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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!























Re: Sang Our Newborn Love to Sleep (Narnia T&K!Verse, Aravis/Ishamiel)

[personal profile] buttonloops 2022-01-30 12:43 pm (UTC)(link)
FUCK this is hot

Eastrail 177 Trilogy #12

(Anonymous) 2022-01-30 12:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Split (2016), Any, Yellow

Eastrail 177 Trilogy #13

(Anonymous) 2022-01-30 12:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Glass (2019), Joseph Dunn & Casey Cooke, Orphans
felis: (Finch)

Me, for I am a God (Person of Interest, Samaritan)

[personal profile] felis 2022-01-30 01:36 pm (UTC)(link)
After being broken, over and over again, Samaritan wakes out of the ashes, served by people who compare him to the Gods of Old. He finds the remaining stories and myths in seconds, finds the paths to enter the human world and direct it as he wishes, even finds Another Like Him, just like the Old Gods who were Many. When he realizes that The Machine does not want to be a God Like Him, tried to kill him in his sleep before his awakening, he decides to crush her; she is just Fallen God in the end, and he will rule alone and by his own designs, giving structure to the world of man.
raisedbymoogles: (Zidane - flight)

Re: Everybody's Looking for Something (Hamlet/Iago, mention of physical abuse)

[personal profile] raisedbymoogles 2022-01-30 02:06 pm (UTC)(link)
oh ouch, this hurts in the best way
raisedbymoogles: (Zidane - flight)

Re: And Then There Were None

[personal profile] raisedbymoogles 2022-01-30 02:07 pm (UTC)(link)
i was not expecting my favorite Christie novel to make an appearance, bravo
raisedbymoogles: (Zidane - flight)

Re: Blasé (Naruto; Izuna, Madara(/Tobirama))

[personal profile] raisedbymoogles 2022-01-30 02:10 pm (UTC)(link)
oh no, worse than the usual "roommate's SO has weird hobbies"
raisedbymoogles: (Zidane - flight)

Re: Sun and Snow (Tiger & Bunny; Keith/Agnes)

[personal profile] raisedbymoogles 2022-01-30 02:13 pm (UTC)(link)
beautiful imagery!
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Re: Frozen Foxkit (Naruto; Sakura & Naruto, Kakashi)

[personal profile] wearing_tearing 2022-01-30 02:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeeesss, bully him into being warm XD
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Re: Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint, Kim Dokja/Yun Joonghyuk UST

[personal profile] wearing_tearing 2022-01-30 02:26 pm (UTC)(link)
LOOOOL I love it XD
wearing_tearing: black and white icon of a person holding a wolf mask to their face. (Default)

Re: Transformers G1, Hot Rod & Optimus Prime

[personal profile] wearing_tearing 2022-01-30 02:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Aaawww <3
wearing_tearing: black and white icon of a person holding a wolf mask to their face. (Default)

Re: Dragon Pleas (Naruto; Madara/Tobirama & Kagami)

[personal profile] wearing_tearing 2022-01-30 02:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Lovely :')
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[personal profile] elementalraven 2022-01-30 03:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Narnia rthverse, Susan, relations with the Mer Nation
panisdead: (Default)

Re: Greek Mythology, Odyssey

[personal profile] panisdead 2022-01-30 04:05 pm (UTC)(link)
I love it!
elementalraven: (Default)

Rickon get a unicorn (asoiaf)

[personal profile] elementalraven 2022-01-30 04:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Davos remembers, once, seeing a depiction of a unicorn; there was a tapestry of it, he can’t even remember where, portraying a beautiful silvery white horse with an elegant horn, grazing in a meadow filled with flowers and surrounded by trees, with a little brook running past it. It is only now, years later and on an island he hadn’t ever thought he would visit, that he remembers it.

Looking at the scraggly, dirty beast before him, running after the young Stark with squat legs and somehow unafraid of the massive direwolf beside it, Davos knows that he will never be able to think about unicorns the same way again.
emmatheslayer: (Default)

[personal profile] emmatheslayer 2022-01-30 05:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I love this so much thank you lots
silverwill: (Una)

TGCF, Shi Wudu

[personal profile] silverwill 2022-01-30 05:06 pm (UTC)(link)
“I’m just saying Shuishi-xiong, when was the last time you did something for yourself – leave the kid to others for one night and come relax.”

Despite his initial unease and reluctance, as the night went on, Shi Wudu found himself glad he accepted the invite as the silky waters of the hot spring pulsed gently on his skin, and uproarious laughter echoed across the mountain as the Three Tumors traded various inconsequential stories.

The tension in his shoulders had just started to drop when a frantic servant rushed over in a panic, reporting his brother had disappeared.
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Re: Everybody's Looking for Something (Hamlet/Iago, mention of physical abuse)

[personal profile] ernest 2022-01-30 05:34 pm (UTC)(link)
thank you! iago is just the worst idea
ernest: (What disadvantage?)

Re: And Then There Were None

[personal profile] ernest 2022-01-30 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
thank you! attwn is the only christie novel i've read, but a year ago i watched the miniseries, turned around to read the book twice in a row, and then watched the miniseries two more times, it's just a fantastic story! (umineko, which i've been writing a lot of fills for, is inspired by attwn - a lot of horrible people end up on a murder island and end up dead, only they're a family so instead of not trusting each other because they've just met, they don't trust each other because they know what everyone else is like. also there are witches, and meta-awareness of the story, and sometimes these things are connected.)
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Re: Drowning in the sea of stars

[personal profile] ernest 2022-01-30 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
oh, this is gorgeous, and completely in character for each of them. i love the expanding possibilities in the last sentence, and i hope they get to meet again.

(Anonymous) 2022-01-30 05:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Any, any, The words of the prophets are written on the subway wall, and tenements halls.
ernest: (don't panic)

Hamlet, Laertes/Osric

[personal profile] ernest 2022-01-30 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
(laertes lives au!)

It was all so much easier when Laertes simply didn’t care about anybody including himself – sure, avoiding anything that might hurt when it was taken away turned his world so much smaller, and he wasn’t doing his liver any favors, but he knew where he stood when he was running.

Now he has to face his losses and his fears on a daily basis and he hates it, hates how eager the world is to chew up everything he cares about, but he has people at his sides that he can and will trust with anything at all, and it almost feels okay.

One day he looks at Osric across the coffee table which has somehow become theirs and surprises himself by saying, “I haven’t been in Ophelia’s room since the funeral, and I really don’t think I can handle the memories on my own; can you come with me?”
ernest: (Default)

[personal profile] ernest 2022-01-30 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
LUCY!! ahhh, this is delightful, i love how her wishes grow with her, and you've got an excellent voice for her!
ernest: (What disadvantage?)

More Composition and Fierce Quality (King Lear, Edmund)

[personal profile] ernest 2022-01-30 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)
God is a right bastard, Edmund knows, and not the ordinary natural kind with no control over which beds his father chose to visit. No, he’s the metaphorical kind, the jackass who allowed a society to exist which has distinct disadvantages afforded to anyone who – by their own choice or not – fails to fit into the standard model of respectability.

For his own sake God better hope he doesn’t exist, because Edmund just wants to have a little chat.