#femslash february podfic edition

[melancholymorningstar]

Welcome to the first (hopefully annual) Femslash February podFic Edition 2024! This is a femslash focused podficcing event running all throughout February! (aka an event to convince people to make more femslash podfic)

Frequently asked Questions:

What is this event? A shameless plug to get me, MelancholyMorningstar, more femslash podfic

How do I participate? Make a podfic, not!fic, or filk featuring two (or more) women in a romantic and/or sexual relationship and post it to this collection!

Do genderswapped/trans characters count? Absolutely! Regardless of what canon says any character can be femslashed if you try hard enough

Can I post NSFW/darkfic content? Go for it! As long as you tag appropriately this collection will accept all works featuring f/f (or f/f/f, or f/f/f/f/+) pairings

If you feel like tagging is a fundamentally flawed system of posting fanworks, feel free to create femslash anyway and just not include it in this collection

When does this event run? All of February! This collection will remain unrevealed until the beginning of February (if you somehow manage podfic before then) and then remain open from that point onwards Inspired by @polypodweek this collection won't have a hard deadline, but if it is getting close to February next year you should probably wait for the next collection

Does this event have themes/prompts? Nope For this first year it's going to remain very vague and open, and we'll see how it goes for next year

But I really want a prompt list? Check out the ao3 tag cloud for inspiration! Additional Tag Cloud

I'm not going to have time/energy/motivation to make femslash podfic during February, how can I participate? No stress this is a very low key event, but if you'd like to participate you can: A) make a different medium of femslash work and post it to tumblr under the hashtag #femslashfebruary or the ao3 collection Femslash February (no affiliation) or, B) Find a femslash author and ask them to put up a Blanket Permission statement about their podficcing permissions Femslash fandoms tend to be very light on permission statements about whether people can make podfic without asking first You can even direct them to the Permission Statement Builder by flamingwell @flamingwell to make it super easy

[cailynwrites]

stay by vendettadays - a Podfic

I went back to my ETL roots for this Femslash February podfic. Happy belated Valentine's Day to Pansmione!

stay by vendetta days Rating: T Tags: Hogwarts Professors, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, Slow Burn Length: 2:12:14 Summary:

When Minerva said that Pansy Parkinson was to be the new Arithmancy professor at Hogwarts, Hermione thought she was joking. Then she remembered, Minerva McGonagall never joked. (Or, the progression of Hermione and Pansy’s relationship as Transfiguration and Arithmancy professors during the course of the school year.)

Listen on AO3

[kbirbpods]

[Podfic Link] | Length: 1 minute, 14 seconds

Original Work: Balcony by @theredshirtsarecoming [ziazippy5379]

Star Wars: Padmé/Breha | Rating: G

Summary: 

Breha watches Padmé from above.

Notes: recorded for Femslash February Podfic Edition 2024

[spntoxicfemslashevent]

full prompt list

hey everyone! this is the full february prompt list for this event. we're going to have six prompts every day, so it's big! smaller versions containing only some of the prompts are forthcoming. ideally a piece submitted for a certain day should be inspired by at least one of the prompts for that day.

[conceptual prompts only] [pairing prompts only] [format/style prompts only] [prompts by date] [submission guidelines] [intro post]

conceptual prompts:

feb 1: manipulation || rot || political play

feb 2: tied up || burning flesh || jealousy

feb 3: suburbia || betrayal/judas kiss || doll

feb 4: blackmail || cannibalism || age gap

feb 5: blasphemy || executioner || genderless

feb 6: “...and it felt like a kiss” || on the rack || handmaiden-feudal lord

feb 7: sainthood || blood || isolation

feb 8: poison/drugging || barefoot and pregnant || murder suicide

feb 9: scars || heaven and/or hell || voyeurism

feb 10: shallow grave/midnight gardening || exes || serial killer(s)

feb 11: crossdressing || corpse || brat

feb 12: war/opposite sides || soulmates || guts/gore

feb 13: demonization || immortality || "forgive me father"

feb 14: unrequited || butch || imprisonment

feb 15: high school sweethearts || justifications || resurrection

feb 16: stabbing || masturbation || somnophilia

feb 17: turn the straight girl || kidnapping || ritual sacrifice

feb 18: stalking || substance use/abuse || comp het

feb 19: amnesia/mindwipe/lobotomy || flogging || forcefem

feb 20: vessel || make each other worse || gothic

feb 21: mistress || forced marriage || petplay

feb 22: demon deal || power imbalance || state of mind/dreams/confusion

feb 23: experiment || bastard child || what happened to her first husband/wife?

