Three Sentence Ficathon 2022

[rthstewart]

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.

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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!



      

Comments

[emmatheslayer]

Glee, Blaine Anderson/ Noah puckerman , craving

Forgive me, it's been years since I've seen this show

[last_haven]

On paper, Puck isn't exactly the type of man Blaine would go for--Puck dances between fratboy punk and military issued clean cut, not exactly the flamboyant beauty he usually goes for. But under all that machismo and chaotic energy, Puck was far from an eyesore.

Plus, he had a set of abs that Blaine was dying to just lick some whipped cream off of.

[emmatheslayer]

Supernatural, Dean Winchester/ Benny , hand to hold

[gold_pen_leaps]

Dean had been telling himself that it had just been the whole, y'know, atmosphere of Purgatory: between the bouts of violence, sometimes the only comfort was a hand to hold.

After a few months since escaping Purgatory, he had to admit to himself that was a wussy excuse – if he wanted to hold hands with Benny, or whatever, that was no one's business but his and Benny's.

Dean expected him to be surprised, but all he did was smile, and gently squeeze Dean's hand in return.

[emmatheslayer]

Buffyverse , angel/willow Rosenberg strange bedfellows

[emmatheslayer]

One direction rpf girl Zayn Malik/Harry styles, bedroom floor

[emmatheslayer]

Buffyverse, angel/spike , why do I feel

[grandmemester]

GTA:San Andreas, Carl & Brian, guilt

[ernest]

Umineko, Jessica/Kanon, the fine art of persona crafting

[ernest]

Umineko/Much Ado About Nothing, Beatrice & Beatrice, merry war of words

[little_lady_d]

What isn’t a woman’s office is the office of a witch, and where no man would right her wronged cousin, it was a witch who went to war for them. A laugh flitted through her ears like flecks of gold eddying in a river — the laugh of the other Beatrice, the Beatrice who answered her bitterest jests and never turned away with a jade’s trick. “Come,” she cackled, “remember the sin,” because some sins should never be forgiven.

[ernest]

Umineko, any, come, forgive the sin

[(Anonymous)]

Any, any, I don't know who they are. I don't who they are either. I'll just fill it myself, with what I wanted all along.

[ernest]

Umineko, any, love's a gun

[ernest]

any, any, she herself is a haunted house

Star Wars, Ahsoka Tano

[demigodscum]

She remembers a time when hyperspace meant warmth and company instead of desolate cold, but she remembers only the shape of it, like a word stuck on the tip of her tongue. These days, Ahsoka remembers little and hears much: the whispers of a past she can't escape, the silence of known death, the sinister murmurs of the Dark.

She hears voices, many of them, calling to her and laughing with her and crying (out) for her, and she's careful not to name any of them for fear they might come alive, and she's careful not to name any of them for fear of admitting the voices are all hers.

[ernest]

any, there are powerlines in our bloodlines

Guardian; Zhao Yunlan

[presumenothing]

"Oh – oh, I get it now, this is gonna be good," Zhao Yunlan says, and he's not even playing up the confident laughter that escapes him (really his captors' own fault for not being in on the joke), "that's why you're so sure about keeping me here, isn't it, because you've gone and sucked away all the dark energy in the city between the portals closing and that energy siphon? Which Li Qian's not gonna be happy about at all, mind, stealing her lab equipment to misuse it against her mentor, but you've got even bigger problems than that – do you really think the Envoy survived all these years by leaving himself open like that, especially when it's already been used against him before? More importantly, do you think I'd let him?" he finishes in vindicated triumph, and is rewarded by a glimpse of real fear on the surrounding faces before every last light cuts out with an earth-shaking crack, electricity racing along invisible wires to form a portal that sheds crackling light over Shen Wei as he steps through, sparks flickering up the glaive and down his dark cloak.

[ernest]

RWBY, Hound
The dog you really got to dread
Is the one that howls inside your head
It’s him whose howling drives men mad
And a mind to its undoing

[ernest]

RWBY, any, “There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.”

