#ruthless femslash

[torturedpoetskywalker]

Femslash February 2023

"I feel like we can be great together!" Shuri notices what she just said, the true meaning behind it, so she tries to reform the phrase. "As work partners, of course." - Shuri/Riri Williams

wc: 231 | ao3 | femslash february: day 24 | fluffuary (@fluffbruary): day 14, idea | femslash february prompts (@disorientedrabbit): 003, late night confessions. 024, I wanna ruin our friendship | fandom: mcu - black panther | rating: general

[reesesfastbreak]

016. Celebration

fandom: Do Revenge

pairing: Gabbi Broussard/Carissa Jones/Meghan Perez

summary: When Carissa finally gets her GED, Drea and Eleanor make it all about them

Happy 2024 everyone! Here's to hoping a fun and productive year to creative endeavors (or any endeavors really) to us all.

[narcissasdaffodil]

Summary: As Marisol’s magic repairs, she grows cat ears and a cat tail, and she starts to remember more of her past with Lottie’s help. She also goes outside for the first time since she discovered her vampire cat identity.

Another Marilottie plus vampire cats thing for Femslash February. This is for the prompt Kissing in the Rain by @disorientedrabbit

Tag list: @ariendiel @bypine @starsarestars @cranesandshipyards @rebelrayne

[mikaharuka]

Most Recent Releases!

Heyo y'all! It's been forever since I last posted about anything here on Tumblr, so... here I am, with a handful of links to my most recent fics! There are a couple of different fandoms (Twilight/Life and Death, FE3H, Madoka Magica, and Ace Attorney) and a couple of different ships (slash and femslash alike), but I had fun writing them all!

(Side note - the final fic on this list, Seduction of the Phoenix Bride just revealed today for the Mitsunaru Day 2024 Exchange!)

[Also, tagging just to remind y'all that I'm still on this weird site XD - @udaberriwrites @mrsmungus @sliebman10 @tsunderesalty @axolotlsupremacyowo @fattybattysblog @bleepbloopbotz @narcissasdaffodil @oceangirl24 @danceswithdarkspawn @hylianjo @lena-hills @bees-and-sunshine @kayedium-writes @aleksandriel @0nelittlebirdtoldme @sergeantneko @four-white-trees @precambrian-sea-pancake @evelinessa @argyleheir alongside many others!]

Danza de las Flores || Twilight, Life and Death Mature || 1500 words || Carine Cullen/Bella Swan (F/F)

Bella swings by Edythe's house to get some help with dancing, only to run into her long-time crush and Edythe's older sister, Carine. Fortunately for her, Carine is very willing to help her out. [Inspired by my musings on a swapped version of my Verse!]

Semper Felidae || Twilight, Life and Death Mature || 3000 words || Carlisle Cullen/Beau Swan (M/M)

From the fall of his beloved Adrian to the return of the curious and all-too-familiar Beauregard, Carlisle and his feline companion, Orion, have borne witness to it all. [A prelude to Apricity from Carlisle's POV, set in my overarching Winter Light Verse]

Febris Amatoria || Twilight, Life and Death Explicit || 1800 words (so far) || Carlisle Cullen/Beau Swan (M/M)

The evolution of Beau's and Carlisle's relationship and intimacy over time, captured through a series of erotic moments set in the Winter Light Verse. [Side note, I finally released chapter 3]

The Sun, Moon, and Stars || Twilight, Life and Death Mature || 900 words || Carine Cullen/Edythe Cullen (F/F)

To Edythe Masen, Doctor Carine Cullen was everything- her sun, her moon, and her stars.

In Draconic Harmony || Fire Emblem Three Houses (FE3H) Mature || 900 words || Dorothea Arnault/Edelgard von Hresvelg (F/F)

After spotting her two advisors sharing a quiet moment together, Edelgard decides to sneak away for an intimate moment of her own.

The Die is Cast || Puella Magi Madoka Magica Mature || 900 words || Akemi Homura/Kaname Madoka (F/F)

The stage, home to Homura's arduous journey, has seen many tragic curtain calls, until an unexpected element enters stage right.

Ruthless Seduction || Ace Attorney (Gyakuten Saiban) Explicit || 1500 words || Miles Edgeworth/Phoenix Wright (M/M)

Miles Edgeworth, prosecutor and magic user, is working a late night at the office when his vampiric partner, Phoenix Wright, decides to swings by. Phoenix is determined to make his partner take a break from his work... except it comes around to bite him in a rather pleasurable way and both of them enjoy the outcome.

Seduction of the Phoenix Bride || Ace Attorney (Gyakuten Saiban) Explicit || 7600 words || Miles Edgeworth/Phoenix Wright (M/M)

After receiving a strange black invitation in the mail one day, Phoenix and Maya take the plunge and meet their client, Lady Franziska von Karma, who asks them to deliver some important paperwork to her brother, Lord Miles Edgeworth. When they arrive at his manor, Phoenix is faced with an overwhelming rush of new, yet strangely familiar sensations and memories, along with some odd circumstances and fantastical dreams as he slowly unravels the mystery.

