Femslash Exchange - Nominations are open!

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28 August 2019 @ 11:38 pm

Nominations are open!

If you haven't already please read the rules before you start nominating. The nomination guidelines are the same as last year but there have been other small changes to the rules and guidelines for this round.

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)

[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 woman 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.

Please nominate shared universe fandoms using the following fandom tags:

Arrowverse
Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, Constantine, and Legends of Tomorrow tv shows will be nominated together as "DC's Arrowverse"

Buffy
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel: The Series and assorted spinoffs will go together under "Buffy the Vampire Slayer & Related Fandoms"

Dangan
Combine all nominations under "Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types"

DC Comics
Main-continuity DC comics, including pre-Flashpoint and New 52, will be under "DCU (Comics)". Other DC universes such as Bombshells will be separate by universe

DC Movies
"DC Extended Universe" includes Man of Steel, Batman vs Superman, Wonder Woman, Justice League, Aquaman, and Suicide Squad

Doctor Who
Everything set in the Doctor Who universe can be nominated under "Doctor Who" (including Sarah Jane Adventures and Torchwood)

Disney
Disney Descendents, Maleficent (2014), and Ducktales (2017) should be nominated separately. "Disney - All Media Types" is to be used for all other Disney pairings, including Disney Princesses and pre-2017 Ducktales.

Dragon Age
All of Dragon Age goes together under "Dragon Age - All Media Types"

Neon Genesis Evangelion
"Rebuild of Evangelion | Evangelion: New Theatrical Edition" should be nominated separately to Neon Genesis Evangelion. If nominating other parts of the franchise with significant story or character differences to the original canon, please comment first to discuss whether to split or combine fandom tags.

Fallen London
Fallon London should be combined with Sunless Sea and Sunless Skies nominations under "Fallen London | Echo Bazaar"

Fallout
All games should be combined under "Fallout (Video Games)", including Fallout: New Vegas

Fate/stay night Fandoms
Fate/Zero and Fate/stay night should be nominated under "Fate/stay night - All Media Types"

Final Fantasy
FF X and FF X-2 will be nominated as "Final Fantasy X & Final Fantasy X-2"

Game of Thrones
Game of Thrones (TV) and A Song of Ice and Fire should be treated as separate fandoms

Harry Potter
Both the Harry Potter books and movies and Fantastic Beasts should be combined under "Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling". All associated tie-in media including games should be included under this tag.

Kamen Rider
Kamen Rider variations go together under "Kamen Rider - All Media Types"

Law and Order
Law and Order series will be nominated separately by series name.

Les Miserables
The Les Mis tag will be "Les Miserables (All Media Types)"

Life on Mars
Ashes to Ashes and Life on Mars go together under "Life on Mars & Related Fandoms"

Madoka Magica
The Magia Record side game should be nominated separately to Madoka Magia.

Marvel Cinematic Universe
All of the MCU movies, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and Agent Carter will be listed under "Marvel Cinematic Universe"

Marvel Comics
Marvel Comics will be nominated by universe, for example: Marvel 616, Marvel Adventures, etc.

Marvel Netflix TV shows
Jessica Jones, Daredevil, Luke Cage, The Punisher, and Iron Fist will be listed together under "The Defenders (Marvel TV)"

Mass Effect
Mass Effect will be "Mass Affect - All Media Types" and will include Mass Effect Andromeda

Once Upon A Time
Once Upon a Time in Wonderland will be included with Once Upon A Time (TV)

Pokemon
Pokemon Games should be combined under "Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series)", while "Pocket Monsters SPECIAL | Pokemon Adventures" should be nominated separately.

Power Rangers
Power Rangers will be split into the movie tag "Power Rangers (2017)", and all shows will be combined under "Power Rangers (TV)"

Pretty Cure
All Pretty Cure series will be nominated together

Rune Factory
All Rune Factory series will be nominated together

Sailor Moon
Sailor Moon should nominated under:
Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon | Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon (Manga/Crystal)
Sailor Moon (1992 Anime)
Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon | Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon (Live Action TV)

She-Ra
Nominate the original series and the 2018 reboot separately.

Star Trek
"Star Trek: Classic Timeline (All Series)" should be used to nominate all original continuity Star Trek properties including books and other media, Mirror Universe characters, and Star Trek: Discovery. The 2009 movies and any associated media should be nominated under "Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies)‎". AOS characters can be inferred to also exist in the Classic universe or vice versa even if they don't appear in canon, nominate as Prime [Character] under AOS or AOS [Character] under Classic as needed. Mirror Universe characters should be listed as Mirror [Character]. Classic/AOS crossover ships should be nominated under Crossovers - Fandom

Star Wars
Star Wars will go under "Star Wars - All Media Types"

Stargate
Stargate fandoms will all be grouped together under "Stargate - All Series"

Super Sentai
Various Sentai properties go together under "Super Sentai Series"

