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Podficcing!
The Awesome Ladies Podfic Anthology is coming along very well! So far people have listed 65 different podfics in...MANY different fandoms they're working on or have finished in our spreadsheet. This is not quite as many as klb managed to gather on her own last year, so if this year's team of four mods doesn't match that we will feel pretty bad about ourselves. However, there seem to be quite a few people who are planning or hoping to make something this weekend but haven't put their information in the spreadsheet yet, so I am almost certain we will beat last year's anthology.

I've made four pieces in four different fandoms so far and will probably do one or two more this weekend. Short podfics are so much fun, such a nice accomplishment from starting and finishing something within an hour or so.

I've talked to a few people who are making their first podfic for this project! Are you interested in doing that? Remember, you could read one of your own drabbles or something by someone who's given blanket permission. This is a nice project to be part of because a lot of people are likely to download it, whereas if you put out a two-minute podfic on your own you don't normally get as many listeners.

So if you are interested in joining us drop a comment at the amplificathon post and get your podfics uploaded by Sunday night. I should be around a fair amount this weekend if anybody needs help figuring out the basics on GarageBand, and other people are around for handholding on Audacity.

Fanlore!
Meanwhile, some of us will be making a Nimueh page at Fanlore this weekend to document how fandom has dealt with her character. I used to edit at Fanlore and I stopped because the lack of interaction made me lonely and anxious. HOWEVER, a small group of folks getting together for a concentrated effort can make a lot of improvements there and also be a lot fun. If you aren't into Fanlore or wiki editing but you have a link to (or even a vague recollection of) a good post about Nimueh or a vid you saw once, stop by the chatroom and say hello, drop a comment on the camelot_fleet post or add some a line to the google doc, and we will do the formatting and stuff for you.

Last weekend a few people put together a Percival page and this will probably be going on for a few more weeks. You can follow the project at the Fanlore challenge tag on camelot_fleet.

Recs!
I am in the middle of reading The Adventure of the Hopping Vampire by hradzka, a long, plotty fic starring Jenny and Vastra from Doctor Who (my icon on this Dreamwidth post). It has a nice light tough and a lovely Jenny POV, and I'm enjoying it a lot.

ETA: I re-listened to intransitive's reading of Give Me My Sin Again by viklikesfic the other day. Cate Blanchett/Miranda Otto D/s and leather fetish, an hour and 9 minutes, OMFG SO HOT. I was riding the bus and I was so turned on I thought I was going to combust. It was awesome

Remix sign-ups are open!! The sign-up form itself is on the AO3, but the detailed instructions are at the LJ comm remixers_lounge and other news and announcements will be posted there too. I love Remix! Who else is playing?

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I'm also starting to get really excited about ladiesbigbang. trascendenza started talking a few weeks ago about running a Big Bang for female characters, and I was all, Ho hum, if I want to write a Big Bang fic I'll sign up for thelittlebang (for femslash) or boxofmagic (for Merlin fic). However! It's turning out to be a very different and innovative kind of thing with lots of possibilities I hadn't thought of before. Besides being open to all fandoms and genres of fic, there are options for doing meta, recs, art, podfics, vids, art, graphics, picspams, and multimedia projects! And any of these projects could get a complementary piece in another media, besides the traditional set-up of a large fic being accompanied by a piece of art.

I had thought I'd just cheer trascendenza on from the sidelines but right now I'm seriously considering trying to do a set of podfics. Never mind that I don't like reading aloud and I don't like hearing myself recorded and I have no idea how to work Audacity - I want this stuff to exist! And there's a podficcing workshop coming up soon at camelot_fleet, so that should help.

Go check out the comm and even if you don't feel like taking on a big project yourself, consider giving permission for your fic to be recorded or leave some lady-centric prompts, or helping trascendenza out with some graphics or a layout. Note that you don't have to be a Dreamwidth user to participate. Sign-ups will run all through April.

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Also! briar_pipe is gathering a bunch of people together to swarm the Fanlore Merlin pages next weekend. We want to get some good multiple perspectives and information on lots of different pairings and types of fan activities. I've done a little editing at Fanlore in the past and in general found it frustrating - overwhelming because there's so much to be done, lonely because other people aren't working on the same things, and then stressful because when other people do come along they're more likely to criticize ("Why is there so little there!?") than to collaborate or offer support. So! I'm really excited about this as a way of getting a lot of work done in a short time, introducing some new people to wiki editing, and giving each other help and encouragement. If you're interested in joining in, check out the discussion and planning post at camelot_fleet.

Yesterday I did some editing at Fanlore (the OTW wiki about fan history and cultures) for the first time in a few months. I did a bunch of editing back in the fall of last year and at the time there were a lot of other people working on subjects I was interested in, so when I felt like going in I would always just click on the Recent Changes page and go from there. These days though most of the edits are about zines, which I don't know anything about, so that doesn't work. Still, I was inspired by facetofcathy's idea of keeping a Fanlore log on one's journal, since it's so hard to be social about it over there on the wiki (where for the most part you only get any feedback when you've done something wrong). Like even yesterday I was doing edits and then someone else was responding to them - fixing my mistakes and adding other content - and that was great, but I couldn't really figure out the space to say thank you.

Yesterday I added some content to the main Merlin page and a few of the LotR subpages about hobbits. If you read my journal maybe you're interested in some of the same fandoms, so you could check out my user contributions page to get links to what I've been working on. Fix my mistakes, fill in my outlines, or suggest new topics that needs to be added. You could do some editing yourself or tell me here about what you think should be done.

I'm leaving town tomorrow and won't be online much this next week, but I'm around today and happy to answer any questions you have...though I don't especially know what I'm doing either. :)