#fandom fest

[pod-together]

Pod-together is a fandom fest where writers and podficcers create together—the writer creating text specifically intended for audio, and the podficcer creating the audio. If that sounds fun to you, sign-ups are open until June 10th! You can find instructions to sign up, rules, and FAQ at the dreamwidth site linked above.

Sign-ups come in two flavors. If you would like the mods to match you with someone with similar fandom interests, sign up for Matchmaker Sign-Ups. If you would like to sign up with a partner, we also have Group Sign-Ups.

Writing is due July 23rd, and podfic is due August 20th. The minimum length for pod-together projects is 1000 words or 10 minutes of audio.

This is our 13th year running this challenge, and participants usually have a ton of fun and create amazing stuff, with everything from the typical style of fannish stories to submissions with filk, poetry, found footage/audio drama, sound effects, massive multi-voice collaborations, immersive soundscapes, playable games, and multiple languages.

If you’re on the fence and have questions, or want to try to scout a group before signing up, we have a section of our Discord open just for that. You can find a link to the Discord in the sign-up post on our dreamwidth!

visit our Dreamwidth here for more details!

#fanfic #podfic #multifandom #fandom fest #all fandoms welcome

[china-shop]

Guardian Wishlist is a Dreamwidth-based multimedia gifting fest for Guardian (drama, novel, and RPF) and other canons starring the main Guardian actors.

Step 1. Sign up with your wishlist between 21 August and 8 September at the Guardian Wishlist comm. Requests can include any media, including transformative works like fic, art, icons, vids, podfic, and also picspams and meta, translation advice, related music links, lollipops, dried fish snacks, anything.

Step 2. Mods post each person's requests in a separate post on the Guardian Wishlist dreamwidth comm. Comments are screened.

Step 3. Anyone can write, draw, record, or otherwise create gifts for any sign-up. There are no assignments. You don't need a Dreamwidth or AO3 account to participate.

Step 4. On 29 September (Reunion Festival), mods reveal the AO3 collection and unscreen Dreamwidth comments.

See the Rules & FAQ post for more details and full schedule.

#Guardian #镇魂 guardian #zhenhun #Guardian cdrama #Guardian RPF #Guardian novel #Guardian Wishlist 2023 #Weilan #Shen Wei #Zhao Yunlan #ChuGuo #Da Qing #Ye Zun #Hei Pao Shi #zhubai #Weilan derivatives #Fandom fest #multimedia #Run on Dreamwidth #You don't need a Dreamwidth account tho #all welcome

[merlinfluffalooza]

Fluffalooza Main Challenge: The Red Thread of Fluff

Here it is, without further ado: Your Main Challenge for this year’s Fluffalooza. 

Connect the Red Thread of Fluff (see what we did here?) and create a fanwork based on the prompts. You can either choose a prompt from each column yourself and connect them as you see fit, or you can let our Dice Maiden (#random-choices) on Discord choose the prompts for you!

You have from October 1st until October 29th to post your creations to our Ao3 Collection or the #library-2023 on Discord. Our Discord server is here for you if you have any questions, want to chat or maybe strike up a #collaboration with a fellow participant. 

Make sure to read the Rules, join us on Discord, and please sign up so we know you want to create something!

We’re looking forward to having an amazing time with you! 

#merlin #bbc merlin #merlin bbc #fandom #fluff #merlin fluffalooza 2023 #fan art #fandom fest #fluff fest

[cowandcalf]

I wrote this story for Steve's birthday four years ago. On March 10th we celebrated Steve's birthday as a fandom party that's why I share this with you.

#h50 #mcdanno #hawaii five 0 #self rec #mcdano fic #h50 march 10 #steve's birthday #fandom fest #an older story

[duckprintspress]

Next Weekend: Duck Prints Press at Fandom Fest!

Fandom Fest 2023 – the largest con aimed at fantasy enthusiasts in Upstate New York – is taking place next weekend, Saturday, August 26th, and Sunday, August 27th, at Proctor’s Theater in downtown Schenectady, New York!

As fate would have it, where is Duck Prints Press based? Why, in Schenectady, New York! So of course, we’ll be there – vending at a convention for the FIRST TIME EVER! We’ve been hard at work gathering all our merch, organizing the print books left over from our past campaigns, getting supplies so we can easily get set up (we own a hand truck now!), and PREPARING FOR OUR PANEL!

