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winthorntales · 1 year

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Femslash Friday: Couples That Never Were But Should Have Been Vol. 4

Mother Sappho can sure be cruel.

In the tv series The 100, we have a lady-lovin’ side character with an interesting background who is criminally underdeveloped and killed off too soon.

With the limited time we are graced with her presence, this side character is somewhat reduced to the role of the evasive love interest of a protagonist who spent half of their initial time together grieving her dead boyfriend. A dead boyfriend, mind you, who was gruesomely deaded on the lezzie side character's orders! I mean, Holy Jacob Black, does it get any worse than that?

Yes.

To top it all off, the attempted romance ends cheaply tragically before it even truly kicked off, casting this shadow of shallow placation over the whole tchotchke affair.

*begrudged index finger clap for on-screen same-sex love tho*

And then… *lights cigarette pinched between teeth*

Then there’s the staple character with several seasons’ worth of engaging, divisive, heart wrenching internal and interpersonal development, who is as intolerably sexy as she is strong, caring, and deeply flawed. The sugar, spice, and everything damaged that draws this angst-addicted, lovelorn moth (me, hullo) to the flames of everlasting love.

And this character, of course, is straight. No bi-no buts-no bends straight.

Octavia Blake, played by the magnetic Brunette Goddess Marie Avgeropoulos, is the sapphic sister we deserved but never had a chance in hell of getting.

She was a phantom on The Ark (illegal child hidden under the floor never to be seen or acknowledged by the world in which she lived), turned ace survivor in the new world, turned assassin, turned trauma-plagued warrior queen, and I lived for every gutting second.

She loved Lincoln with such fiery depth that her heart sank into some dark waters when he was torn from her. She never lost it completely (her heart), but trying times, like the increasingly intense circumstances of everyone's survival, didn't help her recover it any faster.

But new love could have. New love with someone worthy of it as a person and deserving of a greater story as a character.

The only thing that would’ve salvaged The 100 as a whole, to my viewing pleasure, was a slowbloom-to-true love romance between Octavia as Blodreina, the tormented Dark Queen of Wonkru, and her Right Hand Healer - the only woman who was still willing and able to see the heart of a tortured hero behind her blood-stained crown.

The potential of a perfectly squeetastic a.k.a. overtly romantic relationship between Octavia and Niylah sat in the room like an elephant in a tutu every time they were on screen together.

We’ve got Protector x Nurturer roles, Seme x Uke dynamics, reasoned heart-wrenching angst, and earned trust. Throw in some hurt/comfort scenarios with a little mortal danger or sexual intimidation directed at Niylah by the enemy, and Octavia losing her shit on the asshole who dared threaten/hurt her lover, and I would’ve given up all my earthly possessions to board this ship.

If Niylah had become Octavia’s second chance at true love in a hopeless place, I would be singing The 100’s praises ‘til the end of time as having one of the best sapphic love stories to grace the small screen. But she didn’t. Because she couldn’t. So, I don’t. But I can dream.

#sapphic suggestions #sapphic concept #wlw concepts #wlw mood #femslash february #femslash friday #the 100 #octavia blake #niylah #octavia x niylah #clexa #niytavia

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sunderedstar · 3 years

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the triumph of time round-up post, let's gooo

if you want:

an extended TAAO AU, diverging from canon before the annual/finale

a steady mix of MTMTE elements, diverging from canon before the MTMTE/Lost Light break

More Titans Than You Can Shake A Stick At

Onyx Prime ≠ Shockwave

Unicron+Luna-1 BFFs 4 life

give Starscream emotional support rounds 3 through 4

Vigilem lives and this time it's personal

Windblade running the planet via multiple acts of grand theft Titan

the Quintesson Galactic Council

Guest Star Waspinator

gratuitous Sappho and Swinburne poetry quotes masquerading as section breaks

the Infinite as people as opposed to cannon fodder

Sari “Scorponok’s daughter” Sumdac

Megatronus as a highly competent general

mnemosurgery and its consequences

language, memory, miscommunication, and puns

Solus Prime/Arcee backstory rights

a general revamp of the Thirteen Primes and revised events for the Combiner Wars incident

Shockwave living his best life o)

"why is every Cybertronian scientist here except me fueled by raw, unadulterated chaos energy?" - a question Wheeljack has yet to answer

