For your aural pleasure

In 2025, i continued to be obsessed with the Untamed/Mo Dao Zushi, but also got to be in on the ground level on two new mushrooming fandoms, Kpop Demon Hunters and Heated Rivalry. Unlike my usual modus operandi, I actually watched the canon media within a few days of its release (rather than years later lol). Still haven’t made content for either of them, though there will be a few Heated Rivalry multivoice pods at the end of Voiceteam Mystery Box 2025; I’m not sure what I’ll make for KPDH but i definitely want to do something. I should look around for a pofficcer-heavy KPDH discord; I joined an HR one almost at its creation.

2025 was a bit lower output for me than the previous couple of years, but I still count over 50 hours of finished podfic. Most of that is MDZS/The Untamed, with a smattering of Word of Honor and KinnPorsche, and a sprinkling of single pods of other fandoms.

I am discovering, as I try to assemble more precise stats, that I didn’t fill in the details for a lot of 2025’s podfics, so I can’t really say what percentage of MDZS to other fandoms, or Explicit/Mature to Gen/Teen, I did. Also there are a whole bunch I recorded in a frenzy for Voiceteam Tiebreaker that never even got entered into the spreadsheet, let alone edited or posted anywhere, so these stats are pretty bogus really.

No writing or art published in 2025.

Voiceteam Tiebreaker was a first for me this last time; I’ve never been on a team that tried to win from the beginning, and 2025 was no different, except that we all turned out to have no chill anyway, and ended up in a four-way tie for all-possible-team-points scored, which qualified us for the tiebreaker, a 24-hour frantic frenzy of recording as much as possible. So many shortcuts taken - the ‘save as multiple files’ option in audacity (which I also learned this year) was such a lifesaver. It came in super handy for the extended version Gusu Dating Sim that I participated in (starred in, really: I’m the main character :D ) as well. Wish I had known about that option when I recorded the first version!

I did one other new scary fannish thing in 2025, which was to cold-read a longfic and publish a new chapter every day: show me how to lay my sword down. It was received pretty well so I hope to do another one in 2026.

But my biggest goal for 2026 is to pod a 300K fic I asked and received permission for in mid-December. I’m planning on biweekly updates, which would get the whole thing done within the year. At my usual production rates that accounts for about 60-75% of total production though, and I want to do other stuff too, so realistically I may not finish in 2026.

I plan to participate in my usual set of events: Fandom Trumps Hate, Out of the Auditory (can i ~finally~ get “Did the YLLZ really exist?” multivoice completed and posted?), Voiceteam, Pod-O-Ween, etc. I missed signups for Holly Poly 2025, hope to remember and do it in 2026 again.