feb 24: curses || possession || infidelity

feb 25: controlling || temptation || "i ran into a door"

feb 26: victim || right hand || true crime

feb 27: humiliation || dubious consent || brainwashing

feb 28: family || true form || obsession

feb 29: closeted || sins of the father || not passing the bechdel test

pairing prompts:

feb 1: rowena mcleod/billie

feb 2: linda tran/ofc

feb 3: hannah/naomi

feb 4: rowena mcleod/alicia banes

feb 5: raphael/billie

feb 6: amelia novak/naomi

feb 7: abaddon/colette mullen

feb 8: ruby/astaroth

feb 9: cassie robinson/fem!dean winchester

feb 10: linda tran/mary winchester

feb 11: cassie robinson/meg masters

feb 12: linda tran/abaddon

feb 13: risa (endverse)/meg masters

feb 14: kelly kline/dagon

feb 15: linda tran/tasha banes

feb 16: billie/amara/the empty (meg)

feb 17: meg masters/jo harvelle

feb 18: patience turner/claire novak

feb 19: mary winchester/antonia bevell

feb 20: lily sunder/claire novak

feb 21: bela talbot/ruby

feb 22: patience turner/magda peterson

feb 23: fem!castiel/fem!crowley

feb 24: missouri moseley/ellen harvelle

feb 25: jody mills/donna hanscum

feb 26: lily baker/lilith

feb 27: hannah/caroline johnson

feb 28: raphael/naomi

feb 29: eileen leahy/mary winchester

format/style prompts:

day 1: canon divergent || drabble (exactly 100 words)

day 2: canon character/oc || traditional art

day 3: scifi au || non-traditional art medium

day 4: post-canon || gifset

day 5: canon compliant || metered poetry

day 6: reverse!verse/roleswap || sketch

day 7: epistolary || flash fiction

day 8: episode rewrite || fanmix

day 9: gender changes - het to femslash || script format

day 10: canon a little to the left || headcanon

day 11: outsider pov || fancam

day 12: 5 + 1 || exquisite corpse/round robin

day 13: for want of a nail || sequel

day 14: dark fluff || webweave

day 15: vignettes/fragments || fansong

day 16: polyamory || abstract

day 17: unreliable narrator || screencap edit

day 18: meta plot/metafandom/carver edlund novels || non-song based fanvid

day 19: crossover/fusion || multimedia

day 20: trans headcanon || podfic

day 21: humor || amv

day 22: au || fiber arts

day 23: gender changes - slash to femslash || comic

day 24: pre-canon || digital art

day 25: omegaverse || sentence fics

day 26: mundane au || photography

day 27: selfcest || freeverse poetry

feb 28: character study || fanwork-of-a-fanwork

feb 29: rashomon style || fic rec list

[flowerparrish]

[Podfic Link] | Length: 3.5 minutes

Batman Comics: Stephanie Brown/Cassanda Cain

Steph likes being gay and doing crimes with Cass!

Podded for Femslash February Podfic Edition 2024 as a little gift for @kbirbpods!

Fic itself was written by @ao3time!

[shadowhuntersfemslashfebruary23]

Shadowhunters Ladies had it coming: presenting this year’s Femslash February prompt list.

Straight (or not so straight if you catch my drift) from the Shadow World, by @A_Taupe_Fox because they know what’s good for me (and you).

Here is how it works: you may have noticed the calendar with a list of prompts.

It is up to you (and me, I’m doing it too!) to create a brand new piece of fanwork for the Shadowhunters femslash pairing of your choice, interpreting the prompt however you see fit.

The only restriction is of course that every work you create must be femslash. Rule 63 is fine, and any character who identifies as a woman is welcome.

All kind of works (be it fanart, fanfic, fanmix, fanvids, fancraft…) are highly encouraged. You may create a reclist if you so wish, translate a work or make a podfic, as long as you tag responsibly.

Mature and/or dark content is allowed as long as you warn accordingly. Friendly reminder that the point of trigger warnings is that they need to be visible and understandable so people know what to avoid.

I’ll try my best to reblog everything through this tumblr as I’ll be tracking #SFF23, and I’ll be running an AO3 collection as well (Shadowhunters_Femslash_February_2023).

If you fill the entire calendar you may request a moodboard from me to celebrate, I’ll be happy to make one for your favorite pairing!

Minimum requirements

Fic and poetry: 500 words, unless you are specifically writing a drabble (exactly 100 words on AO3)

Art: 300x300 pixels if digital, 3”x3” if traditional

Moodboards: 3 images (+ optional blurb)

Playlist: 8 songs + cover art

Rec lists: 3 fanworks + reasons why you’re reccing them

Podfic: 5 minutes + clear permission from the author for you to use make it

Translations: the work it’s a translation of must fit the fic minimum requirements, whether new or pre-existing + clear permission from the author for you to translate it

Fanvids: 30 seconds

All other fanworks (gifs, crafts, edits, manips, anything else you can think of): as long as you think it’s complete and/or the best you can do right now, it counts

[anneapocalypse]

Writing Wrap-up and 2024 Goals

It's a weird year to be doing a wrap-up, because I did not post a whole lot this year and I'm not sure I even set any goals last January thanks to having covid and being sick and exhausted for weeks, which still kind of feels like it threw off my whole year even though that sounds dramatic. Whatever. I've moped enough about it being a bad year for writing; now, I want to look forward.

