SGA: Time-Keeping, by thingswithwings; Experience, by Resonant

[blueyeti]

In response to what amounted to a flippant thought on fish_echo's rec page, I committed comment-podfic.

Time-Keeping, by thingswithwings
Reader: blueyeti
Fandom: Stargate: Atlantis
Pairing: John/Rodney, Rodney/Katie Brown, Katie Brown/OFC
Time: 00:04:00, exactly (2.2 MB)
Summary: McKay shows up at Sheppard's quarters at 20:00 on Tuesday.
Temp. Link: http://www.sendspace.com/file/berb12
Archive Link: http://audiofic.jinjurly.com/time-keeping


And my multipodicity remixed podfic:

Title: Experience by resonant
Reader: blueyeti
Fandom: Stargate: Atlantis
Pairing: John/Rodney (as incompetent teenagers)
Time: 00:27:58 (16 MB)
Summary: "There really ought to be a school slut," he told the new kid, whose name was John. "All the movies and TV shows specifically promise a school slut."

Original Podfic: Experience read by mific
Remixed Podfic: Experience (Temp. Link)
Archive Link: http://audiofic.jinjurly.com/experience-0

Comments

[thingswithwings]

oooooh, I really liked your reading of Time-Keeping! I think you did a marvellous job making everything sound mundane and just slightly awful, and your pacing was perfect for the story, with those little cold pauses. It is even more depressing in your podfic than in my story, I think! :) But I love it for that.

[blueyeti]

*late replies*

I'm so glad you like it. I don't think I found it too depressing until I read it out loud, honestly. Usually I have a mental track of intonation and emphasis which I'm trying to recreate, but because it's so short I mentally read Time-Keeping as a complete package of creepy-mundane information and personal exchanges. I didn't realise how repetitive it was, and how very non-sensual compared to always should be someone you really love, for example. I didn't really notice how depressing it was until I decided that everything but the non-dialogue should be as monotonous as wasn't completely incompetent, and then I was trying to get everything I'd felt from reading in my head and putting it all in three sentences. Really weird.

(I uh, may have recorded all of always should be someone you really love in a rush before my housemates arrived and heard me reading pronoun confused porn. It was the second fic in SGA I really loved and immediately reread obsessively (the first being Sheppard's Law, so you're in good company). I probably won't finish editing it until after my podbang, though.)

[fish_echo]

I mentally read Time-Keeping as a complete package of creepy-mundane information and personal exchanges. I didn't realise how repetitive it was, and how very non-sensual compared to always should be someone you really love, for example.

I think this is exactly the sort of thing I was trying to get across with my comment about it being a horror story. (And of course it's all compounded in my head by the fact that this can and does go on in reality and furthermore, its the sort of situation that someone could try to say 'well at least you are lucky for having what you have', which, no.) [erm, I'll go take my rambling self off to blather somewhere else now, I think...]

[fish_echo]

Ahahahhaaaa, I suck! :( I thought I had already commented on this but I guess I hadn't, bah.

I think with your reading style here (call it very matter-of-fact or clinical or whathaveyou) is perfect-- because it makes for a humdrum ordinary story if you just listen to the tone, so couple that with the fact that I essentially consider the story contents to be a horror story, and so your reading is all listen with half an ear and oh it is ordinary but listen with both your ears and it is a frightening story, and that is only just intensified by the 'oh ordinary' tone, especially since this is the sort of stuff which does happen in real life and not just in stories for narrative points.

Erm, long comment short-- I think you did just fine with getting to the chilling via your clinical!

(And you ended with a 'the end'! Which is my favourite!)