#ITPE 2020 Dear Podficcer letter
Oct. 5th, 2020 07:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
podcathThree years of no podficcing (not even ITPE, but a new fandom has finally brought me back in, and i'm really ecited. And even more so to get back to ITPE, my favorite podfic event of the year!
Like everyone else, my listening (and reading) habits are very much dependent on mood and things, but with few exceptions I listen to a really wide variety of things (including things I don't know the first thing about the canon...or at least don't know anything until AFTER listening to podfic :)
In previous iterations of this letter I always emphasized how I listen to a lot of different things and like a lot of different fandoms, but mostly I've been focused pretty singularly lately. So here it goes:
Roswell: New Mexico At the moment I live and breathe RNM, and it's the fandom that got me back into podfic. I'm a huge Malex fan, like my aliens to be aliens, and don't hate Maria (or Season 2 for that matter). (What I do hate is excessive character bashing--except Max :)
Vorkosigan This has been the fandom of the several years for me now. I only discovered them a few years ago but have reread all the books several times, and pretty much all the fanfic as well. I just love all the characters, all the pairings, canon and not. I'd love anything in that universe, though I'm pretty trope resistant here (the little that there actually is).
Rivers of London One of the best things after mainlining a new fandom is looking whether there's fic (and more importantly, podfic) for it. And this is one fandom that's absolutely awesome in terms of its output. I certainly like Peter/Thomas, but really, I love all the characters and the world, and I'd be just as happy with a totally gen story.
And here are the fandoms I'll pretty much always be happy to listen to even if I haven't been near the fandom (or even the source texts) in years:
Teen Wolf I've actually been rereading a lot of stories and relistened to nearly anything recorded in this fandom. It's an easy fandom for me to fall back into and I'll always enjoy listening to a good Stiles/Derek story. (Preferably with werewolves, though I enjoy all kinds of good AU versions.)
XMFC Erik/Charles or gen. I love any way in which they overcome their opposition, but AUs are great as well. not a huge fan of no power AUs and I like my Erik to stay Jewish and no one to be meek and/or too nice. DOFP and Apocalypse were fine but I kinda like our myriad versions of them better :)
There are also fandoms, that I'd be happy to receive that are way older, like Dark Angel, Smallville, Generation Kill...
In general, there is little that squicks me (I've had some bad experiences with stories that have had mental disabilities as a central trope, because I'm not good with any huge power differential that could read as abuse, or rather, I need those differentials to be balanced by an inverse emotional balance, if that makes sense--and then it's actually a huge kink for me) though I do not like humor all that much (I'm just a drama/angsty girl and will take heavy plot over both introspection and funny stuff any day).
I have certain tropes I like a lot: roads not taken (i.e., not full on AUs but the ones just one step over, which also means I like my not-quite-humans to remain that way), time travel, multiverse, amnesia, bonds, and what ifs.
I like angst and h/c (though not death) and I like adventures and lots of stuff happening. I'm not as fond of domesticity, fluff, and mpreg/kids. I like my happy endings, but they can be hard won. I do listen to pretty much all pairings, but if I get to wish, then I'll have my OTPs or gen with those guys not being at odds. I don't have any sex squicks, but I don't need any for me to enjoy the fic.
And that sound like a lot, but it's definitely a what I like bestest of all wish list and not at all a a required to make me happy list! I like any and all and I like the simple fact that someone is recording for me. \o/ Yeah!
If you have a question about whether I might like a story or not,knight_tracer has a pretty good sense of what does and doesn't work for me, because we discuss these things at lengths :D Ask her if you're uncertain about a strange fandom or out there fic.
Like everyone else, my listening (and reading) habits are very much dependent on mood and things, but with few exceptions I listen to a really wide variety of things (including things I don't know the first thing about the canon...or at least don't know anything until AFTER listening to podfic :)
In previous iterations of this letter I always emphasized how I listen to a lot of different things and like a lot of different fandoms, but mostly I've been focused pretty singularly lately. So here it goes:
Roswell: New Mexico At the moment I live and breathe RNM, and it's the fandom that got me back into podfic. I'm a huge Malex fan, like my aliens to be aliens, and don't hate Maria (or Season 2 for that matter). (What I do hate is excessive character bashing--except Max :)
Vorkosigan This has been the fandom of the several years for me now. I only discovered them a few years ago but have reread all the books several times, and pretty much all the fanfic as well. I just love all the characters, all the pairings, canon and not. I'd love anything in that universe, though I'm pretty trope resistant here (the little that there actually is).
Rivers of London One of the best things after mainlining a new fandom is looking whether there's fic (and more importantly, podfic) for it. And this is one fandom that's absolutely awesome in terms of its output. I certainly like Peter/Thomas, but really, I love all the characters and the world, and I'd be just as happy with a totally gen story.
And here are the fandoms I'll pretty much always be happy to listen to even if I haven't been near the fandom (or even the source texts) in years:
Teen Wolf I've actually been rereading a lot of stories and relistened to nearly anything recorded in this fandom. It's an easy fandom for me to fall back into and I'll always enjoy listening to a good Stiles/Derek story. (Preferably with werewolves, though I enjoy all kinds of good AU versions.)
XMFC Erik/Charles or gen. I love any way in which they overcome their opposition, but AUs are great as well. not a huge fan of no power AUs and I like my Erik to stay Jewish and no one to be meek and/or too nice. DOFP and Apocalypse were fine but I kinda like our myriad versions of them better :)
There are also fandoms, that I'd be happy to receive that are way older, like Dark Angel, Smallville, Generation Kill...
In general, there is little that squicks me (I've had some bad experiences with stories that have had mental disabilities as a central trope, because I'm not good with any huge power differential that could read as abuse, or rather, I need those differentials to be balanced by an inverse emotional balance, if that makes sense--and then it's actually a huge kink for me) though I do not like humor all that much (I'm just a drama/angsty girl and will take heavy plot over both introspection and funny stuff any day).
I have certain tropes I like a lot: roads not taken (i.e., not full on AUs but the ones just one step over, which also means I like my not-quite-humans to remain that way), time travel, multiverse, amnesia, bonds, and what ifs.
I like angst and h/c (though not death) and I like adventures and lots of stuff happening. I'm not as fond of domesticity, fluff, and mpreg/kids. I like my happy endings, but they can be hard won. I do listen to pretty much all pairings, but if I get to wish, then I'll have my OTPs or gen with those guys not being at odds. I don't have any sex squicks, but I don't need any for me to enjoy the fic.
And that sound like a lot, but it's definitely a what I like bestest of all wish list and not at all a a required to make me happy list! I like any and all and I like the simple fact that someone is recording for me. \o/ Yeah!
If you have a question about whether I might like a story or not,
knight_tracer has a pretty good sense of what does and doesn't work for me, because we discuss these things at lengths :D Ask her if you're uncertain about a strange fandom or out there fic.