Blake, Villains on Both Sides

[silveradept]

She's been spit on, threatened, attacked, and come closer to death because of humans' hate toward the Faunus than for any other reason, so there's no love lost between her and most of the rest of the world.

The White Fang had always repaid their hate in turn, with greater visibility and willingness to take lives as well as destroy property as the leadership passed from her father to Sienna to Adam, but there are no innocents in the White Fang.

She doesn't know why she believes Ruby when she says things can be better, or why she curls into Yang like there's always been a place for her, but there's something in the two sisters that makes her believe that maybe she's been too simple in thinking there's only two sides, both bad.

[ernest]

RWBY, Ironwood, he doesn’t miss his redemption arc by a hair

The Tin Man Has No Heart (aka Instead, He Misses It By A Lot.)

[silveradept]

They are children, even if they have Hunter licenses, and they aren't responsible for an entire kingdom's safety. Optimism and belief in the better nature of others is for fairy tales, not prolonged wars with an ever-renewing enemy where every inch of ground gained comes at the cost of thousands of lives. He does not have Ozpin's faith in any souls, simple or otherwise, and so when those children work against him, he will treat them as his enemies.

[schoolsasaint]

Call of the Wild, any dog, betray the moon as acolyte

[schoolsasaint]

Earth's Children, Iza, told before and told again

[(Anonymous)]

Bojack Horseman, any, realization

[(Anonymous)]

The Last of Us, any, other countries

[(Anonymous)]

The Last of Us, Abby + Ellie, conversation

[ruanchunxian]

Narnia or any,

 

Narnia Absence of Malice

[rthstewart]

Edmund's eyes narrowed as he took in the slobbering, gamboling golden field, "I can't help but think it is vaguely sinister; all the gamboling fun would be the perfect cover for some nefarious plot."
"Honestly, Edmund," Lucy muttered in exasperation, have you ever met a Golden Retriever capable of even forming much less holding onto malintent?"
By way of demonstration, one of their transparently guileless, and dim, subjects galumphed up, tried to speak around a gigantic stick wedged in her mouth, couldn't, dropped it at their feet, shook herself (spraying them with hair and spittle) and then looked about so confused, Lucy nudged the slobbery branch with her toe and said gently, "You dropped your stick, Sula."

[ruanchunxian]

any, any, family traditions

Stimulating Prey Drives (Naruto; Kakashi & Sakura)

[kalira]

"Do I want to know why you're bringing a box of mice when you're babysitting my daughter?" Sakura asked, crossing her arms.

"Because she's too young for anything bigger yet, obviously," Kakashi said reasonably, and Sakura raised a brow, "she'll work up to bigger prey with experience. And as she gets older."

". . .that I am still allowing you in. . ." Sakura said, smothering amusement and leaning up to kiss Kakashi's cheek. "I'll be back before dinnertime; she's napping but I expect she'll wake up in the next hour." she told him, heading out past Kakashi and wondering if he would actually get her daughter chasing mice.

[ruanchunxian]

any, any, Like a child when our eyes meet, darling, I fancy you

Hamlet, Claudius/Gertrude

[ernest]

Courtiers have gotten accustomed, over the past two and a half decades, to leaving Gertrude be on her bench next to the wall, lest her husband get jealous that she is dancing with someone else. But her second husband isn’t like that at all, and within a few months Claudius has encouraged enough nobles to bring her onto the dance floor that they’ve finally gotten used to such a charming partner.

As she spins around the ballroom, giddy with other men’s styles of leading, she keeps glancing back at her good man and he beams back at her like a child who still can’t believe he’s gotten everything he wanted.

[ruanchunxian]

any, any, don't threaten me with a good time

Guardian; Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan

[presumenothing]

"Did you," Shen Wei starts (then has to stop and start again because it feels like his brain has temporarily malfunctioned in response to the sound he usually associates with being directed at Da Qing), "did you just click your tongue at me."

"Only as much as you just tried to help despite me having specifically told you not to," Zhao Yunlan says, wielding the now-empty tray at him like a not-so-blunt weapon. "This really isn't that complicated, Shen Wei, you just have to just sit there and be waited on – do I actually have to threaten you into letting me do everything for once?"