Schedule and Rules 2026

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Mod e-mail: eifemod@gmail.com

Schedule for 2026

Nominations open: April 5th
Nominations close: April 12th

Sign-ups open: April 14th
Sign-ups close: April 26th

Assignments due: June 8th

Works revealed: June 20th
Creators revealed: June 27th

All times are 8PM GMT+1. Timezone converter


Concept

Everything is Femslash is an exchange focused on F/F romantic and/or sexual relationships where the characters are either canonically female or genderbent (cis and trans are both welcome). Matching is on fandom, relationship and medium. Minimum for fic is 1000 words and minimum for art is a finished artwork (more details in the rules). There are no maximums.

All participants must be 18+ and have an AO3 account.



Nominations

You can nominate up to 10 fandoms with up to 10 relationships each.

Any ship configuration is allowed to be nominated, since in the end it will be F/F. For example, F/F is already F/F, M/NB will become F/F, M/M/F will become F/F/F and so on.

Original works are allowed and can be nominated in the shape of "Type of character A / Type of character B" under the fandom “Original Work”. For example, "Pizza delivery girl / Customer with no money", or "Trans Vampire / Cis Werewolf" will all be assumed to be F/F. Please don't nominate disambiguated non-female genders, such as "Male Elf / Female Human" since that would be unnecessarily confusing.

Please nominate in the shape "A/B (Name of Fandom)". Example: instead of nominating the official tag "Nanjo Kojiro | Joe/Shindo Ainosuke | Adam", nominate it as "Nanjo Kojiro/Shindo Ainosuke (SK8 the Infinity)".

Crossovers should be nominated in the format “Character A (fandom) / Character B (fandom)” under the fandom “Crossover Works”. Example: Shiv Roy (Succession)/Alicent Hightower (House of the Dragon)

Original Character and Any Character noms are allowed. Please note that "Any" will be understood to mean any canon character, not just those in the tagset.

For canons that have an "All Media Types" fandom tag, both "All Media Types" and specific versions are accepted. However, if you request AMT, you cannot use the "Optional Details" section of the sign-up form to force your creator to use a specific version.

RPF will not be allowed at this time (pro-wrestling is fine).


Sign-ups: Requests

You can make 1-10 requests. Each request should have 1 fandom, 1-10 relationships, 1-4 mediums. You may repeat fandoms with different relationships / mediums. The accepted mediums are:

• Fic - with sexual content
• Fic - no sexual content
• Art - with sexual content
• Art - no sexual content.

The minimum number of required fandoms is 1. However, you must request at minimum 3 unique fandoms to be guaranteed a gift. This means that if you are a pinch hit by the time of work reveals and you have requested less than 3 unique fandoms, reveals will not be delayed for you.

Please use the "Optional Details" section of the form to include your DNW and any likes, prompts, feelings about the ship/medium that you would like to convey to your creator.

Your DNW (Do Not Want) should be things that would ruin a gift for you and must be included in the sign-up form in order to be enforced. In this context, "enforced" means that if your gift includes any of your DNW, you will get a new one.

DNWs will not be enforced if they are in the following conditions:

• vague and judgemental (example: "gross kinks")
• box your creator into one thing (example: "stories that are not a high fantasy AU")
• unreasonable DNW (example: "dnw: ninjas" in a Naruto request)
• not in the sign-up form (example: DNWs that are only in the letter)
• contradictory to the request (example: "dnw: incest" in a siblings ship request)

Sign-ups: Offers

You can make 1-10 offers. Each offer should have 1 fandom, 1-10 relationships, 1-4 medium types. You may repeat fandoms with different relationships / mediums.


Do not match requests

If you do not want to match with a specific person, you can e-mail the mod with:

• your ao3 username
• the ao3 username of the person you don’t want to match with
• if you don’t want to create for them
• if you don’t want them to create for you
• what should happen if you are a pinch hit and they offer to create for you

Matching

Matching is done on a combination of 1 fandom, 1 relationship and 1 medium.

"All Media Types" will match with "All Media Types" and specific versions will match with specific versions.

