Sophinisba Solis

I'm not signing up for anything right now, but pod_together is a really cool challenge. If you like writing, making podfic, and/or collaboration, you should check it out!


Open for sign ups June 9 to June 22 on DW, LJ, or tumblr

I made a set of four podfics for amplificathon and for the current "Pick One Kink" mini-challenge at kink_bingo. The kink I picked is "spaces, scenes, and settings" and the scene/setting I picked is SPACE!

Details and mp3 downloads below. The set came out to 33 and a half minutes. Once it occurred to me I could not resist calling it "Rare ships were meant to fly", even though Doctor/River is not actually a rare ship. (That one also keeps it from being a set of four "space AUs but what are you gonna do, it's awesome.) All download links take you to MediaFire pages.

Download anthology as m4b, 15.7 MB
Download anthology as mp3, 19.3 MB

Title: No Dancing Shoes in Space
Author: itachitachi
Fandom: Merlin
Starring: Gwen/Merlin, OT4
Rating: NC-17
Contains: foursome including two adopted siblings
Author's summary: "Merlin and Gwen are born on a Rock. They dance, and fly, and never stop staring spaceward."
Reader's notes: This was one of my favorite fics at summerpornathon 2011 and it made me so happy when it won first place for its round!
File info: mp3, 3MB, 6:29 minutes
Link: Download No Dancing Shoes

Title: running you with red
Author: sophieisgod
Fandom: The Hour
Starring: Freddie/Lix (background Freddie/Bel)
Rating: PG-13
Contains: drugs/alcohol
Author's summary: "In which Lix Storm: Space Pilot acquires a protégé."
Reader's notes: This is my first podfic for The Hour - I had so much fun doing it! <3 <3 <3 Lix.
File info: mp3, 3.4 MB, 7:21 minutes
Link: Download running you with red

Title: Setting Bones
Author: starbeast
Fandom: Teen Wolf (Star Trek fusion)
Starring: Scott/Isaac, also featuring Stiles
Rating: PG-13
Contains: hurt/comfort
Author's summary: "Every time Scott gets injured in the line of duty, Isaac is the half-human, half-Romulan medic who takes care of him. This is one of those times."
Reader's notes: This is also my first Teen Wolf podfic. It was harder than I expected!
File info: mp3, 5.3 MB, 11:25 minutes
Link: Download Setting Bones

Title: You're My Oxygen
Author: leiascully
Fandom: Doctor Who
Starring: Eleventh Doctor/River Song
Rating: PG-13
Contains: asphyxiation, breathplay
Author's summary: "The TARDIS needs an anti-idiot setting, but fortunately River will always be there to save the Doctor when he jumps out of spaceships."
File info: mp3, 3.8 MB, 8:19 minutes
Link: Download You're My Oxygen

I contributed two pieces to this year's Awesome Ladies Podfic Anthology! Over there you can download the whole 10.5 hour as a podbook with chapter stops for each podficlet or as a zip file with all the mp3s, or browse the spreadsheet for your favorite fandoms and readers. leish recorded my Elena/Mithian drabble set Girls & Horses, and yue_ix did my Gwen/Morgana drabble The Shape of Her. I'm listening in order so I haven't heard either yet, but I am excite.


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Title: Rumpled
Author: samyazaz aka samyazaz
Reader: sophinisba
Fandom: Merlin
Starring: Elena/Vivian
Rating: NC-17
Contains: n/a
Author's summary: Elena wasn't one to set store by gossip or rumors. She knew the things people said about Vivian — generally some variation of "bitch" or "slut", depending on who you asked — but Elena thought she was perfect.
Reader's notes: omg it's been almost six months since I posted a Merlin podfic. I need to get back on this. /o\
File info: mp3, 2.3 MB, 5:00 minutes
Link: Download at MediaFire

Title: Swan Song
Author: sophinisba
Reader: sophinisba
Fandom: Harry Potter
Starring: Cho Chang
Rating: G
Contains: n/a
File info: mp3, 0.4 MB, 49 seconds
Link: Download at MediaFire

The current mini-challenge at kink_bingo is Tiny Bingos, and I decided to write a femslash drabble with a different ship for every square on my second card! Featured characters are Gwen, Morgana, Freya, Mithian, Morgause, Vivian, Nimueh, Ygraine, Hunith, Elena, Isolde, Annis, Kara, Enmyria, Sefa, Catrina, Alice, Finna, Lamia, and Sophia. (I'm sorry, Helen and Mary, you are still awesome!) Thanks to flammablehat and the folks on Twitter who cheered me on and prompted me with ideas.

You can Read them on the AO3 with "chapter" headings for the pairing, kink, and content notes (some noncon and dubcon, especially in the first set of 12). Or, if you prefer, you can read them all here without the notes!

