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Suggest ways that the podficcer(s) might be involved in the writing process that would work well for you.

Suggest ways that the writer(s) might be involved in the podficcing process that would work well for you.

If one or more group members become unhappy or uncomfortable with how the collaboration is going, what are your preferences for how it would be handled? (For example, a preference that your partner(s) tell you right away if something bothers them, a preference that they give you some time after telling you something heavy for you to process and respond, etc. Please note that for any conflict that cannot be resolved within a single conversation, we STRONGLY ENCOURAGE coming to the mods for support and not allowing things to escalate! Participants should also all feel welcome and encouraged to come straight to the mods without having talked to their partner first if that feels safer/better!)

What is the maximum project length that works for you? Is there a period of time where your partner will not be able to contact you for many days? Is there anything else along these lines that you want to let your partner know about in advance?

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https://xkcd.com/3104/

Numbers can be tricky. On the day of my 110th birthday, I'll be one day younger than John Tukey was on his.

https://xkcd.com/3104/

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We're at the halfway point of icebreaker week!

If you're finding that you're not able to answer the whole set of questions within a day but think they'd be valuable to go through, please feel free to spread the five days of icebreaker questions out across more than 5 days to fit your schedule.

This next set of questions is geared towards helping partners get more familiar with each other's work and creative process.

Why do you create fanworks? What does it mean to you?

Share a piece of a fanwork you're particularly proud of (a page or so of a written work, a few minutes of an audio work) and explain why you're proud of it.

Read/listen to your partner's shared fanwork, and give feedback about what works for you about it.

birdylion

I saw the music survey over at

greenfinch 's journal, in which you make a list of 10 artists you like, and then answer different questions based on what number they are on the list. I found that the answers I most wanted to give were all about Stromae, so I won't play the game, and just ramble about Stromae's music. I'll keep the questions, though.

What is the first song you ever heard by Stromae?
Alors on Danse, of course, was the first song I heard, during the time when it was everywhere. It was a banger, and the lyrics spoke to me, even though I was never one to party away my sorrows, hearing about it was enticing, and I would have liked to be able to do it, so the song was my substitute for it. It spoke to me immensely.

When did you first get into Stromae? How did you get into Stromae?
I heard Alors on Danse when it came out in 2009, and was aware of the album Racine carrée when it came out in 2013, but I really only got into his music in 2021 when he published the song Santé, a Thank You to service workers, especially during the pandemic. It's a wonderful song, and the music video is worth watching too: Santé on Youtube. His newer music videos come with subtitles in various languages, too.

Have you seen Stromae live?
No, sadly - I had tickets for one of his concerts, but he had to cancel his tour due to (mental) health reasons. I understand that, the tour business is crazy hard, even if you don't have previous problems. I'd rather that he is in a place where he can be okay and maybe make music, than force himself through a tour.

Favorite album by Stromae?
Definitely Multitude, his newest album. Each and every song on it is at least good, some mindblowingly so. It's almost a concept album about, well, showing multitudes of being alive, which comments on a lot on various social issues.

What is your favorite song by Stromae?
It changes every so often, but right now, I'd say it's: Riez, a song about life as an artist.
He starts out singing about some day he'll be a great artist, super famous, Grammys ... the refrain says "laugh, laugh, yeah, just laugh (about it)". The next verse is about his dream of having a villa with a swimming pool, nothing too big, just a house of his own. The next verse, then, is about his dream of having a happy family, no matter if they have a house or not, just a vegetable garden and something he built out of his own hands, after all he doesn't need much. After the next refrain he sings that even if he doesn't know where he'll sleep tomorrow, it will still work out, just, he'd like to be able to eat when he's hungry ... and then finally, he would be able to dream big.
It goes under my skin how with every verse, the narrator's dream gets smaller and smaller. The song still ends with "just laugh (about it/me)". Way to break my heart.
Also, I need to mention L'enfer here. It's a song about depression, and it's so good. If you've ever been depressed, chances are good the songs speaks to your soul. He did a live presentation of it on TV, in which he turns a regular interview into this song: L'enfer on Youtube

What kind of impact has Stromae had on your life?
I danced to Alors on danse, had my heart broken by Papaoutai (and many others of his songs), and in 2021/22, his new album helped me a lot against loneliness during isolation, so it means quite a lot to me.

