First, speaking of both reading and listening:
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Reading: I have indeed started on the next Witcher book (novel #2 | book #4), The Time of Contempt. I'm about halfway through and enjoying it a lot, though the political stuff is a bit confusing. I admit that most of what I like is Ciri, though it's fun to meet the book-incarnations of the various characters I know from the games ( Read more... )

I got a notification today of a podfic of my work, which reminded me that I'd had a notification back in January of one, a few days after I'd posted about podfics of my work for #ITPE 2017, the Informal Twitter Podfic Exchange (and huh, I'd forgotten about that despite its relevance to my previous post wondering about doing fandom on twitter). As ( Read more... )

Hello, flist! I am back home, which means (I hope) that I will have some time and emotional energy in my life for fannish pursuits. I am still helping out with the parental situation remotely, doing things I can do online or on the phone, so I will need to be disciplined about using my time well. But I will (hopefully!) be no longer constantly ( Read more... )

• I no longer feel like death, hooray! So I am starting to make inroads on sending non-Christmas cards. Hopefully I will get them out before they are Independence Day Cards. (And, thanks,
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Last night we saw The Battle of the Five Armies (yes, I know, the last people on this planet to do so) and were duly entertained. ( Random thoughts. )

First, I need to squee a little: malnpudl has podficced three of my "five things" stories (so that equals fifteen things, right? :-) in SGA, due South, and Iron-Jawed Angels (it was a Yuletide NYR, back when you had to write one to be allowed to participate in Yuletide; it's a movie about historical suffragists, so it's sort of RPF-ish), and you can find ( Read more... )

Two things, both vaguely related to amplificathon:

1. Nobody's ever recorded any of my fic as podfic; I don't know if that's because I've recorded a bunch of them and therefore people assume I only want them to be read by me, or if it's because nobody's interested in reading my stupid stories. Anyway, on the off chance that somebody is interested in reading ( Read more... )

My exhaustion can, apparently, be textually rendered. See subject line.

I'm constitutionally unable to sleep in (or to sleep for more than three hours at a stretch, it seems) so I am sitting in my bed, drinking coffee, and reading lj on my laptop. My lovely roommate katallison left yesterday, so I am all by my lonesome, but I can sense the presence of ( Read more... )

I've just posted a long explanation of the various settings in Audacity and Lame, and results of a test as to what gives the best compromise of quality and filesize for podfic recordings, to podfic_tips: Quality, filesize, and Audacity/Lame settings.