Femslash Exchange 2017

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Happy femslash time! Whoever you are and whatever canon(s) brought you here, I hope you find this pleasing, rewarding, and low on stress.

The following skirts the lines of TL;DR, but I want to emphasize up front that I am genuinely in love with all of these relationships, as well as desperate for content for them, so anything you produce that doesn't hit my squicks will be A++. Prompts are mostly me throwing wild ideas at the walls and seeing what sticks; if you have something roiling around in your brain you really want to do for these relationships, go for it! In general, all ratings from gen to depraved NC-17 porn are good, and all gender combos are fine for background ships or whatnot.

Any differences in length of section below are due to different numbers of ships per fandom and also writing this piecemeal over a couple days and not because I'm more excited for some canons over others!

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And with that, on to the letter itself!

Likes and Dislikes | The Americans (TV 2013) | 아가씨 | The Handmaiden (2016) | Les liaisons dangereuses | Dangerous Liaisons - Choderlos de Laclos | Rome (TV 2005) | Sherlock (TV)

LIKES AND DISLIKES

Likes: worldbuilding, Holmes/Watson dynamics, undercover work and casefic, bedsharing, huddling for warmth, fake relationships/fake married, bickering and bantering like old marrieds, clothing descriptions (especially period clothing, suits, kilts, tall boots), hands and feet, bathing and cleaning one another, adrenaline junkies and partners in crime, found families, snow/winter/autumn settings, 5+1s/vignettes with some thematic growth/resonance, daemons, clothed sex, frottage/intercrural/nonpenetrative sex, dubcon (sex pollen etc), light/casual BDSM (especially with subby men), topping from the bottom, oral sex, dirty talk, threesomes, masturbation, outdoor sex, voyeurism/exhibitionism

Please no: first or second person POV, pregnancy/childfic, deathfic, angst without some light at the end of the tunnel, horror/gore, character bashing, AUs (except canon divergence, future fic, and daemon AUs), tentacles, body horror/extreme body modification, omegaverse, rape/noncon, bodily fluids/watersports

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THE AMERICANS (TV 2013)

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I love The Americans for so many reasons: the period piece setting, their flawless use of 70s and 80s music, the subtle pisstakes they do of Reagan, the gray morality/use of antiheros, the deliberate blurring of lines and parallels between Americans and Soviets (both legal and illegal) and their relationships with their governments, the action, the black humor, the absurd wigs and costuming. I love Elizabeth in particular: her brutal ideological devotion to the Soviet Union/the idea of communism (and is it cracking at all?), her deadliness, and yet the honest love she's capable of feeling for select others, even if she is overall not a self-aware individual. I’d love to see her relating to other women sexually/romantically in and out of her various spy personas, whether or not she ever considers herself anything but straight or even considers sexuality in anything but instrumental/pragmatic terms. It’s totally fine to mention/explore her canonical rape, though I’d prefer no detailed descriptions of the act itself.

• Elizabeth/Original Female Character: Did Elizabeth have any other women she was close to during her childhood? How about during KGB training? (Did her rape affect her ability to relate to men in anyway that made her explore women instead?) Has she had female marks she’s been expected to use explicitly sexually/romantically while in the US?
  
• Elizabeth/Young-hee:I really loved Young-hee in S4, and I felt so extremely bad for her (never knowing what would become of "Patty") and, yeah, bad for Elizabeth for having to do something she really, aggressively did not want to do there. I loved how you could tell that Elizabeth—Nadezhda—genuinely liked her as a person, not just within the Patty persona, and how it tore tear Elizabeth up, emotionally, while also giving us such a good side character in Young-hee, how they could relate over being immigrants (even though only Elizabeth knew they were both immigrants). Any scenes of their evolving relationship and its duplicity would be fantastic, and feel free to kink hard on the identity fuckery going on here.

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아가씨 | THE HANDMAIDEN (2016)

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I love this lush, sensual, male-gazey movie to hell and back. I loved the setting and worldbuilding, the costumes, the language games (when they speak Korean and when Japanese), the colonial/imperial politics in the background, and all the tropes involved (crossdressing, maids and mistresses, spies/thieves, falling in love with your mark, role reversals, sensuous bathing each other, sex toys/erotica, women working together to fuck over men and free themselves, etc.), amongst so many other things. I'd love pretty much anything with them, although keeping in tone with the movie (especially its overall triumphant ending) would be appreciated.

