2020 Stats

Jan. 30th, 2022 11:59 am
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More than a year late! But 2021 stats will be tricky because I'm not sure how to categorize "In Heavier Air" (a Dragon Age: Inquisition story with an Avvar inquisitor, where the Avvar are a sort of fantasy!indigenous group), so I'm focusing on 2020 for now. 2022 is going to be even more complicated, because I'm almost done with a fic that focuses on Iron Bull, but that's also a problem for later.

So, 2020! A trashfire, obviously, but what did it look like in podfic terms for me personally? Did I actually manage to podfic more characters of color and femslash? more podfic focusing on not-cis!men?

(please ignore the line connecting the counts - I can't figure out how to get rid of it, but the data isn't in any particular order, so it's meaningless)

(also please ignore that it says "length" instead of "duration" /o\)


Well, An Eye For Quality is dragging up my overall stats, at any rate! I started recording that in 2018, but I'm only counting things in the year I posted them (unless I post as I go), so here we are! It was just under 58% of my total podfic output by duration, which is wild. Otherwise I did a lot of Guardian podfics and two Lilo & Stitch and one Lilo & Stitch & Moana podfics for the chromatic characters podfic anthology. Overall total was 15:43:26, so just shy of 16 hours. Not anywhere near my max, but not bad for the trashfire that was 2020.


Well, my 2019 stats record that I wanted my overall podfic amount (measured in duration) to be less than 50% m/m, and I did it! Overall m/m was 19% of my total, compared to 59% of my total being f/m. Femslash as a percent of dudeslash is still low, but better than last year - roughly 30%, which is my new all-time high! I keep trying to go in hard on this one and it's always hard, which is deeply frustrating, but still worth doing.

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" (is the main character of Kisses Don't Count, a Discworld story from the pov of a cis!woman dating a genderqueer person, "about" the former or the latter? I've lumped it into "female", but I'm still not sure)


So in 2020 I mostly made podfic about women! I haven't run the stats on previous years, but I don't think that's always been the case, so that's cool! I'm trying to increase the amount of time I spend podficcing non-cis!men, and I don't think I'll manage this much of a difference in future years, but it's something to aim for.

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 (as in the case of, once again, Kisses Don't Last) their depiction in official art (Discworld book covers, in this case). It's messy and deeply imperfect, and is going to come back to bite me in 2021 and 2022, 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.

Here goes.



Well, this is where An Eye for Quality comes back to bite me. Since Bella (genderbent!Bilbo) isn't defined/described in the fic, and Bilbo is played by a white guy in the Hobbit movies, all 9+ hours of that go under "white"; ditto 2.5 hours of "Kisses Don't Last". I did make a lot of podfic for Guardian, which brings up my count for podfic focused on people of Asian ethnicity/background, but overall Not Great. I had managed two years running of mostly making podfic NOT focused on white people, and fucked that up in 2020. I also didn't manage a single podfic focused on a Black character, which I'm pretty ashamed with. It's too late for 2021, but will do better in 2022.


So, better on some scores, worse on others. I do think that keeping track of everything is helping me be more mindful of how I spend my time, though, which is good. This effort started because fandom can be terribly, wildly, willfully racist, and I wanted to try to be center marginalized characters in my fannish output. Several years later, it's a mixed bag, but at least I know what's in there, and can keep working on it.
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Sundial Exchange Letter

Dec. 4th, 2020 09:44 am
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Dear Creator!

Hi! I'm so excited for this exchange! I'm also very fried from the last few months, so I'm going to do my best to make a coherent letter-thing, but feel free to comment if you have questions!

My request was for Guardian novel or drama, focused on either Zhao Yunlan or Shen Wei or both. I'm happy to have other characters around, and I do like all of them, but if there is a romance or sexual element, I'd prefer it be only ZYL/SW.

