rthstewart | Three Sentence Ficathon 2021

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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

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!

text box you can try to cut and paste

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any, any, i'm gonna need you to make a perception check

". . .you want me to what?" Eliot asked, cocking his head, brows furrowed.

"I have excellent peripheral vision," Parker said, a little prickly, "I know what I saw!"

"I'm gonna need you to sit down and play some old school tabletop games with me." Hardison amended after a moment looking between them.

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[Thor] You'd swear the dice are doing it on purpose

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Ouran High School Host Club, the twins and Haruhi.

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Homestuck, any, magpie counting rhyme

(One for sorrow, two for mirth)

There is a universe, Terezi knows, where a gaunt painted boy with stardust in his hair and a nubby-horned cherry menace sit together on the shore of a world they crafted, where laughter is unchained from violence and blood is only blood –

(Three for a death, four for a birth)

Where two seadwellers and a boy with lightning in his eyes all watch as a spiny orb held in glowing hands twitches, cracks, and splits open to reveal the life within –

(Five for silver, six for gold)

And she knows there’s one, because there must be one, where the noose slips free and the price of forgiveness is nothing more a pirate’s bounty shared, but which path it is that leads there –

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harry potter, ginny weasley, size is no guarantee of power

When she was just about fully grown, Ginny faced older, taller witches and wizards and stood her ground the best she could. On Quidditch pitches all over the country, she’s faced opponents who were bigger and burlier than even her brothers, and gripped her broom before flying right at them if that was the right move. But holding baby James in his own nursery for the first time, it’s this little one who has the power to undo her completely.

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The witcher, yennefer, time travel/inter-dimensional travel

any/crossover, any, women being awesome

(Spoilers for the last season of Downton Abbey and Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears. Also, this is a bit more like women being subtly awesome here...)

According to her sources, it was the most sought after interview amongst the Fleet Streeet papers and it was one Edith knew she'd never get for her little society magazine but it had been worth a try—after all, who wouldn't want to hear more about the female aristocrat-turned-detective literally crashing into her own memorial service in a biplane?

Therefore, it had been a complete shock when the Honourable Miss Phryne Fisher suddenly appeared on the doorstep of The Sketch the next morning, dangling Edith's simply penned note in front of her with a gloved hand.

After taking the seat Edith offered, Miss Fisher studied her hostess for a moment before breaking into a smile and said, "Lady Edith Crawley, of all the requests I've received since my unexpected arrival in London, none have been as refreshingly frank as yours and how could I possibly say no to another woman who clearly loves to challenge this male-dominated world like I do?"

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Fill: Final Fantasy IX/Final Fantasy XV, Eiko and Noctis

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not op

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Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Hapi/Constance, picnic

Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Edelgard/Bernadetta, magic

Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Ferdinand and Constance, brawling

Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Ferdinand and Constance, platonic life partners

Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Hilda/Annette, fellow professors

Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Edelgard/Constance, "Trust me"

Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Claude/Yuri, king and spymaster

Yuri tells Claude that he’s got no love for the Empire, that his alliance to the Emperor was only ever instrumental, that of course he’s happy to play for the winning side—whatever keeps him and his wolves safe, right?

Claude, sitting atop his still-too-new throne, is squinting as he strains to process what the turncoat spymaster is saying—it’s a bit hard to think straight, the morning after you’ve slept with someone you shouldn’t have, particularly when the impermissibility of it made it all the better, and particularly when you’re talking directly to the someone in question.

“Look,” Yuri adds impatiently, “if I’d wanted to backstab Almyra I could’ve done it years ago,” and Claude barks a laugh, because he’d say the same thing if he were in Yuri’s place—if you call attention to the obvious-point-of-vulnerability, you seem more honest, even if you aren’t—and then Yuri adds, “It’d be a shame to off someone who’s so much fun,” which is also what Claude would say, so Claude laughs again, and raises a hand to stop him: “Gods, Yuri, you’ve got it, alright? be my spymaster, for now at least, and I’ll just have to hope you don’t screw me—at least, not any way I don’t like,” he adds with a wink.

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Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Claude/Petra, marriage

Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Ferdinand, is nonbinary

Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Hapi and Yuri, going home

Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Petra/Bernadetta, the queen's emotional support

There was an old story of a noble who was protected by his common, yet devoted wife, and Bernadetta had been so shy to tell it, voice barely a whisper in the still of their room. Petra had blushed to hear it, and remarked in her stronger grasp of those words that still could trip her, from time to time, "But that is like how you are protecting me!" and Bernadetta shook her head, short tresses ruffling furiously. "No, no! We protect each other! I- I can't do it without you either!"

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Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Dorothea/Constance, proposal

Naruto, Naruto/Sasuke/Sakura, promises

This wound up as an installment in my Summer Camp & Politics AU. I hope you don't mind!

