Dear Femslashex Creator

[aphrodite_mine]

Dear femslashex  author,

Thank you for being here and for writing for me! Obviously, the rules of the specific fest or exchange apply, but I'm generally a multi shipper, and love romantic fic. Whether you want to use this exchange as your opportunity to try something new with style, pairing, dialogue, taboo elements, or employ all of your favorite tried-and-trues, I'm so excited to read what you create!

General Likes:
Domesticity: married life, chaos of raising kids, work/life balance, the real work of staying together and working on trauma, mutual long-term healing, partnerships
Shared Space Tropes: fake relationship turns real, snowed in, forced to share a hotel room/bed, hetero double date fails, source of irritation becomes source of desire
Darker Themes: body horror, wound play (inflicted or re-opened), exploration of pain (inflicted or tested), recovery from past trauma
Animal/Xeno aspects: tentacles are great when they make sense, but please no a/b/o/knotting
Kinky Themes: blissful sub, trying something new, explicit consent, use of safewords, rope and restriction play, withholding permission/orgasm/any release, stretching, mild discomfort-to-sharp temporary pain
AUs: character meets x instead of y, y never existed, character lives/escapes, characters die but meet on another plane of existence, 10 years after canon, pre-canon (with no strong feelings of if this would end up breaking canon itself), how would characters meet if x had happened instead of y, apocalypses (any but COVID)
Honesty: frank, truthful depictions of physical and mental disabilities, not seeing situations or memories with rose-colored glasses (if character x was maligned or hurt by character y, that shouldn't be ignored, unless working in an AU)
Bisexuality/Polyamory: preferred over cheating, but I'm not opposed to cheating if it fits the story
Taboo: Requested (or simply not DNW'd) sibling, step-sibling, cousin incest

General Dislikes (with any canon-specific exceptions noted below):
Dwelling on dead children
Use of fanon (or canon) pairings to bash another character
Fetishized mental illness, including over-the-top depictions
Detailed description of scat or cum (blood and spit are okay, including menstrual blood)
Character X knew Character Y was queer/kinky/in love before Character Y knew
Out of character or time dwelling on sexual identity or labels
One-sided/unrecriprocated pining (mutual pining with cultural or communication barriers is great, however!)

DNWs (with canon-specific additions noted below): detailed rape/non-consensual sex, explicit or dwelled on underage sex (under 16), explicit violent or sexually violent child abuse, permanent death of requested characters, mundane AUs (eg High School or Bakery - with one exception), A/B/O, knotting, soul bonds, mpreg, details about the real children of historical-fictionalized characters.

The Wilds - Shelby Goodkind/Dot Campbell
Hi let me tell you about this rare pair that won't leave my brain. I'd love pre, during, or post canon where they have a fling or something more sustained. I'm not super interested in the plotty mysteries of Eden or the Island. Exception to "Character X knew Character Y was queer..." dislike as it seems like Dot had a pretty good read on Shelby for awhile. It would be fun to see that reversed, too. 

The Nevers - Knitter/Amalia True | Zephyr Alexis Nevine
Pure pain. I'm ready for Zephyr to meet her true love in the Victorian era - how do they meet, how does she know? For the sake of this exchange, please make her 'host body' a woman (cis or trans) if you go this route. I'm also ready to fully hand-wave episode details in favor of a long romance across battlefields, or perhaps some kind of drug-induced vision of marital bliss. If you want to angst it up, I'm fine with Knitter being some kind of ghost. 

The Nevers - Penance Adair/Amalia True | Zephyr Alexis Nevine
Absolute My Two Touched Moms energy. When Amalia and Penance meet, what is that like? Do they hook up in missing scenes (high on opium, experimenting with one of Penance's fucking prototypes? (HAS ANYONE MADE THIS JOKE BEFORE???)). Clothing details are swoony. 
DNW: Prolonged attention on Auggie

The Nevers - Primrose Chattoway/Myrtle Haplisch
Tall and Small. These precious queer children and their instant bond. As previously DNWd, please no underage sex, but maybe they find cute romantic ways to communicate. Maybe they meet again in ten years and the world has changed, but something between them hasn't. Please don't feel pressured to include non-English dialogue, especially if you aren't comfortable negotiating around it. 

The Nevers - Harriet Kaur/Desiree Blodgett
Obviously Desiree unintentionally making Harriet spill her innermost secrets is adorable, but I'd also love to see them interact without powers as an instigator. Harriet is endlessly curious, seeking knowledge, and Desiree gathers knowledge but isn't all that keen on using it. How does being in a safe place where they are both respected and treated with equality affect them? I'll waive the mundane AU here, because it would be fantastic to see them both exist, together, in a world without powers, or modern day. 

Masters of Sex - Lillian DePaul/Virginia Johnson
Lillian enters the story with an expiration date. I love how that charges their interactions. I love how they question and challenge one another, and the different ways they approach womanhood and sexuality. Truly excited for anything with them, minus some sort of post-dead mourning. So I'll DNW: Dead Lillian

Bandits - Ludmilla "Luna" Nabiba/Angelika "Angel" Kleinschmidt
Mud sex but make it gay. Just kidding, mud sex is a terrible idea. That said, I'm pretty sure these two had at least drunken makeouts. Feel free to AU the ending, or have these two meet at another point in referenced canon. What would have happened if they hadn't picked up the American? They were clearly horny. 

Tipping the Velvet - Nancy Astley/Florence Banner
I am obsessed with these two. Nan is such a bad decision queen, but then she lands at this angel's doorstep and Flo literally cannot contain the gay. Modern AU could be fun, but I also love how they both give glimpses into parts of the Historical Queer World, and if you're into that, I'd love more. Curious about their relationship over the years. After the tasting menu in relationships and sex that Nan's been through, what does she ultimately want to keep around and explore? Do they want/have more children? Do they grow old together?

Crossovers - Britta Perry (Community)/Ann Perkins (Parks and Recreation)
AKA: I have a straight-man problem. These two are frequently maligned by their narratives (IMO) and their needs can be brushed aside by others. I'd love alternate histories where their paths intersect, high school, college (okay, okay, mundane AUs! Have at thee! Technically, any world in which they meet would be a mundane AU, unless, that is, it were a fantastical one). Community often plays with fantastical AUs, maybe Ann is a part of one. 

Kevin Can Fuck Himself - Allison McRoberts/Patty O'Connell
Deeply unhealthy friendships-slash-more, we meet again! These two are so toxic together, but I'm also okay if you want to just dive into the bliss before reality sets in. I'm curious about the two of them in high school, about how Patty experiences the "Kevin" affect, and maybe some moments over the years that add up to something in the future. Wild AU fully welcomed here. 

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women - Elizabeth Marston/Olive Byrne, Elizabeth/Original Character, Olive/Original Character
For original character pairings, I'm primarily interested in the timeframe before they become involved, since they spend the rest of their lives together. For Elizabeth/Olive, any stage of their relationship including parts that are only hinted-at in the film's epilogue. Borrow from real life details or ignore them - either is fine! Wild AUs are also fully welcome. Include or omit William as you wish, but if he is included please do not erase him or their relationship, if that makes sense. Thus,
DNW: "Though we are canonically married to a man and canonically enjoy sex with him, we are lesbians, and really do not love William"