Tolkien Fandoms
Tolkien nominations should be split into Silmarillion, books, or movies, as follows::
The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
Middle Earth - Peter Jackson Movies

Tomb Raider
Tomb Raider nominations should be split into the following tags. Any books, comics, and other media should be nominated under the appropriate timeline, and the Angelina Jolie movies should be combined under Original Timeline:
Tomb Raider - Original Timeline
Tomb Raider - Legend Timeline
Tomb Raider - 2013 Timeline
Tomb Raider (Movie 2018)

Vampire Diaries
The Vampire Diaries, The Originals, and Legacies go together as "The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms". The Vampire Diaries books should be nominated separately as "The Vampire Diaries - L. J. Smith (books)"

Worst Witch
The Worst Witch (1998 TV), The Worst Witch (TV 2017), and the books should be nominated separately

X-Men Movies
X-Men (Movies) will now be divided into X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies), X-Men (Original Timeline Movies) and Deadpool (2016). Wolverine movies go in Original Timeline

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, 11 September, 2019.

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Fangirlosaurus Rex: [random] head in the clouds

hibernate on August 31st, 2019 10:42 am (UTC)

I'm not going to continue to argue this issue, but I hope you don't mind me asking a question about it. If Word of God is that all angels and demons are nb or genderless and Crowley is accepted on those terms, why wouldn't Aziraphale be included too? I certainly feel Aziraphale is more feminine in general than Crowley, so I was curious what you meant by their masc/fem presentations. Is it because of Crowley taking on the guise of Nanny Ashtoreth? Sorry if I'm slow in understanding the thinking here; I'm bowing out now, just wondered this last thing.

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Lunar: B&tB - [Cat/Tess] all star all girl team

shopfront on August 31st, 2019 01:22 pm (UTC)

Totally! We're always willing to elaborate if needed, we just don't want to re-adjudicate our decisions over and over. Word of god may inform our decision but isn't considered to be canon evidence purely on its own (probably for obvious reasons?) This is a more simplistic version of all the things we considered, but what it came to when we boiled it down was:

Book Crowley has a canon sex (or lack of) but no gender declared, can only be inferred as male presenting or identified, so as one of the people in this thread said and we agreed - he is ineligible.

Show Aziraphale has neither canon sex or gender declared, can only be inferred as male (albeit, perhaps a feminine male) presenting or identified therefore also ineligible. It's purely word of god here for the purposes of our criteria, basically.

Show Crowley has neither canon sex or gender declared, but presents mostly as male and sometimes as female. Once we examined everything, we decided he can be reasonably inferred as male (so we do understand your concerns) or genderqueer identified, and word of god further inclines us to think genderqueer is indeed a valid interpretation of canon despite female presentation* being rare/only happening twice. Essentially we can't rule him solely in or out based on canon (this is what

withinadream meant by edge case and why we're paying particular attention to the other people in those nominations, in case there are specific relationships we feel somehow cross back out of scope), so he falls within the scope of the genderqueer rule and our stance of 'we're not interested in defining gender for participants'. We're assuming good faith that anyone nominating Crowley wants to explore a genderqueer interpretation, and that his relationships with other female or genderqueer characters feel somehow sapphic/femslashy to them (I haven't looked at the tagset yet today so possibly GO has been approved in my absence, but so far I feel like what I've seen in the queue matches with that assumption, for what that's worth.)

*Obviously not everyone interprets those scenes the same way as they're brief, and a reasonably inferred male character wearing female clothes twice isn't often going to be criteria for eligibility in this exchange, if that's concerning anyone. But we looked at some of the range of how people were interpreting those scenes, how word of god interprets those scenes, and things people said about tone and seriousness and influences from the wider context of the book's definition of sex, and we think it's reasonable to consider them important in this case without reading Neil's twitter.

Hopefully that at least explains it further and maybe also addresses some of your concerns, and we totally understand why people who lean towards a male interpretation of Crowley won't be wanting to nominate/request/offer him for this exchange. We just ask them to let people who do see genuine femslash interpretations there get on with doing so. And while we stand by this as an application of the current rules, people are always welcome to give us feedback or suggest tweaks post-round if they think this highlights a gap in the rules that we might (or might not, obviously, but we're always happy to listen) address in the rules of future rounds.

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hibernate on August 31st, 2019 10:00 pm (UTC)

Thanks for explaining to me in so much detail. I really appreciate you taking the time to lay out your reasoning to me. I don't go on twitter but I've always been in favour of a genderqueer reading of these characters, it was just the idea of seeing either of them in the context of femslash that didn't sit right with me. I'm still not sure it does, but your reasoning about Crowley makes a lot of sense and does make me less uncomfortable. Thank you very much for getting back to me! :)

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shopfront on August 31st, 2019 11:39 pm (UTC)

You're very welcome, happy to help and I'm really glad you feel less uncomfortable now!

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