#femslash februrary 2025

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FEMSLASH FEBRUARY 2025 #1: Headcanon that Cameron and Donna both contribute and donate to Archive of Our Own Dot Org

Cameron and Donna both have ao3 accounts, but didn’t realize it until Donna went to respond to a Captain Janeway/Seven of Nine fic only to see a complimentary comment that had been left by a licoriceatmutinydotnet. Donna replied to their reply, “…Cameron?” Cameron figured out that the comment had been left by Donna from her username, TheSymphonic, and replied, “Nope sorry wrong number BYE”.

Donna has not let Cameron live this reply down, but they’ve learned to co-exist peacefully and independently on the site:

Sometimes they sit at the kitchen table and work on their WIPs at the same time, but they also lovingly mostly ignore each other’s fics and comments

Cameron does more writing, and Donna does more reading and commenting/encouraging

Cameron mostly writes domestic fluff, while Donna will post unabashed smut

Donna only writes about sapphic pairings, while Cameron frequently writes m4m and bisexual m4f

Cameron writes long multi-chapter fics, while Donna only writes one-shots, and is known for posting steamy drabbles

Donna will write fics about any and every ship that speaks to her, while Cameron has a short list of fandoms to which she contributes

They’re both heavy into Star Trek, The X-Files, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, obviously

Cameron also writes about Westworld, Lost, Battlestar Galactica, and The Lord of the Rings. Her most popular fics by far are the ones she writes about bi!Aragorn/bi!Arwen

Donna’s all-time favorite ships are Scully/Reyes and Faith/Willow; lately she’s been into Supercorp, the couple from the new Orphan Black series which then led her back to Trishica and other Jessica Jones fics, and, of course, Caitvi

Cameron mostly keeps her favorite fics to herself, but Donna sends her favorites to Cameron regularly

Lately she sends her a lot of Caitvi fics, and Cameron dutifully looks at all of them, not having the heart to tell her that she’s more into Jayvik, and is also intrigued by the rare Sevika/Jinx pairing

They’ve had multiple conversations about the criticisms that ao3 gets for allowing stories about assault and abuse, and reached the conclusion that ao3 shouldn’t be held responsible for the very tiny but vocal minority of users who go around threatening to abuse in real life if they can’t post their assault and murder and incest fics and might pose an actual danger

They’ve both been downloading their favorite fics, because they’re both worried about the site being targeted and/or shut down, and have had multiple conversations about both

While this is obviously a huge bummer, Donna is coping by throwing herself into the very popular Caitvi NASA fic, and Cameron has started to read and enjoy it too

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