A Romantic Fangirl

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2026-03-17T11:16:31Z

I really should get back into the habit of crossposting my stuff here, but the backlog is daunting.

This is just a post to remind myself to use this blog more.

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KDHeart's 2025 ITPE Dear Podficcer letter

2025-09-15T18:25:39Z

Dear podficcer,

It is once again that time of the year! ITPE is here and it's time to brush off the old letter and tell you what I like. Things haven't changed that much.

Repods are welcome (especially of stuff I've already podficced) and I'd be very happy if you podficced anything of mine (I am aware how small some of these fandoms are and I doubt more fic will miraculously appear in the meantime).

Fandoms

Jonny Quest (any media, but The Real Adventures and the new Dynamite comics in particular) (Dr Quest/Race, team fic, family shenanigans, adventures, Jonny, Jessie and Hadji in any combination, platonic or romantic, any of Race's or Benton’s past relationships, anything really ...just not the one where Jessie dies of cancer)

Venom (Eddie/Symbiote, Eddie/Symbiote/Anne/Dan - for the movie, Eddie/Symbiote, Eddie/Symbiote/Flash, Flash/Symbiote, Venom/Spider-Man, Eddie&MJ - for the comics. I am not up to date on the comics, but I know the relevant spoilers and I'm slowly making my way through the whole continuity)

Marvel's Midnight Suns - I've been playing this game for a week and I am hooked. It's the 2012 Avenger's Tower vibe I was missing, but Venom is there, too (any combination of characters, any ship, but mainly Iron Man/Dr Strange and Venom/anyone, team fic, hurt/comfort, the usual)

The Fall Guy (2024) (all the whump!! Colt Seavers (TV) was my original blorbo and probably the reason I'm into half the stuff I'm into, but especially the whump - I want that man to suffer!)

Sunshine (2007) - whump and hurt/comfort preferred

Kane and Feels (gen fic, case fic, fluff, hurt/comfort, Kane/Feels, Feels/Jenny, KaneHana)

MarsCorp (team fic, gen, anything focused on Hob or David Knight)

Down (podcast) (any combination of Team Virgil and the Entity is welcome, lots of tentacles and mind fuckary ahoy!) (yes, I already podficced everything in the tag. I don't mind repods!) (huge soft spot for MarionCharley, regardless of punctuation)

The Infinite Bad (anything)

The Kingmaker Histories (podcast) (Eisen/Telesphore, the trio being either platonic, or romantic, shenanigans, Ariadne and Ninette - fingers crossed, there's going to be some fun fic to record)

Lockwood&co (TV) (Lucy/Anthony or Lucy/Anthony/George, hurt/comfort or shenanigans)

The Bastard Son and the Devil Himself (TV) (ot3. none of the individual pairings, please. h/c preferred, maybe some light angst)

Rusty Quill Gaming (Zolf/Sasha, SashaWilde, Zolf/Sasha/Wilde, no modern AUs)

The Murderbot Diaries (books & tv, all the found family feels! and grumpy SecUnits! ART! I have a very soft spot for Gurathin in all his grumpy glory)

Leverage (THE OT3!!!! team fic! competence kink! Eliot's cooking!)

The Mummy (Rick/Evelyn/Ardeth Bay)

Whyborne & Griffin (Whyborne/Griffin, Christine/Iskander, Maggie/Persephone, or gen + waffles)

Jurassic Park (the books and the original trilogy) (Alan Grant/Ian Malcolm/Ellie Sattler,)

The Exorcist (TV) (gimme that good, blasphemous whump and hurt/comfort!)

Guardian (Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan and Chu Shuzhi/Guo Changcheng)

White Collar (the other OT3)

The Flash (Harry/Cisco - I'm back in the Harrisco Pit. I'm staying in the Harrisco Pit for the foreseeable)

Supernatural (Sam/Gabriel, soul bonds, h/c, going back to my roots with this one, 2010s fic preferred)

The first tag I usually check for any new fandom is still the Hurt/Comfort tag - that should tell you what you need. Feel free to smother me in fluff, or whump. However, I generally prefer things to have a happy ending, no matter how dark and painful they get along the way.

Yes: hurt/comfort, fluff, whump, non-sexual kink (especially bondage and D/s), polyamory, team fic, queerplatonic relationships, asexual characters, aromantic characters, non-traditional relationships, explorations of identity, explorations of gender, trans headcannons, lots of fluff, disturbing fluff, mutual dub-con, sex pollen (consensual and enthusiastic use of sex pollen is muchly appreciated, but the garden variety dub-conny kind is also welcome), tentacles, non-human biology, mind games, hypnosis, codependent characters, self-sacrificing idiots, sleep deprived characters who make bad decisions, naps, pining, loyalty, competence, soul bonds, time loops, character study - this is an incomplete and very incoherent list. I like a lot of things.

No: modern AUs for fantasy media, hopeless endings, pure angst, permanent character death (especially from cancer), things done to characters against their consent while they are unconscious, non-con as the main focus, omegaverse, needles being inserted in eyes (eye trauma in general isn't an issue, just very specifically no scenes of needles being inserted in eyes. yes, i am aware of what fandoms i'm in), pregnancy (of any kind) as the focus of the fic, daddy kink, breeding kink, OOC, soulmates, reincarnation

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KDHeart's 2024 ITPE Dear Podficcer letter

2024-09-21T22:53:15Z

Dear podficcer,

I am very excited to see what you record for me and I am going to try and make this as coherent as I possibly can. Obviously, the moment ITPE signups started, I forgot every single fandom I was in.

Know that the first tag I usually check for any new fandom is the Hurt/Comfort tag - that should tell you what you need. Feel free to smother me in fluff, or whump. However, I generally prefer things to have a happy ending, no matter how dark and painful they get along the way.

