Three Sentence Ficathon 2022

[rthstewart]

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.

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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 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!



      

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

IT'S TRUE AND SHE SHOULD SAY IT \o/ This is a DELIGHT

(Also Seph you can totally wear leggings underneath if you're getting a little too breezy it's entirely allowed jsyk <3)

RWBY, Penny Polendina

[ernest]

triple fill!

Penny uncurls her hands to see how the synthetic skin has been sheared away from her palms. It doesn’t hurt; nothing ever hurts. What would have hurt her is leaving helpless people to get hit by a vehicle when she knows she has the ability to stop it.
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She moves without thinking through the dark and finds herself on center stage, knives out, the madman who poisoned half a dozen people nowhere to be found. It doesn’t matter that she knows she isn’t guilty because the camera feeds know something different and she was exactly where someone else wanted her to be, just like the last time. If the people of Mantle do not want her protection anymore then maybe they’re right and she should be decommissioned.
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If living means a virus will make her hurt her friends, then her death should likewise mean that she gets to choose the next Winter Maiden so she can be useful for once, and she begs Ruby to kill her. They refuse to let her go, over and over, and when the end is unavoidable, it’s not because she was thinking about her death but because she cared about life. She was thinking that she’s not a machine and neither is Winter; they are each other’s friends.

FF7, Reeve & Shinra execs

[raisedbymoogles]

Hour two of the board meeting: Scarlet and Hojo bitched and argued and did everything short of actively trying to rip each other's throats out; Heidegger bawled his terrible laugh and egged on whoever he thought was winning at the time; Palmer was doing much the same, albeit in his own oily obsequious way; and President Shinra presided over it all, watching the proceedings like a sports match but doing little in the way of refereeing.

Reeve just... kept his head down and sketched a model of Midgar with a few improvements he was working on designing. And if a couple of small stick figures were to be sketched flying off the edge of said model of Midgar... well, that was nobody's business but his own, wasn't it?

[schoolsasaint]

Arrow, Nyssa/Sara, seaside sun

[wingedflight]

L.O.L.

[raisedbymoogles]

Sekiro, Wolf & Kuro, flying kites together

Deltarune, Kris+Susie+Noelle+Ralsei

[last_haven]

"Dude, I think that chocolate you got was fucked up," Susie says bluntly while Noelle kindly smacks Ralsei's back as the prince coughs. "Look at him. He's dying."

Kris shrugs and pops another piece of chocolate into their mouth--and silently decides to not mention that they forgot to warn them about the chili powder inside of it.

[smallhobbit]

Thank you. I look forward to filling some of your other prompts.

[wingedflight]

Yesssssss

[syrena_of_the_lake]

Any, any, self-insert only you are a horrible goose

Re: RWBY, Penny Polendina

[raisedbymoogles]

i haven't been into this canon in years, why is it raining on my face

[cofax7]

It didn't seem so heavy at first; less than the weight of a full teapot to be carried into the drawing room for Mother's tea with Mrs. Hazelton, but more than the Greek text that Edmund so regularly left behind when he returned to school.

Lucy shifted her feet, then stilled under the keen eye of Silversharp: the Centaur had only turned the sandglass twice, and there was some time yet to go.

The sun glinted off the edges of the sword, and her muscles burned, and she ignored the whispers around her from the Dwarf guards and the stable staff as sweat trickled down her back--but still she held her pose, as the sword grew heavier and heavier.

[smallhobbit]

Thank you.

[ruanchunxian]

Katy’s hands shake – of course her hands are freaking shaking, her mentor has just received a Dementor’s Kiss right in front of her very freaking eyes! – as the ghosts of all her lost potentials seem to be closing in on her at once, clawing at her, mocking her – you can’t do it, you can’t, you can’t, you’d just fail and then you’d feel worse because you’d the be reason the Great Protector dies.

