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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!



      


















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[personal profile] ruthchinn 2022-01-19 04:46 pm (UTC)(link)
In Aslan's Country after the end of Narnia, Jill watches the Pevensies come together, two kings, a queen, and a knight. There's an empty space where another should be, the Gentle Queen she's heard of but never met. And with the ways closed now, Jill supposes that the space will never be filled.
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Re: Hamlet, Hamlet/Ophelia

[personal profile] ernest 2022-01-19 04:46 pm (UTC)(link)
thank you! i love these sad kids, and i think a lot about how they could have had a nice life together if they'd been allowed.
atamascolily: (Surfer Sayaka)

[personal profile] atamascolily 2022-01-19 04:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks, glad you liked it!

(It's anachronistic, I know, but gods transcend time and space, and so in my head, he's playing "Breathe" by Pink Floyd, which is written in the Dorian mode.)
ernest: (don't panic)

Re: Hamlet, Hamlet/Ophelia

[personal profile] ernest 2022-01-19 04:49 pm (UTC)(link)
it is so incredibly flattering when my writing can make someone scream like this, thank you!
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[personal profile] last_haven 2022-01-19 04:52 pm (UTC)(link)
he's playing "Breathe" by Pink Floyd, which is written in the Dorian mode

Oh, that's fucking hilarious. Nice.
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Re: Guardian; Zhao Yunlan

[personal profile] ernest 2022-01-19 04:52 pm (UTC)(link)
i don't know the fandom, but the lead up to the joke and the payoff were both done so naturally that it was extremely satisfying when Shen Wei stepped through the portal. This is excellent!
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[personal profile] shinon 2022-01-19 04:53 pm (UTC)(link)
This is so good! Garnet having messy feelings about her origins, and deciding to put in effort to stop letting that mess affect Eiko, feels super real and packs a lot of punch.
Edited 2022-01-19 16:54 (UTC)
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[personal profile] shinon 2022-01-19 04:56 pm (UTC)(link)
GOD YES Dahlia is so creepy here. I love it. That warmly, cooly contradiction is a really nice touch.
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[personal profile] last_haven 2022-01-19 05:01 pm (UTC)(link)
"It's a Small World After All" is probably playing eternally in some layer of Tartarus after this, just as an added punishment Hades thought because of this.

Well, most versions I've seen is that the items of the helm, the lightning bolts, and the trident are not relics--they're were specifically made by the Cyclopes as thank you gifts to the gods for freeing them from being locked up. As for a fight, I actually can't recall any actual disagreement, it just jumps to them drawing lots because they're trying to decide which kingdom (heaven, sea, underworld) will go to whom.

... In case it isn't clear, I am a MASSIVE Greek Mythology nerd.
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[personal profile] ruanchunxian 2022-01-19 05:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Sometimes, when Klaus wakes from the wind whistling through the open window and the cracks in the wall, he finds Violet sitting there, a rusty piece of metal pipe in hand, sitting between Sunny and Klaus and the door.

“You sleep,” his sister always insists when he offers to keep watch for the rest of the night, “I’m the oldest, watching over you both is my responsibility.”

“You need your rest as well, and you deserve to be taken care of, too, Violet,” he whispers, draping a ragged blanket around her, before taking the metal piping from her hand.
Edited 2022-01-19 17:15 (UTC)
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[personal profile] shinon 2022-01-19 05:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Aaaaa poor Maya. I love the implicit unusual relationship with death that the Fey women must have - and how it still doesn't make absence easier to accept.
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In the end, Death comes for Susan Pevensies. Just not the way she thought it would.

[personal profile] elementalraven 2022-01-19 05:19 pm (UTC)(link)
When at long last Susan Pevensie draws her final breath, who’s waiting for her is not who she expected: “I thought you would be a Cat.”

Hidden beneath a dark robe as he is, it is hard to gage the strangers emotions- but Susan could swear he perks up.

CAT?

Edited 2022-01-19 17:21 (UTC)
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Re: smallville, clark/lois/oliver, the past may hurt (but the future is bright)

[personal profile] svgurl 2022-01-19 05:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Always! I am a sucker for them. :D
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Original fic

[personal profile] undeadrobins 2022-01-19 05:21 pm (UTC)(link)
She hates the fake tail - it's too tight around her waist, and the material rubs against her skin - but it's part of the gig, no matter how much she wished it wasn't, and she's obligated to wear it for now.

There are plenty of ways to make money, they'd told her when she first arrived, but never expected it would come to this...degradation; she never expected to have to pretend like some kind of monster, but she quickly learned that people believe what they want, and still fear what is unfamiliar.

When her work shift is over, and she's moved to an unnoticed part of the beach, she sheds both the artificial tail and her own legs, allowing her natural tail - so much more beautiful and comfortable than the costume - to soak in the sea water, and longs for the day she no longer has to hide who she is.

Hollow Knight; Hornet and the knight

(Anonymous) 2022-01-19 05:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Hornet finds her sibling nearly crushed by their father's exuvia, marked by their father's brand. It's as if the wyrm has molted again, into something even smaller, less comprehensible than ever. She does and does not want to believe, as she carries them out, that this little ghost will do what none other could.
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[personal profile] elementalraven 2022-01-19 05:23 pm (UTC)(link)
:(
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[personal profile] eagleoftheninth 2022-01-19 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Torchwood, any version of the Hub team, this prompt
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Re: Relevant Applications (The Magnus Archives)

[personal profile] edenfalling 2022-01-19 05:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! :)
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Re: Original fic

[personal profile] yarnofariadne 2022-01-19 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)
I love this so much!!
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Re: In the end, Death comes for Susan Pevensies. Just not the way she thought it would.

[personal profile] kalira 2022-01-19 05:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh that's excellent! ♡
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Re: Shadow and Bone, Darklina

[personal profile] vialethe 2022-01-19 05:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I do enjoy the idea of his being a part of her like that, so completely inescapable. It's just too good!
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Re: Shadow and Bone, Darklina

[personal profile] vialethe 2022-01-19 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Yesss, his eternal patience! I love how he thinks of it as a 'little fight' haha. And the way it's framed around his having hope!!
vialethe: (S&B - Darklina power couple)

Re: Keep Your Eyes Down (S&B, Darklina)

[personal profile] vialethe 2022-01-19 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
The very best way to do Darklina!! I've definitely used that kneeling trope more than once now, lol.
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Re: a moment of peace, mcu, sam/natasha

[personal profile] svgurl 2022-01-19 05:56 pm (UTC)(link)
You're welcome! I'm really glad you liked it! Your prompt was inspiring and I had to give it a shot, because I love Sam and I do love Sam/Natasha too so I am happy to hear their relationship came across as I hoped. Thanks for letting me know what you thought. :D
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Re: Hollow Knight; Hornet and the knight

[personal profile] raisedbymoogles 2022-01-19 06:00 pm (UTC)(link)
*kudos kudos kudos*