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100+ words of manipulative ships

[(Anonymous)]

I believe in us!

Re: 100+ words of manipulative ships

[(Anonymous)]

this is villaneve, full-stop, especially if they keep on with the same dynamic in season 2

Lesbian Book Recs

[(Anonymous)]

what are some lesbian fiction you'd recommend?

i tried reading the alpennia series but the prose and bizarre handling of a sexual assault plotline in the first book is making me question whether i should continue the series

i'm thinking of reading some sarah waters novels since they're always so highly recommended

Re: Lesbian Book Recs

[(Anonymous)]

Of Sarah Waters I’ve read Fingersmith and Tipping the Velvet. I enjoyed them both greatly.

RPG Maker

[(Anonymous)]

Any nobs make games in RPG Maker? Got any good f/f game recs?

Re: RPG Maker

[(Anonymous)]

God I am really trying to think of one and coming up blank. It's easier to think of RPG Maker games that were a disappointment in that area.

Like Pocket Mirror! It looked really femslashy because most of the characters are girls, but then it turned out to be a story about Poorly Researched DID where most of the other girls were the heroine's alternate personalities whom she either reabsorbs (in the good endings) or loses entirely (in the bad endings). The only one who wasn't was a construct built by a demon and planted in her head, who either dies or is also absorbed by the heroine's psyche even though she doesn't come from her and doesn't want to be absorbed. So that was weird!

I still ended up shipping some things, but only in my own little AU where where everyone is demons.

Simoun

[(Anonymous)]

Would anyone else like to talk about this show with me?

Re: Simoun

[(Anonymous)]

YES! What do you want to talk about?

I'm going to sound repetitive to nonnies who have heard me talk about this before, but I love that it really is one of the only things I can think of out there that's an all-female armed force with all the usual opportunities for different ship dynamics that usually just come up in m/m, and that a big part of the theme of at least the first arc is about the characters coming to terms with "actually this series is about a different thing than we expected."

[(Anonymous)]

i hate information being conveyed in video form

[(Anonymous)]

me too. I wish it was normalized to do a text summary for any kind of informative/news video, I read so much faster than I can watch a video.

[(Anonymous)]

anyone remember the fandom days where the order you listed the characters in a ship indicated who you thought topped and who you thought bottomed?

[(Anonymous)]

That's still true. It's just less loud nowadays. If it's important to me that Wiki-san/Google-san, then I'll choose that, or vice versa. If it's not, I type it whichever way sounds the best or is convenient

[(Anonymous)]

who in your otp is the handmaiden and who's the feudal lord

[(Anonymous)]

I feel like BB's dominance PROBABLY makes her the feudal lord even though her approachable healthcare programming leans her towards handmaiden. Hakuno's pretty feudal lord-ish herself, though...it could go either way, but I lean towards BB=feudal lord, Hakuno=handmaiden.

harlots

[(Anonymous)]

figured i should make an official thread

who's your fave character?
what's your fave f/f pairing?
which season 2 plotline interests you the most?
what are your predictions?

Re: harlots

[(Anonymous)]

Fave character: Charlotte!

Fave f/f pairing: I like Margaret/Nancy, Charlotte/Lydia, and Charlotte/Lady Fitz for different reasons.

Fave s2 plotline: Charlotte's! I'm sad that the thing I liked is done as of the most recent episode, spoiler spoiler.

Predictions: No idea!!

your OTP... but horny

[(Anonymous)]

discuss your OTP/OT3+ being wildly sexually attracted to each other here.

what are their turn-ons? how do they play into each other's turn-ons (e.g. wearing lingerie, letting a little body hair peek out, asking for help reaching something, etc.)? are they into a pursuer/pursued dynamic or more of a oh-we're-both-horny-let's-fuck sort of thing? does one of them have a more sexually responsive orientation? does one of them tend to get turned on by things related to their kinks, rather than vanilla attractive things? classify each character in the ship as a boob/butt/other-body-part person. and consider: forearms.

