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Read the fic! Necromancy for Beginners by Sensitive_Pigeon
Episode Artwork by Chantal Zeegers
Pigeon's fic they couldn't write themselves, but totally loves and recommends is: 'Our Family of Choice' by alesford (aka awol_newt)
Transcript for the Deaf and HOH by Flying Fanatic!
EFA Episode 30 - Winnah, Winnah Pigeon Dinnah
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MUSIC : Write My Story by Olly Anna
ANNOUNCER GUY : You've tuned in to the Earp Fiction Addiction , a fan podcast all about Wynonna Earp fanfiction. Join our intrepid host DarkWiccan and Delayne as they dive deep into the sometimes sweet, sometimes spicy, and always varied world of fanfiction for the Wynonna Earp fandom.
MUSIC : A Proper Story by Darren Korb
DARKWICCAN : Thanks Announcer Guy and welcome everybody to the season one finale episode of the Earp Fiction Addiction , the podcast dedicated entirely to Wynonna Earp fanfiction. I am your host, DarkWiccan, and with me is my delightful, and wonderful, and very, very patient co-host -
DELAYNE : Hi, it’s Delayne!
DARKWICCAN : And we have made it to the thirty episodes, Delayne!
DELAYNE : Woo!
DARKWICCAN : Can you believe it. Oh, my gosh.
DELAYNE : Oh, loud noises.
DARKWICCAN : It is – yes, loud noises. It is incredible. Thirty episodes.
DELAYNE : I feel like I should be wearing a party hat right now.
DARKWICCAN : Right, yeah, we should be wearing party hats, and blowing little y'know party noise makers. Right? I mean – [Delayne laughs] setting off little party poppers, it’s – can you believe it? I am a – I am a – [laughter] yeah.
DELAYNE : When you told me that we were going to be doing this, and you said, on my re-listens you have said you knew we would have plenty to keep going, but did I ever think far enough ahead that we would be to thirty episodes? No, I had not.
DARKWICCAN : No. And the fact of the matter is we could keep going, non-stop, but we need a break to rest our little brains.
[laughter]
DELAYNE : I’ve got a lot more reading to do.
DARKWICCAN : Yeah, and we have a lot more reading to do to get ready for the second season, for sure. So yeah, so this is a little mental health break for us. But, yeah, I think that thirty is a good solid number for a season of episodes.
DELAYNE : Yes.
DARKWICCAN : But guess how many fics we have talked about in thirty episodes?
DELAYNE : Well I happen to know, ‘cause I did some math, but –
DARKWICCAN : Oh, you did? So how many have we talked about? [Delayne laughs] Because I know it’s a lot. It’s more than thirty, obviously.
DELAYNE : Right? Because we’ve had numerous episodes where we’ve kind of had a standard four format, we’ve had episodes with two or three, we’ve had episodes where we’ve focused on just one. But in all the thirty episodes we have talked about eighty-nine individual fics.
DARKWICCAN : Eighty-nine fics?!
DELAYNE : Eighty-nine. Oh, my god.
DARKWICCAN : That is a lot of fics, Delayne.
DELAYNE : I know you’ve read more than that, but – [Delayne laughs]
DARKWICCAN : Yeah, yeah, oh, totally, oh absolutely I’ve read more than that. Oh, my gosh. Wow.
DELAYNE : Yeah –
DARKWICCAN : Eighty-nine.
DELAYNE : - I just made you think about how many that you’ve read now. I mean, your brain just explode a bit.
DARKWICCAN : Yeah. Oh, several hundreds, if not probably close to a thousand, honestly, like, wow. But today we’re here to talk about one fic in particular.
DELAYNE : Yes.
