Fandom, etc.

A new show would just be like all the new shows. Basically a miniseries following a single large plot arc and no time for us to learn anything about the characters. Everyone's either going to be empty shells, or they're going to be boilerplate stereotypes where we're "told" rather than shown who everyone is because there's simply not enough screen time for anything else.

and then thinking about all the people who call her cold or uncaring or clinical about what she has to do to save earth. eva stratt, who had silly t-shirts and vodka and favorite meals stored in the Hail Mary and treated with the same level of importance as the finely tuned equipment and the centrifuge the entire planet relies on for salvation.

and then thinking about eva stratt nodding and saying, “yeah, I’m pretty awful. that’s why i’m in charge” with a neutral expression and even believing it. as if crafting the most beautiful coffin and homage to her soon-to-be dead friends won’t haunt her always.

thinking about eva stratt being the first person on the “eva stratt is a monster” train, welcoming ryland grace aboard and knowing she believed in him more than anyone else.

And suddenly any other portrait makes you question: "Why isn't there an explosion happening in the background? Where is the wild air of danger and dynamism? Did the subject get to look incredibly badass but also maybe sit down a bit while posing for the artist?"

RIP to Admiral Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan of Camperdown, 1731 - 1804, and to Henri-Pierre Danloux who painted him. Nobody else was doing it like them.

So, a while ago, some of my friends and fellow cast members of the @sansukhpodfic​ asked about how to make and edit podfic on their own. I created this tutorial for them, as a supplement to the resources already posted  by the Sansukh mods. In the wake of the most recent @auralphonic​ episode asking for technical advice on podficcing in Audacity, I thought I would polish this up and post it. This tutorial explains how, once you have permission to record a story, you go about turning it into a podfic using Audacity. It focuses on technical and logistical details, rather than artistic advice, and is cobbled together from my own experience, my knowledge of the mathematics behind signal analysis, and other people’s tutorials. There’s lots of communities and resources out there that give advice on the artistic side (Auralphonic, for example, has an episode for newbies), which I recommend checking out.

Disclaimer: There is no one standard method of doing this! This is the method I have found gives me the best results, personally, but there may be better ways to do this. I strongly recommend checking out other resources for comparison.