Podfic links and squee

Look, two exciting new podfic challenges!

I'm so totally signing up for chromatic_podfic and looking forward to the other results. There are only a couple signups so far but I'm hoping that's because a bunch of people are like me and are still deciding between a few ideas and lining up author permission. (Signups close on Jan. 22nd.) Besides podfics for chromatic fandoms and characters they are encouraging multiple languages and dialects. This will be so neat!

I will probably not sign up for podfic_bingo but it still looks really interesting, and they're just getting started with organizing and brainstorming prompts so there's still a lot of room for influencing how the challenge will go, if you feel like getting involved. A lot of what's there so far seems to be about experimenting and branching out with different ways of reading/recording/editing, which is a great goal but not really what I'm focused on these days.

In other news, I had to fly overnight last night when I wasn't feeling well. I can't sleep on planes and I expected it to be really awful, but I was listening to revolutionaryjo's podfic of Easy There by syllic and that filled me with warmth and happiness and longing and kept me in a good mood through the whole trip (except the takeoff and landing when I had to turn off my iPod). I haven't read the fic before and I'm really looking forward to listening to the rest to find out what happens. Also, as I had already noticed when reading Syllic's Seven Magpies and listening to lunchy_munchy's podfic of it, Merlin telling Arthur what to do in a gently authoritative way (as the prince in Seven Magpies and as the cox in Easy There) is one of the sexiest things ever.

Merlin fic: People gonna talk (whether you doing bad or good)

Title: People gonna talk (whether you doing bad or good)
Fandom: Merlin
Pairing(s): Freya/Merlin, other pairings mentioned
Rating: NC-17
Wordcount: 3702
kmm prompt/summary: Modern AU for this kinkme_merlin prompt: "Freya/Merlin - 'Lady of the Lake' is a nickname Merlin comes up with for Freya after discovering how wet she gets during foreplay. DirtyTalking!Merlin, please."
Contents/k-b credit/author's notes: I tried to make this a kink_bingo postage stamp with the squares bodily secretions, humiliation (situational), sensory deprivation, and foot/shoe fetish; but the foot stuff ended up being pretty minor, and the main things are vaginal fluid and dirty talk. The title is from the song "Cheers (Drink to That)" by Rihanna. This fic has a somewhat unsympathetic view of several characters.
Links: Posted on the kink meme on January 3rd and at the AO3 a few minutes ago.

( Freya can't wait for the holiday season to be over. )