Yes: hurt/comfort, fluff, whump, non-sexual kink (especially bondage and D/s), polyamory, team fic, queerplatonic relationships, asexual characters, aromantic characters, non-traditional relationships, explorations of identity, explorations of gender, trans headcannons, lots of fluff, disturbing fluff, mutual dub-con, sex pollen (consensual and enthusiastic use of sex pollen is muchly appreciated, but the garden variety dub-conny kind is also welcome), tentacles, non-human biology, mind games, hypnosis, codependent characters, self-sacrificing idiots, sleep deprived characters who make bad decisions, naps, pining, loyalty, competence, soul bonds, time loops, character study - this is an incomplete and very incoherent list. I like a lot of things.

No: hopeless endings, pure angst, permanent character death (especially from cancer), things done to characters against their consent while they are unconscious, non-con, omegaverse, needles being inserted in eyes (eye trauma in general isn't an issue, just very specifically no scenes of needles being inserted in eyes. yes, i am aware of what fandoms i'm in), pregnancy as the focus of the fic (of any kind), daddy kink, OOC, soulmates, reincarnation

Repods are welcome (especially of stuff I've already podficced) and I'd be very happy if you podficced anything of mine (I am aware how small some of these fandoms are and I doubt more fic will miraculously appear in the meantime).

Fandoms

Jonny Quest (any media, but The Real Adventures and the new Dynamite comics in particular) (Dr Quest/Race, team fic, family shenanigans, adventures, Jonny, Jessie and Hadji in any combination, platonic or romantic, any of Race's or Benton’s past relationships, anything really ...just not the one where Jessie dies of cancer)
The Kingmaker Histories (podcast) (season 2 has just begun and I'm hoping for more fic to pop up - Eisen/Telesphore, the trio being either platonic, or romantic, shenanigans, Ariadne and Ninette - fingers crossed, there's going to be some fun fic to record)
The Fall Guy (2024) (all the whump!! Colt Seavers was my original blorbo - I want that man to suffer!)

Sunshine (2007) - whump and hurt/comfort preferred
Kane and Feels (gen fic, case fic, fluff, hurt/comfort, Kane/Feels, Feels/Jenny, KaneHana)
Down (podcast) (any combination of Team Virgil and the Entity is welcome, lots of tentacles and mind fuckary ahoy!) (yes, I already podficced everything in the tag. I don't mind repods!) (huge soft spot for MarionCharley, regardless of punctuation)
MarsCorp (team fic, gen, anything focused on Hob or David Knight)
The Infinite Bad (anything)
Lockwood&co (TV) (Lucy/Anthony or Lucy/Anthony/George, hurt/comfort or shenanigans)
The Bastard Son and the Devil Himself (TV) (ot3. none of the individual pairings, please. h/c preferred, maybe some light angst)
Rusty Quill Gaming (Zolf/Sasha, no modern AUs)
The Murderbot Diaries (all the found family feels! and grumpy SecUnits! ART!)
Leverage (THE OT3!!!! team fic! competence kink! Eliot's cooking!)
The Mummy (Rick/Evelyn/Ardeth Bay)
Venom (Eddie/Symbiote, Eddie/Symbiote/Anne/Dan - for the movie, Eddie/Symbiote, Eddie/Symbiote/Flash, Flash/Symbiote - for the comics)
Whyborne & Griffin (Whyborne/Griffin, Christine/Iskander, Maggie/Persephone, or gen + waffles)
Jurassic Park (the books and the original trilogy) (Alan Grant/Ian Malcolm/Ellie Sattler,)
The Exorcist (TV) (gimme that good, blasphemous whump and hurt/comfort!)
Guardian (Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan and Chu Shuzhi/Guo Changcheng)
White Collar (the other OT3)
The Flash (Harry/Cisco)
Port Saga (podcast) (the podcast has been over for two years and there's still no fic for it, but I’m still holding out hope something will come up eventually)
Supernatural (Sam/Gabriel, soul bonds, h/c, going back to my roots with this one, 2010s fic preferred)

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How to recover a creashed Audacity recording

2024-02-04T23:22:24Z

I recently had Audacity crash just as I stopped a recording and was about to save the project.
It usually recovers what you were working on when you restart it, so I wasn't particularly worried... Until I was greeted with a text box that said that it recovered to the last snapshot of the project and behind it, an empty project.

The best piece of advice for this situation I could find online was to find the temp file for the project and save it somewhere else as back-up. Nothing else I could find (change the extension name from aup3unsaved to aup3 and do the same for the other additional files - by cutting out the unsaved part of the extension - and open it directly in Audacity, or importing the temp file - which registers as an incompatible format), so I saved the temp files and decided to deal with it later.

After stepping away for a few days and spending a few hours playing around with various settings, I managed to recover a slightly damaged version of the recording (it's ok, the damage is mostly annoying)

problem: recording crashes before you can save or export it and when you try to recover it on opening audacity, you're greeted with an empty project
what to do:

Don't exit Audacity!!! you might lose the temp file
Set Windows Explorer to show hidden files
Go to C:\Users\[your user name]\AppData\Local\Audacity\SessionData and copy the three temp files for the most recent session to some place else (preferably, zip them together to make sure they won't go anywhere)
Open Audacity
File > Import > Raw Data and import the unsaved project from where you put your copy of it
You might need to fiddle with the settings on import (for some reason, this was saved at 22050Hz and you might need to change Byte order to Default endianness. If you get the rate wrong, you can change that in the project, afterwards)
You're probably going to get one huge file of everything that's been recorded that day, with gaps and glitches between sections of recording
Split stereo to mono and get rid of the channel with the egregious glitches
Export the file in a lossless format
You can deal with editing it later. At least you got your recording back

This is what the recovered audio looked like, before I did anything to it. (Ignore the 32-bit float part. This was an earlier recovery, before I remembered to change it to 16-bit and figured out the ratio)

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ITPE 2023 Dear Podficcer

2023-09-21T21:23:12Z

Dear podficcer,

It is once again time to dust off last year's letter and try to remember what the hell do I like. I won't pretend I'm writing this from scratch, because, let's face it, I'd just freeze with indecision. (I love this exchange and I will love what you make for me, but I hate having to think about what I like and why)

I hope you already like some of the stuff on this list (or, at least, you're willing to join me in one of my many tiny fandoms).

