deepestbluesky

Sat, 28 Mar 2026 06:08:38 GMT

thinking again about an extremely bitter "joke" i made in recent memory: oh you like the nhl? name three of its sexual assualt cases.

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pointless stats - updated!

Tue, 17 Feb 2026 18:16:59 GMT

back in 2022, i got frustrated about how ao3 splits out fandoms on the list of what fandoms i've posted in before, and did my own slightly messy version of the fandoms list from my ao3 dashboard. i thought about just updating that post but decided it was more fun stats-wise to make a new one and have both. so! updated february 2026 version of my fandoms list on ao3. if the only works in a fandom are multivoices i did brief parts in, i just left them out because voiceteam has really exploded my number of fandoms lol.

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deepestbluesky’s fanbinding FTH craft bazaar stall - NOW CLOSED

Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:27:44 GMT

NOTE: THIS IS NOW CLOSED.

Hello! This year, I’m going to be participating in the FTH craft bazaar by offering a typeset and handbound fanbinding of a fic or collection of fics up to 120k. I’ll default to a hardcover (case-bound) book in quarter-legal size (4.25in x 7in, or roughly 107mm x 177mm). if you’re interested in a different size or a different bookbinding technique that i’ve done before (see image!), we can talk about that! in general, i’m happy to chat about ideas you might have, especially if it has to do with ease of reading for you, but ultimately decisions will be made based on what i have access to and what i think will work best for the project. i’m willing pay for shipping up to $25 USD—if shipping will be higher than that, i’ll ask you to cover the extra cost.

What I'll Bind

Your own fanwork
Another author’s fanwork as long as the author gives permission or has a public blanket permission statement for transformative works. The bidder is responsible for obtaining permission for the story of their choice—if you need to get permission from the author, please do it in a public setting (AO3 comments, publicly answered Tumblr asks, etc.) where I can also see it. if you’re not sure how to look for this or what counts as blanket permission, i’m happy to help figure it out.
A fic or a collection of fic up to 120k words (I can be somewhat flexible with length, but since this has to do with how much I can physically fit in a book, not too flexible! as with everything else, feel free to ask ahead of time if you're not sure)
Any non-RPF fandom not associated with JK Rowling or Neil Gaiman (if you have questions, feel free to reach out to me ahead of time!)
I am willing to bind a wide range of content, but I won’t bind anything with an extensive depiction of on-page rape/noncon, or anything with significant age difference adult/child relationships, and I reserve the right to refuse to bind a specific fic for any reason. If the fic you want bound is rated E, you will need to confirm that you are 18 or older. (again, if you have questions, feel free to reach out ahead of time!)

How It Works

The auction will run until Friday, March 13 at 10pm Eastern time (02:00 March 14 UTC).
The minimum bid is $30 USD.
To enter the auction please fill out this google form.
You can check the current highest bid on this spreadsheet.
I will contact the winner by email within 24 hours of the end of the auction.
Upon winning the auction you must donate the amount specified on your bid directly to one of my listed nonprofits from the FTH options (Advocates for Trans Equality*, Disability Law United*, Gaza Soup Kitchen*, In Our Own Voice*, National Immigrant Justice Center*, Any/all Anti-poverty Direct Aid orgs).
You will have until Friday, March 20 to send me proof of your donation.
Once I have received proof of donation, I will email you to chat about the project and figure out details!
I will send the finished book by October 2026, and I’ll provide you with tracking info once it is available.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions you have—you can leave a comment on this post, or contact me elsewhere (i'm also on tumblr and discord). Good luck! I look forward to working with you!

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2025 podficcing review

Wed, 31 Dec 2025 02:46:15 GMT

(taken from annapods’s podfic end of year stuff, or from the writing questions i used in previous years and adapted)

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fanwork alphabet meme

Fri, 31 Oct 2025 03:22:41 GMT

i saw this from poppyseedheart and bluedreaming and i love to put things in lists so i am also playing along! i also immediately thought 'hm, wonder what the distribution is' so we also have Stats (aka how many of each letter). i'm not using podfics for this and also i tried to exclude things where someone else named it (podtogether or voiceteam mostly for this lol). i'm just picking the first alphabetical title per letter.

