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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!



      


















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[personal profile] paxilam 2022-01-17 07:01 pm (UTC)(link)
any, any, refusing to get out of bed
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Rogue One, Jyn/Cassian

[personal profile] kaminagi 2022-01-18 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
Jyn wakes to the sound of rain, the fragrance of cloud tea, and Cassian's promise of chilaquiles if she gets up.

"There's no war to fight today," she mumbles, and suffers the cold long enough to pull him into her cocoon of quilts, "chilaquiles later."

This is what peace feels like, Jyn thinks, as she curls around Cassian and drifts back to sleep to sound of his laughter and his heartbeat.
tiny_ninja: (ffvi;; nothing to lose but my life)

Re: Rogue One, Jyn/Cassian

[personal profile] tiny_ninja 2022-01-20 01:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh I love this! ♥
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to sleep, no more (Hamlet/Ophelia, Laertes/Reynaldo)

[personal profile] ernest 2022-01-18 05:30 am (UTC)(link)
i. ophelia sits on the side of hamlet’s bed, afraid to move too fast and break him somehow, but afraid to leave him alone with a grief that will consume him whole.
ii. unpolluted her flesh may be, but this is one sleep his sister will not rise from, and the heartless men staring down at him will not even give him the comfort of a blanket of earth.
iii. it really did seem to be getting better, for a while, as laertes ventured outside and spoke to people, but when he was finally overwhelmed by the unfairness of color and light he retreated back to his bedroom and hasn’t emerged since, so reynaldo ventures in there with food and overtures of comfort.
raisedbymoogles: (Zidane - flight)

Re: to sleep, no more (Hamlet/Ophelia, Laertes/Reynaldo)

[personal profile] raisedbymoogles 2022-01-22 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
i love this one, like they're all points along a road to hell
ernest: (lemony snicket)

Re: to sleep, no more (Hamlet/Ophelia, Laertes/Reynaldo)

[personal profile] ernest 2022-01-22 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
wow, that is the MOST painful way you could have described it, and that's exactly what it is, each of them inheriting the madness and grief from the person before, and there's only one place this can end. thank you so much for a deeply flattering comment <3
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Re: to sleep, no more (Hamlet/Ophelia, Laertes/Reynaldo)

[personal profile] little_lady_d 2022-01-29 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
oooh ouch. putting all these little snapshots of despair together, they become part of one continuous chain, the grief of all those who love someone beyond saving. (and you hope it's not, in the end, you hope laertes will come out of the dark room. but there's a history behind him.)
ernest: (lemony snicket)

Re: to sleep, no more (Hamlet/Ophelia, Laertes/Reynaldo)

[personal profile] ernest 2022-01-30 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
gosh, that's exactly it, you have to hope the person you love isn't beyond saving, or how can you go on yourself? but that history just keeps piling up and making the grief harder to bear, so it would take someone with a certain will to help laertes make it out of there, thank god for rey!
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Modao Zushi/The Untamed: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

[personal profile] wearing_tearing 2022-01-18 07:05 pm (UTC)(link)
"I don't want to get up," Wei Wuxian grumbles and burrows into his pillow--it smells like Lan Wangji: of sandalwood and home. "You should kiss me and stay in bed with me; no Chief Cultivator business on my birthday."

There is a beat of silence from Lan Wangji before he says, "Mn," leans down to kiss Wei Wuxian, and climbs back into bed.

Wei Wuxian smiles to himself in victory and cuddles his husband close.
paxilam: (Default)

Re: Modao Zushi/The Untamed: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

[personal profile] paxilam 2022-01-18 07:36 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm so weak to fluff
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Re: Modao Zushi/The Untamed: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

[personal profile] wearing_tearing 2022-01-19 12:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Fluff is the beeeest <3
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Re: Modao Zushi/The Untamed: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

[personal profile] yarnofariadne 2022-01-19 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)
This is so CUTE ♥
tiny_ninja: (ffvi;; nothing to lose but my life)

Final Fantasy VI, Setzer

[personal profile] tiny_ninja 2022-01-20 01:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Every morning the memories wake him; the Blackjack tearing itself to pieces; Terra's hand slipping from his grasp; the shouts and screams of the other Returners as the world rearranges itself alongside the Warring Triad.

