Okay, fandom, I tried to find a fanfic for this Friday to recommend, but I like to give a variety of different fanfics when I post. This means I try to recommend various fandoms and pairings, or no pairings. I have tried to suggest fanfics that are slash fics, het fics, and gen fics, and this week all I wanted to do was introduce you, dear reader, to an awesome femslash fanfic. Finding good femslash fics, or any at all for that matter, is as hard as trying to find diamonds in Minecraft.
I have been searching the internet for weeks, but alas it does not appear to be a feasible quest. Granted, I am limited in my search because I am only looking for femslash in fandoms I know and love. One of the fandoms I have been searching for femslash in, however, is Batman. Why is no one writing Harley Quinn/Poison Ivy fanfiction? Come on fandom, it’s practically canon!
I always found it strange that there was never much femslash in fandom, but maybe I’m just looking in the wrong place. So I have decided to ask you, the reader, for your help.
Comment below and tell me why you think there isn’t as much femslash fics compared to slash, het, and even gen fics.
Then, if you know of a good femslash fic, whether it’s yours or someone else’s, link it below and I may review it at the beginning of next month.
Supernatural introduced an awesome lesbian character who thinks Black Widow is hot. And she is played by Felicia Day! Where is the fic, fandom?
What makes a good femslash fic?
- There must be plot. I saw a lot of femslash stories that were just porn with little to no substance and I like to think that there are better fics than that in the world.
- Characters and relationships must be well developed. I think that’s pretty clear.
- The characters must be over 18. It’s great that there are a lot of Glee fanfics, but they’re all in High School and that creeps me out. Let’s make sure all of our characters are adults.
- Grammar should be passable to excellent. If it’s not readable I am not interested.
- No Real Person Fics and no Incest. I would be uncomfortable if people wrote fanfics about me in real life, so no RPFs. And incest is just creepy to me…
Those are the rules. Please follow them and suggest some awesome femslash fics for reviewing!
I could get on board with this pairing.
Homestuck as a fandom is pretty femslash friendly, and SunBreaksDown is my favorite when it comes to the ladies.
Full Throttle – This really requires no knowledge of Homestuck to enjoy – http://archiveofourown.org/works/405621
8r8k h34ds – Unfortunately this one sort of does but is too good for me to not atleast post – http://archiveofourown.org/series/18809
Connect – The sequel to 8r8k h34ds – http://archiveofourown.org/works/398924
I picked these because they are best I could find and they meet all your criteria.
I don’t have any specific fics to recc (‘fraid I am strictly a m/m slash or a gen fic reader) but there are two fandoms that are good for femslash.
QAF (Queer as Folk) – Melanie and Lindsay (They are a canon couple)
XENA – Xena and Gabrielle
I know of one writer whose m/m fic I love in the QAF fandom who has written femslash. I haven’t read those but her other stories are some of the best I have ever read. I will try and find a link to her femslash.
I couldn’t find a link to her Linds/Mel fic but here’s a link to one of Xie’s XENA fics –
http://xie-xie-xie.livejournal.com/75000.html
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Did you really get only 2 comments on this? Man… I wandered into this trying to find some recs of things I haven’t read yet, but now I feel like I need to go back through my reading list and note all the incredible ones. They do exist. Even in Supernatural. And Batman.
There is definitely not the depth of fic as there is in m/m fandom, but let’s blame that on the androcentrism of media in general, and not worry too much.
SPN – Check out the SPN femmeslash bigbang site. One of my faves is “Honey and the Hive Queen.”
For Harley/Ivy, (as well as a bunch of other great fics) Allaine (on ffn) is truly excellent. The fic is very plot-centric and grammatical. For branching out purposes, try “An Unacceptable Sitch,” a Kim Possible fic, but it is post high-school, and actually you can totally read the first ‘volume’ of the series as gen.
Legend of the Seeker is also a really rich femslash fandom. Try “No Fate but What We Make.” And there are even some fusions, like you get with the SPN boys, “Mrs. and Mrs. Mord-Sith” for example (Awesome, sexy & plotty). And “Confession, and other Trouble that a Mord’Sith can get into,” is so excellent.
Of course, I wouldn’t be an arrogant fic writer if I didn’t rec myself, so you know, try “Women of Diamond” and sequels. They’re Emma Frost/Emily Prentiss fic, which some people find to be an instant turn off (crossovers! Oh Noes!) but I have good data that they don’t suffer from a lot of the crossover problems rampant in some areas of the internet.