I've been Wendy, living with the lost boys...

[tomakeanoffer]

So, things of note:
• Making broccoli cheese soup today. I just use a recipe I found online and it work out pretty well. I don't cook the veg as long as it says but I like them to still have crunch and fullupwithfire doesn't mind either, so yeah.
• I'm considering doing a 100prompts table, or trying ot get int he habit of doing the weekly prompts or something. That and 100words cause I miss writing drabbles.
• I have started drafting my next story for potential submission. I'm not entirely sure it's going to work for the venue I'm shooting for but it's one I am kinda really interested in trying to execute, so we'll see how that goes.
• I'm still open for tarot readings, if that is your sort of thing.
• Would anyone be interested if I started posting mini-reviews on the short fiction I'm consuming? I consume a lot of spec fic short stories in audio format but eat them with my eyes too. If that's a thing you'd be into, let me know and I can start doing a post once a week or so with my favorite.s
• Which reminds me, if you have any good short fiction podcasts you enjoy, please drop them int he comments. I'm always looking to consume more short fiction and do it much more easily with audio than with visual reading.
• I'm also considering doing a like...Music featuring thing. Just put up a song once or twice a week that I'm really digging. Would that be of interest to anyone?

Okay, I think that's enough for now. I'm going to go see about finishing the readings I owe, and trying to draft up a talking meme post for the day.

Comments

[forestofglory]

Yes please on short fiction reviews. Not only am I personally interested but I think short fic needs more review generally to help it's discoverbity.

[tomakeanoffer]

Yes, I agree entirely! It's something I've been meaning to do for ages and I love it as a subset of fiction so much. Short fictions I just so great and I love consuming it in any way I can manage.

[dreamerinsilico]

I would definitely be interested in both short fiction reviews and music stuff! (Unfortunately cannot rec any podcasts because I do a lot better with text format, but podcasts are a thing I periodically try to get into anyway, for use while knitting and the like.)

[tomakeanoffer]

Well, with the podcast stories, most of them have text to go with them, or at least text I can link to, so I will definitely be doing that to help anyone who can't do audio.

[masu_trout]

I love your entry title, btw. What a fantastic song that is.

[tomakeanoffer]

It is such a good song, isn't it? I love the whole album, if i"m honest.

[masu_trout]

Yesss, the whole entire album is such a masterpiece. Absolutely beautiful.

(I actually got her to sign a copy of her poetry collection with the Tell Patient Zero he can have his rib back line when I went to see her in concert; it's one of my favorite little keepsakes now.)

[tomakeanoffer]

I saw her live when she was touring with Night Vale and it was *amazing*. I really want to see her again at some point, it's just a matter of getting places these days.

[finch]

Yes please do the things!

[tomakeanoffer]

:D I shall!

[auroracloud]

I'd love short fiction reviews! I've been getting into that lately, and seeing more reviews of them would help pick out interesting stuff to read! And short fiction needs more exposure. :-)

For podcasts, I love Toasted Cake, a flash fiction podcast hosted by Tina Connolly. She's an excellent narrator and has a knack for picking fabulous little SFF stories that all manage to do something interesting and inventive with the story they tell. And because each takes only about 10 minutes to l listen to, you can fit them into tiny amounts of time.

I also enjoy Uncanny Magazine's podcast. They do one short story, one poem and one interview per month, and tend to have excellent narrators as well.

Escape Pod is another one I'd recommend, though I personally find many of their stories a bit too dark or something like it for my tastes, so I don't subscribe, I only check out every once in a while what they've got. But they've got interesting stuff and good narrators as well.

And re: food, I made broccoli and goat cheese soup a while back, it turned out very good! I'd never made broccoli soup before, but I'm sure I'll want to make it again at some point.

[tomakeanoffer]

I have all of those on my podcastcher already! :D You have good taste. <3

Also, omg, goat cheese soup... I think I need to determine how to tget that in my life.

[auroracloud]

Yay for us both having good taste!

Hmm, here are a couple of possibly less known options: for one thing, the Lesbian Talkshow podcast, which sort of combines several podcasts by different hosts into one, has Heather Rose Jones's Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast, published every Saturday, and this year it has started publishing narrations of new original historical wlw stories. Three are out so far and the fourth one will come out at the end of this month - basically Heather has them out whenever a month has five Saturdays. It's supposed to continue next year, too. Also, she's currently open to submissions for next year's stories, for anyone out there who would want to write historical short stories of women loving women.

Another that I've discovered recently is Tansy Rayner Roberts's Sheep Might Fly podcast, where she narrates her fiction in short weekly chunks. She tends to write quirky, funny SFF novellas with fun characters and at least some queer content; the current one is basically 1920s Europe inspired fantasy with Bohemians and theatre, and previous ones include somewhat Pratchettian princess fairy tale parodies, geek girls and so on. She's a pretty good narrator and I enjoy her fiction.

[tomakeanoffer]

Ooooh, that first one sounds pretty interesting. I've been meaning to look into SHeep Might Fly for a while now and thank you for reminding it exists.

[merit]

I think it would be nice reading some mini-reviews! I'm always on the lookout for more to read (as my to read list grows ever larger!).

[tomakeanoffer]

Ha, I know that feeling. The TBR just keeps growing and growing.

[worlds_of_smoke]

Music and reviews are always neat!

[tomakeanoffer]

:D <3

[flamingsword]

Going in hard on the music. I can't do out loud fiction, but I love new music as long as it can be sung to, danced to, or laughed at.

This comment is really hard to type on mobile because my phone is parsing one of the side bars directly down the middle of the comment box, in front of my text. Boo!

[tomakeanoffer]

With the fiction, I find a lot of stuff has a text version attached, and I was planning to try and link to any that do. I know not everyone can do audio fiction and I try and accommodate as best I can.

As for music, I think I will probably do that thing.

Oh no! DW, I really wish you were mobile-friendly sometimes.

[flamingsword]

Some themes are designed to be mobile friendly, like mine, but a lot of the more artistic ones, like yours, may not be.

[mdlbear]

Yes, please on the music -- I'm always up for that sort of thing

[tomakeanoffer]

Oooooh, I need to go through that tag at some point to acquire new music. I've been seeing you do it, just haven't gotten around to investigating.

[escritoireazul]

I would love to see mini-reviews of short fiction. One of my goals in 2019 is to read more short fiction, especially spec fic, and I think this would be a great resource.

[escritoireazul]

In addition to the podcasts mentioned in other comments, I love Nightlight: The Black Horror Podcast hosted by Tonia Thompson. It does horror from black authors, and there are some great stories. (One of my faves is season 1 episode 7 The Nasty at Bellua, which is werewolves in space.

[tomakeanoffer]

Oooh, now that's one I've not heard of before! Thank you so much for the rec! <3

[tomakeanoffer]

Oh, awesome! :D I will definitely start doing this then, especially as a reason for me to start actually reading</I. more too, cause I go through phases and would like to make it more consistent.