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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!























(Anonymous) 2022-01-24 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Greek mythology, Aphrodite and Hedone, secretly doting on her favourite grandchild
wickedlittletown: (Default)

[personal profile] wickedlittletown 2022-01-24 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
NBC Hannibal, any, You're the apple of my eye
ernest: (Default)

[personal profile] ernest 2022-01-25 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
any, any, Enjoy your youth / Sounds like a threat / But I will anyway
ernest: (Default)

[personal profile] ernest 2022-01-25 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
any, any, "All the fool mine?" "I cannot give you less."
svgurl: (mcu: sam/bucky walking)

[personal profile] svgurl 2022-01-25 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
LOL This was fun! I love how Sam and Bucky are just so ... Sam and Bucky, in the way they drive each other nuts. Bucky was going to get revenge on you for jumping out of that plane eventually, Sam. :D

Great job! Thanks for picking and filling my prompt.
vialethe: (Lion in Winter)

[personal profile] vialethe 2022-01-25 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
It all seems dead on to me, and it's lovely! Michael's guilt and his fear come through so well here, combined with the physical discomfort of hot, humid nights and mosquitos (who are busily giving him malaria). The fantasy vs reality angle works so well for them.
ernest: (What disadvantage?)

[personal profile] ernest 2022-01-25 12:14 am (UTC)(link)
First things first, she changes her name: Cathys and Catherines have only ever suffered in her family, because everyone expected them to be someone other than themselves, but Katie might do alright for herself.

Next, in broad daylight, she cleans house; pries up rusted nails and shards of glass and splinters of wood that would bite anyone who tried to open a window; throws out mildewed sermons and tired philosophies; and lets the whole place actually breathe air from this century for once.

Then Katie leaves it all behind – it’s better than she found it, which is more than anyone else has bothered to do, but she cannot be expected to give her whole future to her origins.
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[personal profile] cestlamorte 2022-01-25 12:14 am (UTC)(link)
Light filtered thinly between the boughs-less dense here-and dappled a pattern in shadow across Arahan's face, for once almost something like peaceful.

The moment of respite makes Naestra smile and reach out, long fingers touching her sister's white hair(white like light, white like fire).

"Rare for you to touch me when I'm not dying, sister," Arahan says with her predator's baring of teeth in a challenge, a knife-sharp grin that only for her has a softer fondness in it.
Edited (siscon) 2022-01-25 00:14 (UTC)
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Re: Locked Tomb, Harrow & John

[personal profile] cestlamorte 2022-01-25 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
This is very delightful.
little_lady_d: (blue rose.)

[personal profile] little_lady_d 2022-01-25 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
‘Tis common, all that lives must die, mothers and fathers, queens and kings, reaped all alike by the ravening plague, and the new court had no place for an orphaned princess; it was safer, kinder, to send her to Elsinore to be with her betrothed prince, and Gertrude cannot begrudge her brothers the hard work of succession and statehood, though Danish still hangs heavy on her tongue.

Her brother-in-law, Claudius, lingers in her steps like a shadow (shy, she thinks, and smiles to ease him) and bids her good morning in halting, practiced words from her homeland, so clearly lifted from a book. Her heart swells as she pictures him bent over the pages, dark hair falling over his eyes, and she forgets to hold herself apart — she steps forward, and sweeps him into a hug.
Edited 2022-01-25 00:17 (UTC)
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[personal profile] ernest 2022-01-25 12:21 am (UTC)(link)
they're in love!!! ahhhh, the description of the plague is so vivid, and the way the kindness of sending her to elsinore still hurts her despite her brothers' best efforts.
and of course tiny shy studious little claudius!! he's so precious, and he's trying so hard, and gertrude is full of so much love already. this is beautiful and soft and sweet <3
svgurl: (misc: blue roses)

[personal profile] svgurl 2022-01-25 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
"So I take it the other job didn't work out?" Iris (her name was Iris; a pretty name for a pretty woman, Barry couldn't help but think) asked.

"Nah," Barry said sheepishly, as he looked from her to the details of the current case, one that she was investigating, that brought them in contact once again and properly introduced this time. "I mean, I'd probably get distracted by all the cute, you know? Hard to focus."

"I think you'd fit right in," Iris remarked, with a small smile, and his cheeks heated automatically. Was she calling him cute? "But," she added, before he could respond, giving his lab coat a once over, "I think this suits you better."

"Yeah," he managed to say. "Me too." Her smile widened and he grinned back automatically, unable to not smile at the sight.

Besides, it brought her to him, so whatever happened next, he was definitely grateful for it.
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Lobotomy Corporation, Malkuth

[personal profile] cestlamorte 2022-01-25 12:23 am (UTC)(link)
Michelle is sweet and a genius and everyone wants to protect her, Kali is fierce and commanding and powerful, and Carmen is-Carmen, the sun everyone orbits around.

