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Re-upload of "Learning Curve", by Lyrstzha (Firefly, Inara/Saffron)

2013-05-13T15:05:13Z

Posted by: luzula

There was chunk of about two minutes missing in the file of this podfic (originally posted here), so if you downloaded it and was confused, here's a fixed version. Archivist, can you re-upload to the archive? New running time is 38 m 46 s.

Link to new file here.

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Foreign Territory, by Aristide (due South)

2013-05-12T19:42:05Z

Posted by: luzula

Title: Foreign Territory
Author: Aristide (cimmerians)
Reader: luzula
Fandom: due South
Pairing: Fraser/Kowalski
Rating: NC-17
Length: 1 h 59 m 13 s
Author's summary: Ray wants a bologna sandwich. Smut ensues.
Notes: Recorded for malnpudl's birthday! Thanks to andeincascade for the beta, and thanks to podfic_lover for making covers and a podbook. This is a classic story in the fandom, and I had so much fun recording it. ♥

Download or stream mp3: part 1 and part 2.
Download m4b.

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due South podfic + due South/Dresden Files podfic

2013-04-30T14:07:01Z

Posted by: luzula

Title: Puzzle Pieces
Author and reader: luzula
Fandom: due South
Pairing: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski, Maggie MacKenzie/Frannie Vecchio, Maggie MacKenzie/Ray Kowalski, Benton Fraser/Frannie Vecchio, Bob Fraser/Buck Frobisher, Bob Fraser/Caroline Fraser, Caroline Fraser/OFC, Buck Frobisher/OFC
Rating: NC-17
Length: 48 m 03 s
Author's summary: Sedoretu AU. Glimpses from the marriage of Fraser, Ray K, Maggie, and Frannie.
Notes: I swear I didn't write this just to get tons of points (but yeah, all right, that is the reason I recorded it *g*). I promise the pairings are all relevant to the story! These eight pairings make up two sedoretu, which is a specific kind of group marriage--it might help to read the definition before listening.

Download or stream here.
Alternative download link

Points: (5 + 5 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 5 + 10 + 10 + 10)*4 = 300

Title: One Warm Line
Author: melannen
Reader: luzula
Fandom: due South/Dresden Files
Pairing: Maeve and Ray Kowalski gen
Rating: G
Length: 26 m 24 s
Author's summary: Ray Kowalski meets the Winter Lady. And the Winter Lady meets Ray Kowalski.
Notes: Wow, I love this story, and it was a pleasure to read, too.

Download or stream here.
Alternative download link

Points: (5 + 5 + 5 + 5)*3 = 60

Total points for this post: 360

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The Maenad of the Maquis, by rthstewart (Narnia)

2013-04-30T13:37:46Z

Posted by: luzula

Title: The Maenad of the Maquis
Author: rthstewart
Reader: luzula
Fandom: Narnia books
Pairing: Peter Pevensie/OFC
Rating: R
Length: 1 h 42 m 24 s
Author's summary: "He who loves not wine, women and song remains a fool his whole life long." Former High King of Narnia and current RAF Flight Officer Peter Pevensie is not a fool.
Notes: This is a story about Peter in WWII occupied France. It was a joy to record, and it was fun to read some French, too. The songs used are "Blueberry Hill" with Louis Armstrong, and "How High the Moon", "You Go To My Head", and "Body and Soul" with Ella Fitzgerald. I didn't include the long research notes at the end, but you can check them out at the link above. Thanks to andeincascade for the beta!

Download or stream here.
Alternative download link

Points: (5 + 10)*5 = 75

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This Body is Someone, by lalejandra (due South)

2013-04-07T15:17:38Z

Posted by: luzula

Title: This Body is Someone
Author: lalejandra
Reader: luzula
Fandom: due South
Pairing: Margaret Thatcher/Francesca Vecchio
Rating: PG
Length: 27 m 37 s
Author's summary: A pair of spectacular vegan Fluevogs encrusted with ethically-mined Canadian diamonds is on display at the Canadian Consulate, and Frannie is taking point when it comes to protecting them during a party--and it's the night of her 18-month anniversary with Meg.
Notes: Recorded for julii_wolfe in the due South podfic exchange.

Download or stream here.