What is your favorite lyric(s) of Stromae?
I just summarized the entirety of Riez, so it's safe to say these are some of my favourite lyrics. Another is from Papaoutai: It's a song about a boy searching for his dad, probably influenced by his own growing up without a father. The title means "Papa, where are you?" ("Papa, où t'es?"), and one banger line in the song always hits me hard:
"Tout le monde sait comment on fait des bébés / Mais personne sait comment on fait des papas": everyone knows how to make babies, but nobody knows how to make dads.

What song(s) by Stromae make(s) you happy?
In his newest album, he has two songs that are in direct conversation with each other: Mauvaise journée and Bonne journée, "a bad day" and "a good day". They're right one after the other in the album, which ends on Bonne journée. In Mauvaise journée, he describes a day from the worst possible angle of interpretation, in a minor key. Then Bonne journée starts in a major key and describes a day in which he sees the good side of things, on which he feels good and maybe even happy. This transition from depressed to ... less depressed, happy even, always makes me happy, too.

Generally, Stromae is such a good lyricist. He's been from the start, and only got better with time, it's been amazing to see him develop his style. I love how his lyrics are often intensely linked to the music, to the harmonies and melodies and style in which they are sung. Sometimes part of the lyrics get a different meaning based on how their melody is stylistically different from the rest of the song. Sometimes you couldn't say from the lyrics alone if the song was happy or sad or something else, and then you listen to it and it's the most heartbreaking thing ever. And of course his voice is amazing to listen to.

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(Thanks to NetGalley for access to an advance copy of All Of Us Murderers in exchange for an honest review)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/All-Us-Murderers-Kj-Charles/dp/1464227527

While the adage that you should never judge a book by its cover is generally good advice, in the case of “All Of Us Murderers” the cover art is an excellent guide to the contents of the book: a gloriously over the top piece of escapism created as a love letter to the genre.

This is an unrepentantly gothic confection, and it was, as anticipated, a wittily tropetastic delight rife with nefarious villains, misty moors, blood-drenched ruins, cursed fortunes, wide-eyed nubile heiresses and mysterious ghostly figures, ALL of which our hero (a precious ADHD cinnamon roll, and - provided one doesn’t find The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name to be a source of wickedness - very much the white sheep of his unpleasant family) is desperately trying to avoid, bless him.

Zebedee Wyckham is the impoverished grandson of a successful gothic novelist, and having found himself once again between jobs he has unwisely accepted an invitation to pay a visit to a wealthy uncle whom he hasn’t seen in decades - only to find himself trapped in the most ghastly houseparty since…well, since the LAST hilariously ghastly (and murderous) house party to grace the pages of a KJ Charles novel.

Finding that the lover whom he inadvertently ruined a year ago is now working as his uncle’s secretary comes as a mortifying shock, but this is the least of the unwelcome surprises that his uncle’s faux-gothic home has in store.

Zeb may be the innocent Cinderella figure amongst the variously unpleasant scions of the Wyckham family, but he’s no fool: having grown up on the works of Mrs Radcliffe, Horace Walpole and his own respected ancestor, Zeb can spot a gothic novel cliche at fifty paces and he has absolutely no intention of ending up sacrificed on a pagan altar, walled up in a cellar, drowned in a well or otherwise disposed of: think “Scream”, but make it gay and a period piece.

He is, in short, the polar opposite of Austen’s Catherine Morland: far from imagining spectral figures and dark secrets where none exist, Zeb is a pragmatic soul with a kind (if battered) heart who wasn’t born yesterday & has no interest in rushing headlong into danger if it can possibly be avoided.

Can Zeb escape the unwelcome attentions of the various spectral figures, blackmailers, marriageable heiresses and spider-filled rooms that await him at Lackaday House, and persuade his bitter ex to forgive him for past offences?

(Of course he can! This isn’t LitFic! You know that the starcrossed lovers will escape the villains’ clutches in the nick of time, foil their iniquitous plans, and finally achieve their happily ever after - but it’s still *thoroughly* enjoyable watching KJ Charles get them there.)

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Day 2's icebreaker questions are related to group work!

What strengths will you bring to the group?

What things do you struggle with when it comes to group work? (And, if you want, how can your partner help you with these things?)

What are you hoping for from this collaboration experience? What would your dream version of pod_together collaboration look like?

