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rthstewart ([personal profile] rthstewart) wrote2021-01-30 02:31 pm

Three Sentence Ficathon 2021

We have now opened a new post, for new prompts! Please leave all new prompts there. You may continue to fill existing prompts here. If you didn't get a prompt filled here, feel free to post it on the new post!





Welcome to the Three Sentence Ficathon!
2 Feb. 2021 See important edit below regarding where to find unfilled prompts.


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 a bit by mid-February.
  • 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.


How long will it go?

The 3SF closes to new prompts on February 28, 2021. The entry stays open permanently and people post fills all year long.

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. 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 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 in subject lines 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.
Conuly does this just because they are an awesome person but should you want to write them fic in thanks, you can find a birthday wish list here.

Here is the 3SF 2021 Friending Meme to show of your new DW account.

Here, have some icons and banners and let me know if you've created your own!

 






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sholio: Camina Drummer looking to the side (Expanse-Drummer)

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The Expanse, any, bandaging someone in zero gee

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The Expanse, any, outer space physics

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red cliff, Xio Qiao/Sun Shangxiang, sunrise
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[identity profile] ruanchunxian0.livejournal.com 2021-02-01 04:00 am (UTC)(link)
“Must you leave before sunrise?” Xiao Qiao asked, her breath tickling the nape of Shangxiang’s neck.

In the darkness, Shangxiang’s hand found Xiao Qiao’s; she lifted it to her lips and brushed it with a gentle kiss, before answering, “If I am to successfully sneak into Cao Cao’s camp, I must do so while it is still dark.”

Turning around to face her lover, Shangxiang pressed her forehead against Xiao Qiao’s, adding, “But I promise you, this will help us prevail, and when I return, we will watch the sun rise on a changed world together.”

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any, any nonverbal conversation
22degreehalo: (ESotSM beach bed)

[personal profile] 22degreehalo 2021-02-01 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
She felt his gaze not as a snag pulling at her attention but as a questioning brush, like fingers pressing against her own. He was frowning in concern; he must have noticed that she hadn't spoken in a while. Relief blossomed in her, beautiful and cathartic, that she had him and that he knew her and that he understood, and she shook her head with a smile.

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WWE, Bayley/Sasha Banks

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any, any, the child never made any sound beside the sound of laughter
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The Silmarillion, Túrin [cw: canon incest]

[personal profile] ladybrooke 2021-02-01 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
Some nights, Túrin dreams of his and Níniel’s child. She is always a girl, laughing as her aunt used to and filling the dream with happiness despite it only being the three of them there, though she makes no other sound.

Facing Mablung, Túrin knows the laughter was a dragon’s laughter, taunting Túrin with the knowledge he did not have.

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sholio: Misty from Luke Cage (Defenders-Misty)

[personal profile] sholio 2021-02-01 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
Defenders, any, improvised weapons

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Aladdin (and the King of Thieves), Cassim, pride

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Big Fish, Sandra Bloom/Jenny, part of the narrative

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Bandidas, Maria, Are you raising yourself/Above your father's empire
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[personal profile] sandinmyboots 2021-02-01 12:45 am (UTC)(link)
any, any, nerding out about cooking

Fill: Final Fantasy VI, Terra & others

(Anonymous) 2021-02-01 04:37 pm (UTC)(link)
1. The first months are lean, everywhere, and Terra knows that Edgar would help more if he could, but his desert castle’s vaults hold more gold and steel than grain; still, there’s more to Figaro’s wealth than metals, and the packages he sends – dried peppers, cinnamon, other spices with names she doesn’t know – are enough to make turn bitter weeds and thin porridge into something more than just survival.

2. She doesn’t remember the first clumsiness of learning the sword, but the knife does not come easily; Sabin shows her, as he learned at Duncan’s hands, the right grip, the proper angle, the way to practice until precision without violence becomes as natural as battle.

3. Years pass, and harvests, and when Celes visits now, she’s as likely as not to find Terra up to her elbows in flour, or chopping, seasoning, holding a carefully-tilted pan above a flame; she never cared for it herself, as more than necessary competence, but what it means to Terra, she thinks she understands: a little remnant of magic, never meant to harm; a transformation of heat into life.