Or maybe it's the pounding headache in the back of his skull, the kind that never fades, and the only remedy is to pour more alcohol down his throat like it can treat the wounds inside his soul - all it does is prolong the hangover further.

Here in Kohlingen, he has a bed and a roof over his head, but his feet are glued to the ground while his heart seeks to soar through the clouds, and it's all Setzer can do to pull the covers over his head and wish he'd crashed with the Blackjack instead.

Re: Final Fantasy VI, Setzer

(Anonymous) 2022-01-25 06:24 am (UTC)(link)
This one hits hard. Beautifully done.
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Productive Morning (Hikaru no Go; Shindou/Touya)

[personal profile] kalira 2022-01-21 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh hell no," Hikaru said, wrestling a bit with the covers and dragging to get them most of the way up over his head, "it's early, and it's cold, and it's not a match day-" he froze, then shoved the covers away again, eyes wide. "It's not a match day, is it?" he demanded, sleep-thick voice going shrill with alarm.

"Hikaru. . ." Akira was tempted to tell him it was, but only for a moment. "No, it's not."

"Right. Good." Hikaru sagged, taking a deep breath. "So there's no way I'm getting up yet. Actually," he caught Akira by the wrist, "you should come back in here." He tugged insistently, smiling a little, and Akira thought of the chores he had intended to spend the morning on, before his tutoring this afternoon, and-

Hikaru tugged again, whining just a little, and Akira sighed and slipped his legs back under the blankets and curled comfortably onto his side, fingers trailing over Hikaru's side.
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Tiger & Bunny, Barnaby/Kotetsu, He Can Watch the Sunrise Tomorrow

[personal profile] mad_madam_m 2022-01-22 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
"Bunny..." Kotetsu leaned over and tugged at the blond curls poking out from under the covers. "Come on, get out of bed! You're missing the sunrise!"

"We are on vacation, old man." Bunny's voice was muffled. "I am not getting out of bed until the sun is actually up."

"But Bunny-chan—"

The blond curls disappeared under the covers entirely. "No."
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Re: Tiger & Bunny, Barnaby/Kotetsu, He Can Watch the Sunrise Tomorrow

[personal profile] paxilam 2022-01-22 04:48 pm (UTC)(link)
ahaha cutie
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Re: Tiger & Bunny, Barnaby/Kotetsu, He Can Watch the Sunrise Tomorrow

[personal profile] mad_madam_m 2022-01-25 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you!
raisedbymoogles: (Zidane - flight)

Sailor Moon, Usagi & Luna

[personal profile] raisedbymoogles 2022-01-22 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)
"Usagi! Breakfast!"

"....mmmm."

Luna, curled up at the foot of the bed, silently counted down until Usagi would bolt up in a panic. Ten, nine... She got to one and... nothing. Luna counted again... still nothing.

Luna got up and padded to the pillow, nosing her way under the comforter to peer at her princess. Usagi was clinging to a corner of her pillow, and her lashes were damp. As Luna watched, amazed and worried, Usagi's breath hitched in her throat.

Is she... dreaming what happened at D-Point?

It should be imposssible - those memories were locked away. Yet, locked away wasn't the same as gone, and there was no mistaking the grief and horror in the way Usagi clung and wept in her sleep. Luna sighed and curled up under Usagi's chin, purring for all she was worth. Usagi's dreams would fade, but as long as the grief lingered, Luna would be there.
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Re: Sailor Moon, Usagi & Luna

[personal profile] paxilam 2022-01-23 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
luna's the best <3