What's one thing your partner(s) could say or do that would feel really good to you? (For example, compliment your fanwork, offer to help with organization/beta/cheerleading, reach out to you to say hi every few days, etc.)

xkcd_feed

https://xkcd.com/3103/

Sure, this exoplanet we discovered may seem hostile to life, but our calculations suggest it's actually in the accretion disc's habitable zone.

https://xkcd.com/3103/

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Hello lovely participants,

The start of a partnership is always so exciting as you and your partner(s) figure out how you'd like to work together! Icebreaker week is designed to support that process, with a combination of fun and helpful getting-to-know-you questions. They've started some incredibly useful and productive conversations in the past, and we hope they'll do the same for you now!

These exercises are optional, but we hope they'll help both those groups that were assigned and the ones that formed on their own. We encourage group members to stay in contact with each other this week, answering as many questions as they are comfortable with.

Today's questions are geared towards helping group members learn a bit more about each other, personally and fannishly.

Name as many books, movies, TV shows, animes, comics, celebrities, etc. that you can think of that you have felt or feel fannish about.

List three to five things you enjoy in stories (e.g. a kind of trope, story line, etc.). List three to five things that you do not enjoy in stories.

What communication methods and interaction level did you put in your sign-up, and why did you choose them? (If you did group sign-ups, you may want to look at those questions on our matchmaker sign-up form and then answer them for your partner). It could also help to describe the communication level you don't want——what sort of communication patterns would feel uncomfortably high/uncomfortably low for you, and why?

What are three facts about yourself (fannish or otherwise) that you haven’t already mentioned?

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reena_jenkins

Hello there, friend!

I'm in a bit of a fandom lull right now, so I'm only asking for a few fandoms this year - but I'm sure whatever you make will make me smile. I’m @reena-jenkins.bsky.social‬ on BlueSky, reena_jenkins on AO3, @reena_jenkins@mastodon.social on mastodon, and reena-jenkins on tumblr. Here's what I'm asking for as listed in semi-order of preference (AKA what I’d love the very, very, very most to the things I'd also love the very most, except I really really would like something Stranger Things or Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood this year if you have it in you):

STAR WARS: KNIGHTS OF THE OLD REPUBLIC
Specifically, the first video game (aka "KOTOR") featuring Revan.

Specifically specifically, female Revan-centric stories.

Further specifically, the interaction between:

- Revan and HK-47 (murder buddies!)

- Revan and Mission (mentoring! crime family bonding! Mission never knew Revan before the amnesia so it's a whole "You love me for ME" thing)

- Revan and Bastilla (you fucked with my head but we have a soul-deep connection. Does delving into that connection make me as bad as you?)

- Revan and Malak (pre-canon DEEP EMOTIONAL FORCE CONNECTION WHILE STANDING UP FOR A CAUSE AND LEADING SOLDIERS AND BREAKING AWAY FROM ALL WE'VE EVER KNOWN ONLY TO SHATTER INTO BROKEN VERSIONS OF OURSELVES PITTED AGAINST EACH OTHER).

I don't know why the heartfelt amnesiac with a traumatic backstory just gets me every time, but.....this particular story is So Good For Me like that. I am in love with the Pending Doom and trauma of the Mandalorian Wars era, the Sith War era, and the KOTOR 1 timeline. (I know very little about Revan's storyline in SWTOR, and I don't really care to.)

I would also happily accept Mando Wars era stories that deal with KOTOR II characters, like Meetra, Kreia, and Bao-Dur. I don't know the full story of the KOTOR II game, though, so pre-canon is preferable.

(If you’re looking for fic and stymied by how short the BP Authors list is for this fandom, you could hit up revanchxst, nymja, or basketofnovas on AO3 - they’re all podfic-friendly/blanket permission people. OR you could repod one of the KOTOR fics I’ve already recorded, and I would be a very happy clam.)

