Menage à Trois Bingo

Title: For Now, There Is This
Rating: T
WC: 1347
Fandom: MDZS/The Untamed
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/35412817
Summary: Wei Changze buries his wife
Permission: BP

Title: Heartfelt
Rating: G
WC: 1303
Fandom: Captain America
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/16700014
Summary: Steve has chronic illness; Bucky copes
Permission: BP

Title: Meant to be broken
Rating: M
WC: 1247
Fandom: Thor movies
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/17243504
Summary: Loki & Thor play gay chicken
Permission: orphaned

Title: A Name Carved in Gristle and Bone
Rating: E
WC: 2546
Fandom: Thor movies
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/17205794
Summary: Loki is a symbiote sharing Thor’s body
Permission: orphaned

Title: Echo
Rating: T
WC: 1752
Fandom: Thor movies
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/26759674
Summary: Thor is haunted by Loki’s ghost
Permission: BP

Title: in a fever dream together
Rating: M
WC: 2473
Fandom: Word of Honor
LInk: https://archiveofourown.org/works/34112488
Summary: Wen Kexing and Zhou Zishu rub each other raw adjusting to new life together
Permission: BP

Title: twenty-six strikes
Rating: T
WC: 734
Fandom: The Old Guard
LInk: https://archiveofourown.org/works/25562377
Summary: Andy gets a soul mark after millennia
Permission: BP

Title: flourish come morning, withered blooms o’ mine
Rating: T
WC: 1180
Fandom: Word of Honor
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/32072158
Permission: no statement

Title: something unimaginable and inimitable
Rating: G
WC: 2500
Fandom: Word of Honor
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/32066839
Summary: His A-Xu, the brightest presence
Permission: no statement

Title: Crossing the Rubicon, or how madaboutmeichangsu (follower count 50k) finally snapped
Rating: T
WC: 1540
Fandom: Nirvana in Fire
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/21705685
Summary: blogger madaboutmeichangsu gets a little too personal in his posts
Permission: no statement

Title: take love between your teeth
Rating: E
WC: 1936
Fandom: Word of Honor
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/30986951
Summary: wenzhou bite each other
Permission: BP

Title: only move to move
Rating: T
WC: 2598
Fandom: The Untamed
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/29739333
Summary: Mianmian is betrothed to Nie Mingjue
Permission: no statement

Title: An Ember for its Flesh
Rating: G
WC: 1100
Fandom: The Untamed
LInk: https://archiveofourown.org/works/26186485
Summary: Jiang Yanli is more powerful than anyone realizes
Permission: BP

Title: I Think the Knife Helps
Rating: G
WC: 1465
Fandom: The Untamed
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/23918092
Summary: Wen Ning and Lan Xichen talk about guilt
Permission: no statement

I have really not been posting this year. Even less than normal. Which has in the past sometimes been a sign of depression but really has not, this year. I've been surprisingly content and happy, what with all the *waves at the outside world*.

Last real updates in February and March. Dance lessons! AirBnB night! All kinds of goals related to singing!

And then the world changed, and we've hardly left the house since mid-March. Choir rehearsals & concerts cancelled. I now work from home 100% (Tammie and Chris have been doing up to 3 days a week in the office but probably an average of 1 day/week over all, due to illness or covid exposure or whatever). I've put gas in my car exactly three times in eight months.

Tammie was ill for six weeks or so in the spring; at first we thought Covid, but it wasn't. We still don't know exactly what it was, but she's been on steroids and several other new meds and is feeling mostly better, although the meds have had their share of unpleasant side effects.

Chris is doing more-or-less the same as usual. He's recently received a VA disability rating: we finally convinced him to apply, after 30 years out of the army when he should have been getting disability much of this time.

Rosa and her dad were both exposed to Covid recently, while she was with him for the weekend. They got tests (his was positive, hers was negative) but neither of them showed any symptoms, and after quarantining together for two weeks she's just come back home.

