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Title: Heart of Sorrow, Heart of Silver
Author: RoundedLoaf
Reader: kalakirya
Fandom: Nine Worlds
Pairings: none
Rating: teen and up
Summary: For the first time since the Fall, the Grand Duchess of Damara celebrates Silverheart with her family.
content notes: canonical Shallyr terribleness
Length: 00:16:10
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Title: The End of Our Exploring
Author: yunitsa
Reader: kalakirya
Fandom: Nine Worlds
Pairings: Artorin Damara/Cliopher "Kip" Mdang
Rating: teen and up
Summary: In which I finally make my way home.
content notes: none
Length: 00:15:24
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Title: A Letter
Author: breadandroses
Reader: kalakirya
Fandom: Nine Worlds
Pairings: Artorin Damara/Cliopher "Kip" Mdang
Rating: general audiences
Summary: A letter written in Gorjo City, on the occasion of the viceroyship ceremony.
content notes: none
Length: 00:08:00
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Title: with a winged heart
Author: celebros
Reader: kalakirya
Fandom: Nine Worlds / Lays of the Hearthfire
Pairings: Artorin Damara (aka Fitzroy Angursell)/Cliopher "Kip" Mdang
Rating: Explicit
Summary:

"Cliopher. Cliopher. Cliopher."

I blink. It's Conju, standing with his hands on my shoulders, and I go to answer him and realize that I am already speaking, babbling, and Franzel is behind him, wringing his hands and looking near tears. I try to focus on what I'm saying, but it's like a stream, light and splashing past me, too quick to hold, not enough to catch, somehow, somehow –

A few weeks before the start of the viceroyship ceremonies, Kip finds himself the unwitting recipient of a truth serum.

content notes: none
Length: 3:38:49
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Chapter 6 (1:19:58)

Title: Emerald Truth, Three Ways
Author: toffeecape
Reader: kalakirya
Fandom: Lays of the Hearthfire (subset of Nine Worlds)
Pairings: Artorin Damara | Fitzroy Angursell/Cliopher "Kip" Mdang, Adelia Ealoapeha/Cliopher "Kip" Mdang, Cliopher "Kip" Mdang & Conju an Vilius
Rating: Mature
Summary: Three ways truth serum could have been deployed during the Emerald Conspiracy case.
content notes: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Length: 0:47:31
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Title: Seeds of Devotion
Author: Quasar
Reader: kalakirya
Fandom: Nine Worlds
Pairings: Artorin Damara & Cliopher "Kip" Mdang
Rating: gen
Summary: Cliopher's second day as the Emperor's personal secretary is not entirely trouble-free, either.
content notes: none
Length: 0:12:04
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Title: two halves
Author: jasminetea
Reader: kalakirya
Fandom: Mulan (1998)
Pairings: Fa Mulan/Li Shang
Rating: general audiences
Summary:

Some days it sends a small shock through him when Mulan passes him tea and not a sword, that while she still speaks her mind, there is something very different between them.

“Some days I miss Ping.”

content notes: none
Length:0:02:21
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Title: Constructing a Biography
Authorco-creators: bluegeekem and kalakirya
Fandom: Murderbot
Pairings: none
Rating: teen and up
Summary: Murderbot finds the process of creating a biography for the upcoming documentary release... complicated.
content notes: none
Length: 0:17;34
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Title: The Anchorage of One's Soul
Author: celebros
Reader: kalakirya
Fandom: Hands of the Emperor/Nine Worlds
Pairings: Artorin Damara|Fitzroy Angursell/Cliopher "Kip" Mdang
Rating: teen and up
Summary: During their first month all together at the house, Ludvic, Rhodin, and Conju each took a turn at taking Kip aside and asking him about his feelings.
content notes: none
Length: 0:31:50
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Title: Labyrinths & Leviathans
Author: aunt_zelda | aunt_zelda
Readers: shmaylor, blackglass, silverandblue, voiletemerald, littleredrobinhood, wingedwords, and kalakirya | editing by kalakirya;
Fandom: Critical Role C2
Pairings: none
Rating: Teen and Up
Summary: Essek runs a D&D equivalent for the Mighty Nein.
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Length: 0:09:23
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Welp my last stats post was a year late, and this one is more than that, but I'm hoping to catch up and post about 2022's stats soon, so wish me luck on that XD

Well, 2021 was obviously A Shit Time, but I did post 7 hours and 45 minutes of podfic, so go me XD


Basically my year was dominated by two 2+ hour MDZS podfics, with carve-outs for an MCU podfic and a DA:I podfic. Special shout-out to Not A Kind Man, a Spartacus podfic that I asked permission to do in 2019 XD


Yup, not a surprise, given the fandom breakdown, but damnit I keep failing at podficcing less m/m /o\ I managed it in 2020, but very much not in 2021, or  (spoilers) 2022. Working on it for 2023, but so far this year I have posted ZERO podfic, so it's not looking great /o\

In 2019's stats post I realized that I was trying to use this stat to measure both time spent on non-m/m and on non-cis!men, which are related but different stats, so here's the graph for gender of the main character, where "main character" is mostly, but not exclusively, the pov character. It's not a perfect science, and I'm not sure everyone would agree with who I've designated as "main character", but it's a thing I'm experimenting with. It doesn't improve my stats though /o\


Which brings us to the series of stats that started it all, which I still don't think I'm doing right, but I'm trying, and I'd rather try and get it wrong than not try and never know. So: podfic produced by racial/ethnic background of the main character, where "main character" is "who I remember the story being about several months after I made it" and "racial/ethnic background" is a series of checks, first against the character's self-definition in the story, lacking that against their self-definition in canon, lacking that against their actor/voice actor's self-definition, lacking that. It's messy and deeply imperfect, but it's what I've got. Also, these categories are highly awkward and imprecise, and by their nature reductive. I'm American, and trying hard, but am probably fucking up. Special shout-out to In Heavier Air, a Dragon Age: Inquisition story about an Avvar inquisitor - the Avvar being a fantasy!indigenous tribe (?) who are canonically pale-skinned and light-haired. Which. Ok. It is very possible to be both of those things and *also* indigenous/native and/or white-passing. That said, the handling of the Avvar in canon is - kinda weird. I tried to find thoughts on them from a Native/Indigenous perspective, and was unsuccessful, and part of the reason that this analysis is being posted in 2023 is because I kept trying to find more on that. I've eventually come down on the side of "it's better to have this be messy and wrong and in the world", especially since this post has very little reach, and is basically me navel-gazing and holding myself accountable. So. My handling of it is Not Good. But I'm trying to do better.

Also, hey, I super definitely podficced more non-white characters than I did white characters! Pretty much entirely due to MDZS, with some help from Guardian. I'm aware that colorism is also a thing, so this is not the be-all and end-all, and I need to work on podficcing more Black characters, but I'm still going to celebrate the small wins.


So, mostly Not Good. Working on that.

Title: Her Lady's Champion
Author: Settiai3
Reader: kalakirya
Fandom: Critical Role Campaign 1
Pairings: Vex/The Raven Queen
Rating: Teen and Up
Summary:

Vex fell.

Then she rose up.

content notes: none
Length: 0:07:52
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