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Dear Creator,

Thank you for signing up for the Rare Femslash Exchange! I am excited to receive your gift, and I hope you get one you love in return.

The most important thing I want you to know is I'm pretty easy osy, so though I've written ideas here if they don't do it for you please ignore them.

I would prefer canon settings for the fandoms in this exchange, but there's no need to tie anything to actual events; it can be divergent, adjacent, or compliant as needed. Some of the pairings don't interact in canon at all. For Original Works, I have some preferences outlined, but again I'm fairly open to most things.

🖤Treats are welcome in all forms, and I intend to give some too if I have the time and inspiration. If there are any pinch hits with fandoms I'm familiar with, I'll try to fill them as well.🖤

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Genres:

DITL
missing scenes
firsts (date, kiss, time)
established relationship fluff
any other kind of fluff
H/C
whump
darkfic
epistolary
only one bed/hypothermia/any other excuse to get characters in close proximity
POV can be a character in the pairing or an external character

Other: I prefer sex scenes to lean M rather than E (where the reader is watching from the other side of the room rather than being squished in between the characters) // please also note that sex is not necessary if that is not your thing, I adore fics without and very few of the things I've written have been PWP // asexual romantic characters/pairings are also fine if that's your thing.

DNW

Miscarriage/Child Death/Pregnancy/Kid Fic
BDSM
Cheating/Breakups
Omegaverse
Partner abuse
Rape or Child Abuse on screen (discussion about or reference to past experiences is totally fine, I enjoy angst and healing)
Character Bashing

I will leave the pairings in your capable hands, however just in case you would like some inspiration, I'll write some of the things on my mind for each of them. Again, absolutely no expectations that you'll run with any of these, just ideas if you want them because some of these pairings have zero or minimal interaction in canon and I don't want you to feel adrift at sea.

Voyager

Seven of Nine/Samantha Wildman - maybe Samantha helps Seven with her lessons in human behaviour and they grow close? Feel free to include Naomi in the story, as long as nothing unpleasant happens to her.Or go wild with a rescue fic!
Seven of Nine/B'Elanna Torres - scenes with them in the Jeffries tubes live in my head rent-free. Ditto arguing in front of everyone and anyone. Someone tells them to get a room.
Seven of Nine/Kes - Kes is gone before Seven wakes up in canon, but what if instead she stayed? How would Kes' influence affect Seven's journey back to humanity?

Dragon Age

Morrigan/Female Warden - the whole time I played DAO I was trying to romance Morrigan. When I found out I couldn't, I was gutted. I would love to see the romance/attraction develop between them in a canon setting or even simply a steamy scene. Just in case it's important to you, my canon warden was a human mage, with a justifiable fear of the Templars, who tried to mediate peace where she could and would have allowed Morrigan to do the ritual. But feel free to use any of the backgrounds that suits you.
Female Adaar/Cassandra Pentaghast - Cassandra, yet another loss for the queer women in the Dragon Age fandom, who turned me down so bashfully it was hard to be mad with her. I would love to see her change her mind some time after that scene, perhaps over a shared interest in romance novels and dragon slaying?
Josephine Montilyet/Female Trevelyan - I am a sucker for the courtly way these two end up getting together. I'd love it if Trevelyan was either well polished or incredibly rusty in the current courtship norms!
Bethany Hawke/Isabela - I have never considered this pairing before, and keep picturing a game of Wicked Grace.

Star Trek: Enterprise

Hoshi Sato/T'Pol - I love these two bonding over shared interests, and Hoshi's interest in other races and languages allowing her to show cultural niceties to the lone Vulcan who must struggle greatly with all the emotional human energy on the ship.

Original Work

Aging Female Lighthouse Keeper/Ghostly Mermaid (OW) - something about how the ghost has always been there, maybe it ends with the Keeper finally dying and the her companion is waiting for her?
Ancient Goddess/Bridal Sacrifice (OW) - this could be wholesome or really steamy depending on your muse, I would appreciate a happy ending, but the Bride can be sacrificed in that.
Knight Lost on a Quest/Determined Wife Who Won’t Forget Her (OW) - epistolary might be nice here, with them both missing both missing each other terribly. Feel free to have the Knight return alive or dead.
Medieval Knight/Nun (OW) - I feel like this could be really erotic. A one time event or a recurring one? Do they fall in love? Do they never speak again?
Spaceship Engineer/Passenger on that Spaceship - a wealthy passenger who bought her way onto the mission clashing with the grumpy engineer who earned her place with blood sweat and tears.

For Original Works set in space, I prefer NASA-punk over Space-fantasy but feel free to hand-wave complex futuristic things like FTL for plot (or go into great detail if that's your thing!)