Here is a list of things I enjoy:
  • character studies
  • AUs
  • what-ifs
  • gender-bending
  • hurt/comfort
  • protectiveness
  • mutual pining
  • humor
  • happy endings
Here is a list of things I DNW right now:
  • sex pollen
  • body horror
  • character death
  • unhappy endings
  • cheating
  • jealousy
  • no-escape situations (either literal or metaphorical, e.g. "you have nowhere else to turn")
  • misunderstandings
Medium-wise, I'm pretty flexible! I'm primarily a podficcer, so if you want to some involving audio, I'm super down for that, but if you have a brainwave that's more visually-oriented, like art, photography, maps, or charts, or word-oriented, like fic, recipes, poetry, or not!fic, or something else entirely, I'm probably into it!
I would request that the sensory modality it uses be internet-friendly - for the purposes of this exchange, maybe not literal cookies or a scarf, for instance. BUT you absolutely could do a cookie recipe or a knitting pattern for a scarf! That would be delightful! I hope that's a distinction that makes sense. If it doesn't, leave me a comment anonymously, we'll work something out :D (or hit up the mods, I have faith in them!)
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2019 podfic stats

Nov. 27th, 2020 06:26 pm
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It is nearly December and I thought I had this entry written up somewhere but I can't find it so fuck it I'm typing directly into the text box.

I made 10 hours 42 minutes and 3 seconds of podfic, which is actually a lot more than I thought it would be, because last year was full of new-job and wedding-prep, which was fun-stress but still stress. Way less stressful than 2020 would turn out to be, but we didn't know that yet, and at any rate it was about 2 hours less than 2018.
Obviously the big stand-out here is the Black Panther series All The Stars (it's a series, so I only counted it once on the right-hand axis), which got redone twice (the clicks were hard to do right, but I really wanted to do justice to the story and the characters), but Guardian and Critical Role also get shout-outs.


Analysis of podfic length and count by fandom. The data shows that most fandoms were only podficced once, and with a short podfic. Standout details: Black Panther had a single 5 hour podfic, Critical Role had 6 very short podfics, Guardian had 5 medium-length podfics.

Next up, the category of the main relationship (borrowing AO3 nomenclature, which I'm not thrilled with, but I've had trouble explaining what I'm doing here, even if it's clear to me, and this is the closest I've gotten). This is a somewhat awkward graph, because I've recently worked out that I'm actually trying to do two things: podfic things that aren't cis m/m and podfic things that are focused on non-dudes. These are related objectives, obviously, but not actually the same thing. However, I made these graphs before I worked this out, and if I don't post it now I never will, so here we go.
Mostly what this shows is that while I did manage to podfic a greater number of femslash podfics, I still spent most of my time on m/m podfics - more than three-quarters of my time, apparently. Once again, failed at the plan of podficcing less than 50% m/m. I might manage this in 2020, but mostly because An Eye for Quality is het, and I haven't made much other podfic this year :/
I did make progress in some ways - my femslash output was about 20% of my m/m output, which is... way lower than I'd like, but comparable to my last high-water mark, also of 20%, in 2016.
Analysis of podfic length and count. It shows that I made 7 m/m podfics for a total of more than 8 hours, and 9 f/f podfics that total less than two hours. Gen, m/f, and m/non-binary also appear, but are negligible.

Which brings us to the analysis by racial background of the main character. This is always one I feel weird about, partly because I feel uncomfortable about shoving characters into boxes based on my American perception of them, partly because I feel uncomfortable labeling those boxes, and partly because I'm desperately worried that I'm fucking this up. Or rather, I'm sure I am, despite my good intentions. But this is supposed to help me pay attention to and be more deliberate about where I'm spending my time, with the goal of spending more time podficcing characters of color. And I'm coming from an American context, which is profoundly racist and has a very complicated relationship with its own racism. So with those caveats, here we go:
This data, and the gender/relationship data, was collected via the super-scientific "who do I remember this podfic being about, several weeks/months after I recorded it?" test. In the case of gender- or race-bent characters, it's focused on how the character was presented in the context of the story, rather than the context of canon. Several characters are not described, or not clearly-enough described, in either canon or the story to be able to categorize them; however, I did want to flag when those characters were portrayed by a white actor (this is Critical Role thing, to be clear).
So for the second year running, more than 50% of my total podfic output has focused on characters of color! And the third year of less-than-50% white characters! Super-pleased with both of those! Not sure I will manage it in 2020, because I had pretty ability to focus on anything, including podfc, but I'll keep trying.

