Dear Femslashex Author!
First and foremost, thanks for writing for me. I'm fairly easygoing as far as exchange fic is concerned so please just bear in mind I'll enjoy reading pretty much whatever you decide to write! Suggestions below really are just suggestions.
I'd be just as happy with any of the fandoms below so don't take the fact that I've written slightly more for one ship than another as a sign that I want that one more. I just have more words for some and more wordless flailing for others.
One note: I will comment on whatever is written for me, but it might not be immediate so don't worry - I won't be ignoring your fic, I absolutely promise, I just want to make sure I've read it a couple of times and gathered my thoughts a bit before I try to leave the comment you deserve.
GENERAL:
Likes:
I also love time loops and undercover-as-a-couple and accidental dating and sex pollen and basically all the tropey goodness in the world (as long as it's not listed in my DNWs).
I prefer happy/hopeful/bittersweet endings but not straight-up fluff. Equally happy with huge sprawling plotty epics, snippets dead on the minimum word count and smutty PWPs!
Dislikes:
The things I absolutely do not want in any form are:
Basically: if I've not mentioned it in my dislikes above and you're inspired to write it, please do go ahead - if you hit an unexpected DNW that's my own silly fault so take that as an open invitation to ply me with random kink if the mood strikes. And if you want to go a darkfic route, feel free to try to shock me - character death, serious injury, mindfuck, serial killer AU, horror... really, go to town, make it as unsettling as you want.
FANDOM/PAIRING-SPECIFIC: (in no particular order)
DCU: Pamela Isley/Harleen Quinzel
I love these two. Harley is so amazingly exuberant that it's impossible not to like her and their friendship (and more), despite Harley's odd relationship with the Joker, is a thing of wonder. I love when they work together but feel free to set it in Arkham, in a non-powered AU, in DC continuity or not; I'm much more familiar with pre-New 52 but basically anything where Harley and Ivy get to have fun together, whatever "fun" for these two might actually be (and hopefully without the Joker being around or with him in the background) would be awesome.
Alien Series: Annalee Call/Ellen Ripley
I've seen (and loved) all the movies, even Prometheus, so go wherever you want to go with this. Go post-Resurrection and have them find a new alien infestation (or an infestation of another species of alien!) or find a way to evade capture after the end of the movie, write Call into Alien or Aliens or even Alien 3 if you're feeling that way inclined. Other AUs also great here but I'd like Call to stay an android/synthetic/Auton/whatever you want to call it ;) Whether Ripley is Ripley 8 or just Ripley is entirely up to you.
Alien Series: Ellen Ripley/Jenette Vasquez
If you matched on this one and came in before I'd updated, my sincere apologies! Could have sworn I'd said: Vasquez essentially rocks my world. Vasquez and Ripley is even better. Vasquez/Ripley is even better still! Anything mid-Aliens or canon-divergent post-Aliens would be amazing, or hey, go totally AU and have Vasquez on the Nostromo or the two of them in a modern-day military AU or Vasquez and Ripley Save The Universe (from aliens or something else). Also, Vasquez being snarky with the other marines and toting guns is truly a wonderful thing.
Pacific Rim: An Yuna/Pang So-Yi
I basically just love the notion that these two exist in the Pacific Rim universe so anything would be awesome - backstory for the two of them, the first time they're in a jaeger, selection and training, a fencing tournament before the first kaiju attack and before their recruitment... happy, sad or grim, it's all good. Happy to see any of the other Pacific Rim characters in supporting roles if you want to bring any of them in, or not.
ST:DS9: Ezri Dax/Jadzia Dax
I really enjoy how different Ezri is from Jadzia but all the common ground they share through Dax, including the memories of Dax's past hosts and all of Jadzia's (and Curzon's!) old friends. If you want to write about the two of them meeting at Ezri's zhian'tara with Jadzia in someone else's body, that's perfectly fine by me. Likewise, feel absolutely free to handwave all you want to get them in the same room! Holodeck, arcane Trill rituals, hallucinations, Ezri steals the Delorian and goes back in time, go wild. Also a fan of Dax's other hosts, including Joran - feel free to take that or leave it.