DARKWICCAN : And that is the winner of our EFA Fic Challenge which we issued a little bit ago. The challenge was for authors to submit a fic that was no more than four thousand words, no higher than a T rating, and inspired from the prompt word “rain”. And we received thirty-four submissions, which then we narrowed down to sixteen in a harrowing feat of indecisiveness and hair-pulling. [Delayne laughs] And then we let it go to you, our listeners, and to the readers, to vote over four rounds down to a winner. And it came down to ‘Sunday Morning, Rain Is Falling’ by maidenstar and ‘Necromancy For Beginners’ by sensitive_pigeon. And ultimately sensitive_pigeon’s story emerged victorious.
DELAYNE : Ha ha!
DARKWICCAN : Ha ha! Which means that we will be featuring her story today in this first segment as an audiobook. So we’ve got to wrap up a little bit of housekeeping here, but then we’re gonna turn the segment over to the audiobook for you all to listen to.
DELAYNE : Hey!
DARKWICCAN : And then, as promised, as part of the prize package, in our second segment we will be talking with sensitive_pigeon and her beta, Msfire, to talk about how she came up with story based on the prompt, and see if maybe there’s more in store for us. [CONTENT CENSORED - SEE FULL TRANSCRIPT AT EFAPODCAST.COM] we hope that you will stick with us as we continue forward into our second season.
DELAYNE : Yes.
DARKWICCAN : Yes. Before – and finally, before we dive into the audiobook of ‘Necromancy For Beginners’ by sensitive_pigeon, we have one more thing to do. [CONTENT CENSORED - SEE FULL TRANSCRIPT AT EFAPODCAST.COM] So I hope that everybody enjoys the audiobook –
DELAYNE : I know I did!
DARKWICCAN : - I worked kinda hard on it – you did? Okay. Thank you, thank you, thank you, Delayne, thank you. Appreciate it. So I hope everybody else enjoys it too, and yeah, without further ado, let’s roll it.
[Audiobook of ‘Necromancy For Beginners’ plays - read the fic here- https://archiveofourown.org/works/14637945]
[CONTENT CENSORED - SEE FULL TRANSCRIPT AT EFAPODCAST.COM]
MUSIC : The WTF Paranormal Agency by Sideshow Sound Theatre
DARKWICCAN : Hey everybody and welcome back to the season one finale episode of the Earp Fiction Addiction , the podcast dedicated entirely to Wynonna Earp fanfiction. I am still your host, DarkWiccan, and with me is my co-host –
DELAYNE : Delayne!
DARKWICCAN : And we are back in the second segment to chat with the winner of the EFA Fic Challenge 2018, the person who authored the story that you all got to listen to in the first half of our show today, and her beta. So, welcome back to sensitive_pigeon and Msfire.
MSFIRE : Thank you, hi.
PIGEON : Hello.
DARKWICCAN : So thank you so much, for a couple of reasons. One, for submitting your story to the competition, that was spectacular, obviously, it turned out really, really well. And also for coming back on the show to talk about it.
PIGEON : It was great to write, it was fun.
DARKWICCAN : It was a lot of fun. It was that perfect blend of quirky and kind of – what’s the word I’m looking for – it was that – gosh, help me out here, Delayne. It was a perfect blend of like quirkiness and also kind of – it had an Adams Family feel about it, that’s what I’m looking for. It had an Adams Family feel to it.
DELAYNE : Right, it still was in this dark realm, but the quirkiness, y'know, shined even brighter.
DARKWICCAN : Mhm, yeah. So, the prompt, as you know, the prompt for this competition was just the word “rain”. So what – did the prompt inspire this idea, or was it that you had already kind of had this idea percolating, and it just happened to fit the prompt perfectly?
PIGEON : It happened to fit the prompt. Me and Msfire have had this idea that Waverly would be a necromancer if she had a choice, because of how into history she is, and so I had a little sketch, but it didn’t have any direction whatsoever. So when I got the prompt I realized that it would fit the prompt.
DARKWICCAN : Awesome, so was your initial idea something that could fit into a four thousand word limit, or did you end up having to scale it back pretty drastically to fit? [Msfire laughs] Oh, it sounds like Msfire has a thought on this.
MSFIRE : I don’t think anything Pigeon ever does is really only for four thousand words. She likes to expand.
