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hermitarchive · 8 months
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AUDITIONS ARE NOW OPEN!
With the From the Archives fanfic completed, we here at the podfic project are now seeking voice actors for the remaining cast! Open roles are Jimmy, Martyn, Doc, fWhip, Tango, Lizzie, Joel, and Etho! If you are interested in voicing any of these characters, please consider sending in an application!
Auditions will be open for two weeks, from today (August 6) through August 20! You can apply for as many of the available characters as you want! More info about the auditions themselves can be found in the application form.
APPLY HERE!
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nerdy-valkyrie · 1 year
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end-otw-racism · 11 months
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End OTW Racism: A Call To Action
A fan protest against the lack of action from the OTW on addressing issues of harassment and racism on AO3 and within the organization
This is a Call To Action for Fans of Color and Allies
AO3 has acknowledged that they have a harassment & racism problem that its parent organization, the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW), needs to address. Currently, people can use AO3 to harass others through fanworks, comments, and tags. Just a few examples include: racist Untamed “spitefic” that used anti-Indigenous slurs and was written specifically to lash out at fans of color; a Transformer fic that used its Black-coded character to reenact George Floyd’s murder in July 2020; someone naming a fandom scholar who criticized their Nazi omegaverse fic in the tags of the fic specifically to incite harassment to the scholar; writers using racial slurs against commenters who pointed out racism in their hockey fic; and so much more.
In June 2020, after the murder of George Floyd, the OTW committed to addressing these issues. It has been nearly three years and they have not yet implemented any of the changes they promised, other than a blocking/muting tool that was already in development before 2020. We need to hold the OTW accountable to their own promises. (See the section further down on “Why Are We Doing This” for even more detail.)
As fans, together, we are powerful. We are organizing to protest the lack of action on promises made by the Organization for Transformative works to deal with issues of racism and harassment on their platform, Archive of Our Own.
We call on fans to do any or all of the following actions any time between May 17 to 31, 2023 to send a message to AO3 and OTW that we will hold them to their promises.
On AO3
Change the title of ten (or more!) of your most recent or most popular fanworks to include ‘End Racism in the OTW’ in the beginning, and provide a link to this post in your summary or first/top creator’s note
Post a new fanwork any time between May 17th to 31st with “End Racism in the OTW” either as the title or at the beginning of the title. The fanwork does not have to be long - it can be a 100-word fic, a quick sketch, a podfic of a ficlet, a 20-second vid/edit, a short piece of meta, etc. In the summary or first/top creator’s note, provide a link to this post
If updating any WIPs with a new chapter, add ‘End Racism in the OTW’ to the title and provide a link back to this post in your summary or first/top author’s note
Update your AO3 icon using the profile pic graphic in our Social Media Toolkit
Plan to maintain these changes until May 31, 2023, or longer if you wish
Send a message to the OTW asking for an update on their 2020 commitments!
For Readers: leave encouraging comments on fanworks with the "End Racism in the OTW" title to show your support of this initiative.
On tumblr
Reblog this Call to Action with the tag #End OTW Racism
Update your profile pics and banners using the graphics in our Social Media Toolkit
Follow this account for updates and signal boost our posts
On Twitter
Follow @/EndOTWRacism (remove the backslash) and signal boost our pinned tweet
Update your profile pics and banners using our graphics, and change your display name to include #EndOTWRacism
Use sample tweets and graphics from our Social Media Toolkit to tweet about your fanworks, and use the hashtag #EndOTWRacism
Help us make this a long-term campaign - sign up to help with other anti-racism projects and future actions!
What Do We Want?
Since their June 2020 statement, OTW has been working on updating their Terms of Service (TOS) to address racist and bigoted harassment, but with little transparency and only the vaguest of updates. It has been three years since their commitment to this update - we want to see the results of their work implemented in the next 6-12 months. Their TOS updates and complementary policies should include:
Harassment policies that can be regularly updated to address both on-site harassment and off-site coordinated harassment of AO3 users, with updated protocols for the Policy & Abuse Team to ensure consistent and informed resolutions of abuse claims
A content policy on abusive (extremely racist and extremely bigoted) content; by abusive, we are talking about fanworks that are intentionally used to spread hate and harassment, not those that accidentally invoke racist or other bigoted stereotypes
These points are not particularly new and are not our own innovation; please refer to Stitch's article written over two years ago, asking for several of these very things.
