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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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Silmarillion, Maglor & Elros

[personal profile] ladybrooke 2022-01-31 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
“Is this your doing, Elros?” Maglor asked, at once the same elf Elros remembered from his childhood, the one who had taught him of hope and of despair, and more still, a power in Maglor’s words that once had not been there.

Elros looked out the window before he responded, to Finrod playing his harp beside a weeping Beren, and to Maedhros laughing beside Fingon, and further to all the other elves who had been remembered and brought back in the only way the Music had allowed, different from their pasts.

“Not mine alone,” Elros said, and knew Maglor was lesser as well, less able to understand the hearts of Men and know why Beren wept and Elros despaired.
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Re: Silmarillion, Maglor & Elros

[personal profile] theseatheseatheopensea 2022-01-31 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, I love this!
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Re: Doctor Who - Hello Sweetie

[personal profile] harmony_lover 2022-01-31 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, this is so wonderful. <3
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[personal profile] harmony_lover 2022-01-31 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
Ooooooh, yes! So perfect!
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[personal profile] harmony_lover 2022-01-31 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, my goodness. This is just stunning. <333
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Re: Cake

[personal profile] swirlsngirls 2022-01-31 05:22 am (UTC)(link)
haven’t gotten around to watching buffy yet but based on that alone Glory sounds like a cool character!
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[personal profile] swirlsngirls 2022-01-31 05:33 am (UTC)(link)
lol wait is this a reference to that one tumblr post?
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[personal profile] swirlsngirls 2022-01-31 05:41 am (UTC)(link)
…how did you find this one? Sifting through layers and paths of comments like the red threads that make up the fabric of life, phone glow cast on your face in the dead of night? What a rare thing, to find this strange treasure in the midst of it.

(btw this is a really creative prompt, i love it!)
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Re: Tell Me that You’re Glad I Came (Anthropomorfic, rth's journal)

[personal profile] swirlsngirls 2022-01-31 05:43 am (UTC)(link)
ha, creative! i love this
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[personal profile] swirlsngirls 2022-01-31 05:48 am (UTC)(link)
So you return, challenger, it seems to say, you dare to test me again?

This is the thing they do not understand, the great resilience of a boat that has weathered many a storm, sailed with the weight of tons of cargo.

It pushes forward and tries again.
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[personal profile] elementalraven 2022-01-31 09:23 am (UTC)(link)
thank you!!
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Re: Tiger & Bunny, Kaede, Gonna Need Some Brain Bleach

[personal profile] elementalraven 2022-01-31 02:17 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know this fandom, but this sounds pretty wild XD
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Re: Silmarillion, Maglor & Elros

[personal profile] elementalraven 2022-01-31 02:18 pm (UTC)(link)
oh this is really cool and also sad
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Re: Cake

[personal profile] ultra_fic 2022-01-31 03:37 pm (UTC)(link)
As big bads go, she is pretty cool ;)
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Re: Subjectivity [Legend of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild, Yiga Clan, Link, a Korok]

[personal profile] raisedbymoogles 2022-01-31 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
this is actually amazing, holy shit
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Re: Avatar, fem!Jake Sully

[personal profile] raisedbymoogles 2022-01-31 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
see if Avatar had actually been like this I would have actually watched it

Re: Lord of the Rings (from very faint memory)

(Anonymous) 2022-01-31 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
:D

Re: Elementary - Joan/Jamie - Play Pretend

(Anonymous) 2022-01-31 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Nice!

Re: Harry Potter, Hermione, Rita

(Anonymous) 2022-01-31 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
:DD Nice take on the prompt.
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Re: Lord of the Rings (from very faint memory)

[personal profile] scytale 2022-01-31 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Honk! (Thank you for reading!)
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Re: Avatar, fem!Jake Sully

[personal profile] schoolsasaint 2022-01-31 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks! In my own defense though, I had very little else to do on an eleven hour flight. (And the audio jack wasn't all that great either, so I was mainly watching the pretty scenery through a haze of exhaustion. Good times.)
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Re: Person of Interest; Sameen Shaw, Bear, The Machine

[personal profile] swirlsngirls 2022-02-01 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
i love this, especially the detail of bear carrying scissors carefully in his mouth idk but i can just picture it
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[personal profile] swirlsngirls 2022-02-01 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
not a fill, but I just wanna say im so happy to see a poi request
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Re: So Many Dreams on the Shelf (TWW, Josh/Sam)

[personal profile] swirlsngirls 2022-02-01 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
No idea who these characters are but damn your writing is incredible
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[personal profile] swirlsngirls 2022-02-01 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
I’ve never read lotr but i love this