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the yule goat has left the building
1. In the end I didn't sign up for Yuletide. For one thing, the whole sign up process seemed more onerous than I remember it being. For another, work has been kicking my ass for about three weeks, and will kick my ass harder during the holiday season, so I had to seriously consider whether I wanted to come home feeling dead tired and then be obliged to write an exchange fic. For yet another and probably the most important, I found myself only interested in writing quite specific kinds of fic for the fandoms that interested me. I could've offered Taskmaster, but what happens what I get matched to someone who really loves the show's kinky implications when I'm that weirdo who's mostly uninterested* in Taskmaster kink? I could've offered The Left Hand of Darkness, but I don't want to write Estraven/Ai romance or a fix-it where Estraven lives, and those are popular requests. So I thought it was better for all concerned if I didn't play.
(*By "uninterested" I mean, "interested in idiosyncratic ways, with a whole collection of anti-kinks and squicks some of which are apparently very popular in the fandom; most of what interests me about kink does not interest other people, including and perhaps especially those who are kinky in their own lives.")
2. Apparently the first episode of The Magnus Protocol has dropped? I feel a depressing level of indifference. I'm still very fond of Jonny and, despite everything, Alex, but I'm finding it hard to get past the sense that this is overhyped and cannot possibly match up to the original.
I'd be happy to be proved wrong.
3. Relatedly, can anybody rec me some audio drama? What I'm looking for: genre stories such as horror and sff preferably (I'm flexible on this); focused on or prominently featuring queer stories and characters, including queer men (I'm not at all flexible on this); writing that besides the usual good characterization etc. is appropriate to the audio medium (no trying to shoehorn a visual story into a podcast); decent acting and production values. By the way, while I want queer stories, I don't need the stories to be cheerleader-y about it. I know it's okay to be queer! I don't want to be relentlessly affirmed by fiction like it's a fucking support group session.
I said audio drama but I'm also fine with gaming/actual play podcasts provided they're ideally audio-first, or edited for audio. I've bounced off a couple of actual play podcasts that were just unedited audio tracks from a video stream.
Podcasts I like/d a lot: The Magnus Archives, Rusty Quill Gaming; Old Gods of Appalachia despite some reservations.
Podcasts I have tried that didn't work for me: The Secret of St. Kilda, Malevolent, Wolf 359, The White Vault, Folxlore, and sadly also Pseudopod because while I love Alasdair Stuart, every one of the stories I have listened to was terrible. Quite possibly I just got a bad sampling. I did like many aspects of Neighbourly but it started to feel too derivative of TMA without being as skilled at dealing with all the red strings.
I'm picky, sorry. Please help a picky person find something to enjoy?
(*By "uninterested" I mean, "interested in idiosyncratic ways, with a whole collection of anti-kinks and squicks some of which are apparently very popular in the fandom; most of what interests me about kink does not interest other people, including and perhaps especially those who are kinky in their own lives.")
2. Apparently the first episode of The Magnus Protocol has dropped? I feel a depressing level of indifference. I'm still very fond of Jonny and, despite everything, Alex, but I'm finding it hard to get past the sense that this is overhyped and cannot possibly match up to the original.
I'd be happy to be proved wrong.
3. Relatedly, can anybody rec me some audio drama? What I'm looking for: genre stories such as horror and sff preferably (I'm flexible on this); focused on or prominently featuring queer stories and characters, including queer men (I'm not at all flexible on this); writing that besides the usual good characterization etc. is appropriate to the audio medium (no trying to shoehorn a visual story into a podcast); decent acting and production values. By the way, while I want queer stories, I don't need the stories to be cheerleader-y about it. I know it's okay to be queer! I don't want to be relentlessly affirmed by fiction like it's a fucking support group session.
I said audio drama but I'm also fine with gaming/actual play podcasts provided they're ideally audio-first, or edited for audio. I've bounced off a couple of actual play podcasts that were just unedited audio tracks from a video stream.
Podcasts I like/d a lot: The Magnus Archives, Rusty Quill Gaming; Old Gods of Appalachia despite some reservations.
Podcasts I have tried that didn't work for me: The Secret of St. Kilda, Malevolent, Wolf 359, The White Vault, Folxlore, and sadly also Pseudopod because while I love Alasdair Stuart, every one of the stories I have listened to was terrible. Quite possibly I just got a bad sampling. I did like many aspects of Neighbourly but it started to feel too derivative of TMA without being as skilled at dealing with all the red strings.
I'm picky, sorry. Please help a picky person find something to enjoy?