deadly poisons ... if he didn't know better, he would have blamed himself for at least half of the goings-on, except that they had clearly been going on since before he had gone in the palace.

"Such a state of disarray!" tsked Queen Titania, first furrowing her brow at the cavorting Ophelia and convulsing Gertrude, and then frowning severely at Hamlet.

"No, my lady," corrected Puck thoughtfully, "I believe this is the state of Denmark."
last_haven: (narnia)

*gasp* My ship!

[personal profile] last_haven 2022-01-15 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
"You have seen more of the world than me. Is there actually an end to the sea?"

Lucy paused, her hand stilling in the sea girl's hair where she'd been carding her fingers through it, and frowned at the horizon. "There is, in places--those places are called 'the coast'. Narnia and other countries lie against the coasts. But that's the other side of the world, and all I've heard is that Aslan's country is somewhere on this side, so there must be an end on here as well."

The former queen fell silent for a long time, eyes watching the glittering water--an end, there had to be an end, an end to the sea, an end to their journey, and o, Alsan, did it have to be so?--until the delicate touch of a brown and purple hand at her cheek made her look down into the sea girl's face.

"I wish it didn't have an end."

Lucy smiled, bittersweet. "Me too."