Sophinisba Solis

I wrote another ficlet, this time in the form of five drabbles:
-See what's in front of you, MCU/Iron Man, Pepper/Tony/Rhodey, 500 words, general audiences (but kind of sad).

I also did another podfic:
-night shift, MCU/Captain America, Sam/Steve, 9 minutes, general audiences, fluffy AU written by my old friend glim.

I've been doing the old morning pages since July 1st and that's been fun. Actually writing in a notebook with a pen and without a goal. Since I haven't been working lately and I've had that as the first thing I do after brewing the coffee and feeding the cats, I've been feeling happier waking up than I had in months or possibly years.

I was in two long Schitt's Creek podfics for pod_together, which posted, er, almost three months ago.

One I had helped to organize, asking thingswithwings if they would like to write something for me to record in the fest and then bringing in two other podfic friends, olive2read and growlery. It ended up being more than three and a half hours of Alexis/Stevie/Twyla, with each of us three readers doing a few chapters by a different POV character. I loved reading the Alexis ones and Ollie did a wonderful job editing and it is a fabulous project, which you can read or listen to as you prefer: Girl Boss Destiny.

I also pitched in a few lines as Twyla for an Alexis/Ted story/podfic written by DoubleL27 and podficced mainly by Amanita_Fierce, sunlightsymphony and ships_to_sail. This one came out to a little less than three hours and is called Something You Keep.

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IT WOULD BE GREAT IF MORE FANFIC AUTHORS WOULD POST PODFIC PERMISSION ON THEIR AO3 PROFILES. That would be really lovely.

Funny, I did a catch-up post in October for two podficlets I'd done in February and another one from August, but I forgot that I'd also made this other slightly longer one in August:



Title: Traveling Companions (text, download, and streaming links at the AO3)
Author: saellys
Fandom: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Rating: NC-17
Ship(s): Bodhi/Cassian/Jyn
Size: 17 MB, 23:37 minutes
The author's summary for this one has too many paragraphs so I'm just gonna say it's a threesome on Hoth and it's awesome.
Notes: I really love the Rogue One characters you guys.

Then also I participated in the awesome new Podfic Broken Telephone, in which each person makes a podfic inspired by someone else's podfic and then we all get to observe the chains branching out in unexpected ways. Dark_Dreymer had made this great Kirk/Bones hatesex podfic so I decided I would also record some loveless smut from a space fandom... but with ladies! I loved making this! Also I decided to include music because DD had, and that was challenging but I was able to use things I'd learned at a panel about music in podfic at this year's Podfication, and that also made me happy.



Title: put your finger on my trigger (text, download, and streaming links at the AO3)
Author: leiascully
Fandom: Battlestar Galactica
Rating: R/NC-17
Ship(s): Kara/Kendra
Size: 12 MB, 17:10 minutes
Author's summary: "I'm not looking for absolution. Just a little oblivion."

Well it's a good thing I made a New Year's resolution to post a fanwork each month, or I wouldn't have edited this last night and posted it this morning:

Title: Fall of Princes
Author: kaizoku
Fandom: Merlin
Rating: NC-17
Ships: Arthur/Gwen, Gwen/Merlin, Arthur/Gwen/Merlin
Summary: Arthur wants to see Gwen with another man.
Notes: OMG you guys this story is so hot.
Links: Text, download, and streaming links at the AO3

Another one of my resolutions was to repost twenty of my old podfics to the AO3 each month until it's done. Well, work has been busy and I've been putting it off so I didn't really try until today, and so far I've done three. Lots more uploaded to the webspace paraka's giving me, but it will take a long time to fill everything in, especially with some authors having left fandom and/or taken down their fics, and with the files on my own computer being way more disorganized than I'd realized.

Anyway, here are my works tagged podfic on the AO3. It will be gradual. I'm using a posting skin that eosrose made and shared at podfic_tips a while back, with the colors tweaked by fire_juggler and I really like how it looks. I sure regret not doing this years ago.

The Awesome Ladies Podfic Anthology is happening again this year with submissions due by February 8th. This is a fun thing to participate in even if you haven't made podfic before. I am happy to have a deadline to motivate me to make something in February.

I'm having a really good time with summerpornathon so far!

Although my previous team was also awesome I am really psyched to be on Team Gluttony this year because I have a bunch of friends there. In the past Team Gluttony has almost always won the tournament but now that I've joined we're in fifth place. COINCIDENCE? No, but it's cool, none of our stories have won prizes yet but we keep finding out afterwards that we voted for each other without knowing it. It is exciting for me to be making fanworks and interacting with people regularly after more or less dropping out of fandom for a year and then writing some seriously unpopular fics earlier this year.

