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Podficcers (and podfic-receivers): tell us about your FTH experience!

A few years ago, after we noticed that fan labor auctions weren't getting as much love as some other kinds of offers, we put out a call for fan labor testimonials, asking both fan laborers and FL-auction winners to share their stories -- and fan labor offers have had a lot more takers, ever since. (Don't worry, we'll be doing this again! we love hearing those stories.)

This year, we're hoping to do a mirror version of this for podfics. FTH bidders are already very enthusiastic about podfics; in fact, in two out of our eight years of running this auction, the highest-bid offers were for podfic, even though we only have a few dozen podfic offers out of several hundred total.

One of our goals this year is to recruit lots more podficcers to offer fanworks. If you are:

a podficcer who has had a good experience doing FTH

a bidder who has won a podfic auction (or even someone who has tried to!)

please tell us about it! Let's persuade the FTH-ambivalent podficcers out there that they will be loved and appreciated. Tag us in your post and we will reblog it!

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Little Ribs

I've been indulging myself with some more spooky/horror themed dice this year... and I love it! Here's my take on blood and bones, with some little ribs + vertebrae and a cherry red- orange red colourshift.

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Last Friday's Prompt: Love and Marriage

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Closing in on the end, the next prompt is Love and Marriage!

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Time is an illusion, here's the next prompt! Space Oddity!

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The next prompt is Trust!

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Coming in late with the next prompt: Dancing!

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Catching up! Here's the prompts from the past two weeks: Good Luck/Bad Luck and Do You Remember?

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Next week's prompt! Handmade

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quick art piece for @venomfest: family reunion! that moment when you come home after a long night of fighting crime and your cat/alien son is happy to see you

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Next week's prompt: Family Reunion!

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Stimulation/Healing (307 words) by Ihasa Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Venom (Marvel Movies) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Eddie Brock & Venom Symbiote Characters: Eddie Brock, Venom Symbiote (Marvel) Additional Tags: Stimming, minor self-harm, Biting, Minific, Symbiotic Relationship, Mutualism, symbiosis Summary: Just enough pain to keep him grounded.

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short drabble for @venomfest’s prompt for a couple weeks ago: Heat Stroke!

Eddie’s skin burned underneath the desert sun. He banged, his mouth and throat drying out with each breath of hot air he took. His lips cracked, his tongue stuck to the roof of his mouth like water clinging to flour. His skin was hot and dry to the touch, as if the sweat had been evaporating off of his body since he stepped into the sun.

He and Venom had broken out of the government base they were tortured in. It was sequestered in the middle of a sprawling desert, with nothing but miles and miles of sand surrounding them.

“Shit.” Eddie had not contemplated what their plan was after they had escaped and gotten the officials off of their trail, but it’s not like they could’ve done anything to prevent this. It’s not like he could’ve snagged some plastic water bottles while he ran from the government officials. They had to take the one chance they had to escape, the one gap in the guard’s shift that happened after Venom pickpocketed the key off of the guard who had brought them their meal. Of course their chance to escape came in the middle of the afternoon, as the sun reared its ugly head and the temperature outside soared.

Well, he was fucked.

“Eddie?” Venom asked, their tendrils nervously twining around his body underneath his clothes.

“Yeah?” Eddie’s face scrunched as he dragged one foot in front of the other. His head throbbed with each movement, an ache spreading from the back of his neck and constricting around his eyes.

“We do not mean to alarm you, but your body’s temperature regulation is not functioning properly. The heat around us is making it hard for us to maintain our internal body temperature at optimal levels. We can shield your cells from damage, but we do not know if that will prevent you from feeling the effects of heat exposure.”

“Oh yay, heat stroke. That’s what we needed right now.” Eddie groaned. “Can you do anything about the pain?”

“We can try, but your brain is rather delicate. We do not want to tamper too much when the consequences could be devastating.”

The pain in his head lessened, the ache becoming dull instead of all-consuming.

Eddie’s eyes closed and he sighed. Moving wasn’t painful anymore, it didn’t feel like he was a bobble head being tossed around by an overeager child. “That’s already super helpful, dear. Thank you.”

Venom trilled. “It is no problem, Eddie.” Their tendrils curled around his neck, a cool and gentle weight settling over his collarbones and shoulders.

He continued to trek through the desert. Eddie narrowed his focus to the next step he had to take, to the ways his feet sank into the loose sand beneath him. If he thought about anything else, he would spiral. The nearest city was still hours away by foot, and the sun was directly overhead. Relief wouldn’t come for a long time.

The fatigue set on after what felt like an eternity to Eddie. His steps became sluggish, each blink felt heavier than the last. His mouth burned, desperate for any liquid that would satiate his thirst.

“V, babe, can you do anything about dehydration?” Eddie asked.

“We can do a couple of things,” Venom replied. “We can reabsorb your sweat and filter your urine to add that water back into our bloodstream, but unfortunately we cannot do more. We cannot supplement your body’s water supply.”

Eddie sighed, resigned. “Awesome. Well, you may need to control my body for a while. My brain is fighting with my body and not letting me move.”

Venom’s tendrils moved around Eddie’s legs, relieving Eddie’s muscles of the anguish of walking. “We are sorry we cannot do more for you, Eddie.”

“It’s okay, Venom. We’ll get through it,” Eddie affirmed not only to Venom but to himself. “We’ve got miles to go before we sleep.”

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hey if anyone has any art on furaffinity, it might be a good idea to back it up. one of the hosts just passed away and its unclear where the site will go from here

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Next week's prompt is: Call From Home!

Remember that you can do these prompts in any order and there's no such thing as late!

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I just realized I never posted this week's prompt! OTL It's a fave of mine: Xenobiology

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Next week's prompt is Cactus!