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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!



      


















(Anonymous) 2022-01-15 09:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Any, any, children's hospitals and colour theory

Transformers: G1 cartoon

(Anonymous) 2022-01-15 09:21 pm (UTC)(link)
(Firstly, HOW DARE XD)

"I think it's nice," First Aid says cheerfully. The younglings clustered behind him, all spattered in different shades of paint, try not to giggle after a cycle spent doing little else; the Prime, just as covered and just as keyed-up, shifted his pedes slightly and was instantly pinned under First Aid's gaze. "Still - I was expecting most of the surfaces to be all the same colour."

"Yeah, I guess we got a little carried away," Rodimus admitted with a sheepish sort of grin. "We can clean it off and start again..."

"Noooo!" one of the younglings protests instantly, and the others all chime in. First Aid can't help it; he laughs, and - well, who said hospitals all had to be one boring colour anyway.
ernest: (Default)

Re: Transformers: G1 cartoon

[personal profile] ernest 2022-01-15 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
i don't know the fandom but this is absolutely adorable, omg

Re: Transformers: G1 cartoon

(Anonymous) 2022-01-15 11:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Hee, thank you! ^_^ (Full credit for the youngling centre goes to raisedbymoogles, she has a few Youngling Centre Six drabbles that are adorable and kind of sparked the idea.)
raisedbymoogles: (Zidane - flight)

Re: Transformers: G1 cartoon

[personal profile] raisedbymoogles 2022-01-15 11:46 pm (UTC)(link)
THIS is RIDICULOUSLY cute, YOU are ridiculously cute, EVERYTHING is ridiculously cute :DDDDD

Re: Transformers: G1 cartoon

(Anonymous) 2022-01-15 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
You are WELCOME. ^_^
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Civic Responsibility (Addams Family) -- contains references to Covid-19

[personal profile] edenfalling 2022-01-16 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
Nine sentences, oops!

-----

"Red is an ideal color for a children's hospital," Morticia remarked approvingly as she scrolled through the selection of gory and horror-themed memes that Pugsley had thoughtfully emailed to her. "Vibrant, eye-catching, and the way this design resembles a trail of spilt blood is a wonderful reminder that life is a constant, glorious battle. What better way to rouse a passion for renewed health?"

"A passion for renewed health is a little abstract for most people, but children haven't yet had their natural morbidity squashed into saccharine conformism and love to see their parents wrong-footed by reminders that life is inherently bloody and precarious," Wednesday said, her voice slightly flattened by the Zoom interface.

"All the better, then!" Morticia said. "There's never enough healthy morbidity in the world -- even now, surrounded by plague on a worldwide scale, the majority remain obstinately oblivious rather than taking the opportunity to indulge in a cathartic, years-long gothic swoon."

She tapped one glossy, ebon nail against her lips, considering. "Perhaps I should talk to your father about endowing some renovations or new services at the local hospital, on condition that we get full control over the interior design elements. I hear the staff are dreadfully overworked these days, and I'm sure they could use some support, to say nothing of a rousing color scheme."
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Re: Civic Responsibility (Addams Family) -- contains references to Covid-19

[personal profile] wingedflight 2022-01-16 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
LOLOLOLOLOL perfect
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Re: Civic Responsibility (Addams Family) -- contains references to Covid-19

[personal profile] edenfalling 2022-01-16 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
I couldn't resist :D
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)

Re: Civic Responsibility (Addams Family) -- contains references to Covid-19

[personal profile] alexseanchai 2022-01-16 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
❤️❤️❤️
edenfalling: stylized black-and-white line art of a sunset over water (Default)

Re: Civic Responsibility (Addams Family) -- contains references to Covid-19

[personal profile] edenfalling 2022-01-16 05:04 pm (UTC)(link)
♥ ♥ ♥
yarnofariadne: morticia addams from the sitcom sitting in a chair (film: why i perspire when we tango)

Re: Civic Responsibility (Addams Family) -- contains references to Covid-19

[personal profile] yarnofariadne 2022-01-16 09:50 am (UTC)(link)
I love this!!
thenewbuzwuzz: converse on tree above ground (Default)

Re: Civic Responsibility (Addams Family) -- contains references to Covid-19

[personal profile] thenewbuzwuzz 2022-01-19 08:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Love it! *g*
myrdschaem: watercolour art of ginko from mushishi, sitting in plants (Default)

Re: Civic Responsibility (Addams Family) -- contains references to Covid-19

[personal profile] myrdschaem 2022-02-02 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
Ok, this is the only explanation I will accept now.
ernest: (lemony snicket)

Original Work, cw: mention of suicide

[personal profile] ernest 2022-01-16 05:22 pm (UTC)(link)
The newest patient screams and screams until he has no air and almost no voice left: he hates it here, he didn’t want to come, his parents forced him here, just like these fucking doctors are going to force him to take all kinds of drugs until there’s no color left, it would have been better to just let him die like he wanted.

Nurse Felicity kneels down on the floor, far enough that there’s no fear she’ll touch him against his will, close enough for him to hear it when she says, “Listen, kiddo, I know this wasn’t your first choice but – okay, bear with me here – you know Vincent van Gogh?” She waits for his gulping sob and a nod before she continues. “What you might not have heard in school is that all his best work, all those sunflowers and stars and swirls, they were all painted while he was receiving treatment of some kind, so I promise you here and now that the color doesn’t go away.”
theseatheseatheopensea: Detail from Van Gogh's painting Wheatfield with crows. (Wheatfield with crows.)

Re: Original Work, cw: mention of suicide

[personal profile] theseatheseatheopensea 2022-01-16 05:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Ooh, my heart! <3
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Re: Original Work, cw: mention of suicide

[personal profile] alexseanchai 2022-01-17 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
oh poor kid
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Re: Original Work, cw: mention of suicide

[personal profile] edenfalling 2022-01-17 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
Ow, that poor kid. :( Thank goodness for Nurse Felicity.
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Re: Original Work, cw: mention of suicide

[personal profile] octahedrite 2022-01-17 10:14 pm (UTC)(link)

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

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Re: Original Work, cw: mention of suicide

[personal profile] little_lady_d 2022-01-21 05:06 pm (UTC)(link)
the color doesn't go away! oh, i love that. this is such a good and vivid storylet in three sentences, beautifully done.

Ghost Trick, Cabanela (Cabanela NO)

[personal profile] azurefishnets 2022-01-18 04:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Cabanela strutted along the makeshift stage with deep glee, whirling and basking in the children's delighted cries as he flung candy from his pockets, his scarf twirling around him and striking, as always, a pleasing contrast.

"You know, they love him so much around here..." the hospital director said, leaning over to Jowd & Alma where they sat, clapping for the show, "...SO much and he's so fashionable--we're thinking of asking his guidance in decorating the new children's ward!"

Alma's eyes were alight as she watched Cabanela swagger down and join them, and she took his arm as she said, "I'm sure he can tell you the PERFECT color scheme for the children's hospital!"
laughingpineapple: Jowd! (laughing mango)

Re: Ghost Trick, Cabanela (Cabanela NO)

[personal profile] laughingpineapple 2022-01-18 04:21 pm (UTC)(link)
ALMA DON'T ENCOURAGE HIM
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[personal profile] swirlsngirls 2022-01-31 05:33 am (UTC)(link)
lol wait is this a reference to that one tumblr post?

(Anonymous) 2022-02-18 11:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Hi, OP of the prompt here - this was totally a reference to that tumblr post XD. And it looks like people really had fun with this prompt!