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Was doing some research into the podfic tags on ao3 and wanted to get down some thoughts with what I found.

Disclaimer: Obviously these are just all suggestions. You are free to tag, or not tag, your work as you see fit. This is just outlining (1) how the parent tags work and (2) what are some common tags I see people using for podfic.

Podfic Availability

Most podficcers use the ao3 tags “Podfic” or “Podfic & Podficced Work” tags. What I’d suggest is actually using the “Podfic” tag. How Ao3′s tagging system works is there are parent tags and sub set tags.

For this example, I’ll just use the tags that are relevant to podfic fandom:

large grey box titled “No Fandom.” Inside that box, is 3 other boxes colored blue, red, and green. The blue box is titled “Podfic and Podficced Works.” and it contains 4 more boxes titled Podfic, Podfic Anthology, Ready by the Author, and Podfic Available. The red box is titled “Podfic Welcome” and contains a single box titled Podfic Desired. The green box is titled “Blanket Permission” and doesn’t contain any other boxes

If you filter works via the “Podfic & Podficced Works” tag, you will get anything that has been directly tagged with “Podfic & Podficced Works” but also anything tagged with Podfic, Podfic Anthology, Read by the Author, OR Podfic Available.

Conversely, if you filter works via the “Podfic” tag, you will ONLY see fics tagged with the “Podfic” tag and not anything that got solo tagged with “Podfic & Podficced Works” or things like “Podfic Avaliable”.

TLDR;

“Podfic & Podficced Works”: use this if you’re searching for podfic. It should pull up all works that have already been podficced. But unfortunately will also pull up all the other child tags to so it might not only be podfic. Some people use this to mark podfic though so you might pick up some others that aren't in the "Podfic" tag :/
“Podfic”: use this if you’re posting podfic. It will be slightly more specific and if people use the simple podfic tag to search, you’ll show up. If they use the above “Podfic & Podficced Works” tag, you will also show up!
“Podfic Available”: if someone has posted a podfic of your text, you can use this to indicate that someone has already podfic’d your story! Awesome!

A full outlining of what tags are included under “Podfic & Podficced Work” can be found here: https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Podfic%20*a*%20Podficced%20Works

Permission to Podfic

Permission to podfic has been traditionally an area of much discussion. As a podficcer, I’d love if everyone had a transformative works statement: whether it’s no, or yes please!, or even just “I’d rather be asked for each fic.”

If you want examples fanlore has a ton of them: https://fanlore.org/wiki/Blanket_Permission_to_Podfic

There’s not a great way in AO3 to search if someone has Blanket Permission (BP) or not; we’ve had people in the community try and solve this problem. There’s a great list of people with entries in the fanlore article about BP, but also had people within the community develop tools like https://www.fpslist.org.

Adding BP is most commonly done on your ao3 profile. I’d encourage you, even if you don’t think anyone would ever want to podfic your story, please add your own transformative work statement! Since Ao3 doesn’t currently have an easy way for us to tell if you’re open to podfic, adding a BP statement is a small thing you can do contribute to the infrastructure of podfic as a whole.

There are also some additional tags you could add to the work itself to encourage podfic:

“Podfic Welcome” tag (2,897 works): https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Podfic%20Welcome
“Blanket Permission” tag (2,046 works): https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Blanket%20Permission

These two tags have about 650 works overlapping (where both tags are added to a single work), but in general if you look at the metadata about the tag, they will not select the same work.

The nice things about these is instead of searching by author, this allows us to filter per work and find ones that have BP. Normally searching by author might tell you what fandoms they have written for (via fpslist.org) but it won’t tell you: characters, tropes, warnings, or anything else.

I mean, personally, I’ve literally podficing a story because it had that tag.

Other Podfic Tags

A couple other podfic tags I've seen used around (or I'm personally trying to make happen, lol) that don't seem to be under the umbrellas mentioned above:

Podfic Length: X-Y
Audio Format: Z
Podfic Collaboration
Multivoice
Bloopers (has not yet been canonized)
Experimental Style
Sound Effects
Podfic Cover Art

If you have others you use, but I haven't mentioned I'd love to hear about them!

