#at least the first one should be between Femslash Feb fics this month as an extra treat on top of everything else

[optiwashere]

Preview: "The Spirit of the Season"

Here's a short preview of the first chapter of my upcoming fic I wrote for the BG3 Winter Big Bang event! Check out the bang's tumblr page over at @bg3-winter-big-bang for info (and more previews).

My fic is an ensemble story in my Asheera/Shadowheart universe where the other five origin companions come to visit the girls' cottage during a Faerûnian winter festival. They all wind up sharing some stories about their experiences with the season over the course of the night. Some people—cough Lae'zel cough—might even learn what the whole point of the festival is...

Look forward to:

Tales of fluff, hurt/comfort, and even a touch of angst

Hot soup and warm hearths

Lots of snow (including a snowball fight or two)

The fic will also feature some absolutely wonderful art by @androgynousshiver 💜

Text version of the snippet below the break.

Without looking back at her, Asheera asked, in a tone unshaken by the cold, “Today’s the day, isn’t it? At least one of them should’ve been here by now. Or did I forget again?” “No, it’s not like last time, love,” Shadowheart said, smiling at the memory of Asheera rushing around to tidy the cottage a full tenday before the others were meant to show. “They’ll come. They promised to meet us here, did they not?” “I have the letters to prove it. Deadwinter’s on us, and they’ll be here.” “Then you’ve your answer. A paladin expects so much of her friends’ promises,” Shadowheart teased.

[knowyourincantations]

Femslash February 2019 Masterpost

All works are collected in this series on AO3 and under this tag on tumblr.

I didn’t really plan on doing every single day but I’m a bit of a completionist so once I started...I was pretty much locked in to write and post a fic every day XD But my main goal was really just to push myself to make them each longer than the much shorter drabbles I wrote for Sapphic September 2018:

Avg words per fic: Sapphic Sept: 665 Femslash Feb: 1,178

Total word count at the end: Sapphic Sept: 19,960 Femslash Feb: 33,044

I think I definitely achieved my goal of outdoing my Sapphic September efforts =)

I also started dabbling in edits around halfway through, so some fics have edits as well, I also cross-posted all edits to my instagram =)

If you enjoy any of these, I’d love to hear about it in a comment on AO3 if you have the time =)

Ships written are: Pansmione, Delachang, Linny, Parvansy, Ginsy, Ginny/Tonks, Ginmione, Flonks, Daphne/Pansy, Lunsy

Anyway, here’s all the summaries and links:

Week 1:

Day 1: ‘Opposites’ Hermione/Pansy (Pansmione) Opposites Day (921 words, Teen) Summary: “It’s opposites day,” Pansy said, settling onto her back on the grass and looking up at the sky. “We’re all supposed to act in contradiction to ourselves. There’s supposed to be a lesson in there somewhere, I’m sure.”

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Day 2: ‘Pink’ Cho/Fleur (Delachang) Better Than Any Boy (577 words, Teen) Summary: The Yule Ball is approaching, and Cho and her friends are lamenting the rudeness of boys when Fleur suggests a solution.

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Day 3: ‘Lost’ Ginny/Luna (Linny) What’s Missing Is Not Lost (1,269 words, Teen) Summary: Unable to see what it is she truly wants, Ginny keeps looking in all the wrong places, finding nothing but hurt feelings along the way. But it's okay, Luna's always there to pick up the pieces and give her hope for the future. If only Ginny could understand what her advice means.

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Day 4: ‘Cafe’ Hermione/Pansy Cafe Reunion (1,265 words, Teen) Summary: After parting just as the war fully broke out, Hermione hasn't seen Pansy for over a year before getting a letter with a time and place to meet as Pansy returns to England.

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Day 5: ‘Sharp’ Pansy/Parvati (Parvansy) The Things We Don’t Know About Each Other (1,379 words, Explicit) Summary: Parvati finds out Pansy cheated but the confrontation reveals only more lies.

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Day 6: ‘The Moon’ Ginny/Pansy (Ginsy) Minding the Wolf (1,043 words, G rated) Summary: Before her, Pansy had been forced to lock herself inside and pine for the full moon. With Ginny, she could go out, secure in the knowledge Ginny would watch over her and keep her from revealing herself to anyone. Or if she couldn’t go out, would at least stay with her so she wasn’t alone.

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Day 7: ‘Disaster’ Hermione/Pansy Less like a Joke and More like the Truth (But She’ll Worry About That Later) (1,286, Mature) Summary: Hermione is working from home when Pansy barges in to rant about the latest disaster to befall a Charity Ball she's trying to host. Like most of Pansy's rants, it's short lived but leaves her with plenty of steam to blow off.

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Week 2:

Day 8: ‘Silent’ Ginny/Pansy Love Waits (2,154 words, Teen) Summary: Pansy took a vow of silence after the war but never told anyone why, near the end of eighth year, and after dating her for several months, Ginny is determined to try and find out why Pansy is still not talking. But the answer she gets is nowhere near what she could have expected.