Yes, we’re hosting a PANEL! Featuring yours truly (I’m unforth, aka Nina Waters, aka Claire Houck – last one’s my actual name 😀 ), authors Shea Sullivan, Catherine E. Green, Tris Lawrence, and Willa Blythe, and Albany Law School professor Rob Heverly! Our author Nova Mason will also be putting in a cameo at our booth, handling sales while the rest of us are en-paneled.

Fans show their love of their fandoms in many ways, and one of the most common is by writing fanfiction! Among fanauthors, it's common to dream of a future in publication. How can fanauthors make that dream a reality? That's the topic of this panel! Hi, we're Duck Prints Press, an indie press based right here in Schenectady, and we're fans who work with other fans to publish their original work (ofic). There are many considerations when looking to make the transition from fanauthor to ofic author, and we'll be looking at many of those considerations and answering your questions. We'll discuss several common paths people follow when they seek to get published, "barcode scrubbing" and other fanfiction-specific publication concerns, copyright concerns and contract pitfalls, what our Press does, and more! Bring your curiosity, your favorite blorbos, and your questions—we look forward to seeing you there!

So, if you’re gonna be at Fandom Fest (it’s not too late to get advance tickets!), make sure you come say hi! We’d be thrilled to meet ya!

(and, while I know we’ll be your main inducement for attending, might I mention that Alan Tudyk, Summer Glau, and a bunch of other celebrities will be there? and a bunch of gaming? and of course a cosplay contest? it’s gonna be lots of fun, y’all…)

#duck prints press #fandom fest #convention #come meet us!

[awesomeladiespodficanthology]

Awesome Ladies Podfic Anthology XIII Info Post

This year will be the thirteenth and final Awesome Ladies Podfic Anthology. For one last time, we'll be collecting short lady-centric podfics by different readers in different fandoms to release as an anthology and as a collection of individual files. The submission deadline for podfics is February 14th, and we will post the anthology on February 28th. The theme for this year's anthology is transition. It's optional—all podfics are welcome as long as they follow the rules laid out in the Submission Guidelines—but feel free to let it inspire you if you'd like. If you are not familiar with this project, you can see the previous anthologies here. To Podficcers: Interested in participating? We'd love to have you. This should be a low-stress project, even for people who are new to podficcing, due to the word-count: 1500 words or less (with many being as short as 1-2 minutes). If you'd like to record something for this anthology, please fill out this quick google form and we'll send you the link to the spreadsheet where we'll be keeping track of all the podfics. If you would prefer to interface via email instead of using the form/spreadsheet, you can email klb at [email protected], and she will reach out to get you set up. Here are some good places for finding short fics about female characters: -The Women Being Awesome, Female Characters, Female Character of Color, POV Female Character, and Female Relationships tags at the AO3, limited to word counts of 1500 or less. -The Misses Clause Challenge from Yuletide -Femslash Minis -Awesome Ladies Ficathon (original LJ ficathon deleted, but these works crossposted to AO3 remain) -Real Women Fest -Female Character Trope Fest -The Bechdel Test Comment Ficathon -The Bechdel Test Comment Ficathon II -Where No Woman: Un-erasing the women of Star Trek and Women of Star Trek -Femslash Kinkmeme -The Femslash February Collection -Focus on Female Characters Collection -Purimgifts Since this project has a relatively quick turnaround time, you may want to refer to this database of authors who have posted blanket permission statements and/or install this browser extension that highlights all blanket permission authors from that database in green. To the Podcurious: If you have ever thought you might like to create podfic, this is a really great starting place. It's low pressure, you might get listeners you wouldn’t otherwise reach, you're contributing to a cool fanwork that celebrates our love for female characters, and it's not too intense of a spotlight, because your piece is in the company of many other voices. To Everyone: Feel free to comment with links to other fests or specific works that you think would be a good fit for this anthology. Additionally, we are looking for beta listeners who can absolutely commit to at LEAST two hours of beta listening between February 17th and 24th. Please let us know if you'd be available and interested; we'd be very grateful! To Authors: We've had some awesome authors get involved in the past, in pod_together style, to create short female-centric pieces for the anthology in collaboration with podficcers. If you’re an author who’s interested and is seeking podficcers to work with, feel free to comment below. Podficcers who would like this sort of collaboration, please reply directly to the authors. See this post for the rules and submission guidelines. If you have any additional questions, please let us know!

