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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!



      


















hogwartstoalexandria: (Default)

Re: Littlewood, Nameless Hero

[personal profile] hogwartstoalexandria 2022-01-16 04:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Ooh, I don't know the canon but this is delightful. not scrambling up a cliff on someone else's sidequest is a lovely phrase. Well done!
elementalraven: (Default)

[personal profile] elementalraven 2022-01-16 04:37 pm (UTC)(link)
yes!!!
senmut: Moiraine looking at Lan kneeling by her chair, ep 1.5 (WoT: MoirLan)

[personal profile] senmut 2022-01-16 04:40 pm (UTC)(link)
The despair is strong, and for once in his life, Lan is losing hope, yet she needs him and he cannot lose sight of that. His hands slide into her hair, and Moiraine dips in against his chest, letting herself fold smaller than she has felt in years.

"I am here, now, always, and ever," he pledges as he holds her, daring the Wheel to take him from her this life or next.
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[personal profile] hogwartstoalexandria 2022-01-16 04:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Yessss 😭 God these two and their crazy loyalty I just.. thank you <3
ultra_fic: (Sunshine)

Comfort in Marriage

[personal profile] ultra_fic 2022-01-16 04:44 pm (UTC)(link)
She's sitting by the fire, juice from a piece of orange dripping down her chin unnoticed, a manuscript balanced on her knees, not paying attention to either as she looks over at her husband, deeply engrossed in a book.

Of all men in the world, she could not imagine another that she could be this calm and comfortable with, just so very content to be as she is and know that's perfectly fine with him.

When he looks up from his reading and smiles at her, Jo wonders how she ever thought for a moment that refusing Teddy's proposal was the right decision - how awful the outcome of that terrible decision might have been if she hadn't been so quick to change her mind!
senmut: Pixelated image in sepia tones of Jareth and Sarah (Labyrinth: Jareth and sarah in Sepia)

[personal profile] senmut 2022-01-16 04:47 pm (UTC)(link)
In some ways, Sarah feels like she's always known, but it took facing the Goblin King in his own seat of power to know for certain. She watches the way her father acts, and understands he's known this might come to pass, making her wonder more about her mother, and what happened there.

Before her father can undo what she knows she is, Sarah slips away, giving her hand to Ludo to let him be her guide into the realm of Faerie.
last_haven: (narnia)

i never write for poor peter so i needed to do this

[personal profile] last_haven 2022-01-16 04:47 pm (UTC)(link)
It was always there; Peter had just never known how to look for it before they'd gone to Narnia. English magic was rarely flashy, but he found it when he hopped on a certain set of stones in the street, in a certain pattern, that a certain wall became a door to a strange shop. He found it when their elderly neighbor accidentally left her shears to do the trimming of her back hedge before she realized he was watching and ran over, insisting he saw nothing.

He certainly hadn't expected to find it when the swan who'd been about to beat him around the head for stepping too close to her nest suddenly transformed into a woman, shedding a cloak of feathers. "Oh! So, you're a king then? Fancy that. Stay away from my eggs then, majesty, or you'll be short an arm."

Sometimes, he thought as he scrambled away from the grouchy swan-woman, he really wished English magic was more like Narnia magic. No swan in Narnia ever threatened to maim him, after all.
ultra_fic: (Avengers)

One More Second Chance (MCU, Bucky)

[personal profile] ultra_fic 2022-01-16 04:49 pm (UTC)(link)
When he's lying there, the end coming up fast, he finds that it's true what they say about life flashing before your eyes.

He sees it all, every high, every low, a whole barrage of terrible tragedies and awful mistakes he can never take back... and just a few that he stands a chance of at least making amends for.

In that moment, Bucky forces himself to stand up and keep on fighting, because the world might think it's done with him, but he's not done with it yet!
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[personal profile] kalira 2022-01-16 04:49 pm (UTC)(link)
any, any, red thread of fate
last_haven: (Default)

[personal profile] last_haven 2022-01-16 04:50 pm (UTC)(link)
*fist pumps* HELL YEAH, that's exactly what I wanted! It really does beg the question of what did happen with her parents, but I love the idea of her having more adventures in the magical world. Thanks for the fill.
be_themoon: I want a better world. By me. (Default)

[personal profile] be_themoon 2022-01-16 04:51 pm (UTC)(link)
vialethe is trying to make me finish my post s2 finale din maybe bo-katan ship fic, and tbh she's doing great at it
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Re: Narnia, Susan

[personal profile] kalira 2022-01-16 04:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Ohhh, I love this; so poignant and while it's sad . . . it feels more sweet. <3
ultra_fic: (Leverage)

Trust and Love (Leverage, Eliot/Parker)

[personal profile] ultra_fic 2022-01-16 04:54 pm (UTC)(link)
"Don't you understand, I'm not built for this, for a relationship, it's not going to work, Parker!"

