Femslash Ficathon 2011!

femslash12 is finally open for business! As always, it starts with a pre-poll. We need your suggestions for fandoms to include on the list. Comment here with your favorite new femslash fandom. And watch the new comm for further Femslash Ficathon updates.

Normally, this would be the time of year when we would have a Femslash '12. Actually, two months ago would have been when we would have gotten started with polling, and in most years, you would have your assignments by now. As you may or may not have noticed, none of that has happened this year.

callmesandy and I have both been insanely busy with Real Life this summer. It's mostly good things - very good things in my case - but work, family, and friends have been the priorities for both of us this year. We don't have the time or energy to run a big ficathon this summer. We were so busy that we literally forgot until early June, which is when people started asking us where Femslash '12 was. That's awesome; we hadn't realized that so many people look forward to this ficathon.

We hope fervently that things will calm down for at least one of us shortly, and that we'll be able to run Femslash '12 in the fall. If so, we'll start polling in late August or early September, and we'll make sure the due dates are early enough not to interfere with Yuletide.

Several people have volunteered to help out with the ficathon. You guys are awesome. We will totally call on you when we get our own acts together.

callmesandy and I discussed handing the reins over to someone else completely, but we decided we're really attached to Femslash [Year] and aren't comfortable transferring it to other mods. However, if you can't wait until fall and you want to run your own exchange/promptathon/disco hoedown, we will not feel our toes have been stepped on. (We will probably even sign up.)

Thank you to everyone who has expressed concern or asked questions! You've pushed us to see that this ficathon is still important, relevant, and fun, and you've made us want to find a way to keep doing it.

Title: 'Free Games for May'
Author: corchen
Recipient: perfect_pride
Rating: PG
Word count: 5,748
Fandom: Devil Wears Prada
Pairing/Characters: Miranda/Emily
Summary: Emily is in dire need of some downtime. For some unknown reason (wink wink, nudge nudge), Miranda decides that she's the one to make sure that she gets it.
Author's Note: I hope that this was worth the wait – I know that waiting for a pinch-hit sucks, so I did my extra-best with this one. I was originally shooting for angst, but I'm afraid they weren't co-operating and it's come out more fluff than angst, and a little more subtle on the slash front than I had intended. It's set somewhere in the region of six months post-movie, as the plot seemed to work best that way. (Also, there is a bonus silly cross-over.)
Warnings: None
Disclaimer: They're not mine, I'm just borrowing them – I promise to wipe them down and put them back once I'm done with them.

( 'You may be very fetching but I would rather not have you as a permanent addition to my office decor.'Collapse )

Title: Balance Beam
Author: cjmarlowe
Recipient: corchen
Fandom: Warehouse 13
Pairing: Helena/Myka
Rating: R
Word count: ~1500 words

Disclaimer: Neither Warehouse 13 nor its characters belong to me. Written for love, not money. No copyright infringement intended.
Warnings: No applicable warnings.

Summary: Myka doesn't always have every step under control.

"This is beautiful," said Myka, pulling a sheer blouse out of the trunk and holding it out at arm's length so that the light from the open window glowed through it. "You have excellent taste."

"I have eccentric taste that just happens to match the current fashions," said Helena, glancing over and smiling a little, privately, like there was a secret hidden in her words or the sunshine. "I stole that one."

W13 FIC :: "Can't" [Myka/Helena, PG13]

Title: Can't
Author: A. Magiluna Stormwriter
Author’s Email: stormwriter@shatterstorm.net
Pairing: Myka/Helena
Rating: PG13 for language
Date Written: 24-25 August 2011
Word Count: 1215
Written for: femslash11
Recipient: corchen
Summary: A stream of consciousness foray into Myka's thoughts after the second season finale.
Spoilers: The entirety of the HG Wells storyline is fair game, but specifically this takes place in Episode 03x01 "The New Guy", between *Pete showing up at the bookstore and Hg's appearance at the end of the episode*.
Warning: No standard warnings apply.
Website: ShatterStorm Productions – Doggie Duo
Link to: http://bdkk.shatterstorm.net/
Archive: ShatterStorm Productions only…all others ask for permission & we'll see…

Disclaimer: “Warehouse 13,” the characters and situations depicted are the property of Universal Cable Productions, Universal Media Studios, and SciFi. This piece of fan fiction was created for entertainment not monetary purposes. Previously unrecognized characters and places, and this story, are copyrighted to the author. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author. This site is in no way affiliated with "Warehouse 13", SciFi, or any representative of the actors.

