Sophinisba Solis

Title: A Run of Crazy Dreams
Author: GloriaMundi
Reader: sophinisba
Fandom: Inception/Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Characters/Ships: Arthur/Eames
Rating: PG
Contains: n/a
Author's summary: "Way, way back, many centuries ago ... Arthur is a dream-interpreter in Canaan. Sold into slavery by unscrupulous colleagues, he discovers a thriving market for his skills in Egypt, where strange as it seems, there's been a run of crazy dreams."
Reader's notes: I first saw this recced as Inception/Bible crossover and that's how I've always thought of it. I admit that I don't know the musical at all, so I'm sorry if I missed out on some of the jokes or other things that would have made more sense if I did.
Shoutout: rubynye, if you haven't read this one I think you'd like it!
File info: mp3, 17:30 minutes, 8.0 MB
Links: download at MediaFire
download at Audiofic

So paraka decided to throw an impromptu "Podfic a novel in three days" fest this weekend and, since I was behind with my ladiesbigbang project, I sorta joined in. It's been nice keeping tabs on each other on Twitter; I tend to make a lot of "Editing is hard! Podfic is a stupid hobby!"-type Tweets whenever I'm doing this stuff, but this weekend other people are actually responding and tweeting about similar things, both good and bad. So that's been a lot of fun and I'm feeling pretty good about being able to finish my rough drafts by the end of the long weekend.

Even so, my goodness is podfic editing time-consuming and tedious! So it's time for an icon meme! I asked such_heights to pick five of my icons because we have an amusing number of icons in common. Let me know if you would like to play and I will pick five of yours!

( icon talk! )

Title: From the Honolulu Heights Guestbook
Author: sophinisba
Fandoms: Being Human, Jewish Folklore, Torchwood, Merlin (BBC)
Characters: Annie Sawyer, George Sands, John Mitchell, OMC, Suzie Costello, Freya (mostly gen)
Rating: PG-13
Contains: Reference to canon character deaths; spoilers through Being Human 3x04, Torchwood 1x08, Merlin 2x09.
File info: mp3, 7.4 MB, 16 minutes
Download link: Honolulu Heights at Audiofic

Title: The Vampire Lestat Lied to Me (so did Edward Cullen)
Author: netgirl_y2k
Fandom: Being Human
Characters: Annie Sawyer, Nancy Reid (gen)
Rating: PG
Contains: Reference to canon character deaths; spoilers through Being Human 3x08.
File info: mp3, 12.7 MB, 27:45 minutes
Download link: The Vampire Lestat at Audiofic

Title: Dance By the Light of the Moon
Author: melannen
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, It's a Wonderful Life
Characters: Spike/Drusilla, George Bailey
Rating: PG-13
Contains: Suicide attempt, darkfic.
File info: mp3, 7.9 MB 17:15 minutes
Download link: Dance by the Light of the Moon at Audiofic

I watched Whip It last week and it was great. Even the things that bugged me about it in the middle worked out in ways that I liked. ( briefly, with spoilers )

I would ship Bliss/Maggie but I haven't found any, but I did enjoy this Maggie/Pash fic, Searching for Something That Makes Hearts Move by mazily.

Then last night I rewatched Bend It Like Beckham, which I had just seen once a long time ago. It's similar movie in a lot of ways - the girl's joy in finding out she can do something she loves with other girls, the lying to her parents so she keep doing it, the inevitability of the MOST IMPORTANT THING in her sport happening on THE VERY SAME DAY as the MOST IMPORTANT THING in her family life, and other stuff. ( Like femslash )

Anyway, that was fun. It was neat to see the girls so young and cute and, well, kind of awkward and amateurish, after years of watching Parminder Nagra on ER and so many other movies with Keira Knightley. Oh, and what a trip to realized that Jess's older sister Pinky (the sort of ditzy one who doesn't care about anything but her wedding) was played by Archie Panjabi, whom I've been fangirling as Kalinda on The Good Wife. The characters couldn't be more different and I seriously wouldn't have recognized her if I hadn't gone to look up something else on IMDB.

Hey, I think a lot of you saw Philipa_Moss's Yuletide fic Looking Behind Now, in which Tony from BILB meets Johnny and Omar from My Beautiful Laundrette, but did you see that they posted a sequel last month? Bring Your Mother to Work Day is similarly clever and adorable.

So yeah, Kalinda's pretty awesome, isn't she?! And how about that Diane Lockhart?! Actually I love pretty much everyone on The Good Wife except for Peter, and he's okay too. So much chemistry between everybody too. I'm about two thirds of the way through the first season now. The show took a little while to hook me, idk, at first I thought the way they'd do the exposition was awkward and kind of boring. But the characters have really won me over and I've also really gotten to like the balance between the case of the week plot and larger arcs. It's become my go-to show when I'm ready to be entertained (and not challenged too much) for an hour before I go to bed, the way I sometimes watch Law & Order and used to watch House.

(Is it me or has House been really bad lately? Like, a lot worse than it used to be?)

I'm also watching the first season of Community! I don't usually watch a lot of sitcoms but I decided to check this out after all the campaigning for Troy in Fandom March Madness. All those gifs etc. had led me to believe that Troy and Abed were the main characters so it was sort of disappointing to watch the first few episodes, which were so much about Jeff trying to get in Britta's pants. Still, the ensemble stuff is wonderful and Abed is the wonderfullest (I hope he wins March Madness next year!). Besides the main characters, Señor Chang and Professor Whitman make me laugh a lot.

Speaking of people who want to be the guy from Dead Poets Society, cereta had a really great post a few weeks ago on Why I hate "one teacher who made a difference". I also really liked reading the discussions over the last few days in her Grading Hell Theater: Misconceptions post, especially the stuff about what English teachers and professors do in real life and what people think they can/should do.

[A smooth transition,] I am so excited about remix_goes_wild, an open-ended challenge for writing lots of different kinds of remixes, for points! I think it'll be really good both for those of us who are remix addicts and also for folks who like the idea but have not wanted to deal with the deadlines, restrictions, and other pressures of the big exchanges. (Actually, I guess I'm a bit of both - I have done a lot of remixes but I decided I couldn't handle the pressure of Remix Redux this year.) Anyway, signups will open on April 1st and posting will be open through the end of the year. You can sign up to write and/or to make your some or all of your fic available to be remixed.

Title: Any Story We Know
Fandom: Fucking Åmål | Show Me Love / Merlin
Wordcount: 1555
Pairing(s): Agnes/Elin with a bit of Gwen/Morgana
Rating: PG-13
Contains: references to self-harm (not graphic) and infidelity
Summary: "I knew this was going to happen, you know."
Notes: I spent my Christmas Eve this year watching this Swedish lesbian teen movie, then writing this fic, and posting it to the AO3 just before the Yuletide Collection closed. It was an extra gift for our own emei, who brings much queerness and awesome to Merlin fandom.

( Any Story We Know )

Old School Merlin Fest
A CELEBRATION OF FANWORKS INSPIRED BY MERLIN SERIES ONE


hosted by the lovely glimmergirl. I like seasons 2 and 3 more than most people I know, but there is nothing like season 1! Bring on the OT4!

For example,

Harm and Good by an anon author at camelotsolstice, OT4, 2688 words, PG.
Summary: Summary: When Arthur loses a tournament, he retreats to his chambers to sulk. Merlin, Gwen, and Morgana take it upon themselves to bring him round... even if they have to kill him in the process.

ETA AND ALSO,

We Were Once Friends by an anon artist at merlin_holidays, Gwen/Morgana, pencil drawing, G.

In other news, yuletart is awesome! For example, look at Merlin swearing an oath of fealty to King Arthur. Also, HOLIDAY INCEPTION PUPPET PLAYSET and the Inception team having a picnic!

Even though most of the time I resist Inception fandom, who can (or would want to) resist cake? Or for that matter,

A Run of Crazy Dreams (2778 words) by GloriaMundi
Fandom: Inception (2010)/Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat - Webber/Rice
Summary: Way, way back, many centuries ago ... Arthur is a dream-interpreter in Canaan. Sold into slavery by unscrupulous colleagues, he discovers a thriving market for his skills in Egypt, where strange as it seems, there's been a run of crazy dreams.

