the lonesome lows don't quite go away overnight

 What a fun time! I still need to dive into the seasonsofdrabbles round one collection, but for now I'm overdue in bragging on the wonderful gifts I received, and sharing what I wrote.

Moonlight (Fingersmith, Sue/Maud, angsty sharing a bed pre-betrayal) by Augurey. Gorgeous, poemy-prose. Most Fingersmith fic (all, like, 20 of it) is post-canon, so it was a really cool surprise to see mid-plot musings. 
(so kiss me)shy sweet eagerly my most dear (Professor Marston and the Wonder Women, Elizabeth/Olive, apocalyptic fisting!) by gloss. The ambiguity here is delightful, and the sex is just stunning.

I managed to write my assignment and one treat this round, both for gloss! I was so tickled to match with her knowing that I wanted to write something for her anyway! 

The Visitor (PM and the WW, Elizabeth/Olive, supernatural hints)
Cream, Sugar (PM and the WW, Elizabeth/Olive, they go to a diner after seeing Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and are visibly queer but of course no one sees them). Fun anecdote, an earlier draft of dove more fully into "The Homosexual in America" and had Elizabeth fingering Olive at the diner, and as fun as that was, I couldn't quite make it work. Maybe some other time.

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ETA. I also wrote a pinch hit for chromaticcelebrationex:
Blank Generation (The Wilds, Linh & Martha, Jeanette lives and Martha knows something) for facethestrange

femslashafterdark is live! I think the one I wrote is probably obvious, especially if you eliminate the two I'm about to rec. But! If you'd like to message me with your guess, and get it right, I'll write you a drabble. Despite my blip of being sulky over going to pinch hits (I'm prepared to have my shit MUCH MORE TOGETHER for future exchanges, and I'm grateful to my initial author for their gracious message while I was being an ass) I had a LOT OF FUN with this exchange! I got to refresh on the fandom with my friend J and bounce ideas around like we used to do, god, 10 years ago when we were dating. I felt like I pushed myself and wrote something decently filthy (though Liz assures me it is actually super tame, g'bless). I also liked perusing the collection today and seeing more than one story I wanted to read. That doesn't happen a ton lately, just because I am a fandomly curmudgeon, and it was NICE.

I have two recs! And there's lots I didn't really dive into, so you should check out the collection if you like femslash and porn or other darker themes.

1. MY GIFT. Turn and Face the Strange (Professor Marston and the Wonder Women, Olive/Elizabeth, apocalyptic AU). Y'all, y'all, y'all. Do you love women being EXPERTS IN THEIR FIELDS, TOOTH MONSTERS, SNOWPOCALYPSES, and HERO WORSHIP/ADMIRATION FROM AFAR? You don't need to know PM and the WW, but if you do, you won't be disappointed by the EXPERT CHARACTERIZATION AND CHEMISTRY. I wanna be all like, THIS FIC WAS WRITTEN FOR ME, except it really, actually was. 

2. stain white thighs (press closer and colder) (The Haunting of Bly Manor, Dani/Jamie, sex as a metaphor for gore and gore as a metaphor for sex). I haven't dug much into this fandom because I'm afraid the fic won't all be this JUICY and SWEET and HORRIBLE and WONDERFUL. 

Dear everywoman  creator,

Thank you for being here and for creating for me! I'm generally a multi shipper, and love romantic fic but also solo, character-driven stuff, explorations, and even a little adventure fic. I am so deeply Not Picky, and I haven't been able to participate in much since having my daughter four years ago, so I'm basically just happy to be here and to participate.

I think what will make me the happiest is knowing that you've enjoyed your time writing for me, regardless of the specifics of fandom or pairing or content. So, please take the following as helpful-only-as-far-as-it-is-helpful-to-you and take the leeway and freedom you need! That said, if what you need is more specific prompts, I hope to offer those as well. Also, my pronouns are they/them/she/her if you'd like to discuss me.

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
• 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), apocalypses
• 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)
• Femslash and Poly are opt-in :)

General Dislikes/DNWs:

• Rape or detailed reference to rape
• Explicit sex including underaged characters
• Dwelling on dead children
• Explicit violence to children, especially sexualized violence
• A/B/O or other animal AU traits used sexually
• Use of fanon f/f to bash canonical partners (or fanon characterization to bash other characters)
• Fetishized mental illness, including over-the-top depictions, or villains
• Scat/vomit

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
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• Pre-movie, and post-movie, and all of the missing bits of lives the movie skips and jumps around
• Sex, or no sex. Together, or separate. I failed to nom them as a group, but would welcome seeing them together
• Professional lives and struggles
• Discussions regarding kink, consent, and limits; curiosity
• Kink in non-sexual contexts

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• Overwrought explorations on how one might label one's sexuality
• Either only feeling sexual or romantic love for one partner. Don't need to show it or him in detail, but please don't claim that they don't love Bill.
• Details from their children's real lives

The Nevers
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• Characters we haven't had time or opportunity to explore being fleshed out or getting the spotlight in an adventure (truly, that's most of them, it's only been 6 episodes) whether that takes place pre-canon, during, or in the future
• Ships include but aren't limited to: Amalia/Penance, Zephyr/Knitter, Myrtle/Primrose, Amalia/Horatio, Molly/Moments of Joy
• How did they learn they were touched? How did being touched change their lives/situations?
• The Orphanage is close quarters and shared labor - how does that compare with their previous lives?

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• Maladie/Sarah. Sorry, nope. References to the goings-on are fine, but please no close encounters.
• Detailed or intense focus on Penance/Auggie. I find him fine in passing, but increasingly irritating and kind of gross in focus
• The Ferryman's Club. Nope.

The Wilds
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• Before the island, during the island, during their stay at the facility, and the unexplored future, and AUs
• Ships include but aren't limited to: Dot/Shelby, Dot/Fatin, Shelby/Becca, Shelby/Martha, Shelby/Toni, Shelby/Martha/Ton

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• Overwrought explorations of faith - if this is where the story leads you that's fine, but any time you can cut back or zoom out a little would be welcome. 
• Introduction of new traumas not already shown
• Statutory rape relationships
• Already mentioned, but explicit underage sex (references or hints are okay)
• I'm not super invested in the overall mystery or story arc of the facility/program, but if that interests you, I'm down to see where it goes

Masters of Sex
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• Pre-canon, and during canon, AUs
• Lillian/Virginia or Lillian & Virginia or solo Lillian, of course
• Medical and science talk, including clinical sex and kink
• I'd love to see moments and experiences where Lillian hasn't been met with sexism or barriers; I also like seeing how she responds and tackles them.

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• Post-death storylines. Maybe that is obvious, but I feel I should say it.
• Focus on Lillian/Men
• Real life details from Virginia or Bill's children, if they were even to come up