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Captain America: The Winter Soldier,
Black Panther
Captain Marvel
Black Widow
Ms. Marvel
Agent Carter

I lean towards stories arising from those or featuring the characters that appear in those and I especially enjoy F/F in the fandom

Wonder Woman: Diana/Etta and/or Steve, assorted pairings of Amazons. I have read some comics runs and lovedthe 2017 movie; I am mostly ignoring WW1989, but I have seen it if there's a fic that incorporates it you think is good.

Check, Please!: Jack/Bitty, Ransom/Holster, Snowy/Tater are my faves, don't enjoy Jack/Parse

Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries: Phryne/Jack, Phryne/Mac

Ratings: Any

Favorite things:
Slow Burn/Angst with a Happy Ending, Pining, Magical/Supernatural AUs, Crossover AUs, Fake Relationships, Kink Negotiation, BDSM, Funny Ensemble Shenanigans, Humor in general. Things I've written or bookmarked are also always good options, if you're feeling stuck. My ao3 is

justaphage

Not for me:
Age play/Pedophilia (mentions of past abuse as a child okay, if brief) , Daddy Kink, Watersports/Scat, Infidelity of a protagonist, Permanent major character death.

Current Mood: hopeful

Thank you so much for making podfic! It is my life-blood when my day job gets monotonous. Here’s some of my preferences, including favorite characters/ships. However, I'm very multishippy and also enjoy Gen so please don't feel super beholden to my faves. I’d rather you do something you enjoy working on :-)

Fandoms/Ships:
MCU: Favorite movies are Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Black Panther, I lean towards stories arising from those canons or featuring the characters that appear in those films.
Good Omens: Aziraphale/Crowley. Have listened to the audiobook, seen the miniseries
Wonder Woman: Diana/Etta and/or Steve, assorted pairings of Amazons
Agent Carter: f/f preferred
Legend of Korra: Korrasmi
Check, Please!: Zimbits, Holsom, Snowy/Tater are my faves, don't enjoy Jack/Parse

Ratings: Any

Favorite things: Slow Burn/Angst with a Happy Ending, Pining, Magical/Supernatural AUs, Crossover AUs, Fake Relationships, Kink Negotiation, BDSM, Funny Ensemble Shenanigans, Humor in general. Things I've written or bookmarked are also always good options, if you're feeling stuck. My ao3 is

justaphage

Not for me: Age play/Pedophilia (mentions of past abuse as a child okay, if brief) , Daddy Kink, Watersports/Scat, Infidelity of a protagonist, Permanent major character death.

Fluff	Epistolary	Group sex (more than two partners)	Character of Colour	Unfamiliar Genre
AU	Femslash	Read Animatedly	Random Fic	Restrained
Read Loudly	Dirty Talk	FREE SPACE	Record Original Fic	Higher Pitch Effect
Collaborative/Multiple/Gang	Altered States	1st POV	Trans Character	Whisper
Record While Lying Down	Nonlinear story	Art & Craft	Domestic	2nd POV

Current Mood: accomplished

Fandoms/Ships:
MCU: Favorite movies are Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Black Panther, I lean towards stories arising from those canons or featuring the characters that appear in those films.
Good Omens: Aziraphale/Crowley. Have listened to the audiobook, seen the miniseries
Wonder Woman: Diana/Etta and/or Steve, assorted pairings of Amazons
Agent Carter: f/f preferred

Legend of Korra: Korrasmi

Check, Please!: Zimbits, Holsom, Snowy/Tater are my faves, don't enjoy Jack/Parse

Ratings: Any

Favorite things: Slow Burn/Angst with a Happy Ending, Pining, Magical/Supernatural AUs, Crossover AUs, Fake Relationships, Kink Negotiation, BDSM, Funny Ensemble Shenanigans, Humor in general. Things I've written or bookmarked are also always good options, if you're feeling stuck. My ao3 is justaphage

Not for me: Age play/Pedophilia (mentions of past abuse as a child okay, if brief) , Daddy Kink, Watersports/Scat, Infidelity of a protagonist, Permanent major character death.

Current Mood: excited

Roommate was traveling, and then I was traveling, and then she was traveling and I'm fairly certain one of the last was on whether she should watch Good Omens or not (she did not like the book when she read it), and I, having watched the entire series during work said I didn't enjoy it that much and she probably shouldn't bother.

Whelp, she's coming home today and idk how to tell her that I have since re-watched it with the BF, totally reversed my position, watched this amazing fanvid one hundred fifty times, read at least a novel's worth of fanfic on it and written 1.5k myself after a nine month dry-spell?? I have literally no idea what happened. (Actually, once I wrote this account down I became pretty sure what happened was the re-watch occured when I could actually look at the screen the whole time and see all the tragic, star-crossed lovers looks)

Been walking around for like 5 days in that new fandom fever trying not to yell at people about it because it feels like the socially acceptable time for that has passed but oh boy it's like all my brain wants to do right now. Also, I did a pretty good job of actually working on my first day back today, so yeah....I'm gonna see if I can actually finish writing a fic for the first time in (checks Ao3 profile) TWO YEARS.

