Coffee Shop Meet and Greet with pt_lightning

[somnolentblue]

Hi! Welcome to the first informal coffee shop-style meet and greet with poetree and pt_lightning, which rounds out our week together.

We've enjoyed your company, and we'd like to open an informal space in the comments for people to talk with each other. Feel free to ask questions, chat with each other, perhaps see if anyone's interested in joining you on a group project.

We suggest that you open a new comment thread by introducing yourself and writing a sentence or two, whether it's "always know where your towel is," "would anyone be interested in doing a pt_lightning project featuring a villanelle and a Vogon," your favorite cookie recipe, or "I'm thinking of signing-up and seeking a cheerleader, help!"

We hope that you can pull of a chair and enjoy a lovely chat!

Comments

[alexseanchai]

I seem to have fallen headfirst into Yu-Gi-Oh! fandom. Anyone up for podficcing a Yu-Gi-Oh! fanpoem? Though I need to finish canon review; I'm about to watch episode 72 of 224...

[somnolentblue]

Hi!

I'm Blue, one of your friendly neighborhood pt_lightning mods. :)

I'll be around the rest of the day, and I'm completely happy to talk (at possibly more length than you might want) about sundry and diverse topics, including (but not limited to) pt_lightning, my experiences co-creating collaborative fanworks, libraries, and baking.

[kalakirya]

oh dude let's do something baking-related!

[fleurrochard]

Baking! \O/

(I - don't have a baking icon. Why don't I have a baking icon???)

[kalakirya]

ALL THE BAKING \o/

(I don't have one either :( now I'm envisioning a "how to make a fangirl"-type recipe - take one part media, one part enthusiasm and three parts squee and stir vigorously!)

[alexseanchai]

And one part critique? Or is that only a certain flavor of fangirl?

[fleurrochard]

When we bake a fangirl we can choose the recipe - and I'm in favour of one that includes critique. ;)

[somnolentblue]

A fangirl can be a delicate mix of marshmallow-squee and dark chocolate-critique, folded gently together in layers of light-dark-light, proportion according to taste.

Choose the media of your pleasing; a fangirl can be in any shape.

Decorate as desired, perhaps with spun-sugar-lattices of fangirl networks or sparkly sprinkles of computer glow or the hearty crunch of meta.

[alexseanchai]

:-D

[kalakirya]

ooo I heavily encourage a crunch of meta as well as well as a twist of citrus critique - both are needed to balance the sweetness of pure SQUEE. Like much fruit, fangirls can mature and ripen on their own, but do so quicker in the presence of other fangirls.

[somnolentblue]

Email me!

[kalakirya]

have done! emailed changed, but now should be more recognizable as me :D

[fleurrochard]

Hi!

I'm Fleur, the other friendly neighboorhood pt_lightning mod. :D

I'll also be around and if you want to talk about topics like collaboration (including, but not limited to, pt_lightning - the podficcer's side! *g*), baking, books and booming sound effects, I'm absolutely up for it.

[jjhunter]

'ello, all!

I'm J.J., one of the poetree admins. I'd be delighted to talk today / this weekend / in general with people about poetry, poetry for performance, ways of incorporating poetry in writer-podficcer collaborations, pretty much anything you can think of related to poetry... ;o)

More generally, I am offering to act as a cheerleader for the first three people / groups that ask who sign up for this round of pt_lightning. (n.b. 'cheerleader' is not quite the same thing as 'beta'; depending on your style & needs, you and/or your group may find both types of support helpful, or only one, or neither.)

[kaberett]

I would really, really appreciate you making words at me about how to make poems work with podfic, because I... yeah, as you know I don't reaaaally tend to tell stories w/ my poetry as much as sketch emotions (through TREES)? So. Yes. Thoughts. *chinhands*

[jjhunter]

Apologies for the delay on this.

This is a fantabulous question, and one whose answer I find still unfolding for myself. While narrative poetry may feel like the most natural fit for podficcing, I would encourage you to expand your sense of what podficcing can be (and thus what kind of poetry is appropriate for it). Podficcing is, at its heart, transformative work in its own right: a performance, an embodiment-via-voice, of a written work. Think less, how can poetry be like fiction, and a bit more — what kinds of poetry lend themselves to performance? How are some poems like plays? Where would you encounter poetry — in writing or being performed somewhere — offline? A poem for podficcing could be in the voice of a particular character — internal narration or dream or meta such somehow in their words or giving expression to some experience (slam poetry-style, perhaps?) — or articulate some series of insights or impressions about a particular scenario or canonical themes (oh the possible villanelles that might soar for certain Roaring Rampages Of Revenge -packed canons) — or be interspersed with prose song!fic-style, or be multiple poems written by & exchanged between one or more characters to each other, or otherwise haunt or complicate or take over entire a story-making.

I would say: take a canon with one or more characters / tropes / aspects / whatever that inspire strong feelings for you, and feel liberated to make what you write from those places come out as much or as little in poetry as you choose. If that's a nonlinear, non-traditionally-narrative-type thing — hey, why not? This is a short challenge. It is okay sometimes not to go vastly in excess of the minimum word count. If it would help take the edge off, consider doing two projects with whomever you sign up with — give yourself something that doesn't 'have' to be poetry, and an opportunity for poetry also, and see what comes.

Hope that helps jump start for you. I'd be very much interested in your thoughts in return. :o)

[alee_grrl]

Hi folks!

I'm Manda, the other poetree co-admin. I've been a bit scarce the past few months since I have been preparing to take the licensing exam for Virginia lawyers. I'm all done with the exam, and am looking forward to getting back into poetree stuff. I haven't had a chance to participate in pod together stuff before, but am happy to chat about poetry and cheerlead for those who are participating.

I'm a bit of a fandom butterfly and my current obsession is Avengers and Marvel Cinematic universe. The only fandom related poem I've written to date is Defying Gravity, which was a poem written from Harry's point-of-view.

[somnolentblue]

Congratulations on completing the exam!

[alee_grrl]

Thank you! It was quite an academic marathon.

[luzula]

I might want to sign up, and I do love reading poetry! I did the last two rounds of pt_lightning, and it's good for getting me to spend time with podficcing--I have less time for it these days, but I don't want to get out of the habit. I don't have a project in mind, but do feel free to poke me if you'd be interested in collaborating with me. My previous podfics are here, and you can also check out the poetry tag on my journal for some more of my poetry readings.