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Hi everyone,

There’s a wonderfully educational new Pokémon Botany video out from Matthew Gaston!


If you haven’t seen his others, you can find them here:
- Botanist Explains All Grass-Type Pokémon
- Botanist Explains Pokémon Berries

( Mushroom Update (Sad) )

( 15 Films in April )

Other Stuff
I'm hoping to put together a March and April event roundup soon, but I’ve hardly worked on anything recently. That will change once Voiceteam starts, but it’s interesting how my fannish energy seems to go up and down so much these days and is and usually wholly based on what events I’m participating in at the time.

Tomorrow I'm being interviewed as part of a research study on ASMR. I did an online survey a while ago and was invited to be interviewed based on my answers, so that's exciting. The study is looking at whether a Highly Sensitive Person (something I hadn't heard of before the survey, but is apparently a Thing and a thing that I might also be) is more likely to consume ASMR content and why, which is awesome. I can already foresee me talking their ear off now I get the chance to share my ASMR thoughts with someonne, especially with how it's changed since developing tinnitus, and I can't wait to read their findings once they're available!

I hope everyone is doing well 🧡🧡🧡

I'm so excited to share my mushroom growing kits that arrived yesterday!



( Shrooms )

I completed my WWDITS Podtober challenge! I did it – I posted one What We Do in the Shadows (TV) podfic per day for the whole of October. I’m realising as I write this post that 31 is the same number of podfics I made for battleship this year too. Neat! It was exhilarating, a little exhausting, and I still can’t believe I managed it. I’m proud of myself ^^

✨ The headline stats are: 88,260 words podficced, totalling 11 hours, 24 minutes of podfic! ✨

Under the cut are more detailed stats and ramblings about the project 😊

( Stats, stats, stats! )

Thanks for reading this if you did! Now I'm off to make my outstanding icons for ficortreat and enjoy the gifts I received. (I’ll be sure to post an event roundup for that soon too!) Also must give the kittens some of the attention they demand. They have names now! Eddie Baby and Frank. If you get the reference, I love you. Bye for now!

This past week, I've challenged myself to post a What We Do in the Shadows (TV) podfic every day, and I've succeeded! I hope to continue with this for the rest of the month, and have another week and a half's worth of pods ready to go as of writing as I'm really enjoying myself. It's also coincided with pod_o_ween, which has been great for motivation too. Check out what's in this year's collection so far here.

It's been nice getting to interact with fics in my shiny new fandom this way. It's boosted my motivation to read more fic in general, and I've found some real gems. I've been pushing myself with cover art too. Also, a friend made me some Nandor collages (scanned, physical ones!) that I'll be using on covers next week that I absolutely adore and can't wait to share.

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As part of this project, I also followed jocundasykes' guide on using Python to scrape AO3 author profiles. It was complicated and most of the time I didn't know what I was doing, but I ended up with 9 new WWDITS writers for the FPS List and 2 edge cases I plan to reach out to from the 1088 authors I scraped. It's such a satisfying feeling to find new writers open to podfic of their works ^^

Semi-relatedly, I recently started a challenge with wilfriede0815 to crosspost at least one podfic to tumblr per week, something I'd never been brave enough to do before. (I'm palmofviolet on there if you're interested.) Having this challenge coincide with mine has meant I've been crossposting all these WWDITS podfics there too, which has been nerve-wracking but nice :)

I plan to post a stats roundup here at the end of the month for how many WWDITS pods I managed and how many words/hours were podded. My new Python "skills" (word used so very, very loosely lol) meant I also scraped my Internet Archive account this week and found out I've podded 106 hours of podfic since I started in 2020. I'm not sure how I feel about that total (I thought it would be bigger) but I am pleased about my recent personal growth with podding and how that will affect my output going forward. I feel more confident to take on longer stories these days, editing doesn't take me as long or feel like a slog (I enjoy it almost as much as recording), and I've even started trying more distinct character voices. Who knows if they're any good, haha, but it's fun to experiment.

This post has been rambly!

A simple post today! Pics (and gifs) of five things from my Magnemite collection that I love ^^

1. Re-Ment Pokemon Terrarium Collection



I still can't believe I own this! I got extremely lucky with my eBay alerts and bought this thirty seconds after the listing went live, hah. I don't think the seller knew (or maybe they didn't care?) how rare this one is because it was a steal. I love my happy little babies playing with electricity ^^

( The rest are under here... )