regshoe

For FemslashEx I was assigned to write for the very intriguing ship Arien/Original Female Balrog in the Silmarillion. I really enjoyed writing this! I've been fannish about Tolkien for years and years but had never written any fic for it before, so getting an opportunity to dip my toe into writing Silm fic was great fun—and this ship was such an amazing idea, I had to see where it might go...

From the beginning a spirit of fire (1557 words) by regshoe
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Arien/Original Female Balrog
Characters: Arien (Tolkien), Original Female Character(s)
Summary:

Sunrise over Middle-earth brings with it a memory.

Dear Femslashex Author,

Thank you for writing me a fic for one of these lovely femslash pairings! I'm regshoe on AO3. I've written a little bit below about why I love these fandoms and ships, and given some prompts, but if you have a different idea you'd love to write then go ahead—I'll look forward to seeing whatever you come up with!

Some general likes: A strong sense of place; relationships between characters and places; descriptions of nature; birds; historical detail; magic and the supernatural, especially otherworldly fairy-folklorish stuff; ghosts and hauntings.

In shipfic I like:
—Characters finding comfort and a sense of rest in each other, especially amidst a hostile world or plot-related struggles; a sense that the characters are 'each other's people'
—Loyalty: characters who are unfailingly loyal to each other; characters facing conflicting loyalties, or struggling to choose between their existing loyalties and their feelings for another character
—Characters who are emotionally closed-off, defensively cynical after getting hurt in the past, a little too self-reliant, etc., opening up emotionally as they slowly come to trust another character. Learning to love, and learning to be loved
—Hurt/comfort! Characters seeing the person they love get hurt and realising how much they care about them, or revealing their feelings in their reaction; characters receiving comfort and realising how much they're loved
—Quietly significant physical intimacy: handholding, long hugs, cuddling, hair-stroking, that thing where one character sits in a chair and the other curls up on the floor and rests their head on the first character's knee

Do Not Wants: Graphic violence or body horror; explicit sex (implied/fade-to-black is fine); rape; AUs that place the characters in a different setting (canon divergence is fine, as is adding supernatural/fantasy elements to a mundane canon setting); infidelity; poly ships that add unrequested characters to my requested ships

A note: I realise several of the characters here are in canon ships that conflict with the ones I'm requesting. I would rather not receive either infidelity or unrequested poly ships, but otherwise deal with canon love interests however you like—ignore them entirely, write an AU where they were only ever friends, say they broke up, kill them off offstage, etc. A few more specific suggestions in the prompts.

All requests are for fic.

( Fandoms are Jill - E. A. Dillwyn, Lord Peter Wimsey - Dorothy L. Sayers, Return to Night - Mary Renault and Crossover: Sir Isumbras at the Ford - D. K. Broster/The Yellow Poppy - D. K. Broster )

Femslash Exchange author reveals have happened! I did not sign up to this one, but when I saw a request for this fandom I had to write something...

Flowers of the Ivy (3451 words) by regshoe
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Lolly Willowes - Sylvia Townsend Warner
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Laura Willowes/Original Female Character
Characters: Laura Willowes, Original Female Character(s)
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Nature, Seasonal Spirits and Guardians
Summary:

Settling into her life as a witch at Great Mop, Laura makes an unexpected new acquaintance.

I got to really indulge in the detailed nature descriptions here, so it was great fun to write :D And of course a good opportunity to explore Laura's post-canon life in a book that certainly seems to invite a femslashy interpretation.