#femslash related stuff

[booasaur]

Really disappointing NCIS: Hawai'i was canceled! It's still relatively new for a procedural (and definitely for an NCIS) and was doing fine in the ratings. With the loss of one of the last mainstream ongoing f/f couples, can't help but feel the issue with it was its diversity more than anything else.

#ncis hawai'i #femslash related stuff #kacy #f/f is so cancelation-prone they'll kill an NCIS for it

[onceiblinked]

 Decisions, decisions…

#rayaari #raya #raya and namaari #namaari #raya and the last dragon #girl meets world #riley matthews #maya hart #rilya #riley x maya #femslash related stuff #wlw fanfic #lgbt fanfic #wlw writing #wlw #not my photo #not my gif

[dnevsrachel]

They're meant to be. ❤️

#Hana ni Arashi #Nanoha x Chidori #loveislove #manga #femslash related stuff #yuri manga #yuri

[likelytowritesomestuff]

But since a couple of months, Nami is learning how to enjoy her life and what makes her happy: while money and tangerines are still her favorite things in the world, she also came to an important realization that made her learn something new about herself.

She doesn’t like men, at all.

[...]

“I wish you could stay” whisperes Vivi to Nami’s ear, making her shiver again... this time, with anticipation.

“What?”

“Well…” Vivi loweres her face for a while as she hesitates, but then she looks at her with the same determination she had every time she talked about helping her reign: “I’ll always be grateful for what you guys did for me, but… if someone asks me who’s the person I’m going to miss the most, I’d answer the clever and beautiful navigator”

Nami has been told plenty of times she has both the beauty and the brain, but now it’s like she hears these compliments for the first time and all her confidence immediately disappears (being still wrapped in the hug definitely doesn’t help).

#namivivi shippers this fic is for you #this ship seriously needs more content #namivivi #nami #nefertari vivi #one piece #one piece fanfiction #femslash #femslash related stuff #femslash fic #sapphic ships #alabasta arc

[nostalgia-tblr]

"are people not into that?" i ask, after posting my weird niche shit to the internet, despite knowing it to be weird niche shit.

#jsyk sylkius or anything adjacent to it does not “Do Numbers” in any way and i observed this some time ago #i assume that's the “rival ships” element at work but who knows really #that sort of thing is like femslash in that everyone approves of it but nobody actually reads or writes it #but who would have thought sylvie beating loki with a stick would not bring in droves of readers???! shocking twist there! #& i don't consider sifki a rarepair but my rarepair standards are VERY strict like if there's >5 fics a pairing is basically mainstream #chasing popularity would annoy me though & i just don't have the mental spoons to try writing stuff i wouldn't personally read #yeah i *could* put my blorbos to work in a coffee shop but what cost to my own enjoyment levels? AT WHAT COST FANGELA??? #you can't please everyone so you may as well just please yourself and if anyone else likes it you've found some fellow freaks so yay #i don't mean please yourself in a wanking sense. though feel free to do that too it probably counts as a cardio workout idk. #BUT ANYWAY #fic related #ps i am v glad there's the “warning: loki” tag because i think/hope it acts as a filter for 'he did nothing wrong in his life ever' types #who are Valid & etc obviously but i write my morally grey characters to be morally grey and the tag might help avoid conflict #though tbh i write almost every character to be morally grey in some way so i can't claim to have left my comfort zone here #(i'm not joking when i say the 1987-89 run of Dr Who shaped my entire future fannish life from a young and apparently v impressionable age)

[olderthannetfic]

On the one hand, I actually enjoy "why I like this" fandom thinkpieces, even when about slash and similar topics. I honestly find it fun to hear other people's perspectives and confront them with mine, to be able to say "oh, yeah, I'd never thought about it this way but this resonates with me" or "can't relate to that at all but it's an interesting point", and I find it pretty depressing how all that gets ruined by people angrily demanding everyone explain their individual tastes in relation to broader fandom trends to them (usually to then turn around and scream about how no one wants to hear you desperately throwing "justifications" around and how, instead of doing that, you could spend your time writing what they want you to write) to the point you then end up with other people overreacting in the opposite direction and going "aw, poor thing, no need to make up some fake bullshit reason, no one's attacking you here" anytime you so much as say "I've thought about it and I'm pretty sure I like X because Y" regardless of your tone or intention. (Then again, I also like reading meta, and acafan type stuff)

On the other hand, sometimes it really is just a "X makes brain go brrr" sort of thing.