Points: (5+10)*3 = 45

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Force Majeure, by astolat (American Revolution RPF)

2013-04-02T09:46:09Z

Posted by: luzula

Title: Force Majeure
Author: astolat
Reader: luzula
Fandom: American Revolution RPF (listed as "revolutionary era figures (united states)" in the audiofic archive)
Pairing: Alexander Hamilton/George Washington
Rating: R
Length: 1 h 8 m 54 s
Author's summary: All the awkwardness of seeking a volunteer for an attempt, which every soldier was convinced was as good as asking a man to cast away his life to no purpose, naturally recommended Colonel Hamilton's offer; in any case, Washington allow'd himself to be persuaded, and the operation was carried out an hour later, in a deserted and fallow field some half a mile from the encampment.

Notes: This was fun to read! It's basically historical slash, only with magic, and you don't need any background knowledge.

Download or stream here.

Points: (5+10)*4 = 60 (I was 66 seconds from the next length bonus...*sigh*)

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Demons and Pilgrims, All in Accord, by zeldadestry (3:10 to Yuma)

2013-03-30T14:03:10Z

Posted by: luzula

Title: Demons and Pilgrims, All in Accord
Author: zeldadestry
Reader: luzula
Fandom: 3:10 to Yuma
Pairing: Dan Evans/Ben Wade, Dan Evans/Alice Evans
Rating: R
Length: 49 m 15 s
Author's summary: "All these hours I been at your side," he said, soft and slow, "I was thinking you crowned yourself the most righteous man under the sun. But that ain't it at all. That ain't it at all."
Notes: Thanks to green_grrl for help with the Spanish pronunciation (although any remaining errors are of course my fault).

Download or stream here.

Points: (5+10+10)*4 = 100

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"Learning Curve", by Lyrstzha (Firefly)

2013-03-29T17:20:43Z

Posted by: luzula

Title: Learning Curve
Author: lyrstzha
Reader: luzula
Fandom: Firefly
Pairing: Inara/Saffron
Rating: NC-17
Length: 36 m 33 s
Author's summary: There has to be a reason Saffron was staking out a place as unlikely as Triumph, and that reason is a long and winding road.
Notes: Thanks to amoama and her friend DerShin for helping out with the Mandarin pronunciation! I'm probably still mispronouncing it, but wow, it's hard to try to keep the tones right when the phrase is embedded into an English sentence.

Download or stream here.

Points: (5+10)*3 = 45

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"Turns of Tempest", by Luzula (due South, Fraser/Victoria)

2013-03-22T15:25:13Z

Posted by: luzula

Title: Turns of Tempest
Author and reader: luzula
Fandom: due South
Pairing: Fraser/Victoria
Rating: NC-17
Length: 46 m 11 s
Author's summary: In the end, she couldn't do it. All that planning, all the nights Victoria had spent in prison daydreaming about how she'd bring him down--when she was faced with the reality of betraying Benton Fraser, she couldn't do it. Even though he'd betrayed her, all those years ago.

Notes: In a way, this is as close as I could get to a happy Fraser/Victoria story? It's still not happy on the whole, but it's less angsty than the canon version of events.

Download or stream here.

Points: (5+5)*4 = 40

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Sixteen Days in September, by Tevere (Generation Kill)

2013-02-22T13:02:06Z

Posted by: luzula

Title: Sixteen Days in September
Author: tevere
Reader: fandomfan, podcath, chemm80, knight_tracer, luzula and dodificus
Fandom: Generation Kill
Pairing: Brad/Nate with ensemble
Rating: R
Length: 4 h 45 m 00 s
Author's summary: When Peace Corps assigns Nate to East Timor, a tiny half-island in eastern Indonesia, he figures he'll have a lot of time to catch up on his reading. But the year is 1999, and the shock fall of military dictator Suharto is still reverberating throughout the country, triggering changes nobody ever thought possible. As East Timor moves inexorably towards freedom – or war – Nate is drawn into events that will define the future of the province forever. This is a war story, and as such contains some violence, civilian deaths including children, and a non-explicit reference to sexual violence. If you're all right with canon, you should be right with this.
Notes: This story is well worth listening to even if you're not in the fandom--it was my gateway fic into the fandom, before I'd seen the canon. Final editing by podcath, podbook cover by aneas.

