Femslash Exchange

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Femslash Exchange 2013 is out! Here are the stories I liked the most.

Blood Sacrifice by cantarina. Welcome to Night Vale, Old Woman Josie/The Faceless Old Woman, G. Very short, but just as sweet and weird and satisfying as the show itself.

A Little Sweeter by Jain. Pacific Rim, Sasha Kaidanovsky/Mako Mori, G. Sasha arrives at the Shatterdome and makes friends with Mako. A hopeful, sweet story; I really like the characterizations here.

Triangle, dissected by Woldy. Sarah Water's Night Watch, Kay Langrish/Julia Standing/Helen, PG-13. Ah, this is tragic and painful and SO GOOD. Much like the book.

Spree by thingswithwings. Community, Annie/Britta, NC-17. Britta takes Annie shopping for sex toys. This has the sweet, silly humor of the show, and also is really hot.

Bittersweet & Strange by paperclipbitch. Mulan/Belle (of Beauty and the Beast), G. Belle has been living in China for some time when word comes for her from France. This is gorgeously written, and very touching.

the earthed lightning by cordialcount. ASOIAF, Margaery/Sansa. A potential end for the story; I really really like this idea. Very good.

Don't Ask Questions, Don't Ask Directions by Netgirl_y2k. ASOIAF, Shae/Sansa, PG-13. (Spoilers through the middle of ASOS/slightly past the end of the third season.) Shae and Sansa across the sea. Very sweet and lovely.

Stone and Snow by justwolf. ASOIAF, Dany/Arya, PG-13. (Spoilers for ADWD.) Another potential ending. This is my "if you only read one..." of the post. This story is GORGEOUS and GENIUS and I love everything about it and want to have its babies. A quote:

She watched the Queen who did not look like a queen with her tanned skin and her singed hair. Her hand gestures were not those of Westeros, and when she laughed, it was too loudly. The smallfolk in the tavern last night had said they were ruled by a filthy, foreign whore who fed lost children to dragons, and Mella understood their animosity. She watched the Queen's quick hands. She was laughing at something a Dothraki man said; she ran her fingers through the hair of the maester sitting next to her.

Her face was not beautiful, but even from here, across the divide of stands and swordsmen and horses, Mella could see how alive it was. Its liveliness struck her more than anything. She had seen so many come for the gift, beg for it, and she had seen so many fight the gift with all the strength they had—yet no one had ever seemed so utterly alive as this Queen of Westeros.

Go and read! Or tell me what you liked.

Comments

[threewalls]

Because they are my secret femmeslash pairing of interest right now, I was especially excited to see Tamoline's "Signal to Noise", which is about Root and Shaw from the TV Show "Person of Interest." They are an incredibly tiny niche pairing as far as I can tell and this story got their voices and characterisation in ways I found very pleasing.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the rec! I haven't watched Person of Interest, though I've heard lots of good things about it.

[threewalls]

The show begins very focused on male leads that are every migratory slash fandom's white middle-aged guys of choice, but the female secondary cast is amazing and by the current season it's become pretty much the women driving the interesting sub-plots.

[cordialcount]

Yesss, Stone and Snow is so gratifying it's falling into that category of fic where my commenting ability sadly goes down because I don't know what to say. One day I will convince myself it's okay to write comments consisting solely of eeeEEE in increasing sizes.

(Thank you! The foundational idea behind "the earthed lightning" is undomielregina's, which means it's not self-promotional for me to hope more people write it, right? :D)

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Ha, I know exactly what you mean. Sometimes the people I most want to talk to are the ones I take the longest to reply to, because I have to figure out smart things to say.

Welcome! I really did love both the idea and the way you wrote it.

[lavode.livejournal.com]

Both the first ASOIAF fics you linked to were great - I'm sitting on my hands to keep from reading the third one until I've read ADWD. I hope I can participate in the exchange next time.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It does seem like it was a very fun exchange. I was too busy to sign up this year, but I might do it next time.