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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] betony 2022-01-23 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
So cute! This is so sweet, and the delicacy and devotion between them is amazing.
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Re: But I Knew You (Historical RPF, Anne/Richard)

[personal profile] betony 2022-01-23 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
Small stubborn Anne is the best Anne, it is true. And how much do I love her care for him, her ability to help him when he most needs it???
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Re: Sei Shonagon

[personal profile] betony 2022-01-23 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
*laughs* Poor Sei Shonagon, how she would HATE us all pairing her with Murasaki. I can see the screeds against AO3 being composed at once.
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Re: springboarding off the Disney version

[personal profile] betony 2022-01-23 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
The Disney movie references are so cute--and I love how Fortigin immediately figures it out, disguise/settling unexpectedly or not. This is great!
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Re: Tiger & Bunny, Agnes & Ryan, No Means No

[personal profile] kalira 2022-01-23 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
EHEHEHEEE! *claps* I love you~ ♡
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: Fae Words (Gargoyles; Xanatos/Owen)

[personal profile] kalira 2022-01-23 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
8D (Someone knows nothing practical about fae, I'm guessing. >.>)
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Re: Howl's Moving Castle, book!Howl/Sophie on movie!Howl/Sophie

[personal profile] betony 2022-01-23 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
This is such a perfect Howl voice, you have no idea--and I loved Sophie's response.
(Yes! I love the visuals of the movie, but young Sophie has never looked quite right to me; but then again, I'm still in a snit that she doesn't have ging...er, red-gold hair as in the book.)
vialethe: (Myth - Daphne)

Re: The Resistance In Your Broken Heart (Trojan War, Andromache/Hektor)

[personal profile] vialethe 2022-01-23 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
Consider it preemptive revenge for the 'Cassandra goes to her doom not even daring to think of Aeneas' fill, I guess!! We are just too good at making each other sad.
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Unshakeable Faith

[personal profile] mad_madam_m 2022-01-23 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
Tad Cooper was not, on the whole, supposed to be a dragon—lizards were supposed to stay lizards, generally speaking.

But the unshakeable faith of a friend was a funny thing, particularly when that friend also happened to be the one true king of the land.

And so when Tad Cooper unfurled his wings for the first time and belched a great flame that incinerated two fences and a cart full of cabbages, Richard was the only one who wasn't shocked—instead, he hugged Tad Cooper tight and shouted, "I knew you were a dragon!"
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Re: S&B/SOC, Kaz/Inej

[personal profile] betony 2022-01-23 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
This is so gorgeous! I love the quiet pining, and Inej being amazing at sea.
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Re: Tiger & Bunny, Agnes & Ryan, No Means No

[personal profile] mad_madam_m 2022-01-23 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
:-D :-D Finally, someone has punched him!
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Unwarned (Boys Over Flowers; Yi Jung/Woo Bin/Ga Eul)

[personal profile] kalira 2022-01-23 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
"You could have warned me." Woo Bin said reproachfully, his back to the securely-closed door of Yi Jung's studio.

Yi Jung looked up at him dubiously, wondering if he'd ticked their girlfriend off enough she'd be coming to continue a lecture through the door. "I thought the smell of cinnamon and five other baked goods was pretty hard to miss," he pointed out, returning most of his attention to the swoop of the clay he was shaping, "besides, I've been in here all afternoon and you didn't come in through the studio."

"Maybe I will next time." Woo Bin muttered, edging away from the door, and Yi Jung restrained a laugh. Ga Eul was very sweet-natured, particularly compared to some of the women in either of their pasts, but when she was riled. . .
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Re: Tiger & Bunny, Agnes & Ryan, No Means No

[personal profile] kalira 2022-01-23 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
\o/ And it was Agnes! Even better! ^.^
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Re: Narnia, Peter, I know what's good / and I'll die that way

[personal profile] animus_wyrmis 2022-01-23 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
THIS IS SO GOOD
vialethe: (Myth - Lamia - Waterhouse)

Re: But I Knew You (Historical RPF, Anne/Richard)

