Communal Creators

[obstinatecondolement]

After having a quick review of the fandom goals I made as part of my new year's resolutions, I had a bit of a scout around to see if there were any podfic related comms I could join to help with that portion of my goal.

To that end, I've signed up for communal_creators which has a number of tiers for committing to creating different kinds of fanworks between September 15–October 15 (participants celebrating the High Holidays can start 7 days early or end 7 days late to make up days they will be taking off for religious observance)

I signed up for... a lot of different commitments, because my touching optimism in my own ability to follow through on things remains untouched by years of evidence to the contrary.

Here are some thoughts I've had about the tiers I signed up for, which I've copied and pasted from my intro post on the comm.

Time tier 1: 15 min/day averaged over a week

So this one is fairly self explanatory. I want to make sure that I'm keeping my hand in in general.

Craft tier 2: A moderate project completed

I was thinking of maybe making a little doll based on a character from one of my fandoms along the lines of Star Trek dolls I have made in the past—that link just goes to one set of such dolls (Jadzia and Worf), by the way, I've made some others too (Seven and Sarina Douglas; Worf and Data; Kira and Kimara Cretak).

But I may end up working on finishing one of my (many) non-fandom UFOs instead, depending on how I'm feeling closer to the time.

Podic tier 1: A complete podfic (or combo) of at least 5 minutes

I think that I'm probably going to try and record another chapter of my long dormant WIP, which is a repod of sqbr's Mary Bennet/Anne de Bourgh Pride and Prejudice fic: Wedding is Destiny; and Hanging Likewise (content warning: period typical depictions of sexism, ableism and homophobia (internalised and externalised)—although it is also a pretty atypically optimistic take on a lot of things relating to being a disabled Regency lesbian, by the standards of most fic with those tags, which I enjoy a lot). I started this pod very soon into my ventures into podfic and hadn't really realised that posting things as WIPs was not the usual practice. I've also had a lot of set backs in working on podfic between equipment issues and not having a lot of quiet time to record, so I'd love to get more forward momentum on this project.

Vidding: A completed vid(s) of at least 1 min up to 2 min

So I realised that the idea I had is probably too long for tier one, but I do have A Lot of things on my to-vid list, so I will not be stuck.

I've also had a lot of setbacks with vidding since I started out (I began in 2019 and have posted all of 14 vids since then 👀). I really didn't understand the specs necessary for video editing software when I started vidding, so I very innocently started out with my just-under-4GB RAM laptop and perpetually almost at capacity SSD with all my source on my drive instead of external storage. This has been Challenging, but I have managed to bully Vegas into working within those limitations. 14 times anyway. I've been threatening to get a new laptop for literally years at this point and I am going to really, really try to actually do that within the next week. I basically need to transfer money out of my credit union account and into my current account, which involves going to the credit union in person because I keep forgetting my PIN for online banking immediately after I have it reset, so as you can see: it's basically a near-insurmountable barrier to entry I'm dealing with here 🤣

Writing: 3000 words (fic or meta)

I am currently posting a chapter of a Good Omens WIP every Sunday (content warning: fic linked contains depictions of depression and pregnancy (which is unrelated to the depression)). The last two chapters will be posted within the time span of this event, so those may well count towards/make up my writing goal, but I have also been writing quite a lot recently and I have a few ideas that I've been itching to write, so I don't think I'll be stuck.

Comments

[vriddy]

Good luck with your goals! :D

[obstinatecondolement]

Thank you! It's a nice group of people who've signed up, from what I can tell so far, and it's nice trying to meet goals over a short-ish period of time with a small-ish group of people cheering each other on. I think in the past it's easy for me to lose steam with year-long projects or with keeping up with very big groups of people.