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[hoonvrs]

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[bunnywand]

ellie's top albums of 2024 - year of the pop girlies ?

i was waiting for one last album to come out b4 i put this year's list together (lauren mayberry's new solo album) bcos i was considering including it in the list based of the strength of the singles that had been coming out beforehand.. but i finally decided that as good as it is, and altho i could excuse putting 2 albums from 2023 in this year's list, i just didn't feel right putting an album that only came out yesterday on my ~end of year~ list 😅 but w/ that decision out the way, i can finally post this!! 😁

it's been a rly gr8 year for music, w/ 2 albums i'd been anticipating for literal Years finally coming out (los campesinos!' first album since 2017, and the cure's first album since 2008 😳) ..but i don't think anyone can deny that this year was absolutely Dominated by the pop girlies, i guess probably due to the confluence of "brat" becoming such a phenomenon, taylor swift's ongoing eras tour, And the explosions of both chappell and sabrina's careers 🤔

b4 i get into my picks proper tho, i just wanted to add that i decided to do s/t a bit different this year w/ my rankings of ~diy and the punk scene~ releases.. so if anyone's wondering where fightmilk's 3rd album or the problem patterns club remix album are, they're coming on a list later 😎

so anyways, probably time to actually get into the list 😳

billie eilish - hit me hard and soft: i already rly liked her first 2 albums, but i think this is now her best one by Far 😳 just a rly fucking phenomenal album!!

chappell roan - the rise and fall of a midwest princess: the first album in my list that's actually from last year.. but like a lot of ppl, i only discovered her this year, so i think it can be forgiven 🫣 but it's been v exciting to see her blow up, and i'm rly excited for whatever she does next 😁

charli xcx - brat / brat and it's completely different but also still brat: maybe The defining album of the year?? but i think i actually prefer the remix version tho, it's rly fascinating and cool to me how some of the remixed songs are like. in conversation w/ the original versions?? 😧 and they're all absolute bops, ofc 😌

the cure - songs of a lost world: robert smith first mentioned this album back in 2019, and after so many years of saying it was on it's way, i'd started to kind of doubt it.. but this year was the year it finally came out, and tbf i think it's good enough that it was worth the wait 😁

the linda lindas - no obligation: i'd been into the linda lindas since their first ep.. but then i'd kind of neglected listening to them since 😅 so when i saw this had come out i gave it a listen and was like "oh shit, they're actually Really good now?! 😳" and then had to go back and listen to the other stuff they'd released that i'd missed 😭

los campesinos! - all hell: i was soooo excited when this one was announced too, bcos it was my first time experiencing a new los campesinos! album as a fan, and like the cure's album it was also worth the wait!! also finally got to see them for the 2nd time, which was also another awesome experience 🥹

olivia rodrigo - guts: another album from last year.. but i got Rly into it when the spilled edition came out earlier in the year and finally realised how fucking Good it actaully was 😳 and then i felt bad for snubbing it in my 2023 list, so seeing as it's ended up one of my most played albums of this year, i don't feel too bad including it either 😝

sabrina carpenter - short n' sweet: i don't think i'd ever heard of her before this year, but i'm rly glad i got into her cos this album is sooo catchy, and it's ended up being one of my Fav favs of the year 😌

taylor swift - the tortured poets department: the anthology: despite the cure finally releasing "songs of a lost world," i think the tortured poets department still has to be my Album Of The Year 🥳 just such an interesting and ~sprawling~ album, i've listened to it So fucking much that it's the one out of all these that i rly feel has Defined my year, so much so that it's already become one of my most played albums of all time.. oops 🫣

and so there's my list!! 😌 but before i finish the post, i just wanted to shout out a few more honourable mentions..

green day - saviors: this came out p early in the year and i listened to + loved it a tonne, probably more than any new green day album since like.. uno?? 😧 but i kind of fell off listening to it as the year went on, and then a bunch of these rly gr8 albums came out too and sort of.. bumped it off the list 😅

haley heynderickx - seed of a seed: i'd been wondering for a couple of years when a new haley heynderickx album would be coming, after her first one came out in 2018, so i was v excited when i saw this had come out!! it's rly rly good too, but unfortunately it only came out last month and i haven't had a chance to listen to it as much as i'd have liked (partly bcos it came out the same day as the cure's album 🫣) 😔

lauren mayberry - vicious creatures: an album that v nrly made this list bcos it fucking rules, but i just didn't feel right including an album that only came out yesterday 😭 i'd been anticipating this one since the first couple of singles came out towards the end of 2023, and as more singles continued to come out over this year, i got even more excited for it!! so i'm so glad it's finally here, even if it just didn't quite make my list 😁

and there u have it!! this has ended up far longer than any other kind of post like this i've made before, so thank u for reading!! 🥰 and keep an eye out for my top ~diy / punk~ releases of the year too, which will hopefully be coming shortly 😉

[seriouslysam8]

If Sirius was Tom’s son wouldn’t the bloodwards not work since it’s tied to the black blood line? Or would Tom be able to break in since he shares the same blood as Sirius? I’m convinced either Sirius or Regulus are Tom’s biological children.

