#femslash trash

[phyllidaluna]

i need to change the colors of the frame and the names (and swap hands on pop team) but heyyyy time for three new wlw pairings

i almost did melinoe/nemesis but I think we need more out from that, like full body, before i draw those two (and confirmation that nemesis is bangable)

[lespetitsbonheurs]

So I'm one of those bis who realized real late in the game that they weren't just "really close" with a lot of their girl friends, but I was already in a relationship with the guy who I eventually married so also never came out except to my husband, best friends, and a couple drunk strangers because I didn't want to have those "so how many girls have you dated" conversations

But like I've been binging a bunch of pirated manwha and if I was in high school right now my tumblr username would be like, PenelopeEckhartIsMyGF or PlsStepOnMeMelissa.

Like it would have been so much easier to figure out I think?

[5ummit]

AO3 Ship Stats: Year In Bad Data

You may have seen this AO3 Year In Review.

It hasn’t crossed my tumblr dash but it sure is circulating on twitter with 3.5M views, 10K likes, 17K retweets and counting. Normally this would be great! I love data and charts and comparisons!

Except this data is GARBAGE and belongs in the TRASH.

I first noticed something fishy when I realized that Steve/Bucky – the 5th largest ship on AO3 by total fic count – wasn’t on this Top 100 list anywhere. I know Marvel’s popularity has fallen in recent years, but not that much. Especially considering some of the other ships that made it on the list. You mean to tell me a femslash HP ship (Mary MacDonald/Lily Potter) in which one half of the pairing was so minor I had to look up her name because she was only mentioned once in a single flashback scene beat fandom juggernaut Stucky? I call bullshit.

Now obviously jumping to conclusions based on gut instinct alone is horrible practice... but it is a good place to start. So let’s look at the actual numbers and discover why this entire dataset sits on a throne of lies.

Here are the results of filtering the Steve/Bucky tag for all works created between Jan 1, 2023 and Dec 31, 2023:

Not only would that place Steve/Bucky at #23 on this list, if the other counts are correct (hint: they're not), it’s also well above the 1520-new-work cutoff of the #100 spot. So how the fuck is it not on the list? Let’s check out the author’s FAQ to see if there’s some important factor we’re missing.

The first thing you’ll probably notice in the FAQ is that the data is being scraped from publicly available works. That means anything privated and only accessible to logged-in users isn’t counted. This is Sin #1. Already the data is inaccurate because we’re not actually counting all of the published fics, but the bots needed to do data collection on this scale can't easily scrape privated fics so I kinda get it. We’ll roll with this for now and see if it at least makes the numbers make more sense:

Nope. Logging out only reduced the total by a couple hundred. Even if one were to choose the most restrictive possible definition of "new works" and filter out all crossovers and incomplete fics, Steve/Bucky would still have a yearly total of 2,305. Yet the list claims their total is somewhere below 1,500? What the fuck is going on here?

Let’s look at another ship for comparison. This time one that’s very recent and popular enough to make it on the list so we have an actual reference value for comparison: Nick/Charlie (Heartstopper). According to the list, this ship sits at #34 this year with a total of 2630 new works. But what’s AO3 say?

Off by a hundred or so but the values are much closer at least!

If we dig further into the FAQ though we discover Sin #2 (and the most egregious): the counting method. The yearly fic counts are NOT determined by filtering for a certain time period, they’re determined by simply taking a snapshot of the total number of fics in a ship tag at the end of the year and subtracting the previous end-of-year total. For example, if you check a ship tag on Jan 1, 2023 and it has 10,000 fics and check it again on Jan 1, 2024 and it now has 12,000 fics, the difference (2,000) would be the number of "new works" on this chart.

At first glance this subtraction method might seem like a perfectly valid way to count fics, and it’s certainly the easiest way, but it can and did have major consequences to the point of making the entire dataset functionally meaningless. Why? If any older works are deleted or privated, every single one of those will be subtracted from the current year fic count. And to make the problem even worse, beginning at the end of last year there was a big scare about AI scraping fics from AO3, which caused hundreds, if not thousands, of users to lock down their fics or delete them.

The magnitude of this fuck up may not be immediately obvious so let’s look at an example to see how this works in practice.

Say we have two ships. Ship A is more than a decade old with a large fanbase. Ship B is only a couple years old but gaining traction. On Jan 1, 2023, Ship A had a catalog of 50,000 fics and ship B had 5,000. Both ships have 3,000 new works published in 2023. However, 4% of the older works in each fandom were either privated or deleted during that same time (this percentage is was just chosen to make the math easy but it’s close to reality).

Ship A: 50,000 x 4% = 2,000 removed works Ship B: 5,000 x 4% = 200 removed works

Ship A: 3,000 - 2,000 = 1,000 "new" works Ship B: 3,000 - 200 = 2,800 "new" works

This gives Ship A a net gain of 1,000 and Ship B a net gain of 2,800 despite both fandoms producing the exact same number of new works that year. And neither one of these reported counts are the actual new works count (3,000). THIS explains the drastic difference in ranking between a ship like Steve/Bucky and Nick/Charlie.

How is this a useful measure of anything? You can't draw any conclusions about the current size and popularity of a fandom based on this data.

