rthstewart | Three Sentence Ficathon 2022

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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

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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nah Prowl's decent at roleplaying, he's just playing a Big Dumb Barbarian type. ;P

Among the festivities, the embracing, the rolling green grass and blooming white lilies and weeds—years after all the destruction, that the weeds have grown strong not just in the plots but between the streets’ concrete sends some kind of delight through the college—Lee Gilyoung threads his way through the crowds, carefully holding his arms to his chest so no one touches the hoppang in his hands. The evening sun slowly lowers in the cooling sky, dying the grass purple, but the celebrating continues as others bring out their lit lanterns, creating a sea of embers, of yellow and red paper flower-shaped lanterns to match the university’s cultivated gardens—gardens in which the campus has bred a multitude of flora species, native and foreign to Seoul, to make up for the ones lost in the Star Stream; gardens from which the environmental department has passed out fresh cut flowers to the people in the picnic, a flower for every soul lost and every soul who survived.
Not to be swayed by any of the other tempting activities, Lee Gilyoung presses forward with single-minded focus to find his companion, Shin Yoosung, who had muttered something about dancing, dismally disappointed Gilyoung wasn’t interested, and slipped off earlier when Gilyoung was enraptured by the rich food’s aroma. ‘Save a hoppang for me,’ she had shouted as he swatted off her ear-pinching hand: now he searches for her, following the phantom tugging she left in his ear, past other stalls, past the games, past those handing out pamphlets, lanterns, and flowers.
Out from under the canopy, the sky has been dyed a blue twilight, and the stars, so few in the sky now, peek out and down—maybe the constellations will join their former incarnations, share their light with the lanterns: in this soft blooming darkness, Lee Gilyoung comes closer to the clearing where a band plays on a raised, wooden platform and a swath of people dance to the music. He’s half a mind to use diverse communication and listen for the bugs—when there she is, as if she’s caught every last ray of the sun, since atop her head lays a crown of white lilies and pink roses, with her brown hair draping tangled behind her like a veil, her dark eyes that he knows to be red like rubies shine at the sight of her food and friend.
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(i loved this prompt! it got a little away from me)

Hi, OP of the prompt here - this was totally a reference to that tumblr post XD. And it looks like people really had fun with this prompt!

He runs into Harry as they are clocking out for the day and he is hit by a crackling tension in him, an ache, raw and dismal, that may have been mounting when Kim wasn't looking or may have crashed at once, as realization are wont to do: now that they are back into the fray, away from their little bubble of an investigation at the end of the world when it was just them making their own rules, the detective is stretched thin by a job that sees a dead man in his eyes and expects him to bend and twist and fit a strange mold that's all edges.
Something in there is about to break along old frayed lines, a cyclical tragedy long in the making, and Kim makes a guarded offer to go grab a bite together, knowing full well that his own cautiousness is a ruse, that he won't let Harry risk a relapse in the solitude of his apartment.
So if that means staying the night, so be it, if it can give Harry some space to be vulnerable and unwound and safe, so be it, and if someone has to struggle against the temptation of doing something really, really stupid tonight, let it be Kim, and he'll see this through.

It wasn’t often Kakuzu got injured, but Hidan had seen it happen while they were in the middle of a battle and it seemed Kakuzu either hadn’t noticed, or it wasn’t enough to bother him.
As soon as he could, however, Hidan was lifting Kakuzu’s cloak out of the way, looking him over all while Kakuzu protested, until he found it: a gash above Kakuzu’s hip and towards his back, still bleeding.
Hidan patched him up as best he could, fighting off threads that could have done the work for him, but sometimes Hidan liked to take care of Kakuzu, even if he wasn’t that good at it and the bandages fell off somewhere between then and the next town.

thank you! i love laertes, and one of the things i believe about him above anything else is that he's always trying to do the right thing, and struggling to figure out what that even is, and will always prefer an ugly painful truth to a kind lie, but boy oh boy the doubts that brings out in him.

Ironwood knows these kids are right and he hasn’t been acting in the best interests of his citizens; he’d have failed even if he wanted to focus on all of them at the expense of the rest of Remnant. He reaches across the aisle, makes plans to protect the most vulnerable first, but before he can shake hands a single chess piece lands in it, along with the knowledge that his enemy cannot be destroyed

His hand becomes a fist once more, his tyranny all the worse for the fear in his eyes.

This is heartwarming.

they! love each other! and they think the world of each other, and you show so well what they see in each other, gertrude’s insight and queenly welcoming grace and the way she makes claudius laugh, claudius’s consideration for her wants (and his fingers under the hem of her dress, ahem). claudius getting to thank her is so sweet and sexy, at the same time.

oh, guildenstern. i love his frustration with hamlet and his perceived lying (and how guildenstern both wants the truth so he has to take something to the king and so he can carry something in his heart) and how that blossoms into understanding. it’s the delight that’s missing! and nothing shows guildenstern understands hamlet better than the relief that the actors will be here to abstract feeling into fiction.

ooh i like this, it fits the weird mysticism and metafiction of the game, and i love the changeling being the voice for it but artemy seeing the heart of it. but mostly i love that the powers that be are pushing the dolls together and making them kiss.

ooh i love the description of the wind, ‘like a dancer stealing someone else’s partner away,’ and how just that moment is enough to introduce unease and uncertainty into rudolf’s casual joking skepticism.

thank you! clara actually has a line in classic about two hands holding the bachelor and the haruspex, but the powers that be pushing the dolls together was all me (and the subtext of the game, tbqh)

thank you! i always love those moments in the game where the sound cue cuts in on the scene when you're expecting just more dialogue, and i remember it being particularly pointed and chilling in this scene. it's especially fun here, because rudolf habitually puts on a performance, in part because of kinzo's habitual negligence.

thank you! i once saw a really good bit of meta about why luke doesn't remember his mother at all but leia remembers her face, and the answer they came up with is just that her eyes were open and his weren't, and it really adds to both their characters.

hamlet is so frustrating, but that's really because guildenstern wants to be able to understand him, and he also understands his role enough to know that the truth the king is looking for isn't the same as the truth guildenstern needs. and yes, exactly, the thing they really have in common is the relief of abstraction! thank you so much <3

thank you! i love them both, and they're really good for each other (and sexy)

yesss, this is perfect!

Love this so much thank you this is just awesome thanks lots

susan! ah susan’s such an interesting character, in many ways she gets defined by her absence, but here she has such presence, and presence is what she’s holding on to. i love the images of planting and rootedness, and growing something over time, now that she’s given herself time. and she’s simply too old to be other than she is!!

ooh this is so good, of course that ‘girl’ is enough to enchant her — i love how calm and cutting and simple it is after all edlyn’s fury and frustration, like it’s quieting something inside her.

eee jessica, you got her voice so well here. i like that she’s bored by the witch stories with easy explanations, but this one catches her interest because it’s a little odd, the hour unexpected. (what use are clocks to a witch?) but then she takes refuge in the easiest explanation because the complicated one is too creepy.

aaah the double-sideness of kinzo (and of all ushiromiyas, starting with kinzo) —— you write it so well! and the phrase ‘in the middle of a massacre with no convenient translators for the sound of people pleading for their lives’ struck me keenly.

ooh this is a good take on the prompt, both the negative space of the snow-blanked landscape, and the space where edmund is not.

oh, i'm delighted to have gotten jessica's voice right, she's so interesting and complex. and yeah, the push and pull between easy and boring vs. complicated and creepy is really something i was hoping to get across here, it's what makes that little bit of episode seven really stick with me! thank you so much <3

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Three Sentence Ficathon 2022

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