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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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Re: Shadow & Bone/TGT, The Darkling/Alina, she put her love down soft and sweet / in the low lamp li

[personal profile] snacky 2022-01-24 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
OKAY SO -- it's an AU where she doesn't die and basically lives forever and one day he's back?!? and he won't tell her how but he won't leave her alone either lol.
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Reminders (Castlevania (Netflix); Trevor, Alucard, Sypha)

[personal profile] kalira 2022-01-24 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
". . .are you going to counter her argument or should I?" Trevor asked, eyeing Sypha as she continued to expound upon her flawless reasoning skills and her concerns about cleaning up the castle.

"Or you could let it go for now." Alucard suggested absently, most of his attention still focused on the book he was poring over.

Trevor leaned over his shoulder, looking at it, then pulled a face at the complex warding diagrams and looking back at Sypha; she did need to be reminded that she made mistakes sometimes . . . and Trevor was incredibly bored.
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Re: Shadow & Bone/TGT, The Darkling/Alina, sacred prayer / i was there

[personal profile] snacky 2022-01-24 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
Right? He's always going to be monstrous in his own way. Or else he's no fun lolol.
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Re: Narnia, Peter, I know what's good / and I'll die that way

[personal profile] snacky 2022-01-24 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
I MEAN!!!!!!
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Re: An Unexpected Accounting of Debts (Greek Mythology, Apollo & Cassandra)

[personal profile] kalira 2022-01-24 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
Ooh, excellent~
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Hands (The flight of the heron, Keith/Ewen, fix-it).

[personal profile] theseatheseatheopensea 2022-01-24 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
Perhaps, Keith thinks, it is the white sand that takes his breath away... or perhaps, it is the quiet spark in Ewen's eyes. But it does not matter, and he surrenders gladly--he is bound to this place now. In the darkness, by the peaceful water of the loch, Ewen's hands find his own--and his fingers are a flurry of tenderness, and they don't let go.
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Re: Shadow & Bone/TGT, The Darkling/Alina, she put her love down soft and sweet / in the low lamp li

[personal profile] vialethe 2022-01-24 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
YES this is a good AU and I would like to subscribe to its newsletter. It is excellent to see him crawling home to her, as it were.
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Better Company (Kingyou Hime; Keisuke/Kingyou-kun, ex-boyfriend)

[personal profile] kalira 2022-01-24 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
"I thought you might at least try to apologise!" Junro snapped, loud enough to make the phone crackle, and Keisuke sighed; of course he had, he had probably expected Keisuke to chase after him and grovel immediately, much less in the days following their split at the matsuri. "What else are you going to do? Spend all your time with your new fish?" he spat.

"Sounds better than spending all my time with you." Keisuke said almost without thinking, running his fingers through Kin's hair - he was asleep, his adorable face squished against Keisuke's chest - and realised what he'd said only as Junro made a sharp sound like an angry teakettle . . . but even if Kin-chan had remained a fish after that first night, well. . .
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Official Portrait (Marginal Prince; Joshua, Henri, Yuuta, (marginal princes))

[personal profile] kalira 2022-01-24 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
"You're- You're royalty . . . shouldn't you be used to this?" Yuuta asked tentatively.

"Get used to it, if not." Henri said, face impassive, and Joshua made a face at him, then smiled.

"Very well . . . but I refuse to sit for it alone, my friends." Joshua said, beckoning them all in, and Yuuta remembered the portrait in the entrance hall, of Joshua's ancestor with his crown bright on his brow and his knights all gathered around him. . .
Edited 2022-01-24 02:20 (UTC)
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[personal profile] kuwdora 2022-01-24 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
i love this !!! ♥ !!
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[personal profile] kuwdora 2022-01-24 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
YES GOOD, PERFECT!!! oooh yes, this is so good. *clappy hands*
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Re: Star Trek: Voyager. At Tuvok's house after the ship's return

[personal profile] kuwdora 2022-01-24 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
ahh!! I love this !! DYING FROM THE CARDS. That last paragraph has me in STITCHES.
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[personal profile] kuwdora 2022-01-24 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
😳😳😳😳😳 whew!!! yesss !!
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so a hundred years ago I wrote in this Marauder Rhombus rock band AU? And now they like me are old.

[personal profile] marginalia 2022-01-24 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
It’s been twelve years, but Sirius would still recognize that voice anywhere, even coming out of a tinny phone speaker while the absolute infant in the queue ahead of him - okay so she’s probably sixteen, but still - says “he’s like, so old, but he’s hot.”

The voice would be enough but the lyrics are something no one else could possibly know, a song scratched on the back of a show flier a hundred years ago, never performed let alone published, and now shot through with the anger and road-weariness they had only thought they understood back then, when he and Remus and the others were little more than infants themselves.