Example:
Post where I'm using it https://archiveofourown.org/works/21261434

Details: I basically copied the code straight out of what ao3 suggested here: https://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/14125 and just replaced with my own mp3 links. If your host doesn't provide a direct link to the mp3 like archive.org does then this new audio tag probably won't work for you.

Code:

   <audio src="https://archive.org/download/capableofcomingoutalive/capable%20of%20coming%20out%20alive.mp3" controls="controls" crossorigin="anonymous" preload="metadata">
    
<p>Your browser doesn't support streaming with the HTML5 audio tag, but you can still <a       href="https://archive.org/download/capableofcomingoutalive/capable%20of%20coming%20out%20alive.mp3" rel="nofollow">download this podfic</a>.</p>

</audio>

CSS:

audio {
  width: 100%;
  max-width: 500px;
}

What it looks like:
Three tiled windows. In each an embedded audio payer is displayed. It has a play button, a length listed and volume control in each. Firefox's embedded player is black and square. Safari's is dark grey with rounded corners. Chrome's is light gray and round.

Three tiled windows. In each an embedded audio payer is displayed. It has a play button, a length listed and volume control in each. Firefox's embedded player is black and square. Safari's is dark grey with rounded corners. Chrome's is light gray and round.

Hosts with .mp3 links (that I know about):
✅Archive.org is working
✅Dropbox.com is working but requires some finagling (explained below)
✅Airtable.com is working (here's a guide by bluedreaming: https://archiveofourown.org/works/29325015)
✅ParakaProductions's (and other self hosts on dreamhost/backblaze/similar platforms) should work! You might need to add a .htaccess to your system if you don't have it already. An example file is avaliable from paraka here: https://twitter.com/ParakaProducti1/status/1192946378135277569 . Can check out the note at the bottom of the announcement post for details too: https://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/14125
✅Backblaze - though this will require you do do some configuration to enable CORS yourself. See revolutionaryjo's comment on this post.

Google drive generally doesn't provide direct links. Same with a lot of hosts unless you're doing the hosting yourself or with a friend like paraka. I use archive.org and that one gives you direct links to your uploaded mp3s.

When I say direct link to the mp3, I mean something like this https://ia801509.us.archive.org/1/items/03.haunt/03.%20haunt.mp3 . Which is ending in a .mp3 file extension. When you click on a direct link to an mp3, it should load into your browser like the following picture:
https://ia801509.us.archive.org/1/items/03.haunt/03.%20haunt.mp3
Three windows tiled. In each the screen is black with an audio player at the center which is just a plain bar with a play button, a slider for where you are in the audio, and volume control.

Three windows tiled. In each the screen is black with an audio player at the center which is just a plain bar with a play button, a slider for where you are in the audio, and volume control.

Archive.org

Archive.org direct links to it's mp3s are fairly easily available.

Go to the item page which gets created when you upload the mp3
Find the "Download Options"
Click the VBR MP3 option
Right click the mp3 file you want the embedded streamer
Select the option "Copy Link Address"

picture of archive.org item screen with the download options section in the bottom right highlighted. Under "dowload options" there is a list of options last of which is VBR MP3 which is also highlighted.

Looks the same as photo above but instead of dowload options there is a list of two mp3 files. The right click menu is open having clicked on one and "copy link address" is highlighted.

Dropbox

Create a shared link for your file.

Paste the link in your browser. It should look something like: https://www.dropbox.com/s/4km8khiuaaviaf2/Breathing%20Space.mp3?dl=0

You should be able to just paste that in as your audio source url and, change the www to a dl and then have it appear <audio src="https://dl.dropbox.com/s/4km8khiuaaviaf2/Breathing%20Space.mp3?dl=0" />

****

Old Dropbox Instructions (if the stuff above doesn't work)
( old instructions )

To generate that direct mp3 link I'm talking about with dropbox you can do the following. First you need to generate a shared link (which you probably already do if your sharing your podfics through them.). Your full link should look like https://www.dropbox.com/s/d1ggsy9th8fxahy/03.%20haunt.mp3

Now that won't allow you to embed but what you can do is replace the www.dropbox.com at the front of the url with dl.dropboxusercontent.com. Like so:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/d1ggsy9th8fxahy/03.%20haunt.mp3

Can see the dropbox one working for me here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/20956637 with the embedded mp3.

