I haven't made anything since I finished my 100 hours for my 10 year podficversary, but I've fallen face first into a couple new fandoms though I don't know if I'll be making anything for them. I've also made progress on writing (ok outlining) several Clone Wars fics and I plan to take part in the Order 63 fest with some podfic and a fic if I can get it done in time. :D

Health update: ( Read more... )

Work/career update: ( Read more... )

I'm also just extremely pissy right now between trying to post this on mobile (always a nightmare) and work giving less than 24 hours notice that a process that was supposed to go live last month with the rest of everything is actually going live. Which I discovered when trying to do my job before having a chance to check my email. Also I'm not sure if I'm hangry or just under caffinated and on too little sleep.

I finally got myself in gear and made an appointment to see a doctor. Who was actually pretty ok?

( Read more... (medical, some weight discussion, food plan discussion) )

Continuing on a personal note: took Void Cat to the vet today for her semi-annual checkup. ( Read more... (pet chronic illness, aging) )

Fannishly I've got a lot of things going on right now. I've set myself a goal of 100 hours podficced across 100 works for my 10th podficversary. At the start of the year I had just under 87 hours and 69 works (nice). I have a spreadsheet for most of the podfics I'm planning to record for this. And since it's a lot of quick turnaround stuff, I'm focusing on blanket permission works. I've currently got 4 open slots and I'm pondering what to include. I'm trying to be more deliberate in what I'm focusing my fannish energies on these days so that's a factor in my decision making process. That and length. I can't go over 100 too early since I want to hit 100 hours on the 100th work posted on my 10th podficversary.

In addition to all that I've got a couple of actual fics planned this year, both in Star Wars because that's been eating my brain lately. One's supposedly a romcom, but currently has about 200 years of historical timeline changes for the AU to make any sense. I 100% intend to put the timeline as well as a bunch of stuff the main fic won't have room for over here since there's too much work going into this for me not to share it. The other is yet another What If No Order 66 clone wars fic, specifically looking at the rebuilding process and grief and all the unglamorous moving parts of reconstruction and recovery. There's gonna be a lot of philosophy, non-temple Jedi, Obi-Wan and Cody learning to slow the fuck down and take a break, and maybe even some of the non-Jedi force traditions popping up. Because I just realized that Baze and Chirrut are just a few (4 and 5) years younger than Obi-Wan and now I'm just imagining the chaos of that interaction. Also I love them. They're the best.

I also have like 20 hours of podfic planned for after the podficversary stuff. But that's across like 7 fics so it's fine. Some I could probably even save for ITPE, just drop a 5 hour treat on someone lmao. I should bug one of the authors for permission, I think most everything else on the list is blanket permission. (Regular reminder author friends: if you want to make a podficcer's life easy, consider adding a permission statement to your ao3 profile. It doesn't need to be a blanket yes, it can even be a blanket no! We just want to know. And if you want us to ask first, please say how and where you want to be contacted.)

A much larger project will be organizing my hosting file structure so it's easier for me to find my links, updating all my posts, and also figuring out why streaming is broken for me. I've got a vague idea, but I need to actually do something about it. I'd also like to cross-post everything to here that hasn't been as well as maybe to amplificathon since it looks like that's going to start existing again. I do want my works to not be solely on ao3.

 So I was about to put this on twitter & decided that was a silly place for a list I wanted to refer to again. So here's my sewing goals for this fall & winter.

Small tasks
-hem 2 pairs of work pants (slacks, cords)
-mend armpit of gf's sweater
-put buttons instead of ties on cold shoulder shirt, bra snaps

Medium tasks
-remake back of gf's waistcoat 
-initial pattern draft from gf's wrap skirt
-sort through existing fabric stash, find projects for each

Large tasks
-make work skirt from grey & burgundy floral plaid
-muslin mockup for sizing, fit of gf's wrap skirt

Other fiber arts tasks
-knitting needle & crochet hook organizer 
-finish knitting socks
-pink beaded shawl progress

After a conversation about the dearth of long-form femslash and lady-centric podfic I got to thinking; what if I set a goal for myself to only produce and consume lady-centric works for the entirety of spring. Now, I've got a couple things already in the works and, to an extent, they will be my only exceptions. 

So from March 20th through June 21st I will be:

• reading fic only if the main/POV character is a woman or genderqueer
  • this will start by being limited to canon!women characters and if I start getting desperate to the end I may expand to rule 63'd canon-male characters 
  • canon!male characters who are genderqueer or trans women in the fic are also included
  • basically: no always-a-cis-girl-canon-dude fic if I can
  • eta: Oh! also not reading things where a canon!woman is rule 63'd into a dude. I will accept more women than canon, not less.
• exploring new-to-me canons or revisiting ones I haven't touched in ages that are about women. Bonus if it's about women and created by a woman/women.
• focusing on creating works that are femslash or are non-romantic and centered around a woman's story
  • this also includes art. I want to draw more women than I have lately. Ok, I want to DRAW more period, but specifically women.
• The only exceptions I will be making are:
  • editing (not recording) for my extreme podfic big bang. I've got 3 hours of audio recorded for it already and another this weekend, any more can wait to July.
  • recording and editing a ~3hr collaborative podfic with intransitive 

Anything that doesn't fall within this scope will be marked to read/download/listen later if it looks interesting enough to maybe want it in 3 months.

I'm also going to try to leave feedback beyond just kudos and possibly do round-ups of things that I've liked over the past week. But not guarantees about that.

I've got a decent idea of where I want to start but if anyone has recs for fic, podfic, or fandoms please throw them my way!

Things I need to get done:

• make stickies
  • master post
  • podfic process and equipment/software
• finish editing Like A Melody so I can actually listen tosirona_gs 
• pick something to do for imadeathing 
• actually track expenditures this month, I've been shittier at it since I stopped than I ever was before. (I started this! \o/)
• get out and run
• cut out some of my backlogged podfics
• record the phone sex podfic with sly_hostetter 
• clean and vacuum my room
• do a bunch of cooking prep and freeze stuff for finals/midterms/running around like a headless chicken
  
  • veggie mac
  • soups/stews
• complete and submit my application for JET

This came a s a surprise after seeing a gif of Remus's phonograph on tumblr, but I'll go with it.

 

( It felt a bit silly... )

 

In other news, I've moved to a new place about 7 blocks from my old one, but with slightly noisier surroundings so it's even harder to podfic at home and the libraries with fully-sealable study rooms are closed or under renovations for the summer so I may just commandeer a classroom for an hour or two to record my second audiofemme entry.