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i took part in this super cool new podfic challenge,

voiceteam! it wrapped at the start of june and i've been wanting to do a roundup post about it because it was so much fun, so here we are! pls ignore how many months it has been!

voiceteam, in the words of the mods:

Voiceteam is a Discord-based team scavenger hunt for the podfic community. Teams will earn points for making different voice-based or voice-adjacent creations. Each week in the month of May, teams will get a list of ten point-earning challenges and then will be set loose to strategize, create, and have fun!

i am extremely bad at discord, but this challenge sounded so cool, so i signed up anyway, and proceeded to have a wonderful time! and make loads of stuff! with a bunch of lovely people! it was great!!! i think our team was matched on wanting/having capacity for variable levels of participation and it really worked out, so i'm super grateful to the mods on that one.

works created for the challenge

you can find the ao3 collection for the challenge here - it doesn't have everything because some stuff was only posted on discord, but there's still so many cool things. this challenge really encouraged SO much creativity, and i think having the semi-public space of the discord really helped with that, because you get to have an audience while still having the privacy of like a locked community.

you can also find my team's collection here. the teams were originally named for colours, but one of the first challenges was to come up with our own team name (or choose to stick with our assigned one but i don't think anyone did), and my team decided on peas in a pod!

yue drew lovely art for it for another challenge, which was to make a fanwork of our team mascot. which, what a cool challenge, tbh.

honestly all of the challenges were so cool and inspiring! i particularly enjoyed the music week because i love music and i really want to take forward some of these ideas into the way i approach making fanworks and doing fandom in general. for now i want to indulge my vanity and talk about all the stuff that i made because i made a lot!!