This is my official commissions post for charity fan fiction for the Palestine Children's Relief Fund.
Here's how it works. You contact me either through a DM here on tumblr or through a DM on Discord, where I am also griseldagimpel. If I have you blocked here on tumblr, you can still commission me via Discord. I block on tumblr for all sorts of reasons (often silly or trivial), but I don't have anyone blocked on Discord currently. (No, I probably don't remember why I blocked you.)
Commissions are in the form of a donation to https://www.pcrf.net/. Talk to me before donating.
Fandoms I'll generally write for can be found here. If you have a fandom not on this list, you're welcome to ask, but I can't write for a fandom I don't know.
As a general rule of thumb, I'm not writing underage or rape/non-con. Beyond that, you're welcome to ask.
If you are a minor, you may only commission G or PG-13 works from me.
Rate is 1 cent per word up to 10,000 words.
Please have a prompt in mind, especially if you are looking for a longer work.
I will need proof of donation with amount and date shown but personal information redacted.
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Iβm just bitching but I swear every time I see a podcast rec post asking for reccs that feature or are created by, say, women, trans folks, POC, and the tags include everyoneβs favorite cis white boy podcasts I see red. Iβm SURE the podcasts are good. However.
If the show lacks canon trans characters, maybe donβt list it for trans reccs. If a show lacks A SINGLE WOMAN, maybe donβt list it for female character reccs. I feel like Iβm taking crazy pills.
I'm in the fourth season of Red Valley, and I just want Warren and Gordon to be okay and together and to be able to raise their tortoise daughter. π
Also, wow, RIP to anyone who had to listen to this series as it was coming out and couldn't just binge it.
For those who weren't able to make it to the Chicago live show, I'm going to jot down some of the answers we got from the Q&A session. I'll be paraphrasing this, so don't take this information as a 100% rock solid, especially because some of this could also be changed by the creative team down the road (we should only considered what's in the show and the Arcana as actual canon, folks). Anyone who was at the New York show or discovered things in their own chats with the team should feel free to reblog and add them to this thread.
Let's get started:
Question by ocean-lilac: If Adam and Amy were forced to give one genuine compliment to each other, what would it be?
What Adam and Amy find frustrating about each other is also what they most admire in one another (and find lacking in themselves): Amy admires how careful Adam is, while Adam admires how fearless Amy is.
Question by me: Are there any Harbinger sites in Africa and North America?
Yes, the Harbinger Empire was a global one, so there are sites on those continents. The sites in North America have probably been picked clean, though.
Question by me: As a fictional concept, the idea of an ancient advanced human civilization is a fun one. However, in our world, we have conspiracy theorists who tout the pseudo-scientific ancient astronauts/ancient aliens theory, which, among other things, has racist roots and aims to discredit indigenous peoples by saying "they couldn't have accomplished great things by themselves - someone more advanced gave the knowledge to them." The myth of Atlantis has been used the same way by white supremacists over the last two centuries. Is this something the creative team has discussed, and if so, how will the story avoid this stumbling block?
Yes, this is something the creative team has discussed. This is why the Harbinger Empire existed around 6000 years ago. That's far enough into the past that no direct connections to other ancient human civilizations would exist, so no one can go, "They gave the ancient Sumerians that." This is also why the Empire was based in Antarctica, a location where no other human civilization has its roots. The writing has also been hinting at what the people of the Harbinger Empire were like - namely that they didn't care about/have the concept of collateral damage - so they weren't exactly benevolent benefactors to humanity, either.
Question: Is there overlap between the Language of the Sun and the Language of the Stars?
Mostly no, but there might be a tiny amount of overlap in practice.
Question by more than one person: Is the Language of the Sun/Stars a real language? What are its linguistic roots?
It isn't a real language and there will probably never be a conlang dictionary for it, since linguistics isn't his [Gabriel's] area of study. He did consider researching Polynesian languages for it, but realized that wasn't his toolbox to play with, and realized that if he dove into that research, it would be two years before they could make the show. So instead the language mostly draws on Romance languages.