Years ago, I was in this fandom with a femslash ship I liked. It had some tropes I really love, and played them for both angst and fluff in ways I thought were very good, and it had a lot of potential for fanworks exploring different aspects of their story and dynamic... and yet, I just liked it. And I never felt any particular need to do much of anything fannish for it. I figured, well, maybe I'm just not the type to get into femslash ships as much as I get into slash ships, simple as that.

Now, I'm in a fandom with a femslash ship that's very similar to that first one. Very similar tropes, played for both angst and fluff in ways I think are very good, and lots of potential for fanworks. Except I love this ship and I've already made multiple fanworks for it, including smutty ones.

I've seen both great and shitty attitudes in both fandoms, and both of them have a reputation for being "controversial" and having annoying fans, so it's not even an unconscious "I felt I'd bring down all the annoying people on me in that fandom but I don't get the same vibe from this one" response. My best guess is that the aesthetics of the two ships are pretty different, but I'm not even sure about this because I did like the style of the first fandom's canon and had other ships there that I did feel more fannish about.

So, yeah. Second ship makes brain go brrr. It happens.

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[catgirl-catboy]

The name is Cat.

my labels are genderqueer ace lesbian, but since that's a mouthful, I call myself queer 99% of the time. Any pronouns but they/them work for me. I'm an adult, and I've been in fandom for almost a decade now. It shows, since I miss the old fandom mentality, and won't tolerate people that don't stay in their lanes.

Blog runs on the world's longest queue. If I spam like your posts, I'm queueing them for later. I also post 50 posts a day minimum, so... heads up?

Also, I didn't spend all my time tagging old art for people to not spam like/rb my posts. go for it. Tagging system-

Fandom post- posts about a specific fandom I'm in. Usually tagged with the fandom in question to make it easier to block or search out.

Fandomless post- More serious and general posts. Probably what you're here for. Might mention fandoms, but ones I'm not in.

Alice and Bob- The names vary in the tags. Just means the post in question has these two characters in it. Could be shippy, could not be. 99% of the time, the more plot important character is listed first.

Things you can expect to see on my blog:

Old posts I found scrolling through blogs

Ships that contradict each other

Occasional posts about current events and anti-censorship

Occasional Kinky art

Abusive ships, and problematic ships

Things you might consider 'cringe'

A LOT of femslash Fandoms: Danganronpa, Ace Attorney, One Piece, Homestuck, Arcane, Hazbin Hotel, Helluva Boss, Death Note, some others, but these are the main ones!

my ao3

boundaries/byf under the cut, which are optional reading!

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I do not want to hear negative opinions on how I run my blog. I promise you, I do not value your opinion as much as you think I do.

[optiwashere]

Anotheropti Fanfiction Masterpost

Heya! Hope you're doing well.

You can call me opti, and I write a lot of fanfiction. You can find almost everything I write on my AO3 profile. It's all Baldur's Gate 3 right now, and nearly all of it is femslash. Most with a focus on trans women. I want to see more people like me in fic! 💜

I primarily write Shadowheart/OC works with my Tav, Asheera.

I do write other ships, but I have a clear bias for my beloved trans fem half-orc paladin.

Where to start?

Light Casts a Shadow is the "core" series for my Shadowheart/Asheera fics. I've got way more than these for my babies, but those are where I suggest you begin!

Nightsongs is my currently ongoing modern/band AU where Shadowheart is in a metal band with a humanized Shar. Features a modern version of Asheera.

Blades in the Night is another longfic I'm working on, though it's updating even slower than Nightsongs. It covers the immediate aftermath of BG3 as Shadowheart and Asheera deal with a group of Sharran assassins and eventually find their happily ever after.

Scenes from a Memory is a one-shot collection AU following a loose in-game timeline with a focus on Shadowheart as a trans woman. Features a different OC than Asheera. I don't update it super frequently or on any schedule!

My series page collects a wide variety of different fics from events like Kinktober and Femslash February as well as ficlet collections and ship-centric series!

