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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] ultra_fic 2022-01-20 07:37 pm (UTC)(link)
any, any, laughing like children/living like lovers/rolling like thunder under the covers
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Harry Potter, Fred/Hermione

[personal profile] helsinkibaby 2022-01-21 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Hermione’s always been quiet, studious, serious, but when she’s with Fred, she’s anything but; he makes her laugh until her stomach aches, until tears roll down her cheeks and he pulls her against his chest, his own shoulders shaking with laughter too.

Hermione’s always been one for order and control, but living with Fred isn’t like that - they sleep late and go to bed early, he leaves crumbs in their bed from when he makes her breakfast, she’s nearly burned herself way too many times when she’s cooking and he slips his arms around her waist, resting his chin on her shoulder and muttering sweet nothings into her ear and yet, she’s never been happier.

Hermione’s kissed other boys, has been with other men, but it’s never been like it is with Fred, the pleasant swirl in her stomach when his eyes catch hers across the room, the goosebumps on her skin as his fingers casually ghost along her body, how she arches against him as their bodies move together and he wrings release after release out of her already sated body - she could spend the rest of her life like this and she thinks he could too.
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Re: Harry Potter, Fred/Hermione

[personal profile] ultra_fic 2022-01-21 07:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Very nice :) I actually don't know much about Harry Potter and wasn't even sure who Fred was (I know Hermione because who doesn't? lol) but I still liked the ficlet :)
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Re: Harry Potter, Fred/Hermione

[personal profile] nasimwrites 2022-01-23 08:35 pm (UTC)(link)
I think this is the most convincing case for Fred/Hermione I've ever read! So beautiful <3
ernest: (don't panic)

Hamlet, Claudius/Gertrude

[personal profile] ernest 2022-02-07 08:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Claudius never used to laugh too much before Gertrude came to Elsinore – it wasn’t princely, it wasn’t dignified, and if either his parents or his brother bothered to ask what was so funny, then seven times out of ten it would be deemed too vulgar or common. Anyway, it was better to escape notice, but the thing about Gertrude is that she always notices the people around her and makes them feel welcome and appreciated with an easy queenly grace, has done since she was a girl.

She does it so naturally and unthinkingly that he’s never found a good way to thank her and say how very much it’s meant to him but tonight, walking his fingers up under the hem of her wedding dress, whispering in her ear to ask what she wants, and offering a few suggestions of her own to make her blush, he thinks for the first time that he has a chance of coming close.
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Re: Hamlet, Claudius/Gertrude

[personal profile] ultra_fic 2022-02-07 09:15 pm (UTC)(link)
I know very little about Hamlet, but I love this! Thank you :)
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Re: Hamlet, Claudius/Gertrude

[personal profile] ernest 2022-02-07 11:35 pm (UTC)(link)
thank you! versions of the play where claudius and gertrude truly love each other just makes the tragedy of him killing his brother, her husband, so much more delicious.
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Re: Hamlet, Claudius/Gertrude

[personal profile] little_lady_d 2022-02-20 07:09 pm (UTC)(link)
they! love each other! and they think the world of each other, and you show so well what they see in each other, gertrude’s insight and queenly welcoming grace and the way she makes claudius laugh, claudius’s consideration for her wants (and his fingers under the hem of her dress, ahem). claudius getting to thank her is so sweet and sexy, at the same time.
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Re: Hamlet, Claudius/Gertrude

[personal profile] ernest 2022-02-20 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
thank you! i love them both, and they're really good for each other (and sexy)

Obsidian & Blood, Acatl/Teomitl

[personal profile] notapaladin 2022-04-27 01:20 am (UTC)(link)

He’d seen love twist and break and ruin the people affected by it. He’d seen how love could turn even the best intentions sour, how it could morph into obsession if left unchecked. He’d seen what happened when flames turned to ashes swept away by the wind.

He’d seen all that, but he hadn’t known. Teomitl had taught him better. Had taught him that love could lighten his heart, that he could feel both held and free in the circle of Teomitl’s arms. That when Teomitl pressed delicate little shivery kisses along his neck he’d laugh—because it tickled, because he was happy—even as he arched for more.

That it made Teomitl chuckle too, the sound rich and warm in his ear. “I love hearing you like that. I wish I could bottle it and carry it around with me.”

“You’re ridiculous,” he murmured, and there was freedom in that too; he could say things like that, and for once know there was someone who wouldn’t take it the wrong way. Who’d made the decision to trust him, and be trusted in return.

“I’m serious!” Teomitl huffed, but a grin was starting to peek through anyway.

It was too much to resist. Acatl twisted in his lover’s arms, laughing into a breathless kiss as they rolled across the mat in a tangle of sheets and cloaks. When they stopped he was on top, hair hanging in his face—he’d lost his hair tie at some point—and almost obscuring his view of Teomitl’s grin. But moving to push it back again would mean letting go of the man, and that would never do.

Teomitl took care of it for him, fingers tangling in heavy waves and brushing softly against his cheek. “Oh look,” he murmured happily, “it’s the best view in Tenochtitlan.”

He was wrong. The best view in Tenochtitlan, Acatl knew, was the one in front of him.