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, groundhog day au

(My apologies to the English language, but there is somehow only three "sentences" in this wall of text)

By the ten-thousandth time (not that Yu Tu is counting) he opens his eyes to Qiao Jing Jing standing there in front of him, clutching her books to herself and asking him if he wants a girlfriend and what he thinks of her, Yu Tu has stopped wondering what is even the point of the endless loop that apparently exists in this circle of light where time doesn’t seem to matter, where they have tried everything; he has tried every variation of answering yes and no he can think of, and she has tried every variation of asking, or not asking, that she can think of, but the moment one of them steps out of that concrete circle that seems to be illogically flooded with sunlight, they find themselves right back where they started, him sitting and her standing in front of him, the question on her lips seeming to have ceased mattering some nine thousand iterations ago…

These times (days? He doesn’t know anymore, even the excitement of working out how he managed to break the space-time continuum has infuriatingly ceased to matter) they speak less of her question and of anything and everything unrelated to that they can think of, just in an attempt to see if they can break the loop that way – after all, if the loop breaks when they step out of the circle, what if they just don’t step out of it?

It is perhaps the hundred-thousandth iteration by now – and really, enough time should have passed that they must be old enough to die by now – and this time, something was different: Yu Tu looks up, and suddenly the sun seems to shine differently, framing the girl in front of him in a soft halo that now seems to dazzle him, and for the first time in however long they have been trapped in this school yard together, he finds himself wanting to say yes to the question that he wonders if she will still ask…

(that is actually very impressive, lol)

love the fact that this could be kind of depressing, but it ends on a hopeful note!
"and suddenly the sun seems to shine differently, framing the girl in front of him in a soft halo that now seems to dazzle him" - loved this

"I already did today yesterday, and the day before, and the day before that, and the day...." O'Neill saw the blank look on the faces of his teammates, waved one hand - the one holding his p-90 - and ignored the way Carter ducked and Daniel frowned and Teal'c did that... Eyebrow of Judging You thing. "It was always Tuesday."

Carter and Daniel and Teal'c all knew, like he did, that bad things tended to happen on Tuesdays, so one was bad enough but six in a row?

And if he had to watch Daniel die - at 2 pm sharp again on that godforsaken planet at the ass-end of the galaxy - the seventh Tuesday was going to end in someone or something alien paying big time.

Edited 2022-03-11 01:58 (UTC)

You can do it, O'Neill.

If he's pissed off enough, there ain't much he can't do... thank you :)

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