Know that the first tag I usually check for any new fandom is the Hurt/Comfort tag - that should tell you what you need. Feel free to smother me in fluff, or whump. However, I generally prefer things to have a happy ending, no matter how dark and painful they get along the way.

Yes: hurt/comfort, fluff, whump, non-sexual kink (especially bondage and D/s), polyamory, team fic, queerplatonic relationships, asexual characters, aromantic characters, non-traditional relationships, explorations of identity, explorations of gender, trans headcannons, lots of fluff, disturbing fluff, mutual dub-con, sex pollen (consensual and enthusiastic use of sex pollen is muchly appreciated, but the garden variety dub-conny kind is also welcome), tentacles, non-human biology, mind games, hypnosis, codependent characters, self-sacrificing idiots, sleep deprived characters who make bad decisions, naps, pining, loyalty, competence, soul bonds, character study - this is an incomplete and very incoherent list. I like a lot of things.

No: hopeless endings, pure angst, permanent character death (especially from cancer), things done to characters against their consent while they are unconscious, non-con, omegaverse, needles being inserted in eyes (eye trauma in general isn't an issue, just very specifically no scenes of needles being inserted in eyes. yes, i am aware of what fandoms i'm in), pregnancy as the focus of the fic (of any kind), daddy kink, OOC

Repods are welcome (especially of stuff I've already podficced) and I'd be very happy if you podficced anything of mine (I am aware how small some of these fandoms are and I doubt more fic will miraculously appear in the meantime).

Fandoms

Kane and Feels (gen fic, case fic, fluff, hurt/comfort, Kane/Feels, Feels/Jenny, KaneHana)
The Kingmaker Histories (podcast) (season 2 has just begun and I'm hoping for more fic to pop up - Eisen/Telesphore, the trio being either platonic, or romantic, shenanigans, Ariadne and Ninette - fingers crossed, there's going to be some fun fic to record)
The Sandman (Dream/Hob, Dream/Hob/Calliope, Death and anyone, Lucienne and anyone, Dream being his sad cat self, hurt/comfort is very much preferred. Comics and TV show are welcome, but I am very picky about the characters being in character. Surreal dream imagery, dream logic, the power of stories.)
Down (podcast) (any combination of Team Virgil and the Entity is welcome, lots of tentacles and mind fuckary ahoy!) (yes, I already podficced almost everything in the tag. I don't mind repods!) (huge soft spot for MarionCharley, regardless of punctuation)
MarsCorp (team fic, gen, anything focused on Hob or David Knight)
The Infinite Bad (anything)
The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest (Dr Quest/Race, team fic, family shenanigans, adventures, Jonny, Jessie and Hadji in any combination, platonic or romantic, any of Race's past relationships, anything really ...just not the one where Jessie dies of cancer)
Dungeons and Dragons: Honor among Thieves (Xenk/Edgin, Edgin&Holga)
Lockwood&co (TV) (Lucy/Anthony or Lucy/Anthony/George, hurt/comfort or shenanigans)
The Bastard Son and the Devil Himself (TV) (ot3. none of the individual pairings, please. h/c preferred, maybe some light angst)
Rusty Quill Gaming (Zolf/Sasha)
The Murderbot Diaries (all the found family feels! and grumpy SecUnits! ART!)
Leverage (THE OT3!!!! team fic! competence kink! Eliot's cooking!)
The Mummy (Rick/Evelyn/Ardeth Bay)
Good Omens (Ineffable Husbands! pining! cuddles! hot, steamy sex after 6000 years of slow burn! the good stuff :D )
Venom (Eddie/Symbiote, Eddie/Symbiote/Anne/Dan - for the movie, Eddie/Symbiote, Eddie/Symbiote/Flash, Flash/Symbiote for the comics)
Rivers of London (Peter/Nightingale, Peter/Beverly/Nightingale, or case fics, or fluff)
Whyborne & Griffin (Whyborne/Griffin, Christine/Iskander, Maggie/Persephone, or gen + waffles)
Jurassic Park (the books and the original trilogy) (Alan Grant/Ian Malcolm/Ellie Sattler,)
The Exorcist (TV) (gimme that good, blasphemous whump and hurt/comfort!)
Guardian (Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan and Chu Shuzhi/Guo Changcheng)
Moon Knight (TV show) (Mark/Layla, Steven/Layla, Mark/Steven/Layla, Mark and Steven character studies, lots of hurt/comfort and fluff)
White Collar (the other OT3)
The Flash (Harry/Cisco)
Port Saga (podcast) (Titus&Rebel, Titus/Father Frank - the podcast has been over for over a year and there's still no fic for it, but a girl can dream)
Supernatural (Sam/Gabriel, soul bonds, h/c, going back to my roots with this one)

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KDHeart's ITPE 2022 Dear Podficcer Letter

2022-09-24T20:10:52Z

Dear podficcer,

It's that time of the year again, when we all agonize over what *do* we like and would like our friends to get dragged into with us.

Overall, my fandom list hasn't changed much and I hope you'll find something on it that you also like (or, that I can drag you into one of my many tiny fandoms).

Know that the first tag I usually check for any new fandom is the Hurt/Comfort tag - that should tell you what you need. Feel free to smother me in fluff, or whump. However, I generally prefer things to have a happy ending, no matter how dark and painful they get along the way.