[featherxquill]

Fics Wot I Wrote - 2020-2024

It's been a while since I did this, to the point that calling it 'year-end' is kind of dumb, but hey, that's the tag. For the last few years, my muse has been fickle and time-poor (hello, full-time job, lesson planning, unit writing, exam marking, etc etc etc). This is the post where I round up all the fic I wrote this year (or in this case, for the last four years) and link to it, then answer some questions about my writing, purely as a record of my thoughts/an exercise in egotism. It's fun! And it's my tumblr, so I can do what I like. So there.

Overall, my assessment is that I am ENTIRELY predictable, entirely too into older ladies, and entirely too into tiny fandoms. Why can I never dabble in megafandoms where the fics get hundreds of kudos and comments? Even when the fandoms are growing my interests are niche. Ah well! If you're one of the people who left a comment on one of my fics in these or any years, know that I love you (people who left kudos get appreciation, but it's the comments that spur the muse)

Anyway, here's the fic:

25 Jan 2020: not as a lover but a messenger of death - Arc of a Scythe - Curie/both male and female OCs, Curie/Faraday - E - a multi-chaptered exploration of a scythe's relationship to sex and intimacy, re: power imbalance/responsibility/consent

9 July 2021: Tango Americano - The Infinite Bad - M - Cornelia/OMC - Cornelia and Her American are at it again, this time in Montevideo for a night, but this time they get to unpack some trauma with their fun fling.

July 2021 Bonus: Anything - Unpublished gdoc. E. The missing scene from the fade to black in the fic above. Some edging and a previously untold story about the Kama Sutra. Self-indulgent smut with an audience of almost no one, which is why I never posted it on ao3.

16 March 2022: The Fool and The Empress - The Infinite Bad - E - Cornelia/OMC, also feat. Joy - Cornelia's American comes to visit her in London, something he once never imagined doing. It's a nice end to this little series.

26 December 2022: The Death of Scythe Michael Faraday - Arc of a Scythe - Curie/Faraday - T - Scythe Curie helps Scythe Faraday disappear, which is totally not emotionally fraught at all.

17 December 2024: The Arsonist's Guide to Diplomacy - Slow Horses - Diana Taverner/Catherine Standish - E - What happens when ruthless clever bitch meets soft clever bitch?

Bonus: 1 Jan 2025: Her joe - Slow Horses - Diana Taverner/Jackson Lamb - E- When Jackson Lamb goes undercover as someone Not Physically Repulsive, Diana is suddenly very intrigued by him.

That's it! See you at the end of the year, or maybe in 2030! Who can say? Underneath the cut you'll find the silly little meme.

Longest Story Written: not as a lover but a messenger of death (37,188) - no.2 of all time, actually (One Time Thing still has gold) Shortest Story Written: The Death of Scythe Michael Faraday (2574)

My favourite story: Probably 'Tango Americano'. I think it's the best of the 'Cornelia and Her American' series, and it was a lot of fun to have this Repressed British Lady unpack some of her trauma with her tailor-made boyfriend.

My best story:  Ah, this one is hard when I'm actually writing about four years rather than one! I’ve dithered about 'Not as a lover' because I'm still so proud of it and it was such a painstakingly researched labor of love, but fuck it, I’m going to go ahead and say I think ‘Arsonist’ was better. Fuck yes older lady femslash with a convoluted plot, I did a damn good job on you.

Best received story: Not as a lover. It has 133 kudos at time of writing, and a bunch of comments. Multi-chapter fics are always going to win, there, because sometimes people comment on every chapter. It is important to take into account that it HAS been up since 2020, though. My current Yuletide one has 29 kudos and a comment from the recip plus a reader, which I'm sure will increase once I can crosspost it here (I am drafting this while the anon period is still active).

Most fun story: 'Her joe' was LOADS of fun to write. The prompt was fantastic, trying to capture Lamb's voice was loads of fun, the chance to write something so wildly canon-unlikely but that feels so circumstantially possible to me was loads of fun. Yeah, that one.

Hardest story to write: Honestly, I didn't find any of the listed particularly hard to write. The hardest thing in these last few years has been finding time and inspiration to write, so the things that would have been hard probably didn't even begin. BUT (and this is a later edit to add after MULTIPLE changes in the drafts and since posting) have YOU ever tried to render a sound-based pun as written text? Especially with a sound as difficult to capture in text as the way 'jo mama' sounds, but ALSO the second word is different, and also a weirdly pronounced Shakespeare reference? Like I will die on the hill of this joke being GOLD, but I hope people can get it from the context.