OTW has also already committed to various process-based actions for longer-term works towards centering antiracism, including hiring a Diversity Consultant. The last update that OTW published said that the consultant would be hired within the next five years (after already having had three years to work on it since their original commitment). That is not soon enough. We want to see the following process-based actions implemented:
Hiring a Diversity Consultant within the next 3-6 months
Committing to a policy of transparency on this topic, with quarterly updates on the progress of these projects including challenges and their plan for overcoming those challenges. These quarterly updates should be published on OTW News page and newsletters, not solely discussed in Board meetings
Why Are We Doing This?
16 years ago, Astolat famously published her manifesto calling for a fandom Archive of One’s Own. In that time, AO3 has grown to be a central pillar of fandom, likely far outstripping its founders’ original vision. It is more than just an archive now; it is a central hub of the modern fannish experience. AO3 and the OTW must continue to grow and evolve with fandom over time to remain a healthy and functioning pillar of fandom. To that end, there are several areas in which the organization, as it admits itself, is lacking.
In June 2020, in the wake of the George Floyd protests and the uprising of the Black Lives Matter Movement, The OTW published a “This Week in Fandom” referencing the works of Dr. Rukmini Pande and Stitch, among others in which they discussed ‘making change for a better society’ through ‘conversations about race and racism’. In response, Dr. Pande and Stitch submitted a letter to the OTW calling for a more formal public statement than an offhand reference in a News Roundup that only served to call for thoughts and discussion without any indication the organization intended to do anything, policy wise, to address the issues being raised.
Eventually, the organization did remove the references to the works of Dr. Pande and Stitch and then made an official statement on the issue of racism within the organization and AO3. In it, they identified several things they would be prioritizing to combat harassment and benefit users. Some of those have been implemented (notably those that were already under development). However as of this writing, little else has been done especially in regards to:
Improving admin tools for the Policy & Abuse team
Reassessing the current mandatory archive warnings with the possibility of implementing others
And, most importantly, reviewing the Terms of Service (TOS) to allow the Policy & Abuse team to address harassment that is currently not covered by the existing TOS
By their own admission, the current tools and policies of the OTW are not sufficient to deal with issues of harassment and racism.
Several people who were involved in the founding of the OTW, including previous OTW Board members and staff on the original OTW Content Policy Committee, acknowledge that the founding of the OTW in 2008 and early board iterations failed us as a fandom by not doing enough, and by not even considering the way racism is perpetuated in fannish spaces, despite a long history of racism in fandom.
It has been nearly three years since the original commitment by the organization with little visible, measurable progress on these three crucial issues and a complete lack of transparency on where they are in regards to even beginning to deal with these issues. In fact, in Q&As, it was heavily implied by a member of the board that those calling for OTW to deal with issues of racism (which OTW had already acknowledged as a problem!) were not really fans but outside agitators.
This has cast significant doubt on the organization's sincerity and commitment to their stated goals, and on their position as leaders of a central fan tent-pole. Fans of color are not outsiders. They are right here, members of our community, and they are being harassed and targeted and driven out while space and platforms are being given to racists.
We, as fans of color and our allies, find the current state of fandom and current actions (and lack thereof) unacceptable. Fandom is our space, all of ours. We, as a fandom, have a right to a racism-free space and have a duty to our fellow fans to create that space. Unlike so much of the world, this is a space we can control and make better. It is a space we must make better. To read even more about this movement, visit our FAQs.
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ilexdiapason · 1 year
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new mutual do you watch hermitcraft. because youre about to know a lot abt it
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tavyliasin · 2 months
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Baldur's Date Open Creative Challenge!
Artists, Writers, Creators of All Kinds!
You are cordially invited to join a creative challenge!
You must be 18 years old or over to join, but there will be 2 categories, one for SFW works and one for NSFW works!
Accepted Submission Types
Please note all works must be your own and not made using any AI, including AI RP bots for writing.
