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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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vialethe: (Lion in Winter)

[personal profile] vialethe 2021-02-03 08:35 am (UTC)(link)
Bridgerton, Eloise &/ Benedict, chastising one another

[personal profile] runespoor 2021-02-03 10:25 am (UTC)(link)
Fire Emblem Three Houses, Ingrid + any, food insecurity

[personal profile] runespoor 2021-02-03 10:26 am (UTC)(link)
Fire Emblem Three Houses, any, culture shock

[personal profile] runespoor 2021-02-03 10:32 am (UTC)(link)
Fire Emblem, any thief/beloved pairing, promise
karel: (Karel ► and mutes my happiness)

FE7 Legault+Heath (death ment)

[personal profile] karel 2021-02-04 07:11 am (UTC)(link)
The Black Fang did not allow people like them to love and be loved, and anything he promised would be a lie, but when Legault drew his blade across her throat, the contact of their eyes says enough about what was never said. Perhaps this is why he says just as little to Heath, sideways words and a tango around what they both mean. It rings his heart, though, a track worn around it, I won't drag you down with me this time.
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[personal profile] runespoor 2021-02-03 10:36 am (UTC)(link)
Fire Emblem, any Haughty Troubadour-ish type, stubborn

[personal profile] runespoor 2021-02-03 10:38 am (UTC)(link)
Fire Emblem, any Jeigan, fondness

[personal profile] runespoor 2021-02-03 10:39 am (UTC)(link)
Fire Emblem, any jerk archer, the exception
shinon: Shinon and Gatrie from Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance. (Default)

Fill: FE9/10, Shinon & Rolf

[personal profile] shinon 2021-02-03 01:36 pm (UTC)(link)
At some point between the wars Uncle Shinon stops acting like their archery lessons are some big deadly secret - no more sneaking around, just, "hey Rolf, go grab us some lunch and I'll show you something cool."

One day Mist says, "Rolf, I haven't seen you at mealtimes all week," and Rolf figures, Oh, that's what he's doing, I'm how he gets out of being social.

But that can't be all, because Uncle Shinon never says anything nice if he can help it, and he says Rolf is a natural.

Re: Fill: FE9/10, Shinon & Rolf

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[personal profile] runespoor 2021-02-03 10:42 am (UTC)(link)
Fire Emblem, any Lord, lies
siver: (Default)

FE 8, Eirika

[personal profile] siver 2021-02-03 05:21 pm (UTC)(link)
She told Ephraim she was fine.
She told her friends and companions she was fine.
The image of Lyon's cold eyes and harsh words won't leave Eirika as she stares into the darkness of a night that seems never-ending, and she wonders when her life became built of lies.

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FE7, Eli+Hec+Lyn

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paxilam: (Default)

[personal profile] paxilam 2021-02-03 11:52 am (UTC)(link)
any, any, cottage in a forest
acequeenking: (Grain Mom)

[Hades] In Solitude

[personal profile] acequeenking 2021-02-03 03:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Persephone's world was once overwhelming: Olympian hills, lush plains, and the cool and deep wells of the subterranean deep -- she was welcome in them all, if never quite enough.

Too immortal for the mortals, too mortal for the gods -- even Hades, in the end, was not immune to the faults of her blood.

Persephone sits in a cottage built of her own hands, buried in the only bit of lushness her mother's anger has not yet touched and her husband's eye cannot yet see, and for the first time wonders what it means to be herself, alone.

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paxilam: (Default)

[personal profile] paxilam 2021-02-03 11:54 am (UTC)(link)
lotr, éomer (& any), dealing with a lost horse
zdenka: The Doors of Khazad-dum. (tolkien)

Fill: lotr, éomer (& any), dealing with a lost horse

[personal profile] zdenka 2021-02-03 06:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Éomer tends the exhausted horse carefully, with his own hands. He was away guarding the borders at the time, but the King’s son Théodred told him afterward how he picked out a suitable mount for Boromir of Gondor, and Éomer could tell that Théodred liked and admired the man.

Now the horse has come back riderless, bearing the marks of long travel through pathless wilderness, and Théodred’s grave is still too new for the simbelmynë to grow there.
eagleoftheninth: (Default)

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Locked Tomb series/Old Kingdom series, any necromancer(s) + anyone from the Abhorsen family, different kinds of death magic
wingedflight: (Default)

OH i love this crossover????

[personal profile] wingedflight 2021-02-03 04:08 pm (UTC)(link)
There's a lot of time to think when hiding in a bubble world in the shallows of the dead river--also a lot of time to explore, if one is clever enough about doing so. Palamedes learns how to test the limits of his cage: shifting the walls ever so slightly to turn the view of his window so he can gradually map the whole of the riverland around him.

Still, he doesn't expect his explorations to reveal any other person--certainly not a woman with a bandolier of bells strung across her chest.

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shinon: Shinon and Gatrie from Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance. (Default)

[personal profile] shinon 2021-02-03 01:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Tales of Symphonia, Sheena, weapons
shinon: Shinon and Gatrie from Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance. (Default)

[personal profile] shinon 2021-02-03 01:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Final Fantasy VI, Sabin, ghosts
siver: (Default)

[personal profile] siver 2021-02-03 02:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Sabin paces away to the other end of the platform--best to leave Cyan with his thoughts. He doesn't expect different thoughts to wrap round him,creeping in like the mist with a single question: was father here? Did this train carry away a king, would he have been able to stop it in tracks, and would it have made any difference to see a ghost one more time?

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vialethe: (GoT - Sansa)

Filling in the Blanks and Gaps

[personal profile] vialethe 2021-02-04 07:26 am (UTC)(link)
“I don’t wear red,” Sansa says quietly, but with steel underneath, “or gold - not ever.”

