That Reminds Me Of A Time When I Put A Rickroll Into My Thesis Draft, Forgot About It, Got Curious When

Thank you!!! I'm so excited for this!

I feel like with your pointers I can actually build an exercise routine for once :D

I'll definitely be posting what exercises I end up doing with the finished pod. Who knows, maybe I'll inspire some listeners to follow along.

So, I want to podfic your Gym101 fanfic (this is me asking your permission to do it) for a VoiceTeam challenge, but I also want to get swole for Dash this 2025.

Here's my idea: I read your fic while doing exercises. I will need to experiment a bit to find out which exercises I can do while recording. So far I was thinking:

squats - obviously following Valerie's instructions, I don't have a weight bar though

active bar hang

plank - I'll see how much can I actually record doing that...

maybe some stretches for when I get too out of breath

I'd love any suggestions and pointers for exercises I can do while podficing. Guide me

PS: Your presence alone made me want to redo my pull-ups new years resolution 💪💪💪

Oh that's an awesome idea. I'm all for it. And now I'll need to write another chapter for it lmao!

As far as programming goes, I think anything that you can do that you can stick to are the best. Like for me, I fucking hate doing most stereotypical core exercises like planks and crunches and those 10 minute ab videos, so I've been mixing abs and core into my other weightlifting exercises instead of having it as its own dedicated thing.

But if you wanted some more concrete pointers, I would say in general like outside of just recording for the podfic, building a program around hitting every major muscle is going to be key for preventing muscle imbalances, and thus compound exercises are going to be your friend. Squats are a great one because they hit glutes, quads, and hamstrings, which are three major muscle groups on the lower body. And to hit calves, you can superset them with calf raises or something. Bada-bing-bada-boom, with 2 exercises you've pretty much got your lower body taken care of.

For upper body, things like push ups hit the chest, biceps, and triceps. Since you mentioned you have a bar, doing active bar hangs, scapular pulls, and negatives (all progressions of the pull-up) hit a bunch of muscles in the back, plus you're engaging your core for stabilization. If you have any heavy objects laying around your house, you can do farmers walks around a room which are another awesome thing for core work and all around general body strength (hits a ton of muscles all over the upper and lower body, and holding the heavy objects at different heights can engage more of the shoulders too).

Even though I'm in my weightlifting era rn, I'm a huge fan of calisthenics in general and do a lot of them for like functional strength and mobility. Definitely recommend you look into that if you're tryna workout from home this year!

Oh, and make sure you warm up before you exercise! There are lots of great dynamic stretching vids on Youtube.

Have fun and keep me updated on how it all goes!

[Podfic] monogamy is for pussies, if I do say so myself written by @14muffinz, read by @apple-sapling

Original work: monogamy is for pussies, if I do say so myself by 14Passionz (14Muffinz)

DP: Danny Fenton/Tucker Foley/Sam Manson/Valerie Grey

Length: 21:48 | Rating: T

Summary:

“Not serious,” Sam insists, because she doesn’t want them to get the impression that this is something bad, which usually goes hand in hand with serious. “Just… an observation that I didn’t want to keep to myself any longer.” Val’s suit disappears underneath her skin, though she remains perched on her board. She raises a single brow and requests, “Shoot.” In a move that Sam rarely makes, she takes in a single steadying breath. She looks between the three faintly glowing gazes of her friends, and reminds herself that after everything they’ve been through together, this certainly won’t be the conversation to break them apart. “I don’t think that what’s between the four of us is… strictly platonic. It hasn’t been for a while, actually.” [Danny, Sam, Tucker, and Valerie try out more traditionally romatic things in their dynamics. Is it a polycule? ... Probably. That doesn't matter that much, in the grand scheme of things.]

Last podfic I made for @polypodweek 2025!

Sam is characterized as a very strong environmentalist. And as a part of this, they have her follow a ridiculous made up dietary restriction: “ultra-recyclo-vegetarianism”

Which sounds like it’s meant to be all extreme, right? Something ridiculously strict.

Except that it just… isn’t??

For the most part it’s basically just the same as vegetarianism, and in the edge cases, it’s actually less restrictive than being vegetarian.

Because the rule is “don’t eat anything with a face” and for the most part, only animals are gonna have faces. I guess you could make the argument that like something like a venus fly trap has a face, but I don’t think any commonly eaten plants would count as having one unless you really stretch the definition. And unless animal products like milk are grouped in with the animal they’re from, they’re all gonna be permitted too because none of them have faces. So it’s unlikely to meaningfully ban anything that wasn’t already covered by vegetarianism.

But then on the animal side of things, it leaves some allowances that baseline vegetarianism doesn’t. Sure, most animals have faces, but not all, and some of the faceless ones are occasionally eaten (e.g. jellyfish). Heck, depending on how it defines what counts as a face, some decently common food animals like oysters could be permitted.

…though of course this assumes there aren’t other rules beyond that part (e.g. if there’s something about using “scrap” bits to justify including “recycle” in the name)

i imagine danny floats when he sleeps. it was especially bad in the first few months after the accident, but he still floats a little even years later.

Just realized that my headphones are not broken i just had messed up settings... I've been recording with sound only in my left ear. For like 3 months...

Mammals both produce milk and have hair. Ergo, a coconut is a mammal.

The No-Comments-Yet-tag

I would like to remind everyone of the "No-Comments-Yet-tag". It is where all the submissions are collected that haven't gotten any comments since they have been submitted here. It doesn't matter how many comments they had before they got submitted, only if they have gotten any since.

I update the tag once a month, usually on the 7th (not this month though, because I was traveling, but I just updated it now). I update it by first going through the submissions from the previous month, and reblogging those who haven't gotten comments. Then I check on the oldest five posts in the tag and check if they have gotten any comments. If not, I delete the reblog and reblog the submission again. Lastly, I go through all the other posts in the tag and delete any reblogs of submissions that have gotten comments in the last month. Sadly, those are pretty rare.

I would love to see more comments for the works in this tag. You can find them on tumblr here, or on AO3 here. If you spot any mistakes I made, works that no longer exist or have any questions, you can always reach out to me.

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I always think I have an idea of what my voice sounds like until I hear a recording of it and I’m always like. huh. well I don’t know what the fuck That was but there’s no way that came out of my body