Art
Comics
Valentine's Card
Fiction
Drabble collection (series of short fic, 1-5 paragraphs each)
Poetry
Song lyrics
Full songs/music
Podfic (With agreement from the fic writer)
Cosplay (No Nudes/NSFW/Explicit please)
Other Crafts (Puppets, embroidery, paper figure cut outs - whatever you like!)
For the Rules and More Details, please see below! Credit to Morb for the new event banner!
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Welcome to the Baldur's Date Challenge!
Please be aware this event will include spoilers to characters, storylines, and endings, as well as NSFW content. Proceed with care!
The idea is to create something themed around a Date or Valentine Event. It doesn't even have to be romantic or positive, there are lots of ways to take this from Valentine's Cards from characters to slow burn romance to fully brutal heartbreak and violence. The choices are yours!
The Rules
By participating, even in the SFW version, you agree and confirm you are 18 years old or over.
All creators retain full rights to their works, subject only to the conditions of the platforms they share them on (ie, AO3)
Submissions must contain at least one named character from Baldur's Gate 3
Submissions must also be based around a date, valentine-type event, or similar
AUs, non-canon, alternate versions of characters are all WELCOME
You may choose your own prompt, or use the quiz to help you decide!
Poly Romance Welcome
Characters only, no actors or real people, other than using "Reader Insert" with 2nd person writing styles.
All works must be tagged appropriately for any CWs (please ask TavyliaSin for a list if required)
All characters must be 18 or over in the game as well as in the work you create
No characters in romantic relationships are to be related to each other.
Trans and gender-swapped characters are welcomed, unless it is only for the explicit purpose of making a canon homosexual couple into a heterosexual couple (eg, making Aylin a man so that the relationship with Isobel is straight) 
Deadline is 10th Feb to allow for time to check entries
Collections will go live just before midnight on 13th Feb so they are ready to be viewed on Valentine's Day
If you would like to help with the event running, please contact TavyliaSin on Twitter, Discord, or anywhere else you can hunt her down~
Dead Dove and controversial topics, kinks, and characters are allowed but must be properly tagged to give people a choice of what they engage with. This also means there is to be no shaming - Tavylia would like to support all creative works even ones she isn't personally fond of or would avoid.
How Do I Join?
You can either send your submissions directly to the AO3 Collections, or if you don't have AO3 you can wait until 14th Feb and reblog/retweet the posts I'll make for the collections on the day to add your contributions. It's open to EVERYONE who is 18+! Join in, give it a try! Submissions on AO3 close on 10th Feb 2024 (just before midnight GMT/UTC 0) so please try to get things in on time to be on AO3 so we have a few days to accept and check submissions. The collections will go live on 14th February for Valentine's just around midnight UTC0/GMT
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Select "Post to Collection" to add your work! All works will be hidden until the collection releases on 14th.
Are there any Prompts?
Yes! Aside from the general theme there are prompts for art and writing (and anything else) on the following google form. You can roll dice to decide for you as each question has numbered answers and instructions on the dice to use! But you don't have to stick to the result you get - choose what you like. You don't even have to roll dice at all if you don't want to, just take a look at the selection for some ideas and choose what's interesting in it.
You can enter as many pieces as you like, so please use this to have fun and enjoy yourselves~
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If you have any questions please drop them in comments, or contact me anywhere you can find me~
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Summary: i wake up in some alley on a wholly other plane / can't remember who i am or how to get back to the base -- Or: a perfectly normal (if somewhat chilly) van ride on the way to Season 8 of Hermitcraft. Everything should be fine.
Authors: @fluffy-papaya, @betweenlands
Submitter: @staringamassivemistakeintheface
Note from submitter: datd is like THE hc/3l fic to me it ties together the two overlapping strings of plot without feeling uncomfortable and it makes rk into a character of his own instead of being a silly game of thrones impression. it has so many fun chapter endings that must have made the people who were there while it was live updating want to Scream. the writing is so good i want to podfic it. doc slowly figuring out the importance of martyn, a man he's never met, only through his interactions with rk is genuinely brilliant, and if you like either hermitcraft or the life series you've probably already read this, but if you haven't then you completely should.
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sweatersinthesummer · 8 months
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My first fanbinding project!
