due South Recs Redux

Trip's over, folks! Pack your suitcases, mail out your postcards, and hop back on the boat/bus/train/plane: the I ♥ Somewhere Else challenge is over. Thanks to everyone who recced a story (or three): I've certainly been enjoying the thought of life elsewhere. Preferably in Seattle. With fangirls.

At any rate, we've got a new challenge starting up today, and this one is in honour of amplificathon, the multi-fandom podfic recording challenge. Record a podfic, get a point. Record two podfics, get more points. And you can score even higher if it's your first recording, if you're podficcing in a new fandom or for a rare pairing (or, hell, even gen!) The recording challenge closes June 2nd, so please join the community and record your favourite story!

But Nos, you say, this is ds_recsredux. Why the hell are you talking about podfic?

Okay, ye of little faith, I'll explain. See, podfic is really cool. It allows authors and dedicated readers to put voice to the written word and perform stories using their voice. It also increases access to stories, because not all fans who want to read fanfiction can sit at a computer or use a mouse/keyboard for long periods of time. And finally, you can listen to a fangirl or fanboy read you porn as you drive to work or head to school on the bus or take a walk. What's better than that? Well, okay, maybe blowjobs in the back of the GTO, but podfic comes in at a close second.

So, in order to encourage some new folks to read and record podfic, we'd like to ask you to recommend your three favourite C6D podfic recordings. They can be of any length, pairing or fandom, as long as they're within the Canadian Six Degrees family (i.e. any TV show, movie or awesome "rock" video starring one of the due South cast). There are many, many recordings to choose from: jinjurly has created a massive index of audiofic over at her website, Jinjurly.com. You can search by fandom, which works out well for our recs challenge, since that means you can take a peak at the due South, Wilby Wonderful, Hard Core Logo and Slings & Arrows indexes. These lists aren't completely comprehensive, but jinjurly has searched high and low to collect as many audiofic recordings as possible. If the story you want to rec isn't available through jinjurly's lists, please do your best to provide us a link to the audio recording.

ETA: I'm very, very pretty, and as a result I forgot to mention that slidellra has a more comprehensive list of due South podfic over here, and as She of the Sexay Voice can tell you herself, podfic kinda rules.

Go take a listen to one or two (or a dozen) fics, and report back here with your recommendations. Let's celebrate the awesomeness of podfic!

This challenge will close in two weeks, which'll leave you plenty of time for downloading and listening. Get crackin'!

Hi all!

We thought it would be a good idea to extend the I ♥ Somewhere Else challenge another week since we're all still recovering from the Seattle con and writing fic and meeting challenge deadlines. So bust out your favourite anywhere-but-here recs! sam80853 and scriggle have already sent us to New Zealand, Europe and Mexico, but there are still plenty of stories out there set in exotic locals. Get crackin', folks! This challenge will last until next Monday.

Sob! Our first amnesty challenge is finished. Many thanks to those of you who contributed either favourite dSSS recs OR recs for the New Beginnings challenge.

This week we're going to turn things over to our individual reccer slidellra, who is going to rock our socks with her own special recommendations. Is she going to talk about her favourite authors? Pairings? Her unusual affection for kinky stories that combine suspenders and maple syrup? Who knows! We'll have to wait and see. Take it away, slidellra!

Out with the old, in with the new! Our Seekrit Santa Challenge has scurried back up the chimney, and we're on to a brand new week of recs here at ds_recsredux. And what is a more fitting new challenge topic than....New Beginnings!

That's right, come on down and rec your favourite fics that explore new beginnings - emotional or literal fresh starts, as in New Year, new job, new boyfriend, new boundaries set or pushed (sexual or otherwise, but I'm votin' for sexual!) new routines, new undercover assignments, or brand new cabins out in the wilds of Canada. Think renewal. Think rebirth. Think...new challenge!

We'll run this one until next Monday. Thank you kindly, as always, for participating and offering up those recs!

Hi all!

It's a new year, and ds_recsredux is changing hands and getting a slight change in format. dessert_first, ignazwisdom and I are still planning to keep the current prompt format (we give you a prompt like, "Your favourite story involving handcuffs!", you post three recs during the alloted time, we all have a mutual love-fest over the fic, everybody wins) but we're adding something new, too. Or something old, depending on your point of view.

As I mentioned in my previous post, my fearless co-mods and I are going to borrow a page from the old ds_recs community, and one week per month an individual reccer will be in charge of making recommendations. The lucky fanperson can rec anything and everything connected with due South. You want to talk about your top five favourite episodes? Do it. Have a burning desire to share a list of your best-loved stories, or your five guiltiest pleasures? This is the place. Hold court on why Vecchio makes your knees weak, talk about your favourite bit of meta, tell us the story of how you first discovered due South, or explain why Diefenbaker is the best deaf half-wolf ever to grace the small screen. You get one week to sell us on the idea. We provide the platform and a (hopefully) interested audience, and you get to rec to your heart's content.

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Okay! So those are the basics. We'll have a new recs prompt challenge starting on Monday, and hopefully the last week of the month will bring us a single reccer who will blow our collective socks off! Please sign up to do the guest-rec thing, and pimp this out to your fellow dS fen! Yay for a new year! Yay for recs! \o/