Thank you for whatever you choose to do. I hope you have fun creating.

LG 🖤

melagan

I've made gloves for family, but this is the first time I've made some for me!

I'm recovering from a 24-hour (nasty- sooo nasty) stomach bug and all I want right now is a cozy Christmas-y McShep fic to make me feel better.

Yes, that's blatant begging. Aided by Chkc's wonderful Chibi art.

mific

I've always loved water in gardens, but for some years I only managed that through bird baths, which are also handy for emergency plant watering. Then I discovered my local big box store had cheap plastic half barrels, which I've used to repot a couple of small trees, but it occurred to me one would be perfect as a water garden. They came with no drainage holes, but I cut those with a hole saw in the two used as planters. So I got a couple of small water lilies and a black taro (they like sitting in water), and another marginal plant, planted them up in some old perforated peg baskets, and hey presto. Mosquitoes are easily managed by putting a chunk of mozzie dunk in the water (it releases bacillus thuringiensis that kills mozzie larvae, harmless to anything else).

Everything was lovely until two weeks later when I came out one morning to find the tub filled with mud and ripped up water lilies. Ducks. The bastards had gotten in and savaged the plants, rooted about in the planters, and bitten off all the water lily leaves. Not eaten the leaves, just ripped them off. That was when I remembered why I'd never tried to make a water garden here before.

But I had a water garden now, although it took a day to lift and redo the peg basket planters, replanting the sadly denuded lily roots in each one and running the water in the tub clear with a hose. I wasn't going to let the duck pack get the better of me!

One thing I enjoy with gardening is DIYing things. I've made tripods and more complex plant supports, mesh cubes to cover brassicas for my wheelibeds, and so forth. I lay awake in bed trying to figure out how to keep the damn ducks out, and finally had a plan. The duck dome. (shown lifted up off the water garden tub)

1. A circle of hose, joined by jamming a 4 inch bit of thick bamboo in to hold the ends together (a system I often use to make small hose circles to raise pots up for drainage).
2. Four 4-inch bits of hose attached to that circle with the bottom side slit open so as to fit over the lip of the plastic tub. Easier to take it on and off with just a few attachment points.
3. A number of long, thin privet branches slotted into holes drilled in the main hose circle, bent over to make the dome and tied where they cross. I wasted some time researching where to get willow slips for this, then realised I had what I needed already - several Chinese privets that are invasive but provide shade, and I keep them trimmed so they don't flower. They have long, straight branches which I've been using for a while as plant supports.

All that remained was to assemble the bits. It went pretty smoothly, although the privet branches weren't perfectly straight, but it adds to the rustic look. I'm happy with it, and it's been duckproof so far. The water lilies are both making a comeback, as well.

In other news, I posted pics of our local reservoir dam on common nature, here.

And I'm now completely obsessed with Heated Rivalry on TV. In between episodes I look at all the meta, gifs and despairing posts from other similarly obsessed fans on tumblr, have read the books, am now listening to the audiobooks (Connor Storrie does a vastly better Russian accent than the readers manage - I gather real Russians think he's actually Russian!), and am trying not to rewatch the eps too many times in the gaping voids between Fridays. It's bloody inconvenient, as I have less than a week to finish my due South and SGA Santa fics, but I'll get there. Here are three meta pieces about how THE SEX IS THE POINT, two collected by

machinistm, and one by Gav at the rec centre. Jacob Tierney is a fucking genius, and has taken Rachel Reid's (very readable) books to a new level, like Peter Jackson's loving LotR adaptations. Not to mention the explosive chemistry of Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie. Storrie is getting a little more attention as his performance of Ilya is spectacular, but I'm very fond of Hudson's Shane and when you see clips of Hudson being himself you realize how well and subtly he's performing the role. Plus Shane's such a sub; I just love him. God, four days to get through until Friday, but that's one ep a day, right? And then number five drops at 7pm. Not that I'm desperate, or anything...

elayna

I have seen The Nutcracker more in the last few years than the entirety of my life before the pandemic, I think. I've become closer to a friend who goes every year without fail. (I may need to break away from this, 'cuz it's enjoyable, but I don't actually need to see the same show Every Single Year.)

I have idle thoughts about a Nutcracker AU because my mind tends to drift off and fanfic everything.

Like... Victorian America and a big house and a party, like the ballet. Only the kid isn't a young girl and the daughter of the house, but Steve Rogers and he's the orphaned son of the nurse who saved the lady of the manor. So the family feels responsible for him, but also, he's so scrawny and sick, they figure they're helping him spend his last few years peacefully.