[personal profile] vialethe 2022-01-23 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
I love the thought of like, tiny little eight year old Anne ineffectually pushing her fists into his back, and it's not really doing Richard any good physically, but it lets him know that someone cares about him and how he feels and that's really more important and makes him feel better than anything else could, anyhow. Kid!them are so damn cute.
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Re: Hamlet, Claudius/Gertrude

[personal profile] betony 2022-01-23 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
like a child who still can’t believe he’s gotten everything he wanted.--oh, this breaks my heart. And Gertrude getting to be happy for the first time in decades! Claudius not being a jealous idiot! Oh, oh, oh!
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Re: But I Knew You (Historical RPF, Anne/Richard)

[personal profile] betony 2022-01-23 04:53 am (UTC)(link)
They are so cute: like it's horrifying, honestly, to think about how young they historically get pushed into adult responsibilities like marriage and warfare. But at least in this way they get a bit of time to just be happy and innocent before their world falls apart....
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Re: Narnia, Peter, I know what's good / and I'll die that way

[personal profile] animus_wyrmis 2022-01-23 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
There is a moment when Susan thinks it might go either way, when she is caught between the Lion and her brother and does not know which was it will go. And then Aslan laughs -- laughs! -- a deep rumble and says, "Very well, Son of Adam. Very well, Daughter of Eve. Narnia will rejoice to have you again, but England will mourn, and your brother and sister will bear a great burden there. Will you help them bear it?"

(I don't know how this AU ends but I kind of hope it involves Caspian spending some time in our world, walking upside down on the bottom of the globe)
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Re: Hamlet, Laertes/Claudius/Gertrude

[personal profile] betony 2022-01-23 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
Everyone is so kind and generous and nice here--it's such a different world from the one Hamlet (and well, Hamlet the character) shows us. The ambiguity of different perspectives always fascinates me, and this is so great.
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Re: How I Could Make You Bleed (Grisha Trilogy (S&S), Darklina)

[personal profile] vialethe 2022-01-23 04:55 am (UTC)(link)
It is a good song for them - I might have to add it to my Darklina playlist!

(The "make her scream" line is literally the top thing I want out of S2 of the show, I swear. Give it to me, Netflix!!!)
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Re: Hamlet, Claudius/Gertrude

[personal profile] ernest 2022-01-23 05:04 am (UTC)(link)
and all it took was a little murder, but aren't moments like these worth it? i love their relationship so much, but even the happiness is colored by the sorrow that led to it. thank you so much!
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[personal profile] scytale 2022-01-23 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
At first Anne calls the horse a gift, but Dante refuses to accept a gift from her; with a sigh, she tells him to consider the horse payment instead, if that's what he likes -- that's when he swears at her, sweeping books from the desk in his rage as he accuses her of being an aristo who thinks that even the pure truth of magic can be bought with money.

She does not yield, appealing to reason and the usefulness a horse could have to him until Dante gracelessly concedes; after a few months of practice, the beast even stops trying to throw him off.

Anne considers that a good sign, but Dante refuses to take any joy in it: she'll surely take Devil with her when she leaves.
vialethe: (Myth - Lamia - Waterhouse)

Re: But I Knew You (Historical RPF, Anne/Richard)

[personal profile] vialethe 2022-01-23 05:10 am (UTC)(link)
Oh yes, for sure - Richard being Edward's right hand at such a young age, even if it's basically by default after everyone else dies or proves themselves to be THE WORST (looking at you, George), is terrible to think about from a modern perspective, much less poor Anne.
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Re: Sei Shonagon

[personal profile] scytale 2022-01-23 05:10 am (UTC)(link)
She does not know what this thing is that the commoners call shipping, but she is sure it is infuriating and they are doing it wrong.

Thank you! :D
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Re: The Resistance In Your Broken Heart (Trojan War, Andromache/Hektor)

[personal profile] scytale 2022-01-23 05:13 am (UTC)(link)
Ooooh, this is the perfect combination of sad and beautifully, sweetly shippy.

The teasing! And OH NO at the last line. <3
Edited 2022-01-23 05:13 (UTC)