#cocoa Collabs 2024

[kbirbpods]

and, we're live!

Time for my 2023 stats round up.

First, let's look at the number of hours/minutes per month, shall we?

All of that account for 59 hours & 11 minutes of podfic. Now, comparing to last year, when I had just shy of 31 hours, that looks pretty good. Remember, last year I started in August so I almost doubled it.

We do notice a dip in March & April, which tend to be busy months in the education world. The spike in May is due to Voiceteam. June-August are a bit odd - you'd think a teacher on break would have more time to create. But I had some life stuff hit and it really destroyed my brain.

So, here's my first 2024 Resolution:

Remember how happy podfic makes you & don't let your depression win.

Now, moving on to the breakdowns and fun stuff, shall we?

Here are my top 5 fandoms, authors, ratings, and genres! I also have them in bar chart form and pie chart form, which I'll put below the cut. You'll see a slight difference in the author category -- I didn't include myself or Flowerparrish and my podcast in that as those weren't authors.

Of course, what is podficcing without making covers you love? Here are my favorite covers I made for my own podfics! I have a migraine so please excuse the fact that the images don't line up, vision is blurry:

Now, let's move on to my stats image from above. I used the same format as last year but since I made over 100 more podfic than last year, each microphone now equals five podfics.

As you can see, I participated in a lot of events! I believe I made the most audio for Voiceteam 2022 (as evidenced by my hours/month graph). This was my first year doing Voiceteam and I had a blast. I also got to do Podtogether & Summer Swap for the first time. It was my 2nd year doing ITPE. And then so much more.

My top kudosed collaborative project was "A Fair Compromise" with @wanderingjedihistorian for 212th Appreciation week. My top kudosed solo project was "A Game of Guess Who With Big Blue" by TheWitchBoy. The longest podfic I made was also with @wanderingjedihistorian and was my podfic of our Codywan Big Bang project! My shortest was a Locked Tomb podfic at 57 seconds called Realization.

My first podfic of 2023 was Hot Cocoa by Melime, a "The Batman" podfic. In the middle was Dissipate by SunsetsOverLA for Waxer*Boil month. And the last posted thing was for @fandomtrumpshate, for my top bidder - an Obi-Wan/Jango soulmates AU.

Now, on to 2024! My resolutions are:

To continue working on current WIPs I'm bringing into 2024 - some of which I've already tied up only 5 days into the year

To podfic even when my brain is being a gremlin, because podfic makes me happy and I should be able to focus on that!

To be brave enough to post the first "Soft Wars" podfic and finally tackle the series (kind of the same as resolution #1)

Not to sign up for Big Bangs -- I love them dearly but they actually caused a lot of my burnout this year and I didn't love that. As much as I love collabs, I think I'll stick to Podtogether, multivoices with friends, and gift exchanges this year!

Close the gaps -- aka, as much as I love Clone Wars, I want to focus on all things I love, instead of overbearingly focusing in on one.

Going into 2024, I am going to start tracking what music I use in my podfics, because I was curious about it / @flowerparrish inspired me. I also found a way to track overall Star Wars and then Star Wars broken down into sub fandoms - that should neaten up my "top 5" category a bit.

Happy New Year, all!

And, as mentioned above, screenshots of my actual graphs & tables, for interest sake!

[cocoa-collabs]

What is the Cocoa Collabs? 

The easy answer is: A fan collaboration organized by and for the Amelia Project fandom! The more difficult answer will be given a bit further down ;) 

Its also happening for the third time this year

Wait...but what's the Amelia Project? 

The Amelia Project is a fiction podcast about fake deaths, cocoa, quirky characters and a whole lot of other shenanigans. If you didn't already know that I suggest you stop reading for a second and listen to the 4⅓ seasons worth of episodes they currently have in their feed. (You can also find them on  Twitter as @amelia_podcast and on Tumblr as @ameliapodcast and on Instagram)

How do the Cocoa Collabs work? 

Welcome back! By now you have surely discovered for yourself what all the excitement is about and maybe you're even itching to create some fan content! And this is where the Cocoa Collabs come in. It's usually more fun to create something with other like minded folks but where do you find those in a fandom which is "family table size"? Well you give the "family" a reason to gather around the table, of course! And so over the course of five says, we (the fandom) will make all sorts of great fan content and we (the organization team) will gather all that content right here by reblogging it. (If you post on twitter please be sure to use the tag #cocoacollabs so everything can be found easily and you Tumblr users please tag this blog!) If you don't want your work reblogged to the collection please tell us. We won't. We still want to see it though so please, by all means, still tag us. 

What types of fanstuffs do you mean? 

All the fanstuffs Wether you are an artist, a writer, a cosplayer - or maybe something we don't even know about? All kind of fanwork is welcome! Amelia is all about the secrets, but it is also all about the stories, so let's combine that and have a great time! 

Do I have to follow the "official" prompt list? 

You can follow the prompts if you want to but of course you don't have to. Feel free to switch the order around, pick from our list of alternatives or just ignore them entirely! They're merely meant to kickstart your creativity and if you don't want / don't need that it's perfectly cool too! 

We basically just want to give you an opportunity and an excuse to be creative as well as some starting points in case your ideas won't come by themselves!

When will this be happening? 

From the 30th of August to the 5th of September (2021)

From the 15th to the 19th of August (2022)

From the 7th of August to the 13th of August! (2023)

From the 26th of August (2024)

I have further questions! Where can I ask them? 

Oh, not a problem! You can either ask questions directly on this blog (our asks and dms are open) or directly send them to our Cocoa Coordinators.

The (official) prompt list: