rthstewart | 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

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

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!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

any, any, see that young man who dwells inside his body like an uninvited guest

Ed appears to think that Al joins him on his PT sessions just to be nice, because his brother is an actual prodigy but also an unmitigated fool, but the exercises actually do help – physical benefits aside, running through each part of his body in turn serves to remind him that they're there, which isn't a benefit to be dismissed out of hand.

His problems are different from Ed's; there's no muscle memory to rewire after all, seeing as he hadn't been physically been in the armour, yet all the same there's something there he needs to be reacquainted with.

(Possibly it's on the same dimension of intangibility as the three-inches-to-the-left he still feels when he wakes up wrong some mornings, but Al's not too worried; he'll know what it is when he sees it, and he will find it, eventually.)

Al!! I love the sense of getting reacquainted with himself, and knowing that it will still take time, but not worrying about it. This is great, thank you <3

I am always for the happy FMA post-canon category, these boys deserve it haha. Thank you! <3

Oh, this is good.

Now and then Rodimus speaks and the words aren't quite his own, though putting the voice print through an auditory analysis program would reveal no significant differences.

Now and then Rodimus moves, thinks, reacts in ways that he was never trained for, but that the ancient veterans of Cybertron's many wars might have found hauntingly familiar.

Now and then Rodimus dreams of an overcrowded spark chamber, eons and eons of Primes taking up all the space where Hot Rod used to dwell, shouting him down, forcing him out.

this is good and sad. i love how with each sentence Prime's influence is felt a little more strongly, even though it's still not *that* obvious to an outsider. thank you!

"I must destroy him before Terra's plan is activated, or my soul will no longer be my own!"

Zidane was the lucky one, the chosen, the favorite. The foolish boy still didn't know, whether through ignorance or no, what the main difference between them was. Kuja remembered the gurgling infant entrusted to his care, and the youth before him was a stranger, but the divide between them went back before Zidane was ever created. Kuja keenly remembered taking that which was not his by birth like a furtive thief.

Zidane never knew what it was like to live without a soul: Kuja did.

This is so good and sad and bitter. I feel like there's a lot of love and resentment between these two characters, and it's hard for Kuja to tell the difference between the two feelings because they're so tightly bound. Thank you very much!

Thank you! I'm glad all those feelings came through bc Damn kuja is a very very bitter person, but when I think about the backstorys and the holes in them... i imagine kuja was the one who raised zidane as an infant and there was a real love there once, which makes the subsequent hatred all the more brutal for it. When Kuja was told Zidane would be his replacement, he decided to resolve that emotional conflict by hating his brother instead, thus the attempted infanticide.

So, its less they're entwined than theres a little kernel from the past buried under a tree. Zidane still thinks he can grow something from it, Kuja is more cynical. But! its still There, and I like poking at it. It's more delicious for being bitter.

that canon line comes up a grand total of Once and then never again and ive been obsessing over what it means for over two decades.

oh this is an excellent take on the strange fraught relationship between kuja and zidane (a relationship zidane is largely ignorant of, and that’s part of what kuja resents — zidane gets to keep his innocence.)

Thank you very much! I'm glad i could nail it. You certainly got it in one yourself. zidane not remembering anything, not having to deal with any of the difficulties kuja has to wrestle with is one of many reasons for kuja's bitterness and resentment.

honestly thats one major reason i dont like the idea that kuja kicked the bucket at the end. i wanna see where these two go from there.

This is incredible. Oh, Kuja… ;_;

thank you so much! mission accomplished :3< i do like this fic meme bc i get to inflict everyone w my headcanons and thoughts

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