( 1-12, canon-era, spoilers through 5x13 )

( 13-25, modern AU, no specific spoilers )

I've been trying to update the FAQ for the Camelot Remix and Camelot Remix 2013 collections on the AO3, but I keep getting a 500 error when I click "Update". Has anyone else run into something like this or have any ideas on what could be wrong? Thanks!

I have put in a support request, but sometimes asking one's friends is quicker. :)

OMG the fic year in review meme!

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Title: Red Football
Music: "Red Football" by Sinéad O'Connor
Fandom/source: Merlin
Starring: Gwen, Morgana + ensemble
Length: 2:48
Contains: n/a
Summary: I'm not no red football to be kicked around the garden.
Notes: omg here is my first Merlin vid! I had this idea almost three years ago, and this past month I was finally able to make it. Season 5, you hurt me real bad, but you also gave me some marvelous footage.
As you may know, I have a lot of feelings about the ladies of Merlin. Some of those feelings are ANGER!
Spoilers up to 5x08, not the series finale.
Thanks to thingswithwings for technical help and to flammablehat for responding to the million drafts I sent her and making sure I didn't give up.

Links
Tumblr | YouTube
Download vid at MediaFire, .avi, 53.8 MB
Download subtitles at MediaFire, .srt, 1.8 KB

(If you want to see subtitles, download both these files and save them with the same file name in the same folder, and your player will combine them with magic!)



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For the Informal Twitter Podfic Exchange, quintenttsy aka leish recorded one of my favorite fics published this year, Tangled by thingswithwings. This is a long Community fic (the podfic is more than three hours) with Annie and Troy and Abed learning how to have relationships while living together and learning how to knit. It is just the kind of story I love, about young people growing up and figuring out their own sexual identity and how to help each other and make each other happy. quintenttsy is also dear to me as a podfic reader and as a person, and it's been delightful for me to be walking around with her voice in my ears this holiday, including a half hour when I had to get away from my family on Tuesday. Thank you so much, Leisha, I love it. Here is the podfic of Tangled and here are the zillion other #itpe podfics!

I am also thrilled and amazed by the fic an anonymous author wrote for me as part of merlin_holidays. I requested several rare ships, of which perhaps the rarest was Freya/Gwen, and my author wrote more than 23,000 words of a historical AU set in Glastonbury in 1905, starring Freya as the head of an orphanage for magical children and Gwen as the genderqueer shoemaker she falls in love with. YOU GUYS. There is fascinating stuff about the secret magical community and there is porn with magic and homemade sex toys and there are interesting parts for Merlin and Morgana and Mary the barmaid and it is basically everything I love and what I wish fandom would be like all the time. It is called The Shoemaker and you should go read it!

Here are two other Merlin fics I've enjoyed recently:

-With Half-Shut Eyes by anonymous at merlin_holidays, Arthur/Merlin, 32K, explicit. This is a great Merlin-POV coffeeshop AU and I wish it were easier to make that sound exciting. :P The Arthur/Merlin is hot and interesting and I also really loved Merlin's group of friends, including Gwen, Elyan, Hunith, and Lancelot. <3 <3 Mind the content notes and be aware that the conflict involves MISUNDERSTANDING but anyway I recommend this fic like whoa.

-My Density Has Brought Me To You by ingberry, Arthur/Merlin, 18K, explicit. This was part of the uni_merlin fest, which I somehow wasn't aware of at all even though a bunch of my friends participated in it? I'm sorry you guys! Anyway Mordred as the roommate from hell who freaks Merlin out by screaming at his videogames in the middle of the night is so inspired I can't even deal. This is another Merlin-POV fic full of warmth and humor as well as Arthur/Merlin hotness. I might make a podfic!

I haven't had much alone time or reading time this holiday and I'd appreciate any recs you have to give me, especially for merlin_holidays. A lot of the fics are super long and it all feels rather overwhelming to me, but Merlin fic is really what I want to be reading right now, especially with all the feels this finale has given me.

Okay, well, I'm still hoping to write and vid a little more before the end of the year but I'm pretty sure I'm done podficcing, so here's the Year in Podfic meme! Previous editions are on my meme: year in review tag.

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Would you like to do this meme? Here are the questions I used. Obvs you can adapt them however you like!
<b>Stats:</b> <b>What was the best podfic you made this year?</b> <b>Most popular?</b> <b>Most underappreciated?</b> <b>Personal favorite, for whatever reason?</b> <b>Most difficult to make?</b> <b>Most "ah ha ha I can't believe I'm doing this"?</b> <b>Most fun to make?</b> <b>Was there one that didn't turn out the way you wanted?</b> <b>Biggest learning experience?</b> <b>What's next? Do you have any podfic goals for next year?</b>