Tags on tumblr I use for fic-related things:

anotheropti prompt fics which I use for Tumblr ask games! I'll gradually put these fics in this series on AO3.

oc: asheera for all sorts of asks folks send me about Asheera! Learn more about her if you like her :)

nightsongs au for stuff about my modern/band AU.

asheera replay posts is where I post a little Let's Play of a very quick replay through BG3 with some screenshots and commentary about Asheera's characterization.

art of asheera where I post/reblog others' beautiful renditions of Asheera 💜

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 fanfiction #baldur's gate 3 fanfiction #shadowheart #bg3 shadowheart #shadowheart x tav #shadowtav #asheera x shadowheart #oc: asheera #fanfiction #my fic #kinktober #trans fanfic #femslash #fuck yeah I'm gonna tag this with all the tags we embrace ourselves with loving arms here #now seems as good a time as any to make one of these eh?

[obstinaterixatrix]

A visual novel about gay asian girls playing baseball and falling in love.

Features:

harold they're lesbians* 3-4 hours long memes

*except not really, one of them is bi

Content warnings: brief written depictions of parental emotional+physical abuse (no visuals), ableist slurs

happy femslash february here's a 3-4 hour long visual novel about being an asian teen in california and playing baseball with your childhood crush. released in 2017, it is a classic for a reason and if you haven't already played it I strongly recommend it. very strong and authentic high school vibes in terms of how chaotic high school gals can be. goofy, nostalgic, full of (now old) memes, if you were ever in a high school anime club you will take psychic damage. if you've ever felt anxiety. you will most likely relate to the characters. also as a warning, there's references to Period Typical Homophobia (it's set when the prop 8 stuff was an ongoing thing). it's pay what you want, but you can get bonus art if you pay $5! also the sequel came out very recently! so if you play this and like it, you have a whole other game waiting for you!

#femslash february #yuri #femslash feb recs #ff recs #recs #should not be the first time anyone's seeing this but I'm still adding it to the list

[tvdufemslash]

TVDU Femslash Yuletide Week

Hello! This December bring out your sapphic ships! From December 19 - December 25 we invite you to create gifsets, fics, video edits, drawings, anything you can think of to celebrate the holiday season! Use the tag #tvdufemslashyuletide so we can find and reblog your stuff!

The Prompts:

1. (December 19) Absence: spending the holiday separated/long distance/grieving/broken up, really just for the angst lovers out there 2. (December 20) Hot Cocoa: actually inspired by the drink (i.e. going on a date to get one, meeting because they both ordered it, domestically making it for each other etc.) or write something Hot or something Sweet 3. (December 21) Secret Santa: gift giving OR emphasis on secret - someone's got something to hide this holiday season, will the others find out? 4. (December 22) Winter Wonderland: ice skating, snowball fights, making snow angels/snow men, decorating, snowed in - just general winter related things 5. (December 23) Through All These Years: going over many Christmas' together or just a general time jump to show your ship is still together/all the traditions they have OR a reunion - even after all this time they still think about each other when the holidays roll around 6. (December 24) Misfortune: could be actually angsty or taken in a fun way, this Christmas goes horribly wrong and they comfort each other, or everything goes wrong but they make the most of it anyway 7. (December 25) Free Day: had some cozy holiday piece just waiting to be posted? Post it now!

#the originals #legacies #the vampire diaries #tvdu #tvdufemslashyuletide #hizzie #hosie #haybekah #bonlena

[booasaur]

Bottoms (2023) - Josie and Isabel

#bottomsedit #bottoms 2023 #bottoms josie #bottoms isabel #ayo edebiri #havana rose liu #bottoms spoilers #isabel x josie #femslash related stuff #they seem to be the romance to get invested in #and I WILL

[onceiblinked]

If Enid were a guy, people wouldn't be complaining about why they can't be like siblings because they'd be shipping them.

I mean, say you're homophobic and move on.

Friends to lovers is a thing, especially for wlw or mlm couples

#wenclair #wednesday x enid #enid sinclair x wednesday addams #enid sinclair #wednesday netflix #wednesday addams #femslash related stuff #wlw ship

[dnevsrachel]

Home is where you are. ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

#Kacy #silvacre #doccubus #cazzie #Cophine #leyren #raylla #Avalance #spashley #marina #wlw ship #f/f pairing #femslash related stuff #love is love #happy pride 🌈

[bernkastel-ao3]

The easiest fic update I could do would probably be for my long-running monogatari fic. I'm pretty sure that the next chapter for that is pretty much done. But I'd prefer to try at more vaguely femslash Feb related stuff, and I'm not sure if even the fic as a whole counts, while being absolutely sure that the next chapter will be on the non femslash side of things.

