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hey fic lovers and fic authors!

DO YOU LIKE PODFIC?

i'm participating in a challenge this week to read for a fandom i'm not in so as to use a new character voice AND/OR to podfic smth that is more than a week old with less than 100 hits. is there anything like that you'd like to rec for me???

(pls check out my ao3 profile and podfic tag for more info on my fandoms, to see what i've already recorded, and find out if you enjoy my reading style)

ALSO !!! PSA!

if you are a fic author--please consider adding a 'Podfic Welcome' tag and/or a blanket/partial permission/denial statement to your ao3 and/or socials profile! it really helps your creative community to know which authors do or do not allow podfic, fanart etc without having to potentially bother you personally in the comments!

(also applicable if you are a fic afficianado who has a verrrrry fav that you want podfic or other follow-on fanworks made of lol pls consider gently suggesting BP stmt to that author)

-> you can use my profile (linked above in red), or my fandom bestie @maelstrom-of-emotions ao3 page for some examples of permission statements

-OR- if you prefer, here is a wonderfully helpful resource that walks you thru how to build a specific permission statement! LINK

​btw! this is important especially for podficcers bc podfic especially counts on ao3 as derivative work and CAN'T legally be posted to ao3 without specific author permission!!!

*if this post inspires you to make an update to your ao3 or other fic hosting profile, pls lmk in replies or rbs bc i'll get bonus points this round lol orz thx*

ps. if you've read this far! thx for your attention and HAPPY MERMAY pls send me ALL THE MERMAY FICS AND ARTS !!! i LOVE MERMAY lol it's my favorite month

also idk why this was a search result for 'merperson' but bucky with a puppy was toooooo cute to resist

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the problem with water is like. it's the cleaning fluid right. that's the obvious part. you stop drinking and you stop peeing and your kidneys are like ough. ough. ough. ough. but you don't die. unless you're not drinking anything At All and not eating watery food either. so all it is is you pee less but you're okay. kind of.

BUT THEN when it gets too hot it starts being the coolant! and suddenly there are so many ways it can get out! you have so many sweat glands and so much skin and they all need to be cooled down before you DIE.

but then. you realize the least obvious one. it's the transmission fluid. it's the fucking transmission fluid. you can't transmit SHIT without your fliud. which is still fucking water somehow.

so now you're LEAKING your transmission fluid out of every goddamn pore and your kidneys are like hey. gimme that cleaning fluid cmon dude. while your pores are like ITS COOLANT. NEED COOLANT. FOR THE FIRE. NEED MORE COOLANT. SO MUCH FIRE. KILL IT. KILL IT MORE. MORE COOLANT. and then. the rest of you. that uses all that fluid to transmit things. it's like hey. hey. hey what the fuck.. i need that. hello? can anyone hear me? hello? it's so dark in here..

and then you drink more water or you die.

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when jason died, they buried him with the possessions that he carried on him all the time. there was a pocket knife tucked into his sock, the bracelet on his wrist from catherine that he never took off, a tangled pair of earbuds in his back pocket, and, in the top pocket of his jacket, the cellphone that bruce bought for him after he was adopted.

that cellphone stayed with jason in his grave. went with him when he dug his way out. somehow stayed on his person when he was taken by the league, and he managed to convince talia to let him keep it throughout all his training.

he doesn’t know why, maybe as a grief thing or maybe just because bruce forgot and it’s not like the bill effected him in any way, but he never stopped paying jason’s phone bill. his number’s still active, still working after all this time. even weirder, but dick started adopting the tradition of adding his dead brother’s phone number to each and every family group chat any of them created after ethiopia. again, jason doesn’t know why. maybe it was dick’s way of carrying his memory with them; including him in family conversations even if they all thought the number was connected to a long buried phone in the pocket of a long dead boy.

