That girl who wrote that fic.

In case you missed it:

Slashcast Episode 30: Sex Positivity in Fandom is ready for download!

Featuring:

• GLBT news with wook77


• emmagrant01 interviews Dr. Sarah Frantz about the world of professional m/m and BDSM romance


• kriken talks to ravenna_c_tan about the PWP genre


• chaeche reports form the Bitchin' Party con in Seattle


• el_em_en_oh_pee talks to thisprettywren and one of the gleekinkmods about the ins and outs of running kink memes


• The Slashcast staff talk about what makes sex scenes in fic work for us -- or not

Download here

First, a rec: One of These Days (The Sky's Gonna Break) by starlitshore (Harry/Draco, NC-17, WIP).

I'm a beta for this fic so I've seen where it's going, and I'm incredibly excited about it. Her portrayals of Harry and Draco are so exactly what I adore, and her writing is in that smooth, straightforward style that I love and aspire to. Go, read! :-D

Second, bidding is now underway in the lubricus Support Our Slashing auction! There are lots of awesome items up for auction, including a fic by me and a chance to guest host a segment on slashcast. Please go check it out and bid, if you're so inclined. :-D

Even if you can't come to lubricus this summer, you can help us make it fun and support our slashing! We have two fundraisers going on this spring: the awesome HP Slash Colouring/Book and the SOS Auction, in which you can offer and bid on cool things.

See this post for more information and links to both projects.

Also, new slashcast coming Thursday!

So, the next episode of slashcast comes out tomorrow, and it has a delicious kink theme, woot!

When we record the segments we usually have twice as much material as actually makes it into the show after editing. Some of it is hard to cut because it's funny or interesting, but has to go for time reasons or because it's slightly off-topic. I've always wanted to do something with that extra stuff, but wasn't sure quite how to get it out there. We finally realized that we could post these kinds of things to the brand new Slashcast Tumblr so people could hear them. I don't know if many people actually have heard them, but here they are:

How Mijan snuck fanfic into Basic Training

Brent Spiner is awesome

Sherlock fandom angst takes over Tumblr and Twitter

Emma and Mijan discuss the effect of sex scenes on readers

So listen, and reblog if you like. :-)

I'm now up to date on Sherlock canon, woot! And now I'm looking for fic. And by fic I mean porn.

Anyone have any recs? I've been cruising the kink meme and a few comms, but haven't yet found anything that really presses my buttons. Said buttons would be first-time John/Sherlock fic with both boys fairly IC. Surely such fics exist in a fandom that's been around a few years?

EDIT: Lots of amazing Sherlock recs in the comments!

I'm really finding myself wanting to write for this fandom. Things need to sink in a bit (and obviously there are two more episodes coming), but yeah, I think there will be fic. :-D

Two quick pimps:

1. snapecase is currently posting! I wrote a fic for this one, in case anyone is interested. This is the first fic I've ever written from Snape's POV, and only the 2nd or 3rd Snape-centric fic ever. So it may be easy to spot the n00b, LOL.

2. Y'all, I am so effing proud of the current episode of slashcast. It's our 5th episode since the reboot and I think it's our best one yet. If you haven't listened, I hope you'll give it a try and then comment to let us know what you think. :-)

1. If you have comments on the last episode of slashcast, we'd love to hear them. We're recording the Mailbag segment tonight, so if you would like us to address your comment in that segment, please go here to leave your thoughts. I know y'all understand how important feedback is on any fandom project, whether it's art or fic or a podcast, so thanks for bearing with me while I beg for it. :-)

2. I've just posted a Programming info post for lubricus. Check it out for details about how programming will be organized at the con. :-D

Back to grading hell. OMG, so close to done...

You can hear my interview with astolat about the fandom history of yuletide. :-D

Comments are love!

Episode 23 of slashcast will be released tomorrow, yay! You guys, I'm so proud of this little podcast, I can't even tell you! This will be our first truly multifandom episode, and I hope that whatever you're into, you'll download it, listen, and enjoy. :-)

And then leave us feedback *cough*

Also, I wrote for this fest that begins posting tomorrow, yay!

"Scared?" - "You wish!"
The Harry/Draco Canon Fest


Art by reira_21, banner by vaysh11
How do we define canon? | Fest Information, Rules & Timeline | Join hd_canon_fest

Fest starts posting October 1, 2011

So this morning, after almost 4 years of being on hiatus, slashcast has posted a new episode! Go check it out, and please let us know what you think. :-)

*bounces*

I've been waiting to make this post for a few months now, squee!

Some of you might remember slashcast, which I was involved with several years ago. We were an HP-centric slash podcast that aired 2006-2007, and we had a hell of a lot of fun interviewing writers and artists, talking about slash, and generally squeeing about the stuff we loved. We produced 21 episodes that we were really proud of.

The podcast went on hiatus after my son was born, and somehow the team never really got it back together to start up again. People moved on to other fandoms; lives got busy, and so on.

Then one day last spring, wook77 emailed me and asked if I'd be interested in rebooting Slashcast as a multi-fandom slash podcast. More importantly, she volunteered to help make it happen, and so we started talking about it. She brought in elanorofcastile; I emailed the old Slashcast team and quite a few of them jumped back on board as well, including kriken, burnfor, and el_em_en_oh_pee.

And it's happening! Starting September 1, slashcast will once again start posting monthly episodes. The first episode will be mostly focused on the release of Deathly Hallows part 2, but after that we'll be covering slash across multiple fandoms. As before, we'll be interviewing fans about their work, holding meta discussions about topics of interest to slashers, reporting the latest GLBT news, and more.

I sincerely hope you'll come back and give the podcast a listen again, even if you've moved on to other fandoms. If you've never listened to the podcast before, all 21 of our previous episodes are available on our LJ and through iTunes. Go to slashcast for more information.

Finally, we're going to need some help to make this a truly multi-fandom podcast. We have about 15 fandoms covered with the core staff, but we'll definitely be looking for some more people to join our team and contribute. If you're interested, more information will be posted about that closer to the launch of the first episode.

tl;dr summary: slashcast is back! And hopefully, better than ever. :-)