With this system, not only is the reported "new works" count incorrect, the older, larger fandom will always be punished and it’s count disproportionately reduced simply for the sin of being an older, larger fandom. This example doesn’t even take into account that people are going to be way more likely to delete an old fic they're no longer proud of in a fandom they no longer care about than a fic that was just written, so the deletion percentage for the older fandom should theoretically be even larger in comparison.

And if that wasn't bad enough, the author of this "study" KNEW the data was tainted and chose to present it as meaningful anyway. You will only find this if you click through to the FAQ and read about the author’s methodology, something 99.99% of people will NOT do (and even those who do may not understand the true significance of this problem):

The author may try to argue their post states that the tags "which had the greatest gain in total public fanworks” are shown on the chart, which makes it not a lie, but a error on the viewer’s part in not interpreting their data correctly. This is bullshit. Their chart CLEARLY titles the fic count column “New Works” which it explicitly is NOT, by their own admission! It should be titled “Net Gain in Works” or something similar.

Even if it were correctly titled though, the general public would not understand the difference, would interpret the numbers as new works anyway (because net gain is functionally meaningless as we've just discovered), and would base conclusions on their incorrect assumptions. There’s no getting around that… other than doing the counts correctly in the first place. This would be a much larger task but I strongly believe you shouldn’t take on a project like this if you can’t do it right.

To sum up, just because someone put a lot of work into gathering data and making a nice color-coded chart, doesn’t mean the data is GOOD or VALUABLE.

[cilil]

Femslash February

⬡ Prompt: Please be gentle & dancing (sweet bingo) | f!Glorfindel x Mentelossë (@elanna-elrondiel's OC) ⬡ Synopsis: The Lady of the House of the Golden Flower and her lover share a moment of joy, or: How the Lady nearly trashed her house before the Balrogs ever could ⬡ Warnings: / ⬡ Drabble

AN: A small gift for @elanna-elrondiel!

We decided to refer to f!Glorfy as Laurefindelë (which is the "normal" Quenya name) because we didn't want to change too much and felt like it was "ambiguous" as is. And to those wondering about the Quenya: It was in fact spoken in Gondolin.

The house of the Golden Flower was filled with merriment and laughter. 

Lady Laurefindelë, still clad in her golden armour, was dancing and twirling like a deer in spring, golden hair fluttering behind her. In her arms, held in the manner of a groom carrying their bride, was Lady Mentelossë, cheeks flushed and eyes wet from exuberant joy. 

"Careful!" she exclaimed when Laurefindelë spun around again, missing a vase by mere inches. "You will ruin the entire salon!" 

"I would lay the entire city to waste for you, my lady; nay, Angband itself!" Laurefindelë laughed and continued her merry dancing. 

Thanks for reading! ♡

[sstwins]

Femslash Feb Day 3 - Cake - Darling/Apple

I LOVE THEM SOOOO MUCH

this was so fun to right and im really happy with how it turned out

Brief Summary: Darling had definitely missed putting some ingredient in, because their cake for Princessology class had turned out fairy flat.

Word Count: 600

I’m still accepting ships for femslash feb!!! Send me your fave fem pairs and I’ll write you a fic sometime this month!! (25 spots left)

Another day in Princessology class. Today, the students were in pairs of two and assigned to make cakes. Which seemed like it should have been easier than it was.

“Darling!” Apple coughed as she pulled the cake out of the oven, her head surrounded by smoke. “The cake is totally flat!”

“Oh dear!” Darling rushed over to check. “I thought I put everything in it.”

Apple set the cake down on the stove. Totally unusable. There was no way they were passing this assignment. She took in a deep breath and put on a confident smile. “Let’s go through the ingredients together, okay? I know we had the flour, because I did that. What about the sugar?”

“I’m sure I added that,” Darling mused.

“And the eggs?” Apple continued. 

Darling’s eyes got wide. “Let me look,” she said nervously, walking over to the fridge. Reaching her hand in, Darling pulled out three completely unused eggs. Her eyes darted around nervously. “It seems I… forgot those.”

Apple pressed the smile more firmly on her face. It wasn’t very princesslike to be visibly upset. “Well, we’re out of time to redo it. We’ll just have to try again next time.”

“I’m sorry.” Darling bent down and put the eggs away. “I’m just not very good at baking.”

Apple picked up the cake and shook it out in the trash can. “Didn’t you bake when you were little? With your mom? My mom always made the most beautiful desserts.” She trailed off, fantasizing about those wonderful apple pies.

Darling looked visibly nervous. “I’m afraid my attempts usually turn out like this. You know what they say though… everyone has different skills.”

Apple had moved over to the sink, scrubbing out the pan. “Well, in order to be a princess, you’ll have to just work on some of those skills. No one ever heard of a princess who can’t bake.” She laughed a little, before noticing that Darling was deadly quiet. Apple glanced over at her. “Oh, come on. It can’t be that bad.” She dried her hands on a towel and approached the other girl. “I’m sure there are lots of parts of being a princess you’re good at.”

Darling nodded. “Yes… definitely.” She sounded less than confident.