Yes: hurt/comfort, fluff, whump, non-sexual kink (especially bondage and D/s), polyamory, team fic, queerplatonic relationships, asexual characters, aromantic characters, non-traditional relationships, explorations of identity, explorations of gender, trans headcannons, lots of fluff, disturbing fluff, mutual dub-con, sex pollen (consensual and enthusiastic use of sex pollen is muchly appreciated, but the garden variety dub-conny kind is also welcome), tentacles, non-human biology, mind games, hypnosis, codependent characters, self-sacrificing idiots, sleep deprived characters who make bad decisions, naps, pining, loyalty, competence, soul bonds, character study - this is an incomplete and very incoherent list. I like a lot of things.

No: hopeless endings, pure angst, permanent character death (especially from cancer), things done to characters against their consent while they are unconscious, non-con, omegaverse, needles being inserted in eyes (eye trauma in general isn't an issue, just very specifically no scenes of needles being inserted in eyes. yes, i am aware of what fandoms i'm in), pregnancy as the focus of the fic (of any kind), daddy kink, OOC

Repods are welcome (especially of stuff I've already podficced) and I'd be very happy if you podficced anything of mine (I am aware how small some of these fandoms are and I doubt more fic will miraculously appear in the meantime).

Fandoms

The Sandman (Dream/Hob, Dream/Hob/Calliope, Death and anyone, Lucienne and anyone, Dream being his sad cat self, hurt/comfort is very much preffered. Comics and TV show are welcome, but I am very picky about the characters being in character. Surreal dream imagery, dream logic, the power of stories.)
Malevolent (podcast) (any spin on ArthurJohn whith whatever punctuation between them)
Kane and Feels (gen fic, fluff, Kane/Feels, Hana being badass, Jenny being awesome, case fic)
Moon Knight (TV show) (Mark/Layla, Steven/Layla, Mark/Steven/Layla, Mark and Steven character studies, lots of hurt/comfort and fluff)
Down (podcast) (any combination of Team Virgil and the Entity is welcome, lots of tentacles and mind fuckary ahoy!) (yes, I already podficced everything in the tag. I don't mind repods!) (huge soft spot for MarionCharley, regardless of punctuation)
MarsCorp (team fic, gen, anything focused on Hob or David Knight)
The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest (Dr Quest/Race, team fic, family shenanigans, adventures, Jonny, Jessie and Hadji in any combination, platonic or romantic, any of Race's past relationships, anything really ...just not the one where Jessie dies of cancer)
Rusty Quill Gaming (Zolf/Sasha)
The Magnus Archives (Jon/Martin, Jon/Gerry, Gerry/Michael (Shelly)... anything with Melanie... consensual mind control, accidental mutual mind control.... disturbing fluff etc)
The Murderbot Diaries (all the found family feels! and grumpy SecUnits! anything!)
Leverage (THE OT3!!!! team fic! competence kink! Eliot's cooking!)
The Mummy (Rick/Evelyn/Ardeth Bay)
Good Omens (Ineffable Husbands! pining! cuddles! hot, steamy sex after 6000 years of slow burn! the good stuff :D )
Venom (Eddie/Symbiote, Eddie/Symbiote/Anne/Dan - for the movie, Eddie/Symbiote, Eddie/Symbiote/Flash, Flash/Symbiote for the comics)
Rivers of London (Peter/Nightingale, Peter/Beverly/Nightingale, or case fics, or fluff)
Whyborne & Griffin (Whyborne/Griffin, Christine/Iskander, Maggie/Persephone, or gen + waffles)
Jurassic Park (the books and the original trilogy) (Alan Grant/Ian Malcolm/Ellie Sattler,)
The Exorcist (TV) (gimme that good, blasphemous whump and hurt/comfort!)
Guardian (Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan and Chu Shuzhi/Guo Changcheng)
White Collar (the other OT3)
The Flash (Harry/Cisco)
Port Saga (podcast) (Titus&Rebel, Titus/Father Frank - honestly, this one is near inexistent as a fandom. I'd be happy with anything)

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KDHeart's ITPE 2021 Dear Podficcer Letter

2021-09-24T23:19:49Z

Dear podficcer,

Once again, the time has come for the traditional exchange of podfic! It is lovely to have you here!

I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that I've stopped being monofannish this year and I'm back to sampling a variety of fandoms! The bad news is that it's mostly small and nearly extinct fandoms. I'm so sorry!

As always, feel free to smother me in fluff, or whump. A good dose of hurt/comfort doesn't go amiss, if you want to keep things balanced. I generally prefer things to have a happy ending, no matter how dark and painful they get along the way.

Yes: hurt/comfort, fluff, whump, non-sexual kink (especially bondage and D/s), polyamory, team fic, queerplatonic relationships, asexual characters, aromantic characters, non-traditional relationships, explorations of identity, explorations of gender, trans headcannons, lots of fluff, disturbing fluff, mutual dub-con, sex pollen (consensual and enthusiastic use of sex pollen is muchly appreciated, but the garden variety dub-conny kind is also welcome), tentacles, non-human biology, mind games, hypnosis, codependent characters, self-sacrificing idiots, sleep deprived characters who make bad decisions, naps, pining, loyalty, competence, soul bonds, character study - this is an incomplete and very incoherent list. I like a lot of things.

No: hopeless endings, pure angst, permanent character death (especially from cancer), things done to characters against their consent while they are unconscious, non-con, omegaverse, needles being inserted in eyes (eye trauma in general isn't an issue, just very specifically no scenes of needles being inserted in eyes. yes, i am aware of my fandoms), pregnancy as the focus of the fic (of any kind), daddy kink.

Repods are welcome (especially of stuff I've already podficced) and I'd be very happy if you podficced anything of mine (I am aware how small some of these fandoms are and I doubt more fic will miraculously appear in the meantime).

