#femslash shipping

Good news! The invite request form is now on-site, right on the get invited page. No need to open an external link any longer! New users will be able to go to the get invited page and type the information I need to approve accounts directly into the invite queue form. It will be much easier for both potential new users and me to get Sunset accounts up and running. Thank you to Melo of Superlove for the guide.

Now that Sunset has been polished a bit more, and has implemented this feature, maybe now is a good time to officially ask others to spread the word about Sunset? Originally, Sunset was promoted by someone else (with good intentions!) before it was ready to go to the wider fannish communities. But in yet another year of femslash being underrepresented, ignored, and hated on, creating an archive specifically catered to femslash fanworks was something I have always considered important. While we love AO3, and the other archives, they are often filled predominantly with works of other categories and femslash is something that many people have to go out of their way to find, wading through filters and exclusions and muting. Nope, not anymore---

Hey, we're Sunset. We're a femslash archive. We run on the same code as AO3, and we love new users. We have a few things AO3 doesn't, most notably status updates, more prompt slots for prompt challenges, a random user button, and more.

We allow F/F, NB/F, and NB/NB works (please read our FAQ if you have any questions or concerns!). We allow genderbends/genderswaps/cisswaps of other characters (you may have heard otherwise; the change was implemented due to heavily appreciated feedback from the community!).

We allow all content within those categories besides the following (for legal trouble reasons): 1) explicitly sexual RPF of real individuals under the age of 18 or 2) explicitly sexual photorealistic artwork of characters under the age of 16.

The only other rules are that this is exclusively an 18+ archive; no minors may join; and you must agree with anti-harassment and anti-censorship ideals, and leave a statement in your application affirming so, in order to get an account. The invite queue page has a form with instructions on how to do this.

So! If you're interested, check us out, and request an invite here! Invites are currently being sent out every 1-2 days.

I was tagged by @the-batty-beater​ to do this femslash tag. Thanks for tagging me, so appropriate for this month. :D

Rules: List 5-10 of your favourite femslash ships, gifs are optional.

1. Max/Anne Bonny - Black Sails

2. Margaery/Sansa - Game of Thrones

3. Syd/Elena - One Day At A Time

4. Arizona/Callie - Grey’s Anatomy

5. Iris/Caitlin - The Flash (2014)

6. Jessica/Trish - Jessica Jones

7. Toni/Cheryl - Riverdale

8. Nyssa/Laurel - Arrow

9. Ola/Lily - Sex Education

10. June/Serena Joy - The Handmaid’s Tale (I know it’d be twisted given their canon interactions but I still like the idea of them together for its complexity).

Hey! We have a shiny new logo in the center of the site! I commissioned it from Burgirl on vgen and I highly recommend you to check out their work. I think it looks super cute. Thank you burgirl!

As Sunset grows in ways I never expected it to, I find it necessary to purchase a larger home for the site---a beefier server that will be faster and smoother and better, that can carry us through more and more growth if I am lucky enough to see that happen. If you enjoy Sunset and wish to help improve it, you can donate below.

All funds that do not go to the server will go to the other costs of running Sunset:

New server with tax and shipping included will be around $1934. I have already set aside about $1k for this. Domain costs about $15 a year. Email server plan will cost around $17 a month. We currently are on the free plan which only allows about 200 emails a day, so I'd like to upgrade, especially since I plan on fixing kudos emails soon. Backblaze (which holds our backups) costs $6 per terabyte per month. We have not yet reached a TB in backups, but it will probably happen somewhat soon as backups are done daily.

This means running Sunset will cost about $350 or so per year, unless we suddenly get AO3-Level big.

My Ko-Fi is below. Please do not feel as if you must (obviously.) This is just for those who would like to help out. Thank you all for considering, reading, and boosting.

If you don't know what Sunset is, tl;dr we're a fanfiction archive dedicated to F/F ships and sapphic NB/F and NB/NB ships. We run on the same code AO3 does. We're as anti-harassment and anti-censorship as AO3 is with only a few content policy exceptions that stem from me not having the same legal team AO3 does (save your ass rules, basically.) You can read more here and join our Discord here. If you're just learning about us, please feel free to check us out and maybe join, we'd love to have you.

Sunset Archive now has a Discord!

If you have an account on Sunset, come hang out with us! If you don't have an account, come request one and hang out with us!