Apple ran through some of the class lessons in her mind. Definitely not baking. And Darling wasn’t very good at being a damsel in distress. She was very restless. And she wasn’t amazing at needlepoint… 

While she was thinking, Darling had started looking fairy freaked out. Time for some emergency comforting. Apple reached over and put a hand on Darling’s shoulder. “Well, I know one thing.” She smiled again. “You’re very pretty. That’s a good trait for a princess to have.”

Darling’s cheeks suddenly got very flushed. She looked down at Apple’s hand, then suddenly walked away to the sink, picking up the pan and the dish towel. She coughed a few times before speaking, and her voice seemed a bit high pitched. “Well, I can also clean up my own mess,” she laughed, with a very airy tone.

Something seemed off, but Apple didn’t really know what was going on. She walked over to the sink and began joining Darling in cleaning. “Well,” Apple continued, “cleaning is a good trait for a princess too. And there’s other things, like knowing how to ride a horse, and being able to…”

As she continued talking, Darling’s mind was far away, still thinking about what Apple had said just a few minutes ago. She’d called her pretty. And for some reason, that made Darling feel fairy flustered.

[hpsaffics]

🏳️‍🌈 WLW Wed: Pride 🏳️‍🌈

A biweekly HP femslash rec list made by the lovely members of the HP SAFFICS (18+) discord server. See all previous rec lists in the WLW Library.

Currently: Pride Previously: Flowers (see list)

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🎉 Long (>10k) 🎉

Unwritten by @pcandaa, @fantalfart [Pansy/Ginny, M, 83.2k] WITH ART!

In which Pansy tries to figure out whether she deserves love and forgiveness while dancing around her feelings for a certain red-headed Quidditch player.

Play Me Like A Love Song by @writcraft, @impasse-trash, @owlpostart [Wilhelmina/Minerva, E, 67.7k] WITH ART!

Minerva McGonagall doesn’t believe in love at first sight, which is why her instant attraction to drag king Wilhelmina ("Will") Grubbly-Plank is so unexpected. War tears apart the wizarding world and as one battle ends Minerva and Will must fight once more, this time for the lives of their friends on Little Compton Street. A love story spanning five decades defined by music, laughter and tears, in which love is not always easy, but it’s always worth fighting for.

the girl who lived (again) by @ink-splotch [trans!Harry/Ginny, G, 10.3k]

Molly tried her best. When Harry had told them, Arthur had asked excitedly, "is this a Muggle thing?" Hermione had hurried out a "no!" and a frantic history of gender diversity in the wizarding world. "It's just that I'm a girl," Harry had said...

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🎊 Medium (3-10k) 🎊

Rosmerta's Special Brew by @lumosatnight [Rosmerta/Andromeda, T, 6.0k]

This is a story about how Madam Rosmerta, of the Three Broomsticks fame, became the unofficial Queer Crisis Counselor for Hogwarts School of Witchcraft, Wizardry, and Wixenry. Or, 5 times she helped other baby gays + 1 time they helped her.

strawberry hair, porcelain skin by nudestockings [Luna/Ginny, M, 4.6k]

Ginny Weasley-Potter comes into her own after being with Harry Potter for twenty years. She's afraid and she's uncertain, but she knows one thing: she loves Luna Lovegood more than anything else. Ginny only hopes she will love her just as much.

A Kind of Magic Spell by @gracerene [Susan/Hermione, E, 3.4k]

Hermione and Susan nobly volunteer to conduct a sex magic ritual. Oh, the sacrifice.

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🥳 Short (<3k) 🥳

Dass du glücklich bist (your happiness) by @eleonorebirk [Minerva/Poppy, T, 2.4k]

When a student comes out to Minerva, it reminds her of coming out to her parents and inspires her to change the present

They Bought A Sports Bar by @fw00shy [Cho/Ginny, T, 2.3k]

Ginny buys a sports bar (run-down biker pub, really) and ropes Cho into helping out. They're just business partners, so why does everyone else think they're more?

If It Isn't Her by space_mermaid [Lavender/Millicent, E, 2.0k]

After breaking up with her on-again/off-again boyfriend for the umpteenth time, Lavender heads to a dyke bar. She runs into some familiar characters.

Fleur Shows Her Colours by @lipzlipzlipz [Fleur/Hermione, T, 614]

Hermione comes home early from work and Fleur has something to show her

An Innocent Question by @sansigma [Andromeda/Molly, G, 500]

“Excuse me, I just… I have to ask. How old are you?” The girl looks so painfully earnest, with large brown eyes and a rainbow flag messily painted on her cheek, that Andromeda has to laugh. A second later Molly joins in, her laughter warm as a Weasley jumper.

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Tags on AO3: Queer Themes | Coming Out | Gender Identity

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[jessequinnfirstofhername]

The Rules:

Every twenty-four hours there will be another round. After every round, the ship in last place will be eliminated.

If there are multiple ships tying for last place, there will be a special elimination round. In these rounds, every ship in last place will be eliminated, even if all the ships have tied equally.

When there are only two ships remaining, they will face off against one another in a week-long poll to determine the victor.

