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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!























ruanchunxian: (Default)

[personal profile] ruanchunxian 2022-01-21 02:10 pm (UTC)(link)

Narnia, any,

syrena_of_the_lake: (Default)

King Edmund the Crowfessor

[personal profile] syrena_of_the_lake 2022-01-25 06:34 pm (UTC)(link)
“I’m here for the murder investigation,” Edmund announced.
“Which one?” asked Sallowpad dryly.
Edmund blinked. “There’s more than one?”
“It depends on whether you mean murder or murder, Your Majesty.”
“That clears it up,” Edmund muttered. He strode into the glade and pulled up short. The trees were black with crows — a shifting, restless, but unusually silent mass of crows — and black feathers mingled with russet leaves falling to the ground. In the center of the clearing, there were no birds.
There was, however, a corpse with a knife in its back.
“Ah,” said Edmund. “The second murder. Quite.”
“Please, sire — the /other/ murder. Otherwise you’ll start rumors that more than one person has been killed,” censured Sallowpad.
“Right.” Edmund sighed. “And the, er, original murder investigation?”
Sallowpad mantled, shedding a few black feathers of his own. “The theft of visiting royalty’s jewelry, while of grave importance, is not as pressing as the death of one of the Calormene guards.”
“Of course not!” Edmund rolled his eyes. “What I meant is — why are they here? Don’t tell me the cases are related!”
“Unknown,” croaked Sallowpad. “But I heard one of the Calormene delegates threaten bodily harm to one or more members of the Royal Murder.”
“Tell me.” Edmund’s voice was dangerously low.
“He said that, should the true thief be unmasked, he would… eat crow.” Sallowpad shuddered.
But Edmund grinned like the proverbial well-fed cat. “Did he now? It’s not what you think, Chief” — and someday, he would have to explain the idiom, but the longer he could put off that conversation, the better. “I have the feeling our two cases are related after all. Dismiss the murder — we’ll have to interview the crows later, but I think we’ll find the delegate himself is behind the thefts. The /other/ murder may hold the key, but I suspect Calormene infighting is at the root of it all. Someone is trying to lay the blame — not to mention the corpse — at our doorstep.”
“I hope so,” said Sallowpad darkly. “Or the Tisroc will eat us all.”
“Not to worry, my friend.” Edmund crouched next to the body. “I’m on the case.”



“I’m here for the murder investigation,” Edmund announced, trying to ignore the sense of deja vu.
The Scotland Yard detective in charge took in the sight of Edmund’s Oxford robes and blinked. “Professor…?”
“Pevensie, three E’s, one I, not in that order.” Edmund crouched next to the body, trying to ignore his aching, arthritic knees along with the sense of deja vu. “This is the fourth dead crow left on an MP’s doorstep. The previous three have been followed by assassination attempts. Yes, yes, all very hush-hush, I didn’t find out through the paper. My brother Peter told me. He was MP number two on your list, I would have thought you could spell our surname by now.” Edmund straightened with a wince. “You need a man who can tell you about crows, so you can track down the perpetrator before he perpetrates again. I’m your man.”
The detective seemed far too young for such an important case, but was no younger than Edmund had been when the Calormenes killed one of their own, stole their own jewels, and tried to blame it on Narnia. Still, he seemed a little slow — it took him a full minute to formulate a response to Edmund’s introduction.
“You’re… an ornithologist?”
Edmund shook his head. “You’re thinking of my cousin, Professor Emeritus Eustace Scrubb, and he doesn’t just study birds, it’s all tied to dinosaurs. No, I’m a professor of law. But for anything involving crows, not to mention the other sort of murder, I’m your man. In fact,” he added with a sly smile, “I’ve been called the Crowfessor.”
For some reason, the detective did not look appropriately reassured.
Edited 2022-01-25 18:34 (UTC)
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Re: King Edmund the Crowfessor

[personal profile] vialethe 2022-01-25 07:54 pm (UTC)(link)
The back and forth of the dialogue here!! I love the rhythm of it, the repetition of 'murder investigation', the difficulties of spelling Pevensie (not in that order). Witty as always!!
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Re: King Edmund the Crowfessor

[personal profile] ruanchunxian 2022-01-25 08:22 pm (UTC)(link)
This is amazing!! So many references!! So many murders!!! I love it!!

Re: King Edmund the Crowfessor

[personal profile] priscipixie 2022-01-28 09:41 pm (UTC)(link)
This is so perfect!! Now I want to see Edmund explaining the "eat crow" reference to Sallowpad :D
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Re: King Edmund the Crowfessor

[personal profile] ernest 2022-01-29 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)
omg, this is glorious! edmund is a blessing, and the rhythm of the dialogue is absolutely perfect for the wordplay here. i love how PROUD he is to have been called the Crowfessor.

Re: King Edmund the Crowfessor

[personal profile] buttonloops 2022-01-30 12:33 pm (UTC)(link)
oh syrena, I don't even have words for how lovely this is
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Re: King Edmund the Crowfessor

[personal profile] edenfalling 2022-01-30 07:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Ha! :)
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Re: King Edmund the Crowfessor

[personal profile] elementalraven 2022-02-06 06:49 pm (UTC)(link)
omg this is fantastic XD