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

[wingedflight]

Only Murders In The Building, any, AU in which Tim Kono didn’t die

[(Anonymous)]

Kida Nedakh/Milo Thatch, Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001), wisdom

What's In A Name?

[aelisheva]

"I think 'Athena' is way too on the nose," Kida told her husband while wrinkling her own nose for effect, "there are plenty of other names meaning wisdom that are far more original."

"True," Milo nodded, "and we don't even know for certain yet if we're having a girl...we could try the Atlantean word for wisdom, or similar --"

"This is when the Atlantean palace's gigantic library and historic roll of names comes in handy," Kida sighed.

[(Anonymous)]

Kate/Luc Teyssier, French Kiss (1995), sunlight

[chanter1944]

Any, any, methane snow is blue

Transformers (series-agnostic), Optimus Prime

[raisedbymoogles]

His escape pod is covered in seconds, blanketed in blue snow that muffles his electromagnetic signals as well as any noise from outside. It might be the saving of him now, though he has no way of knowing whether his pursuers are directly above him or if they've already broken off pursuit.

He rather doubts that last - he's a high-value target, after all. Optimus lays back and tries to calm his racing processor threads. There's nothing he can do now but wait, cocooned in layers of blue.

[(Anonymous)]

Doctor Who, any Doctor/any companion, doomed romance

[ravenlilyrose]

Their romance is doomed from the beginning, which she realizes now that she would have known from the beginning had she not been purposefully blind. It barely happened, too, and consisted mostly of her crushing hard and interpreting words and looks and gestures as far more than they were. Maybe he did reach out to her, maybe he did try to love her like that, but it was never going to work out for them, so Miss Martha Jones packs her bags and sets out to learn to be her own person.

[elementalraven]

The Witcher, Yennefer/Jaskier, enemies to reluctant allies to friends to lovers

[elementalraven]

the witcher, jaskier/yennefer, flirting

[peaked]

I'm back like a bad smell.

"You’re as beautiful as a slimy, sticky squid," Jaskier sings, strumming the strings of his lute passionately, "and you’re as toxic as a spider; but when I think of you, oh, my dear she-demon, you send shudders down my spine as I only elicit your ire. While you may think there may be another one for me, perhaps a dame who’s prettier with a bosom that isn’t hiding serpents, my dear Yennefer, there is no one else but you—even with your pincers and—" Jaskier abruptly stops singing as the lute is torn from his hands and tossed against the wall. He continues to sing meekly, "I love your passion even though you are absolutely terrifying."

[elementalraven]

the witcher, jaskier/yennefer, absence makes the heart grow fonder

[elementalraven]

the witcher, yennefer/geralt/jaskier, getting together

[elementalraven]

the witcher, yennefer/geralt/jaskier, balance

[elementalraven]

greek mythology, atalanta, history is written by men

The idea of Atalanta calling dudes out on their shit amuses me

[last_haven]

Men can be such babies about things--look at Jason for example. He got worried that the rest of the Argonauts would fight over and wouldn't let me on his stupid boat, which I thinks it should say way more about those guys than about me, but what do I know, right? They saw a girl would could kick half their asses and balked at the idea that I'd show them up like I did during the boar hunt. And looked what happened to that dumbass in the end--Medea got back at him after all his bullshit too.

Children, all of them. You know, they have the audacity to say that Hippomenes's wedding gift to me was a trick? Oh, look at this dumb girl, bet you he tricked her with a bunch of shiny things, dur dur dur.

Jokes on them though; I picked my husband like I picked all my victories and if they're too dumb to see that, that's their problem.

[elementalraven]

greek mythology, any, heroines

Trojan Cycle, Cassandra & Penthesilea

[sidhehound]

The contingent of warriors arrives not long after Hector is laid to rest under the fecund earth. They are resplendent in their armor, all polished bronze bright enough to hurt the eyes, spear points in the shape of leaves promising the death of Achaeans, vengeance for Hector and all the lost brothers, sons, fathers of fair Ilium. Penthesilea is brighter of all, god-blooded as wrathful Achilles himself.

Cassandra could imagine a future where this warband arrived a mere few days earlier, and changed everything. She could see, in her mind's eye, Penthesilea of the swift spear fighting side by side with Hector, tamer of horses, and bringing death to Thetis' son earlier than the gods had foreseen. But that was a cruel mirage, a trick of her imagination. Cassandra knew, even as the gallant horsewomen reached the tall walls, that their doom was as certain as Troy's itself.

[elementalraven]

greek mythology, any woman, agency

[last_haven]

They called me the most beautiful woman in the world--I wouldn't know, as I've only really seen a small portion of it. It was a title give to me like an excuse, as if it would explain all the groping hands or trading me off like a broodmare.

