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Femslash February, Day 23
Feb. 23rd, 2025 09:27 pmFic recs today! Some of my fave femslash fics read last year!
dead flowers in the sand by glasslilies (Gideon the Ninth, Cytherea/Loveday, T, 2721 words)
Driven to insanity after trying to plant a bomb on a Resurrection Beast, Cytherea recovers on the Mithraeum and reminisces about Loveday.
Cytherea Loveday was retrieved from her deep-space shuttle and asked if she would need the mercy of a rapier’s point and a body bag.
She was babbling incoherently in an unholy tongue when they freed her from her coffin of metal and plex, squalling like an infant that had intuitively decided that it wanted to inflict permanent ear damage on everybody within a ten kilometre radius—but she supposed that she must have answered in the firm negative, because the next time Cytherea woke up, she was safely ensconced in blankets and bound to her bed while a dark figure with a smattering of rust on his scalp and jaw presided over her indisposed form.
Very poetic writing, very detailed analysis with the little we had, very touching.
the executioner's within me (sword in hand) by inkpoisonblood (Demon Slayer, Shinobu/Tamayo, T, 1270 words)
There is a calendar in the corner counting down days.
There is a time limit. There is a deadline. There is an Insect Hashira with poison for blood and wreckage for a heart, and eyes like moonlight on wisteria in full bloom. Killing herself slowly, but Tamayo cannot fault her for her rage when it’s something they both share.
She is ready to die.
or
the parallels between kochou shinobu and lady tamayo.
The ladies had a mad-scientists-forced-to-work-together arc and it was all offscreen, while it was exactly my thing, and I was dying to find a good fic for it, and I did! It's here!
Careful What You Wish For by Omnicat (Darker than Black, Amber/Pai and Amber/Hei, not rated)
A magical girl going only by ‘Amber’ saves Li Xing from a Witch. The human race is never the same afterwards.
a Puella Magi Madoka Magica fusion
This starts like an interesting and fun AU for someone who knows both fandoms (like I do). Amber/Pai is a really rare ship and my fave.
And it ends with a twist that I very much loved.
A Fall in Three Parts by RussetFiredrake (Cristabel (Coleridge), Christabel/Geraldine, Explicit noncon, 5355 words)
When Geraldine rides away, Christabel thinks perhaps she has escaped her thrall. Her hope only rises when her fiancé comes to marry her.
But she has not escaped. She may have never even come close.
You know the poem is unfinished? Someone wrote me an ending! It's dark, it's poetic, it's sensual, it's evil, it plays with mind control and the ambiguity of memories exactly how I love!
dead flowers in the sand by glasslilies (Gideon the Ninth, Cytherea/Loveday, T, 2721 words)
Driven to insanity after trying to plant a bomb on a Resurrection Beast, Cytherea recovers on the Mithraeum and reminisces about Loveday.
Cytherea Loveday was retrieved from her deep-space shuttle and asked if she would need the mercy of a rapier’s point and a body bag.
She was babbling incoherently in an unholy tongue when they freed her from her coffin of metal and plex, squalling like an infant that had intuitively decided that it wanted to inflict permanent ear damage on everybody within a ten kilometre radius—but she supposed that she must have answered in the firm negative, because the next time Cytherea woke up, she was safely ensconced in blankets and bound to her bed while a dark figure with a smattering of rust on his scalp and jaw presided over her indisposed form.
Very poetic writing, very detailed analysis with the little we had, very touching.
the executioner's within me (sword in hand) by inkpoisonblood (Demon Slayer, Shinobu/Tamayo, T, 1270 words)
There is a calendar in the corner counting down days.
There is a time limit. There is a deadline. There is an Insect Hashira with poison for blood and wreckage for a heart, and eyes like moonlight on wisteria in full bloom. Killing herself slowly, but Tamayo cannot fault her for her rage when it’s something they both share.
She is ready to die.
or
the parallels between kochou shinobu and lady tamayo.
The ladies had a mad-scientists-forced-to-work-together arc and it was all offscreen, while it was exactly my thing, and I was dying to find a good fic for it, and I did! It's here!
Careful What You Wish For by Omnicat (Darker than Black, Amber/Pai and Amber/Hei, not rated)
A magical girl going only by ‘Amber’ saves Li Xing from a Witch. The human race is never the same afterwards.
a Puella Magi Madoka Magica fusion
This starts like an interesting and fun AU for someone who knows both fandoms (like I do). Amber/Pai is a really rare ship and my fave.
And it ends with a twist that I very much loved.
A Fall in Three Parts by RussetFiredrake (Cristabel (Coleridge), Christabel/Geraldine, Explicit noncon, 5355 words)
When Geraldine rides away, Christabel thinks perhaps she has escaped her thrall. Her hope only rises when her fiancé comes to marry her.
But she has not escaped. She may have never even come close.
You know the poem is unfinished? Someone wrote me an ending! It's dark, it's poetic, it's sensual, it's evil, it plays with mind control and the ambiguity of memories exactly how I love!