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Obviously it’s not perfect. Far from it. But I’m thrilled nonetheless. It looks like a real book! Granted, one that was splattered by glue and stored in a humid room, maybe, but still! A real book that was spattered by glue and stored in a humid room!
Lessons for next time: use the right kind of glue and/or less of it. Keep the workspace neat (ahem, glue-free). Ok, mostly my lessons involve glue.
I also made a book press out of two wood plaques from the craft store and some carriage bolts and wingnuts. Super easy and cost under $10!
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Fic: Ship of Theseus by Gallaplacidia (fic is no longer on ao3, but a link to an archive of her work can be found here.) My podfic of it.
Fonts used: Garamond for the text, Frontage for the cover. I designed it using InDesign. Printing it properly involved a lot of cursing and googling.
The cover is canvas from Joann's, backed with lightweight fusible interfacing. I got the chipboard from a craft store. The paper used is cheap stuff I had on hand. I was trying to make this without spending any money, but my wallet laughed at that. At least now I have enough supplies to make a few more without buying anything.
My next project is already in the design stage. It's a much longer fic, but as it will be a gift for the author, that's all I can say now.
I chose this fic primarily because it's short because I thought that might be easier, but aside from the amount of time it took to sew the signatures together (negligible) I don't think it made a difference. I suppose the typesetting took less time as well.
Anyway, this was fun! On to the next!
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specialagentartemis · 5 months
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Jews In Space flash exchange! A fanwork exchange—primarily fanfic, but open to other mediums as well including art, vids, graphics, and podfic—centering Jewish characters in sci-fi!
Doesn’t have to be space, either. Sci-fi encompasses all sorts of things. From Star Trek and Babylon 5 to Wolf 359 to The Murderbot Diaries and Becky Chambers’s Wayfarers, to Dirk Gently and Welcome To Night Vale to Pacific Rim to The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, we are imagining and celebrating Jews in sci-fi settings past, present, and future.
Nominations and sign-ups run until November 19th, 11:00 Eastern Time.
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It is completed!
After...over a year of work we have finally finished the podfic of foreign object by @audreycritter
Listen to the full podfic from the beginning on ao3 here:
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rosewind2007 · 5 days
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Hey! Murderbot Diaries fandom creators! There’s an open collection on AO3 for any works relating to that augmented human weirdo Dr Gurathin and his origins
He’s the odd one out of PresAux, a loner, a suspicious asshole, augmented…
We know from Exit Strategy he’s different:
“Why is this ship so old and shitty?”
Ratthi objected, “Hey, it may be old, but it’s not shitty. It came to Preservation packed into the hold of that much bigger ship, the one that’s become the station, with our grandparents. Well, not Gurathin’s grandparents, he came later.”
--Exit Stragegy, Ch 8
So! Do you have a piece of original artwork or writing or podfic or anything which addresses this?
There are three rules:
1) How and/or why Dr. Gurathin came to Preservation is a substantial part of the story being told by the fic/podfic/artwork.
2) All works are in the Murderbot Diaries fandom.
3) Tag appropriately.
That's it. All ratings, all tags, AUs, canon-compliant, crossovers, all welcome
Please join us! We would love to hear your ideas/head canons/thoughts…
I already added one of my earlier works, which is pretty bonkers (always watch the tags)
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hermitarchive · 8 months
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Have you ever wanted to voice a character in the From the Archives podfic project? Keep an eye out and warm your voice up; auditions for the remaining cast will be opening very soon!
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nerdy-valkyrie · 8 months
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WAIT YOU VOICE SCOTT IN FROM THE ARCHIVES??!!! IM CURRENTLY OBSESSED WITH THAT YOU ARESO COOL AND IF YOU'RE IN CONTACT WITH ANY KF THE OTHER PEOPLE INVOLVED (which I assume you are) PLEASE TELL THEM THAT I AM SUPER EXCITED AND LOVE IT!!!!!!
Gods, I just clicked here bc I'm going through followers on my sideblog (not telling, before you ask) and now I'm fangirling. Reminds me of the time one of my favourite fanfic authors commented on one of my fics- it's so easy to forget that at the end of the day we're all just people obsessed with similar things lol
Dang! I already have fans and my episode isn't even out yet!
