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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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any, any, 'all i need is a change / all i need is a chance'
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I've been patient and steadfast and steady! (Umineko, Shannon)

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Shannon is someone that kid could aspire to, an ideal too perfect to exist, with plenty of friends and social graces. When the witch arrives to spirit herself away in the night, Shannon is all that’s left behind, and she’s forgotten she ever had a roommate, forgotten she used to be the roommate.

She’s just…Shannon…ordinary, fumbling, imperfect Shannon, who just needs someone to open their eyes and give her a chance.
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[personal profile] ravenlilyrose 2022-02-04 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
any, any, thwarting of a romantic trope
silveradept: A kodama with a trombone. The trombone is playing music, even though it is held in a rest position (Default)

Gilmore Girls, Lorelai and Luke, Know Thine Target

[personal profile] silveradept 2022-03-25 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
"There's only one bed," Lorelai said, looking at Luke for confirmation.

"Have you been reading romance novels again?" Luke retorted, discarding the cushions in top of the couch and pulling out a hide-away from it. "If you're known for offering crash space to someone, there's always another bed somewhere," he said.

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Any, any, these Turkish delights have Turkish ends
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Narnia (LWW)

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“Baths?” echoed Jadis in unaccustomed bafflement.

It was the only other Turkish thing Edmund could think of (not that he’d ever admit Peter was right to rag him about neglecting his studies), but maybe it wasn’t such a bad idea after all.

“Royal baths,” he repeated with emphasis, noting the gleam of interest on the Witch’s face — and even as he babbled and spun his preposterous scheme, he was calculating what quantities of steam would be required to melt a castle of ice (and if it worked, it would jolly well prove to Peter that he hadn’t neglected *all* his studies!).

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Any, any, diamond of the first water
ernest: (don't panic)

Moulin Rouge, Satine

[personal profile] ernest 2022-02-07 09:30 am (UTC)(link)
She is called Satine, the Sparkling Diamond, for how her beauty captures the eye and the imagination, but they forget that the glitter comes from each facet throwing the light in a different direction, and that she has a façade for almost any situation. Gems are made with pressure and time, and her loyalty will always be to the other girls formed by the same circumstances, because the Moulin Rouge is her home and her family.

She cannot forget that she is living in a material world, so she makes the hard, sharp, practical decisions when she is out of options and has to climb just to keep from falling.

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Any, any, pearl of the world
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Guilty Pleasure (Northanger Abbey; John Thorpe, Henry Tilney/Catherine Morland)

[personal profile] woodmr 2022-10-29 12:55 am (UTC)(link)

“If we’re gonna watch anything later it’ll be Breaking Bad, not that CW crap,” John shut Catherine’s suggestion down as the group piled into the hotel’s rink shuttle.

“Pearls are made from all sorts of refuse,” Henry defended her choice before that irresistible friendly glow dimmed farther. Deciding to turn the tables, he added with all the superiority of his old prep school days, “Personally, I think Blaine’s antihero trajectory this season as much in conversation with Steinbeck's questions about ambition and morality as anything done by Walter White.”


Just in time for Halloween, a return to the Northanger Abbey skating AU, with a passing reference to John Steinback's novella The Pearl.
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(Anonymous) 2022-02-05 07:01 am (UTC)(link)
Any, any, accidental fix-it
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[personal profile] ravenlilyrose 2022-02-07 08:50 pm (UTC)(link)
She tripped. All she did was trip and it fixed everything (or, as much as could reasonably be fixed). The TARDIS felt very bad for making her Wolf trip, but the timelines told her that if her Wolf hadn't tripped and twisted her ankle making her Thief hover (jus' a twisted ankle, Doctor, don' need to hover like 'm dyin'), then her Thief would have gone and hurt her Wolf's heart even worse than her ankle and made everyone's life more difficult, so the TARDIS didn't feel too bad about it.
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The Untamed, Wen Ruohan

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[personal profile] ernest 2022-02-05 09:47 am (UTC)(link)
any, any, he was mine and i was his / that's the truth, i swear it is / you don't know what you would do / until someone erases you
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Juliet

[personal profile] smallhobbit 2022-02-05 02:05 pm (UTC)(link)
It wasn't planned, I never expected it, and yet suddenly he was there and we had to be together. You can judge all you like, but you can't say you'd have done differently when overpowered by so much love. And now, there seems to be no alternative, and yet I fear somehow it will not work out.

