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Fannish Wishlist
I'm not doing Fandom Snowflake but everybody's fannish wishlists are going up today and I realized I actually have one for once (other than 'the ability to finish my wips', which is standard.) So if anybody is feeling helpful, here are five things that would make me very happy:
1. Very specific podcast recs:
All of my favorite podcasts fit at least four of these five qualifications:
1. Between two and four regular hosts, at least one of whom isfemale not male, who are clearly legitimately good friends off mike;
2. Talking unscriptedly but intelligently and skeptically about interesting science-y, history-y or true-but-strange topics (KUEC gets in here on a technicality because I'm pretty sure some of that food counts as true-but-strange)
3. Except when they constantly go off on hilarious tangents
4. With fairly good sound quality but deliberately bad production quality (bonus points for constantly mentioning things that should be cut but aren't, people getting distracted by birds or food mid-taping, on-air bathroom breaks, etc.)
5. Pets that wander in and out and contribute important podcast content.
Things I am less likely to like:
1. Lots of interviews, especially if the interviewee is the topic or if the interview interferes with the hosts' dynamic (ones where it's more like guest experts with the regular team are fine)
2. Consistently bad sound quality
3. Fiction, drama, or podcasts about fiction/fandom, or current political events - I usually give about half my attention to a podcast, and these grab too much of it
4. Podcasts where I am constantly yelling at the hosts NO YOU ARE WRONG (I tried to listen to the Ufology podcast but they were just SO WRONG about EVERYTHING. Including stuff like WHETHER OR NOT SCULLY WAS THE SKEPTIC ON THE X-FILES????) They can be comically wrong on occasion about things like whether there is a carnivorous horse, but not consistently wrong about basic stuff, and need to have a basic ethos about facts being important and learning new things being good.
5. Podcasts that take themselves seriously and have hosts who act professional on air and do their research in advance and are heavily edited and stay on topic and stuff (these are either really boring, or too good to give only half my attention to.)
Current podcasts I listen to like this: My Favorite Murder (1-5), KUEC (1-5), Skeptics with a K (1-4), Archaeological Fantasies (1-4), Palaeo After Dark (1-5), Thinking Sideways (1-4). I have a few more that hit only 3 out of the five, so that's okay too, as long as they don't lean heavily on the nos.
I'd especially like to find a (not pseudo-)archaeology one, or an astronomy/space sciences one, or more science ones on all topics in that format. Any recs?
2. I STILL WANT A GOOD WAY TO CATALOG MY COMICS.
Surely there is some website or app out there that will let me put in the title of a comic, and then tell me a)how many issues total, b) what trades they are in, c) related series I might want to know about; and then let me check off the ones I have and the ones I want; and then give me a searchable list of the ones I have and the ones I want. And the database it's checking against has to be good enough to have stuff from small publishers, and funny animal comics from the 50s, and be flexible enough to let me manually enter stuff like the free comic from Kenya that I got at the folklife festival and the bootleg Indian Phantom from the 70s and photocopied minis from SPX.
There are multiple places I can do this with books! Comic geeks are supposed to be super into that sort of thing. Surely such a thing exists? I'm even willing to pay money for it as long as I know in advance it will do what I want and have reason to believe it will still exist in five years, but so far even the for-pay ones I've poked at don't look like their databases are that great OR that flexible OR that reliable.
3. An LKBV Master/Doctor vid to "Paradise By The Dashboard Light" by Meatloaf. I've even solicited people for it at the last few fandom charity auctions but no takers. :/ I will give a ludicrous amount of money to the charity or crowdfunding account of choice of any experienced vidder who will do this for me, plus pay for takeout for them for an entire weekend, if necessary.
4. Art of Siffha'h that I can add to my Yuletide fic. Tiny angry butch kitten with comedy eyebrows and more power than she knows what to do with! Why is there no art of her yet. Book excerpt descriptions provided on request.
5. Something - art or fic or, idk, moodboard? Something - about what Luke Amidala's wardrobe would have turned into if he was raised by his mom as a prince of Naboo in a no-Clone-Wars AU. Post-TFA there was a bunch of Kylo Amidala stuff where he had some amazing outfits, but just THINK about what Luke Amidala could have done with a poncho and/or his Goth phase if he had an unlimited wardrobe budget and his mom's favorite fashion designers and hairstylists egging him on! (Bonus points if his sister is around but refuses to wear anything but military uniforms to formal events, since she has her brother around to be the pretty one.) (I SO APPRECIATED that even after all the time on Ach-To he went for the all-black drama cape at the appropriate moment. Luke understands the important things.)