Fandoms

Kane and Feels (gen fic, fluff, Kane/Feels, Hana being badass, Jenny being awesome, case fic)
Hello from the Hallowoods (Percy/Diggory! Polly/Yaretzy! Jonah/Hector! basically, any of the canon ships, but also Olivier/Percy/Diggory, Olivier/Riot, stuff exploring Nikignik's nature, fluff, character studies etc)
Down (podcast) (any combination of Team Virgil and the Entity is welcome, lots of tentacles and mind fuckary ahoy!) (yes, I already podficced everything in the tag. I don't mind repods!)
MarsCorp (team fic, gen, anything focused on Hob or David Knight)
The Silt Verses
The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest (Dr Quest/Race, team fic, family shenanigans, adventures, Jonny, Jessie and Hadji in any combination, platonic or romantic, any of Race's past relationships, anything really ...just not the one where Jessie dies of cancer)
The Six Disappearances of Ella McCray
Rusty Quill Gaming (Zolf/Sasha)
The Magnus Archives (Jon/Martin, Jon/Gerry, Gerry/Michael (Shelly)... anything with Melanie... consensual mind control, accidental mutual mind control.... disturbing fluff etc)
The Murderbot Diaries (all the found family feels! and grumpy SecUnits! anything!)
The Tarot Sequence (Brandon/Rune/Addam, please!)
Leverage (THE OT3!!!! team fic! competence kink! Eliot's cooking!)
The Mummy (Rick/Evelyn/Ardeth Bay)
Good Omens (Ineffable Husbands! pining! cuddles! hot, steamy sex after 6000 years of slow burn! the good stuff :D )
Venom (Eddie/Symbiote, Eddie/Symbiote/Anne/Dan - for the movie, Eddie/Symbiote, Eddie/Symbiote/Flash, Flash/Symbiote for the comics)
Rivers of London (Peter/Nightingale, Peter/Beverly/Nightingale, or case fics, or fluff)
Whyborne & Griffin (Whyborne/Griffin, Christine/Iskander, Maggie/Persephone, or gen + waffles)
Jurassic Park (the books and the original trilogy) (Alan Grant/Ian Malcolm/Ellie Sattler,)
Camp Cretaceous (let the kids be badass! give Stumpy more love!)
The Tick (2017) (something soft and fun is preferred)
The Exorcist (TV) (gimme that good, blasphemous whump and hurt/comfort!)
Guardian (Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan and Chu Shuzhi/Guo Changcheng)
White Collar (the other OT3)
The Flash (Harry/Cisco)

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ITPE 2020 Dear Podficcer Letter

2020-10-05T20:01:54Z

Once again, it's that time of the year and boy, what a year it's been!

Please feel free to smother me in fluff and hurt/comfort. I'm ok with darker stuff, but it just feels right at the end of the year to settle down for a bit with something warm and fluffy.

Yes: hurt/comfort, whump, fluff, polyamory, team fic, case fic, fluff, wingfic, fluff, BDSM (platonic BDSM), fluff, coffeeshop AU, gen, curtain fic, crossovers, fluff, queerplatonic relationships, non-sexual kink , disturbing fluff, mutual dub-con, sex pollen (consensual and enthusiastic use of sex pollen is muchly appreciated, but the garden variety dub-conny kind is also welcome), tentacles, Lydia Nicholas with a knife,
No: mpreg, a/b/o, darkfic, angst, non-con, character death, cheating, somnophilia, daddy kink

Fandoms
I've been... pretty mono-fannish this year...
Rusty Quill Gaming (Zolf/Wilde, SashaWilde, Zolf/Cel, Grizzop/Wilde, LOLOMG poly, dragon!Hamid, SKRAAK!!!!!, you have a lot to work with, really)
The Magnus Archives (Jon/Martin, Jon/Gerry, Gerry/Michael (Shelly)... I'm open to other pairings.... anything with Melanie... consensual mind control, accidental mutual mind control.... disturbing fluff etc)
But don't worry, I'm still into my old fandoms:
Leverage (THE OT3!!!!)
The Mummy (Rick/Evelyn/Ardeth Bay)
Good Omens (Ineffable Husbands! pining! cuddles! hot, steamy sex after 6000 years of slow burn! the good stuff :D )
Venom (Eddie/Symbiote, Eddie/Symbiote/Anne/Dan - for the movie, Eddie/Symbiote, Eddie/Symbiote/Flash, Flash/Symbiote for the comics)
Rivers of London (Peter/Nightingale, Peter/Beverly/Nightingale)
The Flash (Harry/Cisco)
The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest (Dr Quest/Race, or the trio, or anything really...just not the one where Jessie dies of cancer)
Whyborne & Griffin (Whyborne/Griffin, Christine/Iskander, Maggie/Persephone, or gen + waffles - Deosil didn't bring the abundance of fic I was hoping for, but it's here, if anything comes out after I make this list)
The Tick (2017)
The Exorcist (TV) (gimme that good, blasphemous whump and hurt/comfort!)
Guardian (Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan and Chu Shuzhi/Guo Changcheng)
White Collar (the other OT3)

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#ITPE 2019 Dear Podficcer Letter

2019-09-10T20:12:28Z

I'm actually trying to put this together early this year, so I have time to add things to it, if anything comes up (It's mostly the same list, tho)

Hi!
It's almost that time of the year again!
As always, fluff and hurt/comfort are the best kind of fic, especially around this time of year, but my definition of both is pretty wide, so don't worry.