[laughter]
DARKWICCAN : So, Pigeon, was it easier, was it nice to have a word limit, or did it make things really difficult?
PIGEON : It made things difficult because I had to learn how to, well, write a story that had no action, because if I wrote action into it, it would be too short, so I just had to let it be a fluffy sort of world-building introduction to the world, so. It was hard.
DARKWICCAN : Well I’m both happy and sad that the word limit kind of constrained you to that point, but I think that this does make for a great jumping off point into a larger world if you choose to continue on with this universe that you’ve created.
MSFIRE : Are you gonna tell them? [laughter]
PIGEON : Yeah, I’ll probably –
MSFIRE : You’re gonna tell them?
PIGEON : Am I gonna tell them? Uh… yeah, I’m probably gonna continue it. Depending on how much time I have.
DARKWICCAN : Oh, my gosh, that’s incredible.
DELAYNE : I definitely saw many, many calls for this to be continued. At least many people volunteering that they would gladly read a continuation, and count me amongst those, please.
DARKWICCAN : Oh, me too.
MSFIRE : People seem to really like the idea of them just being more magical, and more on their own adventure, it’s interesting to see how many people really, really like this story.
DARKWICCAN : Well it’s a fantastic story, it’s so – well, it’s terrifically written, but, y'know, that’s no surprise. But it’s delightful, and it does have element of cuteness to it, but it’s a nice kind of Ruby Gloom sort of cuteness. I don’t know if anyone is familiar with the Canadian cartoon Ruby Gloom , but it’s basically strawberry shortcake for emo kids. So – or goth kids. [Delayne laughs]
DELAYNE : What?
DARKWICCAN : Oh, you’re not familiar with Ruby Gloom ? Oh, man, I highly recommend it to everybody, it is one of my all-time favorite cartoon series.
MSFIRE : Cannot say I’m familiar.
PIGEON : No.
DELAYNE : Yeah, you’ve lost all of us.
DARKWICCAN : Well, had to happen eventually, right?
DELAYNE : [laughter] Well, we’ve been lost with Pigeon before, so seems appropriate.
DARKWICCAN : Oh, yeah, so yeah we got lost again, nice, but this time it was my fault. [Delayne laughs] So, Pigeon, what were the most important parts of the story? What story beats did you really feel like you had to make sure that you hit within those four thousand words?
PIGEON : How Nicole thinks how Waverly has always been magic, in a way?
DARKWICCAN : That’s so sweet, yeah.
PIGEON : I think that was really important. I also wanted her to raise a corpse. [Delayne laughs] Because I just thought it was cool, it was a really cool scene to write, and I hope it was fun to read. I wanted to show her doing some magic.
DARKWICCAN : Well, I mean, it is ‘Necromancy For Beginners’, so I just love the fact that not only does she succeed – not only does she raise a corpse, but she ultimately fails the exam, really, even though Curtis was nice and gave her a half credit, y'know, because she raised the corpse, but the corpse didn’t do what her assignment was, which was to speak to her. And then of course he was just – [Delayne laughs] he was just keeping mum the whole time ‘cause he was ticked off at her for waking him up.
DELAYNE : [laughter] Don’t mind me. This story is so great, like, even you just talking about it I’m laughing my ass off.
PIGEON : Well, thank you. I’m glad I could make you laugh.
MSFIRE : I will admit, it cracks me up every time when I hear that part about the Learner’s Permit. It just gets me every time.
DARKWICCAN : Yes. [Delayne laughs] Yeah, absolutely, I love that. “I have a Learner’s Permit from the RCMP”. Just a Learner’s Permit?
MSFIRE : What a perfect deadpan moment.
DARKWICCAN : Yeah. Yeah. Just absolutely, absolutely hilarious. All of the elements of this story – I mean, again, and I think part of what makes them work so well is because you had – you were limited, so you really – every moment had to count, ‘cause you were limited by the word count. And so you have all of these lovely, delightful, clever, hilarious beats that just happen in almost a perfect rhythm with each other throughout. So I just couldn’t stop smiling the entire time I read it the first time through. I did have to get over it in order to record the audiobook, ‘cause a narrator with a smile in their voice doesn’t necessarily work. [laughter] But yeah, it’s just all these clever little moments that all add up to this beautiful little one-shot, I just, I adore this story so much.