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MCU, Bucky Barnes

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sholio: Misty from Luke Cage (Defenders-Misty)

[personal profile] sholio 2021-02-01 12:49 am (UTC)(link)
Defenders, any, rooftops at night
vialethe: (Susan)

[personal profile] vialethe 2021-02-01 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
Narnia, Susan &/ any other Pevensie, if I can’t relate to you anymore/then who am I related to
last_haven: (narnia)

[personal profile] last_haven 2021-02-01 05:46 am (UTC)(link)
Conversation stops when she walks in the room, but it's not a silence Susan wants to recognize. Lucy's smile is so pained and loving while Peter stalks off and Edmund follows after him with a nod, but it's the apologetic nod of a diplomat and Susan feels frozen inside.

She doesn't ask what they were talking about when she sits with Lucy because it hurts too much already. It's like they're all children again and her brothers are squabbling over who gets to lead and Lucy is just annoyingly delightful, but she is just Susan the Bore.

But this is worse--Susan the Bore is better than Susan the Traitor and she wishes they could just put these games aside.

(Why can't they see that they weren't wanted--none of them, not even ever loyal Lucy and where the hell is the justice in that?)

She misses her siblings long before their funerals.

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vialethe: (Ophelia)

[personal profile] vialethe 2021-02-01 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
Greek Mythology, Hades/Persephone, and I was catching my breath/barefoot in the wildest winter/catching my death
acequeenking: Persephone - Dante Gabriel Rosetti (Default)

[Greek Mythology] Exeunt

[personal profile] acequeenking 2021-02-01 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
He is a wild thing, this man in her woods: older than her brothers, with a shadow longer than any mortals: teeth too sharp to be her father, armor too darkly-gleaming to be anyone affiliated with her mother, who does not care for war.

"Who are you?" She asks, her hands still on his flower, which is strange: snow-drop white with a red center, as if it were plucked, the blush spreading through the white, and each blossom on a dried vine tugged so close to the ground as to kiss it.

He does not answer in words, simply holds out his hand, strange and cold and still, and she knows in that what the answer is.

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vialethe: (Susan)

[personal profile] vialethe 2021-02-01 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
Narnia, Susan Pevensie & Aslan, he’s got my past frozen behind glass/but I’ve got me
autumnia: Susan Pevensie, 1942 America (Susan (writing))

[personal profile] autumnia 2021-02-01 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
It was when she was sorting through her mother's old clothes--deciding what to keep or donate, and which were thoroughly unsalvageable--that she came across the luxurious and expensive fur coat. She put it on after a moment's hesitation and looked at herself in the mirror, seeing in the gilt frame a reflection of her younger self when she wore something similar to a place long closed to her.

The coat reminded her of many things--a wintry wood, a pale witch, a shining castle with four thrones and her much-missed siblings--but it was the image of a golden lion that made her pull the fur off and throw it forcefully at the mirror, smashing it and the memories into a thousand pieces.

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vialethe: (River+Mal)

[personal profile] vialethe 2021-02-01 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
Firefly, River/Mal, god I love you/but you trouble me
fullupwithfire: River Tam (Firefly) bent over her knees, looking sick (ff | soon you're bound to spill it)

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"She worries about you," River says quietly, her steady gaze looking right through him like nobody else can, and Mal's answering smile is tense.

"She ought to know the worrying's my job."

She shakes her head. "That's not how it works." Mal feels frozen as she pushes herself up onto her toes and presses her lips against his cheek, sure that he should move away and incapable of making himself do it. "But it's okay. We'll worry about each other."

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Bridgerton, any f/f, getting into your skirts
vialethe: (Lion in Winter)

Give Me One More Second (Lady Danbury/Queen Charlotte)

[personal profile] vialethe 2021-02-01 09:22 am (UTC)(link)
It’s a bit discomforting, Lady Danbury finds, that Queen Charlotte’s sidelong look should still set her heart to racing, after all this time.

Of course, some find it unbearably smug, the way Charlotte’s gaze narrows, the way she tilts her head up in order to look down her nose at others.

But, ah! - Lady Danbury remembers well that gaze narrowed in breathless appreciation of her body, remembers the tilt of her Queen’s head, thrown back in ecstasy, remembers the commanding snap of her voice saying, “Let’s see what’s under those skirts, my darling,” and shivers, just a bit - just enough for Charlotte to see, enough for her smug little smirk to come out once more, for her and her alone.

