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sophinisba) wrote2020-01-01 01:30 pm
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2018 and 2019 in fandom
(Is it weird that I still don't have any MCU icons? Idk I've been using the soft sexy Gwen one so long it just feels right.)
I started off 2018 feeling pretty good about fandom, did the Snowflake Challenge and everything. I set these goals:
Strangely enough, I filled almost all of these goals in both 2018 and 2019, even though I had a stretch of seven months (October 2018 to May 2019) without a Dreamwidth or Tumblr post, and a stretch of fifteen months (March 2018 to June 2019) without a new fanwork. The one piece I didn't manage was to write any fics in 2018 – I also hadn't written any in 2017 - so it was really exciting to come back and write five fics in the second half of 2019, as well as coming back to podficcing and to fannish involvement/feelings in general. I honestly wasn't sure I'd come back at all, let alone in such an active way.
2018 podfics
I posted 15 podfics in February/March 2018, all part of a personal Femslash February project, two of them also contributions to the Awesome Ladies Podfic Anthology volume VIII.![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
pod_together project Sometimes a family is a cultural anthropologist, a PoliSci PhD, a snippy sophomore, a golden cat, a Snorkie, and a guy who just wants to build a really smart robot, and that was it for 2018.
2019 podfics
I made 18 podfics between June and December 2019:![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
Dr_Fumbles_McStupid organized at podfication. :)
Counting the ones I did myself, by number of works it comes out to 4 gen, 4 f/m or f/f/m, 8 m/m or m/m/m, and just 2 f/f (in a mysterious other fandom). 6 out of 18 podfics feature characters of color. If you count by minutes, it's very much dominated by male characters, though not to the same extent as what's out there. Both the most kudosed and least kudosed of these podfics (not counting the very recent ones) are gen: lots of recognition for Peter and Tony being sad about the events of Avengers: Endgame, not so much for Rhodey and Nebula being sad about the same thing.
idk friends, after all these years I'm still so troubled by fandom's devotion to whitecock. Obvs I count myself part of fandom and I mean, I fucking love the characters and pairings that MCU fandom loves, I read massive amounts of Steve/Tony and Tony & Peter and Tony/Peter –– Stony, Irondad, and Starker, as the kids say. (This fandom also loves Steve/Bucky –– Stucky –– and I don't but that's fine.) But when I watch the movies I also feel so much love for Pepper and Rhodey and MJ and Shuri and others, and when I go to read they are just shockingly rare, or only coming in to say something supportive and then leave. I think in the time I've been in online fandom we've gotten better at saying the right things in meta, and gotten better at avoiding character bashing and blatantly sexist and racist characterizations, but the neglect still makes me so sad.
What else to say about podfic this year. I haven't like, grown as a podficcer, tried new techniques, or anything like that. I didn't add music or sound effects for any of these because I'm lazy, but whatevs. I feel good about how I do what I consider fundamental: reading, pacing, character voices, feelings. I still don't love doing covers and don't love the covers I make but I've made it part of my routine and it's usually not too much trouble.
It's been awesome being back in fandom, reading with real enjoyment again and always with the idea that I might record. It's been great recording stories by people I've known for a long time like Rubynye and Thingswithwings, and discovering new favorite authors and interacting with a few of them, though not as much as I'd like. Some new listeners have found me, and for the most part these MCU podfics have tended to get more kudos than what I'd done the last few years, so that's also nice. (As always, works about ladies get fewer hits, but there are usually a few people who are extra appreciative.) The most pleasurable and/or intense recording experiences for me were probably Swinging Axes, monster, Bucky's Reasons for Staying Alive, i want to (be someone else or i'll explode), and a mysterious f/m podfic I'll tell you about later. Good times!
2019 fics
In 2019 wrote one long fic and four very short ones, all Marvel femslash:
Like I said at the top, this was very exciting because I hadn't finished a fic since 2016. Even more so than with podfic, I'd thought I might never write fiction again. The long Carol/Maria was difficult because it was the first in so long and because I was nervous about fulfilling my assignment but also very enjoyable. I gave myself permission to let it be mostly banter and good feelings without a lot of plot, porn, conflict, etc. The four short pieces I did for the Marvel Femslash Drabble Exchange were also super fun and reminded me that I love (and am good at) writing drabble sequences.
I've started a number of other MCU fics including gen, f/f, f/m, and m/m, but haven't managed to finish any others or feel like, comfortable or keyed in in the fandom. I keep finding out about interesting exchanges after they've happened, and I'm also apprehensive about signing up for stuff since writing remains so difficult for me.
A thing I've noticed is that a lot of Marvel or MCU challenges and exchanges are organized around a single pairing, so like I signed up for a Sam/Steve exchange recently (still trying to write a little fic for it, eep) and am considering signing up for a Tony/Steve mini-remix thing. I get that it's a huge fandom and you want to find your niche but I wish there were like at least more oriented around the different movie series (Iron Man, Captain America, GotG, etc.) so you could have a little more variety and surprise. Like in the past I've had a lot of fun with remixes that draw out a relationship that's in the background of the original, but that woulnd't be a possibility with this challenge I'm looking at. Another thing that makes me sad is how often Tony fans veer into Steve bashing. Like, Steve Rogers is doing fine, he has lots of fans and fanworks and it doesn't offend me like Gwen-bashing did, but it's always an unpleasant surprise when I come across it. My Merlin fandom experience and community were really oriented around multishipping and I still want to roll that way.