ST:DS9: Jadzia Dax/Lenara Kahn
These two just break my heart and I'm as much a fan of the previous relationship between Dax and Kahn as between their different hosts (if that can even be separated out at all!). An AU where they decide to stay together (with or without exploring the implications of that) would be sort of lovely, or a missing scene from the episode, a later meeting we don't see in canon, Dax or Kahn reminiscing later on... Also happy with Ezri remembering the relationship after she's joined, or meeting Lenara (or a subsequent Kahn host) and remembering what happened between Lenara and Jadzia and/or their previous hosts. Gut-wrenching or sweet or whatever you like here, absolutely great by me.
ST:TNG: Beverly Crusher/Deanna Troi
For Beverly and Deanna, there's one episode where they're exercising together in some interestingly designed leotard-and-leggings combos and it is a thing of beauty. I love when we get to see them being awesome friends, and when they Do Things Well. On- or off-ship is equally fine by me, plotty or day-in-the-life or just the two of them dancing their way around the holodeck are all great. Or, y'know, strand them on a planet or run them through a holodeck-gone-mad and see what happens.
Crossovers:
Jessica Pearson/Pepper Potts
These two women just rock with their wonderfully stylish power dressing and general intelligent ass-kicking. Maybe Stark Industries need a new law firm. Maybe they meet while shoe-shopping. Maybe they've known each other for years. Maybe Pepper took a job with Pearson Specter instead of with Tony. Any time setting is fine by me - go pre-Iron Man if you like or post-AoU, go AU with no superheroes or give Jessica (and/or Pepper!) exciting powers...would Jessica actually be a good guy if so? You tell me! Happy to see cameos from either canon if you're into that but Jessica and Pepper are definitely the main event here.
Ro Laren/B'Elanna Torres
Complicated angry girls ftw! I'd kind of like to see these two having known each other before Voyager got lost, or a what-if with what might have happened if Ensign Ro had been assigned to Voyager, or if she'd found herself in the Delta Quadrant with the Maquis instead. Grim Maquis AU sounds good if you're into that. Frankly, I'd just like to see these two in the same room and even that much would make me grin like a loon.
Elsa/Merida
I don't even know what to say here. I mean, Merida goes to Arendelle and meets the queen, Elsa goes to Scotland, highland games, ice skating, Merida being a brilliant archer... How about a Beowulf AU or creepy fairytale fusions or maybe they're faraway penpals who write letters till they meet one day, who knows! Modern AU setting also, fine, just as long as Elsa's still got her powers and Merida's still her awesome self.
Dana Scully/Clarice Starling
Pairing of my heart! I've read all the Hannibal books and seen all of the films, and rewatched the X-Files about a million times, so feel free to take this wherever you'd like to. I do like the idea that they might've known each other at the academy, though, but that's totally optional - they could meet whenever and wherever you like, right up to post-Hannibal. Working on a case together would be fun, especially if Scully has to try to explain the X-Files to a sceptical Clarice (while still being somewhat sceptical herself). Happy to see supporting character from either canon, and though I do love the Hannibal TV show I'd rather this not somehow become all about Will Graham. I do prefer the MOTW-style X-Files to the aliens and whatnot, take it as dark (or as light!) as you want to, and I'm more or less guaranteed to be imagining Jodie Foster as Clarice if that makes any difference!
I'd be just as happy with any of the fandoms below so don't take the fact that I've written slightly more for one ship than another as a sign that I want that one more. I just have more words for some and more wordless flailing for others.
One note: I will comment on whatever is written for me, but it might not be immediate so don't worry - I won't be ignoring your fic, I absolutely promise, I just want to make sure I've read it a couple of times and gathered my thoughts a bit before I try to leave the comment you deserve.
