Dark Femslash Week
| Challenge | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Dark Femslash Week or darkfemslashweek |
| Date(s): | 2017, 2018, 2020 |
| Moderator(s): | flo-nelja |
| Founder: | flo-nelja |
| Type: | All fanworks and original fiction |
| Fandom: | Pan-fandom Femslash; Darkfic |
| URL: | darkfemslashweek.tumblr.com, Archived version |
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Dark Femslash Week is an annual challenge that encourages participants to create fanworks for a series of themed days. The challenge takes place on tumblr (although creators can link to fanworks posted elsewhere). Dark Femslash Week encourages all contributions, including short works like drabbles and WIPs; as well as accepting all fanworks (including recs, fanvids, fanart, manips, etc) and original F/F stories and art.
The challenge ran in October in 2017 and 2018. After not running in 2019, the challenge moved to February and now coincides with Femslash February.
2017
The first week ran from October 15–21. Throughout the challenge, the moderator also posted fandom statistics for how many f/f works on AO3 were tagged with certain dark themes, like noncon. The additional rules for submission were:
"We’ll take all kind of participations - fic, art, fanmixes, meta, graphics, recs (of fan creations or canons), plot bunnies, headcanons, fan casts, anything! Don’t hesitate to participate even with small things!
[...] Any F/F (or F only poly ship), of F/non-binary character if you feel it works. Always a girl!AUs are in only for last day.The content must have some dark themes. For example, for incest or power imbalance, if you really think it’s a situation that makes it totally okay and healthy, it doesn’t count. It can be resolved, but it must be here. As long as this is respected, if you wonder “does it count?”, it does.
Warn for all kind of sensitive content."[1]
Day One
The theme for Day One was Noncon/Dubcon.
Fills:
- Fic Recs by flo-nelja, Archived version
- Picking Order by anysin, a Star Wars fic, Archived version
- Turn A Blind Eye by Perlumi, a Tokyo Ghoul fic, Archived version
Day Two
The theme for Day Two was Incest.
Fills:
- For Future Reference by anysin (fanfiction)
- fic recs by flo-nelja, Archived version
- Pas de la bonne façon, a french language fic by flo-nelja
Day Three
The theme for Day Three was "Abuse/Power Imbalance".
"Verbal or physical abuse, manipulation, whatever you choose. One-sided or mutual. As every day, you’re the only one who decides whether the power is unbalanced enough for your fic to feature in a dark femslash week event."[2]
Fills:
- Sweet Pretense, a Greek Mythology-based story by anysin
- fic recs, Archived version; Les souvenirs derrière le voile, a Read or Die fic; and Le soin de ses propriétés, a Fullmetal Alchemist fic by flo-nelja
- Dark Femslash Week Day 3 : Power Imbalance, fanart for the Jasper/Lapis pairing from Steven Universe by perlumi-delirium
- feel anything at all, a Harry Potter fic by nooowestayandgetcaught. Narcissa Black/Lily Evans], Archived version
- Moon Shines Red, a Xena fic by Alexandria
Day Four
The theme for Day Four (Oct 18) was "Underage/Big age gaps". The mod specified that "It doesn’t have to be illegal, in your country or in the character’s country, but the age gap or the precocious experiences must be enough to be dark, unhealthy and/or squicky."[3]
Fills:
- Affolements nocturnes, a Cardcaptor Sakura fic; Reccing Claudine à l’école (Colette); fic recs; La confusion des sentiments, a Steven Universe fic; and Reccing Alien Nine by flo-nelja
- Question of Standards, a Kill Bill fic by anysin
Day Five
The theme for Day Five was "Character death".
"The character must be part of a femslash ship. You can of course use the (very frequent T_T) character deaths that we have in our canons, or you can kill new ones - or in different ways. I adore resurrection fics but here it would be cheating. Darkfic is the point!"[4]
Fills:
- Reccing Rg Veda (Clamp), Le monde des vivants, a rewrite of Hawaiian Mythology, and fic recs by flo-nelja
- Dead Girl's Memory, a Final Fantasy VII fic by anysin
2018
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2020
The themes for 2020 varied from previous years, with a series of quotes from poetry serving as the prompts for each day, with a final "free day" at the end. The challenge did not attract as many fills as the previous years.
Daily Themes
"February 17th: “I dreamed that you bewitched me into bedAnd sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane. (I think I made you up inside my head.)” Sylvia Plath, Mad Girl’s Love song
February 18th: “Some kill their love when they are young, And some when they are old” Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of reading Gaol
February 19th: “have you tasted For my sake the fruit forbidden? Must your light like mine be hidden, Your young life like mine be wasted” Christina Rossetti, The Goblin Market
February 20th: “You found me beautiful, like something you saw in a dream, I forgot everything, I forgot my childhood and my homeland, I only knew that your caresses held me captive.” Edith Södergran, Love
February 21st: “I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground. So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind: Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned.” Edna St Vincent Millay, Dirge Without Music
February 22nd: you fit into me like a hook into an eye a fish hook an open eye Margaret Atwood, [you fit into me]
February 23rd: Free Day[5]
Fills
- Soft Regrets, a ficlet for The Haunting of Hill House by anysin
- Drabble - Kasane by flo-nelja (Day 1)
- Drabble - Kasane - Nogiku/Nina by flo-nelja (Day 2)
- Drabble - Kasane - Kasane/Iku by flo-nelja (Day 3)
- Lost in you, a fic of The Magnus Archives by Nelja-in-English (flo-nelja) (Day 4)
- Drabble - Kasane - Kasane/Nina by flo-nelja
- Drabble - Kasane - Kasane/Ichika by flo-nelja