#podfic #fandom fest #female characters

[tryslora]

upcoming conventions...

I have been quiet, but it has been for reasons. 

Not only have I been in editing hell (second edition of Commit to the Kick, first edition of the first Seven Lakes book), I have also been preparing for convention hell. Heaven? Pick a term--I have three conventions three weekends in a row. One is simple. One is HUGE and I have to fly to get there, plus get all my merch there. The third I am helping run which requires... meetings.

But this means that I have appearances!

I will be with Duck Prints Press at Fandom Fest in Schenectady NY the weekend of August 26/27. We will have a presence in the Vendor Hall. We are doing a panel, currently at 5:30pm on the Saturday. You can see the schedule for Fandom Fest on their website. Our entry is listed under "Fanfiction" but we will be talking about navigating the path from Fic to Original work. If you're around, come see our merch and come talk to us at the panel!

I will be at Dragoncon in Atlanta over Labor Day weekend. I don't know yet if I will be on any programming items; those will be a last-minute add if I am. However, I am sharing space in the vendor space, and the second edition print copies of Commit to the Kick will be available there for the first time, along with information about the upcoming Kickstarter for books 2 & 3 of the Twinned trilogy. Please come see me if you're at Dragoncon.

And lastly, our local fan-run convention Albacon will be September 8-10 in Clifton Park, NY. I am again sharing some space with Duck Prints to run vending out of my hotel room (Dealer/Artist Row), and I will be on panels (don't know which ones yet). Albacon is a tiny local convention and we have both in-person and remote attendees and participants, and the fully hybrid model works SO WELL. If you decide to attend, via either way, please reach out and say hello. If you're remote, I'm in the Albacon discord so you can feel free to @ me there, too.

It's going to be a LOT and there are so many things to accomplish beforehand, so I've been run a bit ragged. Add in local social things, the Duck Prints meetup last weekend, my father's illness (and helping my mom), and well, day job... it's been chaos. *exhales* *deep breaths* I think my schedule calms down a bit in November, after Astronomicon at the end of October... (yes, another convention, I am going to be So Worn Out).

#convetion schedule #appearances #my fiction #tris talks #books #queer books #dragoncon #albacon #fandom fest

[jantea]

Went to a comic con last night as Mirko!

#mirko #comic con #fandom fest #cosplay #bnha cosplay #jan cosplays #Youtube

[alexapillustration]

✧ ▬▭▬ ✦ 𝐈'𝐦 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐅𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐦 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭! ✦ ▬▭▬ ✧

๑

I'm not going to just one con in August- I'll be at two!!! 🎉🎉 This one is called Fandom Fest and it's at Proctors in Schenectady, New York! It's wayyyy closer to where I live so it should be way easier than my first con at Sugoi Pop Con! Hope to see you there if you're in upstate NY! 💜

#GUYS IM SO EXCITED DHSJNDNSJSJSJ #I CANT WAIT TO SHOW YOU GUYS THE ACTUAL PRODUCTS IVE MADE SO FAR #my art #art #artist #illustration #artists on tumblr #illustrators on tumblr #female illustrators #illustrator #artists #fanart #fandom fest #fandom #fanartist #fanarts #artist alley #convention #fan convention #fan con #comics #comic con #small artist #merch #zelda #zelda art #zelda fan #totk #my business #small business

[mywitchcultblr]

Yo obikins shipper there's a Sith obikin fest made by my lovely moots check it out

#obikin #fest #fanfic fest #fanart fest #fanwork fest #fandom fest #star wars #vaderwan #obi wan x anakin

[pod-together]

Pod-together is a fandom fest where writers and podficcers create together—the writer creating text specifically intended for audio, and the podficcer creating the audio. If that sounds fun to you, sign-ups are open until June 11th! You can find instructions to sign up, rules, and FAQ at the dreamwidth site linked above.

Sign-ups come in two flavors. If you would like the mods to match you with someone with similar fandom interests, sign up for Matchmaker Sign-Ups. If you would like to sign up with a partner, we also have Group Sign-Ups. 

Writing is due July 24th, and podfic is due August 21st. The minimum length for pod-together projects is 1000 words or 10 minutes of audio.

This is our 12th year running this challenge, and participants usually have a ton of fun and create amazing stuff, with everything from the typical style of fannish stories to submissions with filk, poetry, found footage/audio drama, sound effects, massive multi-voice collaborations, immersive soundscapes, playable games, and multiple languages.

