Dear Femslashex Creator Letter
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alwaystheoceanDear Femslashex Creator,
First of all, thank you so much for writing me a story, I cannot wait to see what you come up with!
Second of all, I am much more interested in reading a story you want to tell than in one tailored exactly to the stuff below, I write the kind of letter I want from my recipient, so if it's not helpful feel free to disregard! This is more throwing stuff at the wall and seeing what sticks, if that makes sense? Optional details are optional and all that.
(I confess the above and below is straight-up lifted from previous letters as my tastes don't seem to change v much these days.)
Squicks: I’m not the biggest fan of dark fic and angst, by which I mean a lot of angst and misery with no point to it, just as an end in and of itself. I think characters having difficulties and there being some sort of resolution or at least a bittersweet/hopeful outcome is fine, but unrelenting woe, less so. Incest is also a no for me, likewise rape and non-con/dubcon, and uneven power dynamics and emotional manipulation, abuse and violence. (When I say uneven power dynamics, I don't mean in a kinky way, that's fine, like if it's negotiated and something they're both into that's *awesome*, but like emotionally unhealthy/abusive dynamics, less so?) I’m not a huge fan of major character death either, at least for the stuff I've requested. I'm also not a fan of paedophilia, bestiality, and necrophilia.
Yays: I love fluff, found families, particularly if it features unconventional family units and polyamory. Always OT3s, never love triangles, etc. (On that note, I really hate cheating/being unfaithful.) Basically, openness and communication are always better than miscommunications and shenanigans.
I also *love* hurt/comfort so much I can't even. Light on hurt, high on comfort. I am totally ridiculous with this trope.
Humour/banter/silliness. I’m pretty happy with any rating. If you have the urge to write 1k of PWP, feel free. If that's the idea you have, I'd say go with whatever you see the characters as being into! Personally I end up reading stories featuring d/s and bondage. I do tend to read more fic where people talk about their feeeelings but porn/NC17/PWP is also awesome.
This is less applicable to this exchange but as a data point, I love backstory fic, character studies, gen fic, seeing how characters interact and what makes them friends/lovers/whatever they are to each other. Stuff that shows why they're close, being perceptive of each others' needs, small kindnesses, low-key hanging out.
I love all sorts of tropes like stuck in an elevator, now we have to talk about our feeeeelings. Or shag. Or like going on missions/adventures together. Spy shenanigans and dressing up shenanigans are also great.
Also a quick note on -isms, pinched with permission from a friend's letter: I don't mind if sexism, racism, ableism are portrayed in fic as long as they're dealt with. For example, it's OK if someone thinks Character A can't do something because she's a girl, as long as the story as a whole clearly doesn't agree!
Critical Role - Beauregard/Jester, Beauregard/Jester/Yasha, Jester/Yasha, Beauregard/Yasha, Keyleth/Vex'ahlia, Pike Trickfoot/Vex'ahlia/Keyleth, Zahra Hydris/Vex'ahlia, Zahra Hydris/Vex'ahlia/Keyleth
I STILL love this show so much, just as much as I did this time last year. IDEK, man. *SQUISHES I*
I would be so happy to receive any of these pairings. Also, I have a lot of poly headcanons for this show, particularly for Vox Machina, so really if it's happy poly I'm open to additions beyond the specific mixes requested above, if that's your jam. So long as they're featured prominently still if that makes sense?
I'm also perfectly happy with Vex and Keyleth's canon het ships so it's fine if those are still a thing in the background, but equally, this is a femslash exchange and femslash is my jam, so y'know. ;D (I actually deeply ship Percy and the half-elves as a policule sans incest on the twins' part but that's by the by.)
Even though it's been a while now since I finished Vox Machina's campaign, I still don't have a HUGE amount of interest in post-campaign fic that deals heavily with Vax's death. I realise this probably isn't a problem for this exchange, but I've found I'm definitely still not ready to read fic coping with that. TBF this isn't a hard nope, if you've got a post-campaign femslash story post-campaign story you want to tell, I want to hear it.
I ADORE stuff that folds into canon while the campaign is going.
Other than that I'd be so happy with anything you wanted to write. This fandom seems to like PWP and kink and that's A+ in my book, but so is every other rating. All the general stuff I said above applies, really, I love hurt/comfort, also huddling for warmth, also sharing a bed. All sorts of fun tropes about adventuring together apply to all these pairings. I LOVE how both parties are either a found family or starting to become one.
With the Mighty Nein, I LOVE seeing them become a family, I love what shit shows they are. I'd love seeing your take on how any of the above get together. Whether you'd rather deal with all the angst they've all got flying around re Yasha or ignore it and write happy stuff later on, I'm here for either.