Re: your OTP... but horny

[(Anonymous)]

Carolina and Niner are absolutely turned on by adrenaline-junkie one-upping each other. Joyrides in the Pelican followed by rough cockpit sex.

100 words of ravishment

[(Anonymous)]

here.

Re: 100 words of ravishment - Rubies/Jasper

[(Anonymous)]

The door isn't closed for two seconds before Jasper is slammed against it, with all the overexcited eagerness she's come to expect from 4ND and OR3 and WH0 and WH1 and W4T.

They're not all here, though. Ruby eases out of the comfortably tight hug long enough to beam at her with a gem in her eye. Jasper tightens her grip on Ruby's ass and waist, shocked but still smiling.

"Why are you all fused?" Ruby's hands loosen. One of them drifts up to rest on Jasper's boob as she leans back.

"We couldn't agree on who would have you first, so everyone is!" Ruby gleams at their perfect solution, and Jasper kisses it off their face. She can feel her skin glowing with affection, can feel it radiating off Ruby as their molecules shimmer and loosen, but Jasper tampers down the urge in favor of deepening the kiss. Ruby feels along the edge of her shirt, running her nails down the place where Jasper's waist and top bond. When Ruby pulls Jasper lets it rip enticingly, and her hand slide under the shirt.

She's not sure who else is here. Jasper knows that if they fuse, she'll know with that immediate, intoxicating certainty.

But there are other ways to find out. Jasper grinds her knee into Ruby's crotch and smirks as she piece-meals together ways to deduce it.

F/F TV shows?

[(Anonymous)]

Are there any? This nonny needs stuff to watch, and I really don't know what shows have it as I don't watch much TV. Ideally,I'd like recs for shows on US Netflix or Amazon video, and I can do Hulu if I must.

I really strongly prefer canon F/F as opposed to subtext, and would rather the F/F couple be prominent but it's not required, with the caveat that there's not a lot of het if the F/F ship is a side ship.

Re: F/F TV shows?

[(Anonymous)]

quite a few canadian tv shows such as lost girl and wynonna earp have some canon bi/les female characters

there's also some cw shows but they're very unfortunately cw and they tend to be aimed at a teenaged demographic
it doesn't help that the 100 was a cw show and they started a big wave against bury your gays by killing off lexa

as for hulu, there's harlots which is pretty good for shipping and has so many yummy period piece costumes that are meant to be 18th century or thereabouts

there's also person of interest but i have to warn that there's some bury your gays here too

(frozen comment) A Study in Honor, Claire O'Dell

[(Anonymous)]

I just read this and liked it quite a bit -- it was slow in parts, but I thought the author handled "queer black Holmes and Watson" well and the worldbuilding was fascinating. Bonus: Sara Holmes does seem to be ace, maybe. Any other nonnies here read it? What did you think?

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2018/07/31/the-big-idea-claire-odell/

Sample, sorry for the super ugly link https://sample-bb32486c64e6ca4b3fc6da691f7ad801.read.overdrive.com/?p=_eyJzbHVnIjoic3R1ZHktaW4taG9ub3IiLCJmb3JtYXQiOiI2MTAifQ==

(frozen comment) Re: A Study in Honor, Claire O'Dell

[(Anonymous)]

Is it shippy and do you think the writer's going to make it romantic? I'm super here for the premise either way.

Contemporary female poets

[(Anonymous)]

Or female poets of the past 50 years, I don't need anything too recent. I'm after recs. Who are your favorites? Please post poems here!

Not so much looking for things like Warsan Shire/other instagram-aesthetic folks, I'm more of a Mary Oliver/Marilyn Nelson/Pat Parker/Natasha Oladokun/Jane Hirshfield kind of person. Non-western/non-white/LGBT poets a bonus!

Re: Contemporary female poets

[(Anonymous)]

Louise Gluck?


AN ADVENTURE
1.
It came to me one night as I was falling asleep
that I had finished with those amorous adventures
to which I had long been a slave. Finished with love?
my heart murmured. To which I responded that many profound discoveries
awaited us, hoping, at the same time, I would not be asked
to name them. For I could not name them. But the belief that they existed—
surely this counted for something?