If the ship that you consider the best isn't listed here, hit the 'you forgot the best ship' option and reply to this post with the overlooked ship. The ship with the highest 'write-in' votes will be added to the next round. Unless the 'you forgot the best ship' option is the least voted for, in which case it will be eliminated. Welcome to the party, Ketbine and Mralisola!

This is all for fun. Don't take it too seriously ;)

…and that’s Reysma sliding into the trash compactor at high velocity. What a pity. Oh well, it’s not Phasma’s first trip down there, she’ll get them out safely.

It’s time for Round Seven!

[stillboldlygoing]

fic writery thing

thank you for the indirect, sort-of tag @lauronk -- and also you @ameerawrites

How many works do you have on ao3? 2

what's your total ao3 word count? 36k!

what fandoms do you write for? Currently only for "The Last of Us"

what are your top five fics by kudos? wellllllll I only have the two 💀 but: The Garden Set Us Free Like a Rock

do you respond to comments? like, obsessively

what is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? I can genuinely say that the only draw, for me, in writing fanfic is giving people the happy endings canon didn't-- so everything I've ever written ends happily. (Minus the WIPs that never ended at all, RIP. 🪦)

what's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? The Garden Set Us Free -- so wildly fluffy I was worried it would be a flop

do you get hate on fics? I had some... let's say... brutal reviews of my early fics, but tbh it was all deserved. (Not to excuse leaving rude comments!!)

do you write smut? if so what kind? I've written all of it! Slash, femslash, het.

do you write crossovers? what's the craziest one you've written? It doesn't really count as crazy because it was in-universe, but Voyager/TOS.

have you ever had a fic stolen? I have no idea -- but if you're gonna steal a fic, please steal the ones I left unfinished 10+ years ago after writing myself into a hole and then tag me cuz I'd really like to see how they end.

have you ever had a fic translated? no 🥲

have you ever co-written a fic before? only round-robin style!

what's your all time favorite ship? Like most fandom trash I am constantly embarking and disembarking -- but my OTP with the most longevity is still my very first OTP, Kirk/Spock

what's a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will? I no longer post as I go-- but I have a truly absurd amount of words written for a Jaime/Brienne (Game of Thrones) "You've Got Mail"-style AU that I fear will never see the light of day. I love the plot, I love the setting, I love the vibe-- and my original self-imposed posting deadline was... December 15th, 2017, which was the day AOL shut down AIM. May the me that truly believed I would make that deadline rest in peace.

what are your writing strengths? I had dial-up for, like, years after everyone else switched to high speed-- and therefore have a deep wellspring of patience. I am never in a rush to post!

what are your writing weaknesses? I'm an underwriter... to an extreme. I'll be on the 58th draft before I realize I've never once, in 80k words, described a single outfit.

thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic? I try to only sprinkle in words/phrases that can be 100% understood via context alone -- or words that are used so often in canon that even the most most casual fans would recognize them. Otherwise! If the POV character understands I stick to simply stating the language in the dialogue tag or at the beginning of a scene ("Where's the bathroom?" he asked in Klingon.) or, if the POV character doesn't understand the language, just stating what's happening (They spoke in Klingon, too quickly for X to understand more than the occasional muttered insult.)

first fandom you wrote for? Star Trek: Voyager <3

favorite fic you've written? Like a Rock. I don't know that I'll ever be able to recapture the joy I felt posting this one... I hesitate to call it a crack fic because I did write it in earnest (and in homage to one of my favorite fanfic writers) buuuut I knew people would go "wtf", and there are few things my inner Hellmo enjoys more than people looking at me and going "wtf"

NO PRESSURE BUUUUUUT.... if you want to do it!! And also I apologize if you were already tagged!! I tag @bearrycool, @howtotrainyourdoofus, & @becomethesun

[komasworld]

" Heart-shaped strawberries. "

Lee Na-Yeon/Reader.

Genre: Fluff, bit of smut at the end.

Words: 723(I'm so sorry this is short but um I had no motivation💀🤙🏻)

Slash: F/F(Femslash)

Requested by annon

A/N: I'm so bad at writing Na-Yeon I'm so sorry 💔 But I hope this isn't doo doo trash.

――――――――――――――――――――――――――

Being Nayeon's friend was great. It really was. Even though she comes off as a spoiled brat, a bitch and an asshole in general, if you get to know her well she's really not that bad. She was enjoyable and good to hang out with.

That is what it felt to you. Though, after a while, you noticed she acted a bit..Different around you.

You could notice the small amount of blush every time you were with her. But you never thought much of it.

That is until today. Today would be a rollercoaster, for sure.

――――

" Just be glad there isn't any school today, you don't have to study, seriously! Just come hang out with me! " You whined through the phone, making Na-Yeon sigh. How could she deal with you? She never knew.

" Okay, dumbass! But if my grades go down I'm blaming you. " She chuckled while closing her study book as the sound could be heard from across the phone.

" Hell yeah! So where should we meet up? " You asked as you walked to your closet. You couldn't go out in only underwear. That would be pretty bad.

" In front of your house is fine, I'll be here soon. " She answered, getting up from the chair she was sitting on beforehand.

" Alright, see you later luv! " You answered in your usual playful tone. God, you really did love her though. It felt sad to call her a best friend.

