rthstewart | Three Sentence Ficathon 2022

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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

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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any, any, a genderbend that has a significant effect on the plot

(this fits in with a longer fic I wrote about Rubin's whole journey, Sewing Together Guts And Soul but should also make sense on its own)

For the longest time Rubin possessed a life that didn’t matter and would have laid it down without question if that’s what the Town needed, but now, after being handed a slip of paper and taken below the earth, she – not Stakh, but Ksenia – can see for the first time that if *her* life has value, then perhaps no one’s blood has to be spilled.

“We’ll need a couple dozen IV drips so the Humbles can replenish their fuels, an alembic or two which Cub should be happy to donate, and a suitable nutrient broth to sustain the Living Blood as you draw it out of them. Oh, and while you’re at it, Devotress, I’d like to have my hormones sorted out for good.”

genuinely I only know this canon from hbomberguy's video about it but I'm delighted with the Better Ending you've devised.

thank you! i knew a fair amount about pathologic already but the hbomberguy video was definitely what gave me the push to watch multiple playthroughs of the game. rubin is so deeply important to me in all genders and versions of the story.

'if her life has value, then perhaps no one’s blood has to be spilled' -- yes, that's exactly it, that's the lesson rubin needed to learn, and it's enough to change the whole game. i'm so proud of her!

thank you! i'm proud of her too and want her to accept every good thing the world is trying to give her <3

You see, Mob narrated in her head as she peeked around the corner at her otouto, eyes narrowing at the Rose Prince watching him, I'm a girl trapped in a world of BL; it's easy for me to remain nothing but a mob . . . but my brother. . .

Mob was determined to keep him out of the ridiculous mess of romance hooks that made up their world, if she could. She smiled, maybe a little twitchily, as she emerged to join the boys, planting herself squarely between her brother and the definitely main character boy who had been making eyes at him.

don't know the canon but I like the idea of using the rules of romance fiction to your advantage.

It's an excellent trope! The canon is a hilarious and delightful example of genre-savviness taken to an extreme. XD

In another world Jiang Yanli is born as a woman, who spends her life standing by her brothers’ side, supporting them in all the ways she can, helping them stand whenever they fall and who pushes her own trouble to the side-lines for them.

In this world Jiang Yanli is born as the first son of Jiang Fengmian, an heir to the YunmengJiang sect. In this world he stands in front of his brothers, gently leading them, shielding them from all harm and protecting them as much as his low cultivation allows.

His cultivation is low because of his health; because the majority of his qi is used to keep his body alive and also to drive away the bouts of pain that would otherwise leave him squirming with pain. All the more he applies himself into other areas that a proper sect leader needs to know: politics, economics, leadership and cultivation (at least on theoretical level). But one day A-xian shows him the talismans that he is making, and soon Yanli realizes that they are the perfect tool for someone not fortunate enough to be able to cultivate properly.

Because Yanli is the sect heir, the majority of their parents’ attention is set on him; his father is proud that his heir is sharing his ideals and his mother is happy that his father approves of him. And without his mother's constant judgement and his father's silent disapproval, the pressure is lifted from Jiang Cheng’s shoulders and he is free to live his life without constantly walking on eggshells (he is still wants to be useful to the sect and Yanli will never get tired of the way he beams when Yanli ruffles his hair).

When the Sunshot campaign ends and the Jin sect start to show their fangs, Yanli doesn’t respond to their taunts and instead manages to keep a clear head. When A-xian gets in trouble, Yanli investigates, slowly but thoroughly and at the nearest Discussion conference he (with the help of Jin Zixuan), presents crystal-clear evidence that throws Jin Guangshan off his throne and leaves all the other sect leaders calling for his head. And in the end the Dafan Wen are accepted as a harmless part of Yunmeng Jiang.

When 3SF ends I will post this to my AO3:

Sundream

Shen Qingqiu's mind reeled with the implications of what his disciple had just shared with him. System?? What happened to the plot??

Would The Protagonist still grow up to form a harem of beautiful sisters if he--or she rather--was a sister herself? He supposed there was no reason why not, but how relevant could Shen Qingqiu's encyclopedic knowledge of Proud Immortal Demon Way really be if something of this magnitude could be changed?

The Luo Binghe of PIDW had been a stallion protagonist, a male power fantasy. Shen Qingqiu's White Lotus was not, and he'd apparently dismissed every contrary sign.

Smiling reassuringly at Luo Binghe--his Luo Binghe, his sweet girl--Shen Qingqiu vowed not to make the same mistake again.

Also thank you OP for the opportunity to write a little for an old plotbunny without having to commit to a full fic 💜

Awwwh yeah, who knew? Shen Qingqiu was straight after all.

Lmao he's something 😂 I guess that's one sexuality crisis he can avoid... Makes you wonder how Luo Binghe manages to make him aware of her as a potential love interest tho

so, is the utter disregard of the fourth wall a feature of canon or just a for-this-story thing?

It's a feature of canon! Shen Yuan died and ended up in the webnovel Proud Immortal Demon Way as Shen Qingqiu, Luo Binghe's teacher and the villain of the story! Shen Qingqiu thinks he knows how the story goes, which causes tragic misunderstandings later when he thinks he knows what Luo Binghe is thinking. So here the plot of SVSSS is derailed bc Shen Qingqiu isn't going to be as focused on what happened in PIDW!

Hahaha, believe it or not, it doesn't break the fourth wall! Shen Qingqiu's references to "The Protagonist" are completely canonical in-universe. :) If you're not familiar with the issekai genre, I recommend checking it out. It's a meta delight.

This is lovely! I love this for them. <3

I want them to be happy 😭

Just when Grace was starting to think that Trudy meant that lacking a Y chromosome served as protection from jarhead bullshit, Jane kriffing Sully arrives on planet to take over her far more qualified (and, unfortunately, deceased) sister's million dollar body and kills that assumption dead in the water.

Jane, it transpires, is just the kind of damn unqualified idiot who would fall for the Omaticaya's princess - and look at her, internalising the simplistic analogies she has to come up with to jam social structures into the heads of the idiots she has to work with (the fact that they're better than the rest of the outpost isn't saying much); her college anthropology professor hasn't seem her in decades and still would hunt her down for sport if she caught so much as a hint of it - and get her admiration in turn, like some kind of smooth talking fool that Grace isn't starting to feel smidgen of fondness for, not one bit.

If Tsu'tey te Rongloa Ateyitan saw her as a threat, rather than an idiot - oh, who was she kidding, Sully was enough of an idiot to be threat all on her own merit - they would be down one amateur scientist and the only semi-decent relationship with a clan of Na'vi they've managed to salvage from Quaritch's hamfisted excuse for tactics, but the roles for Olo'eyktan and Tsahìk (thank every interconnected tree on this planet) are hard-coded for gender.

see if Avatar had actually been like this I would have actually watched it

Thanks! In my own defense though, I had very little else to do on an eleven hour flight. (And the audio jack wasn't all that great either, so I was mainly watching the pretty scenery through a haze of exhaustion. Good times.)

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Pathologic, trans woman Rubin

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A Woman Who Defies The World Of BL (A Man Who Defies The World Of BL; Mob, Ayato)

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A bit different sect leader Jiang

Scum Villain's Self Saving System, Shen Qingqiu & MtF!Luo Binghe

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Avatar, fem!Jake Sully

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