So, all that said, my Official Fannish Goals for 2020 are the same modest ones I set for 2018: the 10 posts and 10 fanworks with some sub-goals.
Once I add those three #itpe podfics, my AO3 category stats will look like this:
My secret ambition for 2020 is to organize a podfic ofthingswithwings's Steve Rogers epic Known Associates, with eight seven readers for each of the eight seven main chapters. I think that would be awesome.
Happy New Year, fannish friends! I'm really happy and grateful to have you in my life again!
I started off 2018 feeling pretty good about fandom, did the Snowflake Challenge and everything. I set these goals:
- make ten Dreamwidth or Tumblr posts, of which
- five are not fanworks posts, and
- five are not in January or December
- make ten fanworks, of which
- one is a fic, and
- one is a podfic of more than an hour
Strangely enough, I filled almost all of these goals in both 2018 and 2019, even though I had a stretch of seven months (October 2018 to May 2019) without a Dreamwidth or Tumblr post, and a stretch of fifteen months (March 2018 to June 2019) without a new fanwork. The one piece I didn't manage was to write any fics in 2018 – I also hadn't written any in 2017 - so it was really exciting to come back and write five fics in the second half of 2019, as well as coming back to podficcing and to fannish involvement/feelings in general. I honestly wasn't sure I'd come back at all, let alone in such an active way.
2018 podfics
I posted 15 podfics in February/March 2018, all part of a personal Femslash February project, two of them also contributions to the Awesome Ladies Podfic Anthology volume VIII.
- Can't Keep My Hands To Myself, Star Wars sequels: Jessika Pava/Rey, 8 minutes
- Moments, Forever, Star Wars sequels: Amilyn/Leia, 6 minutes
- Truce, Star Wars sequels: Phasma/Rey, 25 minutes
- Keep On (Loving You), Star Wars sequels: Rey/Rose, 8 minutes
- Strange Consequences, Star Trek AOS: Gaila/Uhura, 8 minutes
- I Got You Something, Star Wars sequels/Star Trek AOS, Jaylah/Rey, 7 minutes
- Inherit, Buffy: Buffy/Faith, 8 minutes
- Where the Devil Don't Go, MCU: Maria Hill/Natasha Romanov, 27 minutes
- If this place is supposed to be so good, then where is Josh?, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend/The Good Place: Rebecca/Tahani, 27 minutes
- Who Needs A Date When You've Got A Heather, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: Heather/Valencia, 22 minutes
- Travel My Way, Take the Highway, Merlin: Gwen/Morgana, 5 minutes
- Rain, Avatar: The Last Airbender: Toph/Katara, 9 minutes
- Cross You Off My List, Merlin: Elena/Vivian, 6 minutes (recorded with
- A Happy Mistake , Merlin: Morgana/Vivian, 19 minutes
- Young Hearts (the dangerous book for girls remix), Merlin: Elena/Mithian, 1 hour 23 minutes
pod_together project Sometimes a family is a cultural anthropologist, a PoliSci PhD, a snippy sophomore, a golden cat, a Snorkie, and a guy who just wants to build a really smart robot, and that was it for 2018.2019 podfics
I made 18 podfics between June and December 2019:
- may we stay lost on our way home, Merlin: Gwaine/Merlin, 17 minutes
- Swinging Axes, MCU: Tony & Peter, 32 minutes
- monster, MCU: Bruce/Tony, 42 minutes
- got you feelin' like you're found (deep down), MCU: Sam/Steve/Bucky, 20 minutes
- Bucky's Reasons for Staying Alive, MCU: Bucky-centric Sam/Steve/Bucky, 1 hour 11 minutes
- It's A Very Distinctive Family Resemblance, Leverage/MCU, Eliot & Bucky, 12 minutes
- Testing a Theory, MCU: Steve/Natasha, 10 minutes
- Come On and Get Your Kicks, MCU: Steve/Tony, 49 minutes
- If the Bough Breaks (Someone Will Catch You), MCU: Rhodey & Nebula, 13 minutes
- Old Souls in a New World, MCU: Steve/Natasha, 19 minutes
- Secret Re(Hate)tionship, MCU: Sam/Bucky, 36 minutes
- Husband Material, MCU: Tony/Steve/Bucky, 30 minutes
- i want to (be someone else or i'll explode), MCU: Peter/MJ/Shuri, 25 minutes
- limits of my heart, MCU: Pepper & Peter & May & Tony, 37 minutes
- and then the bears came, MCU: Sam/Steve, 13 minutes
- Three mysterious podfics in a mysterious non-MCU fandom, which I'll tell you about in a few days, after #itpe reveals
podfication. :)Counting the ones I did myself, by number of works it comes out to 4 gen, 4 f/m or f/f/m, 8 m/m or m/m/m, and just 2 f/f (in a mysterious other fandom). 6 out of 18 podfics feature characters of color. If you count by minutes, it's very much dominated by male characters, though not to the same extent as what's out there. Both the most kudosed and least kudosed of these podfics (not counting the very recent ones) are gen: lots of recognition for Peter and Tony being sad about the events of Avengers: Endgame, not so much for Rhodey and Nebula being sad about the same thing.
idk friends, after all these years I'm still so troubled by fandom's devotion to whitecock. Obvs I count myself part of fandom and I mean, I fucking love the characters and pairings that MCU fandom loves, I read massive amounts of Steve/Tony and Tony & Peter and Tony/Peter –– Stony, Irondad, and Starker, as the kids say. (This fandom also loves Steve/Bucky –– Stucky –– and I don't but that's fine.) But when I watch the movies I also feel so much love for Pepper and Rhodey and MJ and Shuri and others, and when I go to read they are just shockingly rare, or only coming in to say something supportive and then leave. I think in the time I've been in online fandom we've gotten better at saying the right things in meta, and gotten better at avoiding character bashing and blatantly sexist and racist characterizations, but the neglect still makes me so sad.
What else to say about podfic this year. I haven't like, grown as a podficcer, tried new techniques, or anything like that. I didn't add music or sound effects for any of these because I'm lazy, but whatevs. I feel good about how I do what I consider fundamental: reading, pacing, character voices, feelings. I still don't love doing covers and don't love the covers I make but I've made it part of my routine and it's usually not too much trouble.
It's been awesome being back in fandom, reading with real enjoyment again and always with the idea that I might record. It's been great recording stories by people I've known for a long time like Rubynye and Thingswithwings, and discovering new favorite authors and interacting with a few of them, though not as much as I'd like. Some new listeners have found me, and for the most part these MCU podfics have tended to get more kudos than what I'd done the last few years, so that's also nice. (As always, works about ladies get fewer hits, but there are usually a few people who are extra appreciative.) The most pleasurable and/or intense recording experiences for me were probably Swinging Axes, monster, Bucky's Reasons for Staying Alive, i want to (be someone else or i'll explode), and a mysterious f/m podfic I'll tell you about later. Good times!
2019 fics
In 2019 wrote one long fic and four very short ones, all Marvel femslash:
- The One with the Lesbian Wedding(s), MCU: Carol Danvers/Maria Rambeau, 13,704 words
- My Enemies, Into the Spider-Verse: May/Liv, 600 words
- A Small Country, MCU: Natasha/Wanda, 700 words
- Natural Experiment, MCU: Shuri/Nebula, 500 words
- Cuts Deep, MCU, Natasha/Nebula, 1000 words
Like I said at the top, this was very exciting because I hadn't finished a fic since 2016. Even more so than with podfic, I'd thought I might never write fiction again. The long Carol/Maria was difficult because it was the first in so long and because I was nervous about fulfilling my assignment but also very enjoyable. I gave myself permission to let it be mostly banter and good feelings without a lot of plot, porn, conflict, etc. The four short pieces I did for the Marvel Femslash Drabble Exchange were also super fun and reminded me that I love (and am good at) writing drabble sequences.
I've started a number of other MCU fics including gen, f/f, f/m, and m/m, but haven't managed to finish any others or feel like, comfortable or keyed in in the fandom. I keep finding out about interesting exchanges after they've happened, and I'm also apprehensive about signing up for stuff since writing remains so difficult for me.
A thing I've noticed is that a lot of Marvel or MCU challenges and exchanges are organized around a single pairing, so like I signed up for a Sam/Steve exchange recently (still trying to write a little fic for it, eep) and am considering signing up for a Tony/Steve mini-remix thing. I get that it's a huge fandom and you want to find your niche but I wish there were like at least more oriented around the different movie series (Iron Man, Captain America, GotG, etc.) so you could have a little more variety and surprise. Like in the past I've had a lot of fun with remixes that draw out a relationship that's in the background of the original, but that woulnd't be a possibility with this challenge I'm looking at. Another thing that makes me sad is how often Tony fans veer into Steve bashing. Like, Steve Rogers is doing fine, he has lots of fans and fanworks and it doesn't offend me like Gwen-bashing did, but it's always an unpleasant surprise when I come across it. My Merlin fandom experience and community were really oriented around multishipping and I still want to roll that way.
So, all that said, my Official Fannish Goals for 2020 are the same modest ones I set for 2018: the 10 posts and 10 fanworks with some sub-goals.
Once I add those three #itpe podfics, my AO3 category stats will look like this:
- M/M (127)
- F/F (126)
- Gen (122)
- F/M (120)
- Multi (47)
My secret ambition for 2020 is to organize a podfic of
thingswithwings's Steve Rogers epic Known Associates, with Happy New Year, fannish friends! I'm really happy and grateful to have you in my life again!
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I think a lot of podficcers have looked at it and desired it but so far it hasn't come together. My longest ever podfic was less than half that size and it nearly killed me. But my thought is if eight of us were to get together and each take on say a 30K to 50K chapter then that would still be a big challenging project and accomplishment but an overwhelming one.
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