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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: Tell Her How Good She Looks

[personal profile] peasina 2022-02-01 09:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Omg!! This is so funny I love it <3 thank you :-D
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Tales of Symphonia, Zelos & Ensemble

[personal profile] aestivalis 2022-02-01 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
"Don't waste your pity on me," He says between his teeth, even as Raine's healing artes wash across his wounds and even as Presea bends to retrieve his battered sword, even as Sheena wipes the back of her hand across her eyes and tries as hard as she can to seem furious instead of devastated.

Lloyd just looks at him like he's an idiot and offers his hand more firmly, as if Zelos simply hadn't noticed it the first time. As if Zelos hadn't been trying to kill them all only moments before.

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Hilda, Frida and David, Why is there a bug on his head?

[personal profile] silveradept 2022-02-01 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
"David, hold still, there's a bug in your hair, this is a perfect opportunity!"

"I don't know why it's there, Frida, and frankly, every time you've tried to solve one of my problems with witch magic, it's taken a lot more time to undo the results than to cast the spell!"

Frida drew herself up to her full height and snarled, "I've read all the footnotes this time, David, so let me figure out who cursed your ancestors so that you always end up with a bug on your head!"
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The Just World Fallacy

[personal profile] silveradept 2022-02-01 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
The One he worships is just, but who stays his hand on delivering justice to this entire city for the sake of five virtuous men, who must be somewhere else in the city than here.

The One he worships shows charity to both those who believe and those who claim to believe, but have constructed statues made of gold and towers to the heavens, believing in their hubris that they are the divine ones, rather than clay given breath, aided by the Law.

He receives neither justice nor charity here, for they harvest their fields to the edges, they do not forgive old debts, they demand daughters for their mobs, and one day, if he is blessed, one day after the rain has finished, there will be a sign in the heavens that the old covenant has been broken and the waters will rise up to wash all of them clean.
Edited 2022-02-01 21:55 (UTC)
raisedbymoogles: (Zidane - flight)

[personal profile] raisedbymoogles 2022-02-01 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
When Tseng returned from making his report to the President, he expected to find Reno and Rude present-and-correct for their next assignment and Aeris safely locked away in a Science Department holding cell. What he found was Reno snoring on the sofa, Rude resting his head on the table with a decent straight flush slipping out of his hands, and Aeris smugly pouring herself a full glass of Tseng's best bourbon. Judging by the flushed cheeks, it wasn't her first, but the fact that she was the only one still upright spoke to either a potential drinking habit or some heretofore undiscovered quirk of Ancient physiology.

He communicated the question to her with a silent, heartfelt ...how? gesture, to which she smirked over her glass. "Guess you'll just have to ask the good Professor after he dissects me, won't you?"
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Re: Hilda, Frida and David, Why is there a bug on his head?

[personal profile] paxilam 2022-02-01 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Unfortunately I have no idea who they are, but I like their dynamic :D
raisedbymoogles: (Zidane - flight)

FF7, OCs

[personal profile] raisedbymoogles 2022-02-01 11:39 pm (UTC)(link)
"Gangway!"

Two admins dove for cover as what seemed like half a battalion of SOLDIERs charged down the hall, fully armed, hauling the half-built statue of President Shinra on their shoulders as easily as if it were made of paper maché. "What in the actual Helheim," commented one of the admins, peering after the SOLDIERs' retreating backs from the safety of the doorway.

Thus, she and her friend had a perfect view of the moment the SOLDIERs reached the end of the hall only to be greeted by the elevator dinging - the SOLDIERs screeched to a halt, half a President bobbling about in their confusion, as the elevator opened and Public Safety officers spilled out around them. "Put the contraband down!" their captain barked.

"Reverse, reverse!" shouted one of the SOLDIERs.

With much confusion - but still with more speed than Public Safety could match - the SOLDIERs about-faced and hauled ass-and-President back up the hallway. One of the admins yanked the other back by her blouse as they roared past with the speed and power of a freight train, scrambled after by panting PS guards with no hope of catching up; once the boys-in-blue were past the admins peered out again, just in time to see the SOLDIER Train utterly fail to put the breaks on when they reached the plate-glass window at the head of the hall. Glass shattered, metal screeched, and SOLDIERs, statue and all went tumbling out of sight.

"Holy shit," one of the admins breathed as the PS guys stumbled to a halt at the edge of the impromptu balcony. "Did they just-"

Her friend, who'd been around longer, only shrugged. "We're only ten floors up, they'll be fine. Can't say as much for the statue though."

