Here is the 2024 posting schedule! The mods will reveal the work on AO3 on your posting day; participants should plan to update the posting date on their work so it'll show up on fandom RSS feeds and at the top of the fandom tag when sorted by date. (We'll send you an email reminder about this on the day of your reveal.) Unfortunately, AO3 won't let you list a posting date in the future so you'll have to manually change it on your reveal date.

For now, the links on this schedule will just take you to unrevealed posts, but once each day is revealed, the links will take you to the project and this post will double as a masterlist for all our 2024 projects!

Reminder #1: Party Favors are due September 7th, and will be revealed September 8th.
Reminder #2: To those participants with extensions, please remember that your due date is our agreed-upon extension date, not your posting date. However, if you would like to turn in a postable draft at your deadline and then update it between then and your posting date, you may.

( 2024 Posting Schedule )


Please leave a comment here, or email the mods, if there are any conflicts or issues with your posting dates or if any info on this posting schedule is incorrect and needs to be fixed.

Hey all, today is the writing deadline!

If you've already submitted your writing, fantastic! If you haven't submitted your writing yet, you can do so by sharing with us a copy of the text that your podficcer also has access to (for example, a Google Doc) or by posting your writing to the AO3 collection by following the instructions here.

If you don’t think you’ll be able to finish in time, read over the rules and request an extension. Please email us today if you need an extension instead of waiting until tomorrow.

In order for your writing to be considered complete, it must be ready for your partner to start working on right away. If you need additional time after July 28th for final edits, for a beta to look over it, etc, please request an extension. Podficcers must have their full allotted time to work on the audio and should never be held back from starting because they are waiting for the text to be finalized after the deadline.

As long as your project is submitted while it's still July 28th anywhere in the world, you're on time!

Hello again,

We're at the halfway point of icebreaker week!

If you're finding that you're not able to answer the whole set of questions within a day but think they'd be valuable to go through, please feel free to spread the five days of icebreaker questions out across more than 5 days to fit your schedule.

This next set of questions is geared towards helping partners get more familiar with each other's work and creative process.

1. Why do you create fanworks? What does it mean to you?


2. What wishes and expectations do you have in how your fanwork is treated? If you have a blanket statement/dear author letter/other policy, you may want to link your partner to it and discuss it.


3. Share a piece of a fanwork you're particularly proud of (a page or so of a written work, a few minutes of an audio work) and explain why you're proud of it.


4. Read/listen to your partner's shared fanwork, and give feedback about what works for you about it.

Hello lovely participants,

The start of a partnership is always so exciting as you and your partner(s) figure out how you'd like to work together! Icebreaker week is designed to support that process, with a combination of fun and helpful getting-to-know-you questions. They've started some incredibly useful and productive conversations in the past, and we hope they'll do the same for you now!

These exercises are optional, but we hope they'll help both those groups that were assigned and the ones that formed on their own. We encourage group members to stay in contact with each other this week, answering as many questions as they are comfortable with.

Today's questions are geared towards helping group members learn a bit more about each other, personally and fannishly.

Most Useful Questions:

1. Name as many books, movies, TV shows, animes, comics, celebrities, etc. that you can think of that you have felt or feel fannish about.


2. List 5 things you enjoy in stories (e.g. a kind of trope, story line, etc.). List 5 things that you do not enjoy in stories.


3. What communication methods and interaction level did you put in your sign-up, and why did you choose them? (If you did group sign-ups, you may want to look at those questions on our matchmaker sign-up form and then answer them for your partner). It could also help to describe the communication level you don't want——what sort of communication patterns would feel uncomfortably high/uncomfortably low for you, and why?

Extra Bonus Fun Questions:

1. If you could be any fannish character for a day, who would it be any why?


2. If you could have any super power, what would it be and why?


3. If you were stuck on a deserted island what 3 fanworks would you want with you?


4. What are 3 facts about yourself (fannish or otherwise) that you haven’t already mentioned?

Frequently Asked Questions

( What’s the difference between Match Maker Sign-ups and Group Sign-ups? )

( Will all groups have just one writer and one podficcer? )

( What's a Party Favor? )

( What's the modding style like? )

( I've gotten my assignment, now what?, or 'What is icebreaker week? )

( What happens in the Pod-Together Discord server, and do I need to join it? )

( What should I do if a deadline is approaching and I don't think I'll be ready? )

( How finished does my work need to be at the deadline? )

( If my group creates a multi-chapter work, do we have to post all the chapters at once? )

( May we post the audio and text in separate AO3 posts? )

( How do we hand in our finished creations? )

( What happens if my group meets the Early Writing and/or Early Podfic Submission Deadlines? )

( What does a work written specifically to be podficced look like? )

( Are translations of pre-existing works allowed? )

( I am new to this sort of collaboration. How exactly will it go? )

pod_together is multi-platform! You can follow us on Dreamwidth (pod_together), twitter (pod_together) tumblr (pod-together), and/or join our Discord server.