Author's Notes: First things first… Yes, I listed the network as SciFi in my disclaimer. The name they changed to is stupid, and I refuse to use it. Anyway, this last minute pinch hit was my first time writing in this fandom, and I'm still pondering if it worked out quite the way I was originally thinking of doing it. And yet, I kind of like this whole stream of consciousness style of writing this piece. There are no guarantees I'll play in this particular sandbox again. Just sayin'…

All dialogue in ~italics~ is internal thoughts.

Dedication: my muses, as always…

Beta: Many thanks to shatterpath for the last minute beta. Any errors remaining are solely my fault.

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"Can't"
By A. Magiluna Stormwriter


Why did Pete have to show up again? He should have just left things alone.

Title: Simple Observations
Author: templemarker
Recipient: firefly124
Fandom: Doctor Who (2009)
Pairing: Vastra/Jenny
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 1100
Disclaimer: Not mine.
Warnings: N/A
Notes: Occurs following 6x07, "A Good Man Goes to War." Thanks to samjohnsson for being the Wonder Beta. This story is also available on DW.

( 'Here you are, ma'am,' Jenny said, as careful and prim as if a dozen watching eyes were upon them. Vastra quashed a smile, choosing instead to take a sip of her tea. Lady Grey, with the dash of arsenic that gave it such a pleasant spice to the tongue. Jenny was so terribly good to her. Collapse )

Title: 'For we may die tomorrow'
Author: corchen
Recipient: ambyr at Dreamwidth
Rating: PG
Word count: 1,078
Fandom: Tortall-verse
Pairing/Characters: Thayet/Buri
Summary: Buri thinks about past times.
Author's Note: When this one popped into my in-box I just had to pounce on it – rare fandoms are my weakness and it doesn't get much rarer than this! This is set a little before the Immortals Quartet, so Thayet is still Commander of the Queen's Riders with Buri as her second.
Warnings: None
Disclaimer: They're not mine, I'm just borrowing them – I promise to wipe them down and put them back once I'm done with them.

( Time spent with the Riders, away from Court, just her and Thayet in the Commanders tent of an evening, always reminded Buri of those days while they were escaping from Saraine.Collapse )

Title: Insider Trading
Author: templemarker
Recipient: tellitslant
Fandom: The Good Wife
Pairing: Kalinda/Lana
Rating: R
Word count: 1100
Disclaimer: Not mine.
Warnings: N/A
Notes: Thanks to the inimitible samjohnsson, the Wonder Beta. This story is also available on DW.

( Kalinda wasn't sure what turned on Lana more: the idea that Kalinda would say no and Lana had to work to convince her otherwise; or the idea that Kalinda would say yes and Lana would get her satisfaction. Collapse )

Title: She's got no future (just a life to endure)
Author: mosca
Fandom: True Blood
Pairing: Pam/Jessica
Rating: hard R, about as explicit as the show
Warnings: None standard
Spoilers: Through "Spellbound," with speculation of events later this season.
Summary: Jessica turns up at Pam's door again, and Pam knows what her next move is.
Word count: about 1600.
Disclaimers: True Blood is the intellectual property of HBO and Your Face Goes Here. This original work of fan fiction is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License; attribution should include a link to this post. This story is a labor of love, not money, so it's protected in the USA by the fair use provisions of the Copyright Act of 1976.
Notes: Thanks to thistle90 for beta reading. Written for consumedly, who totally inspired me with this pairing request. Title is from "The Ghost Inside" by Broken Bells.

She's got no future (just a life to endure)

Title: Fifty-First Century Girl
Author: lokifan
Recipient: eruthros
Fandom: Doctor Who
Characters/pairings: Martha/Amy (background Martha/Mickey and Amy/Rory)
Rating: NC-17
Word count: ~2500
Warnings: Semi-open relationships
Disclaimer: The boys and girls belong to the BBC, even though I’m often much nicer to them than they are.
Summary: Amy is a twenty-first century girl. Martha thinks Jack has possibly been a bad influence. Set during New Who S6.
Author’s Notes: Both my hard-drive and me fucked up a bit here, so I basically ended up pinch-hitting for myself -- apologies to the mods and the extremely brilliant eruthros, and thank you to the marvellous teenageworrier for the speedy beta! Despite the stress, writing this utterly plotless smut was fun, and hopefully that comes across :)

( Fifty-First Century GirlCollapse )