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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!



      


















vialethe: (S&B - Darklina hot)

Re: So Bitter and So Beautiful (S&B, The Darkling/Alina)

[personal profile] vialethe 2022-01-17 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
<3

I love writing them so much (and will happily fill more!) so I'm glad it's what you wanted!!
tellshannon815: (david/charming)

Missing scene from Once Upon A Time 2x02, Leroy/Grumpy, Whale/Frankenstein

[personal profile] tellshannon815 2022-01-17 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Leroy knows he shouldn’t have risen to it, knows that the priority should be letting David know what happened to Tom/Sneezy, what will happen to anyone if they cross the town line and try and leave Storybrooke. Yet as he makes his way towards the gathering where David’s attempting to calm the town, he hears that ass Whale asking whether the nuns are still nuns, or whether they can date.

Leroy knows exactly what kind of a man Whale is, knows he’s not going to stand for him talking about Astrid – Nova, he reminds himself – and her friends like that; as he takes a swing and delivers a well-aimed punch to Whale’s face, the women of Storybrooke are silently cheering.
silveradept: A kodama with a trombone. The trombone is playing music, even though it is held in a rest position (Default)

[personal profile] silveradept 2022-01-17 10:27 pm (UTC)(link)
It's not that there are no men in the village that her castle protects, that would be silly and unproductive. But there ones who are here are men who don't take after that sneering oaf who believed it his God-given destiny to kill the Beast and free the village from her evil clutches. They saw, each of them, what happens to a man that believes his sex was given dominion over the other, as the hunter fell from the parapets, and they felt it in their own bones when his broke upon meeting the unyielding stone in her courtyard.
raisedbymoogles: (Zidane - flight)

[personal profile] raisedbymoogles 2022-01-17 10:27 pm (UTC)(link)
any, any, collecting jewels that catch your eye / don't let a soulmate pass you by

Androgyny - Garbage
raisedbymoogles: (Zidane - flight)

[personal profile] raisedbymoogles 2022-01-17 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
any, any, and all of us who dare to love are brave

Neptune - SJ Tucker
raisedbymoogles: (Zidane - flight)

[personal profile] raisedbymoogles 2022-01-17 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Frozen II, Elsa/any, the avatar of nature's balance is an awkward turtle on dates
vialethe: (Narnia - Beach)

Re: @nasimwrites!!!

[personal profile] vialethe 2022-01-17 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
NASIM you are too good to me. <3

There are so many great details here - how Ishamiel gives her information she didn't ask for (but definitely wants), that he will not be your concern that must rub Aravis the wrong way in secret, THE ARMOR, her needing an outlet for her too-biting sarcasm.

And then that ending!!! Still business needing my attention, yeah okay Khalid. I think we can all guess just what THAT is. I love this hotheaded, dangerous dork so much. I would read so, so many more words of them, it's ridiculous.
be_themoon: I want a better world. By me. (Default)

[personal profile] be_themoon 2022-01-17 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Alex Rider, Alex, sorrow's my body on the waves / i live in a city sorrow built
be_themoon: I want a better world. By me. (Default)

[personal profile] be_themoon 2022-01-17 10:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Battlestar Galactica, Kara/Lee, if you love / bury it deep
vialethe: (Narnia - Beach)

[personal profile] vialethe 2022-01-17 10:32 pm (UTC)(link)
LOL at Cor being like, "yeah we suck at dancing actually."

But his attitude here of trying to coax Aravis into enjoying herself is so sweet and so Cor. And her acceptance of it in the end!! Yes.
be_themoon: I want a better world. By me. (Default)

[personal profile] be_themoon 2022-01-17 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Rogue One, Jyn/Cassian, And you must bear your neighbors burden within reason / And your labors will be borne when all is done, and nobody nobody knows
be_themoon: I want a better world. By me. (Default)

[personal profile] be_themoon 2022-01-17 10:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Wheel of Time, Lan/Nynaeve, you say too late to start / got your heart in a headlock
be_themoon: I want a better world. By me. (Default)

[personal profile] be_themoon 2022-01-17 10:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Old Guard, Nicky/Joe, this many years and the quiet moments still matter
scytale: (Default)

Re: FF7, Sephiroth, Tifa & the kids

[personal profile] scytale 2022-01-17 10:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I laughed.

It is a great name!
be_themoon: I want a better world. By me. (Default)

[personal profile] be_themoon 2022-01-17 10:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Alex Rider, Alex, things don't turn out always how we think / will we be ready?
scytale: (Default)

Re: Criminal Minds, Aaron Hotchner/Haley Brooks (Hotchner), Hiccups and All

[personal profile] scytale 2022-01-17 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, nooo, poor Aaron. But yay at the triumphant ending!
dawen: photo of the face of a calico cat, with stark contrast between her face and the background (Default)

Re: ATLA

[personal profile] dawen 2022-01-17 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
he's getting there! :P
be_themoon: I want a better world. By me. (Default)

[personal profile] be_themoon 2022-01-17 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Mandalorian, Din/Bo-Katan, the only songs i know are dead
flowerdeluce: (Default)

[personal profile] flowerdeluce 2022-01-17 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh my goodness, this hurts so good.
be_themoon: I want a better world. By me. (Default)

[personal profile] be_themoon 2022-01-17 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
oh no, my good sad kids being maybe less sad!!!
raisedbymoogles: (Zidane - flight)

[personal profile] raisedbymoogles 2022-01-17 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Heihei's world ends at the end of his beak. Food keeps turning to rocks or dirt when he pecks at it, the presence of humans is restricted to the occasional hand, and all else is shadow-on-shadow, the domain where Chicken Gods do battle with Chicken Monsters and thereby keep the Chicken Monsters at bay for their devoted followers.

Then comes the day the shadow is burned away by endless light, and Heihei beholds an unbroken horizon for the first time: and he is overcome with terror, for the Chicken Gods have abandoned him.



I will beat the 'Heihei is blind not stupid' drum until the end of my days.
vialethe: (Myth - Lamia - Waterhouse)

[personal profile] vialethe 2022-01-17 10:44 pm (UTC)(link)
I like the flashes here of tactician Andromache - and that Hector teases her about it. They're so cute and sweet here, even knowing what's coming.
be_themoon: I want a better world. By me. (Default)

[personal profile] be_themoon 2022-01-17 10:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Rogue One, Jyn/Cassian, and i don't feel nothing at all / and you can't feel nothing small
be_themoon: I want a better world. By me. (Default)

[personal profile] be_themoon 2022-01-17 10:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Rogue One, Bodhi Rook, everyone has their reasons for joining
be_themoon: I want a better world. By me. (Default)

[personal profile] be_themoon 2022-01-17 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Alex Rider, Alex, you've been walking, you've been hiding / and you look half dead half the time