STRANGER THINGS

I have been in Stranger Things fandom since just before ITPE 2022, and I've seen everything except Season 1 (I started my Stranger Things journey with Season 4 and worked backwards, but Season 3 is absolutely my fave of them all). I have strong Steve Harrington feelings (don't we all), and the t-shirt to match. Things I would love to hear about:

- gen fic centered on Steve & Dustin or Steve & The Party, because I am personally targeted by Reluctant Babysitter Adopts All The Children

Steve & Robin sharing the brain cell and getting into Shenanigans (possibly life after high school? possibly dealing with their co-trauma? )
Eddie/Chrissy (WHYYYYYY AM I LIKE THIS? WHY IS MY FIRST SHIP IN 36 HOURS THE TWO KIDS WHO ONLY TALK FOR 6 MINUTES IN THE WHOLE SHOW? AND THEN THEY BOTH DIEEEEEEEEEEE. AU Where Chrissy Lives And Is A Self-Rescuing Cheerleader and I will give you a crisp high-five, please)
Steve/Eddie (Eddie has a type, and that type falls into the Prep category.)
Eddie/Chrissy/Steve
the Stranger Things equivalent of Case Fic/Monster of the Week
Max Mayfield
fic where any of the Party has powers/is secretly a Number
I will tentatively accept Steve/Billy if it's along the lines of "oh Fuck the Upside Down got me fucked up and now i have to re-organize my entire life in the aftermath and This Is How You Grow As A Person" or if it's murder husbands.
TIME LOOOOOPS

Fullmetal Alchemist (:Brotherhood, or All Media Types)
- I have not read the manga, I have not seen the live-action, and I haven't watched the 2003 OG anime in any significant way since I was a high school babysitter and the family I sat for had Cartoon Network's Adult Swim mumbleteen years ago. I have not seen Conquerer of Shamballa but I know the broad strokes. I don't particularly care about spoilers, and I'm totally fine googling anything I'm unfamiliar with in fic if necessary.

- I very recently watched the whole of FMA:B in consecutive order with deliberate intention, and it awakened long-dormant (ie, pre-my time in fandom-on-the-internet) feelings about the Brothers Elric. I will take Ed/Roy, I will take Ed/Winry, I will take Ed/Ling, I will take 500 scoops of Al/Mei with sprinkles of Xiao-Mei, Panda In The Big City on top. Riza/Roy is delicious, Rebecca Catalina/Havoc/Breda is my crackship for the ages based entirely on just that single photo in the end credits of FMA:B, and I live for every possible futurefic permutation of arm/no arm/alchemy/no alchemy. Pretty much the only thing I'm not down for is fic that disregards Al's importance to Ed, or otherwise minimizes his impact on the story - if it gives vibes of Al as a Sexy Lamp, I'm not likely to enjoy the story, no matter how engaging the rest of the fic concept is.

- I once told my roommate, "In the FMA Stargate AU, Fort Briggs is the Atlantis post and Olivier is John Sheppard." We both agreed I was 10000% correct in this assessment.

STARGATE: ATLANTIS
I love this show, I love this team of misfit goober loser geniuses, and I want to chew on the walls of every season's unresolved plot threads. I'm reviving my love of SGA after a ~10 year hiatus from actively creating podfic in the fandom, and everything hurts (in the good way, I swear!) just as much now as it did then. Back in 2012, I did the thing I do for a lot of my fandoms, where I watch most of the show but not all of it......and finally, just before the 20th anniversary of the whole freaking show, I have successfully completed watching my way through the back half of season five and NOW I HAVE SEEN 'VEGAS' WITH MY OWN TWO EYES.

I will read whatever permutation of John/Rodney you can come up with (Modern AUs, Roleswap AUs, any one of a hundred different point-of-divergence AUs, Rodney falls first but John falls faster, John stays a bug and Rodney loves him anyway, Serial Killer/Psychopath On A Leash AUs, THE ONE WHERE THEY'RE GIRL SCOUT COOKIES, Genderswap AUs, literally anything). I have a deep and throbbing heartboner for John/Ronon fic (John gives Ronon a safe place to rest and Ronon gives John a home to build together), a lovely and persistent comfortzone of Team OT4 in every permutation, and I can be easily swayed to just about any other Atlantis-based pairing if you try hard enough.

- The only thing I'm not down for is John/Todd, because I don't CARE how much weird wraith sexual chemistry they give John in an interrogation room - it just doesn't do it for me.

Fayjay's podfic of "Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves" has re-written my brain chemistry over the course of 14 years - literally, there are parts of that podfic I'll listen to specifically to knock myself out/fall asleep on airplanes - so if that helps you with a starting point, I'd say check out the works pages of auburn, telesilla, smilebackwards, or squaresarenotcircles on AO3. SGA has so many BP authors and it's been a joy lately to roll around in the fics I sorta-kinda-remember and then be surprised by new waves of fondness.

