WWDITS Podtober
Oct. 7th, 2025 04:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
peasinaThis past week, I've challenged myself to post a What We Do in the Shadows (TV) podfic every day, and I've succeeded! I hope to continue with this for the rest of the month, and have another week and a half's worth of pods ready to go as of writing as I'm really enjoying myself. It's also coincided with pod_o_ween, which has been great for motivation too. Check out what's in this year's collection so far here.
It's been nice getting to interact with fics in my shiny new fandom this way. It's boosted my motivation to read more fic in general, and I've found some real gems. I've been pushing myself with cover art too. Also, a friend made me some Nandor collages (scanned, physical ones!) that I'll be using on covers next week that I absolutely adore and can't wait to share.
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As part of this project, I also followedjocundasykes' guide on using Python to scrape AO3 author profiles. It was complicated and most of the time I didn't know what I was doing, but I ended up with 9 new WWDITS writers for the FPS List and 2 edge cases I plan to reach out to from the 1088 authors I scraped. It's such a satisfying feeling to find new writers open to podfic of their works ^^
Semi-relatedly, I recently started a challenge withwilfriede0815 to crosspost at least one podfic to tumblr per week, something I'd never been brave enough to do before. (I'm ![[tumblr.com profile]](https://www.tumblr.com/favicon.ico)
palmofviolet on there if you're interested.) Having this challenge coincide with mine has meant I've been crossposting all these WWDITS podfics there too, which has been nerve-wracking but nice :)
I plan to post a stats roundup here at the end of the month for how many WWDITS pods I managed and how many words/hours were podded. My new Python "skills" (word used so very, very loosely lol) meant I also scraped my Internet Archive account this week and found out I've podded 106 hours of podfic since I started in 2020. I'm not sure how I feel about that total (I thought it would be bigger) but I am pleased about my recent personal growth with podding and how that will affect my output going forward. I feel more confident to take on longer stories these days, editing doesn't take me as long or feel like a slog (I enjoy it almost as much as recording), and I've even started trying more distinct character voices. Who knows if they're any good, haha, but it's fun to experiment.
This post has been rambly!
pod_o_ween, which has been great for motivation too. Check out what's in this year's collection so far here.It's been nice getting to interact with fics in my shiny new fandom this way. It's boosted my motivation to read more fic in general, and I've found some real gems. I've been pushing myself with cover art too. Also, a friend made me some Nandor collages (scanned, physical ones!) that I'll be using on covers next week that I absolutely adore and can't wait to share.
( Read more... )
As part of this project, I also followed
jocundasykes' guide on using Python to scrape AO3 author profiles. It was complicated and most of the time I didn't know what I was doing, but I ended up with 9 new WWDITS writers for the FPS List and 2 edge cases I plan to reach out to from the 1088 authors I scraped. It's such a satisfying feeling to find new writers open to podfic of their works ^^Semi-relatedly, I recently started a challenge with
wilfriede0815 to crosspost at least one podfic to tumblr per week, something I'd never been brave enough to do before. (I'm I plan to post a stats roundup here at the end of the month for how many WWDITS pods I managed and how many words/hours were podded. My new Python "skills" (word used so very, very loosely lol) meant I also scraped my Internet Archive account this week and found out I've podded 106 hours of podfic since I started in 2020. I'm not sure how I feel about that total (I thought it would be bigger) but I am pleased about my recent personal growth with podding and how that will affect my output going forward. I feel more confident to take on longer stories these days, editing doesn't take me as long or feel like a slog (I enjoy it almost as much as recording), and I've even started trying more distinct character voices. Who knows if they're any good, haha, but it's fun to experiment.
This post has been rambly!
bluedreamingOkay so, first of all, this is kind of in response to some STUFF™️. Basically, I vaguely heard that there was something going on with the Bluesky (company?), and at the same time I also got this issue of a newsletter talking about ATproto stuff. So I went poking and found this in Northsky's FAQ:
So, this is my attempt to kind of explain all of this in basic terms so that people who have heard about the STUFF™️ but maybe know less about ATproto and Bluesky than I do (and, to be very clear, I only know a small bit!) can use and access Bluesky in a way that they want.
This all owes a lot (both specifically as well as indirectly as I’ve been in the FandomCoders server for a while) to FujoCoded so I definitely recommend looking up their work/learning more about them/learning from them, and following them or donating if you have the means! (However, any mistakes are mine, not theirs.)
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- First draft posted on Discord Oct 5
- Second draft posted here Oct 5
- Third draft Oct 6 - need to add some more at marked sections, and formatting needs examining later, also missing "clients" (fourth thing)
We started contemplating this project after a petition to "enforce Bluesky's moderation guidelines equally" gained over 26,000 signatures and was ignored by Bluesky Trust and Safety. We were all deeply disappointed in this lack of response, and the subsequent unfollowing of every trans person by the Head of Trust and Safety. We saw the writing on the wall. (source)And that didn't feel particularly great, so I bailed to a very kind fannish person's PDS (I'm very grateful! And will not disclose because it's up to this person who is on the PDS, etc.) And this is the important part: if you follow or interact with me on Bluesky, you will not notice that even happened.
So, this is my attempt to kind of explain all of this in basic terms so that people who have heard about the STUFF™️ but maybe know less about ATproto and Bluesky than I do (and, to be very clear, I only know a small bit!) can use and access Bluesky in a way that they want.
This all owes a lot (both specifically as well as indirectly as I’ve been in the FandomCoders server for a while) to FujoCoded so I definitely recommend looking up their work/learning more about them/learning from them, and following them or donating if you have the means! (However, any mistakes are mine, not theirs.)
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- First draft posted on Discord Oct 5
- Second draft posted here Oct 5
- Third draft Oct 6 - need to add some more at marked sections, and formatting needs examining later, also missing "clients" (fourth thing)
R. F. .Kuang: Katabasis
Oct. 4th, 2025 11:00 amselenakThis is the third novel of R. F. Kuang I've read (after being impressed by the The Poppy Wars, first volume, but also emotionally so exhausted I didn't read the rest of the trilogy, amused and captivated in an emotionally distant way by Yellowface, and turned so much by Babel that I only read the first twenty pages or so and then gave up), and I think my favourite so far. There is academic satire but also genuine emotion throughout, there is great ambition epically realised (i.e. writing a trip to the underworld in the grand tradition of all the obvious suspects, but specifically one that reflects the present), and the horror parts hit home in a way that feels not derivative but specific for this particular version. (The novel is set in a universe where magic is real, but isn't concerned with how this altered history or not, just what it means you can study it at university.) Our main character, Alice Law, is the kind of messy, complicated and morally ambiguous (and not in a "nice" way) woman the author specializes in, though for me personally preferable because I had the sense of the narrative being on board with what it was saying about Alice's strengths and weaknesses through her initially very skewered perspective. Also she had a genuine learning process through that trip through the Underworld, and... but that would be spoilery.
( Spoilers realize the Underworld is modelled on a British University )
Also improving my week: This trailer for Guillermo del Toro's adaptation of Frankenstein:
( Spoilers realize the Underworld is modelled on a British University )
Also improving my week: This trailer for Guillermo del Toro's adaptation of Frankenstein:
Dear Festividder Letter 2024/5
Oct. 3rd, 2025 06:46 pmalwaystheoceanHere be a placeholder!
I have learned to actually come back to these but IN CASE I DON'T feel free to check the tag, my tastes don't change much.
I have learned to actually come back to these but IN CASE I DON'T feel free to check the tag, my tastes don't change much.
Fic or Treat 2025 - peasina's Door
Oct. 3rd, 2025 06:10 pmpeasina
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ficortreat 2025🧛🏼♂️ peasina's Door 🦇
Light is on for: Fic or Treat Community (who have their own “Doors”) and my DW subscribers
What's in the Bowl? Pokémon Icons!
Let Me Know: The Pokémon you’d like icons for. You can name any number of Pokémon, a Pokémon type (e.g. steel type), generation, or say “Surprise me!” for a random Pokémon of my choice. I will make you at least three icons of at least one of your listed Pokémon.
Other info: I will use official art, concept art, TCG art, and sprites for your icons.
Thank you for knocking!