general details in dear creator letter, including likes and do-not-wants

dear podficcer,

i'thank you for making something for me! i'm sure i'll love it regardless of what you do, because you're making me a thing and that's really great! also i like a whole bunch of different things, see: my bookmarks.

but also i just really, really love podfic. i love listening to someone tell me a story that they have put a little bit of themselves into. i love audio as a format. i love transformative works. i am so, so excited for whatever it is you make.

i love traditional podfic, but if you'd like to take this as an opportunity to try something new, i'd be delighted.

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dear writer! thank you for writing me fic! i'm sure i'll love it regardless of what you do, because you're making me a thing and that's really great! also i like a whole bunch of different things, see: my bookmarks.

i have a generic letter i reuse for exchanges here which has my Do Not Wants, Please Warn Fors, stuff that's not a dealbreaker but slavoj-zizek-meme I Would Rather Not, and then a whole bunch of stuff i like. please feel free to disregard all of it except the DNWs, and i would appreciate a heads up for anything that's a PWF.

some more Generic Thoughts:
-if you want to write something set in ~These Unprecedented Times~ go for it, my one request is that we pretend that pandemic hockey is not happening and has never happened, for my sanity. feel free to write about events from this current season or last year's playoffs, just, idk. pretend COVID isn't a thing. pretend it was but we got it under control already. pretend the games were delayed until things were safe(r). whatever you wish.

-canon fic is great and cool but if you want to write an AU, please do!!! i have a whole section on my dear creator letter about it

-i have discussion of diets/exercise regimens/body maintenance/weight management/etc as a general Do Not Want and it applies especially much for hockey, particularly re: the intense scrutiny and maintenance of a particular body. obviously, Sports, so i know it comes up a lot, but i'd really appreciate you avoiding explicit details and/or discussion.

-generally i would prefer that non-famous WAGs or family members are not major characters. this isn't a hard DNW because sometimes i'm fine with it, but it's a tricky line for me to define.

-i really do not enjoy power imbalances in romantic &/ sexual relationships and would prefer to have just. none of that. sometimes i am up for subverting inherent power imbalances (eg player/captain, subject of hero worship/hero worshipper) but again, tricky line.

-i love ensemble gen, i love polycules, i love complex and interrelated networks of relationships. i love this especially in hockey with the team dynamics, so if you are moved in this direction i am WITH you.

Carter Hart/Carey Price
-soul...bond??? i just feel like it would be particularly delightful for them
-goalie nesting. i always want more goalie nesting.
-carey does roping. that is all.
-long-distance friendship/flirtationship/fuckbuddyship/relationship
-anything social media related. the mortifying ordeal of maintaining a snap streak. accidental(?) thirst trap selfies.
-sex bets.

Travis Konecny/Nolan Patrick/Ivan Provorov
-god just any of the ot3 tropes here. there's a section on the dear creator letter for it
-especially: provy and patty are fuckbuddies, then patty starts dating tk and provy assumes the hooking up will stop, but tk is cool with it so maybe not??
-oh i would also love a soulbond au where two of them are soulmates but the three of them are all dating anyway, fuck destiny.
-i'm literally always thinking about how patty and provy won a cup together when they were babies on the wheat kings. what if they had a thing in juniors that they're both totally over, except for how they aren't at all, and tk finds out when he starts dating patty and tries to get patty and provy back together.
-this is an extremely niche prompt but: au where tk is a ranger who does wildlife tours, and patty&provy are the only people who turned up for this session.
-future fic where they're vets taking care of the rookies together
-mutual tender caretaking

Philadelphia Flyers Ensemble/Philadelphia Flyers Ensemble
-this could be like, team orgies, or they're all dating each other in various combinations, or both. both would be GREAT.
-this doesn't have to include like, every single flyer. it is more the Idea of the whole team fucking &/ dating in various combinations that enchants me.
-talk to me about the Logistics. managing this many relationships is hard! is there a google calendar? is there technically a date night schedule but no one remembers to check it/only some people do? do A/B/C bicker over who gets to spend time with D and D's like, sigh, i'm gonna go hang with E, who they aren't dating (or aren't dating YET)
-just give me all the relationship negotiation basically.