the point is that jason wasn’t dead any more. and all throughout his time at the league, he gets to watch the family chats. the mission statuses, the arguments, the rapid spiral every chat went through where they started off using it as a serious bat communication centre only for dick or tim to send a meme and instantly spiral into nothing but chaos that bruce would neither take part in or attempt to stop. jason spectates it all, always fingering the keypad but never actually typing out a message. he came close when there was a heated debate between steph and dick about the best donut types and he knew they were both absolutely fucking wrong, but luckily tim came in to educate them on the right choice last second and jason was saved from having to reveal himself.

the closest call was when little damian got a hold of his phone, attracted to the bright colours of the block game jason had been absently playing out of boredom while ra’s droned on about whatever had pissed him off that day. he’d let the kid play, sat on his lap and eagerly jabbing at the screen, and jason had only looked away for at most a minute before he’d turned back to find the screen open on the family chat, damian having accidentally clicked on the camera button and taken a selfie of the two that he’d been about to send through. luckily, jason deleted it in time, but he became much more careful about letting the kid play with his shit after that.

this is all just a long winded explanation and backstory for and au i think would be funny where jason’s reveal is literally just him deciding to fuck with his family by randomly dropping in through text like:

-in the chat-

bruce: status report.

dick: hungry :( but good!

steph: seconded, im fine

tim: drug bust went to plan, on way back to cave uninjured

cass: ^ same answer

babs: everything seems calm from what i can tell

jason: a little claustrophobic but the coffin’s kinda homely so ig no complaints from me

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crossposting here bc this tactic needs to spread like wildfire

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remember kids, the moral of "Irish and Italians weren't even considered White yet!" isn't "because in those times people were so ignorant they didn't think the Irish were white". the moral is "because white is an unreal category created to justify slavery and ongoing hoarding of power and wealth". It's not that you know better about Italians. It's that the boundaries of the higher caste have changed.

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The leftism leaving the tumblr tankies body the second you point out their epic copyright pwning pro genAI stance is an example of capitalistic for-profit labor exploitation

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Satisfactorio

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if not friend why friend sha—

never mind

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When I was getting my associates degree I took a Mythology class that I loved. But one of the girls in class was absolutely off the rails conservative Christian which made things… interesting.

The professor started off the class by being like, “Mythology is stories associated with religion.”

This girl. Haaaated that. She was like, “No, Christianity is true. It’s not mythology.” Mythology was delivered in the same tone as someone trying to spit excrement from their mouth.

The professor raised her eyebrows and said laconically, “Yes, most people believe their religion is the real one, that’s part of it, and the stories surrounding religion are referred to as mythology.”

The girl stewed in a hateful sullen rage. I truly don’t understand why she didn’t drop the class but perhaps it was court mandated education. We all expected her to drop the class but she dug in like a tick and derailed discussions as often as she could.

On a different occasion the professor was drawing a comparison between social constructs like gender. The girl raised her hand. The class hushed to hear her announce, “It’s just a fact that women like domestic work and even though men are awful and stinky we just have to love them anyway. It’s biology, we’re just hardwired like that.”

I was sitting next to my friend a baby gay Jewish girl and our eyes met in mutual hilarity while the professor tried to pretend she hadn’t just been stricken with a stress induced migraine while she steered the class away from that landmine.

The next sticking point was a week later when the professor informed us that many mythologies have overlapping events like floods but these didn’t necessarily happen in such literal terms. It was a metaphorical way to process and understand the world.

This girls hand shot up. I watched the professor exercise extreme self control to keep her expression bland before calling on her.

“The world did flood. And Noah saved all the animals. Before the flood all the water was in a dome outside the earth and then the dome broke and the world flooded. All of it.”

The whole class stared at her as if struggling to comprehend the overlap of her acceptance that the world was round while also firmly believing that there had previously been a barrier that held up all of the earths water before god smashed it in a fit of pique.

She raged under the attention, glaring balefully at our astonished faces.

The professor stared at her blankly, unable to form words to such a bizarre belief. I wanted to ask clarifying questions- what they’d drunk before the dome broke, if there were rivers or lakes prior, or did the dome allow some rain in somehow, but then I really looked at her.

She had the eyes of a feral, cornered animal who regarded any deviation in worldview from her own to be a physical assault on her person. Like the professor, I said nothing, and after a wretchedly long pause class moved on.

