Sophinisba Solis

Gosh, I like Twitter and my friends there a lot, but I think I need to step away from it for a bit. I just feel like it eats up too much of my day. I like Tumblr a lot too but I use it pretty inconsistently - I haven't been on much lately because I've had inconsistent or slow Internet. So yeah, I think I'm gonna try not checking either of those for a week (starting tomorrow) and see how that goes. I'm also gonna cut back on how much time I spend in chat.

Maybe I will get better at communicating here on LJ and Dreamwidth! I used to be a lot more conscientious about answering every comment I got, and I'd like to get back into that habit.

Maybe I will get a ton of work done!

Or maybe I will just feel lonely and bored!

This seems like a good time to experiment though because I'll be somewhat busy with work stuff this next week.

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In other news, I've started reading the new Crossovers/Fusions challenge at summerpornathon and I'm enjoying that a lot - way more than I expected to! I had thought there would be a ton of Teen Wolf and Avengers crossovers and a bunch of other canons I didn't know and that I'd either be resentful or just confused with reading most of them. But there's a ton of variety and most of them are just fun, even for the fandoms I don't care for or am not familiar with. And that makes sense, I mean, of course most people are going to try to write something with broad appeal. Anyway, I recommend checking those out, and I'm looking forward to working my way through the rest of them.

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I'm still getting over this sore throat and related feeling-generally-awful, but today I managed to record a couple short podfics, so I'm looking forward to editing those and crossing off another two bingo squares! Right now I'm feeling pretty confident about being able to get a blackout done during the regular round, and also hopeful about including five or so different Achievements within that. :)

I never ever spell the word Achievements right on the first try. :(

The new round of kink_bingo is open for signups! You can read the short version of how to play and sign up for a card if you want!

I plan to add links and banners to this post as I make things, like I did with my cards and banners collection post last year. :)

I have this card for myself:

( sophinisba's kink_bingo card )

flammablehat (aka roughandtouble) and I also signed up as a team in hopes of getting some inspiration for pod_together and possibly other projects.

( Team Soflambeau's kink_bingo card )

( And I got a second card for myself! )

I feel a little lost with my own card, everything seems doable (most of them I've done in past rounds) but nothing really jumps out at me right now as a good place to start. In the past I've filled whatever squares came easiest in whichever order (so I always do way more than five before I get to my first bingo), but I feel like I ought to try being more strategic with Achievements this year, but then I don't know I don't know.

On the other hand, almost ever square in the team card strikes us as perfect for Arthur/Gwen, which is the pairing both of us are excited about working on right now. So that is pretty fabulous, I feel like we lucked out!

( achievements and banners! (nsfw) )

Cover art by yue_ix!

yue_ix and I recorded a conversation about making/doing things other than fic as a ramp-up post for the new round of kink_bingo! It lasts about 33 minutes and talks about bringing fandom kinks into different parts of your life, letting go of the desire to be perfect when sharing fanworks, and some other things. We talked a bunch about transformative works and then totally forgot to ask people to put up transformative works/blanket permission statements lol. Check out the post at the comm for download/streaming/transcription options, links to things we discussed, and hopefully comments from other listeners! There have been a ton of great posts (including audio posts) there in the last couple weeks. I'm so excited to start the new round!

I also made another tiny and not-at-all-porny podfic for the latest bonus challenge at summerpornathon:
( Kit'n Kaboodle by cat_77 )

Title: The Archer's Aim
Fandom: The Hunger Games
Rating: G
Ship: Katniss/Peeta-ish
Wordcount: 161 (19 lines)
Notes: For the "guns" square on my kink_bingo card, completing my second blackout just in time for amnesty!!! Since this is my first villanelle (omg it was way harder than the sonnet I did last summer) and my first Hunger Games fanwork I'm also going to count it for the New Horizons (March 2012) mini-challenge!
Summary: A villanelle for the Catching Fire training montage.
Also available at the AO3

( The archer's aim )

I feel good about the things I've been accomplishing in fandom lately! On Sunday I posted one of my longest Merlin fics and submitted my podficbigbang project - posting for that should start very soon. I doubt I'll ever take on a podfic this large again, but it's been a good experience, and one nice effect is that now I can look at a 10K fic and thing, pshaw, that's nothing. In fact, I recorded one that's a little under 9K yesterday and am hoping to finish the edits and post it today. With that I will have only one square left to fill on my kink_bingo card before the June 15th Amnesty deadline. That square is guns, and I would like to fill it with a podfic, fic, or poem about a character with a disability. I would be grateful for podficcable story recs or writing prompts! You can also help out other people who are trying to meet their amnesty goals over at the Amnesty Boogaloo reverse promptfest at the comm.

( kink_bingo and hc_bingo musings )

summerpornathon signups are open!!! Closing Thursday night! I hope lots of my friends will sign up, though to be honest I also have some hope that we might have a slightly smaller group this year, which would make teams more intimate and reading more manageable. Super excited for the reading and writing, not so much for the pages full of flashing gifs but what are ya gonna do. :)

Lots of activity planned for International Day of Femslash coming up on July 14th! It would be neat if we got a ton of femslash at the pornathon that week, though it would be better if we got a ton of femslash at the pornathon every week. :D

( podfic/remix/lady-centric fests )

Title: In Gear
Author: kass
Reader: sophinisba
Fandom: House
Starring: House/Wilson
Rating: NC-17
Contains: n/a
Author's summary: "House wants to christen his new car."
Reader's notes: For the "vehicular" square on my kink_bingo card.
File info: mp3, 5 minutes, 2.3 MB
Links: download at MediaFire or listen streaming:

Title: Listen, Learn
Author: anonymous
Reader: sophinisba
Fandom: Merlin
Characters/Ships: Arthur/Merlin
Rating: NC-17
Contains: n/a
A summary: Arthur knows just how much - and how filthily - Merlin appreciates what Arthur brings to the world of accessible text. (AKA the uni AU where Merlin is blind.)
Reader's notes: Recorded for the "sensation play" square on my second kink_bingo card. The author wishes to remain anonymous but has given permission for this fic to be podficced. It is always okay to repod my stuff, but I think it would be especially appropriate if there were multiple versions of story read aloud, and I would love to listen to them.
Length: 23:30 minutes, 10.8 MB
Links: mp3 on MediaFire
mp3 on Audiofic

First of all let's talk about some podfic things!

( podfic links, mostly Merlin podfic recs )

Here are a few fics I've enjoyed reading recently!

( Arthur/Merlin, Gwaine/Merlin, Arthur/Gwen )

And here are links to some other things!

-month_of_meta is a new comm encouraging people to post meta during March. I really enjoyed lunabee34's post Fannish Trajectories: Isolation, a Sense of Disconnection from Fandom, and How We Deal and saw a lot of parallels with my own experience, though she and I are in pretty different places now.

-eruthros made an epic picspam of famous people and animals (mostly dogs and cats) that is sure to brighten your day, evening, etc. There are more pictures of cute animals and other happy-making things in the comments to thingswithwings's post sick: send help.

-The March mini-challenge at kink_bingo is to try new things, ideally "A character/pairing I've never worked on before, from a fandom I've never worked on before, doing a kink I've never done in my fanworks before, in a medium (painting/fic/vidding/podfic/etc) I've never tried to do before." This idea makes me happy! I realized there are not a lot of fandoms that I like but have never podficced in, but my current plan is to write a song for a pairing I've never worked on in a fandom I've only made a couple podfics for (never written in), and a kink where I've so far only written a drabble. I think that should be a good challenge!

Title: falcon and a dove
Fandom: Merlin
Wordcount: 500 (set of five drabbles)
Ship: Gwen/Merlin
Rating: PG-13
Contains: fluffy, awkward kink
Summary: "Merlin, which part of my dream about freedom and lightness and sailing through the air made you think what I really wanted was bondage?"
Notes: ( notes cut for length )
Inspired by yue_ix's amazing drawing rosebud with a flush; can be read as a sequel to isabear's beautiful commentfic inspired by the same piece. For the "suspension" square on my kink_bingo card. Read it at the AO3 if you prefer!

( falcon and a dove )

Title: Do You Wanna Come Over and Kill Some Time?
Author: Amber
Fandom: Merlin RPF
Characters/Ships: Bradley James/Colin Morgan
Rating: NC-17
Contains: n/a
Author's summary: "Colin Morgan is a bit of workaholic. | It has been, give or take, six months since Bradley realized he fancied his co-star; that he wanted to do with him all the things people on the internet speculated they did. Possibly forever. Half that time he wasted bollocksing about having a bit of a sexual identity crisis and being totally oblivious to Colin's totally obvious reciprocal feelings, and then the rest of it was mostly taken up with filming, so he feels he cannot be blamed, truly, for wanting to take advantage of a night off."
Reader's notes: For the "washing/cleaning" square on my kink_bingo card! This one was something of a struggle for various reasons, including having to use a new version of GarageBand for the first time on the editing, but now it's done and I finished my bingo in time to post for the January mini-challenge. Yay!
Length: 33 minutes
Links:
Download mp3 from MediaFire
Download m4b from MediaFire