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10min/1k, rated G, no warnings

Hollanov, outsider POV, post canon

Summary: Shane and Ilya are outed via fanmail. This is a random user's twitter timeline. (Or, most people have zero idea who these hockey guys are... Wait. Is that the Rolex guy?!)

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fic text by anonymous on Ao3, podfic recorded by @xianvar @meggiejolly @cathalinaheart @robinfai @apple-sapling @shakespearestolemyurl @elany @thriceapodfic @bunsprout @kd-heart, others and I at EuroPodFriends convention 2026!

My Hollanov tag list: @toboldlynerd @live-laugh-love-ao3 lmk if anyone else wants to be notified when I post more!

Fic by @antiadvil, podfic recorded by @xianvar @shakespearestolemyurl @meggiejolly and I at the europodfriends convention 2026!

rated T, no warnings, 12 minutes / 2k words

Summary: Ilya Rozanov runs into Rose Landry outside of a Montreal nightclub.

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Alt audio links in case Ao3 is down again (but pls come kudos & comment on Ao3 when it's up): archive.org Google drive

Fic by @bolithesenate, podfic recorded by @shakespearestolemyurl @xianvar @robinfai @wilfriede and I during europodfriends 2026!

22min(3k words), rated G, no warnings, humor, Yoda's Disaster Lineage, canon-divergence AU, Feral Padawans & Jedi Masters

Summary: The first day of a newly minted Master-Padawan pair is always special, and Komari wants to celebrate the procurement of her Orange One with an adequately hearty meal. Only that she has to raid someone else's pantry to do so - and makes quite the interesting discovery about her new Padawan because of that. Well, luckily, she knows just the thing to do... and Vokara Che's sanity is a small price for the continued wellbeing of her little orange minion!

3, 29 and 70!

Thank you Shakespeare <3

3. What got you started podficcing?

The short answer is that I listened to some old episodes of Behind the Pod and Auralphonic where podficcers talked about their process and shared tutorials, which made me realize that I could also actually try it. But the fact that I was listening to these podfic podcasts probably makes clear that I had been interested in podfic in general for a while. It just didn't occur to me to make it myself :D thimblerig's a history of the body is the podfic that opened my eyes to the medium itself as something incredibly creative, expressive and transformative. After I found that I listened to more and more and eventually found the tutorials and round table discussions etc. And something that stood out to me even then was the community aspect of it. People coming together to discuss meta, to create multivoice podfics or filks, events like Voiceteam or pod-together that people mentioned in their works or the podcast episodes... I hadn't really been part of any fannish communities up to that point, but I saw all of that and found it very intriguing and also, crucially, welcoming in the way it was presented and talked about. So yeah, I guess wanted to find a fandom community and was also predisposed toward podfic in general and it just lined up perfectly :)

29. Which of your podfics would you call your wildest ride?

Shakespeare, since this is you asking and I know that you understand German I will go with a German smut podfic that a couple of us recorded live at the Europodfriends meetup. It's RPF about German national soccer players Miroslav Klose and Lukas Podolski, and to top it off it's written in a deliberately vulgar and rough way that made recording this SUCH a challenge, but oh my what a fun one. If you can get through the awkwardness of listening to German smut, I can promise you a lot of fun, laughter and general discussion in the outtakes (which are almost as long as the podfic itself :D) Please enjoy: Tausend Blicke.

70. Do you remember a podfic comment that made you particularly happy?

Hehe, actually the comment by the author of Tausend Blicke from above was one of the best I ever got :D

1, 7 and 29 please :)

:) :) Thank you!

1: What podfic of yours would you recommend to someone who had never listened to any of your work? Or, what do you think is the best introduction to your podfics?

Answered here, but for an alternative answer that leads to more to my horror-y and sci-fi stuff: If I Miss You Call the Tune. It's a retelling of The Pied Piper of Hamelin, in space :D

7: What song would make great podfic music?

When I include music in my podfics it's almost always instrumental. (Songs with lyrics activate my filk brain more than my podfic brain.) Recently I realized that the soundtrack of "A Single Man" might be a great fit for a podfic that I've been wanting to make for years. Snow, Swimming,… (but every track of that soundtrack is great, really). Another soundtrack that I'd love to include at some point but where I don't have a specific project in mind: Cloud Atlas.

29: Have you ever received a comment that particularly stood out to you for whatever reason?

