How the West Was Won and Where It Got Us - Chapter 1

[pandor4]

Title: How the West Was Won and Where It Got Us 
Author: Stickman
Reader: Pandor4
Chapter: 1 of 22
Fandom: The Hobbit
Length: 2850 words | 00:20:36 | 18.87MB (MP3) |
Rating: M
Character: Bilbo Baggins/Thorin Oakenshield
Summary: Bilbo is a harried 1st year British literature Ph.D. (early 20th century fiction) who happens to have an interest in spatial narrative structures, a lack of time-management skills, and a tiny apartment with a lot of books and very little furniture. He’s stressed, always, and doesn't quite know where he belongs. He tells himself that really, this is, in fact, what he wants to be doing. But sometimes, as much as he loves books, he gets an urge to do something with his hands.

Thorin is a disgruntled M.Arch. 1 in his last year who can’t be arsed to shave and frightens his students, and, frankly, his profs, but his work is top-notch so no one can really say much. They can, however, bully him into running a hands-on design workshop on Saturday mornings, which is complete crap, because he’s used to drinking his Friday nights into oblivion so showing up at Milstein at 7:45 the next morning and trying to teach in a room of wall-to-wall windows as the sun rises is not at the top of his list. Besides, no one ever shows up.

Except one morning, someone does.

Link (AO3: text, streaming and download)

Person of Interest: If Not Now (Then When?), by Hagar & JinkyO

[hagar_972]

Title: If Not Now (Then When?)
Fandom: Person of Interest
Length: 1000 words | 00:08:46 | 7.3MB (MP3) | 12.4MB (M4B)
Rating: G
Character: Harold Finch
Summary: Relevance isn’t an absolute, you see; it’s defined relative to an objective. A human life can only ever be relevant to a machine. And yet, we care. Try to take that away from humanity, and I will end you.

Link (AO3: text, streaming and download)

Additional notes: Co-created by Hagar (text) and JinkyO (performance) for pt_lightning.

[Harry Potter] Nobody's Savior

[starduchess]

Fic: Nobody's Savior by suitesamba
Reader: starduchess
Cover Artist: bererjs
Beta Listener: ashiiblack
Gift For: writcraft
Fandom: Harry Potter
Ship: Severus Snape/Harry Potter
Rating: Mature / NC-17
Warnings: major character death (not Severus or Harry)
Reader's Notes: This is my longest project to date, and my first one in multiple parts, so that was a learning experience in creating the podbook. Thanks to the author for permission to record this awesome fic, although it's still frustrating to deal with your short, choppy, incomplete sentences! That said, I hope I performed it with justice and emotion. Recorded for podficbigbang 2014.
Music Credit: "Americana" by Kevin MacLeod, used under Creative Commons License. You can find his Royalty Free stuff at incompetech.com. He also takes commissions for professional work.

Summary: "The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places. But still there is much that is fair. And though in all lands, love is now mingled with grief, it still grows, perhaps, the greater." (Tolkien)

Albus Dumbledore is dead, Severus Snape is the leader of the Order of the Phoenix, Minerva is the spy inside the castle, and the war wages on. When the Boy Who Lived, who died in an accident before he was old enough to go to Hogwarts, is found going about his business in the Muggle World, everything changes – for the Order, for the Wizarding world and especially for Severus Snape. As Severus tries to discover why Albus hid Harry Potter, Harry Potter discovers magic, friends and a godfather, but nothing interests him more than Severus. A retelling of the final destruction of Voldemort, by the Boy Who Lived for quite a different reason.



Part 1 MP3 [74 MB, 01:19:38]
Part 2 MP3 [83 MB, 01:28:41]
Part 3 MP3 [83 MB, 01:28:34]
Part 4 MP3 [65 MB, 01:09:47]

Podbook [639 MB, 05:26:40]

Outtakes [2 MB, 00:1:50] (not included in the podbook)

Podfic Post: AO3 | Dreamwidth | LiveJournal

Blame it on the Viscum album

[consulting_smartass]

Title: Blame it on the Viscum album
Author: thirdbird
Reader: consulting_smartass
Fandom: BBC Sherlock
Pairing: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Genre/Tags: Christmas, Mistletoe, Fluff, Poison
Length: 24:11

Summary: Sherlock, Christmas, and poisonous plants: what could possibly go wrong?

MediaFire (mp3)
SoundCloud (mp3)
AudioFic (mp3)

Pre/Post Music - Call It Off - Tegan & Sara (instrumental cover)

Soft (Hockey RPF, Kane/Toews)

[intransitive]

Title: Soft
Author: altri_uccelli
Reader/cover art: intransitive (exmanhater)
Fandom: Hockey RPF
Rating: Teen & up
Pairing: Jonathan Toews/Patrick Kane
Length: 48:31
Summary: Uhhhh, hedgehog Kaner in Switzerland.
Notes: The hedgehog images used for the cover art are from the author's fic post, and you can see a more adorably in-color version of Kaner as a hedgehog in a party hat there. Huge thanks to altri_uccelli for allowing me to podfic this – it's such a quiet story, and the experience of recording it was really lovely.

Permanent download links: (right-click, save-as) mp3 [22.4 MB] | m4b [23.4 MB]
Temporary Mediafire download links: mp3 [22.4 MB] | m4b [23.4 MB]

Or, stream at AO3