If you're on the fence and have questions, or want to try to scout a group before signing up, we have a section of our Discord open just for that. You can find a link to the Discord in the sign-up post on our dreamwidth!

#podfic #fanfic #fandom fest #multifandom #all fandoms welcome

[china-shop]

The @Guardian_Wishlist 2023 AO3 collection is live and all Wishlist gifts have been revealed!

There are 90 gifts - fic, art, meta, picspam, podfic, and more - in a range of fandoms! You can find them here:

on AO3: in the Guardian Wishlist 2023 AO3 collection

on DW: in comments on the all Wishlist posts (some gifts will only be here!)

Please take a look around and enjoy!

So many thanks to everyone who's been a part of this fest, whether you signed up or promoted or made gifts! You're the ones who made Guardian Wishlist work, and we're so happy you all joined in! We hope you had a great time. ♥ ♥ ♥

If you're still working on gifts, that's okay! Late treats are welcome!

#Guardian #镇魂 guardian #zhenhun #Guardian cdrama #Guardian RPF #Guardian novel #Guardian Wishlist #Guardian Wishlist 2023 #Weilan #Shen Wei #Zhao Yunlan #ChuGuo #Da Qing #Ye Zun #Hei Pao Shi #zhubai #Weilan derivatives #Fandom fest #multimedia gifting fest #Run on Dreamwidth #Reveals #Check out our AO3 collection too

[merlinfluffalooza]

Start of Merlin Fluffalooza

Here we are!

We can now officially announce the start of Fluffalooza 2023 - The fandom cuddle pile!

From now on and until October 31st, we will flood the Merlin fandom with fluffy feelings!

The AO3 collection: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/merlin_fluffalooza_2023 is now open so you can start posting your creation for the main challenge - The Red Thread of Fluff!

Stay tuned as, as we will also reveal the first weekly bonus challenge soon!

Let’s spread the fluff! 💗

#merlin #merlin bbc #fluff #fluff fest #merlin fluffalooza 2023 #fan art #fandom #bbc merlin #fandom fest

[lothloriencosplay]

Some lovely new photos of my Elizabeth costume!

Photos by Josh Capen

#six the musical #six the musical cosplay #Queen Elizabeth I #the Tudors #Henry viii #Anne Boleyn #fandom fest #proctors theatre #proctors

[duckprintspress]

Duck Prints Press Summer 2023 Con Wrap!

We’ve now vended at our first two cons, and we wanted to take a few minutes to blog about it!

I (press owner Claire Houck/unforth) attended Fandom Fest in Schenectady, NY, and Albacon in Clifton Park, NY, and vended on behalf of the Press. Authors Nova Mason, Shea Sullivan, Catherine E. Green, and Tris Lawrence helped me out with manning the booth, handling transactions, participating in our first DPP panel, and more, so huge THANKS to them. (Also to Prof. Robert Heverly from Albany Law School, for contributing his expertise on copyright law to our Fandom Fest panel). I wrote about our Fandom Fest panel here, and about our events at Albacon here and here.

To be honest, we really had no idea how things would go, and I’m not exaggerating when I say that we far exceeded our expectations. Going into this, I’ll own I was very afraid – would people be interested in our Press? Would we make money? Or would we be that sad, lonely table that everyone walks quickly by? But things couldn’t have gone better – they went so well we’re already looking at more events to attend in the future.

From a fiscal standpoint, we made almost double what I anticipated and completely made up the expense of buying the supplies and equipment necessary for us to vend at these events and going forward. From a panel perspective, our events were nicely attended. From a “growing the business” standpoint, we added many names to our mailing lists and gained social media platforms. And, from a networking standpoint, we had a fantastic time and met a lot of awesome people – and that’s primarily what this post is about!

You already know about us; we’re here to shout-out some other folks we’re now very happy to know!

Top Row, Left Picture: The amazing Syrren (@syrren) and I bonded instantly over our shared love of the men of Mo Xiang Tong Xiu books and Stardew Valley romance options. I miiiight have ended up with some merch (though the Genshin Impact ones are gifts for a friend).

Top Row, Middle Picture: jiadoesart had many lovely things, and I picked out some stickers for my Ghibli-loving kids.

