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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!























laughingpineapple: (DE the kind of animal I want to be)

Disco Elysium, Harry/Kim (...but at least he's winning the actual game he did agree to play?)

[personal profile] laughingpineapple 2022-01-25 12:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Day five of this investigation and Kim’s holding himself together with tape, twine and a special triple-reagent epoxy made of composure, volition and inertia: his concentration’s cracking, letting through a thick mist of alluring phantom images that have no rhyme nor reason but still surround him and his partner through the work hours and into the night, when their smoky edges find a foothold into the pages of his other notebook, jotted down in an uncrackable personal code.
He accepts this game of Suzerainty to remember, among other things, what some semblance of order feels like, as if by virtue of transitivity his life could go back to functioning under strict rules, with clear (if longwinded and ultimately unjust) scorekeeping at the end.
Harry’s rough, warm fingers brush against the leather of his gloves as they both reach for the manual to check the legitimacy of a daring move and it’s okay, no big deal, no reason to hold in that breath, either way he eyeballed it earlier and they should be 36-14, he’s winning, big time.
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[personal profile] smallhobbit 2022-01-25 01:00 pm (UTC)(link)
That play, he doesn't know but he suspects, and Gertrude is starting to waver - she was never entirely committed to the plan, whatever she may have said. I knew that, of course, but preferred to ignore it. And now, well Hamlet has to go, but I don't see that this will be the end, as soon as we began we condemned ourselves to worse.
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Re: A couple of Bolds in Piccadilly

[personal profile] jinty 2022-01-25 01:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Well well well, StoneGryphon!Edmund. Or should I say... Edna?! How bona to vada your dolly old eke!
(In Polari people got given 'camp names' ie opposite-sex names, hence Edna as my guess as one for Edmund.)

What a treat to open in my inbox this morning! Many thanks indeed, Rthstewart. I have recently been reading and much enjoying "Fabulosa! The Story of Polari, Britain's Secret Gay Language" by Paul Baker (http://www.reaktionbooks.co.uk/display.asp?ISB=9781789142945&sf1=facet&st1=BOOK&sf2=auth%5Ftitle&st2=BAKERPAULFABULOS%2A&sort=sort%5Ftitle&m=2&dc=2) which is what prompted this request. Edmund would have been all over this sort of secret language and would have enjoyed baffling straights with it, I should think.
Edited 2022-01-25 14:31 (UTC)
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Re: A couple of Bolds in Piccadilly

[personal profile] jinty 2022-01-25 01:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Isn't Andrew someone else, and Edmund is eyeliner boy? Or have I read the wrong way?
wearing_tearing: black and white icon of a person holding a wolf mask to their face. (Default)

Re: Dragonriders of Pern via SouCon MUSH's Xanadu Weyr

[personal profile] wearing_tearing 2022-01-25 01:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Aaahh, dragons <3
ultra_fic: (Gilmore Girls)

[personal profile] ultra_fic 2022-01-25 01:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Oof, right in the feels! Excellent job, honey. Thank you so much :)
wearing_tearing: black and white icon of a person holding a wolf mask to their face. (Default)

Re: Shi no Mori (Naruto; Kakashi, Obito)

[personal profile] wearing_tearing 2022-01-25 01:35 pm (UTC)(link)
I have no context for this since I don't know the fandom, but I laughed at "My family take picnics in Shi no Mori." XD
ultra_fic: (Firefly)

Re: Scared to Lose (Firefly, Mal & River)

[personal profile] ultra_fic 2022-01-25 01:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, I love that! It's perfectly Firefly in every way. Thank you so much :)
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Re: I Miss You

[personal profile] ultra_fic 2022-01-25 01:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Yup, ain't that the truth! Glad you like :)
wearing_tearing: black and white icon of a person holding a wolf mask to their face. (Default)

Re: Colour (Mary Stayed Out All Night; Jung In/Mary/Mu Gyul)

[personal profile] wearing_tearing 2022-01-25 01:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Super sweet <3
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Re: Not Like This

[personal profile] ultra_fic 2022-01-25 01:37 pm (UTC)(link)
They certainly had their problems, but they just have to be together, don't they? Bless their hearts!
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[personal profile] paxilam 2022-01-25 02:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Any, any, sunbathing
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[personal profile] paxilam 2022-01-25 02:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Any, any, doing a crossword
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[personal profile] paxilam 2022-01-25 02:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Constantine, John Constantine &/any, possessed cat
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[personal profile] paxilam 2022-01-25 02:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Any, any, only swan boats are available
syrena_of_the_lake: (Default)

Dictatorial

[personal profile] syrena_of_the_lake 2022-01-25 02:37 pm (UTC)(link)
When the seventh quill snapped in his paws, Belle’s temper snapped as well.

