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[xiaokuer-schmetterling]

call for podfic requests keeping for recs

hi!!! i am a baby podficcer and i am asking for y'all to pls let me know in the replies IN THIS FORM if you have any podfic requests! i'm having such a hard time deciding what to record next lol

EDIT***hey!!! check out the FTH 2025 FANWORKS FOR CHARITY AUCTION: MY PODFIC OFFERING. BIDDING IS OPEN UNTIL MARCH 1st at 8pm eastern time!!!

>>>ETA—direct hyperlink provided guarantees at least a click. have realized that searching for what might maybe probably is your rec BUT WHAT IF I’M WRONG is literally giving me anxiety nausea and hives so that approach is not self care and is being ceased immediately. TIA <<<

any length but pls know i only have 1-2 hrs to record and still get a reasonable amount of sleep! so shorter fics will have a much shorter turn around ⸜(｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )⸝♡ i will tag my usual fandoms. if you request a fic reading from a fandom i don't know it will also take me longer to do, but i promise to at least take a look!

if you include your ao3 handle in the request, i will gift it to you. if you aren't a registered ao3 user yet, no worries! i cross post all my podfics on my blog

i am just as willing to read explicit and dead dove fics as i am other ratings if i'm in the right headspace to read it, so don't be shy!

ps. your ask can also be for non-ao3 fics, like ficlets on your blog! those would be great vocal warmups for me before starting on a longer read

[tagetto]

he stinks of diesel fumes, solder flux & cigarette smoke which has caked itself over the years into the fan blades of a used prebuilt msi gaming PC bought from ebay dot com core 2 duo high performance rtx 2.5 tdi 1.6 litre engine top speed of 48.3mph.

[pinkwindowwithin]

[nekoprankster218]

Fanfic research made me discover a character who might actually have the achievement of being the first female Sangheili character: Sanj’ik, a rare female weapons master that served under Ripa ‘Moramee of all people. Her lore apparently came from the now defunct Halo Wars launch site, where she had about as many sentences of focus as Meduu the Fierce in the encyclopedia.

Having a hard time finding the specific time frame the website launched (assuming close to or prior to the game’s release), but it may pre-date the release of Halo: Legends, which had Han and def predates Halo: Glasslands and Raia.

[stealingyourbones]

The fact that I have 3 dpxdc accounts and primarily just use this one never ceases to amuse me

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

as someone who has most of my dragon-related fandom experience in dragonriders of pern, which necessarily has a complex relationship with its author, i would like to lean on your thoughts for a question on a different dragon media.

does the eragon fandom have meta about what counts as canon? ex. from interviews, from the illustrated guidebook, and so on. does it have a history of interpretation?

im gonna be honest I was never in the Eragon fandom, I've read the books when I was too young to have internet access and now only returned to Eragon after learning that my friend has read it too, so my "fandom" is really just the two of us brainrotting about it together and posting our thoughts on tumblr

[the-real-list-of-ominous-threats]

I'm going to send you lame hater anons about how you're 'ruining your blog theme'

[barryhbo2018]

the source of these photos is my white whale i s2g . theyre so stupid but there is literally no initial source for them . that i can find . theyre so grainy i want to see them higher quality .. seths terrible jumps

[discworld-heritage-posts]

What do you think you add? Do you think you make a poignant post better when after scrolling down through it we see someone saying it's "official"?

I'm choosing to interpret this ask as a genuine question (albeit one that's been worded a bit rudely) instead of a hate anon, because I wouldn't want to tarnish people's dashboards with hate anons.

Now, to answer your genuine question... The "Discworld Heritage Post" tagline I add to the end of posts has as much validity as I have authority to bestow it: none. Do I think my tagline makes posts better? Of course not! And I certainly don't think I make them official, (and neither my url or my pinned post claim that I do so).

I don't know what reasons other people had to start their own Heritage Posts blogs for other fandoms, but I will gladly tell you mine: I got into Discworld. I discovered the Discworld fandom in Tumblr. And, one day, while scrolling down some Discworld related tags, the idea just popped into my head. After checking that there wasn't a Discworld Heritage Posts blog already, I decided to make one.