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"One day I'm gonna be prime minister and then I'll make sure nothing like what happened to your family will ever happen again -- that's a promise!" Naruto says, looking back over his shoulder from the front of the canoe.

("Turn around, we're almost to the rapids," Sakura says.)

"The prime minister can't always control the army," Sasuke snaps, letting go of his paddle with one hand to flick at Naruto's face, "or get laws through the Assembly, so even if you do somehow get elected, what good do you think you can do on your own?"

("The rapids! We're coming to the rapids! If you don't turn around and start paddling again--")

"I won't be alone -- I'll have you and Sakura-chan with me," Naruto says, and raises his paddle like he's thinking of swinging it at Sasuke; "Tell him we'll fix Fire Country together, Sakura-chan!"

Sakura tips the canoe over.

Then she hauls herself back in and upright while her friends are still sputtering. From her newly commanding height, and with her own paddle jammed firmly between two rocks to keep from drifting uncontrolled into the rapids, she pronounces, "I'll fix Fire Country... but you two can come along, I guess. I'll need somebody to play figurehead while I get everything done."

Sasuke and Naruto exchange a long, speaking look, which would be very solemn and serious if they weren't sopping wet with hair plastered to their faces.

"Deal?" Naruto says, not turning to look at Sakura. She narrows her eyes suspiciously.

"Deal," Sasuke agrees, and the boys lunge forward in tandem to tip Sakura back into the river with them.

It's a good day.

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Narnia, Susan, I’m not your problem anymore/so who am I offending now?/you were my crown, now I’m in exile seeing you out

"You smoke like a kid," she tells him waspishly, as her own long ribbon of blue smoke unspools elegantly upwards into a cloud-choked autumn dusk.

Peter smiles, the roll of his broad shoulders oddly boyish, swallowing a cough; she wishes he had stayed in the house, she wishes he would come out to the Tottenham Court nightclubs with her and blur himself. When Jack and Maggie round the corner and call to her, she shoves her sensible, Mother-approved shoes into his hands, leaves a waxy lipstick smear on his cheek and marches away down the road on heels as high as castle towers.

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Narnia, Susan/Edmund, back when we were still changing for the better/wanting was enough/for me, it was enough

Tashbaan is too hot, too crowded, and too treacherous for Susan to enjoy her time there. Rabadash watches her with plans in his eyes, and she knows that she and Edmund are playing a dangerous game, were the moment she accepted the prince's invitation to come visit him in the Tisroc's palace.

But Edmund insisted they come, that it was necessary to see Rabadash in his home and Calormen with their own eyes to understand the situation that Narnia was in, and that they must do it together — and the work Edmund does is never safe, this she knows.

And despite the danger, and the heat, and hostility veiled in compliments that comes so easily in Calormen, Susan does her best to enjoy the days and nights with Edmund by her side, knowing that he'll never leave her here with Rabadash and someday soon they'll be able to return home together.

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Narnia, Susan, she had a marvelous time ruining everything

Even once the train left East Germany and they were again, safely in the West, Tebbitt didn’t ask Mrs. C about whether Operation Gold. had gone live.

Apart from the risk of talking in an unsecured train, he didn't need to because he could tell, from the way she exuded smug satisfaction, that her electronics work on the install had been successful and, the absence of an explosion in the middle of Berlin had meant they'd not needed to blow it up.

With the CIA, they’d dug a 450-metre tunnel from West Berlin to East and had successfully tapped into the Soviet’s telephone cables that ran under the city; if there were any communications about the Kremlin’s grim atomic bomb project, he, Susan Caspian, and the rest of MI6 would know about it.

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Living Down To Your Reputation

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Timeless, Lucy/Flynn, patience is a virtue

MCU, Bucky/Nat, jealousy

Firefly, Jayne, "if you're gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough"

any, any, midnight at the lost and found

(Disco Elysium, Harry, minor spoilers)

It's always midnight where the lost memories have been hidden away, a thousand moments locked behind the myriad brain cells that a single night of drinking and excess have managed to destroy (it's honestly a wonder that you have anything left there, with the single-minded dedication that you applied to wiping them away, the blackout to end all blackouts.) You can feel their restlessness as they crouch in their hiding place, shaking their chains and begging and shouting abuse and weeping, asking to be let out and let them take over, let them fill your consciousness, let them become you again.
You can tolerate most of it - even the dainty sobs of the ex-something that you sometimes wish you could remember just to understand how she'd managed to haunt you for so long - but sometimes, late at night when you dream, you hear something soft and quiet and fragile - a half-real and half-imagined baby's cry, cutting high over the other sounds - and it never fails to bring you wide awake and shuddering, clutching at rough cotton sheets with half-ruined fingers (but you've never had a child, the records would've said if you had... wouldn't they?)

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