Don’t purebloods check to see if the child is there’s though? Sort of like a DNA test but a magical one. It seems like something a pureblood would do to ensure their blood line is pure.

I also had a question with the whole mixing Harry’s blood with his. What does that mean? DNA wise would Harry still be a Potter or Black or would he be a Potter and a Black? I’m not sure if you plan to write next gen but wouldn’t that make Albus and Scorpius sort of like cousins? Or blood related? Unless you plan on killing off all the Malfoy’s which I’m all here for 😝

These are a lot of questions in response to my “interesting.”

So, I’ll answer the questions broadly.

Blood wards: IF someone unknowingly shared blood with the person trying to break into a house who cast the blood wards, they would be pretty useless. The wards would crumble in a matter of seconds. They would not be very effective.

DNA Tests: I don’t believe they would. If there was a slip up, they wouldn’t want anyone to know so their lines could remain “pure”. I bet none of the pureblood family lines are actually 100% pureblood. I can’t see them seeking out testing every single baby born in the family to make sure there were no affairs or anything. It would dwindle the blood lines even more. Ignorance is bliss after all! Now, if they know for sure a blood line was tainted (i.e. Andy and Ted), they would prune that branch. But I don’t think there would be any purebloods left if they actually tested the DNA.

Mixing Blood: If Sirius went through with the ritual to make Harry a Black, Harry would be both a Potter and a Black. It would add blood to him, not take any away. In a sense, yeah, Albus and Scorpius would be distantly related because Harry would have Black blood in him.

[juuls]

Hey again everyone! I would super love some volunteers to do even short podfics (like literally under 3k) or to team up with me on a small fic (5-10k?), if anyone is up for it! I would be more than happy to talk people through it, answer questions, be available, show you how to edit, give light critique if asked for.... do a first round of editing and make sure you know what I did so you can do it next time.... :) Stuff like that!

I’m not talking now, not really, it you’re wanting to take me up on the more demanding aspects of that offer—it IS the holidays, we’re all stressed and grumpy from varying levels of C-word exhaustion, and I need to remind myself not to do too much or my disabilities will catch right up and lay me out flat for days.....

But I’d just love to hear if anyone’s interested! It’s not a firm commitment, you can back out anytime, whatever, and not a single person would think less of you because this really puts you out there!!!..... but I’d really love more offers of readers, not just writers (or you can read your own fic, plenty do!). That’s what makes a community what it is, eh? :)

Love, from—Juuls.

(Also, anyone want to put me into contact with Twitter’s ReadingReylos? I never venture there because I am not a masochist lol 😝)

Hi Reylo community!

If you could pick one of your, preferably, complete (or at least a fair number of chapters in and being updated) fanfics that you would like to have a podfic made out of... which would it be?

I’d love to create a list of works where authors have given permission to podfic their fics, whether short or long, and to contribute to the new Reylo Podfic Collection!

This here is a promo post for the collection itself, with a little audio example of me speaking; fittingly, a call to the community for more podfics!

It’s easy to be a podficcer; nothing special is needed and I’m happy to provide tips for simple podficcing! In fact I sorta ramble about my process here in this Answered Ask and include 3 basic tutorials.

But I’d love to use this tumblr thread as a.... thought exercises, I suppose, and permission, too, for people to podfic your work.

I’ll go first! ...... Whether I get to it first or someone claims it.... I’d love my Force!Pregnancy, post-TFA fic, Delicious Ambiguity, approximately 24.7k words, to be brought to audible life! ❤️

I have also podficced Devotion by @perrydowning and am working on all 144k of The Escort by @grlie-girl !

While I do do podficcing for Marvel... it just makes me want to so so much more Reylo stuff! There’s so few pieces out there compared to the bevy of Marvel stuff, but honestly, every time there’s a new (Reylo) podfic—it breathes new life back into the fic, the author, the ship, the fandom..... plus you personally feel awesome for the performance high and for bringing a smile to the writer’s face. That’s the best thing ever and I adore doing it, no matter how ‘simple’ the podfic may be.

So, AUTHORS, which of your fics would you like to see podficced?

And READERS!!!—which of your favourite fics, short or long, would you love to listen to, or think deserves the verbal treatment? :D

Old, new. Canon-Compliant, Modern AU. Canon-Adjacent or Post-Canon. Post-movie Fix-It or forget-the-movie Fix-It. Gen, Teen, Unrated, Mature, or Explicit. A/B/O or Soulmates. Bendemption or Renperor. Senator Ben or Jedi Ben. Fuck-Jakku Rey or Must-Return Rey. Hopeful Rey or Antagonistic Rey. Blocked Force Bond or Open. Good or evil. Take his hand or don’t. Pre-Canon, post-TFA, post-TLJ, or TroS—I don’t know her.