Download: (mp3s, zipped, 128.27 MB) and (m4b, zipped, 131.11 MB)

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Awesome Ladies Podfic Anthology III

2013-02-16T06:19:52Z

Posted by: klb

The Awesome Ladies Podfic Anthology III has been posted here at halfamoon. We had a record-breaking 124 stories this year, read by 66 readers and written by 88 authors, for a total of over 10.5 hours of female character centered audio! You can download the whole collection as a podbook or zip file or browse for individual files.

cover art by bessyboo

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"Building the Castle of Roses" (Sleeping Beauty)

2013-02-10T23:49:55Z

Posted by: luzula

Title: Building the Castle of Roses
Author and reader: luzula
Fandom: Sleeping Beauty gen
Rating: PG
Length: 39 m 00 s
Author's summary: Sleeping Beauty in space.
Notes: For the Arm in Arm//Fist to Fist challenge at audiofemme (which is a challenge to make Bechdel-test-passing podfics that are about something other than romance and sex). I have a thing for (non-sexual) older woman-younger woman mentor relationships, so I was pretty much writing for my own narrative kinks here. So this story is about that, and it's about Sleeping Beauty, and it's about closed ecological systems and spaceflight.

Download or stream here.

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"Formosi Pueri", by Ione (Aubrey-Maturin)

2013-02-03T18:40:59Z

Posted by: luzula

Title: Formosi Pueri
Author: ione
Reader: luzula
Fandom: Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series
Characters: Jack, Stephen, and Diana gen
Rating: PG-13
Length: 1 h 17 m 26 s
Author's summary: Jack Aubrey is sent out in another small ship in order to convey Stephen on a secret mission. He takes some of his old crew along, to the disgust of one of the non-coms.

Notes: This is honestly one of the most canon-like stories in this fandom that I have read, and I sincerely recommend it. It uses POB's omniscient POV to good effect, and I absolutely love Diana here. Also, it was such a delight to read! I'm pretty happy with how it came out. Thanks to riverlight for beta-listening and catching mispronounced words for me!

Download or stream here.

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Take Two Marines (And Call Me In The Morning) by novembersmith (Generation Kill)

2013-01-30T11:51:19Z

Posted by: luzula

Title: Take Two Marines (And Call Me In The Morning)
Author: novembersmith
Reader: luzula
Fandom: Generation Kill
Pairing: Brad Colbert/Nate Fick/Ray Person
Rating: NC-17
Length: 38 m 00 s
Author's summary: This takes place right after Ray leaves the football field in the Bomb in the Garden episode, and is my version of fix-it fic.
Notes: Ray Person POV is a delight to read! This is not news, I know.

This is a repod, so do check out knight_tracer's version as well!

Download or stream here.

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Podfic in Quenya!

2013-01-13T21:25:57Z

Posted by: luzula

The geekiest thing I have done in my life? Possibly. Anyway, now the archive will have a tag for the Quenya language. *g* Mods, can I have a comm tag for that?

Title: Nyarë Yondo Atacárala
Author, translator, and reader: luzula
Fandom: due South/Silmarillion gen
Language: Quenya
Rating: G
Length: 2 m 29 s
Author's summary: The due South pilot told in the style of Tolkien's Silmarillion.
Notes: I'm sure a real elf would wince at my accent, but I did my best--the sounds and the accent patterns are correct as far as I could make them. I probably have an advantage over most native English speakers in that my native language has rolling r:s. *g*

Click through to download or stream the file.

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Just A Kiss by emmagrant01

2012-12-11T01:28:20Z

Posted by: helens78

Title: Just A Kiss
Author: emmagrant01
Readers: analise010, luzula, knight_tracer, andeincascade, helens78, rhea314, and kalakirya
Fandom: Sherlock (BBC)
Pairing: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Rating: adult
Word count: 19,695

Summary: Five times John and Sherlock kissed because of a case and one time they kissed for real.

Notes from Helens: This was a lovely, lovely project to work on, and I am so glad to have gotten a chance to collaborate with six other fantastic podficcers. YOU GUYS ROCK. :D

Just A Kiss: Text on AO3

Download link: Download MP3 version here (.zip of 2 files, total of 2:07:59, 116MB), or Download M4B (audiobook) version here (2:07:59, 115MB)

(Note to amplificamods: This is being crossposted to LJ and DW. Let me know if I shouldn't do that!)

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due South Podbook: The Train Goes Slow by atrata, read by luzula

2012-12-09T05:40:21Z

Posted by: cybel

The reader's mp3 post can be found here.

