Fandom Recommendations Post

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Nominations will open later this evening, so it's the perfect time to pitch 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 if you're posting on Dreamwidth. If you're on Tumblr, make sure to use the femslashex tag!

And a reminder that if you want to make sure you're ready for nominations and sign-ups 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.

Comments

[auroracloud]

I've kept forgetting to post here, and I don't know how much use this is so close to the end of the sign-ups and who will see it, but it might be useful when people are looking for things to treat for, and simply, I should think it's interesting to many of the members of this community!

The fandom: This is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. It's a novella, come out in July 2019, about two time agents from rival agencies and competing futures who begin a correspondence via letters delivered in the most unlikely methods across different time strands. From curiosity follows connection and understanding, from that a romance across spaces and times. And yes, just to clarify, they're both women. And very awesome, competent, complex, kick-ass women at that. The book is beautiful, poetic, deep, emotional, witty, funny and more. Also, endless varieties of colour-related pet names that the characters, Red and Blue, find to call each other. And did I say beautiful? Because it's just gorgeous. And ultimately hopeful, and just... the most amazing thing I've read this year. I've nominated Red/Blue, the main pairing from the book and almost the only characters to directly feature in it, since it's mainly written in the form of correspondence. I intend to request it, and I see from the sign-up summary that there are a couple of other requests already.

Also, it's a novella, so it doesn't take too long to read, even if you don't know it yet!

Here is some more (non-spoilery) review-squee in my Dreamwidth

Since it's a book, I can't directly link to it, but you can check if your library or your friend has it, or buy it from somewhere. The e-book can be bought e.g. here at ebooks.com.

[(Anonymous)]

I won't be signing up this year, but I want to thank you for promoting this canon. This novella seems to be right up my alley. I'll make sure to read it, and if I like it, I'll add it to my requests next year.

[auroracloud]

You're welcome, I'm really happy if I can make new people discover it who might enjoy it! ♥