GENERAL:
Likes:
- banter (and witty dialogue in general)
- competence (either doing something really well, or learning to do something really well)
- familiarity (characters knowing/learning each other's habits, wearing each other's clothes, etc.)
- desperate kissing
- first times, or getting back together after years apart
- differences in height/age/status, etc.
- physical fights/sparring, rough sex, bruises, scars, or just plain can't-keep-my-hands-off-you bodice-ripping
- not saying "I love you" but clearly meaning it anyway
- worldbuilding, wherever that makes sense
- friends to lovers, or enemies/rivals to friends to lovers
- Pacific Rim fusions (I know, I know, but I love it!) - if you're feeling inclined, any of these pairings in a jaeger would be hilariously awesome, played straight or played for laughs
I also love time loops and undercover-as-a-couple and accidental dating and sex pollen and basically all the tropey goodness in the world (as long as it's not listed in my DNWs).
I prefer happy/hopeful/bittersweet endings but not straight-up fluff. Equally happy with huge sprawling plotty epics, snippets dead on the minimum word count and smutty PWPs!
Dislikes:
The things I absolutely do not want in any form are:
- A/B/O
- anything involving animals in a kinky way
- hard D/s - please no Master/slave or D/s lifestyle AUs!
- humiliation (playful mockery fine, humiliation as a kink will kill me in the bad way)
- genderswap
- non-con (most dub-con is A-OK)
- children/pregnancy
- second person POV
- sex toys used outside the bedroom
- bodily waste or fluids during sexytimes (non-kinky mentions are fine)
Basically: if I've not mentioned it in my dislikes above and you're inspired to write it, please do go ahead - if you hit an unexpected DNW that's my own silly fault so take that as an open invitation to ply me with random kink if the mood strikes. And if you want to go a darkfic route, feel free to try to shock me - character death, serious injury, mindfuck, serial killer AU, horror... really, go to town, make it as unsettling as you want.
FANDOM/PAIRING-SPECIFIC: (in no particular order)
DCU: Pamela Isley/Harleen Quinzel
I love these two. Harley is so amazingly exuberant that it's impossible not to like her and their friendship (and more), despite Harley's odd relationship with the Joker, is a thing of wonder. I love when they work together but feel free to set it in Arkham, in a non-powered AU, in DC continuity or not; I'm much more familiar with pre-New 52 but basically anything where Harley and Ivy get to have fun together, whatever "fun" for these two might actually be (and hopefully without the Joker being around or with him in the background) would be awesome.
Alien Series: Annalee Call/Ellen Ripley
I've seen (and loved) all the movies, even Prometheus, so go wherever you want to go with this. Go post-Resurrection and have them find a new alien infestation (or an infestation of another species of alien!) or find a way to evade capture after the end of the movie, write Call into Alien or Aliens or even Alien 3 if you're feeling that way inclined. Other AUs also great here but I'd like Call to stay an android/synthetic/Auton/whatever you want to call it ;) Whether Ripley is Ripley 8 or just Ripley is entirely up to you.
Alien Series: Ellen Ripley/Jenette Vasquez
If you matched on this one and came in before I'd updated, my sincere apologies! Could have sworn I'd said: Vasquez essentially rocks my world. Vasquez and Ripley is even better. Vasquez/Ripley is even better still! Anything mid-Aliens or canon-divergent post-Aliens would be amazing, or hey, go totally AU and have Vasquez on the Nostromo or the two of them in a modern-day military AU or Vasquez and Ripley Save The Universe (from aliens or something else). Also, Vasquez being snarky with the other marines and toting guns is truly a wonderful thing.
Pacific Rim: An Yuna/Pang So-Yi
I basically just love the notion that these two exist in the Pacific Rim universe so anything would be awesome - backstory for the two of them, the first time they're in a jaeger, selection and training, a fencing tournament before the first kaiju attack and before their recruitment... happy, sad or grim, it's all good. Happy to see any of the other Pacific Rim characters in supporting roles if you want to bring any of them in, or not.
