X-Men: First Class audiofic: Not Just An Oral Fixation by helens78

[helens78]

Title: Not Just An Oral Fixation
Author: helens78
Reader: helens78
Fandom: X-Men: First Class
Characters: Erik Lehnsherr/Charles Xavier
Length: 4:14 (1.45MB .mp3)
mp3: At the Audiofic Archive, or (updated! with cover art and better tags!) right-click-save

Streaming version:


Author's summary: Charles isn't the first man Erik's ever fucked who still had a foreskin, but that doesn't make it any less novel.

Notes from the reader: Doubling up on the "bodies and body parts" square for my kink_bingo card, and my first X-Men: First Class podfic. There's a mild use of sound effects for telepathic dialogue; if you have a lot of background noise where you're listening, you may not notice it, but if you find it distracting, I'd love to know -- any feedback would be welcome, as it'll help me figure out what to do about telepathy sound effects for future podfics. :)

Amplificathon points: 5 + 1 + 1 + (3 + 5) + 0 = 15

Comments

[sophinisba]

Cool, I've just started reading XMFC fic this week and have been trying to figure out how I would handle the telepathy in podfic, so I'm really looking forward to listening to your version. :)

[helens78]

My effect is a minimal amount of echo (0.02 delay time with a varying amount of decay depending on the phrase), which in a noisy room I can't even tell is there, but in a quiet room is quite distinct! I'm curious to find out how people like it, or if it's more distracting than it's worth. :)

[sophinisba]

So I listened to this twice and I really liked the fic and your reading! The pacing and everything felt good and I especially like it when you do Charles' desperate sexy voice. :D I did like the sound effect for the telepathy too, didn't find it distracting and if anything would have wanted it to be a little more distinct - I think that would have made it a little bit easier to follow. :)

[helens78]

Oh, thank you thank you! :D And I really appreciate the note on the telepathy; I'll see about making it a little bit more distinct for the next one. :D Thanks!

[reena_jenkins]

Oh, awesome! Totally downloading this right now. Thank you ;-)

I just saw the movie three days ago, and I'm ready and raring to read me some First Class fic. And podfic, too! But I wasn't sure where to look for fic yet (since the movie fandom's still in its newborn colt stage of existence...), so, should you feel like pointing me in the direction of new and interesting stuff to read...or, aiming me at additional authors..... I'd be more than grateful!

[helens78]

Oh, hey! I'm glad you liked it; thanks! :)

For stuff to read, I'm a slow SLOOOOOW reader and cannot offer the quantity of recs that you might find elsewhere, BUT! I can point you at some of those elsewheres!

A number of recs from kuwdora!

Some more recs from iambickilometer!

And some individual fics:

Ghost In The Machine by sabrina_il - Written for the prompt: "Erik volunteers to let Charles test his powers on him so Charles can get better at controlling them."

Given Back, But Not To Keep by etharei - He's never known that it's possible to feel love and hate and fear and admiration all at once, for one person. He has no idea what to do with it. He ends up blurting, "If you need help, or someone to practice on - you can always ask me."

After by medie

There are two kinkmemes on LJ, but I only remember one of them offhand -- xmen_firstkink.

Happy hunting! :)

[anatsuno]

hiya! I thought I'd jump in to point out that I recorded a short XMFC podfic recently; it's over there.

[dodificus]

Your archive page is here

[helens78]

Thank you very much! :D