Yes: hurt/comfort, whump, fluff, polyamory, team fic, case fic, fluff, wingfic, fluff, BDSM (platonic BDSM), fluff, coffeeshop AU, gen, curtain fic, crossovers
No: mpreg, a/b/o, darkfic, angst, non-con, character death, cheating (i'm looking at you, BFU fic)

Fandoms:
Good Omens (Ineffable Husbands! pining! cuddles! hot, steamy sex after 6000 years of slow burn! the good stuff :D if we end up podficcing the same thing, I really won't be surprised)
Venom (Eddie/Symbiote, Eddie/Symbiote/Anne/Dan - for the movie, Eddie/Symbiote, Eddie/Symbiote/Flash, Flash/Symbiote for the comics)
Whyborne & Griffin (Whyborne/Griffin, Christine/Iskander, Maggie/Persephone, or gen + waffles - yes, this fandom is small and there isn't much fic, but Deosil is coming out and we might get some new fic!)
Leverage (The OT3)
Buzzfeed Unsolved (Ryan/Shane, Ryan/Shane/Sarah or gen, no cheating fic)
Rivers of London (we're gonna end up podficcing the same fic, aren't we? and it's going to be one by sixth-light, isn't it? :D)
The Flash (Harrisco, Harry/Cisco, Cisco/Harry, Cisco Ramon/Earth-2 Harrison Wells - I've been wallowing in the Harrisco pit for years! have pity on me!!! - Cisco/Cynthia, Cisco/Harry/Cynthia, Cisco/Captain Cold, Harry/Joe, Barry/Len)
The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest (Dr Quest/Race, or the trio, or anything really...just not the one where Jessie dies of cancer)
The Mummy (Rick/Evelyn/Ardeth Bay)
The Tick (2017)
The Exorcist (TV) (gimme that good, blasphemous whump and hurt/comfort!)
Guardian (I've only just started watching and I haven't memorized the characters names yet, but it's pretty obvious what I'm into)
White Collar (the other OT3)
Supernatural (Sam/Gabriel - as always)

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Behind the scenes: It's like Photoshop, except not really

2019-05-08T21:28:57Z

I'm not sure part 1 of how many this is going to be, but I'll get around to doing a proper post about my editing process at some point.

You know those before and after Photoshop pics? Well, this is something like that, except for podfic. We were having a conversation in the server last night about playing around with volume and I shared a screenshot of a raw recording along with the finished podfic for comparison and then I went through a few more projects, because it looked interesting.

I thought I'd share a wider selection here for anyone curious.

I couldn't go back further than 2017, because any unedited files I have from before then are still unedited.

Here's a short one for a little breakdown

I tend to record each page/screen twice and mark the end with a snap. I count those as takes and any flubs and pickups in between those go unmarked. One page is about 4 minutes unedited and about 3 minutes when edited.
I use the second take and keep the first one as backup in case I mess up a word or there are any background noises I've missed when recording.
Most of the fics I record tend to be on the quiet side lately, so even when I boost the volume, they're not very loud. Still, I try to keep them from going over -3dB.

Here's a longer one (45min), recorded in two sittings.

This one's about the same length, except I had the "brilliant" idea to record it in one sitting. (It's Eat me, EL James! Yes, that's mostly one long sex scene)

This was a much longer one. This took three days to record and eight sittings. It was actually the third time I recorded this fic, but I never finished the first two attempts, because I kept having to change my recording setup.
For some reason, the project for the 6th part glitched and isn't working, but I had it saved in another folder and used that when editing.
Backup your raw recordings as WAV or other lossless formats before you start editing!!!

Here's a few more for the curious

The last one is one of the few times my raw recording was louder than the finished podfic.

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It was a living... [podfic]

2019-03-03T21:39:44Z

cover by bessyboo

After sitting out last year, I settled on one of my own fics for this year's Awesome Ladies Podfic Anthology

Title: It was a living...
Author: kdheart
Reader: kdheart
Fandom: The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest
Characters: Julia
Rating: T
Summary: Between a kiss on the cheek and a 2am phone call, Julia had a lot to wait and a lot to think about. She wasn't good at either.
Length: 4:56min
Right-click > save as: MP3 || 4.5MB

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Mr Sandman (Bring Me A Dream) [podfic]

2019-02-24T23:17:31Z

Title: Mr Sandman (Bring Me A Dream)
Author: the_technicolor_whiscash
Reader: kdheart
Fandom: Jurassic Park
Characters/Pairings: Alan Grant/Ian Malcolm/Ellie Sattler
Rating: G
Summary: Ian, Alan, and Ellie need to give a lecture in a small college town in California. Unfortunately, hotel reservations got screwed up, resulting in one incredibly small hotel room. Ian decides to take full advantage of the situation.
Length: 14:04min
Right-click > save as: MP3 || 9.7MB

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Hearts [podfic]

2019-02-13T23:19:18Z

Title: Hearts
Author: kitausuret
Reader: kdheart
Fandom: Venom (comics)
Characters/Pairings: Eddie Brock/Flash Thompson/Venom
Rating: T
Warning: Amazing Spider-Man #800 fix-it
Summary: On a rainy, cursed night when the Red Goblin tore through New York City, he left carnage in his wake. In a moment of impulse, Eddie Brock allowed his symbiote to go with Spider-Man to try and defeat Osborn as one, teaming up with Agent Anti-Venom, Flash Thompson. And so he waited on the Stark Industries rooftop with Mary Jane Watson, but the one who returned with Venom... was not who he expected.

Or: There's a lot of air to clear, but almost dying can certainly give a man some perspective.

A companion piece to No Free Ride to Valhalla
Length: 15:23min
Right-click > save as: MP3 || 70.3MB

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No Free Ride to Valhalla [podfic]

2019-02-06T23:12:36Z

Title: No Free Ride to Valhalla
Author: kitausuret
Reader: kdheart
Fandom: Venom (comics)
Characters/Pairings: Past Valkyrie/Flash Thompson, Flash Thompson&Venom Symbiote
Rating: G
Warning: Amazing Spider-Man #800 fix-it
Summary: Having fallen at the hands of the Red Goblin, the monstrosity that is the deadly combination of Norman Osborn and the Carnage Symbiote, Flash Thompson (AKA Agent Anti-Venom) lies dying on a rooftop.

