FF Friday

Happy Friday! A couple of fandom exchanges revealed works recently, candyheartsex and rarefemslashexchange, so I thought I'd come bearing fic recs :) I'll edit in authors after creator reveals, of course!

( Seven recs from 300 words to ~5k )

I would love your recs if you have other ones as well! May the spirit of Femslash February bless your entertainments, either way :P

rarefemslashexchange creator reveals are coming later today, so I thought I'd rec out some of my favorites from the collection! No matter which way I sliced it I couldn't decide on four, so here are five SFW fics which delighted me and may perhaps delight you as well (amusingly, I didn't notice so many of them were AUs until I started writing this post):


Do You Love It Love It? (The Good Place, Tahani/Eleanor, ~2.1k)
What if Tahani invited Eleanor to stay with her in Australia? An entertaining AU depicting the comical tribulations of a courtship between social worlds.

Five Views of Two Rabbits (Disney Mulan, Mulan/fem!Shang, ~1.6k)
What if Shang was in the same boat as Mulan? The different character POVs employed to depict their romance not only flesh out minor characters but create a beautifully grounded mosaic portrait of the couple's facets.

Memento Mori (Interlude) (DS9, Jadzia/Lenara, ~2.4k)
What if Lenara had come back to Jadzia? A sweet and introspective contemplation of what a more permanent union might have meant to them, full of love and loss.

a question and answer (A League of Their Own, Carson/Max, ~900)
Okay, this one's not an AU, but it's quite likely to be retroactively rendered AU by the next season of ALOTO if/when we get one, so I'm counting it. Max and Carson in canon had a wonderfully understated dynamic which here bears the fruit of a quiet, inevitable romance.

Vervain (original, Boisterous Bard/Wicked Queen, ~6.4k)
A fun, fast-paced fantasy adventure that hints at more heart than the opening lets on -- and carries a hidden knife too.

Happy FFFriday! I finally got around to reading my FemslashEx 2019 bookmarks, so here's five recs for stories that clock in under 5,000 words. (The Original Works are essentially just short stories that happen to be published under AO3, and I recommend them even if you aren't usually a fic person!)

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5. The Heat That I Know (4992 words) by runobody2
Fandom: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
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"Catra redemption" is probably right up there with "Catradora" as juggernaut tropes in SPOP fandom go. This is not so much the story of that redemption as it is a slice of the aftermath: cleaning up the pieces, wrestling and reconciling with the damage. It's also a very compelling view of Catra's interiority.