Wasting Potential

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!

Today, while scrolling my Reading Page, I was greeted by purple boxes containing a message from imgur: "This content not viewable in your region." It's because of stupid new laws in the UK that have also stopped me from looking at fanart on AO3 and many other websites (🙄), and yeah I'm annoyed, but I thought I'd try to channel my annoyance into something helpful!

If you include images in your DW posts, such as icon batches or community banners, are you aware of DW's inbuilt image hosting? I feel like a lot of people are, so ignore this post if that's you, but if you're not... I'd already written the below guide for someone who reached out to me a few years ago asking for help, so I've tweaked it a little and hope it's helpful to anyone who might stumble across it.

Please note: DW-hosted images only display on DW.

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