" See you. Bye. " She answered before she finally hung up. She was excited to hear the sound of your actual voice soon. On the phone, it felt distorted. 

Your voice was like music to her ears.

――――

Your clothes were so simple, yet you still looked absolutely beautiful to her. Her eyes widened a bit, her eyebrows raising as she felt the immense heat from the blood rushing to her cheeks. 

The hanging crop top revealed your stomach area, which did not make it better.

She gulped before her expression went back to normal. Except the fact her blush never faded away.

" Hey Yeon, I brought strawberries! And they're shaped in hearts, because I love you~! " You giggled, moving closer to her face.

Fuck.

 You looked even prettier up close.

" I-Uh- Wh- I um. Love you too. I guess? " She blurted out in slight panic about what to say.

Shit.

" ..You love~ Me~? " Your lips were inches away from hers, your forehead and noses touching. You raised your eyebrow as you continued teasing her.

" I…Um- Wh- " Her eyes moved to your lips. They looked soft, so kissable. 

You obviously noticed. But why would she stare at your lips?

" Lee Na-yeon wants to kiss me so~ Bad! " Your smile grew bigger at her flustered up reaction. You didn't really mean it, but you still found it funny.

" I-I don't! I'm just..Um…" 

An awkward(Not really awkward actually.)silence grew as you waited for her answer. She wouldn't really want to kiss you, would she?

No, her feelings couldn't be the same as yours. Could they?

…

They could. You figured as her lips parted with yours.

Your eyes widened, but slowly shut closed as you placed your hands on her hips.

You felt her arms wrap around your neck as you deepened the kiss.

Your tongue slid to her mouth as it eventually made contact with hers.

Her hand slid to your torso as her other hand rested to the start of your shoulder.

The kiss eventually broke after a couple seconds, a line of drool hanging from your mouths. It seems you were right, Lee Na-Yeon did want to kiss you after all.

After all the hints, the staring in class and faint blushes around her, you finally realized she did love you back.

" …Shit. That was- " Na-Yeon started, but she wouldn't continue her phrase.

Your hand reached up her skirt, making a gasp escape the mouth you had just kissed so, so passionately.

" Fuck…Just- Don't go too hard. My parents will probably be here soon- Dumbass. " She groaned, tossing the strawberry basket elsewhere as she placed on of the slices in your mouth.

She kissed you again, taking the strawberry away in progress.

" You thief! I'll need to punish you, little criminal. " You teased, your hand sliding slowly to her crotch.

" Sure, go ahead and punish me you cop. "

[spicywhumper]

@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).

[haltandcatchfiretothemax]

(belated!) FEMSLASH FEBRUARY 2024 #17: In which Cameron makes a confession to Donna

[CN: meal/eating/food mentions] . . When Cameron and Donna decided that they should get married, Donna had asked if she could be the one to propose to Cameron, because she hadn’t been properly proposed to yet, and had done a fair bit of proposing to Donna over the course of their working relationship. It was so heartfelt and thoughtful and genuinely romantic that Cameron had agreed. But she quickly found that anticipating the proposal was just as nerve-wracking as dreading something that she didn’t want to happen. In the following weeks, Cameron found it difficult to relax, focus, and fall sleep.

After a month, she got used to the idea of Donna randomly proposing to her, and started to sleep easier, but still felt twitchy, shoulders tensing and goosebumps rising whenever it seemed like Donna might be about to ask her something. She didn’t realize just how nervous she was until one night at dinner, when Donna warmly said her name, causing Cameron to panic internally, and then asked her to please pass the scalloped potatoes Cameron had made for them.

The day after the potato incident Cameron and Donna drove to Palo Alto so they could enjoy lunch and some light hiking at the nature preserve there. They’d been planning this excursion for a few weeks, and Donna was excited to start breaking in her brand new hiking boots after spending the last decade filling her walk-in closet with pair after pair of extremely uncomfortable and wildly expensive designer heels.

As soon as they got into the car, it was like Cameron’s anxiety melted away, and was gone completely by the time they started their hike. There was no proposal, no impending wedding, just her and Donna, on a sunny day, out in nature, with nothing to do but put one foot in front of the other, together. By the time they stopped to eat lunch, Cameron couldn’t remember why she’d been so nervous, or what she might have been afraid of.

But just as they were getting ready to return to the trail, their sandwiches and granola bars eaten and their picnic table cleared, Donna noticed that one of her new shoes felt loose. A few paces from the table, Donna bent down, on one knee, to untie her shoe, and see if retying would help. “Hey, Cam, hold on a sec.”

Cameron, who was still talking about and laughing at a story from Bos that they’d been talking about over lunch, stopped and turned back. “Donna?”

“Down here!” Donna said, as she refinished tightening her shoe lace. Smiling, she reached a hand up toward Cameron.

Cameron’s anxiety returned at full-strength. Eyes wide with horror, her hands flew to her face, hands over her mouth.

Before Donna could get out a full, ‘What’s wrong?’ Cameron blurted out, “I stole your car! And I almost vandalized your house!”

So confused that she forgot to get up, Donna, still on one knee said, “…wait, you what?”

