Monday, June 9, 2014
In Case You're Here for the Zombie Turkeys...
... you can find the post that I wrote for the Heritage Fells Foodstead here: The Tale of the Resurrected Turkey.
Sunday, June 8, 2014
Audio: The Drove of Maris-Charlottes
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Author: David Turnbull
Length: 29:37 minutes
This was posted back in September 2013, and is my first Cast of Wonders podcast. "Drove" was such a fun, cute story.
Excuse Me While I Fangirl
Mat Weller from Escape Pod recently contacted me about narrating a short story by N. K. Jemisin.
N. K. Jemisin.
N. K. Jemisin.
Excuse me while I screech very quietly and collapse from a paroxysm of fangirlish exhilaration.
I love her blog (which I was introduced to when I followed a link to her three part series on describing characters of color. My favorite essay is "Don’t Put My Book in the African American Section." That was the first time I'd read about someone who disliked the African-American section of bookstores and libraries as much as I do, and she discusses the problem of the AAF section far better than I have ever managed to). I've read and loved a few of her short stories and can't wait to read A Hundred Thousands Kingdoms, and just--
I'm very excited and am also a little coherent.
N. K. Jemisin.
N. K. Jemisin.
Excuse me while I screech very quietly and collapse from a paroxysm of fangirlish exhilaration.
I love her blog (which I was introduced to when I followed a link to her three part series on describing characters of color. My favorite essay is "Don’t Put My Book in the African American Section." That was the first time I'd read about someone who disliked the African-American section of bookstores and libraries as much as I do, and she discusses the problem of the AAF section far better than I have ever managed to). I've read and loved a few of her short stories and can't wait to read A Hundred Thousands Kingdoms, and just--
I'm very excited and am also a little coherent.
It's Not You, Blogger. It's Me
Considering that Scribbleomania's most recent post dates from February 2013 (and the one before that dates from September 2012), I suppose it's time to close up shop.
I've spent the past year and a half on Tumblr (... use a capital "T," Steph. Capital "T"). The atmosphere is far different from Blogger -- the pace is big city compared with this sleepy hamlet of a platform (though I could just be hanging out in the wrong corners. Tumblr was its own sleepy hamlet in the beginning, for me.) The Tumblr tone is also far different from the one I tried to cultivate here... though if I'm honest, I have no idea what I'm trying to do here, besides cataloguing the podfics I narrate (and i haven't done that very conscientiously). The biggest difference is that over at Tumblr, I'm 99.99% fandom. Not so much over here. Indeed, I don't think I've mentioned fandom once on Scribbleomania.
That's a problem. Fandom -- both in general and the specific works I adore -- is a major part of my life. I wouldn't be the person I am without it. I hope to major in it. (It goes by the name "media studies" at the local U.) I want to talk about it. And, if I'm lucky, interact with people who feel the same way.
I also want to build an online presence for myself under my own name (by which my narrations -- and perhaps, one day, my published fiction -- are known. Yes, I am one of those pie in the sky writers -- one day, one day! goes the eternal refrain. Those writers never get anything done, I hear. CoughhackCOUGH). The goal, then, is to find the happy medium between those desires. Tumblr strikes me as currently more conducive to that goal than Blogger.
In the long run, if I want to take my creative work (podcasting, writing, crocheting, and whatever else I do when I remember) beyond the hoppy-sphere, I may want to get a Wordpress blog or, even better, invest in a website. But until I have a more concrete direction, I think Tumblr will suite my purposes.
So that is what's going on with Scribbleomania, the last of my Blogger blogs (a relationship that's been sputtering in and out since 2005). I won't be able to use the name "scribbleomania," as it's already in use over at Tumblr. (It doesn't translate well to spoken language, anyway. How many times I have protested, no, friend, it's not scribblemaniac, it's SCRIBBLEOMANIA. Too many times, alas. Too many times.)
I'll post the link to my new online space as soon as it's ready. Until then!
I've spent the past year and a half on Tumblr (... use a capital "T," Steph. Capital "T"). The atmosphere is far different from Blogger -- the pace is big city compared with this sleepy hamlet of a platform (though I could just be hanging out in the wrong corners. Tumblr was its own sleepy hamlet in the beginning, for me.) The Tumblr tone is also far different from the one I tried to cultivate here... though if I'm honest, I have no idea what I'm trying to do here, besides cataloguing the podfics I narrate (and i haven't done that very conscientiously). The biggest difference is that over at Tumblr, I'm 99.99% fandom. Not so much over here. Indeed, I don't think I've mentioned fandom once on Scribbleomania.
That's a problem. Fandom -- both in general and the specific works I adore -- is a major part of my life. I wouldn't be the person I am without it. I hope to major in it. (It goes by the name "media studies" at the local U.) I want to talk about it. And, if I'm lucky, interact with people who feel the same way.
I also want to build an online presence for myself under my own name (by which my narrations -- and perhaps, one day, my published fiction -- are known. Yes, I am one of those pie in the sky writers -- one day, one day! goes the eternal refrain. Those writers never get anything done, I hear. CoughhackCOUGH). The goal, then, is to find the happy medium between those desires. Tumblr strikes me as currently more conducive to that goal than Blogger.
In the long run, if I want to take my creative work (podcasting, writing, crocheting, and whatever else I do when I remember) beyond the hoppy-sphere, I may want to get a Wordpress blog or, even better, invest in a website. But until I have a more concrete direction, I think Tumblr will suite my purposes.
So that is what's going on with Scribbleomania, the last of my Blogger blogs (a relationship that's been sputtering in and out since 2005). I won't be able to use the name "scribbleomania," as it's already in use over at Tumblr. (It doesn't translate well to spoken language, anyway. How many times I have protested, no, friend, it's not scribblemaniac, it's SCRIBBLEOMANIA. Too many times, alas. Too many times.)
I'll post the link to my new online space as soon as it's ready. Until then!
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
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Friday, February 17, 2012
Audio: The Burning Servant
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Title: The Burning Servant
Author: Steven Saus
Length: 48:49 minutes
Another offering from Pseudopod. I tell you - speaking intelligibly while acting the part of a character with no teeth is a challenge.
... Aaand shall I nominate that last sentence for Most Obvious Understatement of 2012?
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