And the nutcracker isn't the treasured gift but sorta an 'oops, we need a present for this kid.' Steve doesn't realize this, he's ecstatic, admiring the painting of the object. He's artistic and appreciates fine woodworking. He goes to bed with his nutcracker clasped to his breast. It's Victorian times, so he wears a white nightgown that hangs to the middle of his calves. He dreams that the nutcracker comes alive. Picture Bucky with the white ballet tights clinging to the sculpted muscles of his thighs, wearing a blue-gray satiny shirt that matches his eyes with silver epaulets on the shoulders, the Winter Soldier nutcracker.

The two dance around the living room, by the huge Christmas tree festooned with sparkly ornaments, the only light the moonlight shining in. Steve feels so wonderful, as he leaps into his nutcracker's arms and is caught and swung around. His white nightgown floats around his thin legs, catching on his partner's tights.

Different possible endings: the Mouse King or a sorcerer? Transform Steve into a nutcracker, tall and proud. In the morning, the family find both nutcrackers and are perplexed, did Steve steal one from somewhere else? If so, why did he leave both? Did he run away? They place the nutcrackers together on the fireplace mantle and eventually forget about the orphaned child that they didn't really want, but every Christmas Eve (full moon?), the nutcrackers come alive and Steven and Bucky dance around and have adventures with the fairies. That feels sorta old-fashioned fairy tale ending, mysterious and romantic but a little sad.

Or Bucky transforms into a person, and in the morning, Steve wakes, wondering why he's so warm, and rolls over to see Bucky cuddled in bed with him. He invents a story about a strange, lost boy, and the family is a little 'sigh, another one?' but accept him. And the two grow up and are happy together for the rest of their lives.

New cat is suddenly molesting me as I try to type this, I think she wants dinner early.

shippen_stand

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runpunkrun

with lightning
one is not enlightened
how valuable
-1690

Translation by Jane Reichhold.

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tarlanx

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runpunkrun

We have these envelopes I use to half-assedly organize coupons. After our local Kroger analogue recently remodeled, I had to rename some of the envelopes because they dissolved the "natural" section—where I did most of my dairy-free, gluten-free shopping—and moved those products around the store.

So now the "deli & meat" envelope has "dairy & non-dairy" added to it, which amuses me every time I get it out because "dairy & non-dairy" encompasses everything in the universe.

tarlanx

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elayna

Thor: Ragnarok keeps playing on TV and I see bits and pieces when finding something to watch, making me think how much I love Valkyrie, partially because Tessa Thompson is so cute and personable, but also the character is such a male trope that women rarely get to play. I love the switch-up.

She's Han Solo, she's multiple Humphrey Bogart roles. She's disillusioned, cynical, and out for herself, and even before we see the flashback, you know that she was hurt badly when she was younger, a disappointment that helped create that shell. She lives a little outside normal society, keeping herself isolated. But of course, there's the heart of gold underneath and she comes to the hero's rescue when it's critically needed.

Women just don't get to play this role. Or if they have the basic characteristics of being hurt, cynical, and slightly isolated, they're prostitutes. They're not warriors who come swinging a sword. Possibly they help by distracting the bad commandant.

I love Han Solo and Humphrey Bogart, I love this trope. I love seeing a woman be tough and find herself again and be a hero. Huzzah!

mific

Aaaand, another piece of art for my current obsession!

On AO3 and tumblr

It's Friday tomorrow, yay!

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runpunkrun

Will Darling's inherited his uncle's used bookshop and also a secret that everyone in London is trying to beat out of him. After Lord Arthur "Kim" Secretan—handsome, charming, rich—rescues him from one of these numerous thugs, Will accepts his help in searching the bookshop for whatever it was his uncle was hiding. Sex, intrigue, and hats (it's the 1920s) ensue.

I don't know, gang, I just didn't vibe with these two, and the many sex scenes kind of demand that you do. I would have preferred a higher story to horny ratio; as it is, it's pretty much 1:1. But, personal tastes aside, it's not a bad book, and other readers have found it delightful, so don't let me scare you off.

Contains: explicit m/m sex, including some terms so deeply unsexy I can only assume they're historically accurate; violence; references to WWI, trench warfare, infectious disease, and biological weapons.

melagan

This is my current project. I'm working on three pairs of these in different colors. Hoping to finish and get them in the mail in time for Christmas.

I should manage. I've only one and a half pairs to go, and I've made so many of these I could almost do them in my sleep.

mific

Another piece of art for my current obsession.

On AO3 and tumblr

Also I've realised what the TV series reminds me of. The Canadian govt-supported film company is called Crave, but it could easily be Gay Porn For Girls. Not because the series is actually porn, but because it's made by a team that understands how to film sex scenes.

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