Travis Konecny/Oskar Lindblom/Nolan Patrick
-powerpuff line! my heart for an actual powerpuff AU!
-once again, any ot3 trope would delight me
-especially: patty tries to help tk get with lindy while pining, and tk tries to help patty get with lindy while pining
-swords&sorcery fantasy au where they're adventurers
-future fic where they're vets taking care of the rookies together
-mutual tender caretaking

Claude Giroux/Carter Hart
-just gonna quote my letter from last year
-claude telling carter "you're not fucking mike smith out here" murder me
-claude giroux, overgrown child in charge of a team of children, only the responsible one by comparison. smirky angel-faced franchise-saviour venom-mask-wearing certer hert. chaos??? chaos.
-if you wanted to take a veteran/rookie trope and subvert it that'd be ace. if you wanted to write them as just another two players that'd be ace
-i did have a thought about a rookie/veteran kneeling au where carter doesn't get a lot out of kneeling but claude gets a lot out of someone kneeling for him, and when carter realises, it turns into like, a ~topping from the ~bottom kinda thing

Joel Farabee/Shayne Gostisbehere
-i am still goddamn thinking about that picture of ghost choking beezer out. please write me all the fic about it. a kneeling au maybe??
-ghost seems extremely soft and harmless i just feel like he and joel "young beezer" farabee would be delightful together.
-joel dogsitting / joel using ghost's dogs as a reason to keep coming over to hang out

Claude Giroux/Wayne Simmonds
-i got into the flyers after simmer was traded but i'm so emotional about them being vets on the team for so long then being cruelly separated and now simmer's playing for his hometown team and thriving and i just? don't even go here but i have a lot of feelings basically
-breakup/makeup, getting back together after years apart (maybe post retirement?)
-long-distance friendship/flirtationship/fuckbuddyship/relationship
-au where the trade never happened and they're team dads together
-they're both actual dads! i would love fic about them being actual dads together! background relationships with/appearances from their actual wives would be fine in this case.

Joel Farabee/Morgan Frost
-still not over "morgan makes me venmo him just to talk"
-still thinking about that time morgan was kneeling on the ice in front of joel and another flyer WHY didn't i save the picture
-youth pastor dj joel farabee
-would love something where joel is like, performatively horny about morgan as a joke, NOT in a homophobic way but in that way queers can have where we jokingly hit on our pals just because it's fun. at first morgan just thinks he likes the attention (again, not in an obnoxious straight dude way) BUT THEN he realises he just likes joel, who is having a similar realisation about morgan. BUT THEY BOTH THINK THE OTHER ONE STILL THINKS IT'S A JOKE!!

Carter Hart/Travis Konecny
-tk being an absolute pest to carter when he was playing against him in that scrimmage? tell me ALL about it
-equally tell me all about tk tenderly holding carter's helmet after games. they contain multitudes
-monsterfucker carter/monster travis
-oh mutual tender caretaking here too for sure
-king carter/lionheart travis

Oliver "Banksy" Banks/Carter Hart/Andrew "Knuckles" Knackstedt
-i. don't know what to say here whoops
-all you need to know is that banksy is a very zoomy goalie and knuckles is a fighty enforcer type and i simply think it would be wonderful for them to date carter hart.
-i guess it would also be useful to know that they do not actually exist irl. they play for the also fictitious team The Hometown Chinchillas, a team of gay himbo disasters, and i love them.

back to general details in dear creator letter, including likes and do-not-wants

dear podficcer,

i'd just like to reiterate: thank you for making something for me! i'm sure i'll love it regardless of what you do, because you're making me a thing and that's really great! also i like a whole bunch of different things, see: my bookmarks.

but also i just really, really love podfic. i love listening to someone tell me a story that they have put a little bit of themselves into. i love audio as a format. i love transformative works. i am so, so excited for whatever it is you make.