[ivyblooms]

Hiiii this might be weird lol but I saw your addition to the post discussing the correlation between the gay trans men phenomenon to misogyny and you brought up the topic of rising trans slash in fanfics - as someone whose been in fandoms for like 10+ years you’re sooo right!! Even though I do read all sorts of fanfic (gay, lesbian, platonic) I’d say I’ve always had a more critical approach in fandom stuff (plus getting more into radfem theory about 3 years ago) and from the get go I always saw the ~majority~ of male slash fanfic created by women as an expression of romance/smut through a non-misogynistic lens; “men get to be people while women are women yadda yadda”. A perception I’ve always had at the back of my mind, so it always confused me when in the past 5ish years suddenly women who had consumed so much gay fanficton were proclaiming they must actually be gay men

You mentioned the rise in trans slash media and honestly I thought I was going crazy lol. There has definitely been a huge shift, where suddenly the components that made the work gay could just be altered and it’s supposedly still the same. Apologies if this seems vulgar but the switch to now male characters actually being trans, feminization in sexual/non sexual manners, and sometimes just having a “boyp*ssy” at minimum has been really fucking weird, and in some fandom spaces I’m in the change seems to have skyrocketed in the past ~6 months

Honestly sorry for the random ramble and feel free to disregard but I would love to know if you have anymore to say on this topic. I think I’ve only encountered one light discussion overlapping fanfiction / feminist theory, so it’s always interesting when I see the topic brought up!

No worries sis, it's not weird.

I am there with you. I'd been noticing the trend but when I wanted to have a quick look at Captain Marvel femslash I was like 3 pages of results in and still hadn't seen one that didn't include 'girlpenis' or equivalent. I was legit annoyed, the last thing anyone wants when looking for fxf is the word penis getting involved.

I don't want to discount homophobic fetishisation of course. As a lesbian I never really believed that was real until I finally saw some hetero fandom friends genuinely being sexually attracted to males cast in live action versions of a cartoon and I was like .. wait a second u guys were serious?? So yeah thats real, but I highly doubt it's the main reason. Especially when so many lesbians are super into slash fic as well.

So to your point, while I do think the popularity of gay male slash fiction has largely been due to women wanted to escape misogyny, I don't believe it's been a conscious thought. I don't believe many of these girls and women actively thought they are lesser than men, I don't think choosing to write mxm was a decision to highlight misogyny, I think it's just an entirely internalised 'feeling' that somehow putting a woman with a man is demeaning or inequitable therefore they want their favourite blorbo to be with someone that doesnt give them that feeling. And, to straight women, men are hot.

Like notice how so many of the pov men in older mxm fics are the one that bottoms? Even the concept of strict set in stone roles for top and bottom defining your character (seme and uke) really is more reminiscent of hetero relationships that actual real life gay relationships. I truly do think there is reason to believe this is due to making one character (the bottom) more relatable as a subconscious woman stand in. They were always shorter, they were almost always weaker, they had less body hair, they were almost always prettier and more feminine, their male genitalia was small and often barely remarked on and there was no question that their main participation in sex was being penetrated. They were trans men before the idea of trans men and gender being unrelated to sex really ramped up.

It makes perfect sense to me that the next step in that train of thought, that men and women feel unequal and gender is not related to sex, is "well I relate to men as an equal therefore I must also be a man". Like if you haven't stepped back to understand your own bias, how would you ever realise the true answer is women are equal humans despite the way the world treats us? It's not correct and it comes from a place of homophobia where straights consider gayness a club they can join on a whim rather than a meaningful material experience, but it's understandable that's the leap being made.

You are right, it has gotten so much worse over the last six months. Maybe ABO has finally become truely accepted and now anyone feels they can put any genitals on any character like its a mix and match. Maybe trans ideology has finally fully taken over the majority of fandom spaces. Maybe actual gay writers and fans got sick of so much unwanted hetero we have started dropping out of popular fandom spaces.

Seriously trying to find gay fanfiction now is so much harder than ever before, but it's something people not in fandom spaces are missing because if you see nothing more than the characters in ships you'd think it was gay. Fandom spaces are becoming hostile to homosexuality in a way I wouldn't have predicted 10 years ago. I think they probably always were, tbh, it was just that misogynistic straight women didn't realise they had another option and could get by on the fetish until they found this solution.