If you have any further questions please feel free to ask here or email us at pod.together@gmail.com.

We highly recommend listening to these by starting with the first work in each chain and going in order!

Chain 1

[Filk] Exy Swing (All For The Game - Nora Sakavic)
written and performed by Ceewelsh
Summary: [Filk]
Neil considers Riko

More Than a Dream [Filk] (天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù)
written and performed by esbielle
Summary: A song that could work as an epilogue for the whole novel.

[Pod_together Broken Telephone Filk 2023] This Bitter Earth (Burial Mounds Edition) (陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, Original Work)
written and performed by Mangacat
Summary: "This Bitter Earth - Oh, how it stares at me"
To the Tune of 'On the Nature of Daylight / This Bitter Earth'

[Filk] Not Your Grave (Supernatural (TV 2005))
written and performed by TheArcher
Summary: Song from Castiel to Dean, telling him to survive, set to Such Great Heights.

Chain 2

[Filk] Dreams (Danny Phantom)
written and performed by legonerd

[Filk] Ghosts (山河令 | Word of Honor (TV 2021))
written and performed by irrationalpie
Summary: Wen Kexing sings about revenge (mostly).
Set early in canon, when he's plotting to sow chaos and expose hypocrisy by getting the self-proclaimed heroes of the Five Lakes Alliance to kill each other infighting over the Glazed Armor

The Loric Who Remain [lyrics and audio] (The Lorien Legacies - Pittacus Lore)
written and performed by farkenshnoffingottom
Summary: John's POV from I Am Number Four, set to the tune of All Time Low's "The Reckless and the Brave"

As the tides wash away all hint of facade (Our Flag Means Death (TV))
written and performed by Elle_dubs
Summary: Stede & Ed are feeling things ... differently at the end of Season 1.

Chain 3

The Night it calls my name (No Fandom)
written and performed by Dr_Fumbles_McStupid
Summary: a filk about vampires set to Ingrid Michaelson's the chain

[Filk] Gratitude (Thai Actor RPF)
written and performed by Wereflamingo
Summary: Joong is getting lost between fiction and reality.
A filk to the tune of Dum Dum by Jeff Satur, written and recorded for Filk Broken Telephone 2023.

[filk] choosing time (The Ultimatum: Queer Love (TV))
written and performed by olive2read
Summary: an ode to the messiest lesbians on reality tv

Poison & Win (?) (This is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone)
written by wilfriede0815, performed by SerenaEW and wilfriede0815
Summary: A filk about the poisoned final letter to Blue from Red.

(I Want To Be) Part of Your World (Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston)
written and performed by bluegeekEM
Summary: An Alex/Henry, enemies-to-lovers filk set to “Part of Your World” from The Little Mermaid.

Chain 4

The Night it calls my name (No Fandom)
written and performed by Dr_Fumbles_McStupid
Summary: a filk about vampires set to Ingrid Michaelson's the chain

[filk] In Whitby (Dracula & Related Fandoms, Dracula - Bram Stoker (Novel 1897))
written and performed by ArtemisTheHuntress
Summary: A song about something haunting the idyllic seaside town of Whitby.

m (dragon) e (No Fandom)
written and performed by minnabird
Summary: Infinite Escher mirrors
Reflect familiar eyes
There is no monster, it's just my heart
Dark night of the soul
It's here
--
A M◐◑N palace filk written and recorded for Pod_Together 2023, for narrative group 4

Whatever Mama Wants (Fandom - Fandom)
written and performed by mahons_ondine
Summary: A filk broken telephone production--a little villain song!

[Filk] This World is Mine! (Phantom: The American Musical Sensation - Yeston/Kopit, Le Fantôme de l'Opéra | Phantom of the Opera & Related Fandoms)
written and performed by SerenaEW
Summary: What if Carlotta strived for world domination?
Crack-ish filk.