A certain old flame of his, though, refuses to accept that.
Length: 8:29min
Right-click > save as: MP3 || 70.3MB

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Like Glass [podfic]

2019-01-31T22:22:26Z

Title: Like Glass
Author: entanglednow
Reader: kdheart
Fandom: Supernatural
Characters/Pairings: Sam/Gabriel
Rating: M
Warning: dark themes, blood
Summary: Sam wakes up on the bathroom floor.
Length: 1:42h
Right-click > save as: MP3 || 70.3MB

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Remove mouth noises the hard way (Repair tool)

2019-01-23T21:19:14Z

If you're particularly annoyed by mouth noises in your recording and you really, really want to get rid of them and you have enough patience to go through it by hand, the Repair effect is your best friend in Audacity. I suggest assigning it a keyboard shortcut or using Ctrl+R (repeat last effect used) a lot.
You find it in the Effects menu, under the Built-in section/the first part of the menu (depending on how you have it displayed). Myself, I've made Alt+Z my shortcut for it, because it's easier to remember along with Ctrl+Z for Undo.

I marked a few spots with noticeable mouth noise

When the noise is outside of a word, it's pretty simple to delete it - just do a fade in/out to whatever's next to it to make sure it doesn't sound jarring. Also, Repair helps here, too. Just apply it over the ends that are now joined.

When the noise happens on a letter, it gets a bit tricky and deleting tends to cause more problems.
You'll need to zoom in.

You can only apply the Repair effect over very short segments, so you'll have to go bit by bit until the wave is fixed. (Up to 128 samples or a few thousandths of a second - if you select too much, it will give you an error alert and do nothing, don't worry)

It doesn't always work perfectly, but it can get quite addictive (I have spent half an hour removing two seconds of phone interference from two minutes of recording - I was drunk on power and didn't care it would have been simpler to just rerecord).

You can also use it to turn an R into an L if you ever need that or, in a more practical application, to fix clipped sound waves.

Here's the portion of recording I used for the example. It's the same 17s first with mouth noise and then cleaned up

Also, pressing Alt while using the Draw Tool will give you a Brush Tool which you can also use to smooth out glitches and mouth noises in your recording, unfortunately, since the cursor doesn't appear in screenshots, I have no images for that.

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Quest System Logs [podfic]

2018-12-29T22:36:03Z

Title: Quest System Logs
Author: Mendeia
Reader: kdheart
Fandom: The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest
Rating: Gen
Summary: In a family of computer scientists, hackers, and gamers, certain hilarity is inevitable. This is just one collection of the notes/emails, hacks to IRIS's verbal command protocols, requisition requests, and QuestWorld cheat codes that can be found on the Quest system.
Length: 11:42min
Right-click > save as, or left-click to play: MP3 || 8.12MB

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How to get rid of pesky sibilants without a de-esser [podfic tips]

2018-12-22T17:06:33Z

Quick post, bc it's come up and it's something that took me a few weeks to figure out: How to manage sibilants without a de-esser plug-in in Audacity.

The short answer: use Plot Spectrum to find the loudest frequency and then tone it down using Notch Filter. Set Q to around 5-7 for best results.
Slightly longer answer with pictures:

Select the portion of audio that you want to de-ess. Go to Analyze and click on Plot Spectrum (I suggest adding a shortcut for this function if you need it often - which is how I managed to completely forget what it was called or where exactly in the menu to find it before I made these screencaps)

It will give you something like this, except the peaks should stand out more

Hover your mouse over it and it will show you the peak frequency

then use that in Notch Filter (love of my editing life!)

If you use 9 for Qq, it will cut out that frequency drastically. Use 5-7 to tone it down, 2-4 if you need to tone down the adjacent frequency bands.
It also works on lower frequencies, if you have a weird rumble that you can't remove with noise reduction or it's higher than 100Hz and a high pass filter would affect your sound quality too much

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podficcer!Darcy Avengers AU [not!fic]

2018-12-13T17:59:17Z

Since I’m probably never going to actually write this, I give you the podficcer!Darcy Avengers AU (as twitted at kalakirya a long time ago)

Darcy is a podficcer and Jane writes fic and they’ve known each other’s work since before they met
And Jane is into Stargate and Xena and a bunch of older fandoms. She ran into Darcy when she recorded one of Jane’s old faves
But Darcy mostly does Iron Man RPF and Jane’s not too keen on RPF… But it’s mostly crack and Stark made *himself* into a character, so…
She eventually lets her guard down and doesn’t care if they’re RPF or M-rated anymore - it’s usually for language anyway
And Darcy does a fucking awesome Tony Stark! She loves the one about the Bunny Invasion of California
And she lets her guard down and listens to Darcy read while she’s busy in the lab… Until that one podfic…
It’s so hot and well written and her colleagues poke fun of how crimson she turned for weeks
Eventually, when she’s going over the applicants for the position of intern she notices this Political Science major
And there’s something very familiar and comforting about her… It takes a while to realize it’s the voice
It doesn’t actually click until they’re in the middle of the desert and Darcy’s very loudly complaining about coffee in the other room

The cracky Iron Man fics were written by Coulson as therapy every time Tony got on his nerves. He’s really fond of the bunny podfic
The explicit one was Pepper’s. Tony discovered fan fic while googling himself and kept making Jarvis read it to her
Then he ran into podfic and was very pleased with Darcy’s impression of him. So Pepper wrote one to see what happens
It made for a very interesting bedroom experience and led to Tony’s decision to adopt Darcy if he ever found her.

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Thor/WTNV [not!fic]

2018-12-13T17:47:49Z

Considering how hard it is to find stuff on Tumblr even on a good day and how everything is going to shit over there, the only thing I posted on there that I hadn't crossposted anywhere sensible were the plotbunnies/not!fics

I'll start with the Thor/Welcome to Night Vale crossover not!fic that I threw at

sarshi after The Dark World came out. I'm probably never going to write this, but if anyone wants to, be my guest :D

Basically, Darcy is the voice of Night Vale, completely unfazed by the weirdness of the town. She’s survived her internship at the station and is now going through interns at the usual rate… except one. He turned up one day - literally fell out of the sky, but it’s Night Vale, so it didn’t really surprise anyone - and they haven’t lost him since. His name is Loki and he is tall, dark and handsome, with a surprisingly British accent for someone who claims to be not of this world, but who is Darcy to argue? Also, he might have some plans to take over the world, but haven’t we all gone through this phase at one point in our lives?