When he tries to walk away she gets in his path, hands on his shoulders, gaze meeting his own, as determined as he could ever hope to be himself.

"I trust you, Eliot," she promises him, glad to see most of the anger, fear, and doubt dissolve from his eyes in the seconds that follow, "and I love you."
kalira: cartoon representation of Kalira (pale skin, long brown hair, fangy smile, with thumb and two fingers raised), wearing a black tank top and cardigan, on a galaxy in ace flag stripes/colours (Default)

Re: One More Second Chance (MCU, Bucky)

[personal profile] kalira 2022-01-16 04:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, excellent! Go Bucky!
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Re: i never write for poor peter so i needed to do this

[personal profile] theseatheseatheopensea 2022-01-16 04:56 pm (UTC)(link)
I love this!
wingedflight: (Default)

[personal profile] wingedflight 2022-01-16 04:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Yesssss
senmut: modern style black canary on right in front of modern style deathstroke (Default)

Loki TV, content warning for sexual situations

[personal profile] senmut 2022-01-16 04:57 pm (UTC)(link)

"Really?" Sylvie asks him as Loki shivers from the light caress down the spine.

"You as well?" he counters, making up his mind to learn for himself later, if she doesn't answer.

"Hottest turn on ever," Sylvie says next to his ear before she applies her mouth to the line of his spine to prove it.
wingedflight: (Default)

Re: hi i love u

[personal profile] wingedflight 2022-01-16 04:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Yesssssss I love them so much
last_haven: (Default)

Re: Hadestown, Hades/Persephone

[personal profile] last_haven 2022-01-16 05:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, I do love the concept of Hadestown freezing over. Also, oh, their reunion is just *chef's kiss*.
presumenothing: (Default)

Guardian; Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan

[personal profile] presumenothing 2022-01-16 05:02 pm (UTC)(link)

"Dixing doesn't have holidays?!" Zhao Yunlan exclaims, words slipping out aghast before his brain catches up with the (unhelpfully late) reminder that up until relatively recent history Dixing hadn't even had an agreed-upon calendar.

Shen Wei doesn't point out the obvious, only says, "There isn't much to celebrate, as a rule," – but he's wrong in that, at least.

Zhao Yunlan would know; he's looking right at the proof of it.

senmut: Jareth's face lit up by the sun (Labyrinth: Jareth)

Re: Labyrinth, content warning for fae imprisonment mention

[personal profile] senmut 2022-01-16 05:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you so much!
senmut: Moiraine looking at Lan kneeling by her chair, ep 1.5 (WoT: MoirLan)

[personal profile] senmut 2022-01-16 05:03 pm (UTC)(link)
I KNOW! I mean... I fell hard.

Thank you!
wearing_tearing: green background with stiles staring sideways at derek. ([t wolf] sterek)

Teen Wolf: Derek/Stiles

[personal profile] wearing_tearing 2022-01-16 05:03 pm (UTC)(link)
"If you don't get in the car in the next 30 seconds, I'm going back to my house," Derek threatens and silently wonders what he did to ever get a boyfriend this disorganized.

"You're not ruining our holiday just because you're impatient!" Stiles yells back at him and, two seconds later, comes rushing down the stairs with his bag.

Derek rolls his eyes, but doesn't pull back when Stiles leans in and smacks a kiss against his lips--a silent apology and a promise that the next few days at the beach are going to be amazing.
senmut: Jareth's face lit up by the sun (Labyrinth: Jareth)

[personal profile] senmut 2022-01-16 05:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you. I saw the prompt and was like... okay!
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Bitter Growth (Greek Mythology; Demeter, Hestia, Hades/Persephone)

[personal profile] kalira 2022-01-16 05:03 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh, my daughter. . ." Demeter wept into her hands, rocking a little beside Hestia's hearth. "My poor girl, taken so far from me, hidden away. . ."

Hestia sighed and draped a shawl around Demeter's shoulders, though she wasn't sure Demeter felt the bitter cold wrought of her grief, and thought of the bloom of Persephone as she was now - no longer a foolish waif of a girl but a queen.