2023 Wrap-Up

In case you'd like to read the one fic I did post this year, it's "Before You Go", a Loghain/Maric fic for Dragon Age (3022 words, rated E), which I am still quite happy with! And though it's not writing, I also made a podfic of RosellaWrites' gorgeous fic "let them not make me a stone (and let them not spill me)" (and if you're not interested in podfic you should still go read Rosella's fic, seriously, it's great).

While November 2022 was the last time I made substantial progress on A Hero Sleeps in Gwaren (my Briala/F!Tabris longfic for Dragon Age), I did make a few attempts to chip away at the draft this year. I didn't keep any records of what progress I made, but lucky for me Scrivener has a writing history feature that can at least give me a ballpark, and... it says I added 17,326 words to the draft this year (all in the first half of the year), which, not gonna lie, seems unreal to me. The first half of this year is mud in my head, so the fact that I did in fact get some writing done is really encouraging.

Over the summer, FFXIV started to really consume me as I had finished ARR by that point and my investment in the story was growing, and I also started taking a more active leadership role in my tiny free company, and so for the back half of the year I've mostly been writing little snippets about my Warrior of Light Ariane and her adventures and relationships, some of which may become part of actual fics later. This totals out to about 19,500 words at the moment.

So I only posted about 3000 words, but in total I wrote almost 40K this year. Is that a fantastic year, no... but honestly, it's a lot better than what my brain has been telling me I've accomplished this year, which is nothing. :P So I'm glad that I sat down to actually find the numbers!

Onward and upward.

So what's next?

2024 Goals

Fandom:

Finish one longfic.

Write and post a one-shot.

Do one exchange.

Original:

Outline an original novel.

Write a poem.

Send out one piece.

Tentatively my immediate plans are to get started outlining and then writing my Ariane/Haurchefant fic. I'm on the fence about February. On the one hand, it would be great to come back to my Briala/F!Tabris longfic for Femslash February, but on the other hand there's a high probability I'm going to be playing Endwalker by that point and I have no hope of keeping my head in Dragon Age during that time, so it's probably best not to commit to it. Dragon Age fic might be best saved for after I've caught up on MSQ when there are (hopefully) a few months still left to wait for Dawntrail and I can take a little break to let it marinate while I work on something else. My enthusiasm for the Briala/Tabris fic has not waned despite the long hiatus, and just yesterday I was reading bits of the draft and getting excited again, so I do hope to finish that this year and get to share it with you.

The alternate candidate for February is either keep working on the Haurchefant fic or in the case of a miracle in which I actually finish it this month (hah!), move forward with the next one I have planned, an Urianger/Moenbryda. That's unlikely but we'll see. I know I still have things to learn about Urianger in Endwalker, which I'm very excited for.

As for what exchange(s) I might do this year, I'm not sure yet! I haven't seen any announcements yet that Chocolate Box is running this year. Black Emporium and FemslashEx are both strong candidates for me. We'll see where I am when those roll around, or maybe something else will catch my eye!

Edited to add: Oh, yeah, also at some point we're supposed to get that final season of Red vs. Blue. I have a few outstanding projects in RvB but the main one that really matters to me is Radio Silence, my Carolina lost years fic. I'd love to use the series' send-off as a kick in the pants to finally finish that one, whenever that happens. We'll see!

Finally, I am making a conscious effort to reclaim my writing time, which traditionally has been the morning between 9 and noon because that's when my mind is the sharpest, but over the past I basically let that slip entirely and be taken over by either housework or gaming, just writing on the fly when something came to me. I'm not morning gaming anymore unless it's for a good reason (timed event I need to catch, etc, which is rare, and finishing yesterday's roulettes is not a good enough reason because the queues are slower in the morning and it just ends up eating more time than it needs to, they happen every day, it's fine).

On to 2024. Looking forward to it.

[wilfriede]

[Podfic of] the word is on the street

Another podfic for Femslash February Podfic Edition! The fandom of this one is a car commercial, that in 2 minutes tells a wonderful queer story line. frausorge's wonderful fic fleshes out the story some more. It's been a lot of fun to return to it now, recording the podfic and the music.

Fandom: Renault CLIO Ad: 30 Years in the Making Summary:

It was the hardest letter Gemma had ever had to write.

Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Length: 16:02 (with music), 13:38 (no music)

Listen to it on AO3!