Starjack Windscream and Chromblade, because sometimes that’s just life

featuring yet another take on Cybertronian lore and the internal mechanisms behind Cybertron, sparks, and the Creation Matrix

Unicron: voring Cybertron for the greater good since 1986

"Next time, you invite Killmaster.”

endgame pink Rodimus

I provide these goods.

series links

worldbuilding, complete series from the top - includes alt Rung origins, Metroplex backstory fic, etc

main fics:

the ways of the stars undone - Starscream and all his Unicron problems

wind that shakes the seas and stars - Windvoice and all her Prime problems

and the wheel of the world roll under them - Wheeljack and all his Quintesson problems

let me fix your functionist universe and your primes IDW:

mine eyes blind as glass - Fortress Maximus and Rung in the Functionist Universe

leave my lips charred - Arcee, Thirteen Primes backstory overhaul

coda fic:

taught the sun ways to travel - Waspinator

drank so much sunlight - Chromia and Windblade, written for Femslash February

who’s a heretic now? - Being Pharma Is Suffering

like summer with sweet hours - Wheeljack and Starscream

#soon I will need to write that Perceptor fic about wtf is going on with the Lost Light during all this time #transformers #maccadam #idw #taao #mtmte #exrid #my works #long post for ts

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femslashex · 5 years

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Nominations - Clarification Post 1

Posted by: shopfront Our first full pass through the queue has been completed, if your nominations were made before today and are not either covered below or already in the tagset drop us a comment. Please check the rules and guidelines before nominating! Thank you to everyone who has been submitting correctly, it makes things much quicker for us. We have been correcting things where we easily can so far, but we will stop approving incorrect nominations if they continue to increase in frequency. In particular:

check your franchise against the shared universe list! Star Trek, Doctor Who, Dragon Age, and a few other franchises seem to be particularly prone. If your relationships need to be split between fandom tags based on the above list your nominations won't be approved until they're submitted under the correct fandoms

Crossovers submitted under a single fandom or submitted without fandom details won't be approved until they've been edited or moved under the correct fandom of Crossovers - Fandom

OFC ships should not be requested using canonical plural tags. We will continue to assume pairings are intended if we're correcting the tag, but please use either [Canon Character]/Original Female Character or [Canon Character]/Original Female Character/Original Female Character(/etc. for however many characters you want) for poly.

Fandoms that require clarification:

DC Extended Universe - has been nominated and the tags appear at first glance to align with the current movieverse. Is this a better tag than DC Cinematic Universe for some reason, does it refer to another branch of DC (eg. comics) we aren't aware of, or has it been nominated in error? we will used Extended instead of Cinematic for the movieverse going forward, anything already nominated under Cinematic will be combined

Fallout: New Vegas - has been combined with Fallout (Video Games), drop us a comment if you disagree and want to discuss Fallout

Fire Emblem Series - Fire Emblem has usually been approved under separate fandoms, is there a case for shared universe/combining? If not, can the nominator for Series please alter their nominations to be specific.

She-Ra - we're assuming the 2018 reboot should be kept separate to the original, but can fans confirm or deny we've got that right before we start approving?

Tomb Raider - last year Tomb Raider & Related Fandoms was nominated, this year Tomb Raider (Video Games) in the queue. Should the fandom be split because of the movies or should it be combined again this year?

X-Men Comics - X-Men Evolution has been approved, can the X-Men Comicsverse nominator separate by universe according to the Marvel Comics shared universe rule

拝啓、兄さん様 | Haikei Niisan-sama | Dear Brother (Manga) - pairings nominated under this fandom all appear to be linked to the fandom Oniisama E, can anyone confirm whether these are the same fandom?

Pairings that require clarification:

Crossovers - can the nominators for: Lara Croft/Diana, Peggy Carter/Diana, Jubilation Lee/Dawn Summers, Kimberly Hart/Jubilation Lee, Mona Wu/Jane Austen, and Rani Chandra/Charlie, please alter their nominations to add fandoms or specify which version of each character they want. If the nominator of Hermione Granger/Mildred Hubble also wanted a particular version of Mildred, drop us a comment

Dragonriders of Pern - Anne McCaffrey - Original Bronze Rider: bronze riders appear to be all male characters, can the nominator provide more information on eligibility or do we need to alter the tag to specify OFC?

