FemslashEx 2020
This year I got a really good Dead to Me fic, every version of yourself tonight. It expands on the cliffhanger at the end of season two - what is probably going to be the last episode ever - and takes a look at how the two leads' relationship might change in the aftermath, in a way that feels true to the characters.
Annoyingly, I was still feeling massively low on energy this year after the virus, and only managed a single medium length story, of just under 8K. Expectations takes place in the very post apocalyptic (and then rebuilt) world of Horizon Zero Dawn, filled with robotic dinosaurs and megafauna, where the lead Aloy was outcast from birth from her tribe and then through curiosity (and a smart phone earpiece) manages to go off and do great things. But given that she's visiting different cultures and has only viewed her birth one from a distance, she can get some things a little wrong. But who among us hasn't accidentally ended up courting someone we may or may not be interested in?
I did end up eventually getting a kudos from my recipient for this story, but no comment. So I guess I know at least they read it. Yay?
Louisa's gift this year was a fun little Captain Marvel fic, Drawn from Blue, wherein Carol meets Mine-Erva some years after the movie tending bar in New York. Her story this year was, unfortunately, the same person who I had as a recipient last year. As such, her expectations were calibrated to not getting a comment or kudos from them, and that was exactly what happened, because apparently flipflop_diva doesn't believe in that part of the exchange. Her story was another MCU fic, this one Natasha/Hope called Friends with Benefits which again tended towards the more fun end of the spectrum, told from Hope's perspective wherein feelings may or may not be caught in an existing arrangement.
Annoyingly, I was still feeling massively low on energy this year after the virus, and only managed a single medium length story, of just under 8K. Expectations takes place in the very post apocalyptic (and then rebuilt) world of Horizon Zero Dawn, filled with robotic dinosaurs and megafauna, where the lead Aloy was outcast from birth from her tribe and then through curiosity (and a smart phone earpiece) manages to go off and do great things. But given that she's visiting different cultures and has only viewed her birth one from a distance, she can get some things a little wrong. But who among us hasn't accidentally ended up courting someone we may or may not be interested in?
I did end up eventually getting a kudos from my recipient for this story, but no comment. So I guess I know at least they read it. Yay?
Louisa's gift this year was a fun little Captain Marvel fic, Drawn from Blue, wherein Carol meets Mine-Erva some years after the movie tending bar in New York. Her story this year was, unfortunately, the same person who I had as a recipient last year. As such, her expectations were calibrated to not getting a comment or kudos from them, and that was exactly what happened, because apparently flipflop_diva doesn't believe in that part of the exchange. Her story was another MCU fic, this one Natasha/Hope called Friends with Benefits which again tended towards the more fun end of the spectrum, told from Hope's perspective wherein feelings may or may not be caught in an existing arrangement.