Three Sentence Ficathon 2022 Part 2

[rthstewart]

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 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.

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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!

Comments

[kiestan]

two fandoms featuring mecha/robots, any, dick measuring contest

[kiestan]

any, any, your most nostalgic trope

[kiestan]

naruto, sasuke/sakura, forward thinking

Jack Reacher x Awaken the Stars

[ruthchinn]

Reacher does a double take at the sight of a familiar man in this middle-of-nowhere town in Pennsylvania, though, after a moment, he recalls that this must be Cody's hometown. Not wanting to draw attention to himself and his current investigation into the town's strangely un-aging mystery man by calling out directly, he signals to the waitress for his bill, hands her the cash, then ambles across the street, as if it's sheer coincidence that he happens to pass by the sheriff's car.
... has that man not aged one bit since over a decade ago, from the looks of it? Cody looks to be still in his mid-to-late twenties, when he ought to be hitting his mid-thirties, and probably showing the wear a bit from his service. Perhaps Reacher's investigation will turn up a great deal more than he was expecting.

[raisedbymoogles]

any, any, this post

[ruthchinn]

any, any, imitate your favorite writer's most used trope

[kiestan]

He used to see her everywhere: in the jars of chamomile tea leaves, in the ​pencil strokes along his canvas, in the void of the mansion that echoes without her sound.

It became bearable after he tucked her away, in the mosaic portrait, in Adrien, and in the basement.

Sometimes, though, he slips up, but Nathalie only politely ignores it, nodding when he corrects himself by addressing her again, with the right name.

[kiestan]

naruto, any f/f ship, sexy no jutsu

Re: Jack Reacher x Awaken the Stars

[kiestan]

OOH thank you for the fill :D I'm not familiar with the fandoms but it looks like some people are about to get excitingly reacquainted >:]

[ilthit]

It was quieter without that brat A-Qing around, and with no more secrets to keep, Xue Yang could go about his work freely. He still went to the market, still stayed and ate at the coffin home, and lit a fire to keep cozy every night, telling Daozhang all those terrible stories he used to bite his tongue on. He didn't mind having to do it all by himself; Daozhang had always been terrible at telling stories anyway.

[kiestan]

boruto, sarada, chidori

[elementalraven]

Oohh I love this! the perfect person for this prompt really

[elementalraven]

any, any, write something inspired by one of the fills on here

The list

[(Anonymous)]

LBH doesn’t make lists, really, but he does daydream - he is assigned a lot of menial chores, and his bright mind needs things to catch on, like a grasshopper jumping from blades of grass to another, and the shiniest thing in his whole universe is the warmth his shizun provides - so when his minds wanders, it is no surprise that he sometimes, frequently, okay maybe everyday but really who hasn’t, draws up arguments about who would be the best life companion(s) for SQQ.

At first it starts like this:

- must support shizun in cultivation;
- must uphold shizun’s reputation;
- must come from an esteemed family;
- must be a beauty beyond measure;

but as the years go by, it starts changing and becomes more like this:

- must be a good cook;
- must be a worthy confident;
- must defend shizun against physical and spiritual threats;
- must not allow shizun to overwork himself;

then it becomes:
- must be strong;
- must be kind;
- must be worthy.

It takes a long time, but eventually, LBH realises he only ever wanted on item:

- it must be me.

Re: The list

[ilthit]

YEP

Who else is going to take such good care of shizun?? Who else knows instinctively when his feet are cold or his pillows need fluffing

[marquisguyun]

God,, I don't know if it's worse if he's lying to himself half on purpose or if he genuinely believes he doesn't mind... Thank you so much for the food

Re: The list

[marquisguyun]

Luo Binghe, teenage matchmaker! There is exactly one name on the list of who is most compatible with Shizun lmao

Thank you for the fill! I can imagine him thinking about this as he cooks Shizun's dinner <3

[svgurl]

gilmore girls, rory/jess, dance

[vialethe]

Oooh yes, I like this.

[svgurl]

ted lasso, ted/rebecca, wait

[svgurl]

star trek (aos), kirk/spock, i want you to be happy

[svgurl]

mcu, bucky/sam, do you take suggestions

[svgurl]

smallville, clark/lois/oliver, cuddle

[kingstoken]

Any, Any, "I'm so cold"

Agatha Christie's Jane Marple

[smallhobbit]

Miss Marple took out her knitting and began to slowly work on the sleeve. To the uninitiated she was simply an old lady occupying her time before supper, but to those who knew her well she was using that time to listen to a conversation between two people sitting close to her in the hotel lounge. After a while, the two departed, leaving Miss Marple to put her knitting safely in her bag and go to make a telephone call to the nice detective inspector she had been talking with earlier.