Analysis of podfic length and count by racial background of the main character. This shows that I had 8 podfics starring asian characters totaling a little under 4 hours, 1 podfic starring black characters totalling 5 hours, and 7 podfics totalling 3 hours for characters of unknown racial background with a white voice actor.

So, 2021 resolutions: more femslash, keep on focusing on characters of color! No articulated hopes, because that feels like tempting fate. 

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navel-gazing: An Eye for Quality

Aug. 21st, 2020 07:51 pm
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 Ok, so. I wanted to write a post about why in the world I decided to embroider a podfic cover, and this isn't that post, but it's better than no post, so here we are.

Because the thing is, this podfic has been living in my head rent-free since sometime around March 2013, when only chapters 1-3 were posted. I'm a sucker for just-a-smidge-to-the-left AUs, and genderbending, and worldbuilding, and fleshing out underappreciated characters, and hurt/comfort, and embroidery, and most of all I'm always here for everyone-lives, and and and- what I'm getting at is this fic is my goddamn catnip. But also I just really love both the world it inhabits - my feelings about Lord of the Rings are, at this point, too strong and complicated for me to really be in the fandom, but The Hobbit is just close enough and yet different enough to still be enjoyable - and the world it evokes - familiar, in many ways, and unkind in familiar ways, but also kind and deeply loving - and I wanted to spend more time in that world. And the way I do that, left to my own devices, is through podfic.

So I knew I wanted to record it, and I waited patiently until it was done, and then I tried. And tried again. And again. And it never quite clicked. Which happens, so I (wistfully) laid it aside and moved on. 

But I kept coming back. And then sometime in 2018 I needed a break from All the Stars, which was wonderful but also weirdly difficult to record - which, again, happens - and I decided to try recording An Eye for Quality again. And something clicked. I don't know if my recording had changed in the intervening time (probably) or if I was just in a different place (I was, literally and metaphorically), but it was the easiest podfic I've ever recorded. It just flowed right out. At one point I counted ten minutes go by without a flub, which is unheard of me. Even when I did flub though, and had to redo the line, I almost always only had to do so once. The voices came to me easily, and stuck easily. It all just- worked. 

And then, while I was in the final round of editing, I realized that I still had to make a podfic cover. Or rather, I didn't *have* to, but I wanted to. But I had no ideas. Not a one.

I tried a few things, but none of them really felt right. For the amount of fun that I was having making this podfic, I wanted to also have fun with the cover, but the very elements of the story that I loved - the world building, the genderbending, the underappreciated characters - made it hard to put together a visual for the podfic.

And then, as I was bewailing this to the household, it occurred to me that Bella (genderbent!Bilbo) uses embroidery as a metaphor for her love. And I'm actually quite good at embroidery. Which brings us to the cover:



Technically speaking, by the way, this is scarletwork, the close sister of blackwork, itself a style of counted-thread or freehand embroidery thought to originate sometime in the 15th or 16th century (though I just sat in on a class that argued that Chaucer referred to blackwork, so *makes weighing motion*) and popular through around the end of the 17th century; it began to be revived in the early 20th century as part of a growing interest in handcrafts. Historically silk was usually used (this was a high-status item) on linen, but in the modern day a lot of people use cotton, which is a lot more accessible. However, I do have precisely three colors of embroidery silk, and I wanted to be a little extra (also silk is better if you're going to be picking out and redoing your work a bunch, which I knew going into this I would be doing).

Because if you're going to be extra why not be extra, the pattern is slightly adapted from this blackwork sampler at the V&A (if you download and enlarge the image you'll find two tiny flowers about two thirds of the way to the right and two thirds of the way down; that version has little squares along each side that just didn't look right at the threadcount I was working with). 