Happy birthday thingswithwings! I know that like most of us listeners you prefer long podfics, but as a reader I prefer the ones that I can record in one sitting and without causing my computer to crash! So I did a bunch of short ones, and such_heights also did one, and I put them in a podbook! This way you get an hour and seven minutes in six different fandoms without a lot of downloading hassle.



Readers: sophinisba and such_heights
Fandoms: Psych, anthropomorfic, The Little Mermaid, Homicide: Life on the Street, Leverage, Like Water for Chocolate
Download links: m4b at Audiofic, mp3 at Audiofic

Notes and links to individual mp3 files are below the cuts!

( Gus Goes for the Gold Star by liviapenn (Psych), read by such_heights )

( Stargaze by toft (Psych) )

( There's No Backing Up Now by themadlurker (anthropomorfic) )

( Now, the Matter by rubynye (The Little Mermaid) )

( three-part disharmony by bossymarmelade (Homicide: Life on the Street) )

( The Pie Job by thingswithwings (Leverage) )

( La Adelita by eruthros (Like Water for Chocolate) )

Let me know if you come across any broken links or other problems with this post!

ETA: Thanks to dodificus for adding these to the Audiofic Archive!

Have you seen astolat's new Morgana vid, Watershed? Go watch omg! Be disturbed by Arthur/Merlin moments you usually find charming! Marvel at how well Vienna Teng's lyrics fit (what could be) Morgana's story! Tell Astolat to come back to Merlin fandom and make us more awesome stuff like porn with Merlin on top!

I went ahead and signed up for merlinfemfest! Sign-ups close tomorrow, so if you're like me and you've been dithering, make up your mind quick!

( Looking at people's sign-ups and thinking about mine )

Oh hey, I haven't watched any Rizzoli & Isles yet, but I know a few of you have been, so the Rizzoli & Isles Femslash Porn Battle might be relevant to your interests!

Yuletide authors were revealed yesterday so now I know who wrote my gifts. Thank you, no longer mysterious authors!

-izzybeth wrote Four Completely Unconnected Scenes In 1st c. Judea (Life of Brian).

-emiime wrote Rejoicing As An Integer (Harold/Kumar), as well as the wonderful Graceland fic that I recced a few days ago.

-jain wrote Harold and Kumar and Maria and Vanessa Go to Bed. Together.

I was so happy about this one because I'd requested Harold/Kumar but also said I didn't want girlfriend bashing, and then here was this great little fic with the girlfriends, and it turns out it's written by the person who's running ladies1st, the Star Trek Reboot Gynocentric Fic Exchange about women that went live yesterday. I'm not really into Star Trek but I'm in favor of stories about women.

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Here are the fics I wrote:

-But This Is My Home Now, 5422 words, rated PG, for the 2007 movie The Visitor.
Summary: Five times Mouna Khalil was right where she wanted to be.
( Writing this )

-On This Shore of the World, Alberto/Ernesto (or gen), 1100 words, rated PG, for the 2004 movie The Motorcycle Diaries.
This is one of my favorite movies. It's based on a true story of a road trip Ernesto Guevara (later called Che) and his friend Alberto Granado did around South America in 1952, and it's rather slashy. ( Several attempts )

-Sick, Kee and Miriam, 1007 words, rated PG-13, for the 2006 movie Children of Men.
This is another one of my favorite movies and it's the third time I've written fic for it. ( Kee )

Today I had lunch at a Chinese restaurant and my fortune cookie said, "Share your happiness with others today." :D

I'm happy because smaragbird wrote a New Year's Resolution fic for Yuletide based on my request for a story about Luke (that is Chiwetel Ejiofor's character) from Children of Men and his mention toward the end of the movie that he had a sister. Children of Men fic, you guys, I'm not the only one who writes it hooray! smaragbird did Luke/Patrick growing up and falling in love as the world is falling apart! Go read it and share in my angsty apocalyptic happiness! Children of the Fall

In other news, the preview function on Dreamwidth never works for me. I always just get a message saying, "Sorry, there was a problem." I don't see this as a known issue on the Support page. Has anyone else run into it? I don't like not being able to test my (frequently faulty) html before I hit post.