I will definitely let them know
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thatthirdtriplet · 13 days
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Relationships:
Tim Drake & Bruce Wayne Tim Drake & Jason Todd Tim Drake & Dick Grayson Tim Drake & Damian Wayne Tim Drake & Ra's al Ghul Cassandra Cain & Tim Drake Tim Drake & Prudence Wood
Characters:
Tim Drake Batfamily Members Bruce Wayne Jason Todd Dick Grayson Damian Wayne Ra's al Ghul Alfred Penny worth Cassandra Cain Stephanie Brown prudence Wood
Additional Tags:
Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence Tim Drake-centric child Neglect meta human Tim Drake Bruce Wayne Tries to Be a Good Parent Bruce Wayne is Bad at Feelings Tim Drake Needs a Hug Suicide Suicide Attempt is it suicide if you know you'll come back to life??? Resurrection It Gets Worse Before It Gets Better good Older Sibling Dick Grayson hurt Tim Drake child Death character Undeath Character Study angst fluff and Angst angst with a Happy Ending hurt/Comfort Jewish Tim Drake unreliable Narrator immortal Tim Drake Tim Drake's Missing Spleen creepy Ra's al Ghul No Bashingthe author loves all characters Damian Wayne is Bad at Feelings good Sibling Jason Todd good Sibling Damian Wayne good Sibling Cassandra Cain Tim Drake Has Issues Tim Drake Is Deranged(AFFECTIONATE) Tim Drake has the self-preservation instincts of a wet paper bag blanket permission for art and podfics Lazarus Pit Side Effects (DCU) The unreliable narrator tag is there for a REASON Deranged Tim Drake I EXPLICITLY FORBID ANYONE FROM FEEDING MY FICS TO AI
Summary:
Tim is five years old when he drowns in his parents' pool. He dies quietly, waiting for parents who love him, but will never be there, to realise that something is wrong. They never show up, and he sinks into oblivion.
When he wakes up and claws his way out of the water, the sun has set, and the lights of his house are on. He is cold and wet and his lungs burn.
But most of all, Tim is alone.
(If you die and no-one is there to see it, were you ever alive in the first place?)
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museqmeg · 1 month
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I love the Trigun, both the old and new series! But I have a question, in the Trigun stampede series, what exactly are Vash’s plant powers? When he helps the plants, is he healing them or comforting them?
From what I can gather, his powers are a little different than how they have been presented in Trimax and the 98 anime. Trigun Stampede is special in that it makes a point to showcase his "drain" ability. The black hole imagery when he loses his arm is especially compelling and the OST track when he and Knives are in the stratosphere is titled, "Drain Arm." Conrad's dialog of "He's the only one that can take from and send to the gate" is vague, but I think a bit of foreshadowing of what's to come and why Knives needed Vash. It's an ability that Knives does not possess and in a way, makes Vash the more evolved/superior Independent. As for how he heals and comforts his plant sisters, I have a little fic that I wrote to explore how I think it works.
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kiwiana-writes · 2 months
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[Podfic] but if you could see us from a distance, you’d know i’ve always been so close to you
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Objectively, standing half-soaked from rainwater with a stitch in his side and an uncomfortable, raging hard-on outside his worst enemy’s door is not Henry’s finest moment. It’s not even on the list. -- or, henry is afflicted with a curse-gone-wrong that stipulates that only his sworn enemy, alex claremont-diaz, can touch him.
Podfic of but if you could see us from a distance, you’d know i’ve always been so close to you by @anincompletelist
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takonxmz · 5 months
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Lan Xichen could see ghosts since he was a child, though he could not hear them like his brother Wangji can. When he runs from the burning of the Cloud Recesses, he is saved by a silent boy who takes care of him and follows him like a shadow for years to come. But what is Meng Yao’s unfinished business? Will Lan Xichen be spared from his resentment? Alternatively: how different would the story be if Meng Yao had been a ghost all along?
A XiYao podfic of 𝘚𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘴 (𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴) by Shiome aka @evilhasnever
Listen &/or download on ao3 here 🔗⤵️
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