Sophinisba Solis

Also it seems the last time I posted links to my fanworks from here was in July. I know most of my friends who still use this website don't read MCU or listen to podfics but it is nice to talk about things anyway, so.

I made or contributed to many small podfics that you can find on my AO3 page, but I posted one that was a bit more substantial for the Summer Podfic Swap last August:
-The Other Side of the Coin, Steve/Tony D/s AU, explicit, one hour and nine minutes.

And I wrote a fic, posted in January:
-Stardust, Tony-centric Potts-Stark family gen, 6000 words.

ETA: Wait and I also wrote another fic in October:
-live through this (and maybe prosper mix), Natasha-centric Endgame AU, rated teen, 1200 words.
/ETA

Still lots of Tony feels around here, can't say I've really moved on! I have two other Tony fics I've been trying to finish for ages, one currently at about 5K and the other at 8K. And another 3K that I mean to be Pepper/Natasha but I keep accidentally writing about Tony instead.

Another fannish New Year's Resolution I made but didn't post about here was that I'd write at least 100 words of fic at least once a week. I stuck to that until last week, and then I came back and did it again (just barely) last night. But I don't feel close to finishing anything, or confident that people will want to read them. For example, that 8K fic is for a request that a fannish aquaintance made at an exchange two years ago; that person continues to participate in exchanges but has stopped requesting these characters.

I was also doing okay at plugging away slowly at a large podfic project but have also fallen behind on that the last couple weeks, and again it's not like a lot of people are clamoring to hear it.

And as for myself I haven't much been consuming fanworks in recent months. I've left off my habit of reading fic before bed – for a while was reading published ebooks but the last couple weeks I've been trying to turn off all electronic devices a good hour before my bedtime. So I just read a paper book and it often sends me to sleep real quick. I haven't been finishing a lot of books either! (But I did finish one today! Maybe I will also make a books post this week!)

I'm doing fine though.

I haven't looked at the AO3 since seeing Spider-Man yesterday. To be honest I'm a bit afraid to, because if I know fandom there won't be a lot of engagement with how recent events have affected Ned and MJ, and that will make me sad. But also maybe I'll feel inspired to make something, and that can be a great feeling.

I have finished three books since my last books post two weeks ago, two of them just today. One was for work so I won't tell you about it. The other two were a Black Panther comic book and the novel Transcendent Kingdom.

( Black Panther )

( Transcendent Kingdom )

I wrote another ficlet, this time in the form of five drabbles:
-See what's in front of you, MCU/Iron Man, Pepper/Tony/Rhodey, 500 words, general audiences (but kind of sad).

I also did another podfic:
-night shift, MCU/Captain America, Sam/Steve, 9 minutes, general audiences, fluffy AU written by my old friend glim.

I've been doing the old morning pages since July 1st and that's been fun. Actually writing in a notebook with a pen and without a goal. Since I haven't been working lately and I've had that as the first thing I do after brewing the coffee and feeding the cats, I've been feeling happier waking up than I had in months or possibly years.

I read three good nonfiction books by Black American men in the last few weeks. ( Kiese Laymon, James Baldwin, Ta-Nehisi Coates, plus other current reading )

I have again gone seven weeks since my last book post but am managing to post on a Wednesday! I have finished just three books since then, one I won't talk about and also Educated by Tara Westover which was good and Pachinko by Min Jin Lee which was GREAT.

Books I have read parts of but may not finish include Crooked Hallelujah by Kelli Jo Ford, The Mothers by Brit Bennett, and an audiobook of Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison.

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I participated in voiceteam Mystery Box, which started on Dec. 26thish and ended a couple hours ago. I rejoined Team Red Out Loud, and we won! This was pretty awesome, as in May, with lots of collaboration both on multivoice podfics and on all kinds of other things. As in May, I got stressed out at times but also loved being on a team with other people who were focused on winning. These last two weeks I realized I was especially stressed out by challenges that involved making things other than podfic, so, idk, it was good that other people were up for it. ngl I really liked winning, even though I didn't contribute to the tiebreaker challenge we did the last few days.

Here are the podfics I made for the challenge, many of them in collaboration with teammates. They are all rated General Audiences or Teen and are less than 20 minutes. As in May/June, I'm not up for explaining and coding everybody else's names but you can see them on the AO3.
-she's waiting for me (just across the bar), MCU: Maria Hill/Natasha Romanov
-The Fear of Not Trying, MCU: Peter & Tony, written by a teammate for this challenge, with cover art by a teammate
-Tolls Paid, Elementary: Joan/Sherlock
-your quiet afternoon crush , MCU: Peter/MJ, with voices by several teammates and cover art by a rival
-Is that a cat in your pocket?, MCU: Tony & Rhodey, with another voice and cover art by teammates
-the winding path, MCU: Sam/Steve
-The Prompt Machine: IronFalcon podfics b, MCU: Tony/Sam, a set of three podficlets with covers by a teammate and two rivals, and with audio editing on one of them by a rival!

Also for Voiceteam, I wrote a Carol Danvers/Maria Rambeau ficlet, Follow Your Star, that a teammate recorded.

I also contributed voice parts to these other short podfics that my teammates organized!
-'My Drunk Kitchen' is Not a DIY Show, Texts from Last Night: original female characters
-Conversations with Carpenter, Alice (Syfy): Carpenter & various
-lightheaded, The Untamed: Yanli/Wen Qing (This one's super great!)
-An Invitation, Wonder Woman 1984: Diana/Barbara
-Where in the World is "Where in the World"?, Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego/Sesame Street: Elmo-centric
-The Snowstorm Variations, Leverage: Eliot/Parker/Hardison

Meanwhile, the Informal Twitter Podfic Exchange was exchanged and revealed! I decided not to participate in the exchange this year but I did make an extra treat:
-Hair is Everything , MCU: Tony & Natasha, 31 minutes.