Mirdala Jetii'ad [text, audio] (Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types)
written by vamprav, performed by DuskDragon39
Summary: When Obi-Wan Kenobi comes back from Melida/Daan he was grounded for a few months. Qui-Gon Jinn decides to call in the assistance of his estranged master to monitor his padawan while he goes off on another mission. That one decision changed quite a few things, starting when Master Dooku is called out to deal with a situation on the minor planet Galidraan.

The Amusement Park Job (Leverage)
written by s0ckpupp3t, performed by dapatty
Summary: Saving a group of high school kids prom? Piece of cake. Trying to not involve themselves in amusement park shennanigans? Harder than you'd think.

Lake Kane (Stranger Things (TV 2016), Firewatch (Video Game))
written by SSLeif, performed by Rambling_company and Elle_dubs
Summary: It’s the summer of 1985, and construction of the New Mall expected in Hawkins has been Delayed. Steve Harrington, newly graduated, newly cut-off, needs a summer job. Hargrove is still in town, so Steve’s absolutely not going to lifeguard this year.
Eddie Munson gets caught that one-too-many’th-a-time, and Hopper makes it clear he needs to find some gainful employment, ideally elsewhere, and Hop does not want to see Too Much of him this summer, Or Else.
Robin Buckley needs a summer job, ideally something that lets her do college prep work at the same time… And the forest service is having trouble retaining fire lookouts in this one… mysterious… stretch of woods.
.
A Stranger Things/Firewatch AU

a work in progress (Ted Lasso (TV))
written by meyml, performed by roseszain
Summary: “Were shit, weren't I. Me teachers, they always said I’d left me head out on the pitch.” Jamie drums his fingers on the table as his eyes scan Dr. Sharon’s bookcase.
**
Jamie Tartt (Maybe Possibly Perhaps) Has ADHD

Star 69 (Deadpool - All Media Types, Spider-Man - All Media Types)
written by nemorps, performed by Elle_dubs
Summary: Wade's just trying to live his mercantile life to the fullest when circumstances leave him house-bound with nothing to do but watch TV and jerk off, so of course he calls his favorite phone-sex hotline.
Peter's just trying to make it through college and superheroing in one piece. Thankfully, his job as a phone-sex operator allows him to work a schedule that accommodates both. It's all going swimmingly until a new soulmark shows up on his wrist out of no-where.

The Price a Man Pays [text, audio] (Dracula - Bram Stoker (Novel 1897))
written by estelraca, performed by artax_risen
Summary: In a world where men have long been a minority, often sold to groups of women, Van Helsing will do anything he can to help his younger friend Jack Seward save his friends from an ancient evil.

Be by my side (Check Please! (Webcomic))
written by DesignatedGrape, performed by Amanita_Fierce and HowOldAreWe
Summary:
Kent: I wish you were here
Whiskey: I wish I was, too. xx

Or, still separated by a thousand miles and an international border, Kent and Whiskey try to keep their relationship casual. Spoiler: they're not very good at it.

little echoes (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
written by sulkybender, performed by Dr_Fumbles_McStupid
Summary: “I think,” Zuko says slowly, “we may have angered the spirits.”
Sokka scoffs.
“Spirits are bullshit,” he says.
“Okay,” Zuko says, “so what do you call this?”
He waves his hand generally at them both, the state of them. Zuko is still on his back, half-incapacitated; Sokka is sitting up, but hardly better off.
“There’s a rational explanation,” Sokka says.
Zuko arches his eyebrow.
“There is,” Sokka insists. “Stop that. Don’t smirk at me.”
“So what is it,” Zuko says, smirking.
Sokka thinks for a moment, wildly.
“Static… electricity,” he says.
Zuko bursts out laughing.
“Okay, okay, I get it,” Sokka says, ears burning. “It’s a working theory.”

The Downpour (LEGO Ninjago (Cartoon 2011-2022))
written by legonerd, performed by ReformedTsundere
Summary:
The sword burned his hands.

What if Wu was wrong, and Kai wasn't the Master of Fire?

Stones of the Soil - Rebuilding (Rubble) (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, A Stitch in Time - Andrew J. Robinson)
created by BardicRaven and RisalSoran
Summary: Waking from a nightmare, Garak remembers another dream.
A better dream: Doctor Julian Bashir coming to Kardassi'ya - despite everything. Despite Bashir's Starfleet career; despite what happened to Kardassi'ya.
But was it really a dream?
And if it wasn't, what will the future hold - for himself, for Julian ... and for Kardassi'ya?