The star/Arkenstone was, I must admit, unplanned. I knew better than to do the text first (always work the frame first!!!) and then I did the text first and then wasn't able to center the frame around the text properly. I had had little red stars to the right of "linelen" and the left of "read" because that text isn't actually centered either, but once the frame was in place it was clear that that was the larger problem. I put a large red star in, and then (only then! I had a bad case of tunnel vision) it occurred to me that the story had a honking massive gem in it, and maybe I could run with that and pretend this was all going according to plan. After a few false starts involving fancy metallic threads (they looked really good in person but photographed terribly) I ended up back at silk, but this time in blue, and I was done! A special cover that I spent way too much time fussing over, for a special podfic that I spent way too much time fussing over, but in the end I'm quite pleased with how both of them turned out :D


(the fact that this is getting posted right around the ten year anniversary of me first picking up a microphone and reading fic into it is accidental but hilarious)
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Dear ITPE-r 2016

Oct. 10th, 2016 07:29 pm
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Dear ITPE-er!

HI!!! I'm so excited that you're participating in ITPE!

 

Do tell! What are your #ITPE feelings?

  1. aI genuinely love podfic. It’s a medium and community that works really well for me on a number of levels.

    1. Corollary: you are making podfic within some of my favorite fandoms, with the intent of making me happy. I’ll love it, I promise.

  2. I really love this challenge, and would like other people to enjoy it as well. Especially you!

    1. Corollary: it’s set during a very busy time of year. This is meant to be a low-stress challenge. Please don’t get too worked up on my account. I’ll love it, I promise.

  3. I’m generally pretty easy to please, and try to be clear about where those limits are. They’re there, but they’re usually fairly easily avoided.

    1. Corollary: unless you’re actually deliberately trying to mess with me, I’ll love it, I promise.

    2. Corollary: guidance is helpful.

      1. Secondary corollary: with the exception of the squicks and triggers, these are guidelines, nor rules. Feel free to play fast and loose with them if you think the situation demands it :D

 

Okay, so what are your general fannish, genre and canon feelings?

At the moment, my rule of thumb is that my tolerance for angst and violence in fandom goes as deep as the canon does. So for Spartacus, anything up to and included truly ridiculous amounts of gore is gonna be fine, but in White Collar, anything worse than, say, moderate and non-fatal mayhem won’t be great; similarly, body horror in Rivers of London would be fine, but not in Leverage. Likewise, Fast and the Furious isn’t particularly angsty, so I’m not a great fan of Brian being emo, but Miles Vorkosigan is a fabulously angsty muffin, so I’m onboard with him and his crew wallowing in their feelings.

 

On the other hand, my tolerance for fluff exceeds cavity-inducing levels with no regard for canon. Should you decide that what I need in my life is Dom and Mia Toretto sibling-bonding over fluffy bunnies, I encourage you to embrace that thought thoroughly.

             Note the first: though some of these canons (Spartacus, Vorkosigan, Young Wizards) feature major character death, I’d argue very strongly that all of them are hopeful/redemptory. So while major character death (and non-canonical rape and excessive violence) isn’t (aren’t) a deal breaker, a non-happy ending kinda is.

Story-wise, stories set in canon are fine. AUs, be they human, animal, or sentient dinnerware, are fine by me. Fusions and so on are fine, but please don’t fuse with a canon that you don’t know I’m familiar with and like (e.g. No Hannibal fusions. Ask analise010 or reenajenkins if you need help on this one.) I adore secondary characters and learning more about them and their background and their story and how they fit into and feel about the main story. I adore day-in-the-life and humor and geekiness and happy flailing.

Format wise, I’m very easy to please. If you find a fic you think I’d like, go for it. If you find a chatlog, headcanon, interview, poem, squee, meta, or whatever, that you think I’ll like, go for it.

 

I need more detail: what are your fandom- and pairing- specific feelings?

MCU

I'm here for the found family feels. Actually, I'm in a lot of places for found family feels, but this fandom is so great for that! movies only please. I adore everyone in this boyband. I am happy to ship everyone in this boyband, including all the poly. Have at it.

Sidenote: things that I am not currently interested in that feature heavily in some parts of fandom include Tony’s Mommy&Daddy Issues, Bruce’s (and Tony’s) feelings of inadequacy, Pepper-bashing

Leverage

I’m mostly here for the OT3 and gen. I love Sophie, but Nate and his issues annoy me.

