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, richly-deserved plums

Because of the added note on this. X'D

“Present, present, present,” Fei Liu pestered Lin Chen all the way back to Su House after they successfully captured and dealt with Qin Banruo, and Lin Chen, of course, ignored him all the way to the house; but Fei Liu was nothing if not persistent, especially when it came to things he wanted, and things he wanted from Lin Chen.

When they finally arrived at Su House, Fei Liu’s endless chant of “present, present,” became a wide-eyed, delighted, “Present?” once he spotted the huge – really, worthy of being number 1 on a Langya List of Baskets if there was one – basket filled with plums in the middle of the courtyard; when Lin Chen threw his hands up in utterly mock exasperation and grumbled an affirmation, Fei Liu’s eyes became stars as he attempted to dive into the basket.

“They’re sweet plums, but you can still only have ten a day, at most,” Mei Changsu called from inside the house, barely even bothering to look up from his book.

Edited 2022-01-16 23:08 (UTC)

Liebermann was already sitting at their usual table in the little coffeehouse when Inspector Rheinhardt walked in and sat down with a sigh--he didn't say anything, but still, Liebermann could tell that the day's events had caught up with his friend. However, all was forgotten when the waiter placed a cup of türkische and a slice of zwetschgenkuchen in front of him, and the strong scent of the coffee, along with the rich, luscious feel of the plums (and something else Rheinhardt couldn't quite place--a sweet taste that made him think of home and happiness), felt like a well-earned prize. He looked up and still didn't say anything--he just smiled into Liebermann's eyes.

I have replaced the plums that I took from the icebox,

so you can still have some for breakfast.

I hope they are as good.

As sweet, as cold.

<3 Lovely!

😀

i have caged
the plums
you keep stealing
from the icebox

and which
you were probably
planning to take
to market.

forgive me,
they’re a joy to squeeze
and i want to
keep them for myself.

heee!

It takes a minute or two for the internet to recognize the young woman wearing a dark blue blazer and magenta blouse, her chignon tucked under the chin of Adrien Agreste in his first public statement since the deaths of Gabriel Agreste and Nathalie Sancoeur—but it takes that long only because the cut and embroidered details make this outfit plainly a matched set with the deep plum and black that young Monsieur Agreste is wearing with a silver necktie, and (though all official remarks to date have been "no comment") the rumors started the moment the Ladyblog posted the sentence In unrelated news, condolences from the Ladyblog team to our friend Adrien on the tragic loss of his father and almost-stepmother as part of the caption accompanying the video in which Ladybug and Chat Noir announced the end of the Shadowmoth threat by transforming on camera into new Butterfly and Peacock superheroes.

"Ohhh, Pajama Girl," says one junior designer at the probably-soon-to-be-renamed Gabriel Fashions, and is promptly shushed by three others whose focus is less on their own work and more on their employer on TV saying "in recognition of the difficult, thankless, and until now nonstop efforts that Ladybug and Chat Noir and their team have put forth to protect Paris, we intend to pay each of them an honorarium of not less than forty thousand Euro for each year of their service as superheroes."

A fifth designer lets out a low whistle at the sum; a sixth says "I mean, they deserve that and more"; the second mutters "If we want to talk about not deserving—" and is immediately silenced by the third clapping a hand to his mouth; "Clearly you weren't paying attention this week," says the fourth while glaring at the second (after the press conference has ended and before anyone can ask if this means the rumors are true), "when Madame Dupain-Cheng took both those suits from concept to final fittings without any assistance from anyone except for someone to hold the pins when she was being fitted, so, you know, I don't care if she's only getting the job because she's his fiancée, she's going to be a better Chief Creative Officer than anyone in this room!"

Three Sentence Ficathon 2022

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Nirvana in Fire

Richly-deserved plums (Vienna Blood, Liebermann+Rheinhardt+cake).

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[Miraculous Ladybug] plums (not pruned)