Stranger Things Femslash

Stranger Things Femslash is a Tumblr blog dedicated to all the femslash pairings in the Stranger Things fandom.
==Stranger Things Femslash Week==
The first Stranger Things Femslash week ran from April 10-16 2023, using daily prompts voted on by the community on Tumblr. 
*Monday, April 10 - Women’s Wrongs
*Tuesday, April 11 - Hurt/Comfort
*Wednesday, April 12 - 80s Gay Culture
*Thursday, April 13 - Soulmates
*Friday, April 14 - Smut
*Saturday, April 15 - Came Back Wrong/Monsters
*Sunday, April 16 - Free Choice
===FAQ===
Any kind of fanwork that could exist in rebloggable format was accepted for the week — art, fics, gifsets, headcanons, tattoos, mood boards to give just a few examples — and fans who were not creating were encouraged to join in by liking, reblogging, and commenting on people's works.
NSFW and underage were both allowed, but the moderator asked that good faith efforts were made to correctly tag submissions.
Genderswapping characters was allowed for submissions, and the moderator posed some discussion points and questions around genderswapping, including why sometimes genderswapping did not always seem to be in the spirit of femslash events.
Read the entire FAQ here
=== Collection and Event Stats ===
A collection was set up on Archive of Our Own and 76 fanworks were added to the collection for April 2023. 
At the end of the event, the moderators released some stats from the event including:
*Dead Girls - Works with one or more of the canonically dead characters: Barb, Chrissy, and Heather.
*Who Got Railed the Most? - Which characters appeared most in works tagged smut or rated explicit.
*Rarepair Stats - Which rarepairs were written about and how this affected their tags on AO3.
==Femslash Focused Bookmarks Collection==
In May 2023, the moderators set-up Bookmark collections on AO3 to help readers find fics where the femslash pairing were the focus of the story. Femslash pairings in Stranger Things often end up as background pairings; this resource was to help people avoid the frustration that often came with searching for their preferred pairing in works.
====The Collections====
Collections for the following femslash pairings were created:
*Chrissy/Nancy - Collection here
*Chrissy/Robin - Collection here
*El/Max - Collection here
*Heather/Robin - Collection here
*Nancy/Barb - Collection here
*Robin/Melissa - Collection here
*Vickie/Robin - Collection here
*Nancy/Robin - Collection here
*Chrissy/Heather - Collection here
*Joyce/Karen - Collection here
====Policy for Inclusion====
The collections operated on an inclusive policy with the only stipulation being that the femslash pairing had to be the primary focus of the fanwork. There were no controls around content, quality, happy ends, representation or anything else.
The one change to this came in September 2023, when the moderators updated the policy to exclude Anonymous Explicit rated works.
This was almost certainly in response to a very prolific poster in the Robin Buckley/Nancy Wheeler tag who had recently begun to post anonymously. Many of the fandom had muted them due to feeling that their works overwhelmed the tag and indications that many of their works were plagiarised, so they felt that this move to posting anonymously was an effort to get around this muting.
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