i love traditional podfic, but if you'd like to take this as an opportunity to try something new, i'd be delighted.

some things i'm up for:
-oral notfic
-audio-first works
-non-standard source mediums (see out of the auditary)
-experimental styles of performance and production
-creative interpretations of the text
-integration of music and sound effects
-podfics of things which have been recorded by others
-podfics of things i have recorded
-podfics of things i have written

requested fandoms
Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses, All For The Game - Nora Sakavic, The Old Guard (Movie 2020), Men's Hockey RPF

fe3h
-felix/sylvain
-catherine/shamir
-claude/various golden deer
-edelgard/dorothea
-blue lions gen

but i'm up for pretty much anything except teacher/student ships.

aftg
-renee/allison
-dan/renee/allison
-neil/andrew

the old guard
-nile&andy&joe&nicky gen or polycule (booker&qunyh can come too)
-nile/andy
-joe/nicky
-joe/nicky/others

men's hockey
-any permutation of tyson barrie/nate mackinnon/gabe landeskog
-jt compher/tyson jost(/alexander kerfoot)
-travis konecny/nolan patrick
-alexander ovechkin/nicklas backstrom
-brock boesser/elias pettersson
-nate bastian/mikey mccleod
-auston matthews/freddie andersen
-william nylander/anyone
-dylan strome/anyone

i'm up for most other ships if the story is tropes i like, but no penguins or stars + nothing involving patrick kane.

ages and ages ago, frecklebombfic hosted a self rec meme for podfic that is either original fiction, or can be consumed as original fiction, ie there is no canon context required to understand the story. they recced some of their own podfics, which you should 3000% listen to they are all amazing, and so did a bunch of other people, including me! i meant to crosspost here, and now i finally am [checks notes] eight months later.

( everyone loves some recs right )

it's that time of year again folks! podfic_bingo is open for signups. here's my card:

Write and record your own story	Record Standing Up	Unfamiliar Pairing	Breathplay	Art & Craft
Dialogue-only	Harlequin	Higher Pitch Effect	Read Loudly	Whisper
Lower Pitch Effect	Read Deadpan	FREE SPACE	No Editing	Non-English Language
Use a Speed Effect Wet	Unfamiliar Genre	Crossover/Fusion	Nonlinear story Try an Accent	Read A Friend’s Fic
Read Quietly	Restrained	Angst	Fairy Tale	Record in a New Location

bingo!! here's my new card:

Multiple POVs	Sing	Incorporate Music	Try an Accent	Character Voices
No Editing	Incorporate Verbal Effects	2+ Hours Long	Sensory Play	Meta
Higher Vocal Range	Character of Colour	FREE SPACE	Child Character	Different Source Medium
Splice Fics Together	Incorporate Physical Sound	<10 Minutes Long	Record Original Fic	Try something new (for you)
Repod a Podfic	Collaborate with one or more podficcers	No Scenario (not!podfic/freeform/meta)	Epistolary	Femslash

dear writer,

thank you for writing me fic! i'm sure i'll love it regardless of what you do, because you're making me a thing and that's really great! also i like a whole bunch of different things, see: my bookmarks.

i also have a more general letter i reuse for exchanges with likes and Do Not Wants and AUs and all that jazz. i don't mind receiving anything categorised as a Please Warn For, i would just rly appreciate a heads up before going in.

now for some thoughts on the ships i requested! i am always a slut for team ensemble gen and/or polycules and/or background relationships, so if that is where your heart lies PLEASE gimme all of that.

nico hischier/travis konecny/nolan patrick
-tk and nico hooked up at the asg and facetimed nolan about it, change my mind (this is just a statement of truth do not feel like you have to write it)
-love a straightforward triad or a V but also LOVE a complicated polyam setup. LOVE relationship negotiation
-established nico/nolan and tk/nolan, travis and nico bond/conflict over the differences in their relationship with nolan
-travis and nico start dating and nolan absolutely isn't jealous of both of them
-tk is trying to help nolan get with nico while pining and nico is trying to help nolan get with tk while pining
-tk&nolan are fuckbuddies, and tk assumes it'll stop when nolan starts dating nico, but nolan keeps hooking up with him and nico's cool with it so maybe not??

