Sophinisba Solis

For the first time since May, I didn't post any new fanworks in October! It's also unlikely I'll post any in November!

I've been doing a little bit of podficcing –– not much because life has been busy and my fannish enthusiasm has been flagging a bit –– but that's for #itpe so they won't go up until Dec. 25. The mods posted the #ITPE 2019 Treats List last night and there are lots of possibilities so if I make any other podfics the rest of this year they'll also probably go toward that fest.

Though, there's a longer one I started a few months ago that I figured I would post as an extra treat for someone in pod_exchange, but I missed that deadline and also the deadline for podficbigbang. And now weirdly enough I can't find any #itpe requests that it fills very well even though it is lovely. So I might just end up posting it randomly and it will slump into oblivion like most podfics. ;)

I did get a nice assignment for samstevesmallgifts but I haven't started working on that yet. Maybe today!

ETA: Whoops, I forgot I did contribute one line to this great MCU/Into the Spider-Verse gen podfic, written by mauvera, that FumblesMcStupd organized at Podfication: [podfic of] Peter ^2.

Summary:

What's the general protocol for what to do when a portal opens up in your room and a random homeless guy that doesn't look quite real and is dressed like your secret superhero self falls on top of you?

Asking for a friend.

Yay, fanworks after all!

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) )

Happy birthday, baranduin! You are a good friend and a talented, thoughtful person. I feel lucky to know you and I'm so glad we'll get to hang out again in a few weeks, even if it's just a brief visit this time.

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I wrote another Lancelot ficlet!

Title: Perfect
Fandom: Merlin
Characters/Ships: Lancelot, Arthur/Gwen (IT CAN BE ARTHUR/GWEN/LANCELOT IF YOU WANT)
Rating: G + 1 swear word
Contains: n/a
Wordcount: 500 (five drabbles)
Notes: Part of my series of five 500-word Lancelot AUs (three finished so far) inspired by 5x09. This one less spoilery than the others, written for the "humiliation (in public)" square on my second kink_bingo card. My first G-rated kink-bingo fill! Thanks to claudia603 and bessyboo for their help. Dedicated to meri and also written out of great affection for baranduin though I know it's not your fandom so don't feel obligated to read it or anything.
Summary: Figure skater AU!

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I had kind of a rough day offline today, but I've been having a great time in fandom lately. Look at these awesome things my friend have made!

-So this weekend I asked yue_ix to look over the Arthur/Merlin ficlet I had written with five squares from my kink_bingo card, If I Cannot Be Your Queen. While we were chatting about it she started drawing a picture of Gwen, inspired by my story but using five kinks from her card and with ending up with a more kink-positive message than I had been using (I was expressing some of my angst about 4x09 and Yue was using kink to turn it into something less angsty). So yeah she came up with this beautiful picture where Gwen has sparkles in her hair!!! If I Can't Go To Your Dungeons by yue_ix, probably not safe for work Gwen art yay!

-Another thing that happened recently was that anatsuno and I were chatting and she said she wished there were more fic with top!Merlin and I said indeed it is a rare and beautiful thing, but that I also thought she would like some of lolafeist's fics where Merlin is such a strong sub that Arthur's kind of in awe of him. And sure enough anat went and podficced The One at a Sex Club where Merlin anon!fails because she liked it so much, and it was very sexy in anat's voice and I loved listening to it, as well as the Community/Doctor Who crossover podfic that is also at that link.

-Then another thing that happened was that I read this beautiful intense Gwaine/Merlin bdsm fic by leashy_bebes and I tweeted that it was great and might be of interest to other fans of top!Merlin, and that I'd love to listen to a podfic of it. So then meri decided to record both that and a lovely safeword fic set in the same universe for me!!! So the other day I got to listen to the very warm and lovely (Safe) Words and then this morning I got to listen to the sexy sexy A Force When We're Together. I feel so lucky!