Looking very much like a child who had just been caught trying to clean up a mess she’d made, Cameron said “I was about to spray paint something on your living room wall when your disgruntled neighbor who looked like Matthew McConaughey came in with his rifle!”

Donna’s face went from confused to utterly bewildered. “Wait, back in Dallas? You stole my car and went to my house when I wasn’t there?”

On the verge of tears, Cameron pulled the collar of her fisherman’s sweater up over her mouth. “While you were saving my BIOS, and I was supposed to be babysitting the girls. They said that Gordon said I was trash and that you laughed at me.” She sniffled, and then admitted, “I overreacted, a little. I was upset.”

Donna was about to stand up, but instead, she sat down on the grass, and sighed. “Well, you never cease to surprise, I will happily give you that.”

Cameron shifted her weight back and forth, from one foot to the other. “Sorry.”

“I wasn’t complaining,” Donna said. Then, she added, “That guy really did look like a ready-to-wear Matthew McConaughey, didn’t he? Brian. What a jackass. J0e should’ve let me claw his face off at COMDEX.”

“You’re not mad?” Cameron asked.

Donna wrinkled her nose. “That you wanted to vandalize a house that, on some level, I kind of hated, that I moved out of 15 years ago ? I mean…not really?” She sighed, and then said, “You got me out of that house, after my parents kind of trapped us there. You rescued us, in a way.”

In a small voice, Cameron said, “You still wanna marry me?”

Donna smiled brightly. Getting up to her feet and dusting off her twill hiking pants. “It’s gonna take more than that to scare me off Howe.” She put her hands on her hips. “Honestly, I might wanna marry you even more now.”

Feeling an unexpected sense of relief, Cameron grinned at her. “Even though I’m trash?”

Donna tucked a strand of loose hair behind Cameron’s ear. “We’re gonna have to talk more about that, huh?”

“I didn’t realize it was still a thing I thought about,” Cameron said.

“I haven’t thought about the Dallas house in a while, I didn’t realize I remembered how living there felt,” Donna said, with a gentle shrug. “Well, she said, starting toward the trail, “no time like the present, right? We’ve got a good three miles to go, just for today.”

Cameron rushed to catch up with her. After a few more paces, Donna said, “At some point, we’re gonna have an engagement party, and I am definitely going to make a speech where I tell all our friends about my beloved was a wild delinquent when we met, and how her delinquency was exact what I needed.”

Cameron grinned as they walked. “That feels like the perfect consequence for my behavior.”

[civilight-eterna]

fic request guidelines masterpost and tag library

fic requests are currently [OPEN/CLOSED]

fulfilled requests quick link [here].

see below the read-more for guidelines!

things I prefer to do:

f/f ships

arknights

vocaloid

nsft(w) depending on prompt

my otp chenmiya (typically I age up amiya for these)

sweet and wholesome, sane and consensual

toxic and messy, insane and dubious

ticklekink trash

other ships I love; ch'en/blaze/amiya, ch'en/blaze, horn/mandragora, texland, abyssal hunters/each other/irene in any combination, ursus girls in any combination, scavenger/closure, leizi/blaze. I'll update this as I remember more but those are the top ones

characters I love, all the above plus; dorothy, scavenger, warfarin, closure, earthspirit, cantabile

things I'll do:

almost any f/f ship

star ocean 2 femslash <- and if you're a star ocean 2 fan i wanna be fwiends (つ≧▽≦)つ

ex astris girls

fandoms you know i know

polycules (abyssal hunters, ursus girls, nearl and the girls and most any others you can think of)

het on a case by case basis-there's a few I'm down with like whisperain/phantom (based purely on the op rec interaction being really cute) and...I can't remember any others rn

I can and will write fucked-up shit. Don't be shy. You will not surprise me and I will not judge you.

examples: sexy cannibalism, sister incest, dub-con in the right circumstances.

gen-fic is okay too though i promise

au's are fine too

things I won't do:

self-insert or cis male!doctor/anyone. if I'm writing the doctor they are either female, nb or genderqueer in some way and they will be their own unique character

anything that goes so far against a character's personality that it's too difficult to write. if you want something specific you can get detailed in your prompt request though and I'll do my best to rise to the challenge!

lesbian-coded characters in het ships. I know this can be a little subjective so it doesn't hurt to ask if you're not sure.

blaze/greythroat. sorry. it's just an ick for me.

characters that are fairly obviously not even pre-teens yet. suzuran is too young.

some considerations:

amiya is kind of a special case. there's a lot the game suggests about her mental maturity vs. her age and i think in any setting aside from arknights i usually call bs because it's usually a lay-up to some kind of 'ship yourself with this underage character, look it's okay' kind of vibe, but arknights puts pretty exclusive emphasis on the familial relationships with amiya and the 'self-insert' character. i feel that as a pharmaceutical CEO with a lot of stress and centuries of grief and empathy stored in her body...girl can do what she's gotta do with the other characters. I do like to age her up a little bit to avoid the gymnastics of trying to explain everything every time though. I ship her with pretty much any woman in the game in the right contexts.