White Collar

ditto on the OT3. As far as I'm concerned the canon here ends sometime around S3: Diana is back (but Lauren can stay!), Sara is excellent, El and Peter are rock-solid, and there are no clouds on the horizon. Fandom seems to agree with me on many of these, so I shouldn’t think you’ll have much trouble, should you decide to go in this direction. This is a great fandom for h/c, should you decide to go that way, though please give me my happy ending J

Vorkosigan

I have many many feelings about everyone: Miles, Cordelia, Aral, Ekaterin, Gregor, Simon, Elena, Kareen, Alys, Ivan, Taura, Tej, Laisa, Ethan, Bothari, Elli, Dono, Jole… Everyone. They are my darlings. All of them should have everything they deserve, with everything that entails.

Mark’s Black Gang are a bit tricky for me, so that really the one element I’d rather you steered clear of. Several excellent fics in this fandom feature historical Barrayaran OFCs and I encourage you not to discount them.

Rivers of London

I do love this fandom, but the things I love in it are complicated. For the sake of ease, I'll say that I'd prefer nothing higher than a PG-13 rating for Peter/Thomas, though shippy stuff is fine. Beverly and her extended family are great.s Abigail is great. Lesley is great. Molly is great.

Fast and the Furious

All the found family forever and ever and ever and ever and ever. Dom/Brian is excellent, Mia/Brian is excellent, poly is fine and excellent, though I’d rather it was non-incestuous, please. This is another good fandom for h/c.

Avatar: the last Airbender, Legend of Korra

My darlings! I adore these kiddos. Have at it.

Note: I’d rather not have sexy shenanigans about underaged characters. Once Korra and Asami, for instance, are both 18, have at it.

Spartacus

LADIES. also agron/nasir. but mostly ladies. ladies ladies ladies.

Almost Human

Dorian and Kennex are lovely and deserve all the good things. Including each other. But also cuddles. I just want them to be happy.

Young Wizards

Tiny fandom of my heartface. I love them so much. So much. So so so much. All of them. Everyone. In every time and place.

Xena

XENA/GABRIELLE 4EVA. That is all. (gen is also good :D)

 

I do need to know your squicks and triggers…

no-escape situations (either real or metaphorical – eg backed into a corner, despair, suicidal ideation, variations on "you have nowhere (else) to go", "no one will believe you")

dub- or non-con

misunderstandings/miscommunication as a plot device

mental health care professionals who suck at their jobs

chase scenes (Fast and the Furious gets an exception, but no one else does)

more-than-canonical gore (see first paragraph under “general feelings”)

major character death that isn’t happy/redemptory (see note under first paragraph of “general feelings”)


 

What if I have questions that you didn’t answer here?

Then you can ask on this post anonymously, or ask analise010 or reenajenkins, who have a pretty good handle on my likes and dislikes :D

Have fun <3

 

-Jess



 

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The Quick And Dirty Notes and Links from the Podfic Panel I hosted at CON.TXT 2016

Aug. 1st, 2016 06:58 pm
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notes and links 

  • m4b - an audiobook format; apple products know to treat them as audiobooks and not songs. can be chaptered.
  • chapter and verse - an audiobook making program (iTunes will do m4bs for you, so this is mostly a Windows ppl thing)
  • Audacity - audio editing software for windows
  • Garageband - audio editing software for mac
  • Hindenberg - professional audio editing software
  • podfic_love - podfic rec comm
  • podfic-tips - podfic tutorial and tips comm
  • blanket permission - prevents you from having to request permission. fanlore has a list here. fire_juggler maintains fandom-specific lists here.
  • audiofic.jinjurly.com - the audiofic archive
  • amplificathon - a DW and LJ comm where podfic gets posted. if you post here, unless you opt out, it will be archived in the audioarchive automatically. Also an annual challenge designed to increase podficcing in small fandoms; FAQ for that here 
  • pod_together - a challenge that matches writers and podficcers for a new collaborative work
  • podfic_bingo - a way of stretching your podfic muscles (signups close at the end of august!)
  • podfic big bang - multi-fandom 10K challenge
  • epic podfic big bang - for those who don't get out of bed for less than 75K (hosted on the same com as PBB)
  • #ITPE - the holiday podfic exchange, stands for International Twitter Podfic Exchange (you do need twitter for this)
  • multipod - a podfic with multiple voices
  • re-pod - a podfic of a story that has already been podficced
  • accents - a thing that you should not allow to prevent you from podficcing
  • 10K = 1 hour - a rough approximation of how many words translates to how much podfic
  • podficmeta - the podfic-discussion comm zvi mentioned
  • auralphonic - the podcast about podfic
  • collaborativepodfic - a DW comm for finding ppl to do multivoiced podfic with



