Voiceteam 2024 review

[jocundasykes]

 

This year, I was put into Team Purple Puffapods, a team where all of us liked HP, which was fab. I love the HP positive energy. It can get me down when people aren’t encouraging of my projects, which are invariably HP.

For the 3 rounds we came joint first, and I think we were the only team do to all 3 dares (which is a bit like playing on hard mode?) we then came 3^rd in the tiebreaker. For the tiebreaker, we tried to podfic all 100 double drabbles from the HP Saffics Summer Swap and this was great fun to all come together.

I’m reiterating the following for my own records as my memory is so bad. I also wanted to DM some past teammates for help and this list woulda helped me a lot!:

•  VT20 was the first game and it passed me by. I heard about it on Discord but didn’t really understand what it was. I was still finding my feet, writing 40k for Snarry a Thon in March/April, and not in the right headspace to work on a team
•  My first game was MB20. I was on Team Phone with AvidBkWrm, d4td, eafay, justaphage, Mist and rhythmia. Which was confusing because there was another Team Phone in a different year. This is why I totally forgot I was on Team Phone. I didn’t push myself or involve myself in projects. I was a bit overwhelmed, and didn’t really understand multifandom spaces/events (I don’t wanna get points for podding a fandom I’m not in! I want Snape-related points!), had no idea how to do a multivoice, what a filk was, and didn’t understand a lot of in-jokes/references to past games, and felt everyone knew each other. I’m glad I easedinto Voiceteam though because each time I come out my shell a bit more. I made loads of memes and posted 1 podfic. Ouch!
• My 2^nd was VT21 Once Upon a Lime with Akaihyou, Garbage, AvidBkWrm, Eafay, Rindle, Penndragon, Mist, Nrandom, cookiemom. This was the game with Superchallenge. I had a lot more fun. I posted 11 podfics. Some were long.
• MB21 I was on Team Rock with pea, eafay, sisi, Lunatique, Cass Caelis ,Rindle, jellyfishgalaxies. I posted 10 podfics
• VT22 I was with the Dandy Lions – Ravin, GD, pea, Blue, Parry, twtd, sophinisba, aethel, Rhi. 8 podfics! SWAK was 5 hrs, others were 2 hours. So much fun
• MB22 I was on Cosmos with GD, kbirb, Kitt, perry and Vex. 11 podfics!
• VT23 sadly forgot to sign up and couldn’t join late ☹ I posted a 2 hour podfic in May 2023. I think I was also working on audiobooks during this time
•  MB23 Team Cookies with sisi, Ket, boppinrobin, CrimsonMoonn, pea, NotBatman, Yuurei, Chantress, Lena, Aether, DOA, and Garbage. 4 podfics. I’m including Fallen Marigolds, a vid that took me ages, and a nearly 7 hr pod.
• VT24 Team Purple Puffapods with petrodobreva, sweatersinthesummer, peasina, pinklotus9, Rindle, Cailynwrites, thedramionearchives, my_lost_and_found, SerenaEW, Nymphie_Wolf, and Kittona. 32 pods this time, 25 were double drabbles. I also made significant progress on some WIPs thanks again to Rindle.

I was back with Rindle (Lime and Rock), pea (Rock, Dandy Lion and Cookies), and Kitt (Cosmos!)

I thought it was cool that the mods put me back with people I’d been on a team with before, but when listing the games I’ve played so far, I think it would be an achievement for the mods to put us on teams with all new people!

My significant projects or progress includes…:

• The trailer for For Auld Lang Syne. Can’t believe I tried vidding. I was glad to cross ‘make a trailer’ off my list!
• Several hours of progress for Crammer School. Thank u Rindle for your help
•  I started love is touching souls AND Rapture
• I wrote most of In Blood and Bloom, we went from 0 to a 5k podfic in 3 days I think? A Hogwarts era soulmate Drarry
•  I translated a medieval AU Snarry into English. I must get round to posting this

 

For Chip In, I asked 5 authors of fics I admire for a podfic blanket permission statement, which is a bit out of my comfort zone, and 3 said yes! (oh shit) soooo I have updated my Potential Pod list with…:

• Cayce_Morris’s Coffeehouse Jazz
• Helenish’s A Soft Spot for Lots Causes
• Suitesamba’s With Eyes Wide Open

 

 

Comments

[peasina]

Aww, I love that I've been on teams three times with you! <3 Well done on everything you achieved this year, especially the vid!! It's so good :D I'm still so happy for you that you got a HP-positive team!

[jocundasykes]

Same! I have a terrible sense of time passing, it feels like this is our 2nd VT together? I couldn't believe it when I was writing out the list of Voiceteams, thinking I'd double counted a year, because in my mind it's my 3rd or 4th VT. I can't believe it's my 7th. Even now, looking at the list before my eyes, find it hard to believe that I have now done 7. It doesn't feel like 7!

Thank u so much for your cheerleading + enthusiasm for my projects! it has meant a lot as I dont have a whole lot of cheerleaders. I'd LOVE to have a HP team again. (or... HP-positive I should say... cos I want to be on your team again haha)