PIGEON : Thank you.
DARKWICCAN : Well, you’re welcome. [laughter] You are positively welcome.
DELAYNE : Pigeon, what was your favorite moment to write?
PIGEON : My favorite moment to write has got to be – well, it’s obviously the raising the corpse part. That one took me the most time, and was the most fun to write. But the rest of the story came together after that, but it wasn’t as much fun.
DELAYNE : So that was your starting point -
DARKWICCAN : Wasn’t as much fun?
DELAYNE : - was writing that scene of raising the corpse?
PIGEON : Yes.
DARKWICCAN : Do you know in your head what the deceased gentleman’s name was?
PIGEON : Oh, no, his name is Dead Guy. [Delayne laughs]
DARKWICCAN : His name is Dead Guy, okay. Okay. Not some fantastic, old, Western name like Zebadiah Hawkins, or something?
PIGEON : [laughter] It could be Zebadiah, but no. For now he’s just Dead Guy.
DARKWICCAN : He’s Dead Guy. Did you think about any sort of personal history for Dead Guy? Like who was he before he died, and Waverly disturbed his slumber?
PIGEON : I’m pretty sure he was killed by a vampire. It’s – can I go into a little bit about the world?
DELAYNE : Please tell us more.
PIGEON : Okay, so the reason that Waverly can just raise a corpse and get away with it is because the necromancers are legally able to do their stuff. Everybody is too scared shitless of vampires to really, y'know, question the people who are dedicated to fighting them, so you can sign up for your own corpse to be raised as a servant, and you get to hang out in this cool office building with the necromancers, doing their business.
[laughter]
DARKWICCAN : So it’s like an organ donor program, but it’s more of my corpse donor program?
PIGEON : Yes, absolutely.
DARKWICCAN : And if you were to continue the series, this is kind of the deeper mythology that you’d be digging into?
PIGEON : Yes. [Delayne laughs]
DARKWICCAN : That’s awesome.
DELAYNE : “Digging into”.
DARKWICCAN : Oh, nice one. [laughter] I didn’t even realize what I’d said. It’s always the accidental that one liners that pay off the most.
DELAYNE : Oh, I usually assume that you do these on purpose. That was great.
DARKWICCAN : So, Msfire, what was your favorite moment in the story?
MSFIRE : Honestly, the same thing. That whole conversation where they’re just desperately terrified, and Waverly gets that courage to ask Nicole out, and it’s just so like, “Well, I wouldn’t have had the courage otherwise”. Like, that whole thing is perfect. It really sets up such like a – their perfect of dynamic of this unbelievable terror always around them, but they still always manage to focus on each other.
DARKWICCAN : Yeah, exactly. And I have to agree. I think I’ve got a couple of favorite moments in this story. The first one is when – it is part of the corpse being raised – and the first thing he does is politely tip his hat. [Delayne laughs] Love that moment.
MSFIRE : Just because you’re dead, doesn’t mean you can’t have manners.
DARKWICCAN : Yeah, manners are important. And young folks today forget that. [Delayne laughs] And I also loved the bit with Nicole and Wynonna where Nicole’s like, “Do I know you from somewhere?” and Wynonna’s like, “Nope!”. [Delayne laughs] That –
PIGEON : Yeah, there’s like –
DARKWICCAN : That just makes me want to know more about where, and what, Wynonna had been getting into, that Nicole would have at least in passing glance have run across her path. Probably at the Sheriff’s station.
PIGEON : Yeah, there are a bunch of wanted posters for magical shenaniganry. She’s wanted in all areas of Canada. [laughter]
DELAYNE : We’re getting some fun backstory here, now, this is great.