If the fandoms listed above do not spark the requisite joy, I would also love be excited to receive a podfic of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer crossover variety, or pretty much anything DCUish (such as batfam and teen titans/young justice) - feel free to peruse my AO3 works for the best beloved pairings and tags of my heart.

(Because I'm feeling kinda lazy, I'm going to copy/paste a couple lists from last year's #ITPE letter.)

Things That Make Me Love This Story

-crossovers

-happy endings

-twisty or creepy endings

-dark and twisted AUs where are the good guys are serial killers or psychopaths or career criminals but you root for them anyway

-Stargate Atlantis AUs

-Sith AUs

-not!fic

-Buffy the Vampire Slayer AUs

-snappy banter

-found families

-Time Travel Fix-It fics

-vampires

-AUs where Character X never died, and then you get to see how canon gets warped by their presence

-situationally-induced cuddling

-fluff

-X-Men AUs

-High-School-Into-College AUs

-epistolary stories

-stories where Character X is a demon/Special Kid/uses their Gift for devious or scandalous affairs

-Accidental Boyfriends

-Pretend Dating

-scheming

-stories that leave you thinking and pondering and contemplating, even after it's all over

-threesomes, foursomes, moresomes (where the relationship is a Thing, not just an orgy of Guest Starring Limbs)

-werewolves

Things I Do Not Dig

-unwarned-for character death (I don't mind if you have to kill off a character in the course of your storytelling duty, but warn me ahead of time, please)

-cross-generational incest (I'm alright with incest - see all the Wincest I've recorded - but parent/child is not my thing)

-angels having any kind of sex (it throws up all kinds of Catholic Guilt flags. Interestingly, however, I have no problems at all with demons having sex)

-I can't remember the exact term, but stories where altar-boy!X (or demon!X, or doubting-his-faith!X) seduces Father Y (let's just leave the clergy out of this altogether, okay? Let's make it easy for everyone, and skip over Catholic School AUs for now, too)

-angst (I'm in this for the escapism; unless under very specific circumstances, if I wanted to be depressed I'd take my headphones off and pay attention to crappy reality)

-bestiality (of the there-is-actually-an-animal-involved-with-my-genitalia kind, not the sometimes-I'm-a-werewolf kind)

-stories that lack internal consistency (I'll spend the whole time picking apart the logic holes, instead of appreciating your performance)

-First Person POVs (though oddly enough, Second Person POVs really work for me...)

-people eating people (don't care if they're alive or dead, cannibalism squicks me out)

-stories where the Joker is "not that bad", or romanticizing the Joker/Harley relationship

Also, most authors I podfic these days have Blanket Permission - and if I've podficced more than one of their stories, chances are, I'd love to hear you read me another one. As for my podfic-listening habits, my work commute is around 45 minutes from door to desk - if you wanted to make me something that would last me an entire morning trek, I'd be super psyched. I enjoy music in podfics, as well as sound effects, if that's something you'd like to play around with. I feel comfortable listening to anything from PG to NC-17, so feel free to record whatever inspires you.

I can't wait to hear from you, new friend! Thanks so much for making me my new present - I just know it's gonna be awesome.

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Fandoms: Hazbin Hotel, Mars Red, Super Sonico

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Ophie Dokie released us from the requirement to have one of these, but then linked to a video I thought was quite good (

BryonyClaire: Sabrina Carpenter has divided the internet - is satire dead?), and then I saw how it's been rolling out across the Internet. So here goes. ( cutting for the sake of people who are sick of this discourse. )

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Snap (the more noise remix) by frecklebomb
Reader/s: frecklebombfic
Fandom/s: Star Trek: The Next Generation
Relationship/s: Gen
Rating: Teen and Up Audiences
Author's summary: "Trust me, mon capitaine."

Duration: 00:09:35

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tip of your tongue by poppyseedheart
Reader/s: frecklebombfic
Fandom/s: VIVIZ (Band)
Relationship/s: Hwang Eunbi | SinB/Kim Yewon | Umji
Rating: Teen and Up Audiences
Author's summary: Pretending is the easy part; Yewon has made a living from it ever since the day a company scout handed her a business card. Pretend the dream can come true, then pretend it won’t end. Pretend that cupping what remains of it like water in your hands is enough to keep it alive. And then pretend that another taste at the real thing can’t hurt you after everything you’ve lost.

Duration: 00:28:19

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