Sophinisba Solis

I was looking at my journal last night and thinking how boring I must have become for people who aren't interested in podfic or Merlin. Well...that problem will not be solved by this post. :/

This has not been an awesome week for me offline (the previous week was though so that's okay) but it has been awesome here in fandom!

The most exciting thing is that meri made a podfic of Believe This Is Real, the Freya/Merlin ficlet I wrote for summerpornathon. Meri is one of the people I was thinking of when I wrote (in terms of wanting to see people like us and our friends in fanfic) that so it is especially lovely for me to hear it in her voice.

( a little more podfic talk )

Well! On Wednesday I got a comment from manifesty, whom I'd never interacted with before, saying they'd made a cover for Late Night Games, an Avatar podfic I'd made last July! So that was awesome and I went and added it to the mp3 file and re-uploaded, so now that podfic is no longer naked.

And then the very next day I was posting that Gwaine/Merlin podfic and said on Twitter that I was too lazy to make a cover, so leish volunteered to make one for me, and she did and it is just right.

And if everything goes according to plan, this weekend someone else will make a cover for a longer podfic that I haven't posted yet, and another person will record one of my fics as their first podfic!! And I will get my Remix to the 1000-word minimum at least. I feel like everybody else is getting theirs done early and I am a bit anxious about being behind, but mostly I feel good. My remixee and I are well matched and I'm excited about the plan I have for the remix I want to write.

I really love this feeling of interacting with each other's work, being part of the conversation.

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Then also there are things that I read and think about but don't comment on (except maybe to say "I agree!" or "I enjoyed this"). Maybe you will find these interesting too!
-bookshop at MangaBookshelf: Fannish Inquisitions: Countering Assumptions About Fandom - My favorite is False Assumption #3.
-cesare: in the fandom afternoon - Ces and I both have feedback angst (you probably do too!) and we manage it in very different ways. I liked this post a lot.
-elf posting in ao3some: What's the collective noun for kudos? - Kudos you guys! So awesome!!!
-thingswithwings: Community thoughts, and most especially Britta thoughts
-leish: The Trouble With Witches, podfic of the story by netgirl_y2k.
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-Nicola Griffith: Lame is so Gay: A Rant (from July 2011, thanks to sasha_feather for linking this at access_fandom) - "Using lame as a derogatory term is as dangerous and ill-considered as using the term gay in the same context."

Yesterday eruthros and thingswithwings posted the Round Four Prize Announcements, including the Arbitrary Mod Prizes. This works as an arbitrary recs list of some of the exciting things posted at kink_bingo this June-September, and I was thrilled to get a prize for Best Praxis for my essay about the kinkiness of podfic and my verbally humiliating Azula/Ty Lee podfic. Thank you mods! Look at the sexy banner eruthros made me under the cut!

( prize banner )

I am also getting ready to run a podfic for beginners workshop at the pornspiration comm on LJ next week. I was thinking a series of posts over the course of the week. Let me know if you have suggestions or would like to help out (or make a promo banner)! Anyone over 18 can join the comm, they just keep posts locked for the sake of teambuilding and all.

( some pro-Dreamwidth anti-LJ grumbling )

La la la. Oh hey speaking of user interfaces, how about the new gmail? I'm keeping my sophinisba account the same for now (cherry blossoms!) but on my other account I switched to the new look and the Oceans theme. It's so pretty! I love the bit of translucency and the way the modules sometimes seem to be floating over the background - I find it very soothing (even though I don't like being on boats etc. in real life).

Okay so back to podfic talk! The reason I want to do that workshop next week is that it'll overlap with pod_aware/pod_aware! Mod paraka and friends have been working on some podfic meta podcasts that will be posted then, and I'm looking forward to hearing how those turn out. (I will tell you a secret: I spend a lot more time listening to non-fandom podcasts these days than podfics. I find the conversation style easier to follow when I'm riding the bus or whatever than a fic. There are times when I listen to a lot of podfic but I am not doing that now.) paraka would also like to emphasize that you don't have to be a podfic maker to participate in this. You might be someone who likes to listen to podfic, or an author who is okay with people making podfics of their work. As far as I understand it, all you have to do is post something during the week (the something could be a fic or a picspam and doesn't need to be podfic-related) and include a little blurb and a link to a post at the comm. It should be fun and will help us out.