Question: What's the sound designing process like?
First, Gabriel puts sound effect descriptions into the recording scripts. Then Eleanor and Jeremy tell him when those sound effects would be too expensive, the effects are pulled back, after which Jeremy blows their socks off with the finished sound design. It also helps that some episodes are quieter than others, like episode 14, which gives them more room/money to add effects to the big episodes, like episode 15.
Question: What's the writing and producing process like?
It's a snowball effect. Gabriel writes the scripts, the team reviews it, edits happen, and then as Gabriel starts working on the next one, the line recording and the sound designing happens. This is part of why we can get season two so quickly, because there's a continuing rolling process.
Question from me: Why did you kill off Eckerberg?
He would have been too much of a safety net in season two had he survived.
Question to Gabriel: Did Eckerberg die trying to save people or did he run away?
I'll never tell! :D
Question: Will we ever see or hear from Eckerberg and Mel again?
Possibly in flashbacks.
Question: What is the best way to support the show?
If everyone gets even one of their friends to listen to it, we'd be set! Becoming a member on the Audacious Machine Creative website is also a huge help!
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This ring hasn't been found yet as far as we know.
It is unknown who has Shral Ta Alevia (the Ring of the Skies), Shral Ta Juren (the Ring of the Body), the Ring of the Dead, and the Ring of Demons. One of these four rings hasn't been discovered yet. We also don't know which of the 7th and 8th magicians is "the last person who needs more power" or which one is "losing her mind." We can make some guesses, but won't know for sure until season two.
So I have an Amy Stirling/Jerome Eckerberg fan fic for The Harbingers fandom entitled "Effective Altruism". It's a classic double meaning title, right? Because being a proponent of effective altruism is a core component of Eckerberg's character, and the series gets in a bit to the issues with effective altruism. And then in my fic, Amy mind controls Eckerberg into doing things like agreeing to union demands, so the second meaning is that that is a form of effective altruism. Just forcibly divest billionaires from their wealth.
ANYWAY, I promoted the fic on Blue Sky, and it's gotten a couple of likes from people I don't know, and when I checked their profile, they're actual proponents of effective altruism. π€
I swear, my promo post includes the summary that mentions the mind control element! My fics are all archive-locked to prevent further AI-scraping, so they can't read them without an account, but they ought to have at least seen the summary. π
So the big pool thing. Did they not chlorinate it or what? Did they not know you have to chlorinate it? I'm really baffled about what the fuck even happened there. SURELY they chlorinated it.
#Algae in the pipes#This isnβt the first time this has happened itβs become victim to new pond syndrome every time itβs been refilled in recent years#And they are treating the water#(Hydrogen peroxide not chlorine)#It shouldnβt have chlorine in it itβs massive and would fuck with the wildlife#The project itself is incredibly obnoxious but the pool turning green isnβt really an orange specific problem
Oh okay good. I was terrified that their level of incompetence, which is already comical, had jumped to truly incomprehensible. I am so relieved to learn that this makes sense and it's only their twitterposting that makes them seem unhinged about it.
See, you also don't want hydrogen peroxide in the water, either.
The administration either got rid of or didn't listen to people who could explain the algae problem, and decided that the problem was because other administrations were just stupid and didn't know how to take care of the pool, and also saw an opportunity for grifting some money.
So they painted the bottom of the pool dark blue, which absorbed more heat from the sun and made the algae bloom faster than ever. So they dumped hydrogen peroxide in it, which only killed the algae around the edges and also made the new paint job peel.
So folks were taking pieces of the bottom as souvenirs so now we have National Guard and deputies from several states who are just arresting people for as little as putting their hands in the pool.
Oh HEY so like, the Obama administration renovated the reflecting pool to draw from the Potomac rather than municipal water, and installed an extensive filtration system, and APPARENTLY at some point in the last 10 years Trump ripped it out or stopped maintaining it, and look, algae.