“Holy crap, that’s *wrong*, even for you” story: I don't think any of these fics qualify as 'wrong'? The Taverner in 'Arsonist' is a particularly fucked up person though, I suppose.

Story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters:  I guess that's 'Arsonist' too? I mean I definitely STARTED that fic with a silly transparent premise designed to get two women I wanted to kiss trapped in the same room, and then they turned around and said BUT WHAT IF WE PLANNED IT ALL ALONG. And I went with it. So yeah, that one?

Biggest disappointment: I guess my biggest disappointments were related to those Infinite Bad fics. I had such fun writing them, and I did it for me, but the fandom was SO SMALL to begin with, and then it dwindled even more to nothing. BUT you move on. Cornelia Cavendish is basically a permanent resident in my head now, and her American still visits her, and I want to thank the people who were interested and did read, comment and kudos, or told me privately what they thought, even if they didn't know canon at all.

Biggest surprise: That I wrote 'The Death of Scythe Michael Faraday' in 2022, evidenced by the Archive, and not 2023, which was where I'd placed it in my memory. That's another two year dry spell broken, like the one that happened before I found TiB. Thanks, Slow Horses! Also, on that, that apparently what my brain/heart wanted more than anything was to write Slow Horses smut? Idk, but when I wrote my Yuletide sign-up I actually DNWd receiving smut, I think because I hadn't thought about any of the characters in that way at that point. But then something shifted in my brain and really got into the writing of it. Who knows their own heart and mind? Not me, apparently.

Most unintentionally telling story: I am apparently way more into Kristin Scott Thomas than I thought, lol!

Sexiest story: A lot of these are explicit, actually - I am definitely down as a textual pervert, and quite happy to be here! But I think I'll have to go with 'not as a lover', mainly because its entire premise is sex and different permutations of it. Some of the sexiest bits of it aren't even that explicit, really, but that second chapter? Hoo, boy! I definitely wrote *that* before I learned that most of the fandom were teenagers, let me tell you (and I'm glad it exists; the explicit sex was important for the character's journey in that specific chapter)

Favourite summary:

Scythe Curie helps Scythe Faraday disappear, which is totally not emotionally fraught at all.

Probably apparent, since I used it in the post above. I do enjoy when a summary can have a little bit of wry authorial voice in it, which this one definitely does.

Favourite opening line:

It’s summer in London, and a cooling breeze blows through the city.

I'll pick this one because the recip cited it as something she liked, and because it was fun to channel a bit of Mick Herron even though I was writing about the show rather than the books.

Favourite lines from anywhere:

Kissing him was like stealing cookies from the jar

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They never did drink the champagne.

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“Have you considered the zoo?”

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“What about thunder?” he asks. “Have you ever seen a visual depiction of that?” He continues to look at Cornelia, and after a moment, Joy follows his gaze.

“I wouldn’t say it’s the easiest thing to depict,” she answers, with a smile of her own.

“No?” Leo asks. “I’d say it has a certain attention-grabbing intensity.”

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She kisses him, tame but lingering, and lets these moments be the answer to all they cannot say, cannot do: the way her lips press against his for a beat too long, the way his fingers tighten around her wrist like they want to hold on forever.

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I can't really pick fave lines from the new ones just yet, but I gotta say, I am SO pleased with myself for the jo'mama/joe'country/country matters pun, I can't even.

[dotcomgirrrl]

some things i still dont fucking get:

cursing is just as rampant in heaven as it is in hell??

whats the difference between human souls and people born in heaven/hell (this is the biggest one imo)

do people have kids in the afterlife or is it coincidental?? if they have kids in the afterlife and in mortal life do they have any connection or memories? how do mortal connections in general translate to afterlife

why isnt husk a gambling dog. this is just me hating the design choices

viv couldnt be assed to put in more effort or show us more of charlie and vaggies relationship

ADAM??? what authority does he have. why did he call alastor a mortal soul but he was earlier referred to as "the first human soul in heaven"

alastor in general. good god its a mess.

vaggie should have been way more ruthless about killing sinners. would have been loads more interesting to have been stuck in hell due to lute sabotaging her out of jealousy and having to be stealth. this is the femslash equivalent of unseasoned chicken.

why is lucifer blonde

why did their designs get way more cunty and interesting in the final ep

jesus cameo when

designs in heaven and hell are pretty much the same other than color

[nimuetheseawitch]

ship game! hangster and jennifer/larrin!

Ooooh, you know me well. Thanks for giving me more excuses to talk about these ships.

Hangster

1. What made you ship it?

Reading fanfic. Did not ship it at first (and Macheresin still has my heart), but the fandom got me. I blame you for getting me into this fandom. But even when I didn't ship it, I still thought their whole dynamic was pretty gay. I mean, come on, Slow Ride is a song about sex.

2. What are your favorite things about the ship?

When they're *both* assholes. And idiots. And an absolute hot mess. Preferably exes. Love it when they're divorced. They're ridiculously hot and they know how to get under each other's skin, but Bradley has too much trauma and has not gone to enough therapy. Also, I love a man in a Hawaiian shirt and a mustache, what can I say?

3. Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?

Bradley is an asshole. The fandom seems to be split on this, but he has a temper and says the meanest things and cut Mav out of his life for over a decade. He's an asshole.

Jennifer/Larrin

1. What made you ship it?

I had just rewatched Firefly and was thinking about Stargate and of course was thinking about Kaylee and Jennifer and what they did or did not have in common, and then I thought about some of that Kaylee mechanic energy being turned on a Wraith ship, and then I tripped and fell into the idea of Larrin kidnapping Jennifer and Jennifer having to save the day by doing surgery on a Wraith ship and then Larrin just being very into her competence. Shep Shep encouraged me, I wanted some femslash practice, and a ship was built.

2. What are your favorite things about the ship?

Competence. I think both characters are a little underutilized (and often were used as pretty objects to prop up male characters) but the good characterization we do get of each of them shows them being incredibly competent, even if Jennifer lacks confidence at first and Larrin is a bit ruthless. But they both obviously appreciate competence and have to be good at what they do, so it is right that they appreciate it in each other. Also, they both look great when they smile with confidence.

3. Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?

No. Because I am the Captain of this ship. I am the only one writing fic so far, and everyone has been very supportive. I guess, technically, the entire ship could be considered an unpopular opinion. But I just doubled the fic count on ao3 (bringing it up to a whopping 2), so...

[whumpkink]

@febuwhump 2024: day 07. suffering in silence + @femslash-february bingo 2024: knives

series: crimson history (phase: coven kid) | rating: teen and up audiences | word count: 1,066

content warning: blood, stab wounds, implied past child abuse, and scars.

Peyton tries her best to not stress herself too much.

it's impossible, really. even if the mission is supposed to be simple, just observation and with clear orders to not engage. the people being spied are dangerous, considering they're in the market of stealing magical goods. Patricia sent her best apprentice and her best unofficial apprentice. only if Leon wasn't her best friend and Jay wasn't her girlfriend. but they were good, seemed to work together nicely enough, and they needed Leon paired up with someone willing to get bloody knuckles because he's soft like that.

they don't talk about Jay's combat training, but Peyton's aware that Patricia could and should use it to her advantage. it's not like you can find strong magicians trained in the ruthless ways of a coven soldier that aren't loyal to their coven.

Jay (who sometimes still didn't answer the name, but she's trying to get used to, better than being upset about being called Jessica, Jessie, or Jess. Peyton avoids thinking about why she'd be upset by her own name) had been suspicious. she frowned at Patricia as she was told what the older woman wanted. but nodded along, something like excitement in her eyes. she is a soldier, a fighter, and sparing is way less exciting than the idea of possible altercations with dangerous criminals.

dating her is extremely stressful.

Patricia is telling her it's a simple and safe mission, they'll be fine when the commotion hits them. she follows her mentor out of the small office adjacent to the medbay. Liam and Sage at helping a pale looking Jay into it, he catches her eyes and makes the most apologetic face she has ever seen. her girlfriend's sweating, Peyton recognizes the delirious look in her eyes, she has seen it before, and Jay doesn't make one sound of pain despite her appearance.

"what happened?" Patricia asks, healer mode on in the blink of an eye.

"they detected us, somehow," they detected Jay, probably. "she shielded me from their attack before banishing us to an alleyway nearby."

Peyton almost throws up as the pair put Jay on top of the closest bed, with a small grunt of effort since she's much, much heavier than you'd expect. (and you already expect her to be heavy with her pushing above 1,80 of more muscle than anything else).

she counts seven knives buried across her back, all to the hilt. Jay breathes slowly and shallowly, three of the knives where her lungs are. there's almost no blood to be seen, with the blades still in their respective wounds and keeping them from bleeding.

Sage leaves the room, Liam steps back and he looks so guilty. he doesn't look at Peyton, she knows him, he'll blame himself for Jay doing exactly what they expected her to do: keep him safe.

"Liam, leave. Peyton, come here, be professional," Patricia orders.

"O-ok."

"I'll do superficial healing, keep the bleeding under control, as you pull the knives."

her hands are shaking, she doesn't think about how it'll do more damage, Patricia is the superior healer for more reasons than decades of experience. the knife on her lower back is dangerously close to her spine, there's one that had to lacerate her liver. as she pulls out one of the three on her lungs area, she feels the bone.

Jay is silent, she doesn't react at all.

Patricia nods at her, comfort her as I heal her. Peyton watches her mentor pick up the scissors before the crouches, not wanting to see the injuries more clearly. not wanting to see the scars she's familiar with by now.