( podfic and fic I'm working or not working on )

You guys look, cantarina recorded my Gwen/Morgana sonnet Where History Ends as part of the Peck on the Lips femslash podlet fest for International Day of Femslash yesterday!!!! Go listen and tell her how awesome she is! (She has a Box link there so you can listen online without having to bother with downloading and syncing, although I obviously chose to download for keeps.) Yay!!!

Also I made these two podfics!

Title: Late Night Games
Author: dagas_isa
Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Characters/Pairing: Azula/Ty Lee
Rating: mature
Contains: D/s, verbal humiliation, electricity play
Author's summary: Azula sends a flash of light through the sky to indicate that she wants to play.
Reader's notes: Made for the Kisses fest at podfic_project and International Day of Femslash, and for the "humiliation (verbal)" square on my kink_bingo card!
File info: mp3, 7 minutes, 3.3 MB
Download link: Late Night Games at Mediafire
[Link updated July 17, 2012 to include cover by manifesty]

Title: Open (Filthy Reverence)
Author: kick_flaw
Fandom: Merlin RPF
Characters/Pairing: Bradley James/Colin Morgan
Rating: EXPLICIT LIKE WHOA (This one rivals Experienced for porniness you guys.)
Contains: mild powerplay, barebacking, butt-plugging, roleplay
Author's summary: "I'm going to put it in now," Bradley says.
Reader's notes: Made for the "sex toys (worn under clothing)" square on my kink_bingo card!
File info: mp3, 23 minutes, 10.6 MB
Download link: Open (Filthy Reverence) at Mediafire

Dear purimgifts writer/graphics person!

Thank you for signing up with one or more of my fandoms! I hope you will find I'm easy to write for. I love gen and ships of all kinds. I said I'd take a maximum rating of Explicit and I've been on kind of a porny streak in my journal lately, but I really am a big fan of friendship stories and character pieces too. I like happy stories and sad stories, h/c, kink, and stories about identity, community, and belief. For the most part I do not like torture in interrogation scenes or cheating in relationships.

I had a really good time with this challenge in 2008 and 2009 and I'm excited about coming back to it. This year I requested only fandoms where I like pretty much all the characters, so even though I'm listing some of my favorites under the cut, I'd be really happy to read about or look at any of the others too. All these fandoms have ladies and a few also have Jewish characters, though in most cases that isn't really developed so there's a lot of room for you to do more, if that's where your interest lies. I'd also be really interested in bringing out Jewish themes or parallels to the Esther story in shows like Merlin or BSG, or casting say Long Feng from Avatar as an evil vizier. Also do whatever you'd like with the pictures!

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This icon and the one on my previous post are from this icon post by redscharlach. Thanks to sally_maria for the heads up.

Now let's have a meme! This is not the fic year in review meme yet because I still hope to write more fic. :) I saw this on cereta's journal.

( A year-in-fandom meme )

<b>Your main fandom of the year?</b> <b>Your favorite film watched this year?</b> <b>Your favorite book read this year?</b> <b>Your favorite album or song to listen to this year?</b> <b>Your favorite TV show of the year?</b> <b>Your favorite DW community of the year?</b> <b>Your best new fandom discovery of the year?</b> <b>Your biggest fandom disappointment of the year?</b> <b>Your TV boyfriend of the year?</b> <b>Your TV girlfriend of the year?</b> <b>Your biggest squee moment of the year?</b> <b>The most missed of your old fandoms?</b> <b>The fandom you haven't tried yet, but want to?</b> <b>Your biggest fan anticipations for the New Year?</b>