Love, Love, Love

[pennyplainknits]

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So, a lot of us (and by us, I mean podfic artists/readers) have been feeling really sad and tired and dispirited lately. Something that had been fun, has become for many people a source of stress and doubt.

I think we could all do with a little love. And while I may not be able to get over my own Issues, I can at least hopefully show all the podfic artists out there that what they do is valued and loved. Humans are story telling creatures, and what we do is part of that tradition. We are sitting round virtual campfires, telling stories to the dark. And, while we may not see our audience, there are at least fewer bugs.

So, inspired by brimtoast I bring you the Podfic Artist Love Meme!

How-to!
1) Post your name below in a comment
2) Snag a banner to promote it in your own journal
3) People reply to your comment to tell you how AWESOME you are!
4) Profit! Ummm... you bask in the warm glow of love for your performaces :)


This hopefully goes without saying, but this is a love meme. There is a time and a place for crit (for those that welcome it), but this isn't it.




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Pimp far, pimp wide, including in any other podfic comms you might be a member of! And if you want to play on LJ too, the post is here!

Comments

[thingswithwings]

well, someone's got to start off the DW version, I suppose! Thank you so much for setting this up, Penny. <3

thingswithwings

[telesilla]

I've only listened to the two fics you read for KB, but what really struck me about them was the way you strike a really nice balance between being too breathless and rushed because zomg sex and being too distant because zomg sex. If that makes sense. :) I also like your pacing.

[toft]

I love your podfics, buddy! You bring the emotions of stories out so well for me, and you know how I like emotions. I love your pace, and your hilarious music choices, and the way you do the coughing and sighing and laughing and husky voices where appropriate! I listened to 'All These Places', that one by torch, and 'Kiss Nine Times' for ages and ages, and now I listen to 'Normal Working Relationship' constantly. Also I like your tendency to record my fic. Um. But I do love your podfics very much :)

[reginagiraffe]

I just saw a couple of your vids at con.txt this weekend and they were among the best of the lot. *love* And 'James Bondage' was the clear winner if you went by the amount and enthusiasm of audience reaction.

\o/

ETA: And I just realized this was a *podfic* love meme. Oops.

[chagrined]

I nominate you for best use of a ruler in podfic.

[pennyplainknits]

You're welcome!

I didn't want to start this one too, that felt a bit like comment-whoreing :-P

[lunate8]

"All These Places..." breaks me every time, with all the emotion you put into it. I find myself holding my breath sometimes when I listen to "Call Soft Enough" because of the anticipation in your reading -- you make the pacing amazingly sensuous!

[livrelibre]

You know I always like hearing your voice:) And the pacing and emotion you bring to stories is a delight!

[nextian]

Why has this taken so long? Only god knows. I find your voice superlatively comforting, maybe the best voice of all the ones in my library to listen to to go to sleep, or just to make me smile, consistently. You've got wonderful character and you're always easy to understand, and I'm so glad you read podfic.

[anatsuno]

I feel a little bad 'cos I have to go take T'wings on a tour to see many churches in one day, so I only have the time to put my name down and won't comment to others just yet - but hey. Gotta start this rolling, yeah? I look forward to lavishing lotsa love on others. Thank you for a great idea! <3

anatsuno

Man, I need to make myself a podfic icon already! Tsk.

[glittertine]

First, there was Sabotage. It makes me grin like a loon just to think of it. Sabotage was, I think, my introduction to podfic - it felt like podporn, actually - and I think this was before we met IRL, so your voice just blew me away. Seriously, I could embarrass myself in this space writing about how much I LOVE your voice and the way you read (and read porn, GUH). There are still some quotes from Sabotage that I still hear in your voice when I hear the same words in different context sometimes - the counting down, the way you say Elijah - even though I haven't listened to Sabotage in more than five years. ^_^

And then, it was even luckier that we shared a fandom in SGA and you read so, so much. I can't even say what my favourite story read by you is, because anything read by you is automatically a favourite. I looked at my audiobooks by ana list and tried to pick, and it's certainly The Group-W Bench that's been played most often. But there are so many more that I love!

Plus, I love your attitude when it comes to podfic'ing. But you know that. :D

[anatsuno]

Awww, Sabotage love! I have much of it myself. <333

[telesilla]

I could listen to you all day and night! In fact, I have. :) I listen to a lot of podfic when I have really intense migraines and can't do anything but lie in a dark room listening to spoken word. There's something about your voice and delivery that works perfectly at times like that. It's soothing but not at all boring or monotone and it always makes me feel like you're sitting there reading to me. Of course I don't just listen to your podfic when I'm all migrainey; sometimes I listen and stitch.

I think the other reason there are so many of your podfics on my iPod is that I like what you choose to record. You don't shy away from porn and you like a lot of the same "classics" that I do. Also, I like your pacing.

[anatsuno]

Soothing but not boring or monotone is omg exactly what I love about the podfic of others - it's so good to hear that I manage it too! I'm glad you enjoy my choices, too. :D *hugs*

[dodificus]

If you ever get tired of translating for money? You could make a *killing* in the phone sex industry, your voice just *drips* sex. It's just so lush and sexy and *seductive*. I think the 'I Hear Bells' series was where I first fell in love with your voice, the one with John/Rodney/Cadman. The things is, you don't even *try* to be sexy, I think you could read me *anything* and I'd be ridiculously turned on.