DARKWICCAN : What inspired the whole notion of necromancers – well, is Nicole, is she a necromancer, at this point? Or is she just –
PIGEON : Nicole?
DARKWICCAN : - like a – no? Okay.
PIGEON : Nicole is, no, she’s not a necromancer. I don’t wanna spoil anything.
DARKWICCAN : Okay, don’t spoil anything. Would it spoil anything to explain why she gets a moose?
PIGEON : No, it wouldn’t spoil anything. So the RCMP they employ mooses. Meese. [Delayne laughs] Meesi. [ph] Moose. Okay. Because, I mean, when you’re fighting a wizard, like, or trying to arrest somebody who’s magically inclined, like a werewolf, or something, your horse is just gonna like not deal with that. So you need something that doesn’t care, so they have magical moose that don’t care about anything, including physics. So – [Delayne laughs]
DARKWICCAN : Gotta love those physics defying moose, I mean.
PIGEON : Yeah. So that’s moose thing. They ride moose.
DARKWICCAN : Okay, so they actually ride the moose?
PIGEON : Yes, they actually ride the moose.
DARKWICCAN : That’s fantastic. I love it so much, because I totally picture the official RCMP supernatural division saddle, probably with some pretty great insignia sorta tooled into the leather, would you say?
PIGEON : Yeah, they have all sorts of special stuff, y'know, wizards love their aesthetics, they’re just theatre kids with magic. [Delayne laughs]
DARKWICCAN : That’s fantastic. [Delayne laughs] As a theatre kid myself, I can agree with that description wholeheartedly. I’m not a wizard, so I can’t y'know confirm on that side of things, but.
DELAYNE : But if you could be..?
DARKWICCAN : Oh yeah, it would all be about the flair, and the wardrobe, and the hand-tooled leather of my moose saddle, for sure. [Delayne laughs]
PIGEON : I mean they absolutely have that, there’s so much, so much.
DARKWICCAN : I – y'know, again, I – y'know, if you continue on in this universe, and it sounds like you are, I’m very excited to learn more about the mythology and the world building that you’ve done, because it sounds like you’ve got a lot of it figured out, and it’s gonna be epic, and delightful.
PIGEON : Thank you, yeah. I actually took – uh, building the world took me about as long as writing the fic itself. So that was a couple weeks.
DARKWICCAN : A couple weeks? And what you made decide, hey, I’m gonna actually entrer this contest?
PIGEON : Well I was really scared, obviously, but I just thought, you know what, I’ll give it a try, hopefully I make it past a few rounds.
DELAYNE : [laughter] How far did you think it would go?
PIGEON : Not very far. I’m pretty competitive, though, so it was always hoping to win.
DARKWICCAN : Well I think that your work absolutely proved your strengths in this competition, for sure, and I knew once you had submitted it, I was like, oh this is gonna be one of the fics to watch, for sure. Honestly, truth, none of us here – y'know, myself, Delayne, and Laragh – we had no idea who, ultimately, was gonna win, because it truly was in the hands of the readers once we posted our top sixteen. So it was a white knuckle ride for us, because we honestly didn’t know what was gonna happen, but I am thrilled that yours is the story that came out on top. I had so much fun recording it. Although I will say that I was nervous about recording it, because your story had the most characters, so I had to come up with unique voices for all of these different characters, whereas some of the other stories only had two or three. So I was like, oh, man. I’m gonna really have to get creative here.
DELAYNE : Well I think you did a fantastic job, DW, so.
DARKWICCAN : Well, thank you, Delayne, I really appreciate that.
MSFIRE : I think that really speaks to Pigeon’s writing as a whole, anyway, she’s more than willing to grab a character and bring them along for the ride, instead of just sticking to the two main characters, and focusing on that. More everybody else to throw away, so their voices don’t really matter.
DARKWICCAN : Yeah, that’s the thing, every single character in this story, as you say, their voices mattered, they were important, they were integral. No one, including the dead guy, was a throw away. [Delayne laughs]
PIGEON : Thank you, yeah, I really wanted to make an effort, and to not have anyone extra. But if they’re included they should have a defined purpose.