I do reserve the right to refuse a request for any reason. I do this for fun in my free time, for free, to work on my writing a little, and while I don't refuse things outright most times, please understand if I just lose a little steam.

length of the work will depend entirely upon my inspiration-I'll try to make sure you at least get a drabble size of a few sentences, but I'll do my best to make the most out of the prompts you take the time to send me.

i know most triggers to tag for but if you need something else tagged drop me a line. I gotchu.

okay, that's about it! I'll update when I'm taking requests at the top of the post, so check for availability before you send in a prompt.

thank you for reading! can't wait to write for you.

[blackbird-brewster]

Friday Fic Recs

As per usual, mostly smut ;) But this week, my bisexuality is showing!

What I've Read:

Criminal Minds, JJ/Derek, WC: 10,421 (WIP) Rated: Explicit || Author: mournful_shapes

Why I Love It: This is, admittedly, not a ship I'd ever thought about before. I love their friendship and consider them sort of a BrOTP, if anything. But holy shit -- this author writes smut SO well, I decided I'd read literally anything they write. And this is really good. I LOVE Derek/JJ being friends with benefits. Because above all else -- JJ deserves to get absolutely railed. (Bonus Points: This author always talks trash about Will and I love it!)

Criminal Minds, JJ/Emily/Reader, WC: 2912 Rated: Explicit || Author: mournful_shapes

Why I Love It: As someone who has written threesomes, I can respect how difficult it is and this author nails it every fucking time. Y'all know I'm not really a /reader consumer, but I will literally read every single thing mournful_shapes writes because it's SO good. A Jemily threesome?? Delicious!

Criminal Minds, JJ/Emily/Derek, [Series] Rated: Explicit || Author: mournful_shapes

Why I Love It: The first work I read by this author was '3 Hearts Beatin' Fast' and I was instantly sucked into this OT3. This series is god-tier smut and it ticks every single box my horny, bisexual, heart desires. Honestly, this is *chef's kiss*. I have been consuming everything this person writes and I'm never disappointed.

Criminal Minds, JJ/Tara, WC: 837 Rated: Teen || Author: @ellegreenawayslover

Why I Love It: THIS IS NOT A DRILL! Soft, fluffy, JARA!!! I was so incredibly hyped to see a new Jara work in the tag. This is just a lovely little slice of life and at the end of the day, all I ever want for JJ/Tara is for them to have a wholesome, fluffy, 'forever after'. I am honoured this was gifted to me. Thank you so much! I know I'll be reading it often.

What I'm Writing:

Criminal Minds, JJ/Tara/Emily, WC: 88,239+ (WIP) Rated: Explicit

Author Update: I just posted Chapter 15! As of today, the published portion of this fic is now my 2nd longest fic on AO3 -- but by the time it's done it might end up being the length of Parts 1-2 combined! Wild!! I just finished writing Chapter 24 (140k+) and I have to admit, the plot is moving SO slowly with this one.

I realised this week that Part 3 has SEVEN plotlines, which sort of put things in perspective. I don't feel as bad for how many chapters it's taken to move things along. I'm just holding seven plot threads while trying to keep weaving them into the story without dropping any.

[Untitled Between You & Me Sequel]

Criminal Minds, JJ/Tara, WC: TBD Rated: TBD

Author Update: I have a clear outline for this one-shot and I've been chipping away at it in the background, but it's second priority right now. Compared to BY&M, this sequel is 85% tooth-rotting fluff, 10% miscommunication as a plot device for hijinks, 5% wedding-night smut! Wish I could clone myself so I could have time to crank this out, but until then, this will happen whenever it happens.

Other Rec Lists Below the Cut:

Other Recommendations:

Past Friday Fic Recs:  [Friday Fic Recs - Tumblr] || [CM Fic Recs - AO3 Collection]

Rec Lists: [JJ/Emily] || [Tara/Emily] || [CM Femslash]

My Fics: [Jemily] || [Temily] || [Jara] || [Smut] ||  [All]

[thewordworrier]

13th March - 545 words. WELL. If you saw my post earlier, you’ll know that I had to cancel my hospital appointment today because I woke up feeling like absolute trash. Yay for bugs I guess. UGH. So I’ve had to rearrange that and now I have to wait until April... 19th, I think it is now. On one hand, I have awful luck and I hope nothing happens in the interim. On the other, nothing has happened since I stopped having to wear dressings again. SIGH. In other news... Interesting dreams make for interesting fanfic ideas NOT THAT I DON’T ALREADY HAVE ENOUGH. And I kinda wanna write some kind of... Femslash??? Shelly’s kinda complaining that she didn’t get anything like that for International Women’s Day and I’m like; Honey please. Every day is International Women’s Day in your relationship. And she’s just like, yeah, well I miss ‘flexing’ my bisexuality. Muses, yo. 🤷🏼 She’ll just have to sacrifice that and deal with being a Soft Domme in some of my WIPs. One day she might get to flex. Worked On: a NormalAU piece. Favourite Line: 🥺

“We’re sorry it’s not much -” Ray started, shutting up quickly when she shot him a look.

“Don’t even start with that,” she said. “It’s the thought that counts, the fact that you even bothered in the first place.”