recs



things I meant to mention but didn't:

  • the "podfic welcome" and "blanket permission" tags on AO3 are good ways to draw podficcers' attention and/or find stuff to podfic
  • we love non-english podfic too! you get extra points on amplifcathon and much love from the multi-lingual!
  • you don't have to do covers, but some people like to! I use GIMP, a free photoshop clone. Windows users may need a special program to add covers to mp3s; I use mediamonkey 
  • awesome ladies podfic anthology - anthologies of podfic about ladies of <1K. an excellent way to get your feet wet.
  • WAGFAPE - the Women And Genderqueers First Podfic Exchange, where you sign up to make podfic that don't focus on cismen
  • forvo sometimes has useful pronunciation guides. sometimes. use your judgement.
  • ditto dictionary.com
  • the word "gasps" is an evil unto this world that should be forever shunned
things other people mentioned
  • [personal profile] ambyr is wonderful and has added say how, a pronunciation guide for famous and semi-famous names, and the ABC book, for corporate brand name

I can be reached here, on LJ under this name, on twitter under this name, or on tumblr under podficcerbynight
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pod_aware: in which yue_ix and kalakirya squee over podfic and talk of many things

Nov. 11th, 2014 09:10 pm
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things we discussed include
collaborations
the importance of warnings in podfics
the embodiment of podfic
commenting on podfic and visual art
feedback as a type of fanwork
recs as a type of fanwork
not!pod!fics


links to stuff we mentioned
Chaos War (kalakirya did podfic, yue_ix did art)
Do You Want to Date My Avatar (a multi-voice podfic directed by kalakirya with art by yue_ix)
they tell me their secrets (the sherlock collab podfic that yue_ix was a voice on that kalakirya squeed over)
Texts from Cephalopods (the podfic collab both yue_ix and kalakirya squeed over)
podfic-love (a podfic rec comm)
Definitely Not Toni Stark's Voice Diary (the thing bessyboo did that both yue_ix and kalakirya squeed over)


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Dear Podficcer (wagfape)

Aug. 15th, 2014 04:42 pm
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Dear podficcer!

EEEEEEEE SO EXCITED FOR WAGFAPE :DDDDDDDD
ok, fun stuff first:
any fandom I've ever participated in is fair game for this (full list on ao3).
That's a mildly daunting list, so to narrow it down/pick out characters of whom I'm particularly fond and who canonically fit this challenge (and a few whom I adore but haven't recorded for whatever reason):
Pepper, Natasha, Darcy, Sif, Peggy (Marvel movie 'verse); Abbie (Sleepy Hollow); Nita and Dairine (Young Wizards); Cordelia, Ekaterin, Kareen, Bel, Dono (Vorkosigan verse); Hermione, Professor McGonnagal (Harry Potter); Lagertha (Vikings); Raven (Xmen); Mako (Pacific Rim); Kira, Dax, Ezri, Ziyal, Cassidy Yates (star trek ds9); Uhura (star trek tos); CJ Cregg (the west wing); Gwen, Morgana (Merlin); Parker, Sophie (Leverage); Mia, Letty (Fast and the Furious); any and all of the sailor scouts, for whom my love remains unalloyed, and also the sailor stars, because <3; El, Sara, June (White Collar); Xena, Gabrielle (Xena); Naevia, Lucretia, Illythia, Mira, Saxa, Melitta, Laeta (Spartacus); Cheri Littlebottom, Maladict(a), Polly (Discworld).
that having been said, I'm am 110% down with AU versions of any and all characters, most particularly of the genderqueered variety (I'm sorry to say that the list above contains very few canonical genderqueer characters /o\).