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Bridgerton, Portia Featherington/Marina Thompson, making do
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[identity profile] ruanchunxian0.livejournal.com 2021-02-04 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
Marina wasn't sure whether it was perverse pity or insanity born from loneliness that made Portia Featherington offer her a position as a widow's companion after all her daughters have married. She had become the scorn of polite society and the cautionary tale mothers tell their daughters after she refused the hand of Philip Crane, and chose to bear her child alone, received and cared for only by her old nursemaid after her own parents have refused to let her back into their house.

It was weeks after Marina arrived at Portia's dower house that Portia told her, "I was once so hard on you because I could not bear anything but the best for you, but now that that had not worked out, and we are both at the fringe of society, I cannot find a reason to conceal what I feel any longer."
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sholio: sun on winter trees (Default)

[personal profile] sholio 2021-02-01 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
Ted Lasso, any, a good cup of tea
cofax7: climbing on an abbey wall  (Default)

[personal profile] cofax7 2021-02-01 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
Temeraire/Bridgerton, Eloise, gossip

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"So it is not merely gossip," Eloise says, and Perscitia sniffs.

"It is really very simple; the allowance was made in Queen Elizabeth's day that women could become captains; it is legal."

The look of horror on Lady Bridgerton's face is in direction and absolute opposition to the dawning delight of possibility on Eloise's.

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Temeraire/Bridgerton, Temeraire, human mating rituals
sholio: sun on winter trees (Default)

[personal profile] sholio 2021-02-01 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
Ted Lasso, any, dragonrider AU
cofax7: climbing on an abbey wall  (Default)

[personal profile] cofax7 2021-02-01 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
Digger (webcomic/graphic novel), Digger, square poop.
edenfalling: stylized black-and-white line art of a sunset over water (Default)

Stranger and Stranger

[personal profile] edenfalling 2021-02-19 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
She's dealt with far more bodily fluids and waste than she particularly cares to think about -- even more since poor Midwife Mimsy died and left her as the only available hag -- but this, Hagitha thinks, staring at the bedpan laid on her examination table, is not something she has any experience with. The furred stranger who the Veiled consigned to her care (her keeping, more like; you don't keep a patient unconscious with poppy milk, but some folk might treat a prisoner with that kind of disregard) breathes and bleeds and pisses like any other person, but her poop is shaped into neat, dry cubes.

Still, whether the square poop is a curse or something natural to the stranger's people makes no real difference -- she's never heard of a demon that needs a bedpan at all, and maybe the next time she explains that to the Veiled, she'll pull together a good enough imitation of Midwife Mimsy's authority that one of them will finally listen.
silverwill: (Default)

[personal profile] silverwill 2021-02-01 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
Trails of Cold Steel, Rean & Estelle & Lloyd, Fishing Battle
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[personal profile] siver 2021-02-01 06:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe the commonality should have been expected, but it was still a surprise to learn they all had connections to the Fisherman's Guild and the Imperial Fishing Club. Obviously there was only one thing to do and so Lloyd, Rean and Estelle found themselves along the river's shoreline. Estelle's triumphant cry cut through the peaceful air and Lloyd and Rean exchanged a look: they both knew she was winning and they both knew neither would surrender so easily; this was on.

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Trails of Cold Steel/Sky, Rean & Anelace, geeking out over 8 Leaves 1 Blade style
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[personal profile] conuly 2021-02-02 09:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Is this "Trails of Cold Steel", subcategory "Trails in the Sky"?

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[personal profile] silverwill 2021-02-01 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
The Untamed/MDZS, Nie Mingjue, Hobbies

Fill: The Untamed, Nie Mingjue (+subtext)

[personal profile] runespoor 2021-02-01 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)
In times not of war, Nie Mingjue appreciates the beauty of a well-crafted blade (Nie Huaisang looks the same, when he tilts his head and tuck a smile in his eyes as he lets his gaze stroke down a fan), and war games (this, his brother protests doesn't count), and especially writing letters to his dearest friend, long with details and suffused with humour; the Sunshot campaign cuts through his free time, turning any moment stolen away from the war effort into a vice, the mere suggestion of which makes Nie Mingjue recoil - if even writing to Lan Xichen on the run was at all a good idea.

Nie Mingjue's second is a good man, a smart man, with sharp humor beneath gentle eyes and the ambition to earn the position that his father's conduct refused him, and Nie Mingjue is glad to have him by his side, and allows himself to imagine writing so to Xichen.

Someday after the war, when Meng Yao is in Lanling, Nie Mingjue will have reason to write to him, as well.

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