"problem plays" this "romances" that I'm proposing new and exciting Shakespearean Play Groupings for your amusement!

A few more for the road. Why not

*Close enough

reblog if its friday and you made it

Look at me being not dead. Woohoo.

Katie Forsythe/Wordstrings Podfic Masterpost (updated 3rd March 2017)

Since Katie deleted both her livejournal accounts, I think podfic lovers might want a place where they can be able to find all the links to the amazing audio versions of her fics, which I love passionately. Thank you both to my favourite author in fandom and to all the lovely podficcers for recording these wonderful stories. Enjoy! … and please let me know if something is missing: i would love to add/update this list!

EDIT: replaced broken link to janeturenne’s podfic. Jane, please let me know if you want me to remove my link or if you have fixed yours.

BBC Sherlock

All the Best and Brightest Creatures    text      podfic by bagofthumbs  

The Paradox Series

1. An Act of Charity  text   podfic by fayjay

2. The Paradox Suite   text   podfic by fayjay

3. The Death and Resurrection of the English Language   text   podfic by fayjay

4. Entirely Covered in Your Invisible Name    text    podfic by fayjay

5. Wider Than A Mile    text    podfic by bronwyn

6. New Days To Throw Your Chains Away    text    podfic by bronwyn

7. A Thousand Threads of What Might Have Beens    text    podfic by revolutionaryjo

8. The Dying of the Bees    text    podfic by songlin

Canon Sherlock Holmes

The Love Verse

1. Four Minor Interludes for the Solo Violin   text     podfic by general_jinjur

2. Hallowed Be Thy Name    text    podfic by general_jinjur

3. The Violet Elephant    text   podfic by janeturenne (broken link)     temporary download

4. Birds to a Lighthouse   text    podfic by heuristicdevice  currently being podficced by cellardoor

5. The Lucky One   text      podfic by mific

6. The Presbury Letters   text    podfic by mific

The Hope Verse

1. The Sign of Change    text    podfic by liannabob

2. Cauldron: A Love Letter    text      podfic by liannabob      podfic by aethel

The Faith Verse

2. Full of Grace    text      podfic by heuristicdevice  

Stand-Alones

An April’s Journey   text   podfic by RickyPulsifer

That Which Gives Extras   text    podfic by luzula

Thoughts Without Words     text      podfic by luzula    podfic by elaineofshalott

The Three Favours   text       podfic by threequarters

Some Further Notes on the Roylott Matter   text     podfic by aethel

Twelfth Night    text     podfic by dodificus

Undiscovered Country    text   podfic by kian       podfic by RickyPulsifer and the_dragongirl

Splendid NIght    text    podfic by heuristicdevice   

Hey all, my Christmas wish is to get back into vidding. It's a hobby I invested in for a number of years. I stopped so I could devote more time to my original fiction writing, but I've hankering to get back into it for a couple years now. I moved from Windows to a Mac in 2023, so I need new video editing software. It costs $219. I'm currently working 3 part-time jobs and barely making end's meet, so no money for fun stuff. If you could donate to my Ko-fi to help with this (admittedly frivolous) expense, that would make my day! Here's a couple of my vids from many moons ago: I Just Had Sex (Thor)

Whole New Way (Sherlock Holmes x fandom)

Plus my Ko-fi again :)

Hey all, my Christmas wish is to get back into vidding. It's a hobby I invested in for a number of years. I stopped so I could devote more time to my original fiction writing, but I've hankering to get back into it for a couple years now. I moved from Windows to a Mac in 2023, so I need new video editing software. It costs $219. I'm currently working 3 part-time jobs and barely making end's meet, so no money for fun stuff. If you could donate to my Ko-fi to help with this (admittedly frivolous) expense, that would make my day! Here's a couple of my vids from many moons ago: I Just Had Sex (Thor)

Whole New Way (Sherlock Holmes x fandom)

Plus my Ko-fi again :)

This week, I read a fic that was around 20 years old, which had originally been posted on the author's personal website and which she added to AO3 a few years ago. She listed her email address with the fic, so after I finished reading, I sent her an email saying how much I enjoyed the story, how much I appreciated the work and effort she obviously put into it, and thanked her for uploading it to AO3. She responded the next day and thanked me for my message, then said she had a few more stories in the same series that she hadn't gotten around to uploading. I checked this morning--she added a 35,000 word novella and thanked me in the summary.

👏 comment 👏 on 👏 old 👏 fics 👏

put my cat on the cover of CRIME Magazine, where he belongs

if you think for one second that i’m exaggerating for effect

do not trust him

this is the only ship that matters

THEY MADE THIS INTO A BOOK CALLED “SANTA’S HUSBAND”

MERRY CHRISTMAS I AM HAPPY TO REPORT THAT FOR THE TWO YEAR ANNIVERSARY THEY WROTE A PREQUEL COMIC ABOUT HOW THEY MET!!!!!!!!!!!

THIS IS,, THE CUTEST THING?? LIKE EVER?? UA!!

These Davids are this post IRL. And they wear matching outfits everyday. 

FOUND THE DAVIDS YALL

Holy shit, Santa dads are the cutest dads.

merry the fellowship leaves rivendell day to all who celebrate it

[Image description: A screenshot of Google search results for the query “when does the fellowship leave rivendell” with the first result reading “25 December: Frodo and the Fellowship leave Rivendell.” End ID]

Reminder, analytical AI and generative AI aren't the same. While I loathe generative AI and feel there is no ethical way to use it at this time, analytical AI can serve valuable purposes in many fields.

₍ ^. .^₎🌟(•- •マ

SO HERE IS THE WHOLE STORY (SO FAR).

I am on my knees begging you to reblog this post and to stop reblogging the original ones I sent out yesterday. This is the complete account with all the most recent info; the other one is just sending people down senselessly panicked avenues that no longer lead anywhere.

IN SHORT

Cliff Weitzman, CEO of Speechify and (aspiring?) voice actor, used AI to scrape thousands of popular, finished works off AO3 to list them on his own for-profit website and in his attached app. He did this without getting any kind of permission from the authors of said work or informing AO3. Obviously.

When fandom at large was made aware of his theft and started pushing back, Weitzman issued a non-apology on the original social media posts—using 

as reasons we should allow him to continue monetizing fanwork for his own financial gain.

When we less-than-kindly refused, he took down his ‘apologies’ as well as his website (allegedly—it’s possible that our complaints to his web host, the deluge of emails he received or the unanticipated traffic brought it down, since there wasn’t any sort of official statement made about it), and when it came back up several hours later, all of the work formerly listed in the fan fiction category was no longer there. 

THE TAKEAWAYS

1. Cliff Weitzman (aka Ofek Weitzman) is a scumbag with no qualms about taking fanwork without permission, feeding it to AI and monetizing it for his own financial gain; 

2. Fandom can really get things done when it wants to, and 

3. Our fanworks appear to be hidden, but they’re NOT DELETED from Weitzman’s servers, and independently published, original works are still listed without the authors' permission. We need to hold this man responsible for his theft, keep an eye on both his current and future endeavors, and take action immediately when he crosses the line again. 

THE TIMELINE, THE DETAILS, THE SCREENSHOTS (behind the cut)

Hey all, my Christmas wish is to get back into vidding. It's a hobby I invested in for a number of years. I stopped so I could devote more time to my original fiction writing, but I've hankering to get back into it for a couple years now. I moved from Windows to a Mac in 2023, so I need new video editing software. It costs $219. I'm currently working 3 part-time jobs and barely making end's meet, so no money for fun stuff. If you could donate to my Ko-fi to help with this (admittedly frivolous) expense, that would make my day! Here's a couple of my vids from many moons ago: I Just Had Sex (Thor)

Whole New Way (Sherlock Holmes x fandom)

Plus my Ko-fi again :)

Hey all, my Christmas wish is to get back into vidding. It's a hobby I invested in for a number of years. I stopped so I could devote more time to my original fiction writing, but I've hankering to get back into it for a couple years now. I moved from Windows to a Mac in 2023, so I need new video editing software. It costs $219. I'm currently working 3 part-time jobs and barely making end's meet, so no money for fun stuff. If you could donate to my Ko-fi to help with this (admittedly frivolous) expense, that would make my day! Here's a couple of my vids from many moons ago: I Just Had Sex (Thor)

Whole New Way (Sherlock Holmes x fandom)

Plus my Ko-fi again :)

How I sleep knowing I'll never be queerbaited by IWTV because there isn't a single heterosexual character in the show

christmas tree🎄