unfun stuff (squicks and triggers):
no-escape situations (either literal - "I can't find a door" - or metaphorical - suicidal ideation, despair, "no one will believe you")
more-than-canonical gore (applies per canon, e.g.: massive amounts of gore are ok in spartacus but not in leverage)
dub-con, non-con
power differentials in sexual situations that haven't been clearly discussed ahead-of-time and on-screen (ie not before the fic/podfic starts!)
misunderstandings/miscommunication as a plot device

I think that's it! SO EXCITED YOU GUYS OMG :D

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rec: they tell me their secrets (will you tell me yours too) [Sherlock Holmes BBC]

Jan. 7th, 2014 03:42 pm
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Fandom: Sherlock BBC
Characters/Pairing: John/Sherlock
Rating: PG-13/teen
Content Notes: spoilers for S1, some h/c, mild violence
Length: 13:13
Performer Links: [livejournal.com profile] lunchy_munchy , [personal profile] lunatique and [personal profile] yue_ix 
Author: [personal profile] etothepii 
Cover Artist: [personal profile] yue_ix 
Summary: "In Afghanistan, the supplies tell him when they're running low, and the cars always, always tell him when strangers have touched them, and John gets known as having a knack (paranoia, his men call it, but he's never missed a single car bomb) for keeping his men safe."
(reccer's summary: in which objects talk to John - literally - and sometimes John talks back.)

Reccer Notes:
There are a number of ways to record collaborations - in person, over skype, separately and combining mp3s - and they all have advantages and disadvantages, but this podfic captures one of my favorite reasons to record in person, which is that it just sounds like people having fun. My favorite is a scene between 1:15 and 3:20 - it's just a little domestic bit between Sherlock and John, in which the objects in the room kibitz and complain and rejoice: the way the podficcers bat the lines back and forth (lunatique narrates, lunchee is John and yue_ix is Sherlock) and it just all comes together really nicely. Also the rejoicing refrigerator magnet makes me smile every single time :D

There are two versions, with and without echo, and I'd suggest the echo one, because it clarifies a little bit more what's going on (the objects echo, but dialogue and narration doesn't, so it makes it clearer that only John can hear them)

Fanwork Link(s): audioarchive | DW | AO3
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Audio Meme!

Jun. 16th, 2013 02:12 pm
kalakirya: (arwen)
I got this from [livejournal.com profile] teprometo :) It's... a bit longer than it *should* be, just from the question, because I went off on a tangent or two XD

17:44



What is your name/username?
Where do you live?
Where do you wish you lived?
Pronounce the following words: Aunt, Roof, Route, Theatre, Iron, Salmon, Caramel, Fire, Water, New Orleans, Pecan, Both, Again, Probably, Alabama, Lawyer, Coupon, Mayonnaise, Pyjamas, Caught, Naturally, Aluminium, GIF, Tumblr, Crackerjack, Doorknob, Envelope, Polka Dots, Papaya, Penthouse, Subtext, Smile, Oil, Sure, Data, Ruin, Crayon, Avenue, Drawing, Tomato, Often, February, Syrup, Orange, Talk, Breakfast, Drawer, Horror, Herbs, Tiffany, Sex-God, Chocolate Diva Divine
What is the thing you change the TV channel with?
What is a bubbly carbonated drink called?
What do you call your grandparents?
What do you call the wheeled contraption in which you carry groceries at the supermarket?
What’s the bug, that when you touch it, curls into a ball?
Choose a book and read a passage from it.
What do you call gym shoes?
How old are you?
What is your favorite color?
What color are your eyes?
What was the last thing you drank?
Would you rather: Have a million dollars or a million friends?
Eat a taco or a quesadilla?
Be a shark or an elephant?
Do you speak a second language? Say something in it.
Do you think you have an accent?
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snowflake challenge days 3, 5, 6 and 7