All of this is also explained in this tutorial: https://zapier.com/learn/how-to/generate-direct-dropbox-link/.

What are audacity chains:

Basically, they can keep a list of effects that will get applied to a selection of audio. They’ll be applied one after another. OR they’re also useful to keep track what you’re using particular parameters for. Like, if you use a 0.3 decay + 0.2 delay echo for telepathy and different settings for inner thoughts, but it’s the same setting. Instead of having to write those settings down and constantly switch them, you can have them saved as a chain that just applies a single effect - one which you’ve namd “telepathy” or “inner thoughts.”

Where?

File -> Chains -> Edit Chains (to add or change a chain)

File -> Chains -> Apply Chains (This will apply the chain over a selection. Importantly using the repeat effect will not “repeat” the chain. Also, I’m pretty sure there isn’t a hotkey to apply a chain. But I would advise setting one up if you’re going to regularly using them.)

((If you don't see this, you might have a newer version of audacity which this got moved to the Tools menu and renamed to "Macro". Alternate instructions for that can be found: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11i2zUA2yffEKaxPoYahJJp7XznzZHFJ6brFoB-nskqE/edit?usp=sharing)

Setting up a chain:

First you want to add a chain (on the left side where it’s listing all the chains). It’ll prompt you to name it.
Start “Insert”-ing effects
If you click “Insert,” it’ll bring up a list of effects. Then once you select on you can click “edit parameters” and alter the effect as you like.
NOTE: When using Amplify it’s going to force you to “allow clipping”.

You are free to reorder them with the “move up” and “move down” options for the effects. They’ll be applied top/down (starting at 01).

Applying a chain:

The chains will be ordered alphanumerically when applying them.

Similar to applying an effect, you’ll select the audio you want to apply the chain too (in the case of “FINAL CLEAN UP”, unsurprisingly I’m applying it to the whole of the audio.) But in general, it works just like you’d normally apply an effect.

You select the effect you want to apply and choose “Apply to Current Project.” When you bring up the Apply Chain menu, it’ll automatically select the one you’ve last applied.

Create hotkey:

Since I suggested adding a hotkey - mine I set up to be CTRL-L which is something else by default in audio, you don’t have to do one but you can get to altering the hotkeys in

Edit -> Preferences -> Keyboard.

Search for “Apply” and you can set something up (though you might want to check and see if assigned to something else first).
Select the thing you want to make the hotkey for, and in the box below click the keys like you would like the hotkey to be. Then click “Set” and it’ll apply it to the thing

Other useful hotkeys I use:

I have two chains I use quite a bit - pitch up and pitch down. All they do is apply a +2% or -2% pitch alteration effect. But because I've made them chains, I can assign them hotkeys as you see in the below section. If you choose "apply macro - CHAIN NAME", you can make a hotkey for a specific chain if you use it a lot.

The other two hotkeys I like having assigned are:

* Export - Export As MP3
(self explanitory I think)

* Export - Export Audio
The reason for this one is there isn't by default an "Export as M4A" option. However, this is the default audio exporter which can export in any manor you audacity is set up to. The nice thing about it is, it remebers what you last chose. So if you only ever export as M4A and use the other export options to export as WAV or MP3 and only ever use this option to export as M4A, then it always keep that as the default option.

Dislikes/Squicks/Triggers:
As long as it's not on the list below, I will be thrilled with whatever podfic you make for me!