I personally follow a few Heritage Posts blogs, and my reason to do so is probably the same as to why many people follow this blog: I wanted to see that kind of content. Tracking tags and being up to date on the most popular posts of a fandom is doable, but doing so for the dozens upon dozens of media I'm into is impossible, so I like to follow some Heritage Posts blogs to get some of those posts directly into my dashboard (it's also worth mentioning that sometimes, some iconic posts are made when people comment stuff on them, and those don't appear in the search tags, so following blogs that post about a certain fandom is the best way to come across some of those collaborative posts, because otherwise you'd rarely get to see them). So yes, I created a blog that, had it already existed, I would have liked to follow. Also, while other blogs with this gimmick usually limit themselves to reblogging, let's call them the "greatest hits", I've said since the beginning that I didn't care about how many notes something had. Be it cool art or a funny or insightful post, if I like it, I send it to my drafts.

However, none of those reasons are the main reason why I made this blog. The main reason is that I did it for myself. After exhausting all the content that showed up in the Popular Posts tab, I couldn't help but think of all the gold and treasure that wasn't there, buried and hidden due to the way Tumblr's search engine works. If you're familiar with the Discworld concept of "lies-to-children", that's what the "top posts of all time" is in Tumblr. A 20k post from 2016 will not be there, but a six month old post with 400 notes will show up. Surely there had been amazing Discworld posts and art posted in 2015 and 2013, but I wasn't going to find most of them unless I expressly went looking for them. And this blog was the perfect excuse to do so. As of replying to this ask, there's nearly 600 posts sitting in my drafts, and if I didn't have this blog I would have never discovered 90% of them. And those are the ones I've seen. I still have dozens of places I haven't searched.

I know that if I reblog a month old post with over 2k notes, a lot of people in the fandom will have already seen it. However, a 2k notes post from 2014, or a drawing with 40 notes from 2012 is something that is less likely to have hit people's dashes recently, or at all. When you come across the "Discworld Heritage Post" tagline in a post, please don't picture me as an uppity monarch performing the Tumblr equivalent of a knighting ceremony, or a stuffy museum curator deigning a piece worthy of being included in an exhibition. Picture me as a kid enthusiastically jumping and flailing my arms around while yelling "holy shit guys check out what I just found!!", because that's how I feel running this blog.

Ultimately, whether one of my posts does better or worse is indifferent to me, because they aren't my posts, or memes, or drawings. I'm just the intermediary. That being said, of course it's not indifferent to me, because more engagement means that was a post many people hadn't seen before, or had forgotten about, and one of my goals was to run a blog that would allow people to find those hidden or long forgotten gems.

When all is said and done, Heritage Post blogs are just another one of Tumblr's gimmicks. If we're not your cup of tea, you're free to ignore or block us. If you want to reblog something and don't want the tagline, you can reblog it directly from OP (or from another reblog if OP has deactivated their account).

[justanisabelakinnie]

Monique makes an automated robotic salon chair that’s fully equipped to style people’s hair on its own while also giving them mani-pedis, all you have to do is upload the hairstyle and nail pattern that you want into its database and it will automatically get to work styling you to perfection, it ultimately doesn’t work, she shows it to Marisol and Marisol says “so, uh…what does it do?” Monique goes “that’s the beauty of it! It doesn’t do anything!” Then pauses and says shyly, “I’m still working on the finishing touches.” Just because I need this quote to be somewhere and this is gonna be it.

[risu75]

Vintage Contempo Casuals tag, probably from the 1980s.

[fraudulent-cheese]

points at this Lindsay ADHD real

[t4tails]

...STARRO THE CONQUEROR??

[the-art-of-sanshoku]

Learned there is a Kuuga english dub help (Source)

[reinstarnation]

hey there God. I want a BREAK plEASE

I CAN FEEL EVERY JOINT IN MY LOWER BODY

and not in a good way

[autismagolor]

so turns out, i won't be going on an art hiatus!

THIS IS WHY, WELCOME TO MY TAKE ON AN UTY SWAP AU, CALLED YELLOWSWAP KINDHEART!!

how about i introduce yall to our protagonists?

ASRIEL THE HUMAN: Asriel is a human with a soul of kindness! he's the son of a gardener who descended from the surface in order to rescue the 5 lost humans! goats happen to be his favorite animal, so he's customized his hat to have horns and ears using a little hotglue, tape, and leftover fabric and airdry clay!

CHERRY THE BLOSSOM: Cherry the Blossom is a lonesome sakura flower who has remained in the underground for years. they've decided to team up with Asriel on his quest to save the previous humans who fell, hoping to be able to bring the underground's cruel king to his just desserts! ...surely that's all, right...?

i've had a lot of thoughts about this particular au, expect to see the list of the swaps soon! just a note, a lot of them are probably not what you're expecting :)