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[damaramegido]

what up what up i’m ACEY and i’m the bad lesbian representation you truly deserve on your dash

she/they, genderqueer/nonbinary woman/demigirl

whole-ass adult, 31 (2/18)

world’s most useless lesbian (source: the group chat)

writer and artist, currently in college studying screenwriting 

cartoon appreciator

known femslash enjoyer and trash shipper 

occasionally horny on main (but i tag that shit)

my favorite things include they might be giants, steven universe, rats, and Women

no really i love all of those things so much

ask me about tmbg or su and you WILL get an impassioned infodump and i will relish every moment

winner of the "was right about pearl this whole time" trophy

queen of godawful trash hell pearlrose (the kind where everyone kinda sucks)

unhinged pearlmethyst tinhatter (they're divorced and reconciling you can't change my mind)

lapsed homestuck

accidental cat dad (his name is philly cheesesteak and i love him)

currently attempting to blog the entire simpsons and slowly writing a dumb pearlmethyst road trip humanstuck

yes, i’m the one who wrote pearl, interrupted/wrote the two trucks sonnet/fucked up some homestuck shrinky dinks one time

ao3: AceyEnn

youtube: Acey!

substack: aceynickel.substack.com (home of simpsons sundays!)

art blog: @duendedefined

writing blog: @tellemthestoryraindrop

blog policies, notes, etc.

i tag pretty thoroughly (including content warnings) but i generally don't take requests except from friends, sorry!

askbox is open please send me questions about my fanfics and/or fun material to riff on

bigots and bullies will be blocked on sight. so will general assholes who bother me enough. aside from that anyone can interact idgaf

minors are free to follow but please remember that i'm a grown-ass adult and sometimes make dirty jokes on here and reblog questionable content! be sure to block #nsfw to avoid nsfw images and #mildly nsfw to avoid dirty text if you're following me while underage, i don't want any of us getting in trouble!

i like hell content and messy relationships in fiction and i'm not about to stop but please just keep me out of your discourse. i am literally thirty or forty years old i'm too old for that shit. i know what i'm about, i know i live in the trash pile, and honestly it's pretty great. all my horrifying ideas are conceived by me going "hey wouldn't it be fucked up if this happened?" and running with it. if you don't like it then click away.

john hlans. burg bi sexu

here is a picture of my cat that @neurogabu edited

(more userboxes, etc)

[hpsaffics]

✨ WLW Wed: Flirty Fleurmione (Part 1) ✨

A biweekly HP femslash rec list made by the lovely members of the HP SAFFICS (18+) discord server. See all previous rec lists in the WLW Library.

Currently: Fleur Delacour/Hermione Granger (see Part 2) Previously: Ghosts (see list)

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💫 HELLA LONG (>100k) 💫

Cruel Intentions by Perpetual_Nonsense [M, 208k]

Fleur Delacour, bored with her life, decides she needs a challenge and sets her sights on Hermione Granger, the golden girl, during the Triwizard Tournament. She plans to take Hermione's virginity by the third task; Hermione has other plans.

Tender Is The Night by lipeviez [M, 151k]

In a bid to keep from breaking one person’s heart, Fleur does something drastic which prevents her from recognizing Hermione as her mate, but it doesn’t prevent the love that grows anyway.

The Written Word by Rubix_Con [M, 121k]

Fleur Delacour has a secret; once a year she receives a letter from an unknown sender... Half a world away Hermione, no longer the bookish know-it-all finds herself in a chain reaction of events that puts her on a collision course back to Britain and everyone she left behind.

What You Don't Know by @zerodawn22 [M, 108k]

Everyone has a weird gap in their knowledge. Unfortunately for her, Hermione's coincides with a mistake that could have huge consequences. She's known as the Brightest Witch of Her Age, but there are some things she has just never come across. Try explaining that to an enraged Veela...

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Time Is An Asshole by Psychological_Top [E, 80.2k]

Hermione and Fleur haven't seen each other in over ten years. Both having jumped in their careers, they meet unexpectedly in London only to find their past resurfacing.

Our Mind Works in Mysterious Ways (But We Like It Like That) by InsomniacAndBi [T, 64.6k]

Fleur was always an observer in life, choosing to watch and not get involved. So, she wasn't entirely what she was doing in a dingy old cottage with five other students whose minds worked in the same, odd ways as her own.

Flowers by Perpetual_Nonsense [E, 45.7k]

Hermione Granger has been best friends with Gabrielle Delacour for as long as she can remember. Gabrielle's older sister has always been in the picture, but it isn't until they get older when Hermione starts to look at the older girl differently. Surely, nothing good can come from this.

Runes by Cumbersome [M, 25.0k]

Soulmate trash. Because I can. And we all want it.

With These Words, I Bind Thee by DisasterXL [E, 17.6k]

It’s always been Hermione and Ginny against the world... They can face anything so long as they’re back to back. If they protect each other’s weaknesses, they only have strengths. Even the chosen didn’t separate them—that’s how good they are. Dark fantasy AU.

Forgetting to Remember by perfectly_random [M, 10.4k]

Fleur and Hermione broke up three years ago, but end up working together on a special assignment to the Department of Mysteries. Things are forgotten, things are remembered, shenanigans ensue.

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