Critical Role (RPF) - Laura Bailey/Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, Laura Bailey/Ashley Johnson/Marisha Ray, Laura Bailey/Ashley Johnson, Erika Ishii/Marisha Ray, Mica Burton/Marisha Ray, Laura Bailey/Marisha Ray, Ashley Johnson/Marisha Ray, Ashly Burch/Marisha Ray
So I'm still, um, coming to terms, shall we say, with this being a thing I want (and request and offer in exchanges no less), so that's a thing. (Insert eye-dart/side-eye emojis here.)
Which is in no way a reflection on my feelings on RPF, but the mixed feelings are making it a bit hard to articulate what I want here. Which isn't terribly helpful! Or alternatively super helpful, feel free to take it as carte blanche for any story you have in you for this fandom? Essentially I love the CR RPF fandom but think it needs more femslash, so anything you write will be EXCELLENT, I'm sure.
Some prompts to throw around: I love Erika and Marisha's cuddly instagram posts, and the fact they visit Cloak and Dagger together. I love that they all clearly hang out a lot outside of playing D&D together, pre-, post- or during game shenanigans would be A+, as well as outside of D&D. The fact they all live at the studio is also A+. Mixing in-game and out of game feelings also cool, like how their characters are flirty and how that spills over. Conversations about how to handle on-screen shipping. Travelling to cons together, Burning Man.
Steerswoman - Rosemary Kirstein - Bel/Rowan
Gah, I ship them SO MUCH OMG. I can't get over how queer their friendship already is in the books, particularly book 4. I would LOVE fic exploring how they take that step from friendship to romance (friends to lovers is a trope I adore).
This is actually also a pairing where PWP would be great though. I don't know what kinks they might be into, if any, but I'd be interested in your take on that!
Or future fic of them as a couple, or like, slice of life of them on the road together, or any kind of tropey ridiculousness. (Hurt/comfort! Huddling for warmth! Sharing a bed!)
Plotty stuff speculating how the story post book 4 might go would also be good, or something set in the Outskirts, or just a random adventure, maybe on a boat.
I adore the way they work together and complement each other, and how quickly they bonded, so stuff about that would also be wonderful.
Anyway, thank you again for making me a thing, I can't wait to read it!
First of all, thank you so much for writing me a story, I cannot wait to see what you come up with!
Second of all, I am much more interested in reading a story you want to tell than in one tailored exactly to the stuff below, I write the kind of letter I want from my recipient, so if it's not helpful feel free to disregard! This is more throwing stuff at the wall and seeing what sticks, if that makes sense? Optional details are optional and all that.
(I confess the above and below is straight-up lifted from previous letters as my tastes don't seem to change v much these days.)
Squicks: I’m not the biggest fan of dark fic and angst, by which I mean a lot of angst and misery with no point to it, just as an end in and of itself. I think characters having difficulties and there being some sort of resolution or at least a bittersweet/hopeful outcome is fine, but unrelenting woe, less so. Incest is also a no for me, likewise rape and non-con/dubcon, and uneven power dynamics and emotional manipulation, abuse and violence. (When I say uneven power dynamics, I don't mean in a kinky way, that's fine, like if it's negotiated and something they're both into that's *awesome*, but like emotionally unhealthy/abusive dynamics, less so?) I’m not a huge fan of major character death either, at least for the stuff I've requested. I'm also not a fan of paedophilia, bestiality, and necrophilia.
Yays: I love fluff, found families, particularly if it features unconventional family units and polyamory. Always OT3s, never love triangles, etc. (On that note, I really hate cheating/being unfaithful.) Basically, openness and communication are always better than miscommunications and shenanigans.
I also *love* hurt/comfort so much I can't even. Light on hurt, high on comfort. I am totally ridiculous with this trope.
Humour/banter/silliness. I’m pretty happy with any rating. If you have the urge to write 1k of PWP, feel free. If that's the idea you have, I'd say go with whatever you see the characters as being into! Personally I end up reading stories featuring d/s and bondage. I do tend to read more fic where people talk about their feeeelings but porn/NC17/PWP is also awesome.
This is less applicable to this exchange but as a data point, I love backstory fic, character studies, gen fic, seeing how characters interact and what makes them friends/lovers/whatever they are to each other. Stuff that shows why they're close, being perceptive of each others' needs, small kindnesses, low-key hanging out.
I love all sorts of tropes like stuck in an elevator, now we have to talk about our feeeeelings. Or shag. Or like going on missions/adventures together. Spy shenanigans and dressing up shenanigans are also great.