Current Mood: bouncy

nrandom made a bingo card fo things that happen to you when you try to podfic (Check out the blank one here) and well all had a good laugh in the podfic discord filing it out. BINGO!

Podific Bingo card with spaces marked off with stars

Podific Bingo card with spaces marked off with stars

Current Mood: amused

I swear to god. I have my thesis meeting on Monday, okay? And for months I have had no damn creative output...and now of course I want to do all the things. I already recorded and posted one podfic last weekend when I should have been working. But now of course I have it in my head I've got to record When Push Comes to Chèvre not to mention something for the FTH person who didn't know I wasn't offering Sherlock and just...guh! This happens every year. Anything but work! I hate making powerpoints, I don't know what my research means and why oh why do I always do this so close to coming back from break?

Current Mood: stressed

Okay...I accidentally deleted this damn thing once now, so I'm gonna go for a shorter intro. Last year? Rough. Housing and healthwise especially. Fandom output therefore low. I'm keeping reflections to a minimum, but I want to write out the goals I've set as that helps me.

I like to keep New Year's "resolutions" to things I really believe I can do. Usually habits I think that if I can just set up, I will be able to maintain. Previous examples have been things like not buying soda at the grocery store, taking the stairs, and not setting myself on fire at work. Which brings me to this year's goals.

1. Start taking the stairs again. This one really did work for me last time. However a knee injury last year got me used to the elevator again, and broke the habit. The Graves Disease and all the overshooting with thyroid levels once it was diagnosed really killed my ability to be active this year. I really don't enjoy feeling so weak. I'm considering this a small step towards getting that back. When the stairs are a habit again, I'll look for new physical activity to gradually add in.

2. Write down good things that happen. I picked up little pieces of cardstock to write on and drop in a jar to look at at the end of the year. I felt really negative about 2018 when I tried to look back on it. It wasn't until <username=anarfea> mentioned meeting me in her year end post that I even remembered that amazing trip I took down to 221bcon for the first time this year. Meeting so many people in person for the first time was amazing and so was the sleeper car I took home, OMG! Everyone's brains remember the bad over the good to a certain extent, possibly my anxious one more than average. Hopefully, next year this goal will help me remind myself of the good things instead of relying on others.

Things to do most days, for gradual improvement. I hope I can stick to them.

Current Mood: determined

Me 4 days ago: I want to learn cables and this cowl will be cozy and not a fire hazard in lab
Cable knit cowl with three buttons

Now me, every time I get to a cable row: Pls...no...so tight...aaaaack

Ultimately it is looking pretty good now at three repeats into the pattern. But boy, having only watched demos of like 4/4 cables, I did not realize how tight having two 10/10s right next to each other was going to make the stitches while I'm working that row. Every time a family member tries to talk to me during that row I'm just like "ssssshhhhhh, I've already dropped and rescued like half my stitches here."

Last year, a friend of mine was making a DNA hat for another friend, and I liked it so much I had to have one. There was one small problem: I did not know how to knit. However, now thanks to the glory of the internet, I do!

DNA knits

Patterns are from ChemKnits

The one on the top left is the first thing I ever knitted (not counting the first attempt at ribbing which was a royal mess, modeled here by my dog). It's a little small because I have a tiny head and I didn't know what I was doing. Then of course my nerd family saw it over the holidays and they all wanted one! Unfortunately, both my father and BF have giant heads, so I had to learn to chill out and leave a bit less tension in my colorwork. I got there eventually though, and the two on the right have now been tested to fit on giant man-heads!

I was getting pretty quick at this point, so I made the headband in a week for my lab white elephant, knowing my fellow grad students would go wild for it. I still felt my ribbing on the previous hats was flaring a bit too much, so I tried a new cast-on method (Alternate Cable Cast-on) which was fun.

cast-ons

Alternate cable cast-on is on the left, basic cast-on on the right. I do like this new one but the ribbing did still flare a bit.

anarfea has now tipped me off to try going down a needle size for the rib or knitting through the back of the stitch, so that's on the slate for the next ribbing I have to do!
It's probably time to try something new now. My goal is to learn how to do a basic cable, but I don't know what actual object to make. Guess I'm on the hunt for a pattern.

Edit: Sorry the images were tiny and then giant...I'm still working on my image embeds and I swear they were normal in the preview the second time!

