Awesome Ladies Podfic Anthology II

[sophinisba]

halfamoon is running their annual celebration of female characters from now through February 14th. podklb, cantarina, bessyboo, and I would like to put together a podfic contribution to that celebration, a reprise of last year's Awesome Ladies Podfic Anthology, to be posted on the 14th. Like podklb did last year, we'll collect a bunch of short lady-centric podfics by different readers in different fandoms and make them available both as individual files and as a podfic/podbook collection.

Podficcers: Interested in participating? We'd love to have you. Even though we're working with a relatively short time-frame, it should be a low-stress project, even for people who are new to podficcing, since we are only looking for short podficlets: based on stories of less than 1500 words (with many being as short as 1-2 minutes). If you'd like to record something for this anthology, please comment here or at the corresponding post on amplificathon with your preferred method of contact (email or PM), and we'll send you the link to the spreadsheet where we'll be keeping track of all the podfics.

Here are some good places for finding short fics about female characters:
-Awesome Ladies Ficathon (LJ)
-Awesome Ladies Ficathon (DW)
-Real Women Fest
-Female Character Trope Fest
-The Bechdell Test Comment Ficathon
-The Bechdell Test Comment Ficathon II
-I am the Plot, Babe: A Villainess Ficathon
-The Women Being Awesome, Female Characters, and Female Relationships tags at the AO3, sorted by wordcount.

Everyone: Feel free to comment with links to other fests or specific works that you think would be a good fit for this anthology. Even if you're not able to make a podfic right now, maybe you can help someone else find a story they want to record.

Authors: It would be totally awesome if some authors wanted to get involved, in pod_together style, to create short female-centric pieces for the anthology in collaboration with podficcers. If you’re an author who’s interested, please comment below. Podficcers who would like this sort of collaboration, please reply directly to the authors.

Below the cut is a little more information on what we're looking for with these podfics and how they should be submitted.



For the sake of consistency within the anthology, we'd like to ask that everyone follow these guidelines for eligible fics and the metadata you include in the podfic:

-Each reader can make as many podfics as they want, but up to 10 podfics, and each story should be less than 1500 words.
-All stories should focus on characters who identify as women in canon.
-All fandoms, including rpf fandoms, are eligible.
-All recordings should begin and end with two seconds of silence.
-Each reading should begin, "[Title], by [author], read by [reader]. Fandom: [Fandom]." We also suggest including appropriate warnings or content notes for common triggers such as sexual assault and underage sex.
-Each reading should end with "The End".
-To match last year’s anthology, the meta data should follow this format:

Name: [Fandom] Title
Artist: readername (reader)
Album Artist: authorname (author)
Year: 2012
Album: Awesome Ladies Podfic Anthology II
Comments: Text at: http://link
Genre: Podfic
(Note that usernames should be all-lowercase, with fandom and title given title capitalization.)

-All podfics should be submitted in mp3 format by February 12th at midnight Central Standard Time (GMT-6).

Comments

[nickelmountain.livejournal.com]

Thank you for putting this together! I was really hoping there would be another Awesome Ladies anthology this year. Count me in, definitely! I'm fine with PMs, but you can also reach me at nickelmountain(at)mail(dot)com.

Yay!

[sophinisba]

Awesome, thank you!

[xenoamorist.livejournal.com]

Totes interested! PM me or e-mail me at xenoamorist[at]gmail.com.

And omg, I just remembered that I have a set of Toph-centric ficlets that would totally work for this. :DDD!

Also! I would be happy to contribute cover art if you don't already have someone doing that. :)

[bessyboo.livejournal.com]

I'm already on the cover art (or possibly the person who did it last year, depending), but thanks so much for the offer! Yay cover art ^^

[knight-tracer.livejournal.com]

\o/ Sounds great! beexfive @ hotmail . com

[sophinisba]

Thanks, we'll be in touch!

[croissantkatie]

This sounds really awesome! I'd like to be involved. You can either pm me or email me at starkumquat @ aim . com

[sophinisba]

Thank you!

[leish]

Count me in! You can PM me or email me at leishamh at gmail dot com.

eta: is it okay if the fic is a teeny bit longer than 1500 words? Like. 138 words longer?

[sophinisba]

We are going to enforce the 1500-word limit for the anthology, but there's no reason not to record the slightly longer one and post it to halfamoon as well. :)

[dione marie basseri (from livejournal.com)]

-whimpers, big puppy eyes- I'd like to do a fic of mine, from Artemis Fowl, but it's 2,000 words...pleeeeeeeease? Come on; it'll add some variety!

[sophinisba]

Sounds like a great podfic that you should post to halfamoon! But we're sticking with the 1500-word limit for the anthology, sorry.