ST:DS9: Ezri Dax/Jadzia Dax
I really enjoy how different Ezri is from Jadzia but all the common ground they share through Dax, including the memories of Dax's past hosts and all of Jadzia's (and Curzon's!) old friends. If you want to write about the two of them meeting at Ezri's zhian'tara with Jadzia in someone else's body, that's perfectly fine by me. Likewise, feel absolutely free to handwave all you want to get them in the same room! Holodeck, arcane Trill rituals, hallucinations, Ezri steals the Delorian and goes back in time, go wild. Also a fan of Dax's other hosts, including Joran - feel free to take that or leave it.
ST:DS9: Jadzia Dax/Lenara Kahn
These two just break my heart and I'm as much a fan of the previous relationship between Dax and Kahn as between their different hosts (if that can even be separated out at all!). An AU where they decide to stay together (with or without exploring the implications of that) would be sort of lovely, or a missing scene from the episode, a later meeting we don't see in canon, Dax or Kahn reminiscing later on... Also happy with Ezri remembering the relationship after she's joined, or meeting Lenara (or a subsequent Kahn host) and remembering what happened between Lenara and Jadzia and/or their previous hosts. Gut-wrenching or sweet or whatever you like here, absolutely great by me.
ST:TNG: Beverly Crusher/Deanna Troi
For Beverly and Deanna, there's one episode where they're exercising together in some interestingly designed leotard-and-leggings combos and it is a thing of beauty. I love when we get to see them being awesome friends, and when they Do Things Well. On- or off-ship is equally fine by me, plotty or day-in-the-life or just the two of them dancing their way around the holodeck are all great. Or, y'know, strand them on a planet or run them through a holodeck-gone-mad and see what happens.
Crossovers:
Jessica Pearson/Pepper Potts
These two women just rock with their wonderfully stylish power dressing and general intelligent ass-kicking. Maybe Stark Industries need a new law firm. Maybe they meet while shoe-shopping. Maybe they've known each other for years. Maybe Pepper took a job with Pearson Specter instead of with Tony. Any time setting is fine by me - go pre-Iron Man if you like or post-AoU, go AU with no superheroes or give Jessica (and/or Pepper!) exciting powers...would Jessica actually be a good guy if so? You tell me! Happy to see cameos from either canon if you're into that but Jessica and Pepper are definitely the main event here.
Ro Laren/B'Elanna Torres
Complicated angry girls ftw! I'd kind of like to see these two having known each other before Voyager got lost, or a what-if with what might have happened if Ensign Ro had been assigned to Voyager, or if she'd found herself in the Delta Quadrant with the Maquis instead. Grim Maquis AU sounds good if you're into that. Frankly, I'd just like to see these two in the same room and even that much would make me grin like a loon.
Elsa/Merida
I don't even know what to say here. I mean, Merida goes to Arendelle and meets the queen, Elsa goes to Scotland, highland games, ice skating, Merida being a brilliant archer... How about a Beowulf AU or creepy fairytale fusions or maybe they're faraway penpals who write letters till they meet one day, who knows! Modern AU setting also, fine, just as long as Elsa's still got her powers and Merida's still her awesome self.
Dana Scully/Clarice Starling
Pairing of my heart! I've read all the Hannibal books and seen all of the films, and rewatched the X-Files about a million times, so feel free to take this wherever you'd like to. I do like the idea that they might've known each other at the academy, though, but that's totally optional - they could meet whenever and wherever you like, right up to post-Hannibal. Working on a case together would be fun, especially if Scully has to try to explain the X-Files to a sceptical Clarice (while still being somewhat sceptical herself). Happy to see supporting character from either canon, and though I do love the Hannibal TV show I'd rather this not somehow become all about Will Graham. I do prefer the MOTW-style X-Files to the aliens and whatnot, take it as dark (or as light!) as you want to, and I'm more or less guaranteed to be imagining Jodie Foster as Clarice if that makes any difference!