Tap tap. Friends, is it time to start your prompt-ing engines?
Once Yuletide is over, my thoughts turn to the 3SF which, historically, I've hosted in the month of February. However, I've been swamped all year with work and something that's sitting in a large, ugly office building near Pennsylvania Ave. NW in DC, will soon worsen things considerably and I'll really need to focus on that.
So, I'm thinking of starting 3SF a few weeks early, say next weekend 15 January 2022.
I thought about this weekend but heard complaints that this is too soon. People like to collect and think about prompts.
What do you think?
For a refresher, the rules, such as they are, from the 2021 3SF are
here. I want to emphasize again that I know that it can feel really overwhelming to walk away from 3SF for a couple of hours and see thousands of prompts when you return. Really, truly, you do not need to read every prompt, you can fill a prompt that's already been filled, you can repeat a prompt if you want, and you can start on the last page and work backward. Also, usually, things slow down a lot about midway through and once we move to the second post at about 4,000 prompts and fills. You can come in at any time, leave at any time, and start anywhere.
I was wondering what might be fun to prompt this year. Some new things, or old things new again:
- Fellowship of the Ring 20th Anniversary
- Harry Potter 20th Anniversary
- Wheel of Time, netflix
- Shadow and Bone, netflix
- BTS
- The Expanse
- Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
- The grounding of the Ever Given
- Dune
- Godzilla v. Kong
- Luca
- West Side Story
- Black Widow
- Venom
- The Eternals
- Dickinson
- Succession
- Wynonna Earp
- The Mighty Nein
- Capybaras trashing a posh neighborhood in Argentina
- Rampaging otters in Singapore
- Chonky squirrel caught in bird feeder
- Yule goat on fire
- Return of Queer Eye
- Boba Fett
These are just things to get you started. Start thinking of prompts, save them up, and we'll start next week. Drop me a line in comments below, on Twitter, tumblr, here or by gmail (I'm rthstewart everywhere) if you have any thoughts, suggestions, questions, or ideas. If you make any icons or banners, link me! As we know, I routinely fail at embeds but please spread the word!
Here's a word cloud from the second post of 3SF 2021. (and yes, I continued to get notices of new fills and comments all year long)