Top Row, Right Picture: The Consol Collection, sadly, has no website that I can find, but they had a lot of things such as this adorable Totoro sticker I got for my kids. And when the owner of Eclectic Arts approached me in an absolutely fabulous Hawaiian shirt featuring Pride-flag-colored twenty-sided dice, I instantly agreed to a sticker trade.

Bottom Row, Left Picture: According to the Fandom Fest organizers, it was 100% a coincidence that we ended up next to Duck and Cover, but we couldn’t have had a cooler or more appropriate neighbor. A con attendee felt it was so on-brand for Duck Prints Press that they actually bought us this one-of-a-kind hand-painted James Bond duckie! We also talked with Duck and Cover about maybe offering some of their custom ducks as campaign add-ons in the future, so be on the lookout…

Bottom Row, Right Picture: The owner of The Cogitation Zone, Lisa, is a long-time friend of Tris Lawrence, who commissioned us this custom Duck Prints Press business card holder that’ll be accompanying us to all our future cons! Lisa also had made a large number of adorable creatures, and I miiiight have traded a copy of one of our anthologies for an axolotl. Because. Axolotl.

Some Other Neat Folks We Met:

Pastel Prince Shop: lots of gorgeous queer art and merch; I’m hoping to get one of their asexual pride bracelets in the future (it got sold before I could grab it, sadly).

Bear and Bird Boutique: a local business that was vending at Fandom Fest, too, they have a lot of amazing bits and baubles, both fandom-related and original. We’ve bought everything from the Hilda graphic novel to a dragon puzzle at their store.

Picnocline: the only reason I didn’t buy things from Picnocline’s shop is that there were so many cute things that I literally couldn’t pick.

It’s Getting Dicey: dice, one of my true weaknesses! They have metal pride-flag dice sets, and lots of queer dice trays. I wish I could get them all…

Two-Penny Nerdlesque: a local burlesque troupe; they were very enthusiastic about And Seek (Not) to Alter Me and our queerifying of Much Ado About Nothing, and delighted told me about their own very queer versions of Shakespeare and other plays – I’m definitely going to have to check them out in the future.

(There are others too, but I didn’t grab everyone’s information, and I think this is plenty for one post. 😀 )

If any of you all are seeing this post, it was an absolute delight to meet you, and please don’t be a stranger!

Going forward, we’re looking forward to participating in more events and making more connections with other creators, especially other queer creators! Just today, we’ve applied to vend at A Big Gay Market, taking place in Washington Park in Albany on October 29th, 2023. We’ve also got a tentative schedule for 2024, and we’ll post more about where you’ll be able to find us as the dates grow closer and we find out if the juried shows have accepted our applications. We’re going to do our best to continue the success we’ve enjoyed at our first two conventions by pursuing vending as a way to meet potential readers and customers, grow relationships with other queer creators, and get the Duck Prints Press names out there for the benefit of all the authors, artists, and others we work with!

Got a con in New York State or Massachusetts that you love and think we should try to attend in 2024? Let us know in the comments or by dropping us an e-mail at info at duckprintspress dot com!

#duck prints press #fandom fest #albacon #convention #convention report

[awesomeladiespodficanthology]

Awesome Ladies Podfic Anthology XIII

This is the official post for the thirteenth and final Awesome Ladies Podfic Anthology! This year, the anthology contains 105 stories featuring 136 female characters, written by 99 authors and performed by 33 podficcers.

This year's optional theme was: transition.

cover art graphic by ofthedirewolves

Listening options:

The Awesome Ladies Podfic Anthology XIII podbook (m4b format, 64 kbps, 339.3 mb, 11:13:04 total), with chapter stops for individual podfics

M4A (339.4 mb, 11:13:04 total)

A zip file (523.2 mb) with all the individual anthology podfics in mp3 format

Browse the AO3 collection where most of the podfics in this year's anthology have been crossposted, with the rest hopefully coming soon!

We also have a spreadsheet with information about each track, including podficcer, title, author, featured female character(s), and warnings, along with a link to the text where you can leave kudos and comments for the wonderful authors.

Thank you to GodOfLaundryBaskets, blackglass, DevilWithABirdDress, pezzax, and MelancholyMorningstar for beta listening! And thank you to everybody who has participated and listened over the years. Even though this anthology has ended, the fabulous Chromatic Characters Podfic Anthology is still happening annually, and you can find updates at their Twitter account here!

#podfic #fandom fest #female characters