Bitter Sweets

There are three new podfics of my work today, which is a sure sign that somewhere on the internet, someone is hosting a podfic-creation party. Dark is Rising, Rivers of London, and Vorkosigan. Enjoy! Feed the podficcers!

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[Podfic] Old ways (45 words) by FlightlessNotFightless
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dark Is Rising Sequence - Susan Cooper
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Will Stanton (Dark is Rising)
Additional Tags: Drabble, Walking, Podfic, Podfic Length: 0-10 Minutes, Audio Format: Streaming
Summary:

Will goes for walks for his mental health.

Podfic of Old ways by Petra.

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[Podfic] Not an asinine question (68 words) by GoLBPodfics
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Indigo & Abigail Kamara
Characters: Indigo (Rivers of London), Abigail Kamara
Additional Tags: Humor, Podfic, Podfic Length: 0-10 Minutes
Summary:

Indigo and Abigail walk in the park.

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[Podfic] Cretaceous Park (68 words) by GoLBPodfics
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Miles Vorkosigan & Ivan Vorpatril
Characters: Miles Vorkosigan, Ivan Vorpatril
Additional Tags: Dinosaurs, Drabble, Podfic, Podfic Length: 0-10 Minutes
Summary:

I think they're Jacksonian.

The weight of ritual (400 words) by Petra
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Padmé Amidala & Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi & Anakin Skywalker & Ahsoka Tano
Characters: Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Ahsoka Tano, Padmé Amidala
Additional Tags: Superstition, Compulsive Behavior, Rituals
Summary:

Obi-Wan Kenobi doesn't believe in luck.

Anakin Skywalker, on the other hand, is superstitious to a fault.

Criticism.

Literary criticism, specifically.

unspuncreature's tag on the space Buzzfeed article about an anonymous space tweeter writing limericks slew me:
"fic of all time. tenured professors will be teaching petra in 400 level poetry seminars."

And then I got a comment on this Murderbot drabble that not only included Picking Up On Themes, but the line, "Back in the days of Honors English, I bet I could get a whole paper of meaning out of your little drabble."

I Speak Six Languages is a song about the weight of overachieving from The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, a musical by William Finn.

I think it would make a good song for my beleaguered blorbo, who gets saddled with a problem child when he's 25, paracanonically speaks a lot of languages, and is the master of a subclass of his martial art.

My two "You should've gone there" title opportunities are both sequels:
Fast 10 Your Seatbelts (which I fondly associate with hannah)
2 Old 2 Guard

What do you wish had been titled differently?

(If my music doesn't earworm you, come learn John Finnemore's words to Pachelbel's Canon in D, as opposed to Christine Lavin's Taco Bell Canon.)

Today in Things That Make Me Happy: I am not the only person who headcanons Princess Angelina Contessa Louisa Francesca Banana Fanna Bo Besca III "Dot" Warner as trans.* And with a name like that, it should have been obvious to me a long time ago. Besides, it explains why "the Warner Brothers" is the phrase, and not "the Warner Siblings." By the time she transitioned, it was too expensive to rebrand everything. Repainting the water tower alone, oy.

We know from comics canon that Wakko is he/him nonbinary. (Animaniacs comic, issue #48, don't read the comments).

Also, I forget sometimes that this fancomic on Tumblr isn't canon.

* I am also deeply grateful that AO3 doesn't pipe her name or require the full title because that would be Terry Pratchett levels of ridiculous name insistence.

I would have to relisten to all the Jacky Faber books to get a good count of her paramours, some of whom are considerably more piratical memorably drawn than others.

And they're never all in one place at one time, things being what they are.

But if they were, she would have quite the train to pull.

And here comes Amy with the period strap!