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lmao sending this back around

POV your fiance drew short straw and had to go do baby attorney things in whatever hell-journey his employer threw him at

text ID under the cutoff

Keep reading

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Your regular reminder that trickle-down economics is a cruel joke designed by the wealthy.

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COME PROVE LOVE WITH ME ON TOUR THIS SUMMER BUCKAROOS. the chuck tingle live book tour is back celebrating the release of LUCKY DAY from nightfire books with a new show unlike any book tour you have ever seen

WARNING: every year i mention that these shows SELL OUT and EVERY YEAR there are buds who are sad when the tickets go quick. if you want to come trot with us then TALK TO YOUR BUDS AND GET YOUR TICKETS NOW

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one of my very favorite obscure story tropes is when there’s an episode/plotline/tabletop campaign session where the conceit is ‘each member of the gang gets trapped in a specially tailored dream/nightmare/illusory mindscape and has to break out’

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Okay so this is a big deal

To me, and to a significant subset of Sir Terry's fans (including most of you who've found this by the tags), his writing is serious commentary on the human condition - politics, prejudice, self-control, revenge vs. justice, religion, idealism, faith in people vs. cynicism, and more - dressed up with fantasy settings and a hefty leavening of humor to make it fun to read. And it is WILDLY fun to read, actual laugh-out-loud or at least a snicker averaging about every page.

But there's this common idea among the "important literature" people that fun and funny books are not also worthwhile or important in the same way.

This is a Discworld book being released WITH ACADEMIC COMMENTARY and AS A PENGUIN CLASSIC. That's a HUGE amount of recognition.

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This man is 100% correct. Source: I worked for 20 years in supply chain and transportation, including international shipping for the T-shirt company he name checks at the end.

Watch this video please and get a glimpse of just how magnificently we have been and continue to be lied to.

watch PearlMania500's response, that guy gets supply chain. I work in supply chain and that is exactly what everyone should be thinking about

But no, most people don't even know how their food gets to the grocery store

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Temujin!

Happy Audio Drama Sunday!!!

I didn't keep track of what I listened to this week (even though I should have because Killjam XXX? Vesta Clinic??? Hallowoods????? Englewood After Dark????????), so I thought I'd zoom in on another thing that happened this week: Temujin released a supercut and a talkback episode.

What is Temujin?

Temujin is a historical audio drama, already a rare beast amongst this medium (with some of my favorite exceptions being Bronzeville, Cry Havoc! Ask Questions Later, Divorce Ranch, and Harlem Queen). It's also a rare beast among historical adaptations in general because it tells the story of Genghis Khan, a giant of history who is notorious outside of Mongolia and The Historical Guy inside.

What's it about?

Temujin is an epic sweeping story, a tragedy (depending on how you look at it) about our man Temujin, as he struggles to fulfill his destiny to be Khan, and his closest friend Jamukha, who bears witness to his struggles. It hits like a frikkin train. Based on the oldest Mongolian historical document, The Secret History of the Mongols, Temujin takes this close, intimate look at a single relationship and provides a window into this huge swath of history.

Why do you like it?

Oh man dude, the sound design? The writing? The foley? The music? The tiny wrenching little moments where people debate the virtue of brotherhood vs. their own wants or needs for power? There's nothing I don't like about Temujin. It's glorious. Beyond that, it's also unpretentious. In the talkback episode, the writer, Roshan Singh Sambhi (who also composed the music), talks about how he didn't really know anyone in the audio drama scene when they made it. Sometimes with these one-off productions, especially the ones outside of the typical indie scene, you get folks who are convinced that No One Is Doing It Like Them, and they get weird about that. But Roshan said their goal was only to give it the significance they could give it, and I think that shows through. It doesn't try to be important, it tries to be true. And it succeeds.

In conclusion, listen to Temujin, boy

They just released a supercut, and it is appropriately the length of an epic movie, about two and a half hours long. Listen to it, and listen to the talkback episode, and revel in gorgeous historical adaptation.