Welcome to our eighth annual femslash exchange!

Our 2020 rules and FAQ remain largely the same, except a few small changes in line with our previous feedback post. Please take a moment to review the rules, even if you have participated in Femslash Ex before.

Dates
5-13 September: Nomination Period
16-23 September: Signups open
26 September: Assignments will be sent out by or before this date
7 November: Fanworks due
14 November: Archive goes live on or after this date (as soon as everyone has a gift)
21 November: Creators revealed

All deadline times this year will again be 9pm EDT/EST.

Associated sites: LiveJournal Feed & Tumblr Feed & 2020 AO3 Collection & 2020 Tag Set.

Fest FAQs:
( Nominations )

( Sign Ups )

( Requests )

( Offers )

( Pinch Hitting )

( Assignments and Defaulting )

( Posting )

( Fest Rules )


Please do not hesitate to leave a comment here or contact us at femslashexmod@gmail.com, if you have any questions/comments/concerns.

Rules compiled from rarepairfest and femslash12. Vid rules influenced by festivids and equinox_exchange

Nominations will open shortly, so it's the perfect time to start pitching your favourite fandoms and ships to everyone!

Tell us why you love it, show us pretty pictures of your favs, link us to the canon (legal options only please), and make your best case for why someone should consider adding your fandom to their nominations or requests/offers. To make it easy to browse, please put the name of your fandom and/or pairing in the subject line of your comment.

And a reminder that if you want to nominate and sign-up but you don't have an AO3 account, just shoot us an email at femslashexmod@gmail.com and we can help you out with an invitation.

We're starting nominations a little early today. If you haven't already please read the rules before you start nominating.

In short:

• You may nominate up to ten fandoms with up to ten relationships in each.


• All nominated characters must be female or genderqueer characters you'd be comfortable writing about in a femslash challenge

• Please nominate crossovers as under the fandom: Crossovers - Fandom, and list the characters with their fandom after the character name (Example: Pepper Potts (MCU)/Seven of Nine (Star Trek: Voyager). Crossovers submitted under a single fandom or submitted without fandom details after each name won't be approved until they've been corrected.


• [Canonical Character]/Original Female Character is allowed. [Canonical Character]/Any is not allowed. The Character(s) version of OFC tags will no longer be used and any canonical nominations using this format will be approved without the plural. If nominating poly ships with original characters, please indicate the specific number of characters you would like included, eg. [Canonical Character]/Original Female Character/Original Female Character.


• [Canonical Character]/[Unnamed Character] is allowed in cases where they were most likely a female or genderqueer character, but we don't know exactly who they were, for example: Galadriel/Legolas' Mother in The Hobbit fandom.


• There will be one category for Original Work, in which you may nominate things such as Princess/Handmaiden, Mermaid/Ship Captain, or Starship Captain/Chief Engineer.


• You may wish to drop down into the comments below to see what fandoms and pairings others are nominating, and how to nominate large/complicated fandoms. We will be continuing to wrangle most shared universe fandoms in the same manner as previous years, please check the list below before nominating.

( Shared Universe Fandoms )

If you believe the best fandom tag to combine a shared universe under has changed or there are other new developments in your fandom we should be aware of that might affect the shared universe list, please let us know! Or if you spot any doubles, misfiled fandoms, random pairings popping up under other fandoms or pairings that don't qualify, comment here. We're going to do our best to wrangle as we go.

Click here to nominate some femslash.

Nominations will remain open until 9pm EDT, 13 September, 2020.