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

Dracula, any, Lucy lives

It's Quincey who catches Lucy's mother about to hurl the garlic flowers out the window; there's a terrible row about it, but Quincey is too stubborn and too loyal to Mina for even the most well meaning matron to talk around, so Lucy does not die that night. Nor does she die any night after that since everyone because intensely preoccupied with protecting Lucy not just from prowling demons but also impatient maids desperate to obey orders to air out Lucy's rooms.

She grows well, but strange too--when Mina flat out tells her the truth, rather than let her suitors keep Lucy in the dark, she realizes she can see and hear Dracula as he makes plans.

They move fast and persistently, chasing him all the way back to his homeland before killing him.

For the rest of her very long life, Lucy kept a fresh bouquet of garlic flowers in her room--just in case.

Yes!! An excellent fix-it!

This is perfect!

Personal report of Dr Seward on the progress of treating one Mrs Lucy Holmwood-Morris-Seward's anaemia, November, 1896:

Since the events that simultaneously resulted in my mentor's, Dr Van Helsing, and Lucy's second husband, Quincey Morris, yet also freed the patient from the cause of her anaemia, there has been progress both great and tepid - great, for Lu-the patient is no longer distressed by proximity to garlic and the instincts that had begun to arise in her, which somewhat reminded me of a prior patient, one R. M. Renfield, in their violent and blood-focused nature, seem to be no longer present, or at least suppressed, provided she receive her regular treatment - tepid, for she remains physically frail, although her beauty is maintained, and seems incapable of exercise that may increase her stamina in an appropriate way, save in the first days after her treatment, particularly because she is reluctant to go out during morning or midday, due to a skin sensitivity that has apparently developed as a psychosomatic symptom of the distress and trauma she experienced during the aforementioned events, and will only go outside in the late afternoon as the sun begins to go down - being as it is winter, she is currently in high spirits as there is more time she feels safe to venture outside and enjoy walks with her dear friend, Mrs Harker, who moved here to Whitby, as did I.

Her treatment may seem unusual, but it is not without its forebears - Lady Duncayne used such a treatment for years to keep her health, for one example - and with such willing suppliers as Mr Holmwood and myself, I fail to see why we should ever cease. Why, with consistent enough transfusions and - ah! Mrs Harker, excellent, you brought the sandwiches - I was just about to talk about how you had also volunteered to lend dear Lucy your blood, do you want to talk about it on the phonograph? no? yes, you always preferred transcribing others over recording your own voice, Mina - with consistent enough transfusions of fresh blood, dearest Lucy may outlive us all yet; even today's small transfusion of my blood had awoken a flush in your face that makes me want to talk unscientifically of roses on snow and stars in the night sky - ah! and a ravenous hunger, judging by how you quickly you wolfed down that sandwich from Mina's hand - I cannot express how happy I am that you want Mina, Mina's help as much as you want mine and Arthur's; the transfusion is finished so I shall remove the tubing from my arm - can you pass the tourniquet? - and fetch all of us some proper lunch, while you two feed each other sandwiches.

End of report.

AO3 link - https://archiveofourown.org/works/36836320

I love this, everyone is poly lol

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Lucy lives; she married Arthur, Quincey, and Seward; she's pretty close with Mina too

Re: Lucy lives; she married Arthur, Quincey, and Seward; she's pretty close with Mina too

Re: Lucy lives; she married Arthur, Quincey, and Seward; she's pretty close with Mina too