rthstewart | 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!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Any, any, carnation, lily, lily, rose

Luke wavered between four bouquets in the shop, unsure of what to bring his girlfriend—- bright orange carnations, elegant white Easter lilies, pink stargazer lilies, or the classic red roses.

“Oh, come on,” Ryan said, rolling her eyes at his indecision. “Mary will love whatever you give her.” Her smile turned cheeky. “Unless it’s poison ivy.”

Luke glared at her and picked up the stargazer lilies.

*giggles* Yeeeeeah, giving anybody poison ivy deliberately is a recipe for a breakup, IMO.

Among the festivities, the embracing, the rolling green grass and blooming white lilies and weeds—years after all the destruction, that the weeds have grown strong not just in the plots but between the streets’ concrete sends some kind of delight through the college—Lee Gilyoung threads his way through the crowds, carefully holding his arms to his chest so no one touches the hoppang in his hands. The evening sun slowly lowers in the cooling sky, dying the grass purple, but the celebrating continues as others bring out their lit lanterns, creating a sea of embers, of yellow and red paper flower-shaped lanterns to match the university’s cultivated gardens—gardens in which the campus has bred a multitude of flora species, native and foreign to Seoul, to make up for the ones lost in the Star Stream; gardens from which the environmental department has passed out fresh cut flowers to the people in the picnic, a flower for every soul lost and every soul who survived.
Not to be swayed by any of the other tempting activities, Lee Gilyoung presses forward with single-minded focus to find his companion, Shin Yoosung, who had muttered something about dancing, dismally disappointed Gilyoung wasn’t interested, and slipped off earlier when Gilyoung was enraptured by the rich food’s aroma. ‘Save a hoppang for me,’ she had shouted as he swatted off her ear-pinching hand: now he searches for her, following the phantom tugging she left in his ear, past other stalls, past the games, past those handing out pamphlets, lanterns, and flowers.
Out from under the canopy, the sky has been dyed a blue twilight, and the stars, so few in the sky now, peek out and down—maybe the constellations will join their former incarnations, share their light with the lanterns: in this soft blooming darkness, Lee Gilyoung comes closer to the clearing where a band plays on a raised, wooden platform and a swath of people dance to the music. He’s half a mind to use diverse communication and listen for the bugs—when there she is, as if she’s caught every last ray of the sun, since atop her head lays a crown of white lilies and pink roses, with her brown hair draping tangled behind her like a veil, her dark eyes that he knows to be red like rubies shine at the sight of her food and friend.
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(i loved this prompt! it got a little away from me)

Three Sentence Ficathon 2022

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