Of the three main entries I've done so far I only really like the second, and I'm feeling especially insecure about my porn writing abilities, but I also feel like I have the chance to keep improving as the fest goes on. Here are the first two reposted on the AO3 (the third is anonymous until next weekend, and there will be four more):

In Freya's Bed (748 words) by sophinisba
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Merlin (TV)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Freya/Merlin (Merlin), Merlin/Arthur Pendragon (Merlin), Elena/Morgana (Merlin), Freya/Merlin/Arthur Pendragon (Merlin)
Summary: (731): Look I know it's late and I hope this doesn't wake you up but I feel like you should know that I'm sleeping on my couch in my own apartment so that my friend can get laid in my bed, and I would do the same for you. (http://textsfromlastnight.com/Text-Replies-31267.html)

The Super Part I Can Handle (744 words) by sophinisba
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Merlin (TV)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Freya/Gwen (Merlin)
Summary: Freya's secret identity is less mysterious to Gwen than she thinks.

In past years I've struggled a lot with the bonus challenges that happen between Tuesday and Thursday every week, but this year I'm really proud of myself for finishing the first three right away on Tuesday night:
1. a snippet of Will & Merlin friendship fic, canon AU
2. some Gwen meta inspired by the movie 20 Feet from Stardom
3. a ficlet about Vivian reading romance novels, late 20th century AU

And then also this week, unrelated to pthon, livrelibre let me know that they'd made a podfic of The Archer's Aim, a Hunger Games poem that I wrote two years ago. I listened to it tonight and it was awesome! I also hope to make a couple podfics soon, but then I often hope that. We shall see. :)

Title: An Ass of You and Me
Author: sophinisba
Fandom: Merlin
Ships: Gwaine-centric everyone/everyone
Rating: R? (Lots of sex, not much detail)
Contains: n/a
Wordcount: 751
Notes: Long-delayed repost of my last ficlet for this year's summerpornathon. Fills the "oral fixation" square on my kink_bingo card.
Summary: Joining the circus was the best thing that ever happened to Gwaine's sex life.
Links: Read it at the AO3

( An Ass of You and Me )

Title: Trio
Author: lawgoddess
Reader: sophinisba
Fandom: Merlin
Starring: Arthur/Gwen/Merlin
Rating: NC-17 for sure!
Contains: n/a
Summary: Written for the following prompt at kinkme_merlin: "Arthur and Gwen seduce Merlin to their bed. Bonus points for oblivious!Merlin. I'm hoping for at least a little humour."
Length: 33:27 minutes
Links: mp3 at MediaFire or mp3 at Audiofic, 15.4 MB
m4b at MediaFire or m4b at MediaFire, 31.1 MB


Thanks to cat_77 for making this cover!

Title: Son of Camelot (Quiet the Whispers Remix)
Fandom: Merlin
Wordcount: 2369
Rating: R
Pairing(s): Arthur/Gwen, Arthur/Gwen/Lancelot
Contains: selective acknowledgement of series 4 canon, brief reference to potential of dubcon, OCs talking smack about Gwen
Notes: Remix of Son of Camelot by arobynsung, written for Remix Madness 2012. Thanks to themadlurker for looking this over for me, to arobynsung for writing and participating, and to my Twitter followers for putting up with my laments.
Summary: Camelot needs more people like us.
Link: Read it at the AO3!

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

Title: Expectations
Author: ysobel aka isabeau
Fandom: Star Trek (2009)
Rating: R
Ship: Spock/Uhura
File info: mp3, 8:30 minutes, 4 MB
Contains: punishment, flogging, pain, consent issues (see author's note)
Author's summary: "Uhura has disobeyed Spock's orders, and needs to be punished. Spock is a little baffled by this."
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Title: What We Want
Author: lizardbeth
Fandom: Battlestar Galactica
Rating: NC-17
Ship: Kara Thrace/Sam Anders/Lee Adama
File info: mp3, 9:15 minutes, 4 MB
Contains: bondage, begging, D/s
Author's summary: "Threesome PWP, for the prompts bottom!Sam, tied up and tight."
Reader's note: For the "obedience" square on my kink_bingo card.
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Title: Fur-lined Gloves
Author: marguerite_26
Fandom: Merlin
Rating: NC-17
Ship: Merlin/Arthur's hunting glove
File info: mp3, 5:15 minutes, 2 MB
Author's summary: "Merlin loves Arthur's favourite fur-lined gloves. A little too much."
Contains: embarrassment (highlight for details) I wouldn't call it kink shaming, but there is surprise humiliation without reassurance. If you have an embarrassment squick this will probably hit it. Or, you know, if you're a fan of awkward boys being awkward, ENJOY!
Reader's note: For the "silk, velvet, feathers, furs" square on my kink_bingo card. Thanks to dayari at pornspiration for suggesting this fic!
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OMG only one more square left to fill!!