I've been generally healthy, modulo the usual summer allergies. I walk the dog twice everyday (occasional exceptions for nasty weather).

Back in September my parents extended a Thanksgiving invitation to all of us (which would be a first; C&T have only been to my parents' house once, on a random weekend in April a couple years ago--we all stayed in a hotel). My sister and her family were also going to come up from California. I'd thought even then it would probably be a bad idea due to the pandemic, and Tammie was disinclined to go regardless unless I come out fully about our marriage (which I need to do, I know; we've been married almost three years now). Then a few weeks ago we found out that my sister's breast cancer had recurred, and she was going to be on chemo/radiation so wouldn't be able to travel, but Rivendell!we were still welcome....until last week when dad called to say sorry, he was going to have to rescind the invitation because Wisconsin is a covid hotspot. I said that's ok I was about to decline it anyway, since Missouri is a hotspot too and also Rose was just exposed. But I've set up a family zoom for the Saturday, and hopefully that will at least be nice.

CHARIS has been meeting virtually, every other week or so, which is NOTHING like real choir but at least offers a chance to sing and hang out. We all have to be muted, because internet lag would make the sound awful. But we did make a virtual choir video that I'm in, at 1:17:40ish of this cabaret showcasing choir members and friends.

Fandom has been kind of my refuge and community as well. I am still very fond of Good Omens but I have not been as connected to that fandom since September, because I fell in love hard with The Untamed/Mo Dao Zu Shi. I did attend the virtual Ineffable Con in October--which I'd never have been able to do in a normal year, since it was based in London--and co-presented a panel on podfic, watchable here! (sorry about the first five minutes of tech issues)

I have been INCREDIBLY prolific with podfic this year so far. Over 48 hours, 400K words so far, and I hope to get to a full 50 hours. Doubt I'll make it to 500k words, but one never knows. I have a lot of time off the rest of the year, so it could happen. If I get 70K more, I'll have surpassed a million words total podfic (and nearly half of it from 2020).

And in completely unexpected news, I've been WRITING. Not a lot, and some rather niche interest pairings (lol), but still. It's basically all been MDZS, except for a few hundred words back in January on an HP/Amber crossover that I've re-abandoned subsequently. Here, listen to me and some friends sing an MDZS filk that I wrote. And then hate me for the next several weeks because that shit is an EARWORM.

Part of the reason for all the writing is inspiration from a new fandom friend, Ollie. They and I watched the last 20 or so episodes of the Untamed together (ie, starting the ep at the same time and live-reacting on chat) . We've been chatting A LOT on discord DMs, and they like to send me snippets of writing or plot ideas or headcanons. Which I started sending responses to, and now we have an actual co-written fic, a bunch of plotted/outlined/partially-written stuff, and one set of fic-written-by-them and sequel-written-by-me (to be published this week--with my shield or on it). Plus I have a (small) pile of ideas and outlines all my own. I am shooketh.

AND AND AND...Under the influence of my infatuation with MDZS, I started doing Chinese lessons on duolingo. I've done almost 60 days straight, and a total of 65 or so? But because I'm me, and always like to make things difficult for myself, I am ALSO doing Japanese at the same time. As my longtime readers know, I have a bachelor's degree in Japanese and was near-fluent once upon a time (in the late 80's/early 90's) but I've forgotten a lot. So I had been hoping that I could resurrect that knowledge as well, given that languages-not-english seem to all live somewhere similar in my brain. And it's been working, I think. I understand tons more of the anime that I watch with Rosa than I did even three months ago. Still use the subtitles some, but less and less.

I am apparently Too Old for Tumblr. I've had an account for ages, never really did anything with it, but I have sent a few asks to people requesting to create podfic for their fics. In most cases I followed up by other methods because I never saw a reply.

Today I finally figured out my inbox. And Lo and Behold there is a reply there from 2015 granting me permission to podfic something....which has been podded twice by other people in the meantime. Major self-eye-roll.

