sailing the fingers of the dragon

Dear writer! Hi! I am very excited that you are writing me one of these requests! Some I have requested before and received and want more of, some I have requested before and not received, some are new, and I am very excited about all of them. I hope some of what I say here gives you some ideas!

If you are not my assigned writer and are just here browsing letters, I am kathryne at AO3.

( do not want )

( do want )

( Ted Lasso )

( MCU - WandaVision )

( Wheel of Time )

So, that's that! Thank you for writing for me. I can't wait to see what you make of whichever pairing you choose. :D

come to deserve (2731 words) by kathryne
Fandom: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Andy | Andromache of Scythia/Quynh | Noriko
Additional Tags: Friends to Lovers, First Time, Pre-Canon, Emotional Sex, necklace backstory
Summary: After Lykon's death, Andromache and Quỳnh come to terms with the possibility that they could lose each other, too.

Hooray, femslashex reveals! I was very pleased to get to write for The Old Guard after a summer of not quite getting started on any of my ideas. Huge thanks to walkthegale for beta duties!

fox1013's excellent post here asks what people would consider "early femslash texts," and if they even existed. I skimmed through the comments and not a lot of people seem to be touching on that question, so I am throwing it out more widely in its own post because I am really curious.

Xena was the given (and, dude, I just noticed that brown_betty's fandom chart doesn't even have Xena on, which is odd as there's a very clear Xena to Buffy connection in my mind though I don't know about anyone else), and I came up with Voyager and quasiradiant with West Wing and the Wing Swing, but those are all 90s fandoms, and we know the m/m "We all started with Kirk/Spock" fanthropological statement. So. Cast your minds back, those of you who can (I, unfortunately, cannot). cdybedahl suggests that there was Uhura/Rand. Anyone else verify that? I'd be shocked if there wasn't a Charlie's Angels movement or something around Emma Peel, say. *g* Or, hell, Wonder Woman comics, if there was a comics "fandom" as such.

So. First femslash fandom you can think of. Go.

(all this femslash meta! It's like, my god, we do exist! *g* Loving it!)

So interestingly enough, someone who hadn't run across any of the recent femslash discussion asked me yesterday why Doctor Who femslash was so much better - bigger, easier to find, etc - than Stargate. I don't necessarily agree with the statement, but I understand where the perception comes from, and that is really making me think about femslash in general.

( To an extent, I had the same experience - Who femslash was much more 'out there' than Stargate when I first went looking - and that was entirely contrary to my expectations. )

This is a post that I want people to tell me I'm wrong about and why. It's hugely subjective, so I want to see comments. Also, if those comments included Vala fic or a link to the huge SG femslash site that I'm obviously missing (and this would be a good time to mention both sg_femslash and dw_femslash), that might be nice too. ;)

Also, I have just discovered the fish_like_bikes SG Female Characters Kink and Cliche Challenge, ironically enough while I wasn't looking for it, so YAY for that.