[Star Trek: The Next Generation] All the Ways That Matter
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Title: All the Ways That Matter by
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Bingo Square(s): Fix-It, Robots/Androids
Fandom: Star Trek: The Next Generation
Pairings: Data & Geordi La Forge
Length: 6:55
Summary: Data and Geordi have a conversation about what it means to be human.
Content Notes: description of injury to an android and equivalent injury to a human
Link to Podfic: All the Ways That Matter
I'm going to use a comment cheat to swap out "different source medium" for "femslash."
Character Voices | Time Travel/Time Loop | Fix-It | Higher Pitch Effect | |
Repod Cold | Try something new (for you) | Incorporate Verbal Effects | Record Standing Up | Collaborate with one or more podficcers |
Yuletide | Echo Effect | FREE SPACE | Harlequin | Higher Vocal Range (for you) |
Transform an Existing Podfic | Read Sexy | Read a Fic Cold | Incorporate Sound Effects | |
Slur/Mumble | Nonlinear story | 2nd POV | Epistolary | Female Character |
September Challenge 2025: Sun
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The theme challenge for this month is Sun (Please include the tag challenge: sun when you post.) Theme challenges have to do with fic choice. Since this month's challenge is 'sun' your story has to be related to that theme one way or another.
The shape challenge is 'hexagon' (tag challenge: hexagon). This should be at minimum 6 squares, ie:
OOXOO
OXOXO
OXXXO
OOOOO
OOOOO
Shape challenges require that you complete a specific shape of squares on your card. If you complete a shape challenge by the deadline, you’ll win a cheat. If your card already has the shape formation before the challenge starts, you can only count that challenge as completed if you fill at least one square on your card within the challenge time period.
You can pick the challenge you prefer or do both if you're feeling ambitious. Once you’ve posted the podfic required to fulfill the monthly challenge, please comment here to let us know you’ve completed the challenge.
If you complete a challenge, you earn a cheat. If none of the challenges appeal to you, you can also earn cheats by commenting on other people's podfics.
What are Cheats?
Cheats are rewards that allow participants to manipulate their cards so that they can be finished more easily. There are 2 kinds of cheats: shifting squares and swapping out squares. Shifting squares allows participants to swap locations of two squares on their card. Swapping out cheats allow you to discard one of your prompts entirely from your card and replace it with a prompt of your choosing from the Prompt List.
Code deploy happening shortly
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Per the dw_news post regarding the MS/TN blocks, we are doing a small code push shortly in order to get the code live. As per usual, please let us know if you see anything wonky.
There is some code cleanup we've been doing that is going out with this push but I don't think there is any new/reworked functionality, so it should be pretty invisible if all goes well.
[Star Trek: The Next Generation] do androids knit with electric wool
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Title: do androids knit with electric wool by
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Bingo Square(s): Character Voices, Try something new (for you), Incorporate Verbal Effects, Free Space
Fandom: Star Trek: The Next Generation
Pairings: Data & Geordi La Forge, Data & Jean-Luc Picard, Data & William Riker, Data & Deanna Troi, Beverly Crusher & Data
Length: 6:40
Summary: Data gets very into knitting.
Content Notes: none immediately come to mind
Link to Podfic: do androids knit with electric wool
This fulfills the August shape challenge of diagonal 3. I'm going to use the cheat to swap out "read drunkenly" for "robots/androids."
Character Voices | Different Source Medium | Time Travel/Time Loop | Fix-It | Higher Pitch Effect |
Repod Cold | Try something new (for you) | Incorporate Verbal Effects | Record Standing Up | Collaborate with one or more podficcers |
Yuletide | Echo Effect | FREE SPACE | Harlequin | Higher Vocal Range (for you) |
Transform an Existing Podfic | Read Sexy | Read a Fic Cold | Incorporate Sound Effects | |
Slur/Mumble | Nonlinear story | 2nd POV | Epistolary | Female Character |
Mississippi site block, plus a small restriction on Tennessee new accounts
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A reminder to everyone that starting tomorrow, we are being forced to block access to any IP address that geolocates to the state of Mississippi for legal reasons while we and Netchoice continue fighting the law in court. People whose IP addresses geolocate to Mississippi will only be able to access a page that explains the issue and lets them know that we'll be back to offer them service as soon as the legal risk to us is less existential.
The block page will include the apology but I'll repeat it here: we don't do geolocation ourselves, so we're limited to the geolocation ability of our network provider. Our anti-spam geolocation blocks have shown us that their geolocation database has a number of mistakes in it. If one of your friends who doesn't live in Mississippi gets the block message, there is nothing we can do on our end to adjust the block, because we don't control it. The only way to fix a mistaken block is to change your IP address to one that doesn't register as being in Mississippi, either by disconnecting your internet connection and reconnecting it (if you don't have a static IP address) or using a VPN.
In related news, the judge in our challenge to Tennessee's social media age verification, parental consent, and parental surveillance law (which we are also part of the fight against!) ruled last month that we had not met the threshold for a temporary injunction preventing the state from enforcing the law while the court case proceeds.
The Tennesee law is less onerous than the Mississippi law and the fines for violating it are slightly less ruinous (slightly), but it's still a risk to us. While the fight goes on, we've decided to prevent any new account signups from anyone under 18 in Tennessee to protect ourselves against risk. We do not need to block access from the whole state: this only applies to new account creation.
Because we don't do any geolocation on our users and our network provider's geolocation services only apply to blocking access to the site entirely, the way we're implementing this is a new mandatory question on the account creation form asking if you live in Tennessee. If you do, you'll be unable to register an account if you're under 18, not just the under 13 restriction mandated by COPPA. Like the restrictions on the state of Mississippi, we absolutely hate having to do this, we're sorry, and we hope we'll be able to undo it as soon as possible.
Finally, I'd like to thank every one of you who's commented with a message of support for this fight or who's bought paid time to help keep us running. The fact we're entirely user-supported and you all genuinely understand why this fight is so important for everyone is a huge part of why we can continue to do this work. I've also sent a lot of your comments to the lawyers who are fighting the actual battles in court, and they find your wholehearted support just as encouraging and motivating as I do. Thank you all once again for being the best users any social media site could ever hope for. You make me proud and even more determined to yell at state attorneys general on your behalf.