Come one, come any, come all! What would you pick to podfic?

Pod together with us!

If you’re unsure on how to podfic, one of these reblogs has a quick and easy explanation!

I’ll keep the list of approved fics updated if we get enough replies! I do so hope we do! I love Reylo, you love Reylo, who doesn’t want their fic put to voice? and also, let’s breathe some new forms of life into this fandom! Celebrate it with me!

(Sometimes there are already podfics done for a particular fic but you can always a) welcome another for your own fic, and b) request of an author to see if you can perform an additional reading of their fic—each podfic is different and special in their own way.)

And perhaps I’ll make a podfic-specific Tumblr, maybe slap together a few small events to get people started... even a few pre-made Reylo & Podfic specific bingo cards! That could be a lot of fun! 🤩

Blanket permission for any of these user’s fics: *

Nymja

TheOriginalSuki [[“Maybe skip the Welsh epitaphs, ha!”]]

Politicalmamaduck [[Tall Tales of the Western Wilds has previously been podficced by @luminoustico and @quickficradio 🧡!]]

Perry_Downing [[Devotion has already been podficced.]]

Crossingwinter

EllieCarina [[In My Bloodstream has been claimed.]]

DragonWhiskers [[any completed works]]

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Podfics welcome for specific fics (permission given): *

Delicious Ambiguity by Juulna (~24.8k)

Shadowed by Juulna (~5.6k)

Little Earthquakes by LochTayBoatSong (~5.3k)

the breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you by LochTayBoatSong (~36.1k)

Asking Price by SouthsideStory and ReyloTrashCompactor (~33.2k, 13/15 chapters)

Things Not Seen by SouthSideStory (~13.8k)

Chains by Veggieheist @veggieheist (~295.5k, 67/? chapters) [[contact author as they wish to re-edit the beginning of the fic]]

Dream House by sleepyowlet @sleepyowlet (~11k) [[“I read it out loud to myself and because I wrote it with the Dreamlands cycle as background noise, it has the same kind of feel to it. You just need to find a podficcer who can read consentacles without cracking up.”]]

Camera Shy by Sophia Ravencrest @sophiaravencrest (~23.8k)

Powerless by Perry_Downing @perrydowning (~213k)

Blades Crossed by the-reylo-void @the-reylo-void (~27.1k)

enemies-to-lovers by the-reylo-void (~59.6k) **

Sky Marked Souls by AnonymousMink @anonymousmink (~22.3k)

Within Monsters by AnonymousMink (~132.6k)

Hiraeth by TheOriginalSuki @theoriginalsuki (~47.9k)

Blood is Thicker Than Whatever This Is... by DragonWhiskers @belovedunderwing (~1.5k)

Siren’s Song by DragonWhiskers (~22.5k)

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Specific fics we’d love to see in podfic form and currently awaiting permission from their authors: [[fics granted permission moved to ‘Podfics Welcome’ list]]

Ashes of the Empire by Skyelo_Ren @dancingpenguin57 (~128.4k)

The Moon, the Sun, and the Star Inbetween. by Silvershine @silvershiner (~120.1k)

can’t turn off what turns me on by audreyii_fic @audreyii-fic (~26.1k)

Tactical Surrender by destinies @destiniesfic (~155.8k)

landscape with a blur of conquerors by diasterisms @kylorenvevo (~362.9k)

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Claimed with permission:

In My Bloodstream by EllieCarina (~103k) [[Claimed by @juuls — awaiting pre-production edits]]

connected in the deep and Split Soul by Juulna (~2.5k and ~1.3k each) [[short ficlets currently claimed for practice by @lochtayboatsong]]

* “Please claim” even if just replying to this post or sending me an Ask or DM so I can edit the post. Mutiple podfics are flattering to the author but some podficcers really don’t like to be ‘one of many’. Absolutely valid. You can even create a placeholder AO3 ‘podfic’ and link it as inspired by said fic, so people can see that it’s being worked on... as long as permission has been granted first, or course, sillies! :)

** Although an unconventional fic format, this fic can certainly be podficced by using (1) different tones of voice for thoughts, fic summaries, different sorts of text, and/or (2) different tones of pings/chimes/whatever for the text messages from different characters, and/or (3) adding in an extra line of, for example: *ping* “text message from thekyloren reads as follows…” OR (4), if you want to get fancy, you could have some friends assist you by recording any of the messages from ‘their’ character. That would be a lot of fun, in fact! Another option is (5) where you would split your recordings and give an audible indication to read the message, followed again by a new audio file, etc. Only problem with this approach is if there are too many breaks in the audio and you end up going from one to the other too many times in a row.

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And please, reblog and spread the word for this project! No project can operate by its lonesome; it needs help from the community it belongs to. ❤️ Here’s another link to the Reylo Podfics Collection!

Thank you so much!