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Challenge #4

IceBreaker Challenge! Tell us about yourself

Hmmm. I had been on the outskirts of fandom and a lurker for a very long time. I got an ao3 account in 2013 and read massive amounts of fanfic, then eventually had a thought like 'I have a really long commute and have been listening to audiobooks. I wonder if there are audiobooks for fanfic?', at which point I discovered podfic. Listened to lots of hours of that, before thinking that while my writing mojo had mostly dried up maybe podfic was a way I could give back to fandom. Created my first podfic and posted it in December of 2014.

The author of the fic I chose for my first podfic connected me to some podficcers she knew, and I started connecting with the podfic fandom, first on livejournal and then eventually here on dreamwidth and twitter and then on discord. Connecting with other podficcers had prodigious effects on my amount of fanworks created, and even spawned a few written works.

I started out in HP fandom, despite a deep and abiding love for the Chronicles of Amber that predates HP by quite a few years, but Amber has a different kind of fandom (ADRPG my beloved). I've always been a huge multifan, though there's usually one or two that are the core of my obsessions. From HP I moved on to the MCU for a while, then Good Omens had my entire soul for a year or so, and for the last three? four? it's been MDZS/The Untamed (I'm a frankencanon kinda gal) with sojourns into other C-dramas and other Asian media. Except for HP which I have divorced--HP fans, it's not you, you're all lovely. It's JKR's fault--I never really leave a fandom, and I'm not shy about podficcing for fandoms I'm not in, either, so my fandoms list on ao3 is...eclectic.

As are the content and ratings and everything else in my works. My profile says "expect a wild ride careening from softe to filthy across a wide landscape of fandoms and pairings from the juggernauts to the tiny niche fandoms and rarepairs with a total of seven works". It's accurate.

So that's my fannish bio. Personal bio on dreamwidth is a bit out of date but not wrong. I did add an update note sometime in the last two years since it mentions I'm learning Chinese and re-learning Japanese (Saturday morning language classes means getting up early on weekends, gah). It doesn't mention that I've been a member of the St Louis Women's Chorus for the last seven years and that's become a core part of my offline social life and community. Alto 1, babieee.

Challenge #1

Update your fandom information. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I updated my profile on AO3 quite recently (over the summer, I think--I added a clause about do not use my works to train any AI or machine learning engine), and I happen to have reread it just a couple days ago. It's all still good.

As usual I had to edit down some of the other text to make room because my profile bio is Right At the limit of character length. FYI if you didn't know, all the html tags, both those you enter yourself and the ones AO3 adds for you when you click 'save', are counted in the total. So even if the character counter says you have a few characters to spare, you don't.

I should do something with my bios on DW and Tumblr. Note to self: revisit those.

Challenge #2

In your own space, set yourself some goals for the coming year. They can be fannish or not, public or private. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Fannish goals:
- At least 50 hours of podfic
I'd like to surpass 2022 when I made over 60, but 2023 just scraped past 50 so I'll keep that goal
- Finish With Such Impossible Conveyance multivoice started in 2020
This is dependent on getting remaining lines from other people
- Join another fic exchange
I did my first non-podfic exchanges in 2023, writing short pieces for each of the relationshipping exchange and the Folgers Flash exchange.
- Add chapters to WIP fics
In particular, frostflowers (jadecest drabble series) and the flames the sword (jgy/xy juvenile delinquent bonnie&clyde fic)

Non-fannish goals:
- Pass (or at least attempt) JLPT N2
- Ditto HSK2