Avengers: Dating the Long Way Around

[hananobira]

Summary:
Tony Stark was pretty sure the Universe had it out for him. Call it karma, or the natural balance, but on occasion, he had a sneaking suspicion that for every good thing that happened to him, something bad was waiting around the corner.

That being the case, his first real date with Steve Rogers would probably lead to something disastrous. But in that he was, in fact, going on his first real date with Steve, he wasn't sure he cared. Steve was certain he didn't.

It's a Thursday night in New York City, what can possibly go wrong?


Notes and acknowledgements:
My gratitude to scifigrl47 for allowing me to podfic this series. And thanks to all of you for sticking with me through it!

The lovely cover art is by JustKari on DeviantArt. I don't have a DeviantArt account, so I couldn't contact them for permission. JustKari, your art is gorgeous, but please let me know if you'd like me to take it down!



Original Fic: Dating the Long Way Around
Author: scifigrl47
Fandom: Avengers
Pairing: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark
Rating: Mature
Warnings: None
Song: "Long Time Coming" by One Night Only
Length: 08:05:41
Size: 447 MB (MP3) or 453.2 MB (M4B)


Mediafire:
MP3: chapter 1-2 chapter 3-4 chapter 5-6 chapter 7-8 chapter 9
M4B: chapter 1 chapter 2 chapter 3 chapter 4 chapter 5
chapter 6 chapter 7 chapter 8 chapter 9
See the Audiofic Archive link below for zipped files.
AO3: here
Audiofic Archive: here

Comments

[hananobira]

Oops, forgot to use the new tag. Could this be archived under reader:happyhanabi, please? Could I have a tag for that? Thank you!

[knight_tracer]

I'm on this! The new reader tag has been made.

[knight_tracer]

Your archive page is here

[hananobira]

Wow, that was fast! Thank you, bb! ::hugs::

[eosrose]

So excited to listen! You are so amazing!

[hananobira]

Takes one to know one! <333 Hope you enjoy it.

[cybel]

Fantastic! I loved the fic, and Im looking forward to listening.

Would you like a podbook of the whole story in one?

[hananobira]

Wow, YOU are going to listen to my podfic? ::blushes::

I'd love a podbook! I have the software to make them, but the files always end up too large for Mediafire. How do other podficcers get large podbooks online?

[cybel]

What do you mean: I almost always listen to your podfics!

Everyone who posts large books has their own means: personal webpage, paid account somewhere, etc. I'm still a nominal archiver, so I am able to upload directly to the Archive.

Hey, two things:

I notice you didn't encode your name as reader; do you want it in the podbook? Also, you've labeled it as 5th in the series, but the author puts it at 4th. Which number would you like me to use?

ETA: I went ahead and uploaded the podbook to the Archive (it should complete uploading in about 15 minutes) and added it to the page linked above. I decided to just correct the series # in the Grouping tag (since the matter is fairly insignificant and the story was completed out of sequence anyway) and omit your name as you did. If you want any changes, I'll be happy to make them later. :-)

[hananobira]

Thank you!

What do you mean that my name wasn't encoded as the reader? The metadata for all the various files should have the title, my name, the author's name, fandom, etc. Is it not there in the file? I can see it in my iTunes... @.@

Is the cover art at least there? As long as the files have the cover art, I guess everyone will know who did what.

Yeah, I know I recorded story 4 and story 5 out of order. But it would be too much effort to change them now, so I'm just going to let the mixed-up order stand. Like you said, they're not really chronological anyway.

[cybel]

I only opened one m4b file in iTunes and didn't see your name in the metadata, but I may be wrong; I've since deleted the files. Oh, and yes, the cover was there.

Do you want me to re-up with your reader name? It's easy enough to do.

[hananobira]

Nah, as long as it's got the cover art I guess it'll be okay. No need to go to any trouble. Thank you, bb!

[cybel]

My pleasure. Give me a yell if you ever need more; compiling podbooks is quick and easy with my software, and uploading to the archive is a breeze. :-)

[themusecalliope]

Squee!!! *downloads*

[hananobira]

I hope you enjoy it, dear!

[snottygrrl]

::flails about in joy::

::downloads::

[hananobira]

I hope you enjoy it. Happy listening!

[reflectedeve]

Hi! Thank you so much for recording this series; I've been enjoying your recordings immensely. You've gotten me through so many hours of tedious freelance penciling, seriously.

By the way, I located the artist of your cover image, if you haven't yet. (It was very easy to do so! Came right up when I looked on Google's reverse image search.)

[hananobira]

Ooh, thanks! One day I need to figure out how reverse image searches work. And how to contact someone on DeviantArt when I don't have an account there.

Will update the post with their information.

Also, thanks for listening! I'm glad you're enjoying the series. :DDDD

So, so good.

[(Anonymous)]

So, I've listened to this entire series four or five times. And that sounds a little nuts considering how many hours you're up to, but these are how I get myself through my most onerous chores. I plug in my headphones and go do what needs doing, and I'm actually annoyed to be interrupted. Weeding. Cleaning out the fridge. Scrubbing the bathtub. Your podfic turns them from odious to mildly pleasant, so thank you! I really enjoy your work.

Re: So, so good.

[hananobira]

That is one of the greatest compliments anyone could ever give my podfic, that it makes their boring and routine chores fun. Thank you so much for listening!

I've been traveling this summer, so progress on "Hollow Your Bones" has been slow, but I'm three chapters in and I promise it'll come out eventually. I hope I can end the series on a high note.

Re: So, so good.

[(Anonymous)]

That is really exciting news! I hoped you would record "Hollow Your Bones", but it seemed like it might be a harrowing thing to do. I await it patiently, scrub brush in hand!

Re: So, so good.

[hananobira]

School is apparently going to be insane this year, and hockey season is about to start up again, so don't expect updates anytime soon. But you know where to find it when it posts!

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks for the link to my art ;)

JustKari

[hananobira]

It's amazing! Do you mind if I use it? I can whip up another cover, no problem.

[(Anonymous)]

No-no, it's okay.
Nice to know that someone likes my arts
...and, just in case, I'm sorry for my english с:

JustKari

[idella]

*happy sigh*

This was lovely to listen to and now I am going to have to check out the rest of your podfics of this series!

[hananobira]

Awww, thanks! I hope you like the rest of them.