-Okay and I didn't have anything to do with this thing getting made but it needs to be talked about because GUYS DID YOU SEE THAT dodificus MADE A PODFIC OF VOID AND THAT IT IS 9 HOURS OF SQUIRMERRIFIC TEENAGE DUBCON? If you were in Faculty fandom I'm sure you remember this. But even if you've never seen the movie or read another Faculty fic you can still understand and admire this one. Here is the podfic and here is the podbook and here is the text. ;skljd;flkjs ls

-Oh and hey, there is an informal podfic gift exchange going on right now and I hope the person assigned to me does not feel pressured to record kinky fic or porn if that's not what they're into. I really love all kinds of things including hurt/comfort and gen. This person is probably more organized than me and has already picked out and recorded something, but if they're feeling lost they might find the posts on my dear creator letter tag helpful. <3

Fan artists love feedback and podficcers are no different. Feedback can motivate us, inspire our muse and help us create more of out art. However feedback on podfic can be rather light. To find out how you can help increase feedback for podfic check out pod_aware on LJ or DW.

YOU GUYS, PODFIC FANDOM IS SO AWESOME. I DON'T KNOW, IF YOU FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER YOU KNOW I HAVE BEEN SQUEEING MY HEAD OFF ALL WEEK AND IF YOU DON'T MAYBE YOU JUST THINK I'VE BEEN POSTING A LOT OF SAVED UP STUFF, BUT I HAVE ALSO BEEN WALKING AROUND LISTENING TO PODFICCERS TALK ABOUT WHAT THEY DO AND IT HAS MADE ME SO HAPPY AND SO FULL OF LOVE.

Here are links to a few of the awesome things I've been listening to!

-some people just change your life, you know? - anatsuno reading jinjurly's podfic meta totally made me cry on the bus when I listened on Wednesday. I had read it a couple times before but it just made such an impact to hear it spoken out loud. I love how anat sounds calm and thoughtful but at the same time passionate about it. It made me realize that I quote that essay all the time without realizing I'm doing it, for instance in a post I made at pornspiration the other day about the things people are doing when they listen to podfic. Also this:

i'm tired of the ways that we minimize our own contributions, and the ways that we say we don't deserve our place. i'm tired of being told i'm too involved in 'boosterism' in the podfic community, and i'm tired of seeing people told they are doing it wrong. i'm tired of people saying that some people have accents and some don't. i'm tired of women saying their bodies are ugly, of being ashamed of their voices, and of the things they love, and of hiding their joy for fear of derision.

Sing it!

-Audiometa: Kink_Bingo and Podfic, Perfect Together by Sophinisba
- meri_sefket listened to anat's recording too and was inspired to record the podfic meta that I wrote for kink_bingo in June! That is a less emotional post and half of it is me doing my typical "Look, here is a comm! Here are some things you can do!" spiel, but about halfway through it gets to the park about podfic being inherently kinky I do think it gets really interesting and cool to hear spoken out loud. Meri talks in a really clear and sincere voice and has an American accent that's fairly similar to mine, but she also emphasizes different words than I would have and has a different kind of tone than I probably would have used, and that all makes it so much more interesting to listen to. In that post I quoted both yue_ix and jinjur, so we had Yue record the parts she had written and Meri edited those in, along with clips of anat reading Jinjur! I think the editing is really smooth and I'm just so thrilled that this exists now, wow!

-Podfics and languages (accent extension) a really interesting conversation between yue_ix (who is French Canadian) and emei about podfic from the perspective of non-native English speakers.

-An OK Man Kinda Sorta Tries to Battle - cantarina's podfic of an Inspector Spacetime ficlet by havent_got_a_clue. Ridiculous fake British accents for a ridiculous fic in a ridiculous fake British fandom. IT IS THE BEST.

And so so so much more! Go check out the other posts at pod_aware and pod_aware! There is so much!

I also started a thread for myself at the podfic love meme!


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Title: Little Wooden Boy and the Belly of Love
Author: new_kate
Cover art: yue_ix
Fandom: Merlin
Characters/Pairing: Arthur/Merlin
Rating: NC-17
Contains: Mild drugs and alcohol use, pegging, mention of mental illness, transgender issues
Summary: "Modern AU. Arthur moves to a a different city to start a new life and become a new man. On a whim he decides to share a flat with an attractive stranger, and quickly gets drawn into Merlin's odd little world."
Reader's notes: Again, even if you're not interested in podfic I highly recommend you check out yue_ix's cover art and fascinating notes about how she decided to create a scene from Merlin's comic book, and tell her what you think!
Length: 1 hour 30 minutes (no music)

Related links:
text at the AO3
art and artist notes
project post at podficbigbang (contains broken links)

Download links:
At the AO3!

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!