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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

In early January, I participated in Voiceteam Mystery Box in Team Cookies. We came 3rd! I shared a team with PolynomialPandemic, Aether, Chantress, Notbatman, Yuurei, horchata, peasina, sisi_rambles, aliteralgarbageheap, CrimsonMoonn, and LenaLawlipop.

For the Finish Line challenge, I finished my podfic Endgame, and compiled the mp3s into an audiobook file for mp3. For about a year I had most chapters embedded as a stream into the fic ao3 post itself. I’m so glad to have finished it up! My stumbling block was an awful ”Error Your computer disk is unwriteable”, where I couldn’t copy and paste the audio or save. I had a bunch of files with ”USE” ”USE THIS IS THE ONE” and I was too scared to delete anything in case my files corrupted. UGH

I slightly reduced my to-pod list by doing:

Love’s Curse, written by Dracofiend. This is almost a sister fic to my pod Sine Qua Non, but reversed, and remaining in Harry’s POV. I recall discovering it by accident on Livejournal and being SO HAPPY! thankfully Dracofiend has since crossposted it to AO3. I hope more people will now discover it.
Speaking of underrated, I also podficced Can’t Take the Sky by Cluegirl. Weirdly it has 297 Kudos. WHY? I discovered it via an ancient rec list, several years ago. Since then I have seen a bunch of people rec it via Reddit, so it’s on people’s radars. WHY SO FEW KUDOS, PEOPLE. Cluegirl also has blanket permission! yay! I podficced this for the Present challenge. Occasionally on my to-pod list, I write potential giftee names. For instance, if I know they’d love it. In this column, for some reason, I wrote ”Gift for Paraka?” For those of you who don’t know Paraka, she has been around a long time in the podfic corner of fanspace, and she offers (or offered) podfic hosting via her website, so if you listen to a variety of podficcers you must have seen a lot of URLs containing her username. I must have stumbled across her requesting a Cluegirl Snarry pod, or THIS fic, in a gift exchange website, or potentially on a LJ comm like HP Podfic Fest, at a time when I was scouring it for authors who had forgotten to add their name to fplslist.org. Anyway this fic is dark, (yet GREAT! everyone should listen!) and I found out near the end that dear Scarlet1989 aka emeraldlove died, so.... probably a good pod to do after the shitty news. She was super supportive of my pods.
18 months ago I asked for permission to podvid Fallen Marigolds. Luendland kindly assented and then I felt bad for 18 months. I had no idea where to start. Thankfully, Voiceteam had a challenge, The One That Got Away, where you could do a challenge from previous years that you didn’t do at the time. So I did PODVID, for a juicy 75 points, and, using Powerpoint(??), somehow managed to cobble it together. Honestly I'm still kinda shocked that it worked. Unfortunately the artwork is done in such a way that I couldn’t easily crop it, to fit the proportions of a landscape video, so I had to do some panning down, which was, errrr, interesting. That’s why I couldn’t use video editing software since they all wanted to zoom in and pan at the same time, instead of being zoomed in, and panning. Nightmare. I had to get the exact milliseconds from the audio track, and display the slide for the exact amount of time, and get the panning to that same amount too. I’ll say it again. NIGHTMARE! I’m really proud I did it, though. The comic is super. And the artwork for this one is splendid.

Those were all my HP fanworks. Not bad for 5 days of challenges!

I did a couple of other projects:

I'm proud of this one... within the space of 30 mins I read lyrics, heard a youtube video, and somehow produced a filk! Definitely a record for me. Written by my teammate Aether, she would get points for writing the words, so I managed to squeeze this in before the deadline. Tamlin is a Feyre/Tamlin filk.
Not a fanwork, but I directed Pea, who read the beginning of my fic In the Web. It was loads of fun, a highlight for me. I think I'm going to add more interiority to this fic. I like it, but it's lacking something
I was an outraged voice in Gummy Cooks Ramen. The editing in this is masterful
Somehow I ended up as Jason from the Good Place, of which his Floridian accent was an interesting test.
I read some poetry in the delightful Podfic: 'L'après-midi de Chapman' by houndsoflove podded by peasina.
And lastly, I was Tom Barnaby in A Matter of Fête, a Midsomer Murders fanwork.

Somehow I didn't end up making 50 memes as usual. It was a great way to spend a week off from work, a much-needed break.

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