Verbal amplirecathon post; theme: stories I have never read before

[lunchee]

oh god. it's still the 21st somewhere in the world, right??

Introduction:

(Podfic is a way for me to listen to stories I might never read myself, through the emotional lens of a reader who really cares for it. I enjoy this experience thoroughly. All my recs are podfics of stories I have never read [+1 that I have], sometimes in fandoms I'm not in, sometimes in things I have not even seen.

I have done a podcast for each rec, where I flail about about how much about how much I like it and why, and also include little clips of each podfic, which you can stream directly, download individually, or download the whole lot in m4b format. Enjoy!)

The recs:

1. Forty-six and two || 58mins|| Download || read by fire_juggler || Teen Wolf || Derek Hales/Stiles Stilinski

Download the podcast rec
Long story short: Try it! It gives you an interesting viewpoint into transgender issues; you will like it!


2. Some Victory || 44mins || Download || read by cookiemom6067 || Star Trek Reboot || Kirk/Spock

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Long story short: Try it! It is funny and about rock stars, you will like it!

3. 5 Times Darren Tried to make Chris stop Smoking || 1hr40 || Download || read by adistantsun || Glee RPF || Darren Criss/Chris Colfer

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Long story short: Try it! It is super charming and might help you quite smoking, also there is a lot of smut; you will like it!

4. The progress of Sherlock Holmes || 7hrs45|| Download || read by cellardoorpodfic || Sherlock BBC || Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, John Watson/Mary Morstan

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Long story short: Try it! It will actually make you like 1st person point of view; you will like it!

5. a thousand threads of what might have beens || 2hrs40 || Download || read by revolutionaryjo || Sherlock BBC || Sherlock Holmes/John Watson

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Long story short: Try it! It has amazing sound design and jo is cool! You will like it!

6. In Our Line of Work || 1hr40 || Download || read by crinklysolution and podcath || Inception || Eames/Arthur

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Long story short: Try it if you enjoy super competent characters! You will like it!

7. Written by the Victors|| 5hrs30 || Download || read by a village of podficcers || Stargate: Atlantis || John Shepperd/Rodney Mckay, John Shepperd/ Teyla Emmagen

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Long story short: Try it! I have never seen SGA and know nothing about it, but this is literally the best podfic I have ever heard. You will like it!

8. The Ebb of the Sea || 30mins || Download || read by fire_juggler || Teen Wolf || Derek Hales/Stiles Stilinski

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Long story short: Try it if you enjoy fairytales/fables! Selkies! You will like it!


And one rec for a podfic of a story that I had read before:

9. Famous on the Internet || 5mins || Download || read by juice817 || Supernatural RPF || Jared Padalecki/Jensen Ackles

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Long story short: Try it! It is about a celebrity who trolls the internet. You will like it!



Download all the podcast recs in one m4b (30MB, 1hr).

Thanks for listening!

Comments

[erica_schall]

Oh, thank you, finally someone recced cellardoor's 'The progress...'. This is actually one of the two podfics that for me stood out the most in Sherlock fandom over the past year (and a first time podficcer to boot!). Absolutely amazing!

[lunchee]

Yeah, it's spectacular! I haven't really checked out the rest of amplirec yet, but I'm surprised 'The progress' hasn't been recced all over the shop. What was the other sherlock pod that you had in mind?

[erica_schall]

The other one is verityburns' The Heart In The Whole. This will have a special place in my heart forever!

[lunchee]

Ah yes! It's always great fun to hear author's perform their own writing :D

[anatsuno]

ooh thank you! I love doing this too, listening in fandoms that I don't know / to stories I wouldn't read. I will give some of those a try, most definitely! :)

Some corrections for your Written by the Victors listing: John's surname is Sheppard, and Teyla's is Emmagen.

[lunchee]

Ack, thank you for pointing those out to me! I really wasn't kidding about not knowing anything about SGA. Serves me right for rushing to put this out before going to bed...

Pretty much all my podfic listening is to stories I've never read before, and most of them in fandoms I don't read. I don't actually get to listen to all that much though, and the quantity of podfic has really boomed in the last year (or is that just me?) so there is so much that I miss! (I'm really glad during amplirec people point out older works that I missed out on!) I hope you do like the ones you check out!