Good Omens (TV) - Crowley/Sappho: does Sappho appear in the show or is inferred to have met the characters at some point, or should this be moved to Crossovers?

I Claudius - Livia Drusilla/Any is ineligible. Please specify which characters you want in the ship

Marathon (Video Games) - Leela/Re'eer: Re'eer appears to use male pronouns, can the nominator provide more information on eligibility?

Ocean's 8 - Daphne Kluger/Everyone is ineligible. Please specify which characters you want in the ship

The Only Harmless Great Thing - Brooke Bolander - can the nominator confirm whether there's only one Translator (is it Topsy's translator?) or whether we need to alter the tag to be more specific

Star Trek: Classic - Gaila/Nyota was nominated under Classic. Did the nominator intend the inferred character Prime Gaila, or should it be moved to crossovers?

The X-Files - Dana Scully/Clarice Starling has been nominated under X-Files instead of as a crossover, please alter your nomination

If anything appears to be rejected on your nominations page, please check the tagset to see if a duplicate was approved. If something isn't in the tagset and was rejected in error please let us know! Or if you spot duplicates or anything else odd, drop us a note so we can check it. Click here to nominate some more femslash. Nominations will remain open until 9pm EDT, 11 September, 2019. comments from Femslash Exchange https://ift.tt/2klSIuA via IFTTT

#IFTTT #Femslash Exchange

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reluming · 7 years

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Black Sails Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Miranda Barlow/Max Characters: Max (Black Sails), Miranda Barlow, Captain Flint (Black Sails) Additional Tags: Vaginal Fingering, Vaginal Sex, Strap-Ons, Dildos, Oral Sex, Face-Sitting, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, Pre-Series, Femslash February Summary:

Sick of being alone and doing nothing, Miranda heads into Nassau one day and hears a delectable French accent that she simply can't resist.

@vowel-in-thug asked for Max/Miranda and I wrote it :D

#femslash february #black sails #bsmax #miranda barlow #a shameless pwp wherein i make my two fave ladies interact and fuck :D #this is so self indulgent aksjdkfjdkf #miranda quotes sappho #and as a rarepair enthusiast i do so love being the first person to use a ship tag on ao3 #me: *hides from how stressful s4 is by writing ridiculous pre-series f/f about two characters who have never met*#anyway enjoy :D #my fic

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prevsapphism · 7 years

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200 FOLLOWERS? SAPPHO ALMIGHTY !

i began the first version of this blog way back in 2013( ? ) under the url @treadliightly, with an original cast of eight, rebooted it as @whatdoprettygirlsdo a year or two later, and finally, became sapphiism, the glittery neon pink lesbian cacophony you all know and love, in october of 2016. i cannot thank you all enough for all the interactions, relationships ( both in character and out, ) and most of all support, ive received on my multimuse!!!!!! heres to many more years of fuschia femslash!!!!!!

( oh, and let’s not talk about the cover. Graphic Design Is My Passion. )

♕ THE RHINESTONES ! ♕

@mxdam / @vorcotec / @womanquite : you were the first New Connection i made when i rebooted this blog, w karen. you made me feel so welcome within minutes of meeting you and i super admire how devoted you r to all ya muses, no matter how much they elude you. youre a fantastic roleplayer and im always immediately floored by the imagery and depth in ya replies, meme responses and canons. you r so talented, funny and so SO kind and im so lucky to call you my friend and b mutuals w you everywhere!!!!! i love you SO much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (◠‿◠✿) ♥

@monstricidal : you were another new connection i made on this blog. you also have enormous depth and imagery to everything you create, and every time you put up a canon or your thoughts on alanas storyline, i rush to go look at it– alana deserved so much better than what she was given in canon, and you definitely do her all the justice in the world and put nbc To Shame. nobody loves sea creatures more than us and id like to keep it that way. i love you kat!!!!!!!!!!!!

@mistressnorth : im so glad i looked into emerald city and decided to follow you. like i said in the tags earlier, ive never even seen the show properly, but you and rabbit made me feel like ive seen it all. you put SO MUCH into glinda, and it shows– your writing is exceptional, and so r your themes and icons!!!! that you made yourself!!!!! wow!!!!! you rlly rlly care about your Glittery Ivory Space Rock. i love you SO MUCH ducky and i always look forward to hearing from you on skype ( when my notifications there arent getting eaten ) and im Privileged to have you on our dash on a Day 2 Day Basis. (◠‿◠✿)

@bestvictim : you’re one of the oldest connections i have on this blog, and im so happy you never seem to get sick of me no matter how Extra i get in ya asks or replies! you’ve stuck around through all three of this blog ive had, and although tegan is my favourite moth monster, ive thoroughly enjoyed all your portrayals i love you!!!!!!!