DARKWICCAN : A defined purpose, you say?
PIGEON : Yeah.
DARKWICCAN : Yeah, and I think you absolutely succeeded, and really you kind of had an original character with Curtis, because even though he is a canon character, none of us have any idea what he looks like, what he sounds like, what his characteristics were, aside from loving his tomato patch and Gus. So who did you draw inspiration from in creating your Curtis?
PIGEON : I think we do know a lot about Curtis, in how Waverly behaves. I think that speaks to somebody who was patient, and kind, and we do know that he paid for her classes, so he was always supportive of her, in canon. And, yeah, I think we do know a lot about Curtis, because, y'know, from what we can infer about Gus, she’s a bit, y'know, more hard. I think Curtis was the softer one.
DARKWICCAN : Yeah, I’d say that’s a fair assessment, for sure. And that’s always the case with parents, right, it’s a good cop, bad cop – or in this case, it’s an uncle split – but, y'know, the people that raise you, if there are two of them, there’s typically a good cop and a bad cop.
PIGEON : Yeah.
DARKWICCAN : What elements were important to you about your Curtis that you needed to come through in the storytelling?
PIGEON : Well, I needed somebody to teach Waverly. I wanted to give Waverly someone. I wanted to give her family. I wanted to give her something nice. [Delayne laughs] That’s all I wanted. So I just built this character who would be a loving father figure, and just y'know patient, and kind, and stuff. I just really wanted to give her someone nice. To see as a father, instead of Ward.
DARKWICCAN : Yeah. So when you close your eyes and you picture Curtis, what do you – what characteristics do you picture in your mind?
PIGEON : Oh, man. I guess he’s got a little bit of a beard. I mean, it’s just – he’s about Wynonna’s height, he’s not really overweight, he’s more muscular, works with his hands, raising good people and stuff. Probably an older man.
DARKWICCAN : Yeah, yeah, no I completely agree with you, Pigeon. In fact, when I picture Curtis in my mind I picture the actor Burl Ives, from the 1950s and 60s. and I’m sure a lot of folks out there are going, “Whom?” but if you Google Burl Ives, it’s B-U-R-L I-V-E-S, that’s kind of who I picture, and kinda who also who I vocally based my reading of the character on, to a point. I was actually joking with Laragh that ultimately what I ended up doing for Curtis was sort of a combination voice of Morgan Freeman and Sam Eliot, with a dusty of Burl Ives kind of mental imagery thrown in. So I’m hoping that that’s comes through when folks listen back to the story. Anyway.
PIGEON : Yeah, taking a look, that’s pretty close to what I saw, yeah.
DARKWICCAN : Oh, yeah, Burl’s picture? Yeah. Well do you think if EFA holds another competition next year, do you think you’ll come back, if you’re inspired by the prompt?
PIGEON : Next year? Uh –
DARKWICCAN : Oh yeah.
DELAYNE : Wait, this is gonna be a regular thing?
DARKWICCAN : Mhm, yeah, totally. Totally gonna be a regular thing.
PIGEON : Yeah, I might re-enter.
DARKWICCAN : Well I know that I would love to see another entry from yourself and your fantastic beta, msfire. Is it M S Fire? Have I been saying it wrong this whole time?
MSFIRE : Yeah, it’s msfire.
DARKWICCAN : It is msfire, okay. But you answer to both, or?
MSFIRE : I just do anyway, right?
DARKWICCAN : Right? [laughter]
MSFIRE : It’s all text, we barely say our words out loud, right? [Delayne laughs]
DARKWICCAN : That’s true.
DELAYNE : Yeah, the first time I started talking to DW here, like this is so weird, we’re just used to messaging each other back and forth, I hear your voice and that is bizarre now. When we have a week off it’s like, I haven’t talked to you, what’s going on?
