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fandomaid is hosting an auction to raise funds for areas affected by Hurricane Sandy. Bidding starts immediately, and ends at 4pm CST November 29th. I'm offering one podfic of up to 5000 words, but for a donation of $50 or more I'll raise that limit to 15,000 words. You can find my offer here. 

This is a podfic-friendly auction, but the language of it is less overtly so than it was for Somalia, or than other similar auctions I've participated in. As such, it's leaning very fic-heavy at the moment. I would really, really love to bid on some podfic - if any other podficcers on my flist are up for it, you should totally consider posting an offer! 

Oh my god you guys, manifesty made cover art for my podfic of The 80/20 Theory As  Applied to Cats on the Bed. You guys, it's beautiful. Just look at it.

manifesty does gorgeous work with cover art. The images zhe chooses and hir attention to light and color are amazing. I highly recommend looking through hir tumblr, Podfic Covers. 

I'm taking this excuse to repost this podfic with updated links (previously it was only available as an m4a - long, boring story that boils down to my general cluelessness). If you'd like this podfic in a more normal file format, and/or if you'd like a copy with some amazing cover art attached, the links are posted below!


Title: The 80/20 Theory As Applied to Cats on the Bed
Author: lazulisong
Cover Artist: manifesty
Fandom: Star Trek reboot
Pairing: James T. Kirk/Spock (Gen)
Length: 00:27:04
File Size: 39.2MB (mp3) | 14.1MB (m4b)
Summary: Captain Kirk is kind of like a cat, if by that you mean 'shameless bed hog.' This wasn't something Kirk had intended to find out.
Won by ruka_nanjou in the help_japan lightning round. Author's Notes and Reader's Notes included.

Just a quick signal boost for the fund_jcollins auction, which closes tomorrow at 1pm EST!

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The Jim Collins Foundation raises money to fund gender-confirming surgeries for those transgender people who need surgery to live a healthy life, but have no ability to pay for it themselves. We recognize that for those people who require surgery for a healthy gender transition, lack of access to surgery may result in hopelessness, depression, and sometimes, suicide. The Jim Collins Foundation is a community-based initiative promoting the self-determination and empowerment of all transgender people"

There are a lot of great offers up over there, including a handful of podfics. The podfic offering thread is here.

I'm offering a podfic of a fic up to 5,000 words, which I'm willing to split between as many as 3 fics. My offering is here!

Hats off to keenquing for getting this auction started, and to tinypinkmousefor stepping in to help with the mod duties and keeping this auction alive!

I can't believe I keep forgetting to do this! Thank you to brynspikess for the lovely shiny v-gift!

I only have one class on Tuesdays, so I wanted to spend today avoiding my homework by recording the fic I chose for chromatic_podfic. That's due March 2nd, and if I wait much longer it'll get crowded out by the 40 page paper that's due later that week. Which I haven't started writing yet. Which totally isn't my fault. Which I actually had to have a meeting about with people at my school, and they agreed it wasn't my fault. SO THERE.

*ahem* Anyway. IN ADDITION to an un-started 40 page paper, a short presentation, and two midterms in the next two weeks, I'm working on my chromatic_podfic, a podfic for crinklysolution for scarleteenfans, and my podficbigbang. In addition to three or four other podfics in various stages of planning and/or completion.

And! Hey! You can still win my podficcing services in support of Planned Parenthood at fandom_helps! Bidding is open until 11:30 EST TONIGHT! And despite the dubious state of affairs described in the last paragraph, I actually have a pretty fast turnaround time on podfics won in charity auctions. Two weeks to a month, usually. (Just, um, not the next two weeks. Probably.)

I also still have a podfic up for auction at fund_jcollins. That auction closes on March 7th.

Also, I talked about The Walking Dead in my last post, and then watched the most recent episode...I really can't endorse that show. It has such an incredible look to it, but the content is pretty fucking misogynistic. And not in an intelligent, meta-textual, commenting-on-human-nature kind of way. It's not that humanity collapses and the survivors revert to base primate behavior...it's just dumb. The amount of time I can forestall disappointment in a bad show is directly proportional to how excited I was about it before it aired, and The Walking Dead finally crossed that line for me. It's been too dumb for too long.

Oh hey, I realized I started a thought like five paragraphs ago and never finished it. I was going to record podfic today. But instead I'm drinking hot tea and Emergen-C and downing cold medicine that makes me do loopy things like get distracted mid-paragraph and wander into a monologue about zombies apropos of completely nothing (as you do)...

I think I'd better get out of this post while I still can. TL;DR: I have a cold. That's all I really meant to say. That, and thank you to brynspikess, whose v gift was a pleasant and welcome surprise last week.

I have two more podfics up for grabs at two separate auctions on DW. Both auctions need more participants. I didn't win any of my bids at scarleteenfans , so I'm still itching to buy some podfic for a good cause! Come join in! (For those of you non-podfic people on my flist, there are plenty of other non-podfic options at both sites, too.)

Title & Link to Text: Don't Tell
Author: penknife
Fandom: Stargate SG1
Pairing: Jack/Sara, Jack/Original Male Character
Rating: Gen 
File Size/Length: 17.8MB || 00:19:23
Summary: It's been a long 30 years.
mp3

Won by cantarina1 for fandomaid.

The lightning round is open over at help_japan , and I'm offering another podfic here.

As before, I'm putting up a podfic of up to 5000 words in SPN, Fringe, T:SCC, BSG, Inception, Star Trek, Jossverse, or pretty much any other mutually agreed upon fandom. Bidding ends May 8th.