It's very likely that the paint was not appropriate for the usage to start with, and that that was on purpose. It's a standard shady really-the-mob contractor thing to guarantee more work, I'm told. It's quite possible that himself agreed to it, even, because he gives no fucks about national monuments, but does like handing out favors to friends, like this no-bid indefinite contract.
Worth noting is that problems with the pool date back to its construction. It was sited on land not really suited to the purpose, and over time the pool became unstable and leaky. Did they know this would happen when it was built? I don't know (I suspect not, and that at least part of this is due to infrastructure and population change--it was opened in 1922, and DC looked very different then), but it is a longstanding problem.
By the time Obama rocked up and it became his issue, the initial issues had compounded with "it's old as balls" and "this was never designed to have this many visitors." Obama undertook a massive renovation that included stabilizing the pool structurally and rerouting the water source, as noted above. He was aware that this was only a partial fix to the problem--there's only so much you can do with a megastructure that was built improperly when cars were still a novelty and that sits in the middle of one of the busiest metro areas in the US--but he did what he could. Perfect is the enemy of "mostly right."
Now if you wanted to fix the pool properly, the way to do it would be to tear the whole thing out, go back to the original blueprints, and have a modern architect look at what needs to exist as substructure to make the superstructure viable. That is, understandably, not a cost we can really afford right now. And replacing it with a different form of monument somewhat less problematic, like a garden, would be extremely politically fraught. So "we're going to deal with problems as best we can when they crop up" is the name of the game.
TRUMP TRIED TO REMOVE OBAMA'S RENOVATION. Like. The thing that meant he had a pool to paint in the first place.
This fucker really rolled in and went "this is flawed but hanging in there. Destroy it."
He took it out because it was installed by a black man.
Trump did this because he is a racist piece of shit who cannot stand anything that was done by a black man. It must be removed and replaced with something done by a white man.
And every time he does this he makes things worse.
Trump is objectively proving over and over again that minorities and immigrants are tremendously beneficial to our country, because every time he says "WHITE MAN DO THIS, NOT BLACK MAN" it's complete fucking dogshit because racism is stupid and economically contraindicated
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For Hymns for the Road, I'm not yet sure if the four main characters are all non-binary, forgot their genders during the Change, or are afraid of the Fey stealing their gendered pronouns if they use them.
For Hymns for the Road, I'm not yet sure if the four main characters are all non-binary, forgot their genders during the Change, or are afraid of the Fey stealing their gendered pronouns if they use them.
I love how whenever an Audacious Machine Creative show needs an affable professor type who stabs his friend(s) in the back, someone is like, "Get me Joshua K. Harris!"
I need a way to say "this piece of media didn't completely rewire my brain, but it was skillfully crafted and enjoyable as entertainment" that doesn't sound like a backhanded insult. π
It's like, there are stories that make me rethink something about genre conventions or the world or myself, and that's amazing.
And other times, a story is like a good mystery where, yes, yes, I know that the most obvious suspect is going to be a red herring and that the culprit will be dramatically exposed in the climax. That's okay. That's not a bad thing. Sometimes I just want a period of time where I am entertained by a story that is skillfully crafted.
Not every piece of media needs to rewire my brain.
Even worse is when there are audio dramas that are legitimately really good, like genuinely above average...but aren't quite as good as something like The Harbingers or The Silt Verses. Like, congratulations, you made the 8th best audio drama I've ever listened to.
So then someone asks for recs, and I give them my Top 5 list.
And then I feel bad because, really these ones over there are also really good!! π
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I hate when king arthur has all these fussy little steps in the instructions and you're like "no way do these fussy little steps matter" but you try it and they do. they matter so much.
I thought you meant Camelot quests and I was like "that's fair, 'never pick a four leaf clover on the last Wednesday of the month' IS a fussy little step that shouldn't matter" but then I was like "wait isn't that also a flour company"
It's not something I'm going to be able to get together right away - I'm pretty focused on recording at the moment - but once I get my library of sound effects put together for The Mark of the Tulip, I plan to put those online for other audio drama creators to use. They're all going to be either sounds I recorded myself or stripped out of public domain movies.