[podcath]

Oh, I wish you'd point out more that you actually have a podcast for your podfic recs. I wasn't sure what it was when I d'loaded it, but I'm so glad I did!

And I really like the emphasis on podfic for fandoms you may not know and for stories you've never read. I really like relistening to a story I liked but I think I like getting introduced to a new story even better. And if I know there is a podfic (or there will be one) I try to wait...

So much yes to Forty-six and two. I was so worried about fail, and then it just stayed careful and compassionate, and fire juggler's reading is great. And thanks for reccing Crinkly's and my podfic. I love BAMF!Arthur, and dream work offers so many false memories, road not taken variations.

Great recs and a great theme! thanks :)

[lunchee]

I'm sorry I didn't make it clear /o\ I went back and edited as soon as I could after getting this comment, so hopefully it helped later people who read it. Thanks so much for dl-ing it anyway, and I'm chuffed you liked it, yay!

if I know there is a podfic (or there will be one) I try to wait...

Oh my god, YES. If there is podfic, I am so there! I love how readers bring their interpretation to the table, and with how quick some readers are, the wait sometimes is not very long at all! Mostly though, my podfic habits are all about readers or eye catching summaries. Because I am easy.

Forty-six and two was such a pleasant surprise! I kind of relate TW in my head to more crack than serious business, but the podfic reading and writing was wonderfully enjoyable, even while being quite sombre in nature most of the time. And like I said, inception is not my usual cup of tea, but in combination with who was reading AND the very enticing summary, I was all ears :D It was wonderful work guys, I really enjoyed it!

[podcath]

I cannot believe how quick some readers are. But yes, in most cases I'll actually prefer the podfic. i do like to *read* extremely experimental stories and ones that jump in time a lot (though i've asked someone else to read the different time in a couple of fics to mark the difference).

And yes, TW tends to be and produce crack, but then we've always been great at changing genres from the source text--romance out of cops and scifi; drama out of comedy and vice versa...the beauty of fandom!!!

[lunchee]

i do like to *read* extremely experimental stories

Same! Somehow they're more fulfilling for me to make rather than stories that are straightforward prose. It actually feels weird for me not do anything beyond putting in a music intro/outro. Maybe this mean I'm growing as a person/podficcer?!?

we've always been great at changing genres from the source text...the beauty of fandom!!!

We really are! We're also pretty good at exploring the genre and extrapolating from the source text too, I think. I guess fandoms just got everything covered :D

[sentential]

Listening to your podcast version now and it's really charming. You make me want to listen to all your recs - even if the summaries/fandoms of some of them didn't initially appeal. Thank you for getting me excited about podfic I wouldn't otherwise have listened to! :D

[lunchee]

Thank you for getting me excited about podfic I wouldn't otherwise have listened to!

YESSSSS. This is exactly my intention and I am pleased and punch that you have fallen for my evil plan >:D

Thank you for giving the podcast a listen, I'm so happy you find it charming! And didn't stop listening! You're awesome.

[hardboiledbaby]

Totally seconding your Sherlock BBC picks; it was great to hear you put into words all the flaily!squee I feel for these recordings :)

[lunchee]

Thank you! I'm really glad you think I did a good job :> Mostly when I listen to myself talk, I can only hear how many times I say 'um' and 'ah' ::shaking my head like whoa::

[adistantsun]

I might have kinda maybe sort of just literally SQUEALED!

I'm so, so glad you enjoyed my one venture into Glee podfic and thank you sososososo much for the rec! 8D


and yeah, the giggles were deliberate, largely because there was no way I could have stopped them XD

[lunchee]

TEE HEE HEE.

I am so, so glad you ventured into Glee at the exact moment when I was into Glee! Your reading is of course, utterly charming, and I am very happy to pass my squee about it along to others :D

Your giggles are infectious. INFECTIOUS.

[fire_juggler]

This was an amazing rec post!!! I absolutely loved listening to it!! (Ok, I would probably love listening to you read the phone book, so there's that, but still...). It was really delightful to listen to you talk about these podfics and I was so amazed to be included. Thank you so much!!!! I totally second Written by the Victors, and now I'm off to download just about everything else!!! ♥

[lunchee]

I'm so happy you listened to it!! :D :D :D (And I'm sorry, no matter how much people seem to want me to read phone books, I have to respectfully decline.) Victors is so A M A Z I N G, and I don't think I'll be able to ever get over it's awesomeness EVER. I hope you enjoy the pods too ♥

In doing this rec post, I actually discovered something about myself: pretty much all of my preferred readers have smooth, soothing reading styles (pretty much the opposite of how I think of my reading style!! I'm so contrary.) and as such, I am completely unsurprised that you're in the list twice. I love your voice and reading style! It is really great for me :D

[yue_ix]

Downloading these! =D My experience of podfics is mostly like yours, with a good 90% of podfics being things I've never checked out before. It makes it all the more jarring when there's no content notes provided, but the constant amazement is worth it.

I'm *so glad* you've liked Written By The Victors, and that you've enjoyed it as much as I do. ISN'T IT AWESOME? It was one of my first podfics ever, and now you know why I've been pining for collaborations forever. All the collabs all the time ftw. (In the same train of thoughts, I've been harvesting a deep desire for a similar take being done in Merlin fandom for about as long, ahahah). I disagree with you on being spoiled for the 'true' version of events in this story, and I thought that the read-aloud medium particularly highlighted that: those bits are just another voice, with no less or more power to them. Those Rodney/John POV are just as biased as the rest of them, and give one version, but reality doesn't have a truth, it only has perception, and theirs could be as valid or not as everyone else's. Does that make sense? Like, I loved how the fact that this is all read strips the format even further of "books bits", "other pov bits" and "main bits", and puts everyone's truths on the same footing. There's voices you wouldn't know if they are direct or remote sources until you get to the references! Every time I re-listen to that podfic it's one of the many things that strikes me as brilliant with it.
(I also always just sit there and listen to all the credits go by because I'm so captivated by this world by then, btw. Weee.)

I love your audio recs, and the extracts, and the titles being bits from the podfic itself. Great samples! =D

[lunchee]

It makes it all the more jarring when there's no content notes provided

You make me so aware of this kind of stuff ♥ I will make sure to be better about my header info in the future too ;)

VICTORS IS SO AMAZING *______* Thank you so, so much for reccing it to me!! AH!! AHHHH!! It is everything I never knew I wanted and it was AMAZEBALLS. Is there a Merlin fic you can think of that would take on the collab aspect as well as Victors? Because there are definitely enough podficcers who would be interested in participating in it!

those bits are just another voice, with no less or more power to them

Definitely, but that it is given without opposing character POVs, like Teyla? Or the assassin who McKay intercepts! Gives it more credibility, especially because they are usually placed before/after all the academic accounts. So while I believe all the academics are on the same footing, I don't find it so for the story narrative parts, which takes away some of the mystique for me that was built up by the academic theories. It's still unbelievably brilliant of course, but that's just how I feel. (I'm so happy I am not the only one who listened to the index! XD)

It was really fun to put the extracts together, but it's too bad that my reactions are so ramble-y! I'm pleased you liked it despite that though, thank you bb ♥

[luzula]

I listened to your podcast and it made me download three podfics in fandoms I don't know at all! So I think you have been successful in your reccing, is what I'm trying to say. : )

[lunchee]

\o/ \o/ \o/ SCOOOORE! \o/ \o/ \o/

I am SO PLEASED you downloaded those podfics despite my verbal flailings! Oh, it's all I've ever wanted in life :') I hope you enjoy listening to them as much as I did!

[luzula]

Oh, and also: I just listened to Pairing: Pendragon/Merlin even though it's not my fandom at all, and I enjoyed it a lot! It was adorable. Also, that must've been so much work with all the sound effects. It really worked, though.

[lunchee]

:D

Thank you for giving it a go despite the unfamiliar fandom barrier! It was a lot of work to put together, but it was very satisfying when it was all finished. I'm so glad you liked it \o/