DARKWICCAN : [laughter] And now we’re about to have quite a few weeks off, because this is, as we said, the season finale episode of season one for the EFA Podcast , and we’re about to take a couple month break before we come back.
MSFIRE : Well-earned break, lots of good work was done.
DARKWICCAN : Thank you, thank you so much. But before we sign off on this episode, this finale episode, we do have a little bit of business still to take care of. Now, we’ve both asked you before, when you came on to talk about ‘Get Lost’, what your desert island fics were. So we’re not gonna ask that of you again. Instead what we’re going to ask is what is the one type of story that you would love to see written for Wayhaught, but that you yourself feel you couldn’t write? So not necessarily a story that’s been written yet, just a style, or a theme, or a scenario, that you would like to see tackled that you don’t think is in your wheelhouse.
PIGEON : Oh, my god. That’s so hard. That’s a hard-ass question.
DARKWICCAN : It’s the only hard-ball we have.
MSFIRE : You know, I’m not even really a writer, I’m just like a fool who makes jokes sometimes. Like, my like fic was a horror story, and blessed to get it with ‘Get Lost’, to be honest.
DARKWICCAN : Yeah, ‘Get Lost’ is absolutely, positively brilliant.
MSFIRE : Like you said, like horror stories are my like jam, but I never thought I would see one in fic, and ‘Get Lost’ is so amazing. So really ‘Get Lost’ is my answer to that fic.
DARKWICCAN : Okay. Awesome.
DELAYNE : Dream came true. Brilliant.
DARKWICCAN : That works for me.
PIGEON : I think –
MSFIRE : Seriously.
PIGEON : Oh, fuck. Oh, my god, this is so hard. Oh, my god. Family fics, family, about families and stuff. Oh, my god, can I recommend a good one, please? Please?
DARKWICCAN : Of course you can.
PIGEON : Thank you! I wanna recommend – his name is awol_newt, but online, oh, my god, hang on, please…
DARKWICCAN : alesford?
PIGEON : Yes! Alesford! Alesford. ‘The Angel’. Just – incredible. It’s just incredible, okay? Gotta read it. So those types of fics I can’t write myself, but I fucking love ‘em.
DARKWICCAN : Yeah, in fact they have – alesford has series dedicated to that, right? Or if it’s not actually – yeah, ‘our family of choice’.
MSFIRE : Yeah!
DARKWICCAN : Yeah, the ‘our family of choice’ series.
PIGEON : Yes.
MSFIRE : Yes.
PIGEON : Yes.
DARKWICCAN : Yeah, alesford was kind of – I know that they’ve dedicated a story or two to you, from that series. They actually did dedicated a story to the podcast as well, which was very, very sweet. So yeah, we’re huge fans of alesford here on the podcast.
DELAYNE : Yes.
DARKWICCAN : Yes. So I think that’s a fantastic recommendation –
PIGEON : It’s incredible.
DARKWICCAN : - for us to close out the season with.
DELAYNE : [laughter] So everyone who loves Pigeon, write Pigeon some nice happy family fic.
DARKWICCAN : Yes.
PIGEON : Thank you, I would appreciate it.
DARKWICCAN : So, yeah, ‘cause you need some sort of alternative to the subject matter that is what you typically tend to write, which is the darker sort of horror-driven storylines.
MSFIRE : Hey, we’re nice to everybody in ‘180’.
DARKWICCAN : Oh, ‘180’ is delightful. ‘180’ is a delight. [Delayne laughs]
PIGEON : Let’s not talk about the next chapter.
MSFIRE : Yeah, no.
DARKWICCAN : We won’t.
PIGEON : And how hard that one’s gonna go.
DARKWICCAN : But thank you both so much for coming back on the show to chat about ‘Necromancy For Beginners’. It’s been wonderful talking with you again, I was absolutely thrilled when I saw the submission come through initially in the fic challenge. I am so overwhelmingly happy for you that it made all the way to the top. It was so much fun to record, and I just look forward to every new story that you bless us with, Pigeon. You just, you have got a real talent, my dear.
