the family you choose [written by Asuka Kureru; read by Opalsong]

[opalsong]

Title: awake at night
Author: Asuka Kureru
Reader: Opalsong
Fandom: Homestuck
Pairings: Karkat<>Gamzee
Rating: Mature
Length: 1:22:46
Size: 63.3MB
Music: Savean by Sarah Brightman
Cover: Opalsong
Warnings: Author chose not to use warnings. And I agree. The warnings kinda ruin the shock of the story. However, if you want them just contact me and I'll give them to you (also you can read the warnings on the rest of the series and they pretty much give it away).
Summary: There are certain expectations in troll society about taking in a freeloader with no place to go, as Dad Egbert finds out when he offers to host two of his son's stranded friends post-game.
Notes: This is a re-pod of awake at night. I last produced it in 2012 and I felt, for consistancy's sake, I should rerecord. It hit me just as hard this time.

Link: MP3

Audiofic Archive link: Here



Title: Everything is beautiful and nothing hurts
Author: Asuka Kureru
Reader: Opalsong
Fandom: Homestuck
Pairings: Gen
Rating: Teen
Length: 26:56
Size: 20.5MB
Music: Sunshine Lollipops and Rainbows by Leslie Gore
Cover: Opalsong
Summary:
-- carcinoGeneticist [CG] has opened memo on board Everything is beautiful and nothing hurts --

CG: I HAVE A NUMBER OF QUICK ANNOUNCEMENTS TO MAKE BEFORE I GO CRASH IN MY PILE AND SLEEP THE GLORIOUS SLEEP OF THE UNDISTURBED. IF ANY OF YOU ASSHOLES ARE STILL AWAKE, SHUT UP.
CG: ITEM 0.
CG: HUMANS ARE THE BEST.
CG: I AM PROUD I CONTRIBUTED TO YOUR CREATION, HUMANS.

Link: MP3

Audiofic Archive link: Here



Title: Morning After
Author: Asuka Kureru
Reader: Opalsong
Fandom: Homestuck
Pairings: Gen
Rating: General Audiences
Length (total): 23:50
Music: Dearly Beloved by Takehiko Yamada
Cover: Opalsong
Summary: After the big drama is all over, John awakens. Hey, aren't Dad and their alien houseguests hiding things from hi -- oooh, pancakes.

Chapter Links [length; size]:
Chapter 1 [9:21; 7.3MB]
Chapter 2 [14:30; 11.2MB]

Audiofic Archive link: Here



Title: Crash Standing
Author: Asuka Kureru
Reader: Opalsong
Fandom: Homestuck
Pairings: Davesprite/Karkat, Karkat<>Gamzee, Gamzee/Terezi, Terezi/Dave, Kanaya/Rose
Rating: Mature
Length (total): 14:40:46
Music: The Crow by Dessa
Art: Asuka Kureru
Cover: Opalsong
Summary: It's been eight days since the end of Sburb and Davesprite is not coping especially well.

Podbooks Links:
Part 1 [6:16:25; 177.9MB]
Part 2 [8:29:31; 239.8MB]

Chapter Links [length; size]:
Chapter 1 [26:17; 36.4MB]
Chapter 2 [37:19; 28.8MB]
Chapter 3 [32:26; 45.1MB]
Chapter 4 [56:31; 77.9MB]
Chapter 5 [28:18; 21.8MB]
Chapter 6 [46:15; 34.9MB]
Chapter 7 [31:32; 24.2MB]
Chapter 8 [34:27; 26.5MB]
Chapter 9 [36:09; 49.9MB]
Chapter 10 [47:01; 36.3MB]
Chapter 11 [47:16; 65.2MB]
Chapter 12 [38:53; 53.7MB]
Chapter 13 [42:36; 58.8MB]
Chapter 14 [53:11; 40.4MB]
Chapter 15 [43:35; 60.2MB]
Chapter 16 [57:58; 79.9MB]
Chapter 17 [1:03:53; 88.0MB]
Chapter 18 [1:06:30; 91.6MB]
Chapter 29 [43:38; 67.1MB]
Chapter 20 [47:01; 64.9MB]

Audiofic Archive link: Here



Title: Crash Standing -- What-Ifs and Maybes
Author: Asuka Kureru
Reader: Opalsong
Fandom: Homestuck
Pairings: Davesprite/Kanaya, Davesprite/Karkat/Jade, Terezi/Dave
Rating: Teen
Length (total): 23:45
Music: The Crow by Dessa
Art: Asuka Kureru
Cover: Opalsong
Summary:
1. "Byrd," Kanaya says with even more careful enunciation than usual, and that's how you know she's kind of drunk. "I do not wish to impugn on your transcendental broship with John."
--
2. GG: hi byrd can i talk to you???
GG: its not super urgent yet but ahhhh, i really need to talk to you!!!
GG: byrd featherbutt strider!
--
3. Terezi has a problem with Dave's shower. A very grave problem. Dave chivalrously undertakes to fix it.
--
4. Chapter 13 from Bro's POV.
--
Collection of ficlets that might turn out to be canon for the main fic and deliberately branching-off plotlines.
Will not make sense without having read Crash Standing.

Chapter Links [length; size]:
Chapter 1: Kanaya & Byrd drunken conciliatory cuddles [8:20; 11.8MB]
Chapter 2: Byrd/Karkat/Jade pesterlog shenanigans - non-canon [6:53; 9.8MB]
Chapter 3: dave/terezi, shower ficlet [3:06; 2.6MB]
Chapter 4: Chapter 13 from Bro's POV [5:26; 4.3MB]

Audiofic Archive link: Here



Title: Daemon Meme - Crash Standing
Author: Asuka Kureru
Reader: Opalsong
Fandom: Homestuck
Pairings: Gen
Rating: General Audiences
Length (total): 13:10
Music: Lyra, Roger, & Billy by Alexandre Desplat
Cover: Opalsong
Summary:
Fusion with Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials/the Golden Compass.
--
Karkat doesn't know what to do with his daemon. (None of the trolls do; Terezi hides it a little better but in the week she's been sharing the Striders' apartment Davesprite doesn't count the times he found her sitting in silence on the couch, or in the staircase to the roof, that horrific alligator-mawed, hollow-bellied hound-thing of hers staring back at her with his head on her knee, both trying to make sense of each other.)
It's funny because neither does Davesprite, really.

Chapter Links [length; size]:
Chapter 1 [5:24; 4.3MB]
Chapter 2 [4:03; 3.3MB]
Chapter 3 [3:43; 2.9MB]

Audiofic Archive link: Here



Title: the family you choose Podbook
Author: Asuka Kureru
Reader: Opalsong
Length: 2:51:21
Size: 80.9 MB
Cover: Opalsong
Summary: Complilation of "awake at night", "Everything is beautiful and nothing hurts", "Morning After", "Crash Standing - What-Ifs and Maybes", and "Daemon Meme- Crash Standing"

Podbook Link: Podbook

Audiofic Archive link: TBA


Thanks to Yue_ix for the cover art beta!
Thanks to Paraka for hosting!!

cross posted at amplificathon, my journal, and AO3