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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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[personal profile] scytale 2022-01-17 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
Omg, I love this! And yay for the princess!
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[personal profile] scytale 2022-01-17 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
This made me smile. Poor Chewie!
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Re: sneaky /Harry Potter

[personal profile] scytale 2022-01-17 05:20 am (UTC)(link)
LOL.
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Re: Fugou Keiji (Anime)

[personal profile] scytale 2022-01-17 05:22 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know the canon, but I love the details of the folding, and I love the details of the relationship, and the quietness of the intimacy. And oh, Daisuke, pretending he doesn't know how to fold the crane! <3 Three sentences and I ship it already.
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Re: The Untamed - and yes, even that man was a child once

[personal profile] scytale 2022-01-17 05:23 am (UTC)(link)
Chilling.
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[personal profile] scytale 2022-01-17 05:24 am (UTC)(link)
OH this is sad and lovely.

Out of Time

[personal profile] word_devourer 2022-01-17 05:25 am (UTC)(link)
The street feels wrong; the fashions are different, half the buildings replaced, the remaining similarities to the place they remember only driving the differences deeper.

They've each spent decades dead, a pair of ghosts who've finally found their way back to where they started, but this place isn't their home.

At this point, the only home that matters to them isn't a place; it's each other.
petra: Gene Hunt in sunglasses, with a gun, scowling. Text: Not a tame lion. (Gene - Not a tame lion)

[personal profile] petra 2022-01-17 05:28 am (UTC)(link)
This made me cackle with glee. I love the loophole very much. Of course Death has special rules for cats.
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[personal profile] cornerofmadness 2022-01-17 05:28 am (UTC)(link)
Prodigal Son, Malcolm Bright, he hadn't meant to stab his father
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[personal profile] cornerofmadness 2022-01-17 05:29 am (UTC)(link)
Star Trek Deep Space Nine, Jadzia Dax + any, playing Tongo
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[personal profile] cornerofmadness 2022-01-17 05:29 am (UTC)(link)
any, any a gentle fall of snow
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[personal profile] cornerofmadness 2022-01-17 05:30 am (UTC)(link)
Prodigal Son, Gil Arroyo, Malcolm Bright the decision to be mentor/father figure to Malcolm

Evildoers Beware (and also everyone else beware too)

[personal profile] word_devourer 2022-01-17 05:31 am (UTC)(link)
When the truck hit me, I was just a groundskeeper trying to retrieve my hat.

When I woke, I found myself to be a powerful, armored, musclebound warrior against evil, prepared to stand up to any evil.

The goose, now significantly larger, was only surprised for an instant before honking, picking up my helmet, and waddling away from me at high speed.
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Fallen London, The Overgoat

[personal profile] scytale 2022-01-17 05:35 am (UTC)(link)
You can try to hide among the mushroom stalks in Watchmaker's Hill if you like; you can climb to the top of the Flit or stow away on a steamer across the Unterzee. With its caprine eye, the Overgoat will track you down. It knows what you did, and this time, you will be the one who burns.
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[personal profile] ruthchinn 2022-01-17 05:37 am (UTC)(link)
Venge reaches out with the Force into Lothal's tunnels, remnants of Fire humming in his bones. Slowly, new passages form, the excess material shoring up existing halls. What he has made will shelter thousands until the planet is retaken from the Imperials for good. Then, he collapses.
alexseanchai: Katsuki Yuuri wearing a blue jacket and his glasses and holding a poodle, in front of the asexual pride flag with a rainbow heart inset. (Default)

[Miraculous Ladybug] something's wrong, shut the light

[personal profile] alexseanchai 2022-01-17 05:42 am (UTC)(link)
Chat Noir doesn't pause at Marinette's balcony, doesn't dare give more than a sideways glance to the Adrien there whose cage is almost too small to hold him—why would Marinette fear trapping Adrien? she isn't on the balcony herself, anyway, undoubtedly safe in her apartment somewhere she won't have to look her fear in the eye, where he won't have to worry about her—doesn't let himself slow his rush to Ladybug's side.

Ladybug is already fighting her nightmare, if 'fighting' is a broad enough verb to encompass backing away from another Chat Noir, babbling promises to tell him everything in between pleas to let her help him, imploring him to stay with her and pledging she'll make this right: another Chat Noir with a black-polka-dot red scarf wrapped around his neck, whose armor and complexion flicker from black and warm gold to white and cold blue with every flash of lightning, whose expression shifts from lonely despair back to furious loathing with every crash of thunder.

The boy whose fear of storms made him vulnerable to becoming Sandboy again is home with his mother and a comfort movie and a mug of hot chocolate; Ladybug isn't hearing the real Chat Noir for the nightmare in front of her; the only way he'll keep the violet butterfly off her fast enough is if he gets between—

—her yo-yo whizzes past his ear, catching the akuma before it lands on his collar bell, catching the nightmare Chat long enough for the real one to tug the scarf free, and Ladybug shoves a white-and-cold-blue protective charm in his hand and bursts the Lucky Charm into a scattering loveliness of healing pink sparkles and collapses into Chat Noir's arms, sobbing, "Have I hurt you, you have to tell me if I hurt you, I won't know if you don't tell me, I can't fix it if I don't know!"
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[personal profile] cofax7 2022-01-17 05:44 am (UTC)(link)
HAHAHAHAHAH!

That's brilliant.
petra: General Organa running the Resistance (General Organa - Invested)

[personal profile] petra 2022-01-17 05:45 am (UTC)(link)
*cackles* That has definitely happened.

Re: Fallen London, The Overgoat

(Anonymous) 2022-01-17 05:45 am (UTC)(link)
OK, this is glorious.
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[personal profile] demigodscum 2022-01-17 05:47 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, Han, blaming Chewie is just not right. He's twice your size and has sharp teeth, remember.
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[personal profile] nasimwrites 2022-01-17 05:53 am (UTC)(link)
This is HILARIOUS and totally logical for Dogs! And wow, siblinghood must be so complicated for them!
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Re: Fallen London, The Overgoat

[personal profile] dawen 2022-01-17 05:53 am (UTC)(link)
ooh, creepy. I like it!
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[personal profile] nasimwrites 2022-01-17 05:53 am (UTC)(link)
Lool
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[personal profile] alexseanchai 2022-01-17 05:54 am (UTC)(link)
Miraculous Ladybug, Luka/Kagami, honestly not pair the spares
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[personal profile] dawen 2022-01-17 05:55 am (UTC)(link)
any, any, necromancy