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, I have no interest in learning the rest of the Greek alphabet.

No more Omicrons.

If Depth Charge and Optimus agreed on nothing else, they agreed on this: Rampage, or Protoform X as Depth Charge had known him, must be destroyed here, on Earth, before they could even think of going back to their own homeworld and time. As much as Optimus hated the extrajudicial nature of it, he knew he'd never forgive himself if through inaction he let another event like Omicron happen again.

I see what you did there, with your stealth double meaning, and it is excellent.

Ohh Optimus, /clasps hands/, PLEASE end this 😩😩😩

he's a munky, not a doctor, Jim ;P

"Owen, will you please accelerate our research into an option for distributing vaccines via water supply?" Xanatos closed all the browser windows he'd had open—to call the recent news "frustrating" was a quaint understatement. "This farce is affecting my plans for achieving immortality and I have no interest in learning the rest of the Greek alphabet."

"Of course, Mr. Xanatos," Owen said. "But I feel compelled to point out that you do know the entire Greek alphabet."

"Figure of speech, Owen."

Lol! <3

I feel like Puck would take great joy in being given the opportunity to react to such a line even if he wasn't actually allowed to show any of that joy as Owen.

Henry, eager as he was to occupy his every minute, naturally progressed his conversation with Mr Goodsir to matters of continued learning: what began as a brief dialogue concerning the ship’s name—fitting, now the sun had set on the arctic circle, that Erebus be the namesake of antiquity’s god of darkness—was now the anticipated nightly endeavour of Goodsir teaching him the Greek alphabet.

Hunched together over opened book, paper, and ink as black as the underworld (that froze stiff within the pen’s nib if left to linger), Goodsir whispered instruction, ever patient with guiding Henry’s pen in the candlelight.

All the while, Henry could not help but think how soft Goodsir’s fingertips felt whenever they brushed his knuckles, how simple it would be to turn his palm and take that warm, delicate hand in his own; and all the while, Goodsir’s proximity, his scent, that damnable smile of his, left Henry near incapable of concentration at all.

Ohh, this is adorable! <3

Thank you so much! <3

Oh my gosh, I love it

Thank you!! :)

Fallen rocks broke the tumult of humans who leapt
From the tower as it crumbled, crying out
At first in one voice and then in many
As their shared tongue shattered under
The weight of pride, arrogance, desire
Or, perhaps, hope,
Hope they could clamber up to the level of angels, but,
Instead, found themselves harried by winds as Satan was,
Before he landed in the fiery gulf, and who,
Now sat, as an ape, on the nearby cliff,
Flung pebbles amongst God's wrath
And, huffing with laughter, spoke:—
"THESE are the Almighty's darling children
For whom we gave up our heavenly peace
Rather than consider above us, and right we were
To do so, to strive to prove,
Although we were sorely smitted for striving,
They were not worth our honour and love; while I,
With bared teeth, give them a mote of admiration
For taking their base, heavy bodies
To try and shake, nay, tremble the heavenly throne,
My mirth comes most from hearing their speech falter
And lose the co-conspiratorial nature our's still has, O Belial,
That allows even in such different forms, I this meddlesome,
Limb'ed beast and you that slow and slimy creature
Whomst carries his bed wherever he goes,
Us to converse and share perverse joy
In the inevitable loss of love for the humans
That must come following this:
Their latest attempt at defying the will of God."
BELIAL slid forward slightly
On his single foot and, slipping
Into his shell so his head just peered out,
So as not to get too much dust on him to clean off later,
Observed the humans, those who had survived
The collapse of Babel, try and communicate, first
Through the failure of their fragmented speech and then,
Turning to scrawling with sticks in the mud
Like the babes they were,
Also finding their writing systems had been flung,
Like fractals, far
From the original shared letters, staggering
Into what we would recognise as
The graphemes of Catherine the Great, Xerxes of the Achaemenid Empire,
Solomon of Israel, and Leonidas of Sparta, and sighed:—
"DO not doubt that I also take joy
In the hardships inflicted on these unworthy usurpers
Of our hierarchy, as I naturally have no desire
To see them in a happier state than we,
Taking such lowly forms to observe, and
It is rightly their lot to be, like we were,
Scattered and dispersed, but
I do have a fear this will make it harder
For us to twist their desires back on them,
Like letting a dog catch its own tail so it bites it,
Because we will all have to learn these new languages
And writing systems, and,
Although I will do so should it please you, O Satan,
I do not have the constitution for such a task
And have no desire to learn of the Greek, or other, alphabets."
OUR Adversary stopped huffing at the humans and,
Turning his attention to his companion,
Last to enter Pandaemonium, last to volunteer for action,
First to tempt others into fulfilling his lewd
Wishes and besmirching their souls without his lifting a finger,
For he was the epitome of sloth and vice,
Only stirred to make a move at the fear of
Pain or the desire to ruin others,
Picked him up and hurled his
Indolent snail-form off the cliff
So it cracked against the crumpled tower below:—
"DEAREST companion, lover of vice,
Loafing little prick,
I will devise a plan, just to please you,
For am I not so gracious as to help my compatriots, so
All humans will someday learn the entire Greek alphabet,
Whether they have interest to or not."

((I have made the judicial call that :—, which Milton uses to illustrate the start of speech, does not mark the end of a sentence))

Bravo! Bravo! *claps enthusiastically*

Thank you! I don't know why this is what the prompt made me think of, but I'm glad you enjoyed it

This is completely brilliant and funny :)

Thank you! I'm glad you found it funny too, I was definitely going for a little humour

XDDD

A03 link - https://archiveofourown.org/works/36565624

The teacher droned on, epsifuckincron or some such shit, and Daryl propped his head on his hand and ignored her as he stared out the window. First day of huntin' season and the old man promised to take him after school for his first lesson on the crossbow, and never mind that Merle said his chicken arms weren't strong enough for the draw. He was gonna kick ass with that bow, and Merle can Eta his ass if he thinks any different.

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Beast Wars, Depth Charge & Optimus Primal

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Gargoyles, Xanatos & Owen, Sometimes It Takes a Supervillain

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If Left to Linger (The Terror, Collins/Goodsir)

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Paradise Lost, Satan&Belial, I have no interest in learning the rest of the Greek alphabet

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The Walking Dead, Daryl (pre-series)