"Have they always been that - ...that?"

"Unhinged?" The senior admin glanced around and then bent to speak with a lowered voice. "Not when the General was alive."
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MCU - Clint Barton (Ronin)

[personal profile] peaceful_sands 2022-02-02 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
Depending on how you looked, it hadn’t taken much to push Clint from good guy to bad – just a snap of the fingers. That was before you took into account just what that snap took – family, friends, half of the world and what had been left behind… the Tracksuit Mafia, Hydra, The Ten Rings… more than enough evil to keep Clint working out his anger and sorrow for the years it took for someone to come up with a way to undo the snap.

He may not like who he’s become, he may not be proud of what he did, but he knows there was more justice in his actions than in those of Thanos who took half a universe without caring about the innocence of the people he stole. But even knowing that, it’s hard to live with the truth of who he is now and the guilt for all those people he killed.
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Re: Transformers G1 cartoon, S3

[personal profile] myrdschaem 2022-02-02 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
Shut your mouth This is painfully in character, thanks.
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Re: Luke & Vader, on the way to Palpatine

[personal profile] myrdschaem 2022-02-02 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, Vader folded like wet cardboard, amazing. I am picturing the original beverage as something between a healthy smoothie and green beer, I probably wouldn't drink it either!
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Re: Orcs In the Halls

[personal profile] myrdschaem 2022-02-02 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
Now I am more emotional about orcs, thanks! *clutches them all to my chest*
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Re: lizard brain memory maybe, idk XD

[personal profile] myrdschaem 2022-02-02 12:25 am (UTC)(link)
A+ answer to a great question!
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[personal profile] myrdschaem 2022-02-02 12:27 am (UTC)(link)
Boba and his fucked up childhood and family *chef's kiss*
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[personal profile] myrdschaem 2022-02-02 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
XD Love the mention of Anakin being into it, he so would.
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Re: Star Wars: Still Flying (Omega, post-TROS)

[personal profile] myrdschaem 2022-02-02 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
;__;
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[personal profile] myrdschaem 2022-02-02 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
<3<3<3 Oh Ratchet would be a terrific GM... and Prowl really bad at roleplaying, but I'm so happy everyone has fun.
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[personal profile] myrdschaem 2022-02-02 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
Sephiroth staring directly into the camera like he is on the Office would be amazing. Hell yeah it should be the strongest meme. They really gave him the worst instructions too, "act natural". I can only imagine the IT Crowd scene and Sephiroth is Noel Fielding's character, naturally. <3
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Re: Eliot, Hardison, and Parker, "Copyright Infringement"

[personal profile] myrdschaem 2022-02-02 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
<3 Now this is a plan I would trust even more than the AO3 legal team.
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Re: Civic Responsibility (Addams Family) -- contains references to Covid-19

[personal profile] myrdschaem 2022-02-02 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
Ok, this is the only explanation I will accept now.
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Re: Press Release (Draft), for release, University of Mos Espa

[personal profile] myrdschaem 2022-02-02 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
Oof, the poor academics, but I hope there will be closure.
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[personal profile] myrdschaem 2022-02-02 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
Oh no, he did it right and didn't get food! Poor Jorts, this is injustice.
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Re: Hilda, Frida and David, Why is there a bug on his head?

[personal profile] silveradept 2022-02-02 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
They're from the Luke Pearson books and the Netflix series made of them called Hilda. David almost always has a bug on him, and eventually, Frida turns out to have the aptitude for witchery, once it becomes clear that they do exist.
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[personal profile] flonnebonne 2022-02-02 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
I LLOOVVEE this idea.
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Boimler and Mariner, Ill-Advised Decisions

[personal profile] silveradept 2022-02-02 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
"This is for your own good, Bradward, so shut up and let me work my magic!"

Boimler was absolutely regretting that he let slip to Mariner that one of the anomalies they'd collected on the latest cleanup tour apparently let someone else pilot their body as his legs took him over to one of the middle grade officers that he'd had a small crush on.

"What's a hot babe like you doing on a California class?" he heard himself say, completely unable to brace for what he assumed would be getting her Romulan Ale thrown in his face.
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Re: Paradise Lost, Satan&Belial, I have no interest in learning the rest of the Greek alphabet

[personal profile] myrdschaem 2022-02-02 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
XDDD