Sophinisba Solis

Also it seems the last time I posted links to my fanworks from here was in July. I know most of my friends who still use this website don't read MCU or listen to podfics but it is nice to talk about things anyway, so.

I made or contributed to many small podfics that you can find on my AO3 page, but I posted one that was a bit more substantial for the Summer Podfic Swap last August:
-The Other Side of the Coin, Steve/Tony D/s AU, explicit, one hour and nine minutes.

And I wrote a fic, posted in January:
-Stardust, Tony-centric Potts-Stark family gen, 6000 words.

ETA: Wait and I also wrote another fic in October:
-live through this (and maybe prosper mix), Natasha-centric Endgame AU, rated teen, 1200 words.
/ETA

Still lots of Tony feels around here, can't say I've really moved on! I have two other Tony fics I've been trying to finish for ages, one currently at about 5K and the other at 8K. And another 3K that I mean to be Pepper/Natasha but I keep accidentally writing about Tony instead.

Another fannish New Year's Resolution I made but didn't post about here was that I'd write at least 100 words of fic at least once a week. I stuck to that until last week, and then I came back and did it again (just barely) last night. But I don't feel close to finishing anything, or confident that people will want to read them. For example, that 8K fic is for a request that a fannish aquaintance made at an exchange two years ago; that person continues to participate in exchanges but has stopped requesting these characters.

I was also doing okay at plugging away slowly at a large podfic project but have also fallen behind on that the last couple weeks, and again it's not like a lot of people are clamoring to hear it.

And as for myself I haven't much been consuming fanworks in recent months. I've left off my habit of reading fic before bed – for a while was reading published ebooks but the last couple weeks I've been trying to turn off all electronic devices a good hour before my bedtime. So I just read a paper book and it often sends me to sleep real quick. I haven't been finishing a lot of books either! (But I did finish one today! Maybe I will also make a books post this week!)

I'm doing fine though.

I haven't looked at the AO3 since seeing Spider-Man yesterday. To be honest I'm a bit afraid to, because if I know fandom there won't be a lot of engagement with how recent events have affected Ned and MJ, and that will make me sad. But also maybe I'll feel inspired to make something, and that can be a great feeling.

I mentioned in a post from two weeks ago that I hadn't made podfic in a few months. However, I did have a podfic that I'd made in May go public last week, hooray!

Back at the end of the Voiceteam challenge in May my team started a game of Podfic Broken Telephone, which is where one person records a podfic and passes it on to one other person, who records a podfic inspired by the first one, then passes it on to a third person and so on. My teammate blackglass recorded a soft dad feelings Mandalorian podfic and then I recorded a soft dad feelings Tony Stark podfic and then there were some different family feelings then it veered around to courting and marriage, passing through six different fandoms! There were some delays along the way but we did wrap it up and then make everything public last week and then I forward-dated mine in hopes people would see it, though really it doesn't make much difference because who listens to podfic. But anyway here is the collection:
-WhispeRED Out Loud: A Podfic Broken Telephone Challenge
-and my contribution Improvement, written by laireshi, Tony & Morgan, 9 minutes

That was a nice bit of Voiceteam nostalgia, though I hadn't really seen that it was happening because I hadn't been on Discord.

Then a couple hours ago the Voieceteam mods announced that they would run a shorter challenge around the end of the year, and you could sign up as a group or sign up individually and have the mods assign you. Since then thirteen people have signed up: one mod, five people signing up as individuals, and SEVEN MEMBERS OF TEAM RED OUT LOUD. I love us, yay!

Anyway, you should consider signing up, as voiceteam is very newbie friendly and a nice way of meeting new people and trying new things.

Meanwhile I have asked for and been granted permission to record a few things in the last two weeks. Tonight I started recording one of them and to be honest it's been rough going. Just hard to get sentences out! And some noises in my house and my neighborhood. But still fun to be giving it a try again, and I'm really looking forward to Voiceteam Mystery Box.

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!

I made three podfics this month! It feels great to be doing this again.

Title: may we stay lost on our way home (text, download, and streaming links at the AO3)
Author: growlery
Fandom: Merlin
Rating: mature
Ship(s): Gwaine/Merlin
Length: 17 minutes
Author's summary: Merlin has a very small bed and he wouldn’t hear of Gwaine sleeping on the floor, which means that they spend every night wrapped around each other. Gwaine’s luxurious hair tickles Merlin’s face, and he smiles softly at Merlin first thing in the morning every morning, like there’s nothing and no one else he’d rather see. It’s agony. Merlin’s not sure how much longer he can take it.
Notes: This is an old school magic reveal and romance! Lovely!

Title: Swinging Axes (text, download, and streaming links at the AO3)
Author: forensicleaf
Fandom: Avengers/MCU
Rating: general audiences (but mind the tags!)
Ship(s): Tony and Peter Parker
Length: 32 minutes
Not the author's summary: Peter visits Tony.
Notes: Endgame spoilers and lots of feelings.

Title: monster (text, download, and streaming links at the AO3)
Author: thingswithwings
Fandom: Avengers/MCU
Rating: Explicit
Ship(s): Bruce/Tony
Length: 42 minutes
Author's summary: "Basically a dissertation on Bruce's sadism. But a naked dissertation. With orgasms. And sharp implements."
Notes: Interrogation, torture, and rape roleplay. Other notes on at the AO3 posting.

Here are two recent recordings of me reading things I wrote a long time ago!