#Again I want to be very clear fandom spaces have always been homophobic but in a different way #They acknowledged that gay people existed and could fall in love and were real couples #Even that's sparse now #Radfem safe #Tw fandom content lol

[olderthannetfic]

As someone who has had some fic really take off that I thought were pretty so-so and some do pretty low numbers that I thought were among my best, it really often has more to do with the particular fandom, ship and tropes than overall writing quality. A lot of the fics I've seen take off were ones that just scratched a particular itch no one else was scratching for a relatively popular ship. The less-popular ones are often for relatively rare ships and, especially, dynamics (I have a big thing for femslash involving older women especially villainous older women, and boy, talk about a thing that fandom has zero interest in. This isn't even a "complaining about people not liking femslash" thing; the femslash shippers, at least in my current fandoms, don't like it either! I've had people who are primarily femslash comment stuff like "I usually stay away from M/E-rated fics involving this character but this was really good" lol). I wrote those knowing they wouldn't do numbers, but because I really wanted to write them, and the people who like that stuff really liked it, which is all that matters to me.

Like, is writing quality a factor to some degree in fic popularity? Sure. If someone has SPAG errors everywhere or people are super OOC or whatever, then their fic probably won't be that popular no matter how many fan-favorite tropes it checks off. Similarly, if you look at the most-kudosed fics in a popular fandom, they might not be the *best* written fics in the fandom but they will usually still be in like the top 20th percentile for "writing quality" (which is highly subjective so it would be hard to do percentiles for that, but ykwim).

To use a kind of weird analogy - let me explain, I swear it makes sense - I think it's kind of like the eternal question of if "how attractive you are" matters in terms of how often women get catcalled. I think the people who say it doesn't matter, it's purely about men having power over you, are both wrong and right. If you're too far out of the standards of heteronormative/cisnormative/white-normative (or whatever race for a particular country) conventional-attractiveness for women, you won't get catcalled all that much; for instance, I've been fat most of my adult life, and I rarely ever got catcalled until I lost a lot of weight, and then it became the more constant worry that I'd heard other women talk about, but could never relate to before. That said, the particular times I've been catcalled or had strange men be the creepiest to me in public, it was rarely ever related to me looking particularly stunning that day; in fact, oftentimes I looked like shit. (This was true even during the rare times I got catcalled when I was fat.) It absolutely was more about being in a vulnerable situation. Attractiveness does matter in terms of if you're seeing as catcall-worthy in the first place, but once you're above a certain minimum threshold of what is considered conventionally-attractive in women (just being very clear about this, because I don't think I was unattractive by my own personal standards when I was fat, I lost the weight for other reasons; and as a queer woman, I often find women attractive who are of a similar weight to where I was in the past), it ceases to matter: you'll get cat-called more or less, or worse or more mildly, depending primarily on other stuff.

The same is true with writing quality in fanfic, I think. It's a factor in terms of setting a baseline. But once you're above that baseline, it's way more up to other things. You could write the most gorgeous prose and do a super insightful character study or the sexiest smut or whatever and have it ignored because it's not what people are looking for in the tags. You could phone it in (assuming you're still a pretty good writer, so your phoned-in is still above that minimum quality threshold) and if you hit all the right notes for that fandom/that ship (and you're picking a fandom and ship with a lot of readers in the first place), you'll soak in the views and kudos and bookmarks.

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I think there are plenty of people horny for f/f who like that exact thing, but they may not be hanging around a lot of parts of fandom because they just assume (often rightly) that they won't find anything they like there. They may not even be reading a lot of f/f fiction because life has not trained them to look for it.

but they will usually still be in like the top 20th percentile for "writing quality" (which is highly subjective so it would be hard to do percentiles for that, but ykwim).

I feel like the top 5 most kudosed are often something viral and meme-driven or really nasty porn that's godawful in every other way but is super hot if you like that trope. But yes, after the first few fics, a lot of top kudosed things are at least okay on a technical level.

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That other anon who was concerned about their lack of popularity was explicit that they're writing original work.

I think the situation there is even worse than for fic because there's no such thing as picking an already-popular ship. You can pick dynamics that you perceive to be popular, but growing an original work audience is always fairly complex and has much more to do with marketing skills than writing skills once you, again, pass that minimum threshold of writing competence.

For some kinds of original writing, particularly fetish porn, you can trade on the familiarity of stock figures (The Nerd, The Jock, etc.), but the farther you get from stuff with easy keywords, the harder that is.