“Give me that,” Sirius snarls, then “sorry, please, I used to know him,” a terrible attempt at an apology as he scrawls down the name of the video account, an impossible thing, a disappearing clue in a dream, Remus alive.
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[personal profile] kuwdora 2022-01-24 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
awww, I love this !!
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Re: Star Trek: Voyager. At Tuvok's house after the ship's return

[personal profile] archersangel 2022-01-24 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
:-D glad you liked it.
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Re: so a hundred years ago I wrote in this Marauder Rhombus rock band AU? And now they like me are o

[personal profile] ravenlilyrose 2022-01-24 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
This is awesome! I'm not sure if it makes me want to cry or cheer, but I love it either way.
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[personal profile] chanter1944 2022-01-24 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
Awwww. <3 He really has got that warm steadiness about him, hasn't he? *biased*
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[personal profile] sixbeforelunch 2022-01-24 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks!

Also I just saw what my autocorrect did to Uhura’s name *facepalm* Sorry I missed that when I posted.
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Re: Umineko, Jessica

[personal profile] topaz_eyes 2022-01-24 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
The simplest explanation is usually the correct one. I enjoyed this, really lovely!
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Sk8 the Infinity, Joe | Kojiro/Cherry | Kaoru, The Soulmate Goose of Enforcement

[personal profile] mad_madam_m 2022-01-24 04:05 am (UTC)(link)
There was a commotion at the front door of the restaurant, and Kojiro turned around to deal with it (they were closed for the night, come back at noon tomorrow) when he spotted Kaoru—calm, collected, composed Kaoru—scrambling inside and slamming the door. "Don't you have a lock on this door?" he demanded.

Kojiro slung the kitchen towel over his shoulder and walked quickly over to lock the door—if Kaoru was this upset, something was wrong. "What is it? Is someone after you?" He caught Kaoru's arm, checking him for injuries. "Did someone hurt you?"

Kaoru pulled his arm away and straightened his yukata. "Not someone. Something. And it's—"

He cut off with a strangled noise, and Kojiro turned to see a fucking goose standing on the bar. He was about to ask what in the actual fuck when the goose honked and shook itself, sending a spray of glitter all over the place.

One: Kojiro was never going to be able to clean all that up. And two... "You're being chased by a soulmate goose?"

"Of course it's a soulmate goose, you overgrown gorilla," Kaoru snapped. "Real geese don't sparkle. And it's obviously got the wrong idea, because—"

Kojiro didn't wait to hear why the goose had the wrong idea; he hauled Kaoru to him and kissed him soundly. When he looked back up, the goose honked again and disappeared.

Kojiro grinned and turned his attention back to Kaoru, who was gaping at him, gold eyes wide behind his glasses. "Still think it had the wrong idea, four-eyes?"

"Oh, shut up," Kaoru muttered, and kissed him again.
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Reasons for Deception (Boys Over Flowers; Yi Jung/Woo Bin)

[personal profile] kalira 2022-01-24 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
"How much longer do you think we'll have, starting out and playing schoolboy," Woo Bin laughed a little, trailing idle patterns over his mate's chest, "before it all grows too tiresome to stand?"

Yi Jung snorted, stretching under Woo Bin's caresses, and opened his eyes lazily, lips tilting into a smile; he was just as gorgeous as he had been so many years ago when they first met . . . even before their Sire had collected the four of them.

"How much longer do you think it will take us before Jun Pyo and Ji Hoo can manage to act like adults on an ongoing basis?" Yi Jung asked dryly, and Woo Bin stilled, then bowed his head, laughing.
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Re: Hamilton/History - Alexnder Hamilton / John Laurens [Headcanon: John loves snow]

[personal profile] cornerofmadness 2022-01-24 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
Oh that's cool. I regret not having the time to get to central park when I was working in NYC
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Re: Simplicity (Leverage; Eliot/Parker/Hardison)

[personal profile] dariaw 2022-01-24 04:52 am (UTC)(link)
Parker is very wise, and also has excellent taste in men.

:D Thank you so much for this!! I LOVE this OT3, and Parker's starting question is so HER and so THEM and so GREAT <3 <3 <3
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The Interim (Greenwing & Dart)

[personal profile] edenfalling 2022-01-24 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
When Astandalas fell, all the bindings the Empire had wrapped around its five close-held worlds shattered, for good or for ill, and all the brighter stars and deeper dark that had been trampled down and barred out for generations crashed down upon the provinces like a roaring spring flood when the ice gives way (as all things give way in their time).

Olive Greenwing felt the ties that bound her to the Woods Noirell strain and screech, and had barely the strength to see her son rush across the suddenly soft-edged room (had the walls always been so tenuous? the angles of the joists so debatable?) with fear etched upon his face before hungry silence swallowed her soul.

In the dim fog where she floated for many days thereafter, she prayed to the bees and the Woods and the honey and the sunlight, and most of all to the Lady of Green and White: that she would wake, that her son would live, that the world would regain shape -- and finally, after a timeless time, when all her words had worn smooth to meaningless sound, a bright leaf sprouted in the emptiness and the Lady's answer tinged the silence green.