By Zeus Parker

[startrekfemslashweek]

Star Trek Femslash Week!

Welcome! This is a blog dedicated to the relationships between the women of Star Trek. This blog is run by two queer women who love femslash and everything Star Trek. Whether you ship Saffi, Jola, Cha’an, B7, Kiradax, Troisha, Borgnes, J7, or T’Lyndi and the many more amazing femslash couples out there, we invite you to follow us and consider participate in Star Trek Femslash Week!

On 1st May 2023 we will be releasing a participation survey to see how many people are interested in the event. This will be open for 2 weeks.

On 15th May 2023 we will open up prompt suggestions for 1 week so we can gather all your ideas.

On 22nd May 2023 voting will be open for the prompts for 1 week!  The prompts with the most votes will make it through.

On 1st June 2023 the prompt list will be out!  Start those plot bunnies up and begin typing and drawing!

3rd – 9th of September 2023 we will post daily and reblog all of the amazing works produced. 

Please tag your work as startrekfemslashweek2023 and we also will be opening up a collection on AO3 if you would like to add your fics to it.

Thank you all and please, follow, reblog, spread the word, and have a good time!

[voyagerafod]

For anyone who may be interested.

[voyagerafod]

Thank you to everyone who got me to 100 likes!

[letterful]

actually, no, i do have something to add. if your work of fanfiction can be easily rebranded and sold as original fiction, then it was never good fanfiction in the first place—and, in all probability, it won’t make for good original fiction either. i have a lot of love and respect for all kinds of derivative works (unsurprisingly, considering my perennial love affair with postmodernism), but i also believe that the superior fics are the ones that actively and continuously engage with their source material (and so it wouldn’t be possible for anyone to scratch their serial numbers off without damaging their integrity). something something mutualism (the derivative work deconstructing and expanding on the source material and so keeping it alive) as opposed to parasitism (thinking you can simply lift your blorbos wholesale and run but failing to realise that uprooting them from their respective stories will render them but a shadow of a reflection of their original selves).

[voyagerafod]

AFoD could never work as anything other than a Voyager story, and that's a good thing.

[voyagerafod]

Which of the Voyager ships from last year's Rarepair Tournament is your favorite?

Context: https://twitter.com/TrekRarepairWar/<br><br>Some of the characters in these polls aren't from Voyager but are shipped with Voyager characters so they go here.

Sarina Douglas/Seven of Nine

Beverly Crusher/B'Elanna Torres

Harry/Tom/B'Elanna (how this ended up a rare one I don't know)

Seven of Nine/Samantha Wildman

Kathryn Janeway/Kes

K'Ehleyr/B'Elanna Torres

Joe Carey/Seven of Nine

Harry Kim/Tuvok

Just show me the results

Voting ended onFeb 17, 2023

[voyagerafod]

“It's the FINAL ROUND! #DeepSpaceNine vs. #Voyager! Established friends vs. only ever shared one scene together ever! #TrekRarepairTournament Poll in the reply. Have fun, and let's see if we can blow the vote count for the other rounds out of the stars. ;)”

[voyagerafod]

Star Trek Rarepair Tournament on Twitter

“December 21st. It begins. The final match of the Star Trek Rarepair Tournament. Nog/Jake Sisko vs. Seven of Nine/Samantha Wildman*. *Couldn't find a screencap from that episode that didn't have the EMH in it too. This was literally the only screentime they ever shared.”

Holy [bleep]! Seven/Samantha is going to be in the Final Round! What?!

[voyagerafod]

Star Trek Rarepair Tournament on Twitter

“Round 4, the penultimate round, begins now. Polls in the replies as always, 5 days as always. Let's do this. With Cretak/Kira out of the running, I've honestly no idea what the favorite to take the crown is anymore.”

Round 4, and amazingly, Sam x Seven is still in it!

[voyagerafod]

Star Trek Rarepair Tournament on Twitter

“Round 3 voting starts today, polls in the replies. DS9 vs DS9! Two B'Elanna Torres ships go head to head! Our last throuple vs. our only TOS! I don't have a good one for the last match! Let's make this one really exciting folks. :) 5 day poll, as per usual.”

Round 3 started yesterday. Sam/Seven is currently holding a lead up against Garak/SIsko.

[voyagerafod]

Star Trek Rarepair Tournament on Twitter

“Round 2 begins now. 5 days. 8 polls (in the replies). The #TrekRarepairShowdown continues. Hit it. :)”

Round 2 is off to the races, and Seven/Samantha are still in the fight after crushing the runoff. With all of 2 votes, but still ;)

[voyagerafod]

“It begins now. Round 1 of the Star Trek Rarepair Tournament. Please signal boost if you can, cast your vote for your preferred of two ships in each poll. Polls themselves begin in the replies. Voting will be open for 5 days instead of the originally planned 3. Have fun, shippers.”

Seven and Samantha are in the running in the 13th match in the thread. SO far they’re ahead of Cornwell/Georgiou but there’s only three votes and 5 days left on the poll.

[voyagerafod]

Round 1 ended with a tie between Seven/Samantha and Cornwell/Georgious, but there’s a run off going now. It ends in 2 days.

https://twitter.com/TrekRarepairWar/status/1598109598560706560

Of course, whoever wins the runoff will be going up against K’Ehleyr/Deanna so I don’t like our chances going into Round 3, but still. Getting past Round 1 with a pairing that hardly anybody seemed to think of pre-2015...

[voyagerafod]

“It begins now. Round 1 of the Star Trek Rarepair Tournament. Please signal boost if you can, cast your vote for your preferred of two ships in each poll. Polls themselves begin in the replies. Voting will be open for 5 days instead of the originally planned 3. Have fun, shippers.”

Seven and Samantha are in the running in the 13th match in the thread. SO far they’re ahead of Cornwell/Georgiou but there’s only three votes and 5 days left on the poll.

[traxanaxanos]

A while ago I commissioned @starfleetspacecadet​ and they did this fantastic piece of Seven hanging out with the Wildmans! (Or, Seven assisting Samantha with some xenobiology research and Naomi doing her best to also assist). It’s wonderful, please gaze upon it.

I’m trilled to pieces with it! :)

[incorrectvoyagerquotes]

Samantha Wildman: Since you’re here you could come in and we can reenact Portrait of a Lady on Fire.

Seven of Nine: Eh, I can’t really draw. Can we do Bound?

Samantha Wildman: Yes! I love Bound! And not just for the sexy parts, it’s, like, a really good movie.

Seven of Nine: I think it’s the Wachowski’s best movie, personally. I much prefer it to The Matrix.

Samantha Wildman: Soooo much better than The Matrix!

[incorrectvoyagerquotes]

No big deal, this video was the result of yours truly. Well, I only pitched the last part but the rest of the video spun of from that.

[voyagerafod]

A very nice person in the comments who actually isn’t me (but I did thank them) shouted out AFoD.

[voyagerafod]

Source: https://twitter.com/warpedimpulse/status/1465009635400634371

Not Sam/Seven but still sweet.

[incorrectvoyagerquotes]

“There will always be women in rubber flirting with me! Give me a break!”

—

Seven of Nine

[sevensoccularimplant]

Now I need to see Seven of Nine sing “Take Me or Leave Me” from RENT. But who would play Joanne?

[voyagerafod]

Ensign Samantha Wildman, duh. ;)

[bwideau]

Been posting a lot of Star Wars lately, I don’t want my Trekkies to feel neglected :(

Here’s a Seven with uuuuuh...... Borg... cat ears...? I don’t know either but she’s cute so

[voyagerafod]

And I think we all know whose lipstick that is. ;)