Also a quick note on -isms, pinched with permission from a friend's letter: I don't mind if sexism, racism, ableism are portrayed in fic as long as they're dealt with. For example, it's OK if someone thinks Character A can't do something because she's a girl, as long as the story as a whole clearly doesn't agree!
Critical Role - Beauregard/Jester, Beauregard/Jester/Yasha, Jester/Yasha, Beauregard/Yasha, Keyleth/Vex'ahlia, Pike Trickfoot/Vex'ahlia/Keyleth, Zahra Hydris/Vex'ahlia, Zahra Hydris/Vex'ahlia/Keyleth
I STILL love this show so much, just as much as I did this time last year. IDEK, man. *SQUISHES I*
I would be so happy to receive any of these pairings. Also, I have a lot of poly headcanons for this show, particularly for Vox Machina, so really if it's happy poly I'm open to additions beyond the specific mixes requested above, if that's your jam. So long as they're featured prominently still if that makes sense?
I'm also perfectly happy with Vex and Keyleth's canon het ships so it's fine if those are still a thing in the background, but equally, this is a femslash exchange and femslash is my jam, so y'know. ;D (I actually deeply ship Percy and the half-elves as a policule sans incest on the twins' part but that's by the by.)
Even though it's been a while now since I finished Vox Machina's campaign, I still don't have a HUGE amount of interest in post-campaign fic that deals heavily with Vax's death. I realise this probably isn't a problem for this exchange, but I've found I'm definitely still not ready to read fic coping with that. TBF this isn't a hard nope, if you've got a post-campaign femslash story post-campaign story you want to tell, I want to hear it.
I ADORE stuff that folds into canon while the campaign is going.
Other than that I'd be so happy with anything you wanted to write. This fandom seems to like PWP and kink and that's A+ in my book, but so is every other rating. All the general stuff I said above applies, really, I love hurt/comfort, also huddling for warmth, also sharing a bed. All sorts of fun tropes about adventuring together apply to all these pairings. I LOVE how both parties are either a found family or starting to become one.
With the Mighty Nein, I LOVE seeing them become a family, I love what shit shows they are. I'd love seeing your take on how any of the above get together. Whether you'd rather deal with all the angst they've all got flying around re Yasha or ignore it and write happy stuff later on, I'm here for either.
Critical Role (RPF) - Laura Bailey/Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, Laura Bailey/Ashley Johnson/Marisha Ray, Laura Bailey/Ashley Johnson, Erika Ishii/Marisha Ray, Mica Burton/Marisha Ray, Laura Bailey/Marisha Ray, Ashley Johnson/Marisha Ray, Ashly Burch/Marisha Ray
So I'm still, um, coming to terms, shall we say, with this being a thing I want (and request and offer in exchanges no less), so that's a thing. (Insert eye-dart/side-eye emojis here.)
Which is in no way a reflection on my feelings on RPF, but the mixed feelings are making it a bit hard to articulate what I want here. Which isn't terribly helpful! Or alternatively super helpful, feel free to take it as carte blanche for any story you have in you for this fandom? Essentially I love the CR RPF fandom but think it needs more femslash, so anything you write will be EXCELLENT, I'm sure.
Some prompts to throw around: I love Erika and Marisha's cuddly instagram posts, and the fact they visit Cloak and Dagger together. I love that they all clearly hang out a lot outside of playing D&D together, pre-, post- or during game shenanigans would be A+, as well as outside of D&D. The fact they all live at the studio is also A+. Mixing in-game and out of game feelings also cool, like how their characters are flirty and how that spills over. Conversations about how to handle on-screen shipping. Travelling to cons together, Burning Man.
Steerswoman - Rosemary Kirstein - Bel/Rowan
Gah, I ship them SO MUCH OMG. I can't get over how queer their friendship already is in the books, particularly book 4. I would LOVE fic exploring how they take that step from friendship to romance (friends to lovers is a trope I adore).
This is actually also a pairing where PWP would be great though. I don't know what kinks they might be into, if any, but I'd be interested in your take on that!
Or future fic of them as a couple, or like, slice of life of them on the road together, or any kind of tropey ridiculousness. (Hurt/comfort! Huddling for warmth! Sharing a bed!)
Plotty stuff speculating how the story post book 4 might go would also be good, or something set in the Outskirts, or just a random adventure, maybe on a boat.
I adore the way they work together and complement each other, and how quickly they bonded, so stuff about that would also be wonderful.
Anyway, thank you again for making me a thing, I can't wait to read it!