[spiletta42.livejournal.com]

First, anything of mine is fair game, no further permission needed:

http://www.spiletta.com/jc.html

Secondly, here are some of my favorite short-ish works:

http://archiveofourown.org/works/216595

http://archiveofourown.org/works/67212

http://archiveofourown.org/works/16550

[sophinisba]

Only the first one of those (Sanctuary fandom) would fit the guidelines for this project, but recs and blanket permission are always welcome, so thank you!

[cosmic-llin.livejournal.com]

Yay, exciting! Here are a few of my fics that might fit the bill:

Star Trek:

http://archiveofourown.org/works/81344
http://archiveofourown.org/works/113023
http://archiveofourown.org/works/157971
http://archiveofourown.org/works/209596

Downton Abbey:

http://archiveofourown.org/works/297316

[sophinisba]

Awesome, thank you!

[sophia-gratia.livejournal.com]

Man, I wish I had time to participate! This sounds awesome, and I've been wanting to try podficcing. But for the record, all my stories (http://archiveofourown.org/users/sophiegrace) are fair game. Lots of shorts in there, all ladycentric. ♥

[podklb.livejournal.com]

Can I jump in to encourage you to give participating a shot? It's a great way to start podficcing, since it's relatively low-effort and contributes to something big and awesome that will get a lot of downloads (whereas normally a podfic that was 2–5 minutes long probably wouldn't get a lot of attention). And you can go for short—one of my pieces last year was under a minute. And I am super-slow at making podfic, but even for me, that only took about an hour from start to finish. Most people could probably do it in more like 30 min.

[oohshinyfangirl.livejournal.com]

I'm in! PM is fine or you can email me at oohshinyfangirl(at)gmail(dot)com.

[sophinisba]

Thank you!

[paraka]

Gah! Stupid new LJ layout, I've tried to leave a comment3 times and each time it just thinks about it for a bit and doesn't post. :(

Anyway, I seem to be in a podfic funk where I can't get anything done, maybe doing little podfics like this will help with that. :)

Email is best for me, parakaproductions at gmail dot com

[sophinisba]

Oh bb if it were up to me this would all be happening on Dreamwidth, but alas they did not put me in charge of fandom.

I've been having a lot of fun with these recordings! Hope it goes well for you too. <3

[fresne.livejournal.com]

I would like to participate. I can be emailed at fresne at gmail dot com

for:
Title: Music of the Morning
Words: 476
Pairing: Christine Daae/Meg Giry
text link (http://archiveofourown.org/works/44694)

[cantarina]

Hi Fresne! I'm going to send you the standard welcome info, which includes a link to the spreadsheet, where we'll ask you to submit all of this information. Welcome :D

[sophinisba]

Very happy to have you! PS tell all your friends!

[elipie.livejournal.com]

I'm in for podficcing! PM or e-mail is fine-- email is theatrephunk at gmail dot com.

[sophinisba]

Thank you for joining us!

[applegeuse.livejournal.com]

A little late to the party, but I'd love to join! :) My email is applegeuse [at] gmail [dot] com, but PMs are fine, too.

[sophinisba]

Awesome, cantarina1 will send you the link to the spreadsheet if she hasn't already. :)

[maekala.livejournal.com]

In case anyone is still looking for a fic to record, I just wanted to say that anyone is welcome to podfic the story I wrote for Yuletide this year.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/298395

[cantarina]

Thank you for offering us your story!

[celtic-cookie.livejournal.com]

Okay, yay, I'm done recording and editing and I'm on the spreadsheet...but how do I submit? Just upload and put a link in the spreadsheet?

(this is totally awesome, btw. Completely.)

[cantarina]

Perfectly acceptable to upload it and put that link in the spreadsheet. Huzzah!

(I'm so torn between impatiently downloading everyone's podfic now and waiting properly for the anthology!)

[starduchess.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to get permission to do one from the Gatchaman fandom.

In the meantime, I offer a Minerva, Luna gen piece of mine, if anyone still needs/wants something to podfic: Trust (http://starduchess.livejournal.com/31850.html). Oh, and I have a small Tonks/Ginny from Christmastime: Decorating with Mischief (http://starduchess.livejournal.com/83563.html).

[starduchess.livejournal.com]

I got permission for the Gatchaman story "The Rebirth of Hope". Will be recording over lunch today!

Can we record our own ficlets? I'm thinking I might like to record the Tonks/Ginny one I mentioned before.

[littlemousling]

SO LATE to this post but I'm in if you're still taking people! (I've already recorded and started editing, and have permission and the right format for the intro&exit, no worries). I already have a link to the spreadsheet--should I add the deets to it?

[sophinisba]

Yup, if you've got the spreadsheet link already then go ahead and add your info, and you can post a download link in the last column when you're done.

[heard_the_owl]

I've posted and added to the spreadsheet. <3

[cantarina]

<33

(Even if you did use a pudding icon.)