Title: People gonna talk (whether you doing bad or good) (text, download, and streaming links at the AO3)
Author: sophinisba
Fandom: Merlin
Rating: NC-17
Ship(s): Freya/Merlin
Size: 12 MB, 22:21 minutes
Summary: Freya and Merlin have sex on the stairway to Arthur's cellar at his NYE party.
Notes: Written for New Year's Eve 2010, recorded for New Year's Eve 2017!

I also participated in the Podfication 2017 Live Performances event in October! The recording is a little less than two hours and my part is probably about seven minutes, to be honest it was really hard for me to stand up in front of everybody and I can't make myself listen now. But it was still a really cool evening and there is the link. There are a bunch of other cool performances too! The story I read was "The L Word", Luna Lovegood gen that I wrote for lgbtfest in 2009.

So, last July I had this idea that I could make series of poems and ficlets of Freya backstory for my kink_bingo card and get the Solo Kink Bingo for the first time. I wrote the first three parts and then got stalled on the fourth (which was not even part of the bingo but was necessary for the series), and I never posted them. And then last night I did! Maybe I'll finish the fourth part and write the other two someday.

General content notes: So, the second part starts when Freya is very young and the series involves sexuality and self-harm and death of family members. The parts that I haven't written yet also involve sexual assault and murder! As flammablehat said when I was first chatting with her about the series, "freya is a really intense little girl".

I am very grateful to flammablehat for her help and support!

Title: Surface
Rating: PG?
Contains: death, grief
Wordcount: 324
Notes: For my "mirrors/doubles" square. My first sestina!

Title: Sharper
Rating: PG-13?
Contains: solo kink and masturbation by a young girl
Wordcount: 1330
Notes: For my "shaving/depilation" square. I think this is a fairly wholesome story about growing up and figuring oneself out, so I invite you to give it a try on its own even if it the next part doesn't look like your cup of tea.

Title: Deeper
Rating: R?
Contains: death, grief, menstruation, blood, cutting
Wordcount: 1185
Notes: For my "pain" square. Makes more sense if read after "Sharper".

Series link: Some things Freya did before she met Merlin

Title: Plotted
Author: locketofyourhair
Reader: sophinisba
Fandom: Inception
Starring: Ariadne(/Arthur)
Rating: PG-13
Contains: n/a
Reader's notes: For the "writing on the body" square on my kink_bingo card!
File info: mp3, 1.5 MB, 3:09 minutes
Links: download at MediaFire or listen streaming at SoundCloud

I made an edit to fix a missing line from the Arcane Asylum podfic, so if you downloaded but haven't listened yet (or plan to listen again later) you might want to download it again. Sorry about that!

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Here are my first two fills for hc_bingo! They are both podfics of canon-era stories where Arthur saves Merlin from death.

( Some Kind of Strength by lolafeist )

( Yonder Comes the Morning by andraste_oz )

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My plan to make podfics for all the summerpornathon bonus challenges broke down after all of one week, but I did write a drabble (also on the AO3) about Morgana killing Merlin.

New batch of summerpornathon fics going up tonight, and reveals for challenge #1 tomorrow! I had fun reading last week's entries but I'm even more excited for the apocalypse and fuck-or-die entries coming up.

I wrote two pieces for the Reverse Remix comment fest over at bessemerprocess's journal. The way this works is that you list fandoms you can write in and someone else links you to one of their fics and you try to write a quick remix!


Title: Beginning Partner Dancing (The Teacher's Always a Learner Remix)
Fandom: Community
Wordcount: 577
Rating: G
Characters: Madame LeClair, Troy, Britta
Contains: n/a
Notes: Remix of Beginning Partner Dancing by cantarina. The sensible thing would have been to remix Ca'rina's Troy/Britta fic from Britta's POV but I got sidetracked so this happened instead! Might not make much sense unless you read the original, which is lovely.
Summary: Troy and Britta's dance teacher confronts a class with more men than women.
Links: AO3 | Dreamwidth comment

Title: One Year (The Two Girls Remix)
Fandom: Merlin
Wordcount: 1400
Rating: G
Characters: Gwen, Morgana
Contains: n/a
Notes: Remix of One Year by wintercreek, with a big old rec for that beautiful Merlin friendship fic.
Summary: During her first year as Morgana's maid, Gwen finds out she doesn't have to be alone.
Links: AO3 | Dreamwidth comment

Title: Back in the Day
Author: marina
Reader: sophinisba
Fandom: The Wire
Starring: Omar Little/OMC
Rating: R
Contains: n/a
Author's summary: "A little snippet about Omar's past."
Reader's notes: Marina wrote this as a Yuletide treat a few years ago. At the time I hadn't seen any of The Wire but I happened to be hanging out in the Yuletide chat room and I said I volunteered to beta it since I was planning to watch the show and she said it didn't have spoilers. So later when I did watch some of the show (I've still only seen the first two and a half seasons) I already had this as part of my headcanon.
File info: mp3, 2 minutes, 1.0 MB
Links: Back in the Day at MediaFire
Back in the Day at Audiofic

Title: Practical Legends
Author: kristin
Reader: sophinisba
Fandom: The Wire
Starring: Ziggy Sobotka, Omar Little
Rating: R
Contains: some racist and homophobic language
Author's summary: "Ziggy pulled his arms tight against the cold. The wind here wasn’t as cold as on the docks, but damn it still froze him something solid."
File info: mp3, 7 minutes, 3.3 MB
Links: Practical Legends at MediaFire
Practical Legends at Audiofic