mat barzal/travis konecny
-asg shenanigans (tell me everything. or don't. whatever you're feeling)
-but also it just makes so much SENSE. they're both chatty handsy dramatic giggly weirdos who love The Boys
-mat has slutty summer holiday hangs with dante fabbro and tyson jost and i'm just saying it could be fun/agonising if mat invited tk out this summer.
-long-distance friendship/flirtationship/fuckbuddyship/relationship
-anything social media related. the mortifying ordeal of maintaining a snap streak. accidental(?) thirst trap selfies.
-sex bets.
-feel free to include as much or as little as you'd like about the isles. outside of mat i am mostly indifferent to them, though i am very charmed by tito.
-which: tk and mat bonding(/boning) over having unrequited feelings for their best friends. i'd still want it to be mat/travis endgame even if those feelings turn out to actually be mutual

ivan provorov/nolan patrick
-they knew each other as BABIES on the wheat kings?? they won a cup together????
-provy beaming in the pictures of nolan at practices: deeply hurtful to me personally.
-they're pining?? nolan thinks provy is too beautiful and not-gremliny for him and provy thinks nolan and tk are dating and is determinedly not jealous??
-(alternatively: nolan and tk ARE dating and tk keeps telling nolan that provy is into him but nolan thinks tk's full of shit) (he isn't wrong) (provy is just also into him)
-break up/make up where they had a thing in juniors and they're both telling themselves they're fine being friends and teammates now but they also definitely have Feelings
-one of my favourite favourite things is people taking care of each other. do with that what you will.

travis konecny/nolan patrick
-they're in love?? they're in love.
-would also extremely be up for queerplatonic tk/nolan
-literally anything oh my god they have ruined my life
-imagine them having to fake date each other. i might actually explode and so would they
-patty knows travis is into him, but travis isn't weird about it, so patty doesn't mind. he's definitely not obsessed with it. he just wonders, hypothetically, if tk would ever kiss him, how far nolan, hypothetically, would have to push.
-t e n d e r n e s s
-we have explored the toews thing, but have we explored the toews thing enough. in this essay i will

claude giroux/carter hart
-"you're not fucking mike smith out here" murder me
-claude giroux, overgrown child in charge of a team of children, only the responsible one by comparison. smirky angel-faced franchise-saviour venom-mask-wearing certer hert. chaos??? chaos.
-i am rly not about power differentials in general BUT if you wanted i would enjoy acknowledging the inherent power imbalance + then totally subverting it. g is a bratty sub and you cannot change my mind
-if you wanted to take a veteran/rookie trope and subvert it that'd be ace. if you wanted to write them as just another two players that'd be ace
-wacky hijinks. the flyers getting up to various nonsense with g and carter at the centre of it would absolutely thrill me.
-goalie nesting!!! there is never enough of this.
-i'm usually uncomfy with non-famous significant others as major characters HOWEVER i could definitely be here for claude and ryanne still being married and that being part of the fic. open marriages! polyamory! just no romantic and/or sexual ryanne/carter pls

back to dear creator letter

nb: i have more to say about some of the ships i requested than others but rest assured i love and desire fic for all of them incredibly much.

gabe landeskog/nate mackinnon/tyson barrie: ot3est of ot3s. they are all three of them my favourite avs because how could i choose between them. gabe, beautiful dramatic charming assholish weirdo, captain of my entire heart and also every single av's. everything about #GetGabeIn was designed to hurt me personally. nate, Determined To Do Well, Sid's My Best Friend Actually, Works Hard And Gets Results, kinda shy but with bucketloads of (earned) confidence though less than he had when he rocked up to the avs locker room at seventeen and told everyone to call him dogg (i ADORE HIM) (THAT'S THE DOGG, HE'S JUST NAUGHTY). and tyson, passionate about the lava cake, a truly genuine and sincere and lovely dude, flirting CONSTANTLY with any and everyone, an absolute disaster in front of a camera except for that time he was silent for an entire practice. god. that deserves a whole post of its own.

