2018 online short SFF f/f recs

This is sort of related to a conversation about overtly gay reccing: I have tried here to pull out all of the stories I recced that have f/f content, mostly with whatever I said about them originally. Please note that I might have missed some and I might be misremembering something, I read a lot of stories and it's easy to conflate.

Seedlings, Audrey R. Hollis, Strange Horizons. Magical realism about change and relationships. Josh, still a squick warning.

Tamales in Space, and Other Phrases For the Beginning Speaker, Gabriela Santiago, Strange Horizons. (Well, okay, two stories in, this has become complicated: I'm reading Carmela and Venessa as together but they could just be friends/business partners.)

Missed Connections, Alena Flick, Strange Horizons. Sweet small story about interpersonal interaction.

Contingency Plans for the Apocalypse, S.B. Divya, Uncanny. (What about f/f/m relationships? What about stories that kill some of their LGBTQ characters?)

How to Swallow the Moon, Isabel Yap, Uncanny. A fairy tale set in the Philippines; love between a girl in a tower and her handmaid. NOVELETTE.

Nitrate Nocturnes, Ruth Joffre, Lightspeed. A timer story in Lightspeed!. This is a beloved premise in fanfic and I'm always interested to see what pro fic does with the same ideas. NOVELETTE

Waterbirds, G.V. Anderson, Lightspeed. A robot lady, her boss, and her lover. Really good.

Mouths, Lizz Huerta, Lightspeed. Vivid postapocalyptic magical realism.

The Word of Flesh and Soul, Ruthanna Emrys, Tor.com. Grad school, now with extra bonus life-distorting properties! This is really good. NOVELETTE

Recoveries, Susan Palwick, Tor.com. (And then there's this one, which is definitely not f/f, but is about the complicated friendship between two women, to the extent that I think that someone who wants stories that center women and their relationships with other women might still be like, yeah, okay, that was relevant to my interests.) NOVELETTE

The Starfish Girl, Maureen McHugh, Slate/Future Tense Fiction. (Likewise, in fandom one might call this "pre-slash", even though there's no overt f/f content here. If you read it and ship the two female main characters, does the rec become f/f even if the story wasn't?)

Fireskin, Joanne Rixon, Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Neat chronic-illness metaphor.

If At First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again, Zen Cho, the B&N Sci-Fi and Fantasy Blog. (Yet another dubious inclusion on this list! The POV character is a nonhuman proto-dragon and uses "it" as a pronoun. Partway through the story, that character then takes human-ish form and gets involved with a human woman, who thinks of herself as starting a relationship with another woman, and the POV character doesn't seem to mind this or feel misgendered. So, it's not f/f, it's f/genderless creature who doesn't mind taking on a human gender role for social purposes. I'm guessing the person I made this list for will be amused by this story and will not mind my having put it on this list. In other contexts I might not.)

2018 people awards (my nominees)

Pro Artists:
Yuko Shimizu (doing the covers for Yang's Tensorate books)
Jon Foster (did the awesome cover for Gods Monsters and the Lucky Peach)
Rovina Cai (I looked through Rocketstackrank's artists list and liked her stuff)
Julie Dillon (I know, this is the world's most boring nom but she's just so good)
Patrick Masson (did a cool sculpture or maybe a 3D virtual sculpture I'm not sure)

Fan Artists:
fuck it I can't figure out who's a fucking fan artist someone please rework this category
Iguanamouth

Fan Writer:
Charles Payseur (a short-fiction-reviewing powerhouse with thoughtful insight and taste overlapping mine enough to be interesting)

Campbell:
Allison Jamieson-Lucie (a carryover from last year, when she wrote Watershed, one of my favorite stories last year; I liked this year's Sequestration; Vitrification too)
Cadwell Turnbull (wrote "Jump", which I almost nominated for short story)
Eleanna Castroianni (I think the only thing I recced of hers was "Without Exile" but she had a couple of other short stories (listed here) and I like her stuff as a body of work)
Anya Ow (I recced a couple of her stories - "Everything Under Heaven" in the Uncanny dinosaur issue and "Big Mother" in Strange Horizons)

Other stuff:
I added O Human Star for Graphic; I'm never sure what to do with ongoing webcomics, do we have to wait until they're done, do we wait for a print edition, augh, but Ali thought it was worth recommending as a Hugo-relevant graphic thing and I love it and I have the slots, so hey.