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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!



      


















betony: (Default)

[personal profile] betony 2022-01-20 07:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Any book-to-movie fandom, Any, book characters react to their depiction in the movie (or vice versa) (or any historical character complain about their depiction in pop culture)
shinon: Shinon and Gatrie from Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance. (Default)

Howl's Moving Castle, book!Howl/Sophie on movie!Howl/Sophie

[personal profile] shinon 2022-01-21 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
"Well," Howl said, very righteous, "We should stop having wars. And I am handsome and misunderstood." Sophie snorted, and was about to say something to puncture his self-regard when he leaned over and added, "But they didn't draw you nearly pretty enough."
scytale: (Default)

Re: Howl's Moving Castle, book!Howl/Sophie on movie!Howl/Sophie

[personal profile] scytale 2022-01-21 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, I'm so charmed! And perfect Howl voice and Sophie snort. :D
tribble_of_tarth: (Arcane - Purple Jinx)

Re: Howl's Moving Castle, book!Howl/Sophie on movie!Howl/Sophie

[personal profile] tribble_of_tarth 2022-01-22 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
Awww, how cute! I love it!
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Re: Howl's Moving Castle, book!Howl/Sophie on movie!Howl/Sophie

[personal profile] betony 2022-01-23 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
This is such a perfect Howl voice, you have no idea--and I loved Sophie's response.
(Yes! I love the visuals of the movie, but young Sophie has never looked quite right to me; but then again, I'm still in a snit that she doesn't have ging...er, red-gold hair as in the book.)
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Re: Howl's Moving Castle, book!Howl/Sophie on movie!Howl/Sophie

[personal profile] queenlua 2022-01-28 10:36 am (UTC)(link)
oh NO it's too cute :D
scytale: (Default)

Sei Shonagon

[personal profile] scytale 2022-01-21 08:39 am (UTC)(link)
Things that unexpectedly disappoint - A hototogisu that refuses to sing. The sudden crow of a cock when you are immersed in nighttime conversation. Men who swear they love you but send their poems late.

A translation of your book in which the translator has made insinuations about your honesty and accuracy. You cannot defend yourself against these accusations, because you are dead.

It's also disappointing when everyone insists on mentioning your name together with the name of someone you do not care about, simply because you wrote at the same court. People will also insist there was a bitter rivalry between you two, when you barely used to think of her at all.

Hearing her name with yours is disappointing even after you learn to expect it, and after a while, you begin to dislike her after all.
Edited 2022-01-21 08:49 (UTC)
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Re: Sei Shonagon

[personal profile] betony 2022-01-23 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
*laughs* Poor Sei Shonagon, how she would HATE us all pairing her with Murasaki. I can see the screeds against AO3 being composed at once.
scytale: (Default)

Re: Sei Shonagon

[personal profile] scytale 2022-01-23 05:10 am (UTC)(link)
She does not know what this thing is that the commoners call shipping, but she is sure it is infuriating and they are doing it wrong.

Thank you! :D
myrdschaem: watercolour art of ginko from mushishi, sitting in plants (Default)

Re: Sei Shonagon

[personal profile] myrdschaem 2022-02-02 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
That is so in her voice and she would flay people with words. Amazing!
scytale: (Default)

Re: Sei Shonagon

[personal profile] scytale 2022-02-02 06:42 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you! :D
edenfalling: stylized black-and-white line art of a sunset over water (Default)

Re: Sei Shonagon

[personal profile] edenfalling 2022-06-02 02:30 am (UTC)(link)
Brilliant!
scytale: (Default)

Re: Sei Shonagon

[personal profile] scytale 2022-06-02 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you! :D
darklingsluck: Closeup of a raven's face (Default)

Deadpool, Movie!Wade on Comic!Vanessa

[personal profile] darklingsluck 2022-01-27 04:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Wade pulls off his mask and brings the comic book closer to his face.

"What the shit on a cracker crap nonsense is this... 'Nessa, you never told me you could shapeshift into even hotter forms... like Bea Arthur!"

He tosses the comic behind him and throws himself back down on Vanessa while screaming "do it" over and over again.
ernest: (Academia)

Hamlet Learns About Literary Criticism

[personal profile] ernest 2022-02-05 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
A book bounces off a wall in the library of Wittenberg University and Horatio looks up with a mild, “My lord?”

“Would you believe,” the prince seethes, “that there’s an entire bevy of scholars convinced that I’m in love with my mother and want to – eurgh – sleep with her?” He shudders and adds, “That’s gross, it’s unnatural, and it’s bad enough that I have images of her sleeping with her husband’s brother crawling through my head all the time, and now I have to read this too?”
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Re: Hamlet Learns About Literary Criticism

[personal profile] betony 2022-02-05 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
*laughs* Poor Hamlet! Let's hope he never finds the conjecture about Ophelia's jilting/pregnancy/insert scandalous reason for suicide here....
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Re: Hamlet Learns About Literary Criticism

[personal profile] ernest 2022-02-07 10:03 am (UTC)(link)
oh nooo, that would be terrible! it probably wouldn't make him as actively distressed as the oedipal complex theories, but it would be the last straw
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Literary License (Sherlock Holmes, Watson & Lestrade, magazine illustration reaction)

[personal profile] woodmr 2022-03-04 12:21 am (UTC)(link)

"Of course I do not blame you sir, nor require a retraction, I am sure I would not presume to dictate to an author his craft. But for the future, if you could kindly drop a hint to Mr. Paget regarding the illustrations?"

"You have my word Inspector," I promised, regretting once again that I had been every bit as blunt and impolite in my first description of Lestrade as I often accused my friend Holmes of being, even if the resemblance to a rat was unfortunately still accurate.