Jay's eyes are half-closed, she opens them a little bit more as she notices Peyton in front of her. she looks even more delirious, she should be trashing and screaming in Peyton's experience with patients. instead, she stays eerily still and breathing calmly, almost like she's sleeping. it's disturbing, not only seeing it, but thinking about whatever training she went through to be taught how to simply suffer in silence.

"how bad is it?" Jay mumbles. her teeth are stained with blood.

"could be worse, the knives kept you from bleeding out," Peyton reaches and caresses her hair. it has grown just a bit, Jay likes to keep it in a buzzcut. she says it's practical. "you'll probably need rest for weeks."

"I heal fast."

"you still need to take it slow," she smiles a bit when Jay closes her eyes, she's like a cat who enjoys head scratches. so Peyton gives her head scratches. "rest and let your body recover."

"I have duties."

"you have a mission here and there that Patricia sends you to," Jay always frowns a bit when she calls Patricia by her first name, instead of mentor Crawford like the other students, like Jay herself. "she won't send you again anytime soon."

"I sure won't," Patricia confirms, Peyton looks up to see she has prepped for stitches. "I need to stitch you up, I can heal most damage, but it's never good to heal everything. ok?"

"fine."

if Jay was a normal patient, Patricia would give her, at least, some numbing agent. but Jay didn't like any form of anesthesia and they've quickly learned that most potions and medicine didn't work well in a hybrid. all Patricia could give was a warning before sawing wounds shut.

Peyton doesn't like that aspect of healing. potions and spells are easy, cleaning blood is annoying but easy, she can deal with gaping wounds and with infected, death-smelling wounds. but treading a needle into skin makes her stomach turn for some reason.

she focuses on talking to Jay, soft voice and random words. she's goes on and on about her current project. since Jay has told them about her primary magic, Patricia has been worried and Peyton has been curious about Bloody Runes. Jay mumbles confirmations and adds a thing or two. they can have an actual conversation about it when Jay's not out of her mind from pain as Patricia closes the gashes on her back.

the pit on her stomach feeds rage on her ribcage, rage at whoever has taught Jay she shouldn't react to pain. she'd rather have to restrain someone than to watch them suffer without a noise.

dating Jay is really, really stressful (and she doesn't regret any of it).

[tallysgreatestfan]

Tag game for fanfiction authors !

Tagged by @riotbrrrd

The story you're proudest of: 

"Sins Unexplored", this longfic about Entrapta and Hordaks developing relationship and how their disabilities and trauma affect that.

Not just is it fairly long for my standards and I wrote longer than a year on it, I also put so much of myself and my own experiences in it, and, and that sounds pretentious about a fic, but these are such important topics, ableism and disability and queerness and how that affects someone. I even got feedback from people feeling seen in it!

Your story that's gotten the most love online:

Again "Sins Unexplored", absolutely justified.

Tease a current WIP or idea you're working on: 

Oh god I have so many Uglies fics in my folders to publish somewhen after the movie came out and the fandom resurrected, most of them about Tally/Shay post-canon, shortly after Extras, and how their trauma and neurodivergence and body image issues affect their relationships (see a pattern?)

Your top 3 fandoms:

Babylon 5 - Because this fandom is like the toxic ex I just can't get rid off

She-Ra - Because this was, despite how incredibly toxic the fandom and how... badly executed some parts of the series were, the first time I not just saw someone like me in mainstream media, but relationships like mine, between two disabled queer people

Star Trek Discovery - First femslash ship I ever had! But then the series did a 180° and I didn't even finish it, and by now I write much more Locked Tomb or Uglies

Your top 3 ships:

Delenn/Lennier (Babylon 5)- Just the femdom and how this is both messy and complicated and badly communicated but also so deep and loving. Ruthless but wise high priestess turned politician/younger, naive monk who is her assistant. Not healthy, but fun, and wow are they both pretty.

Entrapta/Hordak (She-Ra) - They're mad scientists. They are also deeply traumatized and lonely disabled people bonding over being different. Also femdom. And a really sexy monster boy design, and Entrapta is hot too.

Katrina Cornwell/L'Rell - An alien torturer and an human admiral, meeting as enemies, but coming to respect each other. Both women. The have exactly two (2) scenes together, but wow is their chemistry intense.

Rec someone else's fic:

Don't really read that much fic right now, so this is a bit difficult. The last really good one I read was:

"A Star Chart In Rotation" by halcyonine, which shows the tender beginnings of the doomed relationship of Teixcalaan Emporer Six Direction, future Empress Nineteen Adze and Lsel ambassador Yskandr Aghavn from "A Memory Called Empire". It is just so bittersweet, and gets the dynamic and worldbuilding so right.

Pick one!

