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Since I am the grinchiest of all Grinches I thought I'd put together a Xmas post and spread some femslash cheer. Tis the season, etc. And what better present (as mantaraggio often reminds me) than pr0n!!

So some of my fav dirty fics or fics w/the bestest sex, in no particular order:
Champagne Supernova by fembuck is Gemma/Felicity, A Great and Terrible Beauty and it is SUPERhot!

Like the End of the World Still Counts by pirateygoodness is Racetrack/Seelix, BSG.

Reason by harper_m is Ash/Scribbs, Murder in Suburbia. School uniforms and hot sex!

Six Keys by by politicx is Scully/Reyes, X-Files.

The Conqueror's Touch by Xena's Little Bitch is Xena/Gabrielle.

Untitled from fembuck is a ficlet that's a sort of incredibly porny spinoff from her ongoing Twilight fic, Alice/Bella. Vampires, periods and hot, hot sex.

The Show by BL Miller is Xena/Gabrielle. Gabrielle and Xena unwittingly sit through a live sex show at an all-women taverna.

Missionary Position by JustSkipIt is Willow/Tara, BTVS. This isn't soft and fluffy W/T. Tara is an evangelical xtian who seduces girls to Jesus by whatever means necessary. Hilarious and incredibly hot!

What Do You Do by Imagine is Xena/Ofc. The OFC is a whore Xena meets as a 17 year-old warlord. Hotter than hell!

Five Times Jill Barnhart Had Sex With Lindsay Boxer, And One Time She Didn’t by trancer21 is Lindsay/Jill, Women's Murder Club and it's unfuckingbelievably hot!


um, wow that's a lot of smut. And there's sooooo much more out there. but only so much time. Just enough to get you in the spirit...so to speak. Happy holidays!! More smut to come...feel free to help me out. With more fic that is. *G*

ETA one of my fav smutfics EVER, Pit Stop, SPN (I know! wtf?!), Jo/Jess. Soooooo pornaliciously perfect.

Immaculate by pirateygoodness is BSG, Gina/Cain, R. This is a very short, very hot, haunting fic. I love fic that really explores the machine/human hybrid and what that means. How that feels, how it doesn't feel. How it would feel differently. Or not. In other words, pirateygoodness tapped into one of my many kinks. This fic manages to be incredibly complex in a minimum of lines. Lovely!

Edited because I forgot the link. *facepalm*

How do I love my femslashers? Let me count the ways:

( more smut under the cut )

The pr0n -- it keeps giving.

via bsg_femslash

Simple Favorites by pocketwitch is Laura/Kara, NC-17, pwp. And pocketwitch gives us the just as hot backstory hinted at in Simple Favorites in Kobol. Both of these fics manage to combine truly astonishingly lovely prose and wonderful characterization with some truly scorching hot sex. Someone mentioned in comments to one of these fics that the majority of fics for this pairing tend to center on power dynamics, which is terribly fucking hot, but it's fascinating to read such a completely different take on this relationship. These are moments stolen away from their 'normal' power-driven lives, moments in which they get to be women with emotions and -- pocketwitch uses this as a recurring theme -- need. They sacrifice their pleasure and themselves for no one in these moments. Also, drop-dead gorgeously hot lines like this:
“Your mouth,” the President had whispered, eyes glazed, voice ragged, sweat-damp hair plastered across her face, “is my favorite place.”

Yes, please.

And just to prove I read something other than Xena fic, here's a rec from the BSG world. via bsg_femslash:

Ask Me by jarrow272 is PG-13, Kat/Racetrack, implied Racetrack/Starbuck. This is a fantastic fic about life on board Galactica before, during and after the colonization of New Caprica. More than that, it's about Kat and Racetrack and life after Starbuck. Perfect characterization as Kat (and Racetrack) grapples with her insecurities to deal with Racetrack's past with Starbuck.

Kat could fire five rounds from a spin without breaking a sweat, but she trembled when Racetrack breathed in her ear, shaking the first time she unzipped her flight suit.

Beautiful, complex stuff. Like the show at its best.

Just a quickie because I decided to take a break from the mountain of reading and there was jennyo fic in my flist!! Starbuck BSG jennyo fic!

Five Bad Girls Starbuck Hooked Up With to Britney Spears is Starbuck/Meredith, Starbuck/Cadman, Starbuck/Faith, Starbuck/Helena, and Starbuck/Lucy Diamond R and is all kinds of hilarious and Hot. What's truly incredible about this fact (besides the hilarity and the hot) is the way jennyo manages to keep Kara and everyone else in character over all of these crazy!different fanuniverses.

In honor of International Blog Against Racism Week I thought I'd wrack my sickly, feeble brain and come up with some femslash gems that feature non-white principals...and wow, this is much harder than it should be. I know that media doesn't give us a hell of a lot to work with, but still... why is femslash so frickin' whitebread?

Please take note that most of these fics don't deal with the race issue at all, just hot sex and love between two women, one or more of whom is not of northern european descent. Also note that this post is far from comprehensive, I just wanted to get something out there to open up discussion and hopefully get more recs for myself :) 'cause I know my flist has more fics in their back pocket.

Storm/Ororo from the X-Men Universe should have libraries of fic dedicated to her, but I've only encountered a few. Granted, I don't know that much about the X-verse, but I have a feeling that Storm's underrepresented in the world of femslash.
Janine, aka fembuck's Pack Up the Moon and Dismantle the Sun is Ororo/Jean, Mature angst. Janine's prose is beautiful and haunting as always. fembuck writes Storm often so check out her LJ. I'm too tired to go digging through all of her wonderful fic.


BSG
BSG is one of the few fandoms that actually has multiple canon characters played by non-white actors, but race doesn't seem to be an issue in space. i guess when you're being hunted by the apocalyptic Cylon!other things like skin color don't really mean anything. Which is probably a cop-out on the part of the writers or, possibly, a hopeful and utopian ideal of how an 'advanced' culture should look and act.

Pressed by tellitslant is Tory/Cain, NC-17. Ahhh, you know I'm a sucker for power dynamics and PWP and tellitslant DELIVERS.

Defragment by exquiscadavre is Six/Galactica!Boomer, NC-17. This is hot in a compugeek, literary way that really makes me love it to death.

Intrinsic Betrayal by Harper is Starbuck/Boomer, NC-17. I've recced this before so I'll just say again that I loved it.

Satiation by jennyo is Roslin/Maya, NC-17 and good ghod is it hot.

Set to Explode by fox1013 is Starbuck/Kat, NC-17. Playing off all of that wonderful hate!sex tension.

Second Sin by leyenn is Starbuck/Dualla, NC-17. Again with the scorching hot..and angsty. this is a fantastic piece with perfect characterization of a hollowed-out Starbuck looking for a little peace and finding it in Dee.

There are so many great fics in this fandom that actually feature characters who aren't blonde, blue-eyed, and pale. Check out projectjulie's BSG femslash masterlist or getyourtoaster for all the goods.

Hmmm, are there any fics that feature two non-white characters together?

Bend it Like Beckham is another great fandom for this theme. I've already recced fic from this fandom, here and here. New Kind of Real by afrai is one of the few fics in any fandom that takes on the issue of race and ethnicity and it's wonderfully done. One of the best fics in any fandom, hands down.

Firefly should have a ton of fic I could put in this post, but I guess Zoe's relationship with Wash makes it difficult because surely, SURELY Zoe's incredible hawtness would inspire hundreds of thousands of pages of fic. Anyone have any Zoe slash for me? Anyone?

The whiteness of the femslash Buffyverse is appalling. Then again, the whiteness of the Buffyverse is appalling so what can I expect? Faith seems to be the default Other character on the show, which just doesn't cut it.

MISC
Harper has several fics that feature the incredible hotness of Michelle Rodriguez:
Rule of Opposites is Charlotte/Diana in an NC-17 Sex in the City, Girlfight crossover that shouldn't work at all but is absolutely wonderful and perfect. This fic does tackle some issues, but it's class more than race. Still an incredible fic.

No Time for Apologies is Rain/Alice, NC-17 from Resident Evil and it's a wonderful and haunting behind-the-scenes look at the Rain/Alice ship.

Crush, Crushing, Crush is Eden/Ann-Marie, NC-17 from Blue Crush. Again, this is more about class than race, but still... Michelle fucking Rodriguez!


You know, I'm not sure this post was such a good idea. I don't feel like it's saying much about racism except that femslash, as a whole, seems to reflect media in its notable absence of non-white characters. Yes, there are a lot of very good exceptions, but I don't read a lot of fic that describe Zoe, or Boomer, or Storm as the beautiful, desirable, fierce and ass-kickingly gorgeous women they are. On the other hand I read LOTS of fic (actually, I stop reading lots of fic) that spend an inordinate amount of time describing Alex Cabot's milky white skin, blue eyes, and blonde hair as if these are variables in some sort of equation that inevitably equals beautiful/sexy. The best fic doesn't, but the best fic is obviously the exception to the rule.