• Hideko/Sook-hee: God, I love them. More of them bathing each other? Exploring erotica/kinkiness without the male pressure involved? Sook-hee teaching Hideko how to pick pockets or similar? Hideko teaching Sook-hee to read? Them crossdressing again for some reason once they're free? Stolen moments before they escape, like that kiss in the doorway in the movie? What do they do with themselves now that they're free?

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LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES | DANGEROUS LIAISONS - CHODERLOS DE LACLOS

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I love the decadence of the underlying society, the grotesque riches involved, the constant social posturing and boredom that leads to the amoral insanity in the first place, the aesthetics of letter-writing and affairs and disgusting luxury and long hair on men and crazy balls and dresses. Everyone is an actor in an enormous play, with public vs. private personas and vicious stakes hidden underneath the laconic witticisms exchanged, and that is so fun to play with. I particularly love Merteuil, so richly characterized, protofeminist in a sense (her search for agency/respect/revenge) and yet self-serving and horribly wretched toward other women, but I also love and feel bad for Cecile’s earnestness and naivete and find Tourvel’s attempts to find dignity in this world fascinating. I’m familiar with the book, the Frears movie, and the Hampton stage play and like all three, though I’m personally partial toward the Hampton ending when it comes to Merteuil’s specific fate. Epistolary fic, as well as first-person fic, is welcome for this canon, though not at all required, and feel free to use Isabelle and the like as first names if you like, though overall I have no name preferences.

• Cecile/Merteuil: I really love the underlying affection, of a sort, here—though probably the more correct word is “fascination,” describing Merteuil’s amusement at Cecile’s antics until the spell finally breaks and she realizes how comparatively dull (read: moral after all) Cecile is. Any sort of look at Merteuil’s manipulation of her, and Cecile coming to recognize it for what it is or not, is welcome, playing with that pull of fascination and subsumated lust that come out at certain lines in Merteuil’s letters. More fun with them at the opera? Merteuil teaching Cecile sexual practices? Cecile managing to inartfully seduce Merteuil, in a way? Dubcon bordering on outright noncon is fine here, considering how brutal canon is on those points and how badly Merteuil mindfucks Cecile in canon, including Cecile being naive and/or overwhelmed by Merteuil’s experience.
  
• Merteuil/Original Female Character: Surely Merteuil has had some sort of run in with other women before--another young girl she practiced with before they began seeing men? (Sharing beds with other young women?) AU where Merteuil is at a convent (before canon? Or she gets sent there as some sort of penance postcanon?) and becomes involved with another woman there in all sorts of fucked up ways? I’d also love to see a Merteuil (probably younger/precanon in this situation?) who is not as sure of herself yet and gets taken under some other powerful woman’s hand and/or is manipulated by another woman herself and how that might affect her self-development. Or even Merteuil having a relatively egalitarian (though still probably somewhat spiky/manipulative, Merteuil being Merteuil) relationship with another woman her own age during the canon timeline.
  
• Merteuil/Tourvel: Merteuil managing to seduce Tourvel instead of Valmont (or doing so while they’re both at Madame de Rosamonde’s?) would be fascinating. Some sort of hatesex? (Is Tourvel super guilty? Does she think of it differently from how cheating with a man would be due to societal interpretations/not being taught to take female sex desires seriously or something?) Merteuil having mentored Tourvel at some point like how she currently has Cecile? AU where Tourvel survives and comes to Merteuil to bitch her out for getting Valmont killed and then they have...angsty hatesex of some sort, or Tourvel manages to weaken Merteuil the way she appears to weaken Valmont?

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ROME (TV 2005)

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I love the visual aesthetics of canon, the glorious Roman cityscape and the costumes and jewelry and elaborate hair teasing and social posturing and sprawling cast and scope and mythology/religious/political rites/rituals and the strong sense of family and vengeance. I love Servilia in particular, her Lady Macbeth-ing of Brutus and her attempts to gain agency/respect/revenge, all wrapped up in a more stoic and matronly outside with a strong undercurrent of fascination and seduction, albeit in a much less flashy way than with Atia. I am familiar with but rusty in the historical period and the Latin language, so if you’re really into that and want to throw other stuff in, that’s great, but I’m also fine with just sticking to history and characterization as canon presents it, including the relatively soapy tone and scope.

• Atia/Servilia: They’re so awful, and so witty, and so desperately reaching out for whatever agency they can grab a hold of, and I can’t help but wonder about their past and their potential for vicious hatesex of some sort, or even some sort of more amicable relationship before they became entirely bitter. The contrast in how they try to carry themselves—spitfire/chaotic vs. dutiful/patrician—is delicious to play with, as is the overriding obsession they have, and how even after her death, Servilia manages to unsettle Atia and, indeed, appears to take away a lot of the joy she might have gotten from Octavian’s successes by managing to poison Atia’s mind. Them playing fucked up dubconny hatesex games? Them playing with bondage and the like in borderline dub/noncon ways? Them scheming with and against each other at dinner parties and other social events?
  
• Octavia/Servilia: Servilia corrupting Octavia is amazing to witness, but even more so for me is the question of how much Servilia was just playing her and how much it was genuine interest/lust/affection (and how much of that might have been sublimated lust/fascination with Atia). If I’m not misreading canon, they seem to have been some sort of fuckbuddy-type relationship for quite a period of time before it finally fell apart, so exploring how that developed (even though we didn’t get to see too much of it on screen due to time jumps) would be great. What else do they do besides weave? How much experience with women does either have before they start fucking each other? How much is anyone else aware of their sexual relationship? Do they fuck again somehow even after Octavia realizes she’s been played?
  
• Servilia/Original Female Character: Does Servilia have a random slave woman she uses for (mostly) consensual sexual release/sort of loves/is somewhat affectionate toward? Have there been other younger women a la Octavia she’s been fascinated with despite herself? Does she have a love from childhood, some other woman she was raised with or grew up near? Did she have an older female (sexual) mentor somehow herself she was entangled with when she was younger? (Newly married, or just before marriage?)
  

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SHERLOCK (TV)

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Canon is a flashy hyperactive soapy mess at points, but it’s so visually gorgeous, and everything surrounding the sleek amoral dodgy governmental world of Lady Smallwood is delightful to me. I love her icy/commanding veneer, the lowkey humor at points, her determination to do what’s necessary to get rid of Magnussen and her ability to carry on after Lord Smallwood’s demise. I love playing up spy tropes here, in a Le Carre or a Bond sense, as well as the hypercompetency of Lady Smallwood (either Alicia or Elizabeth is fine as a first name) as well as Irene and Anthea, all the opportunities for politicking and stress relief and finding a sort of low-key release/affection/friendship down in the bowels of the nation. I tend to read most of these relationships as more sexual or FWB-ish than solidly romantic, but some more classic romance is okay too as long as it keeps that idiosyncratic touch. Lady Smallwood can be married or not, I don’t mind, though if Lord Smallwood is alive and they're married I somewhat prefer an open relationship here where he knows and doesn’t mind as opposed to out and out infidelity.

• Anthea/Lady Smallwood: I love to imagine their interactions outside of Mycroft, them as two highly competent bureaucratic women wrapped in the intelligence world to varying degrees, as well as playing up the May-December aspects. Does Lady Smallwood offer any sort of career mentoring (“mentoring”) to Anthea? Does Anthea help Lady Smallwood to manage Mycroft in some way and that’s how they first begin to interact? Does Lady Smallwood keep Anthea as a sort of kept girl/amicable fucktoy? Are there differences in class status as well as age?
  
• Irene/Lady Smallwood: Surely Lady Smallwood, like all good members of the British government, had her sessions under Irene’s whip? Does she know of Irene’s continued survival post-ASIB? (Does she find out that Irene is still alive and then go for another session?) Does she take roundabout domme-ing lessons from her sessions with Irene? How about an AU where the marriage that Irene broke up by having affairs with both participants at the same time is the Smallwoods'--how would that ripple affect HLV/season 4?
  
• Lady Smallwood/Original Female Character: Lady Smallwood keeps a woman on the side--another government employee? Someone completely unconnected from the spy/government world who doesn’t even really know who/what she is? A professional sub for Lady Smallwood to work out things with? A dom for her who isn’t Irene? Or something from her far past--a friend who was more than a friend in (boarding?) school, despite the more homophobic time period around them? AU with fem!Lord Smallwood, so her foolish philandering love she works to save is another woman?
  

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