Pregnancy (mpreg or otherwise). Hard no with no exceptions. (Kidfic can be alright but I'm not a huge fan.)
A/B/O - (An example of an exception would be if it’s hitting point 5 in likes - but if it gets too into the whole 'biological' aspect that A/B/O can drift towards it's a hard no).
Unhappy endings - I love angst but if rocks fall and everyone dies or is just an unhappy end, it’s not really my kind of fic. I need at least a hint of hope at the end of the tunnel. (Even if that hope is very very small and subtextual)
RPF - Though an exception could be made for characters switching places with or meeting actors al la SPN's The French Mistake. And apparently the sanders sides fandom? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
PWP - but if there's sex in the fic that's fine.
Post-Apocolyptic AUs - I'm not particularly into them (though I could make an exception for tropes like the character coming back from the Dark Future as long as the focus isn't the Dark Future)
Incest Ships: I tend away from incest ships (or adopted siblings ships). Exceptions are generally made for canon relationships (i.e. Luke/Leia in Star Wars or Allison/Luther in The Umbrella Academy).
Teacher/Student ships: I can really appreciate a good power differential (boss/employee or captor/captive or such) but just not super into teacher/student unless that's far in the past and no longer relevant to their current relationship.

Likes:

(Honestly I'm not super picky as long as you don't hit my dislikes - but - this is if you want more guidance)
(I'm also on Ao3 where I have over 3000 bookmarks if you'd like help finding fic I liked)
(tumblr as godoflaundrybaskets, and twitter as godoflaundry if you want to stalk for more ideas):

Fusions/Sci-Fi AUs/Modern Fantasy AUs/Body Swap/Time Travel/Trauma Recovery - are all awesome tags.
Outsider POV is just about my FAVORITE thing so if you know a fic like that I would LOVE to hear it.
Gen fics that focus on characters supporting each other and helping each other through their respective issues is just awesome. I love found family tropes.
I tend towards angsty fics, though I'm not opposed to humor/fluff. I just love seeing characters deal with insecurity, self destructive behaviors, trust issues, or PTSD.
Love case fic!
Anything with women being awesome
Fics dealing with deconstructing gender/sexuality.

Accepting Podfic For:

For where it applies - I'm good with both anime+manga canon

Alice Isn’t Dead
DC - (any source as long as it's Batfam - pref no robin/robin ships. I've read some good ones! It's just not normally my cup of tea.)
Discworld
Dishonored
Doctor Who - new Who only -- prefer gen
Fullmetal Alchemist -- any canon -- prefer gen
Good Omens -- book and tv
Guardian (cdrama) -- new!
Hamilton - Musical only
HunterXHunter
Leverage
Marvel
- Venom - movie only
Mob Psycho 100
Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
Natsume Yuujinchou [Natsume’s Book Of Friends]
Naruto -- prefer gen, pref Kakashi centric but I'll be okay if it's not.
Noblesse (Manhwa)
One Piece -- prefer gen
Red Vs. Blue
Sanders Sides -- gen preferably but will be okay with basically any ship.
Schitt's Creek
Star Wars
- Original, Prequel, Sequel
- Rogue One
- SW The Clone Wars
- SW Rebels
The Adventure Zone -- balance (s1)
The Bright Sessions
The Magnus Archives
The Umbrella Academy -- tv only -- generally would prefer to stay away from any Hargrave/Hargrave relationship other than the canon Allison/Luther.
The Untamed (Mo Dao Zu Shi) -- new!
Undertale
Vorkosigan Saga

Willing To Podfic For (I am up for any pairing/character in these):

( Read more... )

I'll probably use and edit this post as the year goes on and I start filling it out :)

1st POV	Incorporate Verbal Effects	Character Voices	Character Death	Whisper
Read Deadpan	Different Source Medium	Fairy Tale	Read Sleepily	Lower Pitch Effect
Incorporate Music	Gen	FREE SPACE	Multiple POVs	Slur/Mumble
Repod a Podfic	Read Sadly	Meta	More Articulation (for you)	Read Angrily
Try something new (for you)	Echo Effect	Disability	Epistolary	Boy slash

List and links to of Podfics fulfilling:

( fufilling podfics )

Dislikes/Squicks/Triggers:
As long as it's not on the list below, I will be thrilled with whatever podfic you make for me!

