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(If you'd like to see previous years' master lists, 2011 is here, 2012 is here, 2013 is here, 2014 is here, 2015 is here, 2016 is here, 2017 is here, 2018 is here, 2019 is here, 2020 is here, 2021 is here, 2022 is here, 2023 is here, and 2024 is here.)
Happy 15th annual #ITPE!!!! Thank you for bearing with us despite Tumblr sabotaging us not just once, but twice.
Here’s some stats and highlights from this year’s #ITPE!
We had 73 participants this year, and you made 293 podfics for a total run time of 124 hours, 16 minutes, and 4 seconds–that’s over FIVE DAYS of audio!
We have 4 simulpods this year! Incredible things happened in The Queen’s Thief fandom with![[tumblr.com profile]](https://www.tumblr.com/favicon.ico)
deepestbluesky podding a gift for likethetrench, who recorded the same story for her recipient feelingsandtaxes, who in turn podded that story for lady-sci. Classic #ITPE antics! flowerparrish and tinybluebirdcloak gifted each other the same story as a treat, with flowerparrish also receiving a podfic of a story ze gifted to another recipient. Finally, jeremyknox | kbirbpods and opalsong both podded the same story for their recipients.
By far our most prolific gifter this year was flowerparrish, who (on top of modding duties) not only made 4 gifts for zir recipient (including a nearly 11 hour podfic), but also picked up 2 pinch hits and made 57 treats. Not far behind was jeremyknox | kbirbpods who also picked up a pinch hit and made 15 main gifts for faer recipients and 16 treats! Opalsong had a relatively restrained year (for her), but still made 10 gifts (nearly 10 hours of audio) for her recipient!rhea314 was also a generous gifter this year, making 8 main gifts for her recipient and 10 treats! pezzax was another of our prolific gifters this year, making 22 treats! We also had generous treaters in blackestglass, wanderingjedihistorian, chaoskiro, j03-05, and wilfriede! Honorable mentions to popcornfairy28 and reena-jenkins for the 3 and 5.5 hour (respectively) podfics they made for their recipients, and to betrayedbycinnamon for treating despite not being signed up to the exchange!
Finally, we'd like to extend some thank you’s to:
-Data mod![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p2.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
flowersforgraves for converting all the sign up data to airtable which makes matching so much easier.
-Asymptotical and Dragonflies_and_Katydids for creating the coding we used to generate distribution day templates.
-Our pinch hittersalliaskisthepossibilityoflove, flowerparrish and jeremyknox | kbirbpods
-And as always,![[twitter.com profile]](https://p2.dreamwidth.org/e0caa790ec10/-/twitter.com/favicon.ico)
exmanhater for ITPE’s permanent hosting
Now let’s get on to what you’re really here for…..the masterlist!! Here’s the masterlist spreadsheet for this year’s exchange!
Happy listening!!!
Happy 15th annual #ITPE!!!! Thank you for bearing with us despite Tumblr sabotaging us not just once, but twice.
Here’s some stats and highlights from this year’s #ITPE!
We had 73 participants this year, and you made 293 podfics for a total run time of 124 hours, 16 minutes, and 4 seconds–that’s over FIVE DAYS of audio!
We have 4 simulpods this year! Incredible things happened in The Queen’s Thief fandom with
By far our most prolific gifter this year was flowerparrish, who (on top of modding duties) not only made 4 gifts for zir recipient (including a nearly 11 hour podfic), but also picked up 2 pinch hits and made 57 treats. Not far behind was jeremyknox | kbirbpods who also picked up a pinch hit and made 15 main gifts for faer recipients and 16 treats! Opalsong had a relatively restrained year (for her), but still made 10 gifts (nearly 10 hours of audio) for her recipient!
Finally, we'd like to extend some thank you’s to:
-Data mod
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-Our pinch hitters
-And as always,
Now let’s get on to what you’re really here for…..the masterlist!! Here’s the masterlist spreadsheet for this year’s exchange!
Happy listening!!!
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I noticed shortly after making my first corn-filled hot-and-cold packs that mice love them. They also love being in our nice, cozy house in the winter!
After having more than a few hot-and-cold sacks ruined by mice, I decided to fix this by getting a big plastic tub to keep my extra sacks and unused corn in. This worked pretty great! For a while.
Today, I was planning to make some new corn sacks to hand out at work, since it's practically an annual tradition for me at this point. Only it looks like I'm going to have to break tradition (no big loss for me, TBH) because one or more mice has managed to wriggle in between the top and bottom of the plastic container. The three ready-made corn sacks I have stored in there, for a miracle, aren't chewed on; the bottom compartment is just soaked in mouse pee 😑 And there's soooooo much mouse poop. I don't even trust the corn that's remaining in the (presumably waterproof) bag that I bought it in.
So, upcoming tasks:
Dump the presumably bad corn in the yard waste bin
Get rid of or viciously clean out the plastic bin the corn was in
Brainstorm a new way to protect corn
Set mouse traps
Cry a little to myself over lost efforts
Pick myself up and start again
Not necessarily in that exact order.
After having more than a few hot-and-cold sacks ruined by mice, I decided to fix this by getting a big plastic tub to keep my extra sacks and unused corn in. This worked pretty great! For a while.