Rules: How many letters of the alphabet have you used for starting a fanwork title? One fanwork per line, ‘A’ and ‘An’ and 'The’ do not count for 'a’ and ’t’. Post your score out of 26 at the end

# - 1, 027.4 GOU — Gouldsville Libraries: A History and an Investigation

A - 5, above the stars, they crackle in fire

B - 8, Baking Day [podfic and text]

C - 3, cat in the stacks

D - 10, daydreamers please wake up

E - 1, Extraordinarily Life-like

F - 3, FAQ: The Podfic Portion of “FAQ: The Snake Fight Portion of Your Thesis Defense” Fandom

G - 6, get the show on, get paid

H - 2, hope underneath the grey sky

I - 11, i can't see where you're coming from

J - 0

K - 1, knocking at my door

L - 8, let me be more than enough

M - 9, make our steps clear

N - 8, never let it end

O - 3, an old solution

P - 6, Picked Them Up And Stepped Right In

Q - 0

R - 1, rest your head

S - 20, satellite picture

T - 13, take a little time (walk a little line)

U - 2, until you get older

V - 1, Voiceteam Game Changer: Five by Five

W - 14, we don't cheat at all

X - 0

Y - 4, you know it's really hard to hold your breath

Z - 0

so my final score is 22! now i want to fill in the others hehe.

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yuletide 2025 - dear author letter

Fri, 24 Oct 2025 04:06:14 GMT

Dear Author Letter

hello! if you’re making something for me, i’m already guaranteed to love you and whatever you write, but i also know that personally, i love getting a ton of info to work from in exchanges, so i’ve written a bunch here! feel free to look through it for ideas, but also please please don’t feel beholden to it. this is intended as a bouquet of options that you can pick one or two things from, not something you should feel obligated to check boxes off for. not all of it is even going to be relevant to all the fandoms i’m requesting!

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dear podficcer letter - ITPE 2025 (ao3/tumblr: deepestbluesky)

Thu, 25 Sep 2025 03:47:54 GMT

hello! if you’re making something for me, i’m already guaranteed to love you and whatever you create, but i also know that personally, i love getting a ton of info to work from in exchanges, so i’ve written a bunch here! feel free to look through it for ideas, but also please please don’t feel beholden to it. this is intended as a bouquet of options that you can pick one or two things from, not something you should feel obligated to check boxes off for.

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Thank you so much for making something for me, i’m gonna be delighted to listen to it!

give:
CQL/MDZS, Critical Role, Tortall (series), Emelan (series), The Queen's Thief (series), TGCF, DC Comics/related, Legend of Fei, Murderbot, Word of Honor, Tian Ya Ke, Qi Ye, The Locked Tomb (series), Stranger Things, The Witcher (video games), The Witcher (books), Challengers, Nirvana in Fire

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open interaction post

Mon, 15 Sep 2025 03:28:38 GMT

hello! if you have found me for any reason (from another site, from my ao3 profile, just by browsing around on dreamwidth) and you want to ask me a question, feel free to leave a comment here! if you already follow me and just want to ask me a random question, go for it!

i realized i direct people to DW from my ao3 but there's no messaging here lol so here is my solution! i also think it's a fun idea :3

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Queen's Thief pronunciation guide

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 03:40:18 GMT

this is an audio version of this entire post in one file:

hello! This is a pronunciation guide for the Queen’s Thief book series, written by Megan Whalen Turner! It’s a pretty small fandom (I think it only graduated out of Yuletide eligibility last year) but a persistent one, and like some other SFF book series fandoms, perhaps disproportionately popular among podficcers. HOWEVER, there’s no pronunciation guide I can find. There ARE audiobooks, but that’s a pain in the ass to look through when you just need to know how to say some names for a podfic you are impulsively recording. As a completely hypothetical situation. That I have certainly never encountered.

Now, a note from me. [as i flourish my hands around to pull out a soapbox and stand on it] I have followed the pronunciations in the audiobooks for this guide, because that’s the source we have, and it’s presumably consistent with how some other people in fandom would be pronouncing these words and what they’d expect to hear. But I do have beef with the pronunciations, and this seems like a good place to air that particular beef. We all know that the setting of these books is fantasy Greece. Many of these names literally are or sound very much like Greek names and words. But let me tell you: I’m extremely new to learning Greek, like the most baby of beginners, and yet I feel pretty damn confident that there is very little Greek in any of this pronunciation. Obviously modern Greek is not ancient Greek, and like many other ancient versions of languages, there are debates about how it was pronounced, and I’m sure there are arguments to be made. But this is clearly being pronounced the way English says Greek names and words, and I hate it. Ειρήνη is a perfectly good Greek name! I don’t think the STRESS of Ambiades is even right, let alone the VOWELS!! And, okay, to be fair, some of this is the author’s usage of Greek and Latin style names next to each other (Relius and Teleus come to mind), but I’m just saying. If we take both into account, we also have to accept the crime against Latin that is the pronunciation of Sejanus!! So, if anyone wants to completely disregard all of my pronunciations in this post in favor of what would make sense for Greek, that would be a delight to me. [and then i climb back off of my soapbox]

The names and words in this are arranged alphabetically and descriptions are taken mostly from the character list at the end of Return of the Thief and the character list on the Queen’s Thief fandom wiki. So, BEWARE SPOILERS!!! Mostly for the early books, but if you know this fandom, you know how it goes, so, consider yourself warned.

