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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!



      


















dawen: photo of the face of a calico cat, with stark contrast between her face and the background (Default)

[personal profile] dawen 2022-01-17 05:55 am (UTC)(link)
any, any, necromancy
wearing_tearing: dark red background with wei wuxian and lan wangji staring at each other in the xuanwu cave. ([cql] wangxian)

Modao Zushi/The Untamed: Wei Wuxian

[personal profile] wearing_tearing 2022-01-17 01:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Wei Wuxian needs to get a handle on this necromancy thing. It doesn't do him any good to be walking around and have dead plants, dead animals, and dead people come back to life because he can't yet control the resentful energy thrumming inside his body.

He takes a look at the dead bunny currently snuggled on his lap and says to himself as he keeps petting it, "Or maybe I should focus only on the not resurrecting people part."
dawen: photo of the face of a calico cat, with stark contrast between her face and the background (Default)

Re: Modao Zushi/The Untamed: Wei Wuxian

[personal profile] dawen 2022-01-17 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
aww <3
presumenothing: (shen wei)

Guardian; Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan

[personal profile] presumenothing 2022-01-17 04:23 pm (UTC)(link)

"Xiao Wei, hi – I need to ask something," continues Zhao Yunlan before he can return the greeting or otherwise reply, "you wouldn't happen to have learnt some kind of necromancy ability earlier today, yeah?"

"No?" Shen Wei says, and he hadn't actually meant that to sound like a question but for surprise at the words, so he repeats: "No, definitely not."

"Right, that's what I thought, though it does mean we have an entirely different problem here… care to help deal with a zombie infestation after your class?"

dawen: photo of the face of a calico cat, with stark contrast between her face and the background (Default)

Re: Guardian; Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan

[personal profile] dawen 2022-01-17 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
cute!
octahedrite: elf girl with a slight smile (Default)

The Pureblood Pretense (murkybluematter), dubious reading material

[personal profile] octahedrite 2022-01-17 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)

Rigel Black reads ridiculously widely, Aldon knows, and he's a near-expert in half a dozen fields while being a genius at potions; it might make a lesser man jealous, but Aldon has nothing but the purest admiration for Rigel's boundless intellectual curiosity. He doesn't need to be an empath to read the utter glee the younger boy is radiating as he sits by the fire with a fat tome. But then his blood goes cold as he sees what he's reading -- he immediately seeks out Pansy and starts plotting an intervention; the world as they know it cannot survive if Rigel applies his prodigious talents to necromancy.

dawen: photo of the face of a calico cat, with stark contrast between her face and the background (Default)

Re: The Pureblood Pretense (murkybluematter), dubious reading material

[personal profile] dawen 2022-01-17 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
haha, an intervention is definitely necessary there. good luck, Aldon.
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Re: The Pureblood Pretense (murkybluematter), dubious reading material

[personal profile] octahedrite 2022-01-18 02:49 pm (UTC)(link)

He needs it. xD Thanks!

Re: The Pureblood Pretense (murkybluematter), dubious reading material

(Anonymous) 2022-01-19 02:53 pm (UTC)(link)
I love how Pansy is the go-to Rigel handler, too :)
octahedrite: elf girl with a slight smile (Default)

Re: The Pureblood Pretense (murkybluematter), dubious reading material

[personal profile] octahedrite 2022-01-20 12:49 pm (UTC)(link)

She can do anything!

kalira: cartoon representation of Kalira (pale skin, long brown hair, fangy smile, with thumb and two fingers raised), wearing a black tank top and cardigan, on a galaxy in ace flag stripes/colours (Default)

Today Mama's Going to Shout (Naruto; Orochimaru, Kakashi, past Sakumo/Orochimaru)

[personal profile] kalira 2022-01-19 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
". . .Mama?" Kakashi asked tentatively, and Orochimaru smiled tightly, crouching and stroking his son's hair.

"Everything will be fine, precious," he soothed, "you just go with Nori for a little while; Mama needs to . . . handle something."

Kakashi agreed, looking anxious, and let Nori shepherd him away while Orochimaru pulled the Edo Tensei scroll he had already prepared and muttered curses at his mate under his breath; he had a long list of things to say to Sakumo . . . and he had warned Nori to take Kakashi some distance away, because he suspected he would not be remaining quiet for this discussion.
dawen: photo of the face of a calico cat, with stark contrast between her face and the background (Default)

Re: Today Mama's Going to Shout (Naruto; Orochimaru, Kakashi, past Sakumo/Orochimaru)

[personal profile] dawen 2022-01-20 09:59 am (UTC)(link)
I knew you'd have something for this prompt ;P and what an excellent direction to take it in! yes, Mamasnek will have words with Sakumo... XD
kalira: cartoon representation of Kalira (pale skin, long brown hair, fangy smile, with thumb and two fingers raised), wearing a black tank top and cardigan, on a galaxy in ace flag stripes/colours (Default)

Re: Today Mama's Going to Shout (Naruto; Orochimaru, Kakashi, past Sakumo/Orochimaru)

[personal profile] kalira 2022-01-20 03:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I was actually thinking of something different for it initially. XD This has been on my list to write for a couple-few years now; someday perhaps I'll get to doing it properly. . .