Two short Due South podfics: Poker Face & A Show of initiative

[desireearmfeldt]

Title: Poker Face (podfic)
Author: DesireeArmfeldt
Reader: DesireeArmfeldt
Text on AO3: Poker Face
Fandom: Due South
Characters/relationships: Ray Kowalski/Benton Fraser (pre-slash)
Rating: Teen
Summary: Ray is frustrated by Fraser's poker face.
Disclaimer: I didn't create these characters, I don't own them, I derive no profit from their use.
Author Notes: My first, somewhat slapdash experiment in podficcery. You may all now laugh at my total lack of recording equipment and audio editing software. :) For more notes on the fic itself, see the text at AO3.

Format: MP3
Length: ~2.5 mins

Link to download smaller-size MP3 here

Link to download higher-quality, larger-size MP3 here.

If you'd like to leave feedback, you can do so here or at AO3.

Title: A Show of Initiative (podfic)
Author: DesireeArmfeldt
Reader: DesireeArmfeldt
Text on AO3: A Show of Initiative
Fandom: Due South
Characters/relationships: Ray Kowalski/Benton Fraser
Rating: Teen
Disclaimer: I didn't create these characters, I don't own them, I derive no profit from their use.
Summary: Fraser's the one who calls the shots in this relationship. Except when he doesn't. Or maybe even then.
Author Notes: Another RayK first-person POV story.

Format: MP3
Length: ~11.5 mins

Link to download smaller-size MP3 here

Link to download higher-quality, larger-size MP3 here.

If you'd like to leave feedback, you can do so here or at AO3.

Comments

[luzula]

Oh yay, you made a second podfic! Unfortunately, the link doesn't work for me? It asks me to log in. I think you need to click on "share" next to the file on Box, then use the link you get from that.

[desireearmfeldt]

OK, I don't know what the heck is up with the link-generation interface over at Box, but I *think* the links work now...let me know if you still can't get in. Thanks for pointing that out!

[luzula]

Yup, it's working! *downloads for future listening*

[luzula]

Hey, I loved that second one! I know I'm really enjoying something when it gets me to actually make noise while listening, you know? Like, that high-pitched little noise which is the actual manifestation of squee. *g* I enjoyed listening to this a lot more than I did reading it back when you posted it. Which is why I'm a podfic fan--the reader really can add something to the text. I'm enjoying your Ray voice a lot, and I'd be curious to hear you read a Fraser-POV piece. : )

[desireearmfeldt]

Aw, thanks. :)

Re Fraser-voice: It's a lot harder to make Fraser voice sound like something other than myself reading a text -- largely because Fraser narrative voice tends to be more like written prose than colloquial speech, and also because I naturally talk more like Fraser than like Ray most of the time. If you have any suggestions for a Fraser-POV fic that emphasizes the quirkier side of Fraser voice, I'd be interested to experiment...

(I did just post a piece to fan-flashworks that uses both voices, but it's a bit of a special case, being mostly about dreams and containing no dialogue. Also, the somewhat crazy project in the works that was my impetus to start this whole podfic experiment in the first place alternates Fraser and RayK point of view.)

[luzula]

Yeah, I guess Ray POV lets you act out more. Although I really enjoy the contrast between them, you know? I get tired of doing any one kind of voice all the time when I'm podficcing, so variety is nice.

I don't have any suggestion for a specific fic, but I'd look among spuffyduds, china_shop, or joandarck's works for a quirky Fraser-voice.

Looking forward to whatever project you're working on!

[cybel]

Welcome to amplificathon! I've made you a reader tag. :-)

[desireearmfeldt]

Thank you! :)

[unadrift]

Again, welcome! I'm an archivist with the audiofic archive, and I've uploaded your podfics there. You can find their entries here: Poker Face, A Show of Initiative. (In the future, would you please always include a direct text link in your posts, as you did with your first podfic here? It would make the archiving process run a lot smoother. Thanks!)

[desireearmfeldt]

Thanks!

Text links in future, check. :)