2.
The next night brought the same thought,
this time concerning poetry, and in the nights that followed
various other passions and sensations were, in the same way,
set aside forever, and each night my heart
protested its future, like a small child being deprived of a favorite toy.
But these farewells, I said, are the way of things.
And once more I alluded to the vast territory
opening to us with each valediction. And with that phrase I became
a glorious knight riding into the setting sun, and my heart
became the steed underneath me.

3.
I was, you will understand, entering the kingdom of death,
though why this landscape was so conventional
I could not say. Here, too, the days were very long
while the years were very short. The sun sank over the far mountain.
The stars shone, the moon waxed and waned. Soon
faces from the past appeared to me:
my mother and father, my infant sister; they had not, it seemed,
finished what they had to say, though now
I could hear them because my heart was still.

4.
At this point, I attained the precipice
but the trail did not, I saw, descend on the other side;
rather, having flattened out, it continued at this altitude
as far as the eye could see, though gradually
the mountain that supported it completely dissolved
so that I found myself riding steadily through the air—
All around, the dead were cheering me on, the joy of finding them obliterated
by the task of responding to them—

5.
As we had all been flesh together,
now we were mist.
As we had been before objects with shadows,
now we were substance without form, like evaporated chemicals.
Neigh, neigh, said my heart,
or perhaps nay, nay—it was hard to know.

6.
Here the vision ended. I was in my bed, the morning sun
contentedly rising, the feather comforter
mounded in white drifts over my lower body.
You had been with me—
there was a dent in the second pillowcase.
We had escaped from death—
or was this the view from the precipice?


U.A. Fanthorpe?

THE FORTUNE-TELLER'S FUNERAL

The seeing has been my life. Handed down
Like silver. No use here, in Farnborough,
Where they know my proper name. But Easter-time
Sees me off on my way to Margate.
A good place to mystify. Westgate sometimes.
Or Broadstairs. All gainful addresses.

Vardo, curtains, crystal ball—
They draw the people. I’d do better in the sun,
In my big chair, holding damp gorgio hands,
Say just as true a future. But they need hocus-pocus,
The lamp, reflections, shadows, me in pearlies,
Queen Gypsy Rose Lee on the posters.

I find the future. They giggle and stare,
Helpless at belief. I muzzle what I know:
How many young women will marry twice,
How many lads die young, in sand or air.
I speak riddles: Many will love you.
Beware of high places, of fire and steel.
They can unravel it if they like.

My own death’s different. I’ve planned it.
Picked my undertaker, Mister Owen,
Who did so well by Levi. The procession,
He’ll see to it: six jet horses
(My Levi’s pals should find a proper match),
Outrider, coachman, flowers and flowers and flowers,
great wreath in the shape of my special chair,
Romanies walking, three hundred or so,
Twenty thousand, I say, twenty thousand
Some in mourning, some not

Black triangles, the gypsy Z
They are marched through. The see-saw rattle
Of goods trains in the night.
Whose death is this? I will not see it.
What country’s this? A world turned upside down.
I refuse the seeing.

The mourners go
From Willow Walk to Crofton Road,
by the park to Farborough Common.
Traffic jams. The Deputy Mayor
of Margate, he’ll be there to show respect.
A proper Romany funeral. Like an old queen’s.
The ash tree, I say, the birch tree.
Such things need to be thought about before.
And the Devouring.
I refuse the seeing.

My death, I know it well:
The April day in nineteen thirty-three; the weather, rainy,
And cold; the missel-thrush singing all day
By the vardo, till I die. I am Urania,
Friend of the skies, the one who knows the future.

I will not hear the gypsies playing in the lager.
I will not hear it when the music stops.

A Study in Honor, Claire O'Dell

[(Anonymous)]

I just read this and liked it quite a bit -- it was slow in parts, but I thought the author handled "queer black Holmes and Watson" well and the worldbuilding was fascinating.

Any other nonnies here read it? What did you think?