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Day 9: ‘Lavender’ Ginny/Tonks Better Naked and Cold Than Covered in Lavender (1,035 words, Teen) Summary: When Ginny wakes up without Tonks beside her, she panics at first. A quick check of the house shows her alive an well, jut suffering from another of her mission mishaps. But Ginny's not putting up with this one.

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Day 10: ‘Waiting’ Pansy/Parvati Third Time Lucky (1,511 words, Teen) Summary: The waiting really was torture. “Maybe I should floo the office and see what the delay is,” she said slowly. “It really would be better to know now instead of continuing to wait like this.” But she’d barely thought of actually moving when the fireplace chimed. Parvati went rigid against her and Pansy scrambled for her wand to open the gate.

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Day 11: ‘Rest Day’ Ginny/Luna Fast or Slow? (1,099 words, Mature) Summary: Ginny has plans to read all day on the sofa on her one rest day from training. Luna has other plans for her.

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Day 12: ‘Balloons’ Ginny/Hermione (Ginmione) One Step at a Time (370 words, G-rated) Summary: Hermione is determined to rid herself of her fear of heights and flying and asks Ginny to help her along. Ginny tries a more muggle route.  

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Day 13: ‘The Sun’ Fleur/Tonks (Flonks) For the Sake of Concerned Muggles (496 words, G-rated) Summary: Fleur and Tonks are on holiday and Fleur is determined to return to England with a tan. Fic + Edit

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Day 14: ‘White’ Cho/Fleur A Perfect Picnic (1,557 words, Teen) Summary: On a rare sunny and warm day between the second and third tasks of the Triwizard Tournament, Fleur sneaks Cho away for a picnic. Fic + Edit

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Week 3:

Day 15: ‘Umbrellas’ Hermione/Pansy Sharing Is Caring (982 words, Teen) Summary: When Hermione is ready to head back to Hogwarts from Hogsmeade, long after Harry and Ron left, she stumbles across Pansy stranded in the rain without umbrella or wand. Fic + Edit    

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Day 16: ‘Blue’ Fleur/Tonks Why so Blue? (809 words, Teen) Summary: Curse-Breaker Fleur has been assigned a job out of the country for a few months. The morning before she leaves, Tonks is feeling a little blue about it. Fic + Edit

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Day 17: ‘Damned’ Daphne/Pansy Damned on Our Own Terms (1,300 words, Mature) Summary: There was a low mutter and Pansy clenched her hands into fists by her sides.“This castle is our home too,” she said. “A better home for more of us than we’d like to admit. We have to fight.”She could see some people nodding, but many more were shaking their heads. It was a lost cause. And she wasn’t brave enough to go up there on her own. Fic + Edit

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Day 18: ‘Safe’ Hermione/Pansy Anything to Make Her Feel Safe Again (922 words, Teen) Summary: After the war, Hermione suffers from terrible nightmares. But Pansy is always there to bring her back from the dark spaces in her mind. Fic + Edit

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Day 19: ‘Vanilla’ Hermione/Pansy More Familiar Than You Think (676 words, Teen) Summary: Hermione finds herself puzzled by the scent profile of her Amortentia as they brew it again in their special Eighth Year. Fic + Edit

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Day 20: ‘Hate’ Hermione/Pansy Loss of Surety (770 words, Mature) Summary: Over the years she’d come to believe Hermione was utter pants at hiding anything she thought. It turned out that couldn’t be further from the truth. Fic + Edit

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Day 21: ‘Wings’ Cho/Fleur Collecting Feathers and Finding Wings (5,055 words, Teen) Summary: Or 'Five times Cho found feathers she couldn't explain, and one time she finally saw the wings they came from'. Fic + Edit

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Week 4:

Day 22: ‘Shopping’ Hermione/Pansy Shopping with Hermione (438 words, Teen) Summary: She loved a good second hand book sale herself, and had a tidy stack next to her too, but she had a sense of restraint, unlike her idiot wife. She knew when to stop. Fic + Edit

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Day 23: ‘Gold’ Hermione/Pansy Live a Little (1,521 words, Mature) Summary: Hermione encounters Pansy Parkinson in a hotel bar. It doesn't go as she might have expected. Fic + Edit

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Day 24: ‘Blessed’ Fleur/Tonks Daydreaming at the Wrong Moment (1,232 words, Teen) Summary: “Did we...did we just get Veela-married?”

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Day 25: ‘Split’ Pansy/Parvati Unexpected Gratitude (851 words, Teen) Summary: Pansy has a split lip, Parvati is determined to help.

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Day 26: ‘Comfort’ Ginny/Hermione Midnight Serenade (708 words, G-rated) Summary: When Ginny has to go overseas for the International Quidditch season, Hermione fixes Harry's broken two way mirror and gets her hands on its counterpart.

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Day 27: ‘Space’ Luna/Pansy (Lunsy) No Such Thing as Too Close (1,010 words, Teen)

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Day 28: ‘Princess’ Hermione/Pansy Work and Reward (808 words, Teen) Summary: Pansy has a pet name for Hermione. Hermione doesn't like it but she might have found a way to make it work for her.

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