PIGEON : Thank you very much, that means a lot to me.
DELAYNE : I was excited to talk to you again, because I mean, we’ve had people on more than once, but that was generally like as betas, or they did a collaborative fic. You are our first repeat author.
PIGEON : Thank you.
DELAYNE : So I was happy to see that you won, and we got to talk to you again.
DARKWICCAN : And msfire thank you for coming back on, and thank you for all the work that you do to support Pigeon and the other authors that you beta for, if there are any. I’m sure there are. But it really, again, we always talk about how important betas are, because even when you have an incredible talent, like Pigeon obviously has, it’s always nice to have that extra set of eyes to kind of watch your back and make sure that everything is – the story’s being told the way the author is intending for it to be.
MSFIRE : Yeah, ‘course, happy to do it.
PIGEON : Yeah, thank you msfire.
DARKWICCAN : Yeah, you’re lucky, you get to see a sneak preview of Pigeon’s work before the rest of us get to see the final product. I’d say that’s a darn lucky position to be in.
MSFIRE : Absolutely.
PIGEON : Oh, god, she sees the worst shit. She sees the –
MSFIRE : Sometimes your diamonds in the rough just need some love.
PIGEON : She has seen some crazy shit.
[laughter]
DARKWICCAN : Oh, man, if only we could provide out-takes of fics, right?
MSFIRE : Yeah, there is some ‘Necromancy’ stuff that just – wild.
PIGEON : I did post it, I did post it on my ko-fi, if you wanna go to my ko-FI :.
DARKWICCAN : Oh, yeah, that’s right, everybody, Pigeon does have a ko-fi. That’s k-o dash f-i dot com?
PIGEON : Yes.
DARKWICCAN : It is slash sensitive-pigeon? Or sensitive underscore pigeon?
PIGEON : Slash – uh – let me check. Yeah, ko-fi slash sensitivepigeon, no space, no underscore. Sensitivepigeon.
DARKWICCAN : Okay, so, ko-fi, that’s k-o dash f-I, correct?
PIGEON : Yes.
DARKWICCAN : dot com, slash sensitivepigeon. Awesome. So, everybody, take a couple minutes out of your day, and go and buy sensitive pigeon a cup of coffee, because –
PIGEON : Oh, thank you.
DARKWICCAN : - or a cup of tea, sweet tea, specifically. [Delayne laughs] It is absolutely worthwhile, because the rewards you get in return are fantastic, and those rewards are incredible storytelling, and the knowledge that you are supporting a delightful individual and her bird.
PIGEON : Thank you. Bird seed costs a lot. Like, you wouldn’t believe.
[laughter]
DARKWICCAN : Pigeons are – hey, birds are expensive. I mean the see alone.
PIGEON : Enyo cost me thirty dollars. Thirty whole dollars.
DARKWICCAN : But that was just to adopt him, right?
PIGEON : Yes.
DARKWICCAN : Okay, so the ongoing care is a constant cost. I’m trying to get people to give you money, Pigeon, work with me here.
PIGEON : I’m sorry, I’m sorry.
[laughter]
DARKWICCAN : Okay, but I think that’s enough from us for today. Thank you everyone who has tuned in to listen to us for this first season. Please enjoy the rest of Wynonna Earp season three. We will be back at the end of October 2018. And just remember to read more fic.
MUSIC : Don't Deal with the Devil by Kristoffer Madigan
DARKWICCAN : And that's all for Season One of the Earp Fiction Addiction. Thanks for joining us.
Huge thanks to our incredible lead transcriber: Flying Fanatic. And to our fantastic volunteer back-up transcribers: Climb, MrsBlueBacon and Jordan R Theilman. Thanks also to our announcer Byron Tidwell for our intro
Background music for the episode was: A Proper Story by Darren Korb; Vagrant Song (Northwest) by Ryan Ike; The WTF Paranormal Agency by Sideshow Sound Theatre; and the outro music is Don't Deal with the Devil by Kristoffer Madigan.
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