On the other hand, there is also a Yes reply to an ask I sent this morning, so that's at least timely.

Setting myself the goal of 100 works on my AO3 page before the end of October!

I'm at 88 now, I've got two unrevealed podfics due to be revealed on 10/1, one that just went up at HP podfic fest but isn't on my AO3 yet, two parts in multi-voice things that will hopefully be posted soon--that's 93--and I just posted a draft of the bi/poly/smutty fic that I've referenced here a few times. Yes, it's finally done! One more SPaG check and I'm setting it to live. That's 94.

My podfic big bang project is nearly done and will be posted 10/31; that's 95.

So, I need five more things that I can get done without imperiling the Big Bang project, and ideally which fulfill various squares on my new bingo card, because two birds one stone.

Dear Podficcer --

Hi! I'm so glad you're matched with me. I am sure I will love anything you create, but here's some things about what I like.

I have been mostly in and around the Harry Potter fandom, but I've stuck my toes in the waters elsewhere too. My earliest love is The Chronicles of Amber, and as of this summer I am ALL IN for the Good Omens fandom, though my works page doesn't necessarily show it, as I've been finishing up a lot of prior commitments.

This table is by no means an order of preference.

Fandom	Comments
Harry Potter	My OTP is Harry/Draco, and my OT3 combines them with Hermione. I am open to lots of other stuff, although I'm partial to Slytherin/Gryffindor pairings (see ambiguously "bad" characters below). I'm not fond of Harry with Ginny, but I don't like bashing her. I don't have any particular preferences for femslash pairings. Bring them on :-D
Good Omens	OTP: Aziraphale/Crowley, like nearly everyone. So much delicious oblivious pining. If six millennia isn't a slow burn, I don't know what is. That, and it turns out that blasphemy turns me right the hell ON. Something about twisting my Christian upbringing.
MCU	I'm open to most anything here, although I really like Pepper/Natasha (and Pepper/Nat/Maria), and I'm quite fond of Thor/Loki and Steve/Bucky.
Discworld	Again, most any pairing but I'm not so much into the smexxxy in this fandom.
The Vorkosigan Saga	Open to anything here, but again not so much with the smexxy.
The Chronicles of Amber	OTP: Fiona/Brand, OT3: Fiona/Brand/Mandor. Please no game fic with all/mostly original characters. If "most" of the characters in the story are not from the books, skip it. I find most game fic is really only interesting to the players in the game, sorry.

Things I love include:
Bad-ass women
Humor
Happy endings/HEA
Parent!fic
Hot hot sex (I'm more into slash and femslash than het in my fic, but I'm open to it, especially if there's one or more of my other loves in the story)
Ambiguously "bad" characters (eg Draco, Loki, Crowley, Brand)
Redemption narratives
Fake dating
Slow burn
Forced cohabitation
Plotty fic
Polyamory
Three-somes & more-somes
Switching
Explicitly bisexual/pansexual characters
Gender fluidity/non-binary
Gloves used sexually
Found/constructed family

Things I dislike:
A/B/O dynamics
Not a huge fan of mpreg in general
Most horror

Definitely Do Not Want:
Rape/non-con (dubcon is ok, and offscreen non-pairing non-con is ok too)
Explicitly described injury to eyes
Extreme kinks such as watersports/scat/vore
Torture

<3,
semperfiona

Let your voices be HEARD!!!
hp_podfic_fest 2019


Podficcers Sign-up Here!!!


I've done podfics for this fest every year since 2015; it's a super friendly and encouraging fest, and if you're the slightest bit interested in the HP fandom and in podfic, check it out.

Dear Podficcer --

I'm mostly in and around the Harry Potter fandom, but I've stuck my toes in the waters elsewhere too, and my earliest love is The Chronicles of Amber. If you were to find something from Amber...I'd love you forever. Of course, I'll love you forever no matter what you create. :-D

The last few weeks I've been mainlining Thor/Loki stories, with a dash of Dean/Sam for variety, and going back to the Harry/Draco tag for comfort reads. I just finished binging the Good Omens miniseries, and I'm about to dive into Aziraphale/Crowley fic.