Fluff or Angst (Fluff is nice sometimes too, but I love how deeply Angst can go into how a character works)

Oneshots or longfics (Both for writing and reading, because while longfics are amazing, I just don't have the energy for them most of the time)

Canon compliance or canon divergence (If I would want canon, I would watch or read the media. Also canon divergence just has so much more possibilities)

AO3 or FF.net (Not just the better functionality, the culture there feels much more open and welcoming, and also smut is allowed)

tagging @a-certain-elf and @entrapdaknation if you want

[madtomedgar]

Would you ever genderbend Garak DS9, and if so, how would that go? If you wouldn't, just tell me some of your favorite things or headcanons about him!

oooooooooh ok so i am actually watching a kdrama right now with @lilac-buttons where the main character is a woman who gets the Garak treatment (it's called Alchemy of Souls, very very fun, but sadly not much femslash potential).

So the answer is, yes I would love for more female characters to get that story line of like. Villain forced into early retirement. Where they had previously been a ruthless and powerful figure and now they are stuck in bumfuck behind enemy lines, washed up, maybe in hiding, running a very boring shop, mad about it, and gay.

The thing with Garak is that because it's a sci-fi setting, you just change the character's gender and nothing else. I would also change Bashir's gender, to keep it gay. You could have the shop be something besides clothes and replace the queenery but I don't think I would here, because the line "oh just something I overheard while hemming someone's pants" is too good. It would make the Dukat hatred even better.

Also, it opens up an avenue for some very crunchy sexual tension with Major Kira, who in this would by the butch lesbian she always should have been. Like...you would have older queen femme Garak acting protective of her around Dukat, Kira picking fights with her, which is how Cardassians flirt, and Garak being like "well mark me down as scared AND horny" in every scene where Kira is doing violence, especially the ethically dubious kind. And then they wind up co-parenting Ziyal. Damn we were robbed. It would be the kind of thing where I wouldn't want it to go anywhere in the show, except maybe a Xanthy fever episode (a Betazoid disease where they project their emotions onto others, reverse telepathy, you now feel what they're feeling. The character who has this condition is on the prowl when it hits, and everyone winds up in a comedy where they suddenly HAVE to fling themselves at anyone they had a repressed crush on). But I would "ship" them in the sense of "I need there to be a healthy fanwork ecosystem churning out lots of hot hate-sex, fake-dating, there-was-only-one-bed etc scenarios for them. Bashir can come too but that's a "this does can and should happen in the show" kind of ship, which is different, you know.

[torturedpoetskywalker]

Femslash February 2023

"How lucky I am to have found you, the most beautiful and kindest creature there is, in the middle of the mess that my life has become." - Cho Chang/Luna Lovegood

wc: 264 | ao3 | femslash february (@femslashfeb): day 18, loss | fluffuary (@fluffbruary): day 18, recovery | hp shipuary (@hpshipuary): day 18, Luna Lovegood | hp saffics femslash bingo (@hpsaffics): fluff, canon divergence, established relationship, hogwarts era | femslash february prompts (@rollisicarisi): 023, fear. 026, safe. 027, sleep | femslash february prompts (@disorientedrabbit): 003, late night confessions. 007, do it for her | mini femslash february (@ministarfruit): 018, "go to sleep!"

[reesesfastbreak]

028. Gayzing at the Stars

Disclaimer: I fully understand that Lent is long over but it worked too well for this fic to not be the time setting. This is a little gift for @ronanceisintheair.

Fandom: Do Revenge

Paring: Gabbi Broussard/Eleanor Levetan (& Carissa Jones), Montana Ruiz/Meghan Perez, Montana Ruiz/Carissa Jones/Meghan Perez

Summary: Carissa takes punishing herself to a new level by agreeing to chauffeur Gabbi and Nora to a romantic star gazing date. Things get a little more interesting when Meghan and Montana show up.

Russ knew, of course, that Carissa did agree to do this. He sighs, like he can't believe her. “Love, are you mad ? It’s sheer stupidity to volunteer to be the third wheel for someone you have history with and arguably lingering feelings for and someone that you have a crush on.”

[wolffyluna]

Fic premises under the cut, due to spoilers.

Shadowheart/Karlach, Shadowheart tries to relieve mechanical hurt related discomfort while not being repeatedly stabbed by her own hand wound

Shadowheart/Karlach, Karlach would like to comfort Shadowheart after she turns from Shar, except her only strategies are 'hugs' and 'axes to the face of people who hurt her girlfriend' neither of which are appropriate for this situation

Lae'zel/Tav, Tav and Lae'zel discuss consuming more tadpoles to deal with the after affects of the zath'isk device (Lae'zel hates both options with almost equal fervour)

4. Lae'zel/f!Drow!Tav, they both think of themselves as ruthless people who will do what needs to be done, and they have only been making the most Logical and Reasonable decisions-- and now they have had a chance to sit and think, they are very confused why these logical and reasonable decisions involved fighting a camp full of goblins and developing dokidoki feelings for eachother.