@fracturedportrait : princess harmony!!!!!!! youre another old connection whom i also adore. i love you so much and your val is one of the best vampire ocs ive ever seen and your jake never fails to make me smile. youre one of my partners in monochrome colour palette crime and im so glad youve stuck w me thru all my reboots!

♕ PINKSQUAD ! ♕

@foulmouthpiece ☆NESSSS im endlessly fascinated w millie shes one of the coolest ocs i know of!!!! even if we dont actually roleplay all that often, im so honoured to b mutuals w you and i love seeing you come up on my dash!!!!!

@dvffy ☆ first of all WOW im so proud of you!!!!! authoring a book series!!!!! making all ya graphics!!!!!! having not JUST an oc b the subject of ya blog but like 700 other deuteragonists that YOU MADE AND their relationships with one another b a huge part of ya blog too!! the pink universe is an entire world of its own and i am so glad youve included me to witness it and see [ parts of ] it unfold. i love you so much venture!!!!! youre super cool!!

♕ THE CONFETTI ! ♕

☆ @battleincarnate ☆ @animakerma ☆ @heartsevered / @riverworn / @valentinoworn / @motherprevailed ☆ @pontia ☆ @xthebitchisbackx / @msjanebond ☆ @flaxsturbation ☆ @blowejob ☆ @inmultis ☆ @murderchased ☆ @idoless ☆ @bardolctry ☆ @biologicalengineer / @willowbound ☆ @psyclownsis ☆ @allmom ☆ @herateleia / @debuendiente / @blesscdones ☆ @ofdeomnes / @ofvainglcrious / @ncvermerciful / @scngvinary ☆ @nimueries ☆ @faywitch ☆ @flxbber ☆ @hollowgale ☆ @aegisframed ☆ @evphrasie ☆ @tanrisal ☆ @conclaved / @fratricidal ☆ @galxhxd ☆ @perusine ☆ @gammaorioniis / @outofdxpth / @oculariium / @requiemsrepertoire ☆ @untclds ☆ @bxthory / @neverkncws / @blondeslave ☆

and everybody else!!!!!! i love you all so so much and im glad youre here!!!!! (◠‿◠✿) ♥♥

#this is mine #not that anybodys gna steal that shit graphic anyway lol #⚢ ♡ mondo mama brains!! ( ooc. )#⚢ ♡ dentist says i need a crown i’m like ‘i know!!' ( queen morgaine personal post. )#but hey look who got pixlr to work!

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femslashrevolution · 7 years

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On friendship, platonic love and acceptance: a defence of 'Gal Pals'

This post is part of Femslash Revolution’s I Am Femslash series, sharing voices of F/F creators from all walks of life. The views represented within are those of the author only.

As a queer creator and a femslash fan as well, I’ve been around Tumblr quite a lot and I’ve been involved in more than a few fandoms. Throughout the time I’ve spent lurking around the net, looking for good content I’ve noticed delight an increasing tendency of including bisexual, pansexual, asexual, transsexual girls and even non-binary sapphic people within the femslash community. Nothing could make me more delighted to see so many people and so many lovely fellow fans and creators being so open minded and actively promoting their opinion with their posts. Basking in this loving acceptance has been an important starting point for me personally to discover and get more accustomed to the various reaches of the sexuality and gender spectrum, most of which I have never even been aware of before creating a Tumblr profile. The variety of representation the femslash universe has introduced me to will never fail to amaze and delight me: women of ever shape, colour and size from every ethnicity conceivable, both from our world and from fictitious ones, great interpretations of existing characters as well as compelling original characters… You name it, we have it. And if we don’t, you share it and we’ll love it.