Answered here as well, but I'll happily talk about another one. At the Paris Podfic Meetup a group of us recorded @ekingston's Penne For Your Thoughts. The author and her wife both commented (which is already super cool. It means so much to me when people share my podfics with others and listen together) and said that hearing us react to the story, especially in the outtakes of laughter and impromptu discussion about the fic, brought them a lot of joy and even made them like the fic itself more. So much of fandom is about sharing, and it makes me really happy when a podfic can add to that.

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I hope you have a good day 🙃

Thank you so much! And sorry for the lateness in answering—I got hit with an annoying cold, like, right after I reblogged the post and had to nap and rest all day. It’s still affecting me, but I feel a bit better now—I hope that today turns out to be better, and I thank you for your well wishes!

Now, without further ado:

🍵 Top 3 favorite tea flavors?

Right now, my absolute favorite tea is an instant ginger chai that my roommate has, because it’s working wonders for my sore throat. (No, I won’t shut up about this cold…)

Interestingly, I was never much of a tea drinker before this year (I’m sorry, Uncle Iroh), but thanks to my roommate and the many college events I’ve gone to that serve tea, I’m learning to develop more of a taste for it! I’d say my top three favorites right now are the aforementioned ginger chai, green tea, and I guess peppermint tea. I’ve tried earl grey, too, but I don’t like it as much. (I’m sorry, Captain Picard.)

💻 To feel nostalgic: what are some old games/websites you spent lots of time on when you were young?

I don’t know if anyone else but me remembers this, but: htwins.net! This was the website that hosted the famous Scale of the Universe 2 and belonged to the people who made Battle for Dream Island, but I didn’t stop there. Oh no. I played all the games and watched all the animations that these funky Huang twins made: Get to the Top Although There Is No Top (and its 100 variations!), Goime 500 (there were parts of that that stumped me for months; after I eventually figured it out and beat the game, that’s what introduced me to the concept of a speedrun); even The Super-Short Stick Figure Show! A lot of these have sadly been lost to time since the demise of Flash…RIP.

I remember being shooketh when I found out how young the programmers/animators, Cary and Michael, were—they were only 12 when they produced, animated, and released the first episode of Battle for Dream Island and 14 when they released The Scale of the Universe 2. Imagine having that much talent! I still follow some of Cary’s videos—he also composes quite well and, in high school, apparently wrote poems of questionable quality.

On the cringier side of things, I also spent an embarrassing amount of time on websites like RageStache (rage comics) and Taste of Awesome (demotivational posters). I was addicted to those—I’d spend hours scrolling through the comics and memes while procrastinating on doing my 5th- or 6th-grade homework, probably learning stuff I shouldn’t have been learning at the innocent young age of 10. I’d also often Google Image Search things like “funny comics about harry potter” (Harry Potter being my obsession at the time), “funny rage comics about ___,” and “funny tumblr conversations”—years before I’d actually join Tumblr.

🍁 A new website, fandom, video, song, fun fact or anything, name a recent discovery you would like to share with your followers.

Apologies for “blorbo from my shows”-ing this, but here are two amazing Cowboy Bebop-related discoveries I’ve made recently!

The first is this bonus track from the boxed set of the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack; here is the Wiki page for it with the lyrics translated into English. It’s called “Wandering Cowboy,” and it’s a version/arrangement of the theme song, Tank!, with lyrics sung by Aoi Tada, the Japanese voice of Edward. The lyrics and the way little Ed sings them (Aoi Tada was a teenager, not much older than Ed, when she recorded her lines for the original series) are just so adorable—innocent, childlike, and filled with love for her Bebop family. I can just imagine Ed sitting or lying at her computer in the Bebop’s living room, kicking her feet behind her as she softly and happily sings this under her breath. Go, go, Bebop! Fly, fly, Bebop!

And the second is this video of Canadian figure skater Kevin Reynolds, who in 2016 skated a routine at the Skate Canada Challenge to Tank! while dressed as Spike Spiegel. Just imagine being that cool. Imagine being a fan of Cowboy Bebop and also a figure skater. Imagine practicing for months and months and years and years to do a strenuous, beautiful skating routine, and it all culminates in you being Spike Spiegel, being him in front of everyone, whirling and spinning across the ice to the frenetic jazz of Tank!, of a show you’ve obviously known and loved for years—as graceful and fluid as Spike himself is in his movements, literally moving like water. I just have many emotions about this. (Also, Kevin Reynolds is cute! He has a sweet smile and thumbs-up :))