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Rec List: rarepairs and genfics

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 01:59:50 GMT

sometimes i come into a rec list with a very specific idea, and the difficulty is just finding fics to fit. but other times, i am challeneged to make a rec list, and i have to think about what i have in my bookmarks that could be made into a collection! and that's what i've done. so, this is a multifandom rec list (fandoms included are Supernatural, Critical Role, DC Comics, MXTX books, and Stranger Things) highlighting fics that i think might be overlooked due to being rare pairs or being character study or gen fic that might be hard to find. i haven't written up stuff about each individual fic, but i'm always happy to ramble about them in the comments if you have specific ones you're interested in.

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brief pod-snippet of Breakaway (Superstition)

Mon, 05 May 2025 04:49:38 GMT

is there a podfic equivalent of a drabble? whatever!! one of the round 1 voiceteam challenges is to record a 500-1000 word snippet of a fic you absolutely adore but have never recorded for one reason or another. so, to fill that, i've recorded a small snippet from absolutely the dead middle of Breakaway, the fourth installement of the main Superstition hockey series. it absolutely won't make any sense without context, but i liked my recording quite a bit, so posting it here for posterity!

the main reason i've never recorded superstition is because it's VERY VERY LONG!!! but also the wonderful annapods has already recorded a lovely version of all of it as well <3 and, you know, there's a lot of french in it which i think i proved here (see: the blooper i cut out in which i tried to yolo the one tiny french phrase and immediately was like, no wait fuck, lemme see how google translate says it... yep i was wrong) is not my strong suit. but i do love this series very much, and both the 'no you fucked up that's his ACTUAL NAME' and the 'no chants YOU talked about it' scenes stick in my head quite a lot, so once i realized they're one after another, it seemed like the perfect little selection to record!

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this is about us politics but not in an interesting or important way

Sat, 05 Apr 2025 21:26:09 GMT

silly thoughts but they do have to do with politics so i'll put them under a cut

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music thoughts

Thu, 13 Mar 2025 01:41:05 GMT

a post on tumblr made me think about what my favorite albums might be and THAT led to me relistening to some albums i love a lot yesterday and today. music good. also holy shit i love florence welch's voice so much. cosmic love still hits so hard.

i was going back and forth about lungs vs ceremonials but i think i gotta go with lungs as my florence album. it's just SO striking and left such an impression on me when i first heard it.

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stranger things plotty fic recs

Sun, 16 Feb 2025 00:30:31 GMT

as i’ve mentioned eight hundred times, i got really into Stranger Things again over the last year, and i’ve read, conservatively, a metric shit-ton of fic about it. one of the things i’ve been really enjoying is the relative presence of long, plotty, canon-related fics. so this is a fic rec list for those! plenty of these are ship fics, and the shipping is heavily weighted towards steve/eddie, but not entirely, and my focus was more on ‘interesting plot’ than on romance. fic lengths range from 30k to over 200k. i cannot promise that the way i grouped these fics will make sense to you, but they make sense to me and hopefully they give you some idea of what kind of fics they all are!

alternate seasons

( alternate seasons )

canon rewrites and canon divergence

( canon rewrites and canon divergence )

season-4-related fix-its

( season-4-related fix-its )

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2024 in review - media

Fri, 10 Jan 2025 18:09:54 GMT

i previously had done fic reading in with my other fandom wrap ups, but this year i decided to do making things vs reading/watching things! this probably won’t happen again tbh, bc i just don’t have that much to say about the non fic stuff i read this year—however i’d like for that to be because i do a better job of sharing this kind of update for those things throughout the year!

Watching

( watching wrap-up )

Book reading

( book reading wrap-up )

Fic reading

( fic reading wrap-up )

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ST season 2

Thu, 09 Jan 2025 05:51:05 GMT

it turns out that i have kept very poor track of what i've watched in previous years, so i'm gonna try and post here more often about things! i finished rewatching stranger things season 2 today.

and man... what a horribly uneven show!!! the writing is frequently bad on a plot/coherency/pacing level, they love to do things that make me go 'wait sorry i'm supposed to think WHAT about WHO doing WHAT NOW????', and i feel like it's one of the most thematically messy shows i've ever seen. AND ALSO i'm obsessed with all the characters, there are so many fascinating and fun and real feeling character interactions, and it is a show that knows how to give a climactic and EXTREMELY EMOTIONAL moment on cue at the BEST times.

what a mess <3

tbh i'm very excited to get to s3. i know it is Critically Disliked but i love it. if it gave me nothing else i would still love it for max and el.

i'm also still thinking about how i watched s4 and was like, man the metallica moment is so objectively Nonsense and yet also bc it is in this context it WORKS SO FUCKING WELL. thats what i mean about a climactic moment.