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[personal profile] ernest 2022-02-05 09:48 am (UTC)(link)
any, any, clubs and diamonds, spades and hearts / free will and fate both played their part
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[personal profile] ernest 2022-02-05 09:53 am (UTC)(link)
any, any, "you know why i did it? cause there isn't any santa claus!"
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[personal profile] ravenlilyrose 2022-02-07 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)
"You know why I did it? cause there isn't any santa claus!"

Donna gasped and covered Jenny's ears, glaring fiercely at the Doctor.

"What's a santa claus?" Jenny asked, batting at Donna's hands while looking back and forth between the Doctor and Donna, very confused.

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vialethe: (S&B - Darklina hot)

[personal profile] vialethe 2022-02-05 09:57 am (UTC)(link)
Shadow and Bone/TGT, The Darkling/Alina, I wouldn’t fall for someone/I thought couldn’t misbehave
vialethe: (S&B - Darklina kiss)

[personal profile] vialethe 2022-02-05 09:58 am (UTC)(link)
Shadow & Bone/TGT, The Darkling/Alina, oh, I can’t/stop you putting roots in my dreamland
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[personal profile] betony 2022-02-05 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
She shouts and scowls and shudders at him, but in truth, was it not she who violated the sanctity of his dreams first? Alina, limned in light; Alina, unkempt and laughing; Alina Alina Alina--

He tells her as much once, and is almost certain he does not mistake the catch of her breath, the widening of her eyes, before her face goes battle-hard once more.

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[personal profile] vialethe 2022-02-05 09:59 am (UTC)(link)
Narnia/LotR, Lucy/Aragorn, one single thread of gold tied me to you
vialethe: (S&B - Darklina power couple)

[personal profile] vialethe 2022-02-05 10:04 am (UTC)(link)
Shadow & Bone/SoC, Inej/Kaz, i can lie to myself, and say i like it/but i would love it if you were here
peaked: KAZZA. (pic#15387217)

[personal profile] peaked 2022-02-05 11:04 pm (UTC)(link)
SOC-Kanej.

Kaz stares at the map positioned above his bed with its pins tracking Inej’s travels. From his seat by his desk, he rubs his bad leg and wishes for the calm and steady ground of his bedroom in the Slat to rock like that of The Wraith’s.

Dear Inej, he writes, knowing already this letter will find itself burned to ash on his bedroom floor within the hour, I wish you were here.

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vialethe: (S&B - Darklina cute)

[personal profile] vialethe 2022-02-05 10:08 am (UTC)(link)
Shadow & Bone/TGT, Alina/The Darkling & Mal, thanks for the trouble you took/from her eyes/i thought it was there for good/so i never tried
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[personal profile] betony 2022-02-05 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
He hardly recognizes Alina even as she darts through the crowd towards him, and it's not the Grisha splendor she wears, or the new softness of her cheeks, the heightened color of her complexion--instead it's the happiness that shines from her, the sparkle of her eyes, the mouth no longer held in a frightened scowl.

This, Mal thinks dazedly, is what a Sun Summoner ought to be.

And he finds he cannot hate the General for that--can hate the fellow for a dozen other things, but not Alina's joy--and even as Alina returns to the pavilion, come to bless the troops in a transparent excuse to visit her old friends, Mal ducks his head in silent thanks.

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[personal profile] elementalraven 2022-02-05 02:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Star Wars, Leia Organa, jedi!Leia
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.

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[personal profile] elementalraven 2022-02-05 02:02 pm (UTC)(link)
star wars, Leia Organa, force-user!Leia
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[personal profile] ravenlilyrose 2022-02-07 08:57 pm (UTC)(link)
The moment Han Solo realized he was going to marry Leia Organa was when she decided she was going to stop blaster bolts with her mind. It wasn't that decision that sparked it, but more his reaction to it (which mostly consisted of immediate acceptance and looking around for some safety gear). It had all worked out for him, though, because when an assassin invaded their wedding two years later, Leia just rolled her eyes and flicked her hand at the blaster bolt, which stopped in mid-air.

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star wars, Leia Organa, sith!Leia
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[personal profile] raisedbymoogles 2022-02-08 04:23 pm (UTC)(link)
(takes place after a ficblurt that I don't feel like combing my old Tumblr to find; in it, Leia goes Dark and kills Tarkin after witnessing Alderaan's destruction, and Vader goes 'mine now yoink' and carts her off to go teach her Dark Side stuff so they can overthrow the Emperor together. Neither of them know they're blood relatives yet, at least not consciously.)