Pregnancy (mpreg or otherwise). Hard no with no exceptions. (Kidfic can be alright but I'm not a huge fan.)
A/B/O - (An example of an exception would be if it’s hitting point 5 in likes - but if it gets too into the whole 'biological' aspect that A/B/O can drift towards it's a hard no).
Unhappy endings - I love angst but if rocks fall and everyone dies or is just an unhappy end, it’s not really my kind of fic. I need at least a hint of hope at the end of the tunnel. (Even if that hope is very verysmall and subtextual)
RPF - Though an exception could be made for characters switching places with or meeting actors al la SPN's The French Mistake.
PWP - but if there's sex in the fic that's fine.
Post-Apocolyptic AUs - I'm not particularly into them (though I could make an exception for tropes like the character coming back from the Dark Future as long as the focus isn't the Dark Future)

Likes:

(Honestly I'm not super picky as long as you don't hit my dislikes - but - this is if you want more guidance) (I'm also on Ao3 and tumblr as godoflaundrybaskets, and twitter as godoflaundry if you want to stalk for more ideas):

Fusions/Sci-Fi AUs/Modern Fantasy AUs/Time Travel/Trauma Recovery - are all awesome tags.
Outsider POV is just about my FAVORITE thing so if you know a fic like that I would LOVE to hear it.
Gen fics that focus on characters supporting each other and helping each other through their respective issues is just awesome. I love found family tropes.
I tend towards angsty fics, though I'm not opposed to humor/fluff. I just love seeing characters deal with insecurity, self destructive behaviors, trust issues, or PTSD.
Anything with women being awesome and/or dealing with deconstructing gender/sexuality.

Accepting Podfic For:

New: VENOM 2018!!
Alice Isn’t Dead
Boku no Hero Academia [My Hero Academia]
Books of the Raksura - Martha Wells
Critical Role (s2)
Discworld
Dishonored
Doctor Who - new Who only -- prefer gen
Fullmetal Alchemist -- any canon -- prefer gen
Mob Psycho 100
Natsume Yuujinchou [Natsume’s Book Of Friends]
Naruto -- prefer gen, Kakashi centric
Noblesse (Manhwa)
One Piece -- prefer gen
Red Vs. Blue
Rivers of London
Star Wars
- Original, Prequel, Sequal, Rogue One
- SW The Clone Wars
- SW Rebels
The Adventure Zone -- balance (s1)
The Bright Sessions
Voltron -- gen only, pref Shiro centric
Vorkosigan Saga

Willing To Podfic For (I am up for any pairing/character in these):

Avatar the Last Airbender
Bleach
Kekkai Sensen [Blood Blockade]
Boku no Hero Academia [My Hero Academia]
Books of the Raksura - Martha Wells
Castlevania (neflix cartoon only)
Critical Role (s2)
D. Gray Man
DC
- Young Justice - cartoon only
- DCU
- DC Comics -
  - focus on any of the Batfam and Batfam adjacent (e.g. Harley, Ivy, Commissioner Gordon, etc) - any ships
  - Superman - Bruce/Clark, Clark/Bruce/Diana, or Clark/Lois
Discworld
Dishonored
Doctor Who (new Who only)
Dragon Ball Z
Dresden Files
Elementary
Fantastic Beasts (series)
Final Fantasy VII
Firefly
Fullmetal Alchemist - all canons
Good Omens
Ghostbusters - 2016 movie only
Hamilton - Musical only
Harry Potter
James Bond - Skyfall only
Jupiter Ascending
Kingdom Hearts - all games
Leverage
Marvel
- Marvel 616
- Marvel 1610
- Marvel MCU: all of it
- The Defenders (Netflix):
  - Daredevil (only)
Mad Max - Fury Road
Mushishi
Naruto
Natsume Yuujinchou [Natsume’s Book Of Friends]
Noblesse (Manhwa)
One Piece
Person of Interest
Red Vs. Blue
Rivers of London
Star Wars - All of them
- Original/Prequel/Squeals/EU/EU Legends/Rebels/all of them.
Supernatural
Teen Wolf
The Adventure Zone -- balance (s1)
The Bright Sessions
The Losers
The Mentalist
Undertale
Voltron - Netflix series only
Vorkosigan Saga
Valdemar series - Mercedes Lackey - any canons from this. I'm up for all of it. Includes Last Herald Mage trilogy
Welcome To Night Vale

Spreadsheet Template: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/195BZ1QPtTHjT_vvZzyolHFJSKq_Z9m-4RqRA2ZQz_JA/edit?usp=sharing

Updated the spreadsheet template so that (1) things are not dependant on the order of the columns and (2) there's some error handling so if you want to customize the sheet you're more able to do so.