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2018/07/31/the-big-idea-claire-odell/

Sample, sorry for the super ugly link https://sample-bb32486c64e6ca4b3fc6da691f7ad801.read.overdrive.com/?p=_eyJzbHVnIjoic3R1ZHktaW4taG9ub3IiLCJmb3JtYXQiOiI2MTAifQ==

Re: A Study in Honor, Claire O'Dell

[(Anonymous)]

I know Watson is gay in this, but does Sherlock like girls?

Fic discussion

[(Anonymous)]

What was the last f/f fic you read? Was it good?

Re: Fic discussion

[(Anonymous)]

an eleanor/tahani one someone recced here lmao

it was okay, not entirely my thing but i could see why someone else would really like it

rpf

[(Anonymous)]

janelle monae/tessa thompson anyone 👀

Re: rpf - first ship?

[(Anonymous)]

I think I shipped Liv Tyler/Alicia Silverstone due to the Crazy video, and then got into Britney Spears/Christina Aguilera. Oh, and there was a tiny offshoot of X-Files RPF with Gillian Anderson and I think mostly OFCs but that was kind of small to ship.

Downton Abbey

[(Anonymous)]

Did anyone have any femslash ships for this show? I'm such a sucker for women who love each other while wearing beautiful period costumes.

Re: Downton Abbey

[(Anonymous)]

It's been a while but I remember being kind of into Anna/Mary (and vaguely intending to write a Kingsman AU).

Voltron

[(Anonymous)]

Ships after the new season?

Re: Voltron

[(Anonymous)]

1. Was I supposed to get Ezor/Zethrid vibes? Because I did.

2. Goddamn, I really wish we'd got to see Ezor and Zethrid torture Pidge.

3. Romelle and Allura would be really cute; shame Romelle got almost no characterization after the first episode.

4. Leifsdottir and Pidge should have interacted, they'd be great together.

Bed, Wed, Behead

[(Anonymous)]

fuck marry kill?

Re: Bed, Wed, Behead

[(Anonymous)]

Leliana, Isabela, Josephine

Vampire Femslash

[(Anonymous)]

Recs discussions tropes etc itt

Re: Vampire Femslash

[(Anonymous)]

Cassandra's girlfriend Estrella on The Librarians!

Asking for Prompts

[(Anonymous)]

Like the kink meme, but backwards.

Re: Asking for Prompts: Steven Universe or Hakuoki Fanart

[(Anonymous)]

Give me Steve Universe f/f fanart prompts and I'll do my best to draw them. It's more of a long-shot, femslash wise, but Hakuoki would be cool too.

I can't guarantee I'll draw everything, and am cool with other people filling the prompts.

I'm squicked by explicit sex/kink, incest, zombies(*), and anything too close to child/adult. I'm fine with moderate violence.

(*)Of the mindless contagious sort. I'm fine with, like, Lars.

The Bold Type

[(Anonymous)]

glossy

Re: The Bold Type - Kadena

[(Anonymous)]

Thoughts on Kadena in season 2?

I'm getting a little tired of the contrived conflict tbh.

Mother/daughter or other crossgen incest?

[(Anonymous)]

We talked about sisters, but anyone ship crossgen femslash incest? I prefer mother/daughter but others are fun, too.

Re: Mother/daughter or other crossgen incest?

[(Anonymous)]

One of my earliest ships was that Lily/Serena (Gossip Girl) intrigued me. I wasn't sure at the time if I shipped it as incest or daughter wanting to be mother, but as time went by, I figured out that it was a little of both.

free games (with lesbians)

[(Anonymous)]

So I bought a bundle of games by Hanako Games that included Long Live the Queen and A Little Lily Princess, both of which I already have, and I thought I'd offer them here first. A Little Lily Princess is a yuri VN featuring the characters from A Little Princess, and LLTQ is Princess Maker except you die a lot and has two f/f romance options. If you want one, drop a sock email (or your real email if you don't care about anonymity?) and let me know which one. First come first served.

Re: free games (with lesbians)

[(Anonymous)]

sweetherbs831@gmail.com and I'd love LLTQ please, but will have ALLP if it went before I commented.

Long Live The Queen

[(Anonymous)]

Death by anything.