Elijah is there, failing at everything, fading into the background, trying to prove that she really is just as good as they all are by working twice as hard for worse results.

Malkuth knows now that she's not like them or like perfect Angela or like the magnetically dangerous monster on the lower floors-she's simply a defective failure just like Angela tells her, and there's a happiness in accepting that she's just never going to be on their level(of course there is, because she's still smiling).
svgurl: (gilmore girls: rory smile)

[personal profile] svgurl 2022-01-25 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
I love this! Rory wanting to let go but at the same time not let go and also Jess willing to fight- I'm so here for Jess trying again and again in hopes to reach her instead of walking away. And for once, they can meet in the middle. My heart!

Wonderful job! :D
raisedbymoogles: (Zidane - flight)

Re: Lobotomy Corporation, Malkuth

[personal profile] raisedbymoogles 2022-01-25 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
i don't go here but oh god relatable
svgurl: (gilmore girls: rory/jess)

[personal profile] svgurl 2022-01-25 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
He let her go; she was the one, not only the one but also the one he had walked away from time and time again, but this time, he let her go.

Jess wasn't 18 anymore; not far removed, but the years had aged him, sometimes like wine but other days, it felt like cheese, and he couldn't stand by and ask her to choose him when Rory said she loved someone else, even after they kissed. There was no fight this time.

He couldn't linger in the background, hoping to catch a moment of her time and her attention, draw out any lingering feelings that prompted her to kiss him back. If he had to grow and keep growing, he had to move on. Let her go. Had he been given a second chance, he would've fought in a way he hadn't before, but if she didn't want it, he wasn't going to fight at all. There was only so much breaking a heart could handle, and Jess was at his limit.

So she walked out the door, out of his life yet again, and he would pretend that he was okay.

That much he could do.

After all, there was no other choice.
wickedlittletown: (Default)

[personal profile] wickedlittletown 2022-01-25 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
NBC Hannibal, Hannibal/Will Graham, You've killed the saint in me
svgurl: (avengers: natasha)

[personal profile] svgurl 2022-01-25 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
MCU, Pepper/Natasha, stolen moments
svgurl: (misc: ocean and night sky)

[personal profile] svgurl 2022-01-25 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
Carmilla (web series), Carmilla/Laura, blankets
svgurl: (smallville: clark/lois soulmates)

[personal profile] svgurl 2022-01-25 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
Smallville, Clark/Lois, explanations
svgurl: (dcu: wonder woman)

[personal profile] svgurl 2022-01-25 12:49 am (UTC)(link)
DCEU, Diana/Steve, all this time/i've been waiting for you
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Angel Sanctuary, Rosiel/Katan

[personal profile] cestlamorte 2022-01-25 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
When Katan had first been with his lord Rosiel, when he had a childish heart and childish feelings, early on he had impulsively touched Rosiel's hair. It was silvery pale and exquisite in how it flowed and curled and Rosiel gently smiled at him and tousled his own hair, not begrudging him the instinctual action of trying to experience that beauty.

Now, he lies in bed curling one exquisitely soft silver strand around his finger and Rosiel's eyes half-opened, gazing at him dreamily and madly from a face younger than his own, and Katan knew that no matter how far Rosiel fell, no matter how great a monster he might become, Katan would die a thousand deaths before he would leave him.
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Re: Start Here, And Be Kinder

[personal profile] cestlamorte 2022-01-25 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
noooooo this is the CUTEST
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[personal profile] silverwill 2022-01-25 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
On the eve of Shi Qingxuan’s hundred-day celebration, while their parents run around frantic, there is little more Shi Wudu can do for his ailing brother than hold him in his arms and wipe his body down with a cool cloth.

When the Reverend of Empty Words later returns to drive them both to madness, Shi Wudu can only hold his brother close and promise to protect him.

800 hundred years later, he still can’t let go.
chanter1944: an image of a green dragon (green dragon)

Dragonriders of Pern via SouCon MUSH's Xanadu Weyr

[personal profile] chanter1944 2022-01-25 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
"He looks like a Honshu quilt, almost," says Sherna, at the same moment Z'ran's opining, "like someone dropped a Glasscrafter's goblet on the floor...?" Both the candidate coordinators are right; the blue who's the subject of discussion is a patchwork of light yet vivid shades flashed with paler and darker traceries, very like both a certain kind of quilt and smashed-and-repaired glasswork. He's also, after a minute spent inspecting a long rank of lads of varying ages and origins, heading determinedly for a small group of girls instead, and it's the tallest one of those he selects as his, an awkward, nervous lass in her mid teens, all fine black hair and overlarge eyeteeth and, now, shoulders no longer bowed by the scorn of her fellows at Thessaly Hold.