Maintenance

[kdheart]

Title: Maintenance
Author: betawho
Reader: kdheart
Fandom: Doctor Who
Characters: The Doctor, Donna Noble
Rating: G
Summary: The Doctor gets advice on how to repair the Tardis.
Length: 2min
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Sherlock BBC: Some Girls by mautadite

[sylvaine]

Title: Some Girls
Author: mautadite
Fandom: Sherlock BBC
Reader: sylvaine
Cover Artist: leish
Length: 9:26
Rating: Explicit
Pairing: Irene Adler/Molly Hooper
Content Notes: (highlight to reveal) consensual kink, spanking, genital torture
Summary: Her mum had warned her.

About, you know. Those kinds of girls.

Notes, download links, and streaming at my journal

Podfic WIPs and why I love them (and three delightful current examples)

[klb]

Like many others, I have grown to be wary of fic WIPs over the years. Although many of them take you on a wonderful ride and finish beautifully, plenty get abandoned as well, and leave a sense of dissatisfaction at not having gotten to see the story end.

But I do love serialized storytelling. I love following a TV show week after week across a season. I love following a book series that comes out with new volumes every year or two. I love Homestuck, with its frequent little updates, and I am excited about catching up on Nightvale so that I can start waiting for new episodes twice a month. It's so nice getting a lovely bite of a story, small enough to not be overwhelming even on a busy day. It's nice to have a built-in period of anticipation and then the excitement of a new update, to be able to download the file already knowing how the reader interprets the characters, already knowing the premise and the world, getting to just dive into the next part and let it wash over me. It's nice to get to live with a story over the course of months instead of days because it is parceled out piece by piece.

And the thing that makes most podfic WIPs different from fic WIPs is: the story is finished! I may be choosing to wait for the next bit of performance before I continue the story, but I'm not forced to wait. If I decide that waiting is making me too unhappy, I can go to the text at any time and read as much of the story as I'd like. It won't be the same as hearing the podficcer's performance, of course, but I can let the podficcer's interpretation of previous chapters shape my experience of the later chapters even if I'm not hearing them performed.

So there's my pitch for podfic WIPs and why I adore them. And now, here are recs for three current podfic WIPs that I think are fantastic:

Revelations, Avengers, Loki/Thor, read by ann_ciudad and written by astolat

( Rec! )

Hands in My Hair, Hockey RPF, Patrick Kane/Andrew Shaw/Jonathan Toews, told by anna_unfolding

( Rec! )

Letter to a G.I., Glee, Kurt/Blaine, read by nielrian, written by dyrnekeeper

( Rec! )

So there you have it! Three stories I'm currently getting in serialized form via podfic and very much enjoying.

[Podfic] Homeless Maddy

[alessnox]

Title: Homeless Maddy
Author: AlessNox
Reader: Alessnox
Fandom: Sherlock(TV)
Genre: Drama
Original Work: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8535138/1/Homeless-Maddy AND http://archiveofourown.org/works/799750/chapters/1506636
Summary: If you sit in the right place, you might meet the guy in the long coat and make a little money. Maddy meets Sherlock Holmes planning to make a pound or two, but gets more than she expected.

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Part 4