Hiding fandom in the underwear drawer since 1977

We are live!
First post is here.

All the info is here.  Be sure to join the threesentenceficathon  Comm.   I have it on good authority some people have been saving prompts all year.

We're at Day 5, give or take and almost 4100 comments.  I'll open up a new post at under 4500, which will likely be tomorrow.  For those of you thinking, oh my goddess, I'll never be able to read all that, yeah, me too.  This week has kicked me in the teeth so I'm looking forward to the slightly slower pace in the next week or two to get caught up.  Please join me! And no, I"m not going to read every prior prompt and you don't have to, either.  If you've had any problems, drop me a message, DM, email or otherwise.  There are lots of new people participating this year, and many familiar monikers, too, and the return of people who haven't been here in a while, so I'll start a friending meme post.

You have about 5 more hours to get your prompts in for 3SF. They are rushing in!  I'll ask that no new prompts be submitted once I post a "This is the last prompt" but of course please continue to fill. We have A LOT of unfilled prompts.

We're over half way through the Three Sentence Ficathon.  It's cold and miserable in the U.S. and lots of people are really hurting.  This ficathon is intended to be a respite from the awful.  And, if you've been holding off because it's all so overwhelming, as expected, the second post went up, and things quieted down a lot.  It's actually really slow.  So now is the perfect time to check it out.  There are many open prompts and it would be great to see you there. 

The smaller, slower Post 2, is here and the first post (with over 5000 comments so captcha is on) is here. 


conuly 's post with unfilled prompts (optional -- it's wonderful for some people but really can fill prompts that have already been filled or reprompt something). 


And, in very somber news, if you are in Texas, I hope you've found a respite.  If you are looking to connect with aid organizations, either for help or to donate, I found some good links here and here. 

I have seen at least four new Dreamwidth accounts for 3SF and there are probably others. I'm not great at highlighting the functionalities of Dreamwidth but perhaps some of DW pros could provide links as well as comms you follow and enjoy.

I borrowed this no frills template from st_aurafina and snickfic 
Copy and paste it into a reply below (and learn a little HTML while you're at it!)
And be sure to add your preferred pronouns, if you wish.  I forgot to do that -- I'm she/her.

<strong>DW username</strong>:<br /><strong>Other platforms (please specify)</strong>:<br /><strong>Active/primary interests or fandoms</strong>: (keep this fairly short, so people will read it!)<br /><strong>If you've seen me around, it's probably because</strong>: (how might people have seen you online / in fandom?)<br /><strong>I post about</strong>: (fandom, real life, combination - do for each platform, if you want)<br /><strong>I post/check my feed</strong>: (daily, weekly, twice a year, etc) <br /><strong>I want to find people that post about</strong>: (specific fandoms, fandom in general, books, RL, SJ, etc)<br /><strong>I am most interested in interacting with people on:</strong> (DW, Twitter, Tumblr, etc)<br /><strong>My blog is</strong>: (public, selectively public, friends-only)

Sosnacky gave me a nudge and asked if I would host 3SF this year and if so, when?

So how does February 1 look?  I typically hold it for the month but I'm open to a shorter period of time or starting it a day or two earlier so we have the benefit of the weekend.  I never did pull my fills from last year to post them.  People continue to post fills to old prompts all year. 

I'm not inclined to change the format or rules from last year.  For something this large, it's amazing how well it all works.  The only problems tend to arise from my bad html coding skills. 

You can read more about the 3SF rules, such as they are, here.

The most important thing I want to draw your attention to is that given how big and fast this moves, and that fills are, in theory, only 3 sentences, we don't require warnings for spoilers, content warnings or triggers.  You participate at your own risk.  Posters often will voluntarily include tags if they want, but they don't have to.  If that's not going to work for you, this isn't the right place for you. 

Edit to add:  People can get really intimidated by the volume and speed and try to not let that sap your enjoyment or discourage participation.  Some people love scrolling through pages of prompts. Others can't do it.  I tell you now the only person who reads most of the prompts and fills is me.  You don't have to read every page, you don't have to participate the whole time, you can fill an already filled prompt, you can can leave a prompt that's already been prompted before.  Also, the speed and volume lessen a lot in the last 2 weeks and once we open up a second post, so if it's more comfortable, wait until it slows down a little and they wade in.  We want to see you!

Leave any comments and suggestions in the comments below, including suggested dates.

Thank you!

One week to go in the three sentence ficathon and then I official close the posts to new entries. I have no way to enforce this but you should assume that people will stop coming by to see new prompts. I do know that people will respond to post prompts and continue to do so long after the ficathon ends. Get your prompts and fills in! One week to go!

Here's a word cloud of the new, Part 2 entry so far,

I've been super busy this week so, while my inbox is a disaster, it's wonderful to see 3SF doing so well. I made a new wordcloud from day 5 below. We're already over 3500 comments and at about 4700 or so, I'll open a new post for new prompts and new fills (though of course, you can prompt old ones too.)

To that end, the incomparable conuly has collected all unfilled prompts, organized them by fandom, and linked them back so you can search that list for anything that you missed and fill it!!! a huge thanks for doing this conuly!!