Cover Artist: cybel

Archive Page/Links: here

This podbook version of the podfic was compiled with the reader's permission.

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"The Train Goes Slow", by atrata (due South)

2012-11-29T12:16:56Z

Posted by: luzula

Title: The Train Goes Slow
Author: atrata
Reader: luzula
Fandom: due South
Pairing: Fraser/Kowalski
Rating: NC-17
Length: 1 h 10 m 47 s
Author's summary: Ray is patience fucking personified, and he hasn't wanted to punch Fraser in days.
Notes: This is a deliciously tense story, and I had fun with it. And that sex scene at the end? So. very. hot. I hope I did it justice. Thanks to andeincascade for beta feedback!

Download or stream here.

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"Ordinary Life", by Toft (Sherlock Holmes)

2012-10-27T18:59:53Z

Posted by: luzula

I am not usually one for instant gratification, but I've been working on so many long-term podfic projects (collaborations and otherwise) for the last half year or so that I just had to record something quick and fun that I could post immediately.

Title: Ordinary Life
Author: toft
Reader: luzula
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes
Pairing: Irene Adler/Mary Watson (and more generally, various combinations of Irene Adler/Sherlock Holmes/John Watson/Mary Watson)
Rating: R
Length: 9 m 56 s
Author's summary: Crossdressing, femmeslash. The Watson household gets a visitor.
Notes: How can you resist a fic with the phrase "Sapphic debauchery" in it? I couldn't, at least. *g* Thanks to the author for the blanket permission!

Click through for downloading or streaming.

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"Unsent", by Nos (Wilby Wonderful)

2012-10-08T19:38:10Z

Posted by: luzula

Title: Unsent
Author: nos
Fandom: Wilby Wonderful
Pairing: Dan Jarvis/Duck MacDonald
Rating: R
Length: 3 h 16 m 24 s
Author's summary: After his failed suicide attempt, Dan Jarvis is struggling to put his life back together and overcome the depression that has haunted him for years. He finds a peaceful haven in the arms of Duck MacDonald, but soon old echoes of the past, as well as a disturbing series of hate-filled letters, threaten Dan’s fragile new life and his romance with Duck.

Notes: Recorded for the due South and Canadian Six Degrees Big Bang. I really enjoyed recording this! It was interesting to read such a low-key, quiet sort of character voice, or at least that's the way I interpreted Dan in this story.Thanks to Nos for letting me record it! ♥

Click through to download or stream the audio files: Part 1 and Part 2.

Download the podbook here. Thanks to podfic_lover for compiling it for me! omens made the lovely cover--it fits the story so well! ETA: omens also made a fanmix as a complementary work. Do check it out! \o/

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Podfic of "Horseshoes and Hand Grenades" by Omphale (due South)

2012-09-12T11:41:32Z

Posted by: luzula

Title: Horseshoes and Hand Grenades
Author: omphale
Readers: luzula as Benton Fraser, crinklysolution as Ray Kowalski, izzady as Ray Vecchio, and helens78 as Frannie Vecchio and assorted other roles.
Fandom: due South
Characters and pairing: Benton Fraser, Ray Kowalski, Ray Vecchio (preslash Fraser/Kowalski)
Rating: PG-13 for violence
Length: 2 h 27 m 16 s
Author's summary: A midcentury AU, in which there are photographs, parachute troops, invasions, exploding trees, foxholes, misunderstandings, bullets, letters from home, smokejumpers, roommates, and more exploding trees. Ray Vecchio gets a lot of sand in his boots, Benton Fraser gets a little disconnected from reality, and Ray Kowalski gets to jump out of airplanes and maybe fight a war.

Notes: Thanks to the author for letting us record this! It was so rewarding, and collaboration is so much fun, and frankly, I am so proud of this podfic that I could burst. If you don't know due South, you can still listen to this, since it's an AU. Be aware that it's a story about war, though, so check out the warnings on the original story post.