It must be true though--otherwise, how could anyone justify it when I was ripped from my husband and daughter, tossed to a spoiled prince like a prize, and then had my will forced out of me, like a smith beats the blemishes out of metal?

[elementalraven]

any, any, the (main) characters become a pantheon of gods

Mad Max Fury Road, with some Max/Furiosa tossed in

[last_haven]

The History Tellers have libraries worth of stories written on their bodies and singing on their tongues, but there are frequently reoccurring characters in many of their shared tales. The Road Warrior, the one who appears in the darkest hours of tales to help right wrongs even at his own expense, is incredibly common, but there's a few other standouts.

It's said that Canis Major frequently joins his side as he travels the starry back roads on his journeys, returning to his master again and again. Furiosa, the maimed leader, has catalogues of stories about, mostly about defending her lands from outsiders and welcoming refugees, but there's a surprising amount that declare her the Road Warrior's wife and that he's the one who brings the refugees to her green hills. There is the Wives, ladies under the Furiosa's care who stitch back the broken, feed the hungry, and who dig their hands into the dirt to make the green hills verdant and lush.

They all serve similar functions; they bring justice to the lawless, hope to the broken, and rallying cry for those who still ride the back roads, looking for something greater than the fight for water and guzzolene.

[ilthit]

Scum Villain's Self-Saving System, Zhuzhi-lang, I never thought I would marry

im sorry

[(Anonymous)]

Zhuzhi-lang never had a lot of expectations for himself. Marriage came as a surprise; the bride even more so.

The last bow to each other.. He bowed to the little snake wrapped up in a red ribbon with a bow as he tried not to shed a tear of frustration.

Tianlang-jun's laugh rang boisterously in the clearing.

The little snake stuck out its tongue and slithered away, shedding the ribbon and leaving the bow behind.

little snake: weirdos 🙄

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[rthstewart]

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Note from your Host

[rthstewart]

I posted a Day 5 update here



We'll open Post 2 tomorrow. Drop me a line at any of the usual places if you have any questions or concerns. Really, you do not have to read every single prompt and fill. Really, yes, you can start at Post 2. Yes, if your prompt didn't get filled in this Post, go ahead and post it again in Post 2. Things usually slow down a lot in the second and third weeks and when we jump to a new post.

[schoolsasaint]

Dragonriders of Pern, Menolly, the morning chorus

[silveradept]

The Masters, Shonagar especially, always look at her when all of the fire-lizards join in the warm-ups each morning. She can't see what their problem is with them, since they all sing their parts in tune and perfect harmony.

"Again, from the top, and this time, only with human voices," Shonagar says, and all the other apprentices groan at having to repeat the exercises.

[paxilam]

any, any, a portrait

A portrait (Imre: A memorandum, Oswald).

[theseatheseatheopensea]

Even after all these years, I still carry it in my breast pocket, always close to my heart, and it is just as good as a portrait--perhaps, even better. Time and time again, I re-read it: this old postcard, with its now faded picture on the front and his handwriting on the back, the traces of lead pencil still spelling out--with such intimate sweetness!--the words thine own. And so, time and time again, I cherish this feeling, this bond I still know to be true, for both of us--for as long as we live, and beyond... and forever.

[paxilam]

any, any, lofi hip hop radio - beats to relax/study to

[paxilam]

the witcher, any, a foul smell

[syrena_of_the_lake]

Any, any, comically misunderstood idioms (eg “I didn’t peg you for _”)

OW - OMC/OFC

[scytale]

(taking yours directly, because just too good to pass up :D)

"You know," she said, tangling her legs with his beneath the blanket, "I never pegged you for a romantic."

The satisfaction in her voice made him wonder why they hadn't made love to each other sooner -- and, more urgently, why it was that they had just decided to stop.

Smiling mischievously, he brought her hand to his ass: "You still haven't -- want to?"

[(Anonymous)]

Transformers (G1 cartoon), Prowl/Jazz, Hades & Persephone

[(Anonymous)]

Winnie-the-Pooh (1926 book), any, return from the north pole

(The book is public domain now, go wild.)

[smallhobbit]

"That was fun," Winnie the pooh said, "but it's good to be back home."

"I'm not sure I'd want to go to the North Pole everyday," Piglet agreed, "So what shall we do now?"

"It's time for a little something!"

Notice from your host!! PLEASE READ -- THIS POST IS CLOSED TO NEW PROMPTS

[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.




And no, I don't have any way to lock this down or enforce this. It's magic! It just works because everyone is awesome. The fact that the Captcha will come on in another 533 posts is all a strong incentive to move new prompts to Post 2. Let me know if you have any questions!