[hsvh-hp]

10 Lines Tag Game

Rules: share the first lines of ten of your most recent fanfics and tag ten people. If you have written less than ten, don’t be shy and share anyway

I hadn't really realized just how many fics I've written in the past few years until I went 'ten?!' and then looked at my library. 😂 Thanks yletylyf for the tag!

10. The first time Delphini noticed the girl, they were being led up to Hogwarts from the boathouse. In the light of Hagrid’s lantern, Delphini spotted a head of pink hair at the front of all the first-years. Pink hair was bold. Delphini was too nervous to want to stand out like that. She’d been pretending ever since Mummy and Daddy took her to King’s Cross that her hair was long, black, and curly. Delphini just wanted the Sorting Hat to tell her to go to Slytherin, then to eat dinner and go to bed. 

My current WIP! I have a lot of feelings about this one, all of them related to excitement. It's a fest fic and therefore not yet published, so I'm not sure that its current title is 100% set in stone. More importantly though, it's the first femslash I've written in nearly seven years. It's the first incest ever. 🌝 So we'll see how that goes over. But it's been a blast to write so far and I cannot wait to publish it!!

9. Although the closet Narcissa and Lucius shared was large, their clothing dampened all sound. It felt like the world ended at the walls, and like every little noise inside was that much louder. 

Another fest fic that I just finished, which should be out (anonymously, at least) in the next month or two! Between this and the current WIP, it's been such fun to write from female perspective again. I've clearly been in A Mood lately and focused on the Black family. Anyway, getting into Narcissa's head was such a joy, especially writing her as a dominant, headstrong figure when she tends to be a favourite for the delicate flower trope.

8. “Leon, no.”

Yet again, Draco set down the clothing he held in order to hoist Leon out of his suitcase. Leon went dead weight. If it wasn’t so cute, Draco would have unceremoniously tossed Leon out of his chamber and shut the door behind him. 

This is technically a WIP as well, since I took a break from it to write the two fest fics above. Spoilers for Draco's fourth year in my Canon in Draconis Major series, since these are the opening lines. I haven't published the chapters from third year yet where he sort-of-accidentally acquires a pet.

7. As soon as Peter heard Sirius’ motorcycle, he knew something was wrong. 

Like I said above about being in A Mood as far as tracking common themes during a period of my writing, this dark!Peter fic Terror By Night came during a period of letting certain Marauders off the leash and reaching for their full potential as villains! Peter's so easy in that regard - so self-serving, ruthless, and clever, if given the chance.

6. The Gryffindor common room was abuzz in its usual fashion as Peter crossed it. Sitting alone in a corner, looking pathetic in his dejection, was Sirius. He looked up from the piece of parchment he idly stabbed with the tip of his quill.  

Oh, poor pathetic and lonely Sirius in Life in the Rift. 🥺 Another Peter POV fic, although not as dark as the previous. I let Peter explore his potential here for friendship and forgiveness, and how that could be corrupted in time.

5. Bellatrix and Rodolphus’ wedding thus far reminded Sirius of every single pureblood one he’d attended in past. It was held at the same venue, with the same people in attendance—as far as the Black family went, anyway. 

This comes from None So Vile, my Dark!Sirius fic. Now he was a fun one to let off the leash. I catch myself daydreaming all the time about its two sequel fics. I won't be free of this little 'verse until they're eventually written.

4. Although the early morning humidity had departed from the manor land, Draco wiped his damp forehead. Standing in shade helped to cool him down, but the thick trousers and wellies he wore worked to the contrary.

It sort of floors me that the longfic I'm in the process of posting is so far down the list! I finished writing it in October, and I guess I've been a busy little bee in the meantime. This is the opening line of Draco Malfoy and the Will to Power, my canon compliant interpretation of Prisoner of Azkaban from Draco's POV.

3. The day started like any other for Draco. He woke up, had tea and toast, and then dressed for work. He threw some Floo powder into his home’s fireplace, which turned the temporary flames a cerulean blue. Draco stepped through into his office in the Department of Mysteries. 

Across the Multiverse, the most popular fic I've ever written. I hope another day comes where I get to write Draco as an Unspeakable! He was so fun, especially since that career track didn't hold him to any sort of morality. I have...feelings...about redemption arcs, so it was fun to write Draco as unconcerned about that personal path post-war. Why should he try to redeem himself when, had he done so, Ron Weasley would be dead? That was something Harry had to answer in this fic.

2. Sunday night family dinner at Malfoy Manor went about how it usually did. Cutlery clinked up and down the formal dining room table, the odd chuckle punctuating murmured conversation. Although Bellatrix sat as closely to Aunt Lucretia to her right as Rodolphus to her left, it felt like a chasm separated her and Rod from the rest of tonight’s company. 