The sound clips separating the sections are from all over. Many of them are from this torrent where you can download a huge collection of WWII radio news clips. I don't know how much time I spent listening to them to find ones that fit! At least I know more about WWII now? In the smokejumper sections, most of the audio is from this 1949 documentary about smokejumping (which, hey, also features a guy firmly grabbing another guy's crotch). The music used is, in order, "The White Cliffs of Dover" with Vera Lynn, "Il est Rythme" with Johnny Hess, "When the Lights Go On All Over the World" with Vaughn Monroe, "What's the Use of Getting Sober" with Louis Jordan, "Bed on the Floor" with Woody Guthrie, and finally "Cold Missouri Waters" with Cry Cry Cry at the end (the only one that isn't period music--it's about the historical event that inspired the end of the fic). The remaining sound clips are mostly from freesound, I think.

podfic_lover beta-listened, and also put together the podbook. There are two versions of it: one plain m4b file with a cover, and one "picturebook version" using the period photos from the original story post as chapter covers. The podbook cover was made by podfic_lover using caersmane's original Big Bang art for the story.

Download mp3.
Download plain podbook.
Download picturebook podbook.

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Podbook of "Baghdad Ain't Shit" by buffyaddict13 (Generation Kill, Ray Person gen)

2012-09-06T11:18:46Z

Posted by: luzula

Download the m4b file here (it's Ray Person gen, 1 h 17 m, written by buffyaddict13). Thanks to podcath for compiling it for me! Original mp3 podfic is here.

Cover made by lunatics_word as a prize for my participation in the Semper Hi Fi Generation Kill podfic challenge this summer.

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"Baghdad Ain't Shit", by buffyaddict13 (Generation Kill)

2012-08-16T09:55:37Z

Posted by: luzula

Title: Baghdad Ain't Shit
Fandom: Generation Kill
Author: buffyaddict13
Reader: luzula
Characters: Ray Person + ensemble
Rating: R
Length: 1:17:33
Author's Summary: Character study of Ray through his teenage years through the end of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Notes: Wow, Ray POV is so much fun to read. Thanks to the author for letting me record it, and thanks to sly_hostetter for beta feedback! For the Semper Hi Fi challenge.

Download mp3: HERE
Streaming:

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Podfic of "As Tennyson Wrote", by earlwyn (Polar Explorer RPF)

2012-07-31T12:32:46Z

Posted by: luzula

Title: As Tennyson Wrote
Author: earlwyn
Reader: luzula
Fandom: "Worst Journey in the World", by Apsley Cherry-Garrard (or more generally Polar Explorer RPF)
Pairing: Apsley Cherry-Garrard/Henry Robertson "Birdie" Bowers
Rating: PG
Length: 54 m 01 s
Author's summary: Oh that it were possible / After long grief and pain / To find the arms of my true love / Around me once again. Cherry and Birdie go, and find, home.
Notes: I am sure no one is surprised that I am recording fic about Antarctic explorers in love! Talk about pushing my buttons. Anyway, this is a sweet and tender story that I think anyone can enjoy, regardless of how much you know or don't know about Scott's expedition. Thanks to the author for letting me record it!

Link at Box.

Trying out a new host, so do tell me if it works for you! If you click the link, you should be able to either download the file or listen to it streaming.

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Two podfics: one due South, one Sherlock Holmes

2012-07-08T19:08:34Z

Posted by: luzula

Title: Death-Defying
Author: keerawa
Reader: luzula
Fandom: due South
Pairing: Fraser/Kowalski
Rating: R
Length: 1 h 33 m 55 s
Author's summary: Fraser is a contract-killer, and Detective Ray Kowalski needs to stop him before he kills again.
Notes: This is a repod, so be sure to check out podfic_lover's previous version, too! I love this fic to bits, and really wanted to perform it myself. Also, it gave me the chance to read poetry aloud, which I love. Thanks to the author for the blanket permission!

Download at Sendspace.

Audiobook:
Cover Artist: katekat1010
m4b: 44 MB, 1:33:56
Archive Direct Link: http://podfic.jinjurly.com/audfiles/052012070803.zip

Title: Intemperance
Author: basingstoke
Reader: luzula
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Mary Watson, Mycroft Holmes, Irene Adler
Rating: R
Length: 1 h 54 m 30 s
Author's summary: "Intemperance," a story from the secret journals of Doctor John H. Watson, intimate friend and long-time companion of the infamous Sherlock Holmes: A most curious and instructive report of the great man's improbable fecundation, gestation, and parturition.
Notes: This was a delight to read! Thanks to the author for the blanket permission.

Download at Sendspace.

Audiobook:
Cover Artist: cybel
m4b: 54 MB, 1:54:30
Archive Direct Link: http://podfic.jinjurly.com/audfiles/052012070804.zip

Thanks to Cybel for the audiobooks!

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