1. Very specific podcast recs:
All of my favorite podcasts fit at least four of these five qualifications:
1. Between two and four regular hosts, at least one of whom is
2. Talking unscriptedly but intelligently and skeptically about interesting science-y, history-y or true-but-strange topics (KUEC gets in here on a technicality because I'm pretty sure some of that food counts as true-but-strange)
3. Except when they constantly go off on hilarious tangents
4. With fairly good sound quality but deliberately bad production quality (bonus points for constantly mentioning things that should be cut but aren't, people getting distracted by birds or food mid-taping, on-air bathroom breaks, etc.)
5. Pets that wander in and out and contribute important podcast content.
Things I am less likely to like:
1. Lots of interviews, especially if the interviewee is the topic or if the interview interferes with the hosts' dynamic (ones where it's more like guest experts with the regular team are fine)
2. Consistently bad sound quality
3. Fiction, drama, or podcasts about fiction/fandom, or current political events - I usually give about half my attention to a podcast, and these grab too much of it
4. Podcasts where I am constantly yelling at the hosts NO YOU ARE WRONG (I tried to listen to the Ufology podcast but they were just SO WRONG about EVERYTHING. Including stuff like WHETHER OR NOT SCULLY WAS THE SKEPTIC ON THE X-FILES????) They can be comically wrong on occasion about things like whether there is a carnivorous horse, but not consistently wrong about basic stuff, and need to have a basic ethos about facts being important and learning new things being good.
5. Podcasts that take themselves seriously and have hosts who act professional on air and do their research in advance and are heavily edited and stay on topic and stuff (these are either really boring, or too good to give only half my attention to.)
Current podcasts I listen to like this: My Favorite Murder (1-5), KUEC (1-5), Skeptics with a K (1-4), Archaeological Fantasies (1-4), Palaeo After Dark (1-5), Thinking Sideways (1-4). I have a few more that hit only 3 out of the five, so that's okay too, as long as they don't lean heavily on the nos.
I'd especially like to find a (not pseudo-)archaeology one, or an astronomy/space sciences one, or more science ones on all topics in that format. Any recs?
2. I STILL WANT A GOOD WAY TO CATALOG MY COMICS.
Surely there is some website or app out there that will let me put in the title of a comic, and then tell me a)how many issues total, b) what trades they are in, c) related series I might want to know about; and then let me check off the ones I have and the ones I want; and then give me a searchable list of the ones I have and the ones I want. And the database it's checking against has to be good enough to have stuff from small publishers, and funny animal comics from the 50s, and be flexible enough to let me manually enter stuff like the free comic from Kenya that I got at the folklife festival and the bootleg Indian Phantom from the 70s and photocopied minis from SPX.
There are multiple places I can do this with books! Comic geeks are supposed to be super into that sort of thing. Surely such a thing exists? I'm even willing to pay money for it as long as I know in advance it will do what I want and have reason to believe it will still exist in five years, but so far even the for-pay ones I've poked at don't look like their databases are that great OR that flexible OR that reliable.
3. An LKBV Master/Doctor vid to "Paradise By The Dashboard Light" by Meatloaf. I've even solicited people for it at the last few fandom charity auctions but no takers. :/ I will give a ludicrous amount of money to the charity or crowdfunding account of choice of any experienced vidder who will do this for me, plus pay for takeout for them for an entire weekend, if necessary.
4. Art of Siffha'h that I can add to my Yuletide fic. Tiny angry butch kitten with comedy eyebrows and more power than she knows what to do with! Why is there no art of her yet. Book excerpt descriptions provided on request.
5. Something - art or fic or, idk, moodboard? Something - about what Luke Amidala's wardrobe would have turned into if he was raised by his mom as a prince of Naboo in a no-Clone-Wars AU. Post-TFA there was a bunch of Kylo Amidala stuff where he had some amazing outfits, but just THINK about what Luke Amidala could have done with a poncho and/or his Goth phase if he had an unlimited wardrobe budget and his mom's favorite fashion designers and hairstylists egging him on! (Bonus points if his sister is around but refuses to wear anything but military uniforms to formal events, since she has her brother around to be the pretty one.) (I SO APPRECIATED that even after all the time on Ach-To he went for the all-black drama cape at the appropriate moment. Luke understands the important things.)