There’s one thing that still seems to carry a heavy stigma in the community (at least, as far as my experience goes), and that thing is platonic relationships. Now, don’t get me wrong, I understand the frustration derived from lack or queer representation in the media and the need to fill in the void ourselves. And I’m totally on board with that (in fact, it’s something I’ve been doing myself for quite a long time now). However, I have come across some genuine words of frustration and intolerance about friendship between two women (queer or not) not being worthy of being called ‘femslash’. I’m not going to delve into discussions about labels, what I want to discuss is why platonic love shouldn’t be treated with such disdain. I will try to explain my point through my personal experience.

The first femslash experience (and my ‘rite of passage’ into the world of femslash, if you will) happened when I was 15, long before coming to terms with my own sexuality and coming to the conclusion that I did indeed liked girls. I had read ‘The Count of Montecristo’ (which I highly recommend if you’re into stories of injustice and revenge served cold, by the way) and, on the spot, being focused on the main plot, hadn’t realized the ongoing romance between Eugenie Danglas and Louise D’Armilly (yes, it has canon lesbians too, go read it!!) which I had only considered to be simply really good friends. I only noticed afterwards, when someone made me notice a reference to Sappho that had somehow eluded me at the first read. I remember finding myself quite intrigued and rather troubled by the thought of the two being together in a romantic way for reasons that are quite clear now but were very confused back then. I felt so uneasy about this discovery that I actually decided to cope with my feelings by writing about it. I feel like I should explain my decision. I have always felt a great connection with written words and often felt the need to deal with things by writing them down, finding that getting into someone else’s head and seeing things though their prospective I could understand different points of views other than my own. So I decided to understand the freaky (in my perception) duo by writing from their point of view. What I wrote ended up being my first femslash fanfiction and one of the few pieces from my teen age I can still say to be quite proud of. That fan fiction has an important emotional value for me, since it was only through it that I could overcome the sting of internalised homophobia that was starting to bubble up inside me and destroy it at its root. After writing it I felt like I’d understood and accepted a kind of relationship I had never really stopped to think about. But I was only able to get around to accept it because I started my journey to understanding from a feeling I could already relate to: platonic love.

As I said before, I had only seen Eugenia and Louise as really close friends, just as close and me and my best friend are with each other, which is why suddenly seeing our surrogate selves’ relationship shift so radically had shocked me so. On the other hand, it was only by approaching the thought of a homoerotic relationship between the two characters as a friendship that went the ‘extra mile’ that I could get around the idea of them being queer. I know it sounds weird to say, but that’s actually how it happened for me. I saw differences and similarities between real friendship and romantic relationship and came to one answer to explain both, though in different ways: love.

I have asked myself multiple questions about my relationship with my friends as I was coming to terms with my sexuality and how I actually felt about them, especially about my relationship with my best friend: was I in love with her? Did I want her in a different way? And after a while, I just came to the peaceful conclusion that I simply love her in a way that’s different from the way I’d love a sister and different from the way I’d love a girlfriend. Do I think highly of her, do I think she’d deserving of someone who’d love her just as much as I do? Do I think of ourselves together at different stages in life, in different places, in different situations, together for as long as our time on Earth will permit us? Yes. Am I just in ‘the friendzone’? Absolutely not! There’s nothing one-sided about this. I love her and she loves me back in the same way. We just don’t have sex, but that’s about it. ’It’s just platonic’: so what? Does that mean it’s not love? Absolutely not. We’re just two girls in love, in our own way. Love is never ‘just platonic’, love is never ‘just’ anything: it’s just love.

You can think of it as a sort of peculiar asexual, poly-amorous relationship, if it helps accepting it as a legitimate emotional bond between two girls. It’s a romance of hearts and minds, not of bodies. It shouldn’t be stigmatized as ‘just platonic’, as if it’s anything less than any other kind of love.

Furthermore, friendship it’s an experience that more people can relate to. It’s easier to get to understand homoerotic relationships for people who haven’t experienced starting from friendship. Of course, it can be uncomfortable to think about at first, if one compares an homoerotic relationship to their friendship. But what if we do this comparison the other way round, comparing a homoerotic relationship to a real, intimate friendship. It’s so much easier to realise the only difference between the two is just sex. It’s the best way to see love shine through something unknown and help ourselves relate with each other, whatever gender, inclination or sexuality we feel it’s our own.

Love is always the key.

BornFreak

About the Author: 20 years old, originally from Italy, currently living abroad, proudly queer since 2014

#scribble freak #bornfreak #I Am Femslash #Femslash February #Femslash February 2017 #Type: Meta #submission

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