Podfic: Professions (Avengers) - by gqgqqt

[regonym]

Title: Professions
Author: gqgqqt
Reader: regonym
Fandom: Avengers (movieverse)
Pairing: Clint Barton/Phil Coulson
Rating: Explicit

Author's Warnings:
Chapter 1 Warnings: Phil has a long history of being on the receiving end of physical torture and has the PTSD and scars to prove it (including, and I hope this list is exhaustive: whipping, branding, knife wounds, serial numbers by way of scalpel, ligature marks, gunshot wounds, and a bar code and any and all things that implies). And knives make a reappearance because, also, warning for backstory involving injury/attempted murder of sex worker!Clint.
Chapter 2 Warnings: Abduction by the enemy, gun violence, some discussion of dealing with sex traffickers in Phil's past, and very minor hand injury.

Length: 58:59
Temporary Sendspace Links: MP3 format (23.6 MB) || Audiobook (m4b) format (25.5 MB)
Archive Links: MP3 format (23.6 MB) || Audiobook (m4b) format (25.5 MB)

(Cover created by regonym; base image was taken from here)

Summary:
      “You had me a little worried, there,” Clint says, and nods him into the hotel room. “Thought you might've gotten lost on the way in.”
      “Parking,” he replies, and clears his throat.

Feedback is always hugely appreciated!

Comments

[crinklysolution]

Wow, cool, this is one of my favorite stories by one of my favorite Avengers writers, gqgqqt. And, to top it all off, read by you! I have enjoyed your other delightful podfic, I'm sure I'll like this one as well. (I'll come back after I've listened to it and let you know what parts were the best...)

[regonym]

Awww, thank you so much! It's been great to hear that you've enjoyed my other podfic, I've really loved getting your detailed feedback on so many of them. <3

This has always been one of my very favorite fics in C/C fandom; I've sort of been working my way up to recording it. :D

[paintedmaypole]

Oh, yay! I'm so excited to see that someone recorded this.

Thank you!!

[regonym]

I hope you enjoy! :)

[cybel]

I just noticed that your podbook downloaded as an m4a instead of an m4b. In case you aren't aware, you can convert it to an m4b just by manually changing the tag. This activates the podbook features not present as an m4a: opening in Books in iTunes instead of Music, automatic bookmarking, etc. :-)

Looking forward to listening!

[regonym]

Oh! That's funky, thanks so much for telling me! I think what may have happened is that I was using Chapter and Verse for the first time to experiment with putting internal chapters in, and it exported the file as an m4a instead of the usual m4b that my 'mp3 to audiobook' converter software gives me.

It's weird though, when I tested the file by adding it to my iTunes, it went to my Book section automatically, and had the 'resume' option when I listened to it on my iPod, too, so I didn't notice the m4a thing as being an issue before now! How strange, I wonder why it worked for me.

[cybel]

Gremlins? Friendly gremlins? Actually, I haven't a clue. :-(

[regonym]

I have fixed and re-uploaded. :) Thanks again for letting me know about this!

[cybel]

:-)

[dodificus]

Your archive pages are here: m4b | mp3

[regonym]

Thank you! :D

[(Anonymous)]

Oh my god, this is so amazing. I don't even know the fandom or the characters, but the way you read that story is just capturing. I can't even put it into words. I've done podfic myself so I know what kind of work it is - at least for me - but wow that was impressive. I'm sorry this must sound creepy, but I really loved it. xD

[regonym]

Oh, wow, thank you so much! I wish I knew your username so I could compliment your podfic in return! <3 I'm impressed that you were willing to try it out without knowing the fandom, and I'm very happy that you enjoyed it. Anything captivating about the story I can lay squarely at gqgqqt's feet, I promise you. :3 I'd recommend checking out her other stuff if you liked this~!

[(Anonymous)]

It was truly amazing! ((and there is nothing to compliment about xD I'm still struggling with fluid reading and pronunciation (I'm a non-native speaker), but well I found it so intruigung and wanted to try it out - and since there is about zero podfic in my fandom, there is nothing to compare, that make it easy ;) but I didn't post it anywhere other than my journal - oh god no)) I will check it out then - and listen to more podfic, trying to find out how it really works ;)

(I wasn't intending to post anon, but I'm from LJ, but it wouldn't let me comment with the OpenID, so I thought anon would be better than nothing :) - and again Dreamwidth doesn't like me.. )

[regonym]

Heee, well, I hope that you keep building your confidence and making more podfic - there are lots of people in the podfic communities on LJ who would be happy to give your recordings a beta-listen if you ever want help with double-checking your reading or pronunciation! Podfic_tips, especially, is a very friendly, helpful community. :)

I post my podfics at the LJ amplificathon community as well, so maybe I will see you around there sometime! <3

[(Anonymous)]

You did such an amazing job with this podfic! It's the first of yours I've heard, and I loved it and am looking forward to going through the rest of your stuff. You did a great job with cadence and pacing, which in this story would be sort of difficult because it's Clint, but also a calmer version (at least in the first chapter) but you nailed it, well done!

[regonym]

Thank you so much! I'm flattered to hear that listening to this made you want to check out my other stuff. <3 I'm glad that the pacing for this worked for you, that's always one of the aspects of making podfic I work hard at to get right.