#I am very tempted to finally get rid of my audible breaths lol like so many other podficcers

[popcornfairy28]

I'm done with Voiceteam Mystery Box 2024! 🎉

You may have noticed that I have not been as active as usual, which is because I've been participating in Voiceteam's Mystery Box for the past two weeks.

This was my first Mystery Box, after trying Voiceteam for the first time in May. Ready to carpe diem, I went for high cap for this event after doing low cap in May. So, for perspective, I had to earn 600 points during the whole month of May, whereas I had to earn 1000 points for the past couple of weeks, if I wanted to hit points cap. And I succeeded!

I recorded 32 separate things, though some of those will stay in Mystery Box's submissions and won't be seen on AO3 or here. Of those things:

I recorded 20 podfics, a couple of which are just first chapters of fics (one of which was a multivoice that will just stay in Voiceteam) but the majority are one-shots.

I sang for 3 filks, one of which I helped write the lyrics for. They are all Christmas carol-parodies about Voiceteam, naturally.

I read aloud a handful of my daily roundup posts for my team, just for fun and not for points but that stopped once I obtained a cold.

I read sections for a meta Tumblr post with several other podficcers that (as I understand) will be put on AO3. I don't quite want to spoil it, but it is a post I have reblogged here before.

I read the "Weather" section for my team's Podfic Radio, and I helped write significant portions of the "AU Travel Guide" for that project as well.

Besides recording, I also edited 4 out of 5 podfics that I had in my backlog. I had been working very hard on my backlog recently, but now I will have the majority of those podfics that I recorded in the past two weeks to now edit 🫠 The plan is to work a few minutes a day on editing until it's cleared out before I work on new podfics.

I also got to try out a couple of new fandoms for podficcing, which were Star Wars: The Bad Batch and I did a chapter of Silmarillion fic with other fans. I did of course do Phineas and Ferb fics for most of the podfics lol.

Now that this podfic event is done, I'm ready to get back to writing!