As she forces herself to look away from the unicorn glow of the Great Protector’s soul, she sees Shaun – Shangqi, names have meaning and he is Shangqi, here – and Xialing barely hanging on to the mane of the Great Protector. She closes her eyes, thinks not of all the voices that tells her how she should be, what she never could be, but of that boy she once already saved from a school ground bully ten years ago instead; the twang of the bow string echoes against the chaos, and Katy only opens her eyes when she hears the bat-Dementor-thing scream with pain.

[(Anonymous)]

"You are too merry for this weary world," Hamlet informed him, but Romeo only shook his head and laughed.

"And you are too maudlin," he replied, crossing to drape his arms over Hamlet's shoulders and press his weight against the back of Hamlet's chosen chair. "Fair prince, will you not give audience to a cheerful thought?"

"As fair as a midwinter night," Hamlet says dryly, but he neglected to snap or pull away when Romeo bent forward, when his fingertips dragged lightly back over Hamlet's shaven cheek. "You are my sun," escaped him near unwilling just before Romeo's mouth pressed almost-chaste to his, and the rest...was silence.

[raisedbymoogles]

Sekiro, Wolf & Divine Child, spotting dolphins

[schoolsasaint]

Control, Jesse Faden & Ahti, I see molds of green, and molds of blue

[(Anonymous)]

"I really don't see the problem," Ciri said indignantly, as Geralt covered his eyes with a hand both in a clear signal of dispair and also to avoid getting his arse singed by a fireball. "Tris and Yennifer-"

"Tris and Yennifer," Geralt gritted out, shifting his hand to pinch the bridge of his nose, eyes still closed, "left me tied naked to the bed at the suggestion."

"Well," one of the two sorceresses curled in Ciri's blankets said with a purr, both of them entirely too amused and the three of them entirely too naked for Geralt to pull his hand away, "I'm terribly sorry Master Witcher, but she's much prettier than you are."

[schoolsasaint]

Assassin's Creed, Claudia Auditore, taking care of business

Charnia, always summer and never festival time

[cofax7]

Tumnus hustled Lucy along a dusty alleyway, through a courtyard, and down a flight of stairs, moving as if they were being watched, although Lucy saw few figures on the streets of this humid ramshackle city, and those only robed figures at a distance, who kept their heads down as they passed in silence.

At length they entered a dim room and Tumnus closed and latched the door behind him, being careful to close the shutters before striking a light to an odd old-fashioned looking oil lamp on a rickety table.

"First," he said in a whisper, "Tell me--did any cats see you?"

Re: Transformers: G1 cartoon

[raisedbymoogles]

THIS is RIDICULOUSLY cute, YOU are ridiculously cute, EVERYTHING is ridiculously cute :DDDDD

Good Omens

[astrogirl]

God is love, that's what Heaven says, and Heaven claims the power to define everything. But Crowley has seen how Heaven loves: with flood, and threat, and sneering condescension. He will not label what he feels with such a tainted word.

Fill: A Planet, Overflowing

[sideways]

The fragmented comlink at his feet is a problem; the angry woman still sighting down a crude kinetic rifle is another, her fear and fury so present in the Force he can feel the very shape of it: [radio] and [careless] and [dark stranger].

The beast is something else: the hint of fangs under lips do not hold Luke's attention as much as the overwhelming Force-pressure pushing onto him, into him, pricked ears and [curious, wary wanting] threatening to drown senses already battling for space on this strange, shouting planet.

Without thinking, he pushes back, desperately tries to gentle the creature's reaching like he might an overeager youngling with no grasp of their own strength; the beast snorts and throws its head up, [offended], and the woman jerks more alarmingly still, a note strung in unintentional harmony, barks ["Flicker!"]; and in that moment Luke, fledging Jedi Master, grasps just what has grown here on this stranded colony, forgotten by the agendas of Republic and Empire alike; and can only say, faintly, "Ah."

Re: Transformers: G1 cartoon

[(Anonymous)]

You are WELCOME. ^_^

Re: Just to Remind You (Narnia, Ed & Susan, Ed Lives AU)

[ruanchunxian]

Ouch! That line about traitors!!