[womenofssss]

The Femslash February 2018 Music Box challenge is go! 

You know the game from last year, though we’re keeping it a bit simpler this time around - two times a day, a song gets posted. That’s your prompt! Let it inspire you, create something femslashy, and tag it #ssssfemfeb and #femslash february. That’s it! I think we have a great selection of songs lined up - some upbeat, some calm, some defiant, some (inevitably) sad, so there should be something for every mood. 

Don’t worry about right or wrong answers - the glory of inspiration is that it can take such different shapes. Maybe the title or a line from the lyrics reminds you of a character or ship, maybe something in the music video matches a moment in the comic, you could imagine the characters dancing to it, or the mood of the song suggests that thing you’ve always wanted to create but never got around to - now’s the chance to show your epic love story between the Cat-Tank and her girlfriend the Rat Mobile to the world! 

We’re open to all Minnaverse canons, crossovers between them, and crossovers between a Minnaverse canon and others, canon characters, OCs, minor characters, and all sorts of fanworks - fic, art, meta, fanmixes, podfics, edits, squirrel cookies and anything else your brain can come up with.

All songs will be tagged #ssssfemfeb and #song prompt for easy access, and you can find the compilation in the 2018 Music Box - and if inspiration strikes you to revisit last year’s event, check out the original Music Box! Prompts don’t expire, so take the time you need, be kind, and have fun. ♥

[totalspiffage]

bnq replied to your post “I make a lot of stuff and I still feel like I’m not Making Enough to...”

have you tried offering to voice fics? Like books on tape but for online creators? I don't know if a market would spring up but it would be creating with lots of different opportunities

This is definitely already a thing (it’s call podficcing) and I’ve read a couple fics, some for free (I did last years’ femslash february pod/fic thing), most for commissions, but honestly pod/fic and long-form narration is its own battle. There’s immense editing involved, it’s usually for a VERY small audience with little payoff in the way of kudos or comments. Not something I would do for free, just for the sheer time it takes. Podficcers are strong people and a talented crew.

Let’s just say a fic with 10k words would take maybe 5 hours of recording and editing for me on a normal day.

I do sometimes wonder if I can do scenes from things, though. I did read an excellent widow//tracer fanfic the other month (this one, it’s got nsfw stuff) and it was SO GOOD I wanted to just be like PLEASE CAN I READ THIS ONE SCENE IT’S SO FUNNY but I didn’t wanna freak the author out lmao. PLUS like plenty of other fics that I want to do little bits but can’t figure out how to shorten things.

[kbirbpods]

[Podfic Link] | Length: 1 minute, 21 seconds

Original Work: Red by @theredshirtsarecoming [ziazippy5379]

DC/Danny Phantom: Jazz Fenton/Barbara Gordon | Rating: G

Summary: 

Jazz is on the hunt to find who is at the other end of her string

Notes: recorded for Femslash February Podfic Edition 2024

[kbirbpods]

[Podfic Link] | Length: 1 minute, 5 seconds

Original Work: Whine & Dine by templefugate

DC: Harley/Ivy | Rating: T

Summary: 

Harley couldn't hold a tune in a bucket, but she could find one in the bottom of a glass.

Notes: recorded for Femslash February Podfic Edition 2024

[flowerparrish]

[Podfic Link] | Rated: T | Length: 8.5 minutes

The Old Guard: Andy/Nile

Nile crosses her arms and gives what she probably thinks is a stern look. Maybe it would be effective on someone who hadn’t hasn’t lived for millennia, but as it is, Andy feels a little like she’s being scolded by a puppy. But Nile is probably feeling guilty for Andy getting shot. And besides, Andy likes puppies.

Fic written by @saiditallbefore; podded for Femslash February Podfic Edition 2024!

[flowerparrish]

[Podfic Link] | Length: 4 minutes

Teen Wolf: Lydia/Kira/Malia

Lydia tries to draw her girlfriends. It takes patience.

Podded for Femslash February Podfic Edition for @heavensenthale

[flowerparrish]

[Podfic Link] | Length: 3.5 minutes

Marvel: Maria Hill/Natasha Romanov

Maria and Natasha go undercover as lesbians from central casting.

Podded for Femslash February Podfic Edition 2024 run by @melancholymorningstar, with this podfic gifted to @devilwithabirddress for sending me into a femslash finding frenzy for this!

[kbirbpods]

[Podfic Link] | Length: 2 minutes, 35 seconds

Original Work: Sneezing on Stardust by templefugate

DC: Harley/Ivy | Rating: Teen & Up Audiences

Summary: 

Harley became an astronaut to look for little green men. NASA never mentioned the possibility of big green women.

Notes: originally recorded for Femslash February, but didn't have the chance to edit. I realized it could make a perfect little Summer Podfic Swap treat for my main giftee this year!