Welcome to our eleventh annual femslash exchange!

Our 2023 rules and FAQ remain largely the same except for a simplification to our defaulting policy. Please take a moment to review the rules, even if you have participated in Femslash Ex before.

Dates
30 September-7 October: Nomination Period
10-17 October: Signups open
20 October: Assignments will be sent out by or before this date
2 December: Fanworks due
9 December: Archive goes live on or after this date (as soon as everyone has a gift)
16 December: Creators revealed

All deadline times this year will be 11:59pm EDT/EST

Associated sites: LiveJournal Feed & Tumblr Feed & 2023 AO3 Collection & 2023 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

If you haven't already please read the full 2023 rules and faq 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.

Fandoms should be nominated according to shared universes. This means fandoms with common settings and characters or unique shared backstories and timelines, should be grouped together. Different versions of characters/timelines or unique adaptions should be nominated separately. Please note that All Media Type fandom tags may or may not be eligible, depending on whether AMT encompasses multiple versions of a character or multiple timelines.

RPF, Band, and other ‘real world’ characters should be grouped under the broadest fandom title that makes sense, trying to minimise the number of fandoms an individual character could belong to while also avoiding the fandom becoming unwieldy.

Many franchises are already in the shared universe list. Please check it thoroughly and nominate accordingly. If you are nominating a related franchise title which is not listed as an exception but has its own unique separate universe, please comment before nominating.

Do not be afraid to use or suggest non-canonical fandom tags, especially when an appropriate shared universe tag does not already exist. The mods can help you select one if you are unsure what to use for your nominations.

( Shared Universe Rules )

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 like usual.

Click here to nominate some femslash!

Nominations will remain open until 11:59 pm EDT on October 7.