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yuletide 2024 - dear author letter

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 01:52:08 GMT

Dear Author Letter

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Wed, 16 Oct 2024 02:26:32 GMT

tron legacy is so aggressively a mediocre movie except: aesthetics, which are in every way unparalleled. that the relationship between kevin and sam is like... not horrible but also certainly not good. and the extremely sexy move to do All Of That with rinzler.

unsurprisingly the female character situation is DIRE and there's absolutely no people of color in significant roles at ALL and i would love to be like 'ah a product of its time' but that time was... 2010. so. fuck that.

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dear podficcer letter - ITPE 2024 (ao3/tumblr: deepestbluesky)

Sat, 28 Sep 2024 17:49:26 GMT

Dear Creator Letter

( likes/dislikes ) ( fandoms )

Thank you so much for making something for me, i’m gonna be delighted to listen to it!

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Sat, 27 Jul 2024 22:22:51 GMT

reading reactions to Critical Role Downfall on tumblr is giving me so much fucking psychic damage, i need to take a long rest

first of all the number of people referring to aeor and also the prime deities as two singular collective entities... WILD!!! we just watched hours of their absolutely being differences and changing opinions and conflict within both groups! second of all the number of people who think there's a Right Answer to the situation in aeor baffles me.

but like, i kind of... put this on matt if i'm honest... not the reactions i'm seeing specifically but that i've been kind of uncomfortable this whole campaign with how deeply it's diving into questions of morality of religion and belief when i don't actually think that's, in some ways, a story CR is well-suited to explore and when the world it's taking place in is so informed by a very specific worldview.

idk dude. downfall is cool as hell as a story and yet. it's very hard for something to be a singular story and also a philosophical experiement/debate about morality and also also about a concept that is unavoidably colored by everyone's personal feelings about religion, a famously divisive topic.

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bruce posting again

Thu, 06 Jun 2024 01:53:54 GMT

i need every white springsteen fan and especially every white guy springsteen fan to read Hanif Abdurraqib's "A Night in Bruce Springsteen's America" essay before they say literally any words about springsteen's ideals and view of america please and thank you <3

this is not just bruce posting but also twitter/tumblr posting, as i'm still basically not on either of those places. anyway!!!! I Just Think!!!!! this is also @ myself in the past to be clear

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top 5 springsteen lyrics i'm incapable of shutting up about

Sun, 17 Mar 2024 04:15:35 GMT

i am off other social media, and also i'm in the part of the cycle of remembering DW exists where i check it regularly, and so i am here to bring you installment whatever (two in two days is high even for me) of the ongoing 'sky has too many feelings about bruce springsteen' saga, which will likely never end, and will certainly resurrect itself in august and maybe also september. be forewarned.

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various assorted stranger things thoughts

Tue, 05 Mar 2024 05:31:28 GMT

so as i've been telling basically anyone who's asked what i've been up to lately, i finally watched season 4 of stranger things (i finished it a week ish ago). it's funny, because i was feeling so obligated to watch it when it came out and when everyone started talking about it that i put it off for ages, and was surprised to remember that oh yeah i actually like this show. (i was also surprised to find it had been over a year and a half that i'd put it off, rather than the nine-ish months i was SURE it had been since s4 came out, but here we are lol.) so this is half my reactions to s4 and to the fandom (not entirely positive), and half like... just generally poking at what i do like about the show and why i enjoy it, because i was doing a lot of mulling that over as i got back into it.

we will NOT be talking about how many words of stranger things fic i've read in the last two-three weeks because i'm not tracking my fic reading this year so i can pretend to remain in blissful ignorance. thank you ever so much in advance.

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anyway, i have no conclusions to draw here but please come talk to me about this if you have thoughts or feelings about ST s4 or if you just want to react to anything i said! i keep tripping over the fact that this is a brand new season of canon for me and like fucking two years old for everyone else lmao.

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shl/tyk/qy longfic recs

Sun, 21 Jan 2024 22:40:46 GMT

the latest installment of my extremely scattered fic rec posts is a rec list of what feel like longfics for SHL/TYK/QY. some people might disagree with me classifying some of these as longfics, but they’re not super plentiful in these fandoms, so i took anything over 30k that is plotty. as such, a lot of these are AUs! also, hilariously, i started this long enough ago that at least one of the fics i originally said was a WIP is now completed!

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yuletide 2023 - dear author letter

Sat, 21 Oct 2023 05:55:01 GMT

Dear Author Letter

hello! this is my fourth year doing yuletide (holy shit?? i feel like i JUST did it for the first time so recently!) and i’m so excited to do it again. if you’re writing any of these fandoms for me, i’m already guaranteed to love you and whatever you write, but i also know that personally, i love getting a ton of info to work from in exchanges, so i’ve written a bunch here! feel free to look through it for ideas, but also please please don’t feel beholden to it.

treats policy: go for it!

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