The other major change, in order to allow more customization, the "hide/unhide columns" columns function which used to work of a predefined set of columns now takes an input.
So if you're hide column looked like:

Hide

details

E, H, I, J

chapterInfo

L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T

The script would hide columns "E, H, I, and J" and unhide (if previously hidden) columns "L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T".

Keep in mind: these two variables are allowed to compete over columns. So if in this example both "details" and "chapterInfo" had column "B" in there, details would hide the column but chapterInfo (since it runs after) would unhide it.

Added a UI to allow you to add a chapter from any sheet:

a gif of the process explained in the list below

Go to "Custom Functions" > "Add a Chapter
Fill in details about the chapter
Click a button:
- Submit: if you would like to input more than one chapter
- SubmitAndClose: if you just want to add this one chapter
- Close: to close the screen without saving

NEXT PLANNED CHANGE: when you input a chapter that already exists, pre-populate the information and then update the row.

This is a little tutorial thing that I've made for the podfic tracker since I'm doing some fun stuff.

Here's a link to the sample spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/195BZ1QPtTHjT_vvZzyolHFJSKq_Z9m-4RqRA2ZQz_JA/edit?usp=sharing

You can't edit this one, but here's an example of how I use it: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SG2m5_Xm7hkaRpGiK-Iwvly8EZ8CUvz8GpsOVsnDLeg/edit?usp=sharing

Any suggestions/requests/suggestions are more than welcome! I may or may not be able to assist but I'm usually willing to help out.

There's several spreadsheets here:

2018: this is just so I can get a new spreadsheet each year for tracking
Analysis: Right now I have a handful of things there getting the # of times a thing has been used (i.e. how many fics i've done for a fandom or what status all my WIPs are in
DataValidation: In google sheets when you do "Data->Data Validation->List from a range" it allows you to pick a column, grabs all the values in that and creates a dropdown list for you. This also helps insure data consistency. This is where I put all of my validation columns for the most part. The ones I currently use are:
- Fandom
- Series (if the fic has a series)
- status (of the podfic: Recording, wating on permission, etc)
- author,(of the fic)
- category (m/m, gen, etc)
FicDetails: this is where i keep information about the fic itself if it is multi-chaptered. I'm not doing too much else with it right now but I wanted to be able to put a link to the fic in one place and keep track of some other information about the fic. Most of the stuff (other than the fic title) isn't used right now.
ChapterStatus: this drives a lot of stuff that we'll get into later. For now, it's where I keep track of the individual chapter status of any multi-chaptered podfic.

Hide/Unhide Columns:
So, first and easiest to talk about is the hiding of columns. As I added more detail, I wanted the ability to filter some of it out when desired:

This is actually a custom function that I've made in google sheets. It's not really picking the chapters out dynamically at this point and it's specifically checking to see if cells A3 and A5 have 'y' to see what it should hide.

1) update the value below what you want to hide to 'y'

chapterInfo (columns specifically relating the the chapter status - columns M:T)
details (some more data you might want to track - isMultivoice, category, etc but might not want to see all the time - columns H:K)

2) In the help bar open the menu called: "Custom Functions" > "Hide/Unhide Columns". Click it.
3) The columns should now be out of the way!

Dynamic Chapter Dropdowns and Data

Add A New Author

Secondly, I really like the dropdown lists. So I created a couple of just plane validation columns. Here's an example of me adding a new author to the author column. This also makes it very easy to do stats stuff on it because you're not accidently going to type the authors name in wrong. Here's an example of me adding an author for a new fic:

1. Go to the "Data Validation" tab
2. Add the author name under the author column
3. When you go back to the "2018" sheet, the new author is now in the author dropdown list.
4. Fill in any other details that you want about the fic.

