Looking Glass

[reena_jenkins]

 
Title: Looking Glass
Author: seperis 
Reader: reena_jenkins  
Fandom: Smallville AU
Rating: R
Pairings: Clark/Lana, Lex/OFCs, Clark/Lex
Format/Length: mp3, 02:25:13
Warnings: some spoilers up through Prodigal, very lightly through the rest of Season Two. Also, non-blood-brotherly incest, drug use, Luthor-ian thought processes
Reader's Summary: AU, wherein Martha marries Lionel, the Luthors raise Clark, and revenge is best served cold.

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Comments

[talimenios79.livejournal.com]

OMG. This is one of my all time favorite fics from any fandom ever. Thank you so, so much. I love it so much.

[reena_jenkins]

Awesome! I'm glad to know you're going to (hopefully) enjoy it. You're quite welcome - let me know what you think, when you're done listening?

[cybel]

Podbook's up.

[reena_jenkins]

Thank you <3

[dodificus.livejournal.com]

Your archive page is here (http://audiofic.jinjurly.com/looking-glass)

[reena_jenkins]

Thank you!

(I'm so very glad the archive's up and running again....it was like cutting off an arm, while it was down.....)

[dodificus.livejournal.com]

I felt oddly bereft too:(

[madame-d.livejournal.com]

I remember reading this story years ago, and getting goosebumps from how chilly yet absolutely perfect it was. Also, considering that three years after I've watched my last Smallville episode, I'm still incredibly angry and bitter about it (oh, where do I start?), it felt so... apt. Like a balm to soothe my anger.

Thank you!

[reena_jenkins]

You're welcome! This is the Smallville podfic I mentioned oh-so-many months ago....and now that it's finally done, let me know what you think of the finished product?

(Also, as schadenfreude-erific as it may be, I'm perhaps a little too happy over Lana's end in this fic. What can I say, her perpetual pink wardrobe irritates me!)

[madame-d.livejournal.com]

This is the Smallville podfic I mentioned oh-so-many months ago

Oh, I remember. But it's not really dark; Clark and Lex do live happily ever after. :D

Also, as schadenfreude-erific as it may be

Hahahaha! I never like stories where Lana is portrayed badly outright; it just seems really petty. But a story in which she is so intricately either an unsympathetic victim or a complicatedly portrayed harpy (which, omg, she SOOOOO is!) - that, I love.

It wasn't just her pink wardrobe. It was her incessant talk of her dead parents, and the fixation on herself, and the producers' need to shove her as Clark's One True Love down our throats and, to add insult to injury, she couldn't act! *moans* It was just bad all around.

I'm going to leave Jack-the-Kindle at home for the next few days, just to listen to the story. I'm awfully lagging behind actually listening to all this glorious podfic coming my way. Jack is really persuasive in its charms. ;)

[madame-d.livejournal.com]

You know, it's funny - I remember reading this story, way back when, and being initially rather squicked by the non-related fraternal incest. Fast-forward to me reading Sam/Dean stuff. Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Or risen, as the case may be. :D

Even though I only do a few fandoms, I feel that I've listened to enough podfic in the past few years to form an opinion about what makes a good performer, and what makes a good podfic. One of them is the performer's ability to make you notice things - pay attention to things - you might've missed, even after reading a story a good half-dozen times.

I've read Looking Glass at least 3 times, plus again when you posted the podfic. I never realised, surprisingly, until I heard your podfic, how little there is of Lionel in the story. Which makes absolute sense, with Martha's emphasis on family, and how Lionel's influence will always be diluted by - tempered by - Martha's love and care for her family.

You did a fantastic job; there were bits of dialogue-only text that I noticed while re-reading, which made me wonder if I would be able to discern the speakers, but you modulated your voice - lower for older Lex, higher (and excited) for younger Clark, and there was never any confusion.

I wondered, toward the end, if maybe your performance might make me feel more sympathetic about how events play out; the revenge, the ruin of Lana - it's pretty cruel and cold-hearted, the way it happens. But no, you play Clark's languid boredom, at the very end, to perfection; something about it just screams 'justice.'

... I'm waxing poetic. This was awesome. :D

[applegeuse.livejournal.com]

SO! I'm really glad that you talked me into listening to this, even though I haven't watched Smallville in eons and eons and eons. It was such an enjoyable fic in itself, and your reading of it was incredibly (AS PER USUAL). Your voice was so clear and evocative and compelling, and really an all around delight to listen to. <3 I listened to it over two days at the gym, and it actually made me want to stay on the elliptical longer just so I could listen to more. :DDD Thanks for recording it!

[reena_jenkins]

Thank you for the *very* kind words. I am also really glad I talked you into listening to it, since it's never a bad thing to be spreading the joy of CLex. But, seriously - I inspired you to stay longer on the elliptical? I think this means that I AM AWESOME.

Also, YOU ARE AWESOME for actually being on an elliptical at all - I'm not nearly mentally ready to even begin getting back into swimsuit shape ;-)

[applegeuse.livejournal.com]

That does make you pretty awesome, as a general rule. :D

As I type this, my mouth is full of cookie. And before that, it was full of rice crispy treat. AND BEFORE THAT it was full of some animal crackers. I do not know why I even bother with the gym.