Darth Vader was constantly moving in and out of her life, his time split between training her and continuing to act as the Emperor's enforcer. Leia, too, was constantly on the move - her cover as Senator had definitively been blown, and she was both inconvenienced and freed by that fact. (She was also freed by a certain shift in perspective, resorting to tactics she would have shunned before. Let her allies worry about her mental state - they hadn't seen what she'd seen.)

But somehow, no matter where she was in the galaxy, Vader always caught up with her when he wanted to. It never got easier, to turn a corner or enter a safehouse to find Him standing there. The hate rushed up into her head every time.

Vader approved. He would teach her, he promised, to turn that hate into power.

In turn, Leia promised that she'd become more powerful than him, and destroy him when she was; but still, in her more sane moments she wondered what had been done to Vader that his power was still superior to hers - what world had disintegrated before his eyes.

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[personal profile] elementalraven 2022-02-05 02:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Star Wars, Leia Organa & Padmé Amidala, Leia travels back in time and becomes one of Padmé's handmaidens
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Love & Devotion

[personal profile] ultra_fic 2022-02-05 04:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Queen Amidala casts an eye over the gaggle of women eager to serve and protect her, unsure how to ask of them what she must, that one or more might stand in her place to keep her safe from harm.

Sabe has taken on the role of decoy before and will do so again if asked, Padme is sure, but there is another in the group that catches the queen's eye, so similar in looks to herself that it sends a jolt of... something through her.

"My queen, whatever you require of me," the young woman says, dropping to her knee in a deep bow, and though Padme believes Leia would die for the cause, somehow she thinks it is more than that, so very much more.

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Star Wars, Padmé Amidala, Padme raises her children (can be a fix-it au, or one where she joins the rebellion/goes on the run/etc.)
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Star Wars, any, role-swap
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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Star Wars, any, if it was fantasy instead of science fiction
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Escape from Castle Alderaan

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Darth Vader lowered his sword and prodded Kenobi’s empty robe with his boot in growing frustration — the old man’s magic had been strong, yes, but this?

He ignored the three brash young heroes galloping away on their horses; he would track them through the debris of Castle Alderaan by the scent of their desperation, if not the young one’s magic, already tainted by Kenobi.

Overhead, the Death Star hovered: a writhing ball of gas and flame clenched by the fist of Vader’s magic, waiting only for his command and a direction to strike.

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lord of the rings, any, if it was a different genre (sci-fi/dystopia/etc.)
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Aboard the spaceship Bag End, in the missile bay

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“Fire it into the sun!” cried Sam as Frodo’s bloody stump of a finger hovered over the emergency launch button.

And then Gollum, his features and his limbs twisted by so many years without gravity, scrabbled into the missile tube, wrapped his arms around the weapon and crooned even as it fired, taking its deadly payload straight into the heart of the star.

Sam felt the ship shudder with the force of the shock wave, felt the energy frisson when the joined tractor beams of Eagle Squadron locked on to drag them out of danger, but he had eyes only for Frodo — free at last from the ring’s deadly radiation.
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[personal profile] elementalraven 2022-02-05 02:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Dracula, any, they start a vampire slaying business/it becomes their trade
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Letter from the Quincy Institute for Rarefied Protection

[personal profile] woodmr 2022-04-30 05:39 pm (UTC)(link)

“Dear —,

“Thank you for the very detailed letter explaining your concerns, even those that in the decent light of day appear suspect or even fanciful. We intend to be on the next train and recommend you follow the enclosed instructions until our arrival, as we recommend to all who seek our aid; they include such remedies, and the reasons behind them, as we wish had been disclosed on our first encounter with such evils. Above all, trust in each other and God, knowing we remain,

“Your obedient servants,

“Jonathan and Mina Harker.”

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[personal profile] elementalraven 2022-02-05 02:11 pm (UTC)(link)
the queen's thief, Gen & Irene, roleswap
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[personal profile] betony 2022-02-05 09:39 pm (UTC)(link)
This actually intersects with a broader AU I've been tossing around, where Helen dies of illness alongside her brothers, forcing the gods to...improvise.

In that first hazy instant after waking, the king of Eddis imagined Death herself to be waiting at the end of his bed, so icily beautiful was the woman shrouded in gray who sat there; and in response he only smiled, crooked and content. He said, "You've come rather late, if you meant to collect me with the rest of my cousins. You might have spared me the coronation, at least; the crown made my head ache terribly."

"You're a fool," said Irene shortly, years of hard work as the first Thief of Attolia having eroded what was left of the Shadow Princess' patience, "and not a very good one, either. Now get up and get dressed; I've come to steal you."
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