In the act of pulling out a white gown covered in lush, embroidered red roses, Susan pauses, eyeing the frothy golden skirts of the confection that had previously been her second choice; almost, almost, she says something, even opens her mouth to let some nonsense spill out about redheads and red not being such an awful combination, really, before she chances to catch Sansa’s eye; to see the set of her mouth, firm against trembling, the tightness of her jaw, her hands twisted around each other, pale against the deep grey of her skirts.

“Of course,” she says instead, settling the dress back into place with nary a hint of regret, fingers dancing over the rainbow of her wardrobe, “you’re quite right, red is not your color at all, how silly of me - but I’ve always thought blue looked charming on a redhead, don’t you agree?” and the tremulous smile on Sansa’s face is all the answer she could need.
vialethe: (Jon Snow)

Never Thought About Love When I Thought About Home

[personal profile] vialethe 2021-02-04 07:12 am (UTC)(link)
“Really, Your Grace, I insist, you should go first - you are the High King, after all.”

Peter eyes the man beside him, stiff and straight-backed, looking like his heavy furs dropped the weight of the world on his shoulders, all stark black, from hair to clothing to boots, the only relief the white pommel of his sword; quite a contrast, Peter thinks ruefully, to his own burnished gold and red and white, to the lightness in his step and the easy languor of his tall frame.

If he hadn’t decided before, he surely has now - this is a man who needs friends if ever he saw one, and Peter, who has always been excellent at making chums, says, “No, please - I may be Narnia’s King, but it’s you who is the King in the North, and as the North is where we are - yours is the precedent,” and gives Jon the most polite of nudges out onto the dais.

(Anonymous) 2021-02-03 08:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Arya is sliding her blading into the so-manieth soldier when she sees her: A young woman, wearing bloody armor and a messy braid, resembling nothing less than small tornado as she cuts down men by scores.

Distracted by this unfamiliar sight, Arya almost misses the man attacking her from behind, just managing to twist out of the way - and suddenly the girl is there, eyes as blue and shining as the sea, and for a moment Arya is breathless.

The blond warrior grins, wide and blinding, and says: “Just stick them with the pointy end”, as she runs the man through with her sword.

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little_lady_d: (Default)

[personal profile] little_lady_d 2021-02-03 03:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Umineko no Naku Koro ni, any, 'dead hearts are everywhere'

(Anonymous) 2021-02-04 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
"I could never be happy, not even once. The world took everything away from, all the time, every time, no matter what I did or how I tried. Why do you get to be happy, Battler, why does anyone?"

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[personal profile] little_lady_d 2021-02-03 03:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Umineko no Naku Koro ni, Mammon/Ange, ideal
little_lady_d: (Default)

[personal profile] little_lady_d 2021-02-03 03:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Umineko no Naku Koro ni, Battler/Kanon, close your eyes
ernest: (Academia)

[personal profile] ernest 2021-02-04 06:32 am (UTC)(link)
Without love it cannot be ‘seen,’ but with love it cannot be hidden even when his eyes are shut. “There, now, Battler-sama, have you figured out who I am yet?”

“Yes,” he breathes, “and it means that we are equals with no titles to separate us, and we can even do away with names if those are what cause you such pain.”

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[personal profile] little_lady_d 2021-02-03 03:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Hamlet, Gertrude/Claudius, delight and dole
little_lady_d: (Default)

[personal profile] little_lady_d 2021-02-03 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Hamlet, Osric/Hamlet, 'we are never ever getting back together'
smallhobbit: (Default)

[personal profile] smallhobbit 2021-02-03 04:48 pm (UTC)(link)
"Whatever you may say, we're over," Osric declared, holding his hand to his brow.

"And what, pray, is your reasoning?" Hamlet demanded disdainfully.

"You insulted," there was a pause for Osric to assume another dramatic pose, "my hat!"

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[personal profile] little_lady_d 2021-02-03 03:38 pm (UTC)(link)
And Then There Were None, Lombard/Blore, animal impulses
violsva: Dottie Underwood from Agent Carter, in prison (Dottie)

[personal profile] violsva 2021-02-04 12:30 am (UTC)(link)
(book fic; I haven't seen the miniseries)

“A big bear hugged one next,” Lombard said. “Well, no zoos on this island. Which of us do you think will be the bear, Blore?”

“You’re disgusting,” said Vera, stubbing out her cigarette, “and I’m going to bed. With the door locked.”

“Ah, ladies.” Lombard grinned. “I’d thought she was a little more sophisticated. But you know what I mean, don’t you, Blore?”

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wingedflight: (Default)

[personal profile] wingedflight 2021-02-03 04:10 pm (UTC)(link)
The Locked Tomb/Old Kingdom, Palamedes/Lirael, libraries are for secrets
wingedflight: (Default)

[personal profile] wingedflight 2021-02-03 04:10 pm (UTC)(link)
The Locked Tomb/Old Kingdom, any, death is a river

(Anonymous) 2021-02-03 04:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Star Wars, Ahsoka, ghosts
cofax7: climbing on an abbey wall  (Default)

[personal profile] cofax7 2021-02-04 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
Malachor is a bad place for a -- for a Force user who isn't dark. The air, the buildings, even the earth itself is full of whispers, hints, even the smell of some long-ago evil: of thousands or tens of thousands of evil acts and brutal intentions, layered over themselves and prickling at her skin as she winds her way through the shadowed landscape.

It's horrible and she hates it; but at least these ghosts are unfamiliar, and she does not know their voices: not like the ghosts she heard when last she was on Coruscant.

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