Now that we've got the new fic populated it's time to show off the dynamically populating chapter dropdown.

While I could just create a menu of 1-100, I (1) only want to see chapters that are actually valid for this fic and (2) want to be able to populate and view the chapter details on the main page. This turned out trickier than I had hoped but I've got at least a rough start of it!

Populate Chapter Data
First off, we have to populate the data. This involves putting the data in both the FicDetails and ChapterStatus sheet.

1. I add the fic to the FicDetails sheet. (you can't really see it, but the fic_title on this page is driving the fic_title dropdown in the ChapterStatus sheet.
2. I add the chapters and related details in the ChapterStatus sheet.

Run "Populate Dynamic Chapter Menus"

3. Now navigate to the "2018" page where we want the chapter menu to appear, we need to trigger the "dynamic" menu. I'm still working on optimizing this so I don't have it constantly checking to see if it needs to run.
4. In the help bar open the menu called: "Custom Functions" > "Populate Dynamic Chapter Menus"
5. Wait for the script to finish running.
6. Now, when you can see that there's 3 chapters and it pulls the data from the "ChapterStatus" sheet and displays it when the associated chapter is selected.

KEEP IN MIND: the data is just being pulled from the ChapterStatus. You can't just update the data in the main page.

Add A New Chapter
But what if I want to add a new chapter? Unfortunately, since the script isn't currently dynamic you will have to trigger it again.

1) add a new column with the new chapter details
2) go back to the "2018" sheet and re-run the "Populate Dynamic Chapter Menus" script
3) you can now select the new chapter and view its details.

Unchapter A Fic
If you remove the fic entry from the FicDetails sheet, then when the "Populate Dynamic Chapter Menus" is re-run then the chapter dropdown list will disappear.

Dislikes/Squicks/Triggers: As long as it's not on the list below, I will be thrilled with whatever podfic you make for me!

Pregnancy (mpreg or otherwise). Hard no with no exceptions. (Kidfic can be alright but I'm not a HUGE fan.)
A/B/O - (An example of an exception would be if it’s hitting point 2 in likes - Alpha’s that like alpha’s or someone who doesn’t fit the A/B/O model in an A/B/O world.).
Unhappy endings - I love angst but if rocks fall and everyone dies or is just an unhappy end, it’s not really my kind of fic. I need at least a hint of hope at the end of the tunnel. (Even if that hope is tiny and like subtextual)
RPF - Though an exception could be made for characters [switching places with/meeting] actors al la SPN's The French Mistake.
PWP - but if there's sex in the fic that's fine.
- Kinks that are not my thing: daddy!kink, incest in general, scat
Post-Apocolyptic AUs - I'm not particularly into them (though I could make an exception for tropes like the character coming back from the Dark Future to stop it from happening)

Likes:

(Honestly I'm not super picky as long as you don't hit my dislikes - but - this is if you want more guidance) (I'm also on Ao3 and tumblr as godoflaundrybaskets, and twitter as godoflaundry if you want to stalk for more ideas):

I tend towards angsty fics, though I'm not opposed to humor/fluff. I love seeing characters deal with insecurity, self destructive behaviors, trust issues, or PTSD.
Anything with women being awesome or dealing with deconstructing gender/sexuality.
Gen fics that focus on characters supporting each other and helping each other through their respective issues are awesome. I love found family tropes.
Fusions/Sci-Fi AUs/Modern Fantasy AUs/Time Travel/Trauma Recovery - are all awesome.
Outsider POV is just about my FAVORITE thing so if you know a fic like that I would LOVE to hear it.