Bella, my beloved, in Almost Human. Writing from her perspective was a joyful exploration of villain protagonists. She gets what she wants more than anything at cost of destroying Andromeda's life, which for her was a happy ending, and...yeah. Love that crazy bitch. lol

1.The Lower City smelled like absolutely nothing Draco had ever experienced before. The streets themselves were dingy with grime. He pitied the state of the bottom of his boots. They might never be clean again. 

This is my 'least popular' Drarry fic (does such a thing honestly exist?) Flesh of the Serpent, but it has a special place in my heart! Well, every fic I write does. This was the first HP fest fic I ever wrote, and I learned early on in that venture that I don't bother signing up for fests unless I'm either completely gripped by an idea or I already had a fic in the idea pile that a fest would give me an excuse to write. This one belonged to the former category.

Which, funnily enough, brings us back full circle to the two fest fics that aren't yet published - both of which the ideas utterly gripped me for and I had to write them right now at all cost of my current projects and social life.

...I can't believe that all of these fics, spare I think about half of Across the Multiverse, were written within the last year. Maybe I need to get a life.

Nah. 😂

[dorotheafromthesea]

Firsts

Day one of Femslash February. It's only a small drabble but it's the closest thing to writing I did recently.

Fandom: Stranger Things

Pairing: Barb x Nancy

Nancy was a lot of Barb’s firsts. 

Nancy was her first real friend after they moved to Hawkins in third grade. Barb had been a shy kid, and coming to a new school where everybody knew everybody in the middle of the school year did not help in getting any new friends. But Nancy just sat down next to her and began to talk about Barb’s book. “I love Narnia. Did you read all of them?” When she answered she doesn’t have the other books at home, Nancy invited her over to read them together. And shortly afterward, they did everything together, projects and activities at school, reading their favorite books and talking about their own fantastic universe, doing sleepovers. Barb stayed for Dinner with the Wheelers, and Nancy joined the Hollands on weekend trips. They became Barb and Nance, always mentioned in the same breath and always together.

In middle school, when the other girls began to talk about boys, she didn’t understand what made them so interesting. They were still the same gross and nasty kids as before the summer. Instead, her mind wandered towards Nancy, how their hands happened to touch, how she could absorb her perfume during a hug, and how she wanted the same hug to last perhaps a little too long for normal friendship. In retrospect, Nancy was not the first girl she had felt this way about. But she was the first girl Barb realized others might not feel the same way, other girls don’t want to hug their best friend and never let go, other girls don’t want to kiss their female friends, other girls don’t dream of Lynda Carter and Olivia Newton-John, other girls fantasize about John Travolta or Tom Cruise.

Nancy was also her first kiss. It was not only a kiss on the cheek as some girl friends do for goodbyes, it was a kiss directly on the mouth. For practice, for their first boyfriends, for their real first kiss. At least that’s what Nancy said. For Barb, it was everything she wanted her first kiss to be. Nancy’s hair tickling on her face, her hands shoving them away and her fingertips stroking Nancy’s jaw, the warm and giddy feeling in her stomach, and in the end, the slight disappointment when Nancy withdraw herself. 

They continued their practice at each sleepover and her disappointment increased every time she couldn’t say that this right here was exactly what she wanted, that Nancy was who she wanted and not some stupid boy in some stupid sports jacket. As Nancy started to mention Steve constantly all the time, her disappointment grew into hurt and slowly into disillusionment. The worst part of it was she couldn’t even tell anyone how her heart was aching to confess her feelings to Nancy, how tedious it was to hear the name Steve in every second sentence, and how painful to see the two of them together. Not that Nancy would notice anyway, she was too caught up in Steve, his cool friends, and seemingly parties like these. But this wasn’t who Nancy is, or was, Barb supposed. This wasn’t the girl that defended her against all the ones who made fun of her glasses in middle school, this wasn’t the girl she’d talked endless hours about their dreams and how they don’t want to end up as mothers in the suburbs, this wasn’t the girl Barb fell in love with. But deep down, her Nancy must still be there, and what if she’d notice any moment and she’d come out and then no one would be there for her? She cannot leave her alone at Steve’s, she’d wait for her, drive her home, be the best friend Nancy saw her as, and continue to get her heart shattered into pieces and Nancy would become her first heartbreak.

[narcissasdaffodil]

Summary: When Marisol realises she has a crush on her best friend Lottie, she pushes it down. She couldn’t possibly like her best friend like that and there’s no way Lottie likes her back. But what if that’s not true?

I’m back for another round of Femslash February! This time I’m using multiple different prompt lists, and choosing the prompt for each day. This one is Marilottie plus vampire cats, and pretty short. This one is for the prompt Firsts by @disorientedrabbit

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