Femslash Exchange - Small Fandoms!

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11 August 2017 @ 11:51 am

Small Fandoms!

Nominations are closed, the queue has been emptied and corrections have been made (if you spot any ongoing issues, your nomination hasn't appeared in the tagset, you have an opinion on the remaining unclarified Wonder Woman crossover pairings or other issues raised previously, please head over to the last wrangling post and let us know), and now we're just waiting for sign-ups to start.

So it's the perfect time to pitch your small fandoms and rare pairs 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 requests or offers list.

To make it easy to browse, please put the name of your fandom and/or pairing in the subject line of your comment if you're posting on Dreamwidth. If you're on Tumblr, make sure to use the femslashex tag!

And a reminder if you want to make sure you're ready for sign-ups opening but you don't have an AO3 account yet, shoot us an email at femslashexmod@gmail.com and we can help you out with an invitation.

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wolffyluna on August 12th, 2017 10:28 am (UTC)
Re: The Expanse

Yay, potential convert! :D

I should probably check out CJ Cherryh's belter books at some point, they sound like they could be good.

Naomi and Chrisjen are hot, not gonna lie.

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nenya_kanadka on August 12th, 2017 10:28 pm (UTC)
Re: The Expanse

(Idk what the "Venus" was doing in my comment; maybe autocorrect chose a topical replacement for "even"? :P)

Cherryh is all, like, intense interpersonal politics, epic wider political situations, young male woobies out the wazoo (often alongside morally ambiguous older powerful women), SPACE, detailed cultural worldbuilding that's not just "20th c America with rayguns", lots of themes of identity/family/ingroup-outgroup, alienated stranger finds a place to stand, class-based oppression, etc etc. It's quite possible you'd like her stuff. :D

The two books set in the Sol system asteroid belt are Heavy Time and Hellburner, and they feature asteroid miners, big megacorps, Mars and Earth politics, ramp ups to war, resistance, mysteries, etc. Reminded me a lot of your summary!

I think I shall add The Expanse to my watch list after the Orphan Black finale airs. Very different kinds of scifi of course, but I'm going to be in withdrawal and it's been far too long since I had a spaceships-and-politics kinda show. I'd heard the name kicking around but hadn't investigated, so thank you for your awesome writeup!

(Also thanks for saying it has/tries to have diversity, and then telling us what it's ABOUT. I definitely want lesbians/people of colour/people with disabilities etc in my canons, but "watch this it has three queer people in it" isn't enough information! "Nonbinary rebels in space" or whatever sure does though. :D)

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wolffyluna on August 13th, 2017 06:05 am (UTC)
Re: The Expanse

Cherryh's books and the Expanse sound really similar. Though there's not much 'alienated stranger finds place' in the Expanse. I'll have to add them to the book backlog, they sound like the sort of thing I'd like!

(I admit I find 'this has representation!' without any explanation of what the story is about annoying. Representation is a selling point, but it's not enough to make me enjoy, say, a depressing novel set in the 1930s. Plus, I've seen a fair few examples of people reccomending something because it has representation without saying whether it was good or not, and sometimes it ends up weird. Like 'watch the Crying Game, it has representation!' levels of weird.)

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