“I asked if I could help,” she said, snatching up the eight quill before he could mangle it, “and I’m done asking — just dictate your missive and be done with it!”

The Beast’s magnificent eyebrows furrowed and rose in quick succession, and if Belle didn’t know better she’d swear he was trying not to laugh.

“I didn’t hear you,” he finally admitted in a strangled voice.

“The roaring in your ears was too loud?” Belle asked sweetly.

The Beast glowered, and she hastily dipped the quill into the ink bottle and readied her parchment. “Don’t say anything you don’t want committed to writing,” she warned.

The Beast’s lip curled. “Your blatant attempt to curry favor has been noted and disregarded.”

“What?” asked Belle in a small voice.

The Beast gestured at her parchment and mimed a grotesque scrawl in the air.

Oh. He was dictating. “I can take a hint,” she muttered.

“Hah!” burst the Beast before visibly restraining himself. He jabbed a claw at her letter and Belle yanked it out of his reach before could furrow the parchment.

“Noted and disregarded,” prompted Belle.

The Beast snorted but resumed dictating. “Your blatantly false flattery—”

“You’ve already used ‘blatant.’ How about ‘patently’?”

He nodded. “— patently false flattery will not make me any more amenable to your proposal, which I hereby reject. You may not raise the rent above the statutory limits — which, I remind you, are based on the rate of inflation, and not the rate at which you would prefer to line your pockets. Moreover… Belle?”

She stared at him, ink dripping from her nib. Clearly the Beast had not withdrawn as far from the world as she’d thought. He cares about his people,, she realized.

“Any suggestions, o human thesaurus?”

Belle blinked. “No, it’s perfect.”

They stared at each other in mutual consternation.

“It’s nice to have someone with hands,” offered the Beast grudgingly. “Not to mention a vocabulary.”

Belle smiled tentatively. “It’s nice to be useful.”

Suddenly the Beast grinned — a frightful, feral sight that would have frightened her a few days ago, but now Belle merely raised an eyebrow in mute inquiry.

“We’ll finish that one later. I want you to help me eviscerate Lord Rodahl, who thinks he can help himself to every chambermaid who crosses his threshold. That is…” he paused and ran a massive paw over his mane, “will you help me, Belle?”

Belle was sure her answering smile was equally feral, if nowhere near as toothy. “Why, Beast, I thought you’d never ask.”
syrena_of_the_lake: (Default)

[personal profile] syrena_of_the_lake 2022-01-25 02:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Narnia Rthverse, Susan & Lambert, at last
Edited 2022-01-25 14:43 (UTC)
syrena_of_the_lake: (Default)

[personal profile] syrena_of_the_lake 2022-01-25 02:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Meta, 3SF, exponential growth of prompts
syrena_of_the_lake: (Default)

[personal profile] syrena_of_the_lake 2022-01-25 02:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Mythology, sirens, laryngitis
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[personal profile] syrena_of_the_lake 2022-01-25 02:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Modern mythology, sirens, space
aestivalis: stantler looks prepared to charge (pokemon) (⌈silver stag⌋)

Re: Final Fantasy VII, Barret

[personal profile] aestivalis 2022-01-25 02:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I love him, and I love this;; Train imagery is obviously so perfect for Barret, and you really capture the misery of Midgar with that almost hopeful sense of forward momentum. He's not giving up—he's just getting started.
syrena_of_the_lake: (Default)

[personal profile] syrena_of_the_lake 2022-01-25 02:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Star Trek Voyager, Seven of Nine & Naomi Wildman, explorers at heart
aelisheva: captain phasma from star wars, wearing a flower crown of pink roses. (Default)

John Constantine/Zatanna Zatara, DC Bombshells (Comics)

[personal profile] aelisheva 2022-01-25 02:55 pm (UTC)(link)
"First you get turned into a bunny and now this," Zee quipped, booping the top of Cat-John's head, "plus it's funny that all the passersby think you're just some normal possessed cat."

"Easy for you to say, dollface," Cat-John grumbled.

"Wait -- last time the Bombshells all called you the Hareblazer or Bun-stantine, are you Cat-stantine now??" Zee gasped with delight.
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[personal profile] wearing_tearing 2022-01-25 03:17 pm (UTC)(link)
any, any, hush