Accepting Podfic For:

Alice Isn’t Dead
Boku no Hero Academia [My Hero Academia]
Books of the Raksura - Martha Wells
Discworld
Dishonored
Fullmetal Alchemist -- prefer gen
Mob Psycho 100
Natsume Yuujinchou [Natsume’s Book Of Friends]
One Piece -- prefer gen
Red Vs. Blue
Rivers of London
Star Wars
- Original, Prequel, Sequal, Rogue One
- SW The Clone Wars
- SW Rebels
The Bright Sessions
Vorkosigan Saga

Willing To Podfic For (I am up for any pairing/character in these):

Avatar the Last Airbender
Bleach
Kekkai Sensen [Blood Blockade]
Boku no Hero Academia [My Hero Academia]
Books of the Raksura - Martha Wells
D. Gray Man
DC
- Young Justice - cartoon only
- DCU - Snyder movies only
- DC Comics
  - - focus on any of the Batfam and Batfam adjacent (e.g. Harley, Ivy, Commissioner Gordon, etc) - any ships
    - Superman - Bruce/Clark only
Discworld
Dishonored
Dragon Ball Z
Dresden Files
Elementary
Final Fantasy VII
Firefly
Fullmetal Alchemist - all canons
Good Omens
Ghostbusters - 2016 movie only
Hamilton - Musical only
Harry Potter - all canons including Fantastic Beasts
James Bond - Skyfall only
Jupiter Ascending
Kingdom Hearts - all games
Leverage
Marvel
- Marvel 616
- Marvel 1610
- Marvel MCU: all of it
- The Defenders (Netflix):
  - Daredevil (only)
- Individual Fandoms:
  - Guardians of the Galaxy (vol 1 & 2)
  - Doctor Strange
Mad Max - Fury Road
Naruto
Natsume Yuujinchou [Natsume’s Book Of Friends]
One Piece
Person of Interest
Red Vs. Blue
Rivers of London
Star Wars - All of them
- Original/Prequel/Squeals/EU/EU Legends/Rebels/all of them.
Supernatural
Teen Wolf
The Bright Sessions
The Losers
The Mentalist
Undertale
Voltron - Netflix series only
Vorkosigan Saga
Valdemar series - Mercedes Lackey - any canons from this. I'm up for all of it. Includes Last Herald Mage trilogy
Welcome To Night Vale

Hello! This is my first #ITPE (I found out about the challenge the day that sign ups closed @_@) and I'm pretty new at podficing too, but I've been having a blast so far with what I've done. I'm not super picky so almost anything you want to do I will be more than up for. If you want some more guidance though here's some likes/dislike lists.

Dislikes:

I'm not a huge A/B/O fan. I've seen it done well but for the most part it can squick me.
Mpreg/Pregnancy in general (though kidfic can be alright)
Unhappy endings - I love angst but if rocks fall and everyone dies or is just an unhappy end then I just tend to be sad about life.
RPF - just generally not a fan. Though an exception could be made for characters meeting actors al la SPN's The French Mistake.
I don't think I'm reall y interested in a PWP podfic, but if there's sex in there it's fine.

Likes (Honestly I'm not super picky as long as you don't hit my dislikes - but again - this is if you want more guidance):

I tend towards angsty fics, though I'm not opposed to humor/fluff. I just love seeing characters deal with insecurity, self destructive behaviors, trust issues, or PTSD.
Anything with women being awesome and/or dealing with deconstructing gender/sexuality.
Fics dealing with THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP which sounds corny but Gen fics that focus on characters supporting each other and helping each other through their respective issues is just awesome.
Fusions/crossovers/AUs/Time Travel fix-its/Trauma Recovery - are all awesome.

-Receiving Podfic Fandoms:

Daredevil
Discworld
Dishonored
Mad Max - Fury Road
Person of Interest
Star Wars
Vorkosigan Saga

-Willing To Podfic For:

Avatar the Last Airbender

Avengers/Marvel (any of the sub-categories are fine)

Criminal Minds

Daredevil

DCU comics

Dishonored
Elementary
Good Omens

Final Fantasy VII

Fullmetal Alchemist

Harry Potter

James Bond - Skyfall
Leverage

Mad Max - Fury Road

Naruto

Person of Interest

SG-1

Stargate Atlantis

Star Wars

Teen Wolf

Vorkosigan Saga
Welcome To Night Vale

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