I'm kind of looking to widen my horizons, so I don't want you to feel overly limited, but I'll try listing some things to give you ideas. Even where all I list is an OTP, I'm open to listening to other pairings. Or gen, as well.

Fandom	Pairings
Harry Potter	My OTP is Harry/Draco, and my OT3 combines them with Hermione. I am open to lots of other stuff, although I'm partial to Slytherin/Gryffindor pairings (see ambiguously "bad" characters below). I'm not fond of Harry with Ginny, but I don't like bashing her. I don't have any particular preferences for femslash pairings.
MCU	Open to most anything here, although I really like Pepper/Natasha (and Pepper/Nat/Maria), and as mentioned above, I've just fallen hard for Thorki. I like seeing Loki top, but it's not a requirement. I'm generally a proponent of switching in any case. Also fond of Steve/Bucky.
Discworld	Again, most any pairing but I'm not so much into the smexxxy in this fandom.
Star Wars (eps 4-8, Rogue One)	OT3 Finn/Rey/Poe
The Vorkosigan Saga	Open to anything here, but again not so much with the smexxy.
The Chronicles of Amber	OTP: Fiona/Brand

Things I love include:
Bad-ass women
Humor
Happy endings/HEA
Parent!fic
Hot hot sex (I'm more into slash and femslash than het in my fic, but I'm open to it, especially if there's one or more of my other loves in the story)
Ambiguously "bad" characters (eg Draco, Loki) with redemption narratives
Fake dating
Slow burn
Forced cohabitation
Plotty fic
Polyamory
Three-somes & more-somes
Switching
Explicitly bisexual/pansexual characters

Things I dislike:
A/B/O dynamics
Not a huge fan of mpreg in most cases (with the exception of shapeshifter!Loki)

Triggers and squicks:
Rape/non-con (dubcon is ok, and offscreen non-pairing non-con is ok too)
Explicitly described injury to eyes
Extreme kinks such as watersports/scat/vore
Torture

<3,
semperfiona

One week to concert, and Tammie's got a nasty cough/cold and my throat is scratchy. Yikes!

Still have four songs I'm not confident on the memorization (or in one case, even the notes, bah I hate when our part is 90% doos and oohs, I have a terrible time remembering which ones and how many and what notes they go on). Time for much cramming.

And somewhere in there I've got to make time to edit my podfic polygons assignment.

And tidy the house because my parents are coming for the show. They're not staying with us, and may not even visit the house because of how the schedule works out, but...

Luckily, tomorrow is a work holiday.

I posted a new podfic last night. Totally not pertinent to any of the three sets of deadlines for fests I am currently participating in, but sometimes the muse takes you where she will. Also, this random stock photo I used for the cover art is now my headcanon image for Fiona.

Title: Her Brother's Keeper
Author: Serenade
Fandom: The Chronicles of Amber (Roger Zelazny)
Category: Gen
Rating: G
Characters: Fiona, Bleys, Brand
Author's original summary: Fiona has always taken care of her brothers.
Length: 0:13:56




PS: amberite, the original story was written for you, so you might especially enjoy it in a new format.

Day 13

In your own space, set some goals for the coming year. They can be fannish or not, public or private.

1. Post to DW at least once a week, not counting the monthly book list.
So far doing pretty well, posting almost daily. But it's still January.

2. Finish Yes My Queen and post it.
*fingers crossed*

3. 100K words of podfic.
Last year i did 111K, so this should be relatively achievable.

4. Audition for a solo in the Spring and Fall concerts.
I tried out last spring. Didn't get one, but I didn't do well in the audition, either. I missed the fall audiitions for reasons of Chris being in hospital.

5. Perform at least one song at a karaoke.
I've been working with my voice coach on Come to My Window and I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, and have four or so other songs to start working on. I'd like to try singing one of these for an audience other than her.