[cesperanza]

THIS. <3

[anatsuno]

I AM BLUSHING NOW! :D

[anatsuno]

Eeeeeeeeee. I can't lie, I love feedback like this, hahaha, but I don't quite know how to answer it! Except with mebbe more recorded porn in the future. :>

[toft]

I listen to your podfics alllllllllllllll the time. You have such a mellow, smooth voice and intonation, and I love that you record shorter stories, which are ideal for me falling asleep. I've listened to your recording of punk's That Particular Month stories approximately 1 billion gajillion times, because you bring out the sexiness and sweetness and gentle humour of them so well.

[anatsuno]

I have such great love for That Particular Month, it made me super happy to share it in that way. <3

I have made a note in my files a while ago that you love shorter stuff for falling asleep, as well as stories dealing with food and sleep. Some day all this data will probably lead to a podfic tailored-recorded for you... *g*

[kate]

Your podfics make up more than half of my 'favorites' list. <3<3<3

[anatsuno]

This make me really happy! <333

[pennyplainknits]

I love your reading of 'Tabled'! It's so cute and funny, and you really bring the inanimate objects to life

[anatsuno]

Hee, I feel like I just hit upon the perfect idea for a sound effect/filter that day! I'm pleased you enjoy it so. :D

[thingswithwings]

I have had your voice with me on buses, on planes, in libraries, in bed, walking around town, doing housework, working out, cooking dinner . . . you are often the soundtrack to my life! I adore your pretty voice and your approach to storytelling - the way you always make me feel like you're sharing something with me, sharing your love of the story or the delight you feel in telling me a story. OMG I love your podfics so much! I cannot tell you this often enough. I listen to The Group-W Bench for comfort, and Fun With Comas for heartbreak, and Feeding Frenzy for the sheer hotness of it, and That Particular Month for cheering up, and Term of Service for cuddling into a story, and and and! Your Rodney voice in particular - oh my goodness, your Rodney voice! - makes me grin like this: -> :D :D :D (especially when he is outraged!Rodney, as in Read My Mind at the end). %hearts;

[anatsuno]

*GRINS LIKE THIS RIGHT BACK AT YOU!*

[aphelant]

Aaaah, HI! I don't listen to podfic very much or very often, but Amnesiac was the first of yours that I ever listened to and is one that has remained on my iPod ever since. You just make it so bloody charming, it's irresistible! It's at the top of my go-to pile for when I need a podfic that will make me smile!

[anatsuno]

I'm glad, considering how much your own recordings make me smile! Loser is still at the top of my favorites, you know. I would gladly listen to you read anything. Talk about charming!! <33

[xylohypha]

I really really enjoy listening to you read. Hearing the words in a slightly different cadence than I would usually hear in my daily life makes me hear them that much more clearly--and there's just something about your voice that feels good.

I've listened to "Amnesiac" so many times that I hear it in your voice in my mind's ear even when I re-read it off the screen. I've also enjoyed your work on "A Beautiful Lifetime Event", "The Group-W Bench", and "Four Boots, Five Thousand Two Hundred And Eighty Feet".

Thank you so much for sharing the results of all your time and effort in creating these readings.

[anatsuno]

You are very welcome! It's lovely to know how people enjoy my occasional company in their ears. :D

[lunate8]

Your voice and reading are amazing. The sexy stories and the funny stories and the serious stories -- all awesome! My favorite memory is of hearing you read "The Group-W Bench" while I was waiting for a (late) evening bus in the falling snow. Not that I was stranded in a storm or anything, like the characters in the story, but your podfic was a comfort (listening to hot action on a cold night ;) ).

[anatsuno]

Naw, specific listening-memories are awesome! Thank you for sharing yours with me. I'm flattered. :)

[livrelibre]

I love your voice and your delivery! Read My Mind is playing right now:)

[anatsuno]

*delighted grin* Thank you!

[cantarina]

I've just listened to you for the first time; I really enjoyed your reading of "Amnesiac" - there's a lovely soothing quality to it and a particular life lent to the tale in your inflections. I look forward to listening to more as I get deeper into SGA!

[wintercreek]

wintercreek (Audiofic Archive link)

[thingswithwings]

I only have one podfic by you, Rebuilding Babel, but I'm not actually sure why that is, because I adore your reading of that story and really should listen to more things you have read! But I just re-listened to Rebuilding Babel on the train the other day, for the eighty bazillionth time, and it's still faaaabulous - your character voices are subtle and feel right to me, and I just get so sucked into the story, mainly because your pacing is so perfect. Many many <3s!

[mific]

I love your recording of Rebuilding Babel, as you convey Rodney's despair and panic when he loses language so well and with such feeling. I have the Convocation too which is also a great story - must get your other podfics.

[shiningartifact]

I don't think that anyone even knows me on DW, but here I am all the same:

shiningartifact

&hearts

[risha]

You're one of my favorite readers! Your readings are clear and natural and, most importantly, expressive. I liked "New Rule" especially.

[shiningartifact]

Thank you so much for this! I try really hard to be expressive with my reading and showcase the author's words, so it means a lot that you would make note of that. Thanks for taking the time to spread the podfic love (especially on DW - I seriously didn't think that this thread would get any comments at all. I just assume that nobody knows me on DW)!

&hearts&hearts&hearts

[mific]

I love podfic. I live out in the bush and commute around NZ as well so I drive and ride planes a lot, and I have no idea what's happening in the world these days cause I never hear the news, I just listen to podfic! So many great readers above like penny and dodi and anatsuno, and a lot of you are writers as well as readers like thingswithwings and toft. I just love it all, so big hugs for everyone.