Today, I was planning to make some new corn sacks to hand out at work, since it's practically an annual tradition for me at this point. Only it looks like I'm going to have to break tradition (no big loss for me, TBH) because one or more mice has managed to wriggle in between the top and bottom of the plastic container. The three ready-made corn sacks I have stored in there, for a miracle, aren't chewed on; the bottom compartment is just soaked in mouse pee 😑 And there's soooooo much mouse poop. I don't even trust the corn that's remaining in the (presumably waterproof) bag that I bought it in.
So, upcoming tasks:
Not necessarily in that exact order.
Dad is out of the hospital and doing well! Surgery went quite well, and he's got pretty low pain as long as he's not actively using the ankle in question. I expect that Mom and I will be doing our best to minimize said use for at least the next week or so, probably longer.
No other notes for now, too tired.
No other notes for now, too tired.
Just ordered myself a new phone, partly as a graduation gift to myself (thank you, aunt who sent me a check for $100!), and partly because, after more than four-and-a-half years, my current phone is getting a bit buggy. I went super-ultra-budget and got a model that's effectively two years out of date, so I saved a fair amount of money there while still getting a product I'm fairly certain I can be happy with.
My current phone still works reasonably well, but it has a tendency to freeze up from time to time that requires a hard restart to fix—a tendency that's becoming more frequent. The Otter Box phone case I got at the same time is also starting to deteriorate, whereas the area over the power button has been pressed so often that you can barely tell there was ever a button representation there in the first place. So I think it might be time anyway 😅 (I'm about four months short of five years with my current phone, I'm pretty sure I beat the average phone trade-in time with room to spare.)
A part of me is still a bit freaked out, because my phone isn't actually broken yet, and also $129 plus other expenses for a new phone case and screen protector aren't exactly a drop in the bucket for me at the moment, but like. I'm still pretty sure it's time.
My current phone still works reasonably well, but it has a tendency to freeze up from time to time that requires a hard restart to fix—a tendency that's becoming more frequent. The Otter Box phone case I got at the same time is also starting to deteriorate, whereas the area over the power button has been pressed so often that you can barely tell there was ever a button representation there in the first place. So I think it might be time anyway 😅 (I'm about four months short of five years with my current phone, I'm pretty sure I beat the average phone trade-in time with room to spare.)
A part of me is still a bit freaked out, because my phone isn't actually broken yet, and also $129 plus other expenses for a new phone case and screen protector aren't exactly a drop in the bucket for me at the moment, but like. I'm still pretty sure it's time.
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I need to get working on more fics; my AO3 dashboard is currently all Gen, No Pairing, No Archive Warnings Apply works! That's hardly representative of the majority of my writing!
Fandom: Pokémon
Summary: Xatu Foresaw the Minior shower in Hoenn three years, six months, and two days prior to its occurrence; something she had not Foreseen was the kindness of the humans working there.
Mirrors: On AO3
Wordcount: ~350
Ships: Xatu & Julian (original male character)
Notes: Sequel to my![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
pokepodproject fic "An Eye on the Sky" (Dreamwidth | AO3)
Fic: ( Future Sight )
Summary: Xatu Foresaw the Minior shower in Hoenn three years, six months, and two days prior to its occurrence; something she had not Foreseen was the kindness of the humans working there.
Mirrors: On AO3
Wordcount: ~350
Ships: Xatu & Julian (original male character)
Notes: Sequel to my
pokepodproject fic "An Eye on the Sky" (Dreamwidth | AO3)Fic: ( Future Sight )
Because I talked about this on Discord, but not here: Dad broke his ankle last Friday 😬 After slipping on some ice, he initially thought it was a sprain, but Mom talked him into visiting Urgent Care where they got the correct diagnosis. On Monday, I took him to the hospital for an update, where they said that on this coming Tuesday, they'll need to surgically put a pin in the broken bone. After that, he'll be in a cast or boot for about six weeks.
Since Dad also has some Santa Claus gigs, he's been going in his boot and, at Mom's suggestion, telling people that Dancer stepped on his foot while trying out some new moves. I took him to a couple of Santa gigs today, where he was very well received; his final gig of the year is tomorrow afternoon, and then after that he's done being Santa for the year (and his leg should be better well before next December 😛)
In other news, I'm not really on the Book of Faces, but I have been communicating a bit more with the aunt I went to visit last March. I told her that I went back to school and expected to graduate this semester, and she apparently spread the news herself, because today I got a congratulatory card from a different aunt—with a check in it 😮 I've already got a thank-you note for her written and waiting in the mail box, though I don't know if I'll have the chance to deposit the check before Monday; I've got work tomorrow and Sunday.
I think that's about it for now; will blog more later ✌
Since Dad also has some Santa Claus gigs, he's been going in his boot and, at Mom's suggestion, telling people that Dancer stepped on his foot while trying out some new moves. I took him to a couple of Santa gigs today, where he was very well received; his final gig of the year is tomorrow afternoon, and then after that he's done being Santa for the year (and his leg should be better well before next December 😛)
In other news, I'm not really on the Book of Faces, but I have been communicating a bit more with the aunt I went to visit last March. I told her that I went back to school and expected to graduate this semester, and she apparently spread the news herself, because today I got a congratulatory card from a different aunt—with a check in it 😮 I've already got a thank-you note for her written and waiting in the mail box, though I don't know if I'll have the chance to deposit the check before Monday; I've got work tomorrow and Sunday.
I think that's about it for now; will blog more later ✌
Just got the news via email: My application to graduate has been formally accepted! My degree will be mailed out to me in three to six weeks 💖🎉🎊
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