ANYWAY. i love the dynamics they have with each other as pairs, and the three of them work so well together as a triad!! established relationship? a+. the three of them getting together? a+. two of them are together and the other one is pining after them? a+.

ryan graves/mark barberio: i just. adore these two. big nervy giggly liar gravy and sweet chill smiley barbs!! so much potential and so little ground covered. go wild. i would not protest if you wanted to make the fiction they spun us during the match game a reality. like, that was fun, what if we actually become soulmates now? or the media team never reveals that they cheated and now they have to PRETEND!!!

to be clear anything not related to the match game would be GREAT it is just a beautiful, beautiful font of content.

tyson barrie/colin wilson: they make each other dinner and like the same music and have similar politics and ideals!!! colin is tyson's best friend on the team who isn't nate!!!!! tyson snapping to attention as soon as colin says his name still haunts me.

anything from that one article would make my entire life. i cannot stand colin wilson, kind earnest politically conscious hippy weirdo who's allergic to shirts. he was a THEATRE KID. i'm still not over it. and then there's THIS. the second picture. the fucking edward sharpe and the magnetic zeroes lyrics. i despise him.

tyson jost/mikko rantanen: there was something, last season, which i have only hazy memories of, where josty said something thirsty about mikko, and i have been enchanted ever since. and let's not forget the mile high gala where josty hit on mikko and mikko fed josty, a categorically horny move. and josty's face when he says mikko's pretty awesome, i die. AND WHAT WAS THE BET THEY HAD????

anyway: mikko's unselfconscious goofy weirdness and josty's joyful chaotic sluttiness!!!!! a perfect match. gimme.

sam girard/erik johnson: they are just SO MUCH. idk if i can say anything coherent about them. sammy g is a life-ruiner in the best way and ej clearly agrees.

general thoughts: i love the avs ensemble so much, platonically and otherwise. you cannot go wrong with an avs polycule, if you wanted to combine some of these ships or add some others. i would enjoy feasibly any of the nominated ships as background or additional ships. i am so very easy for the avs.

final note: i have discussion of diets/exercise regimens/body maintenance/weight management/etc as a general Do Not Want and it applies especially much for hockey, particularly re: the intense scrutiny and maintenance of a particular body. obviously, Sports, so i know it comes up a lot, but i'd really appreciate you avoiding explicit details and/or discussion.

giving this a go - pick a day of the month and ask me to talk about a thing. i'm only doing odd days because having sensible expectations of myself is good actually!! i've also picked a few days for myself because any excuse to go on about shit i care about, right?

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cool things that are happening now or soon:

remixapod where podficcers submit their podfics for a writer to remix into a fic, which i'm super excited to participate in on both sides.

out of the auditary a fest for podfics of non-traditional fic formats, e.g. meta, poetry, declarations from city councils about sports mascots, notfic/chatfic, etc. i want to make ALL THE THINGS for this. i have already recorded a fake webseries episode fic of mine, and there's some meta i want to dig up, and i definitely wanna do some poetry, and and and i'm SO jazzed for this.

a fest for friendship!!!! i LOVE stories about relationships and always want more about Good Friends Being Good Friends, so hopefully i'll get round to filling some prompts and i'm definitely gonna leave a bunch.

hpwlwbigbang where rule 63 is not allowed which :/ but it's not a Rule 63 Doesn't Count As Femmeslash stance, just seems like they want to focus on oft-overlooked women characters of HP fandom. i've been turning over a ginny-centric idea that it'd be nice to have a deadline for so i actually write it, but it was kinda harry/ginny-leaning so we'll see if i can rework that i guess. who else do i ship ginny with?????