If you are unmatchable (that is, there is no one you can create for because no one requested anything that you offered), the mod will contact you via your ao3 e-mail so that you can adjust your offers. If you don't want to adjust them or don't reply within 24 hours, the sign-up will be deleted.


Assignments

Works must posted in the F/F category since they must focus on one of the requested ships, which are by definition of the exchange already F/F. For example, if the request is Batman/Joker, your work will be F!Batman/F!Joker. Background relationships of other types are fine unless otherwise specified in the request.

Fic must be at least 1000 words and be a complete work on itself (must have a beginning, middle and end). Minimum for art is a finished artwork on unlined paper or digital equivalent — this may be a polished sketch, clean lineart or lineless painting, pixel art, papercraft, etc, depending on your style. Comics are included in the art medium. There are no maximums for any medium.

You can create for the request you matched on or for any of the other requests of the person you matched with, but keep in mind that may have different mediums/ratings/DNWs. For example, if you matched on Falin/Marcille fic and the person also requested Gimli/Legolas art, you can make the Gimli/Legolas art. You cannot, however, make Falin/Marcille art or Gimli/Legolas fic. The same applies to the “with sexual content” / “no sexual content” part of the medium tag and the DNWs.

Works must avoid the recipient's DNWs. If you have doubts about the DNW or don’t think it is enforceable, please e-mail the mods so that we can resolve the problem early.

If you have questions for your recipient, you can e-mail the mods, who will forward the question to the participant and then get back to you, in order to keep anonymity. Do not contact the recipient about it, even if you are friends.

Use of generative AI is not allowed in works for this exchange.


Defaulting

If you must default for any reason, you can hit the "default" button on the assignment so that a pinch hit may be requested. You don't have to explain yourself. If you default, you won't be guaranteed a gift.

If you are a no-show at the deadline, that is, did not default and did not submit an assignment either by the time works are due, you'll be banned from next year's round.


Pinch Hits

Pinch hits will be posted to this dreamwidth community. The collection will not be revealed until everyone who is entitled to a gift gets one (that is, everyone who posted their assignment on Ao3 and, if they're a PH, requested at least 3 unique fandoms).

If you are a PH as the deadline approaches, you can contact the mod to add extra requests with fandoms/relationships. This is completely up to you, though; do not feel forced to ask for anything you don't want.

Note on "unique fandoms": Closely-related fandoms which share a universe and similar adaptations of the same story may be nominated individually, but will not be counted as separate fandoms for the purposes of the gift guarantee. For example, "Les Misérables - Victor Hugo" and "Les Misérables (2012)" will count as the same fandom, but "Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle" and "Sherlock (TV)" will not because 19th century vs contemporary is a big setting change. "Original Works" counts as 1 fandom.


Treats

Treats do not have the same minimum requirements as assignments, but they should still abide by the same criteria that would be used to match on them and respect the DNW in the request, unless otherwise specified in the Optional Details of the request. If a request does not specify not wanting treats, you can assume that it is okay to make a treat for them.

Note: to be able to receive a treat, the option "Allow anyone to gift me works" should be enabled in Preferences > Collections, Challenges and Gifts. Depending on when your account was created this might be the default setting.


Work reveals

Enjoy!

If your gift hits one of your DNWs, please contact the mod so that an emergency pinch hit can be requested.


Comments

Please comment on your gift! It's okay if you take a while to get to it, however, if you haven't commented before the sign-up phase of next year's round, you will not be eligible to sign up again. This rule was already in place during the previous round, so please take that into account before signing up.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Very excited about this exchange! I'm really happy to see a femslash exchange that's open to gender ending -- it's something I've wanted for ages.

I've got a bit of a rules question: I am interested in having a character genderbent to be a tran woman, but I'm not interested in cis genderbent takes on that character. Would specifying that be baked into nominations, like with the original works (A/Trans B)? Or would that fall under DNWs (do not want cis genderbends for character B)? The latter seems more likely to me, but I do want to double-check before nominating!

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Glad you're excited! That would fall under DNWs. :)