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rthstewart ([personal profile] rthstewart) wrote2022-01-20 09:54 pm

Three Sentence Ficathon 2022 Part 2

UPDATE 14 FEBRUARY 2022 -- 3SF 2022 IS NOW CLOSED TO NEW PROMPTS!  Do continue to fill prompts already posted but the 3SF 2022 is now closed.  We'll be back next year in a new comm (If I can get my act together).  Thank you again!

THIS IS THE NEW POST FOR PART 2 OF THE 3 SENTENCE FICATHON -- ALL NEW PROMPTS SHOULD BE POSTED HERE
You may continue to fill prompts (but not leave new ones) at the original Post 1 here but please post new prompts here, not there.  And if you're asking, hey is just me, or did this get enormous really fast? Why yes, yes it did.  Last year, it took us ten days before I opened a new post.  This year, it took us about 5.5 days to get there.  So, by all means, go back and fill in Post 1 and post new prompts here!

Also woops, in an indication of how busy I've been with other things, I neglected to post that for a third year in a row the awesome [personal profile] conuly  started a master list of unclaimed prompts and has been updating it as time permits.  Obviously a huge task! Thank you!







 
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] smallhobbit 2022-02-06 06:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you - yes, they can't escape that rot.
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Re: Elizabeth Swan (Pirates of the Caribbean)

[personal profile] elementalraven 2022-02-06 06:44 pm (UTC)(link)
XD I love this!
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Re: Shmi-focus

[personal profile] elementalraven 2022-02-06 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh I love this! Force-sensitive Shmi is the best!
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Re: King Edmund the Crowfessor

[personal profile] elementalraven 2022-02-06 06:49 pm (UTC)(link)
omg this is fantastic XD
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Re: Narnia, Susan, (Drabble (seriously, 100 words! and not grammatically correct three sentences.)

[personal profile] elementalraven 2022-02-06 06:51 pm (UTC)(link)
love this!
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[personal profile] elementalraven 2022-02-06 06:53 pm (UTC)(link)
oooh, I love this, the sort of spooky vibe!
primeideal: Egwene al'Vere from "Wheel of Time" TV (wheel of time)

[personal profile] primeideal 2022-02-06 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Luke's lightsaber feats and his mind tricks don't impress her, and Anakin's ghost is more of an annoyance than a blessing at times. But when she walks through the ruined temple on Coruscant, she feels--whether through the Force or just her imagination--the echoes of a thousand generations who have come before her.

They, too, are part of her heritage, and if there's a chance to bring some small fragment of that family back to life, Alderaan's daughter will not let it slip by.
primeideal: Multicolored sideways eight (infinity sign) (Default)

Re: Love & Devotion

[personal profile] primeideal 2022-02-06 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Very nice! :D
primeideal: Lan and Moiraine from "Wheel of Time" TV (lan mandragoran)

[personal profile] primeideal 2022-02-06 07:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Cassian howls as the Bor Gullet ravages his mind, picks apart everything he did in the Empire's name. These Partisans are the ones Galen believes in, that they've risked everything to reach out to? The Empire may be cold, but at least they're disciplined.

Meanwhile, in Jedha City, Agent Rook lets the half-familiar scent of the sands wash over him. It's only luck that brings him back to his homeworld; there is no room for nostalgia in wartime. But when the monks tease him and call Local boy?, he can't help but smile.
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[personal profile] smallhobbit 2022-02-06 07:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Gertrude looked sideways at her husband at the dining table, and steeled her expression. She could not afford to show how much she loved him, for there was no way she could protect him should matters turn against him as they had her previous husband. And above all else, she could not let her son see how she felt.
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[personal profile] primeideal 2022-02-06 07:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Awww, very sweet.

(Anonymous) 2022-02-06 07:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Any, any, colour of a mirror
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Re: As From a Great Height (LOTR, Boromir & Faramir)

[personal profile] elementalraven 2022-02-06 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
oh my god this is so sweet and then that last sentence hits like a brick. how dare you
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Re: Play the Game (Narnia, Pevensies)

[personal profile] elementalraven 2022-02-06 07:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I love this, omg! Perfect sibling behavior and hilarious
be_themoon: I want a better world. By me. (Default)

[personal profile] be_themoon 2022-02-06 07:20 pm (UTC)(link)
mandalorian, din/bo-katan, slow dance middle of a knife fight / you get up and you, you give blood
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Re: Narnia, Susan and Lucy

[personal profile] elementalraven 2022-02-06 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I love this!
tellshannon815: (sirius)

Harry Potter, Sirius and Regulus

[personal profile] tellshannon815 2022-02-06 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Much as he had tried to appear confident as he’d told his new friend James he was hoping to break the tradition, Sirius was nervous as he approached the Sorting Hat, praying that he wasn’t going to be Sorted into Slytherin despite the fact that his entire family had been.

He thinks about that now, the relief he’d felt when he was told he’d been Sorted into Gryffindor along with the friends he’d made on the Hogwarts Express, as he watches his younger brother Regulus approach the hat, feeling pretty confident that Regulus, unlike him, will be hoping to follow his family into Slytherin.

For a moment Sirius hopes that Regulus, like him, will break the tradition, that he will be able to get through to him just how wrong some of their parents’ ideas are and they can maybe start a new tradition of their own, but then the Sorting Hat calls out Slytherin, and Regulus takes a seat next to Snivellus Snape without a backward glance for his brother, and Sirius feels that he was foolish to hope.
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Re: Narnia, Susan

[personal profile] elementalraven 2022-02-06 07:23 pm (UTC)(link)
this is great
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[personal profile] elementalraven 2022-02-06 07:23 pm (UTC)(link)
love this!
be_themoon: I want a better world. By me. (Default)

[personal profile] be_themoon 2022-02-06 07:24 pm (UTC)(link)
mandalorian, din/bo-katan, someone's going to do something someone else will regret
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[personal profile] elementalraven 2022-02-06 07:24 pm (UTC)(link)
oh I love the imagery
be_themoon: I want a better world. By me. (Default)

[personal profile] be_themoon 2022-02-06 07:25 pm (UTC)(link)
locked tomb series, cam/&pal, i believe that the words that he told you are not your grave
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Re: The Pevensies in England

[personal profile] elementalraven 2022-02-06 07:26 pm (UTC)(link)
this is lovely
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[personal profile] vindoletta 2022-02-06 07:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Arcane (2021 Netflix show), any, “Siblings: your only enemy you can't live without.”
Edited 2022-04-10 18:45 (UTC)
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[personal profile] elementalraven 2022-02-06 07:33 pm (UTC)(link)
this is lovely!