So, yeah… Loki is that one intern that doesn’t die, and Darcy’s cool with it. They’ve lost enough already and it’s nice to have some eye candy around the station :D

Also, there’s a new scientist in town. Her name is Jane, she’s an astrophysicist and she is perfect from her hair, tied in a simple and practical pony tail (I mean, someone that smart shouldn’t really concern herself with such lowly things as fancy hairdos!), to the tip of her tows, wearing very sensible sports shoes (all the better to run from the municipally mandated yeti invasion on Saturday). And Darcy wants to ask her out, but she just turns into a puddle of inarticulate mush when she’s around her, so she just goes on and on about her perfection over the radio, certain that Jane is too busy to listen anyway.

And Darcy is definitely *not* taking advice from Loki on this. The last time she did, she ended up accidentally going out with STEVE CARLSBURG (yes, I’m keeping him and I have no idea how his name is supposed to be spelled) and no one wants a repeat of that. No one.

There’s also a new man wondering aimlessly around town. A tall, blond man. Very well built. *Very*. Apparently he’s the reason Jane came into town, before she got distracted by Night Vale’s Night Vale-niess. And Loki’s been acting strange since he wondered into town as well.

You know what? Darcy’s had enough of this. She’s asking Jane out for coffee and whatever happens, happens. And she’s setting Loki up with this Thor guy. He’s kind of cute, once you get past the ‘everyone around her is obsessing over him’ part and she’d rather lose an intern because he eloped, than because Station Management ate him.

And now, the weather :)

Oh! Oh! Listeners! Jane is even cuter once you get to talk actual words to her! And she loves coffee and much as Darcy! And she’s agreed to a second date! (well, a first one, since this wasn’t technically a *date* date)

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Support Your Local Vampire [podfic]

2018-12-13T17:32:57Z

Title: Support Your Local Vampire
Author: ataratah
Reader: kdheart
Fandom: Blood-Smoke Series by Tanya Huff
Characters/Pairings: Tony Foster/Lee Nicholas, Mike Celluci/Henry Fitzroy/Vicki Nelson
Rating: Teen
Summary: The problem with being woken up at 8 am on a Sunday morning to look at a naked dead guy was that Tony had to wait nearly ten hours before he could ask Henry about it.
Length: 1:13:33min
Right-click > save as, or left-click to play: MP3 || 51MB

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Easy as Breathing [podfic]

2018-12-13T17:27:07Z

Title: Easy as Breathing
Author: JRscribbles
Reader: kdheart
Fandom: Venom
Characters/Pairings: Eddie Brock/Venom symbiote
Rating: Teen
Summary: Venom teaches Eddie how to breathe... properly. Short and sweet.
Length: 3:23min
Right-click > save as, or left-click to play: MP3 || 2.39MB

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Untitled Rogue One podfic [podfic]

2018-12-13T17:14:59Z

Title: Untitled Rogue One Tumblr Fic
English podfic: on DW
Author: vrabia
Translator: kdheart
Reader: kdheart
Fandom: Star Wars: Rogue One
Characters/Pairings: Chirrut Îmwe/Baze Malbus
Rating: Teen
Summary: În primele luni ale ocupării Jedhei, cât Baze își găsise de lucru pe altă planetă, Chirrut se hotărăște că ar fi interesant să își bată joc de gărzile imperiale, dar nu într-un mod care să-i rănească pe civili
Length: 4:59min
Right-click > save as, or left-click to play: MP3 || 3:55MB

After "Doar două tragedii", I really wanted to make something in the style of an old-school Irina-Margareta Nistor dub (which means on the fly interpretation of the text). When I suggested this over on Tumblr, vrabia volunteered hear fic for this project, bc what better fandom to do this to than Star Wars? I actually couldn't do it all the way through. I had to write it down and try to make it sound improvised - I have a new respect for what those people did back in the day (I'm grateful I never have to hear another one of their dubs ever again, but i can appreciate just how hard it was for them)

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Doar două tragedii [podfic]

2018-12-13T16:55:28Z

Title: Doar două tragedii
Original fic: There are only two tragedies
Author: whit_merule
Translation: kdheart
Reader: kdheart
Language: Romanian
Fandom: Supernatural
Characters/Pairings: Sam/Gabe/Dean/Cas
Rating: Teen
Summary: E mai bine, scria în bilet. Hei, dacă vreunul din voi, ciudaților, are nevoie de ajutor la vânătoare sau ceva, chemați-mă. Sam, tunde-te. Castiel, nu te mai consuma ca prostul, e mai simplu. Dean, nu intra pe tumblr de dimineață, că unul din tipii pe care îi urmărești va posta spoilere pentru următoarea moarte din Game of Thrones, fără să dea tag. Distracție plăcută! Scuze că v-am irosit timpul.

Gabriel încearcă să fugă în noapte. Pentru că tuturor le-ar fi mai bine fără el, nu?
Length: 11:36min
Right-click > save as, or left-click to play: MP3 || 8.07MB

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in every one, a red balloon [podfic]

2018-12-13T16:45:40Z

Title: in every one, a red balloon

Fandom: Avengers

Author: RC_McLachlan

Selected By: glitteryv

Reader: kdheart

Edited By: dapatty

Formatted By: Litra

Pairing: Loki / Tony

Rating: Teen

Length: 33:44

Summary:

"Is this a crisis?" Tony asks. "Are you having a crisis? This is a crisis-free zone."
Loki jerks his hand. The balloon cheerfully bounces in response. "I am not having a crisis."
"You sure? Because from where I'm standing, it looks like a crisis, and those aren't allowed. They're prohibited. Verboten. Actually, just get out."

Stream and download: AO3

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