So, I just watched all of Season 8 of Voltron Legendary Defender. I'm not going to talk about any spoilers here, just ramble vaguely about why I've been reacting to media the way I have, in general. All I will say is that, after I mainlined this season within 18 hours of it's release I considered posting (to tumblr, because I'm not sure if I should be posting one line vagueblogs here) "Ugh, why do I even consume media?"

And then I stopped myself, because what the hell? Here's a show I willingly watched 8 seasons of, without so much as the pressure of friends to watch it with for the past few seasons. Obviously, I got something out of it. I was held in suspense, I laughed out loud, I find the animation aesthetically pleasing, and yet I wanted to cast out my entire viewing experience because I wasn't wild about the ending. In fact, I think I spent half of, to possibly all of, the episodes just counting how much left until the end, worrying about what that was going to be and ignoring the journey.

For me, I'm wondering if this is connected to watching things all in one go. I don't know that I'll be curbing that behavior any time soon; marathoning new things goes back to my childhood of M.A.S.H. all day on syndicated television, or reading almost every book I have ever managed to finish in a single day.

But I definitely interacted differently with TV that was forcibly metered out to me in single episodes (Yes, I am aware these still exist but I haven't gotten to use my TV for broadcast TV since baseball roommate and it has been six years now). I used to gorge myself, reading and writing fics elaborating on and "fixing "individual episodes. Even though they were inevitably nerfed, I enjoyed the ride. I spent time thinking about each episode individually and in the context of what had come before.

I hope I can get back to that more, despite my general lack of impulse control. Voltron had a lot of material in just two and a half years, and maybe if I can go back even knowing how it ended, I can get into the last few seasons more. If not, maybe I'll remember to be more careful in the future about chewing through the things I enjoy without actually paying attention.

I am here, yeah. Been feeling pretty stressed about all the pressure to be active in like 17 different places and so kinda frozen up a bit. No one person is telling me to be everywhere, so much as different people are telling me different things and I have no idea what's gonna work out so how do I choose?

And I know, ultimately posts like this don't actually grow the site into the thing I want it to be. I wish I had something creative to post...I've been feeling that way about pillowfort for months. But I've not been able to make things for ages and it's coming down on me hard right now. I want to grow things but I have nothing to contribute.

I know there are others out there probably feeling this way too, so just thought I'd say it, if it makes anyone feel better, maybe just me. Gonna put this exact thing on Pillowfort cause that's what I can manage.

Thank you so much for making podfic! It is my life-blood when my day job gets monotonous. Here’s some of my preferences, including favorite characters/ships, but don’t feel to beholden to them. I’d rather you do something you enjoy working on. :-)

Fandoms:
(I'd really extra-love to get Check Please or Voltron but I recognize those are smaller fandoms)

Check, Please!: Zimbits, Holsom, Snowy/Tater are my faves, don't enjoy Jack/Parse
Voltron Legendary Defender: Sheith shipper, would also enjoy some Hunk- or Pidge-centric
MCU: Steve, Sam, Natasha, Bucky, T'challa
Agent Carter: f/f preferred

Legend of Korra: Korrasmi

Star Wars: Rey, Finn, Poe

Ratings: Sexual Content: Any, Violence: G through PG-13

Favorite things: Slow Burn/Angst with a Happy Ending, Soulmarks, Magical/Supernatural AUs, Crossover AUs, Really any AU I’m a sucker for them, Fake Relationships, Kink Negotiation, BDSM, Funny Ensemble Shenanigans.

Not for me: Age play/Pedophilia, Daddy Kink, Watersports/Scat, Infidelity of a protagonist, Permanent major character death.

Fandoms:

Check, Please!: Prefer not to split up Zimbits, but otherwise anything goes!

MCU: Steve, Sam, Natasha, Bucky, Peggy are my faves

Legend of Korra: Korrasmi

Ms. Marvel (Kamala Khan)

Leverage: Eliot/Parker/Hardison

Star Wars TFA: Rey, Finn, Poe

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Ratings: Sexual Content: Any, Violence: G through PG-13

Not for me: Age play/Pedophilia, Daddy Kink, Watersports/Scat, Infidelity of a protagonist, Permanent major character death.

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Dear Podficcer letter ITPE 2023
Dear Podficcer Letter ITPE 2020
Podfic Bingo Card 2020 (I'm finally posting things for it!)
2019 ITPE Dear Podficcer Letter
So I've been away for a while
Podfic Bingo! (but not the challenge kind)
When I have a work deadline, all I want to do is be creative
New Year, New Thoughts?
10/10 cable is a lot for this beginner
Knits for Nerds
Binge watching and focusing on the end
Trying to be in fandom, while feeling useless
2017 ITPE Dear Podficcer letter
#ITPE 2016 Dear Podficcer Letter

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