Apr. 23rd, 2013 08:33 pm
kalakirya: (Default)
day 3
Comment to someone you haven't ever interacted with before or introduce yourself to someone you've interacted with and friend/follow them. Afterwards, leave a comment in this post with the equivalent of "I did it!"
-done

day 5
Stretch yourself a little and try something new. Go play in a new fandom or with a new pairing. Try working in a new medium. Or consume different fanworks. Give that new fandom a go. Listen to a podfic or watch some vids if you haven’t before. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it.
- done

day 6
In your own space, pimp three comms or challenges and explain why you love them. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

oof, this is hard. So much of my fandom experience revolves around podfic and amplificathon, and I don't really participate in comms or challenges...
But I guess the question isn't about things I participate in, it's about things I love. So.

[community profile] podfic_bingo is fun because it helps me stretch myself - is this a story that it would make sense to read drunkenly? How could I incorporate mixed media? I usually avoid 2nd person pov, but it's on my card so maybe I should find some, and oh, hey, it's not as obnoxious as I imagined!
[community profile] podficbigbang I just really love long podfics :D
[community profile] snowflake_challenge okay so I'm passing the buck a bit, but I do really love this challenge. I did bits of it privately last year, and I'm still doing bits of it in April, because it makes me more conscious about why I like participating in fandom, about the bits I love and the bits that make me uncomfortable in a way that's good to examine, and I just really love that it's a personal challenge that is done on my schedule and in ways that work for me while still being challenging.

day 7
In your own space, share something non-fannish about yourself. A passion or a hobby or a talent, something that people might not know about you. We are more than just our fandoms. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Something non-fannish about myself? The amount of time I spend exercising probably qualifies :) I didn't really get into exercise until I joined a flat-water racing kayak team in 8th grade. The kayaking and racing didn't stick, but I discovered that regular exercise did wonders for my depression and I've stuck with it ever since. What I do varies: team sports frustrate me, one-on-one sports require someone to play with, running is terrible for my bum knee, so it's often some type of weightlifting in combination with some variety of aerobics. If I have access to a gym, that means weights and an elliptical or stairclimber; if I'm at my parents house, it's one of the (many) FIRM exercise videos they have (depression runs in my family, as does this way of dealing with it); most recently I've been borrowing my roommate's Just Dance wii games (with permission!).
No matter what I do, exercising lets me get out of my head for a bit - I'm not stressing about school or family or my depression or whatever, I'm just climbing. Or dancing. Or kayaking. It's also a routine - if I do get really stressed or upset about something, I work out. There's a series of steps involved in that: finding my sneakers, getting workout gear on, filling my water bottle, going to the gym/the basement/the living room. I know how to do those, I know exercise will make me feel better, I know I'll be better able to deal with everything afterwards. Even if I'm too upset to workout (if I'm still miserable after 10 minutes I give myself permission to stop), the process of getting everything together gives me something new to focus on, so even if working out didn't help, I've gotten enough momentum to try something else.
This can, occasionally, lead to over-exercise, especially as I'm not doing this under the eye of a professional. So I have a semi-arbitrary limit of an hour a day, six days a week, though I'm happy to say that I haven't gotten close to that limit in over a year (as the amount I exercise is directly proportional to the degree of my depression, that's really good news!). I'm beginning to hit the point where I'm exercising because it's fun, rather than as a release-valve, which is good in all ways :D

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Do You Wanna Date My Avatar? - Casting Call

Nov. 23rd, 2012 04:12 pm
kalakirya: (Default)
Hi, I'm kalakirya (Jess), and I'll be working with people on a 9000 word multi-voice Teen Wolf podfic!

What's the story?
It's Do You Wanna Date My Avatar by [personal profile] christycorr , and is written half in narrative format, and half in World of Warcraft chat format. The story is here on AO3, and my complicatedly color-coded preliminary script is here. I'm still fussing with it – the narrator's going to get a little smaller, as the cues get passed to the characters, but it should give you an idea.

What's the author's summary of the story?
In hindsight, maybe introducing the local werewolf contingent to the wonderful world of online gaming hadn't exactly been Stiles' best idea.

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feel free to email me if you have any questions!

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#ITPE Dear Podficcer Letter

Nov. 14th, 2012 12:13 pm
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