today's winner! for the blipvert award - leviticus_lied!

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so one of the aims of the amplificathon was to introduce diversity into the podfic available in fandom. we mostly did that by pushing for more fandoms - the happy accident was diversity in story types. most ficathons have a 1,000 word minimum - which means that a lot of the rare pairings are mostly short stories, ficlets, and drabbles, topping off at around 1,000 to 2,000 words. most of the podfics recorded prior to this challenge were much, much longer than that. i mean honestly, you can't swing a cat without hitting an epic in spn and sga. that makes it a little tough to let readers or listeners dip into the format, and the amount of time commitment for anything over 4,000 words gets crazy fast, and approaches exponential at some point (yes, i once recorded a nineteen hour long podfic. i had to do a lot of wacky and improbable things to make that possible, and i try not to think about how much working time it actually took. if we want more podfic in the world, that isn't a sustainable model). short fics are manageable and actually help reflect the reality of the extant written fics! okay, i'm not sure i'm making sense, but: <3.

one of the beauties of a drabble or ficlet is the economy of words, and the demonstration of the skill it takes to convey a story in a tiny space. pulling the reader into your universe for half a breath at a time. reading those stories is a challenge, and i think it's pretty awesome that people were willing to give it a shot.

leviticus_lied managed the very shortest of these palm-of-the-hand stories, at 47 seconds (she had a close competitor at 50 seconds!)




leviticus_lied's prizes include the lovely graphic seen above, donated by trialia, the lovely graphic seen below, donated by raz0rgirl,and a read-to-order podfic donated by dodificus.




title: coffeemaker fettucine and a silver ring
author: thehighwaywoman
fandom: spn rps, jared/jensen
click to download (32.6 MB)
running time - 30:08


\o/ YAY leviticus_lied! \o/

thank you and congratulations!

no, really, we're almost at the end.

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so, a little mopping up.

first, prizewise!

leviticus_lied's anthologies actually include a back cover, which didn't make it into the original post, but is here now. feel free to save it from below and tuck it into the file you have already downloaded, or if you haven't downloaded yet, the files without a back cover have been replaced by the files with a back cover. the graphic is by the lovely ms trialia.




and this is also a note to say that leviticus_lied will also be receiving one more prize podfic, delivered privately, donated by general_jinjur.

mailed prizes will go out soon after the not-very organized third of podmod gets her damn act together. (we're not naming names, but her initials are gj. just sayin'.)


okay. second, otherwise.

this is the end of the prize posting. really, honestly, stick a fork in me, next time when we say two week prize period, we will mean it (we have a plan).

we are considering a mini-fest sometime in the fall/winter. we will be happening again next year, on the same schedule. there will be some changes, nothing dramatic, we'll tell you about them then.

keep posting and reccing here in the meantime. and hey! you know all those new readers who stepped up during the amplificathon? if you listened to their stuff, take a look and make sure they got some sort of feedback. at some point. on at least one recording. i mean, can we all decide to leave one piece of feedback so no one is left shouting into the void? because shouting into the void kind of sucks. and i know everyone wants to get better at this (even the people who are old hands at it), and feedback can be really hard to get on podfic.

SPN CWRPS (J2) Podbook of Coffeemaker Fettuccini and A Silver Ring by The HighwayWoman

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Fandom: Supernatural CW Real People Slash
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Rating: R (soft)
Warnings: smoop, wedding fic
Title: Coffeemaker Fettuccini and A Silver Ring
Author: thehighwaywoman
Reader: dodificus
Cover Artist: cybel
Summary: In which Jared decides he wants to propose and discovers that it's not as easy as it sounds.
File Type: m4b (podbook)
Length: 0:30:08 (14.1MB)
Sendspace Link: here
Permanent link (courtesy of general_jinjur): coming soon ('right click and save as')

Please comment to dodificus via the awards (and mp3) post to amplificathon here. It was recorded for the 2008 2nd place winner leviticus_lied.

You'll find the text of the story and can comment to the author here.

This podbook version of the podfic was compiled with permission and is being cross-posted to podslash and spn_multimedia. It will also soon have a permanent home (as do most of the podbooks posted here) with its original podfic in general_jinjur's wonderful Audiofic Archive.