jocundasykes | 2022 in Review

Towards the end of 2021, I received some bad news, and it’s taken me a long time to pick myself up and come back to fandom properly. I skipped a 2022 review post, so I’ll write two posts for each year.

No pie chart, sadly, as I haven’t been tracking word counts, but I can tell you that my writing was 100% Snarry.

I posted the Somnambulist, a charming 15k Snarry, which I translated. I adapted Light’s So Quite New a Thing into a memefic, which is harder than it looks. Does this count as "writing"? Well, it's certainly not a podfic. I also posted 15k (and have a few more thousand up my sleeve) of Glass Heart, a lovely and dark slavery AU.

I posted 20 podfics, totalling 28 hours. My goal was to ”record 20 podfic hours”, whoops.

I am particularly proud of:

Lush Life and Home Again, Home Again, both by pir8fancier, because they were long multivoices, which is a ridiculous amount of work, and it completes the series. I’d podficced the first story in the trilogy near the beginning of my podfic journey and never considered carrying on with the series. I’m a completionist!

The Politician’s Wife. ALSO by pir8fancier. I’m picking this one because I think I did a really good job of Hermione, and the cover is my favourite to date.

Not counted in my total, obviously, but I also released two audiobooks in 2022 which were 6.5hr and 9.5hrs long. So I haven’t really dropped in terms of audio productivity. It was nerve wracking putting myself out there to be reviewed not only by the public, but by the paying public, customers! Was everyone on AO3 just being nice??? I had nothing to be worried about as audiobook reviewers are very kind. I was shortlisted for an award for one of them, and they have absolutely pushed me into learning new accents. I am certain these new skills will improve my future pods!

I find my rating pie chart amusing:

A review of my 2022 goals

- I have signed up for another 200k Get Your Words Out challenge I was too blindsided to do this, and to be honest I completely forgot that I signed up and must’ve missed every check in

- Translate at least 1 story. Thanks to Bailou I have a shortlist, in order of preference I posted one translation in 2022, I’m so glad Bailou got to read it before she left fandom

- Spend most of my year working on my time travel Snarry Sadly not. I had 0 mojo for this but have been making little notes on my phone for years now.

- Write at least 1 podfic guide YES! I did this. It has 43 kudos!

- Record 20 podfic hours (much less than this year) LOLno

- Sign up for ZERO fests. Except perhaps Voiceteam and Voiceteam Mystery Box. How else is this time travel ever gonna get done?? I have continued to not sign up to fests. Sadly I did not get to do one Voiceteam because I forgot about signups, but I have done all the other Voiceteams. 0 regrets because I’ve thoroughly enjoyed them, made new friends, and learnt new skills/got out of a rut.

- I am only going to podfic authors with blanket permission statements going forwards An interesting goal! In 2022, I did this! Except for perhaps rexluscus? In 2023, I podficced 1 by dracofiend who is super podfic friendly but doesn’t have a statement, and Phantomato, who doesn’t have BP, but TomxEdmund is like a barge-sized ship, so I don’t have the luxury of excluding non-BP authors. No regrets cos it’s a fantastic listen.

I did not make any goals for 2023, which you can probably gather from the fact I wrote this blog post a whole year too late.