And I tried to put a 2020 podfic year in review post in here but it is too much! I will try again soon. <3

I mentioned in a post from two weeks ago that I hadn't made podfic in a few months. However, I did have a podfic that I'd made in May go public last week, hooray!

Back at the end of the Voiceteam challenge in May my team started a game of Podfic Broken Telephone, which is where one person records a podfic and passes it on to one other person, who records a podfic inspired by the first one, then passes it on to a third person and so on. My teammate blackglass recorded a soft dad feelings Mandalorian podfic and then I recorded a soft dad feelings Tony Stark podfic and then there were some different family feelings then it veered around to courting and marriage, passing through six different fandoms! There were some delays along the way but we did wrap it up and then make everything public last week and then I forward-dated mine in hopes people would see it, though really it doesn't make much difference because who listens to podfic. But anyway here is the collection:
-WhispeRED Out Loud: A Podfic Broken Telephone Challenge
-and my contribution Improvement, written by laireshi, Tony & Morgan, 9 minutes

That was a nice bit of Voiceteam nostalgia, though I hadn't really seen that it was happening because I hadn't been on Discord.

Then a couple hours ago the Voieceteam mods announced that they would run a shorter challenge around the end of the year, and you could sign up as a group or sign up individually and have the mods assign you. Since then thirteen people have signed up: one mod, five people signing up as individuals, and SEVEN MEMBERS OF TEAM RED OUT LOUD. I love us, yay!

Anyway, you should consider signing up, as voiceteam is very newbie friendly and a nice way of meeting new people and trying new things.

Meanwhile I have asked for and been granted permission to record a few things in the last two weeks. Tonight I started recording one of them and to be honest it's been rough going. Just hard to get sentences out! And some noises in my house and my neighborhood. But still fun to be giving it a try again, and I'm really looking forward to Voiceteam Mystery Box.

I was in two long Schitt's Creek podfics for pod_together, which posted, er, almost three months ago.

One I had helped to organize, asking thingswithwings if they would like to write something for me to record in the fest and then bringing in two other podfic friends, olive2read and growlery. It ended up being more than three and a half hours of Alexis/Stevie/Twyla, with each of us three readers doing a few chapters by a different POV character. I loved reading the Alexis ones and Ollie did a wonderful job editing and it is a fabulous project, which you can read or listen to as you prefer: Girl Boss Destiny.

I also pitched in a few lines as Twyla for an Alexis/Ted story/podfic written by DoubleL27 and podficced mainly by Amanita_Fierce, sunlightsymphony and ships_to_sail. This one came out to a little less than three hours and is called Something You Keep.

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IT WOULD BE GREAT IF MORE FANFIC AUTHORS WOULD POST PODFIC PERMISSION ON THEIR AO3 PROFILES. That would be really lovely.

So, in general, being a married person I usually end up watching shows my partner and I agree on, but we don't really agree on any shows at the moment, and also (as explained in locked entries) I've recently had occasion to spend a lot of time lying in bed/on the couch, so I've watched a little more TV on my own and that's been kind of fun.

( a bunch of TV shows )

( also movies )

This past month I kept up some of my momentum from voiceteam and posted these seven podfics:

-The body heroic., MCU, Peter/Tony, 56 minutes, explicit.

-So Strong As Gentleness , Star Wars sequels, Finn/Rey, 7 minutes, mature.

-If The Bones Are Good (The Rest Don't Matter), MCU, Bucky/Shuri, 11, minutes, explicit.

-Five Times Bruce and Val Thought Maybe They Were Meant to Be , MCU, Bruce/Valkyrie, 5 minutes, teen. (Multivoice podfic featuring blackglass as Valkyrie.)

-Breaking Point, MCU, Peter/Tony, 2 hours 15 minutes, explicit.

-This I Know, Sugar , MCU, Sam/Steve, 26 minutes, teen. (Multivoice podfic featuring olive2read as Sam and Chantress as Natasha.)

-People Who Have Managed to Stay Alive, MCU, Sam/Steve, 2 hours 3 minutes, general audiences.

I posted the last two as part of SamSteve Vacation Week, a little no-commitment AU fest that's running this week leading up to Steve's birthday on the 4th of July. So if you're a fan of that ship, check out the collection and consider contributing to it!

I want to point out that the second Peter/Tony and the second Sam/Steve are each over two hours, putting them among the longest podfics I've ever made! I am really proud of both of them too, the Peter/Tony because I think my reading is pretty awesome, and the Sam/Steve because I put in a lot of extra effort with editing music and such. They are also both quite romantic! I've loved both fics since I read them last summer and am excited to have the podfics out in the world. \o/

With all that done, I'm thinking of taking a break from podfic for most of July and trying to write some fics, or maybe even read some books or something, idk. OTOH it might be fun to record something else for the Sam/Steve fest, or I might do some more F/M podfic because I like to keep something of a numerical balance between my F/F, F/M, M/M, and gen fanworks (even though my podfics skew overwhelmingly towards the dudes if we count by length). I will be working on a long femslash project for pod_together, but that's still being written and I probably won't start recording until toward the end of this month.

One more thing: yesterday Rhea314 posted Discredit & Sequel, a massively multivoice 30-minute Good Omens podfic for which I recorded a line or two at last October's podfication. Multivoice podfics are fun to listen to and you should give this a try!