I know that femslash is mainly about teh sex, but the best fic manages to deal with complex issues and still give us the hot GOGA as well.

Also, I have to say that my flist is doing more than its part to right this imbalance. Which is one of the many reasons you're my flist. :)

Today is the rec of the implicit hawt. Or the implied hawt. Or the writing that's so hawt I don't need the sex.

Yes, I've been away for a bit and I'm sure I missed a LOT, but I didn't miss this BSG gem:

first, one of my favorite writers of.all.time. is back in action:
Parade Rest by liz_estrada is Starbuck/Cain, PG posted at getyourtoaster. Yes, you read that rating correctly. I'm actually reccing something non-NC-17 and for very good reason. Remember when I mentioned all of the hawts above that do not correspond to sticky, sweaty sex? They all refer to this fic. This is some incredibly nuanced Kara characterization. And, more incredibly, some brilliantly nuanced Cain characterization that just nails the far more experienced, manipulative, and just strategically brilliant Cain who sizes Kara up in a few paragraphs better than the writers at BSG have managed in 2 seasons.

The way liz_estrada splits Kara/Starbuck into two personalities with different needs and drives is just inspired:
Kara examines the shiny pins with a mixture of wonder and suspicion.

Starbuck does not want them and Kara is proud to have them; Starbuck longs to fling them out an airlock and Kara wants to pin them to her clean, starched uniform and stand before her mother as Captain Thrace of the Colonial Fleet, Air Guard Commander of the Mercury Class Battlestar Pegasus – just to see the old bitch ball her impotent fists and bite her tongue in apoplectic rage.

Very deftly done. And so fucking Kara/Starbuck.
When in you're in the military, the routines and regulations are deeply imbedded in everything you do and are and Ms. Estrada captures it all brilliantly, right down to the ten inches of difference between at attention and at ease. It's this kind of detail (the show don't tell of characterization) that separates the brilliant fic, from the good.

also this:

If she disappoints Helena Cain, there will be no hugs, no tearful reconciliation - there will be dark, irrevocable consequences. She is gambling with her life, and there is no way to fold out of the game. With this realization comes a tickling thrill, a whisper of exhilaration cooling along her tight, sweaty back.



...gah! Did I mention the hawt? You know what? Just go, read. leave lots of love.

Apparently, end of the semester=crack!fic time. *looks up* thank you ghod...or, yunno, whatever's up there.

Fragments Of Lines Written On The Bathroom Walls In Ten Different Fandoms by fox1013 should come with a warning label because it's so damn funny you may soil yourself. Or spit food. Or something potentially damaging to furniture and/or equipment.
My favorite is from
"05. Watcher's Council Headquarters, Rome, third floor"

Faith is a slut!!!
Faith, stop writing that.
but they're all so LMAO you might just hurt yourself.

also,

thrace_ is writing a Star Wars uber Alias (what?) Sydney/Rachel, Mature that hits all my kinks: action, romance, and hot chicks with light sabers kicking ass. Episode I and Episode II so far. Warning: WIP.

and crack!tastic for entirely different reasons, trancer21's Business or Pleasure is SVU/CSI Alex Cabot/Sara Sidle, NC-17. trancer21 does wonderful things with language, plot, incredibly evocative rapid-fire scenes and imagery to tell a fantastically hot and complex story in 1808 words. Plus, Sara/Alex!! Apparently Witness Protection takes Ms. Cabot all over the country, putting her in contact with so many hotties. But seriously, this is a fantastic read. And FINALLY kickass takemattersintoherownhands Alex returns!

I know I promised no more spam tonight and I have this gigantic BSG mega-rec to do, but I have a ton of reading to avoid and I read this and it just blew my fucking mind:

The Book of Ambition by aeonian, Roslin/Cain, R. on getyourtoaster. This is just exquisite writing. Brilliant characterization of both Roslin and Cain and a truly amazing turn at the end that parallels Kara and Cain so beautifully. And all of it in 2nd person, the most difficult thing on earth to write. This is the magic people:

You spend your days preparing children for power. They ask what they can be when they grow up, and you say they can be President.

No one ever told you that.

It's hot and smart, just like Roslin.


Go. Leave the love.