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(Adapted from this writer meme by @ahdriking)

Do you consider podficcing to be your primary fandom activity?

Briefly describe your podficcing process

What got you started podficcing?

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Do you prefer making one-shots or multi-chaptered podfics?

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How do you decide on what voices to give the character(s)?

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Rec three of your current favorite podfics

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What’s a podficcing tip you got that you almost always follow?

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How many podfic WIPs do you have right now? Talk about one of them

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What podfic do you wish you got more of a response on?

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Rec some of your favourite podficcers

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Which has been your favourite character to voice?

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Are there any of your previous podfics you wish you could remake?

When it comes to long projects or stories with large casts, how do you keep track of character voices?

Do you always record in chronological order? Have you ever recorded scenes out of order?

What's something you're particularly good at in podficcing?

Apart from your voice, do you have a "signature move" or is there tell-tale sign that a podfic is your work?

Do you remember making [Podfic title]? Can you share something from that process? (Favourite or most challenging scene, etc.)

Do you have projects you've had to abandon? Why? Would you like to take them up again?

Which makes Fullmetal Alchemist so much funnier because Edward Elric very very much does join The Organization. He’s in fact quite famous for joining The Organization. Where The Organization is a hostile fascist dictatorship with immense military power which is good at both giving orders and punishing defectors.

Like, yeah vampires don't get much out of eating, won't risk going out during the day, wouldn't have the inner compass to seek out a soul, wouldn't stand by a mad Drusilla for centuries, would avoid slayers at all cost, and wouldn't aid a slayer once neutered for funsies.

Spike is just a fucking freak. A weirdo. Darla and Angel couldn't stand him in part due to the fact that something just is sideways in that man's head. No wonder him and Drusilla got on like a house on fire, they both have something deeply wrong with them.

And yeah, there's that whole demon taking the human as a template theory, and Spike being hedonism personified, and I'm well aware.

But like, I think using Spike as any kind of metric is a mistake because he is simply like that.

Din: They took my son.

Boba:

Boba: Alright. We are fucking with that New Republic and Empire bullshit, it has now become MY business if they kill each other and hurt this man’s child.

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Buffy fans can have a little gaslighting

He is played obviously camp and dramatic, for a start, and there is the aforementioned "hate your hair/not likely/yikes yikes yikes/let me guess you have a great personality" summary dismissal of all his potential brides. Then he spends dinner asking Yzma about Kronk ("so he seems nice? He's what, in his late twenties?") and otherwise being slightly obsessed with him.

Then there is the whole Adventure of Doom with Pacha, him being ever huffy about the Kiss of Life, and then the restaurant gag where Kuzco takes to playing Pacha's fake wife and dressing up in ladies' clothing with great gusto (reinforced by the waitress' "bless you for coming out in public" remark when Pacha says they're on their honeymoon). Then when he is finally de-llamafied, we don't see him paired off with the obligatory girl from the lineup earlier, as might otherwise be expected in a Disney movie. Instead he is still single, but goes to found family it up with Pacha, Chica, Kronk, etc, which dare we remark is a very queer trope.

In short, I have no idea how a Disney movie with no white people (all the characters are Indigenous/people of color), a gay king, cross-dressing jokes, and the most offbeat plot of all time actually ever got made (can you imagine the Family Friendly Mouse doing that today? Let us also talk about Kronk because he is a brilliant deconstruction of both toxic masculinity and the musclebound henchman stereotype.) Other than that this was the Chaos Hour of animated movies in the late 90s/early 2000s, and yes.

Please, read this article if you have some time. This story is wild, and involves directors being pitted against each other Bake-Off style and a shockingly intimate documentary created by the wife of Sting who, himself was heartbroken by the decimation of the songs he wrote for the film including cutting a fantastic Yzma villain song sung by Eartha Kitt that is SO DAMN GOOD but would not ever have fit the more nailed-down Yzma we would eventually come to know and love. It’s so catchy though, I’m doubling up on calls to action but please listen now: