Sherlock Podfic: A Thousand Threads of What-Might-Have-Beens

[revolutionaryjo]

Title: A Thousand Threads of What-Might-Have-Beens
Author: wordstrings
Fandom: Sherlock (BBC)
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Rating: NC-17
Length: 2:39:08

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Zipped mp3 file (137.2 MB) | Zipped m4b file (72.5 MB)
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Permanent Links: At my DW
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Summary: John finally does leave, and Sherlock is entirely unsurprised by it. And he clearly has two options: either get him back, or die trying.



Streaming Sample:

I don't properly know what to say about this one, aside from: I needed it. So I made it, despite how intimidating it was to take on a part of the Paradox Series, due to the extent which I adore it. I started it back at the beginning of September and a lot of blood, sweat, and tears have gone into it since. I think I'm finally satisfied enough to post it.

lunchy_munchy deserves a medal or a cake or a cake shaped like a medal for the beta process, which involved quite a bit of indispensable, thorough feedback and advice interspersed with quite a bit more hand-holding and reassurance. Many thanks must also go out to lunate8 too for letting me pick her brain periodically. And another thank you to sly_hostetter and bessyboo for talking me down from an editing freakout one night over Twitter. (Podfic community = ♥♥♥)

So here it is! At long last. I can only hope it is even a fraction as good as the stunning chapters recorded by FayJay (pandarus) and bronwynferchdai that precede it.

P.S. I'm trying something new with the inclusion of the streaming sample. Let me know if it was of use to you?

Comments

[dodificus]

I have so much love for how you used music and sound effects in this. The staticy sound pretty much stopped my heart, its effect was so strong on me. I loved the way you showed Sherlock's crazy brain by speeding up and slightly overlapping the words in some of his 'lists' (I hope I'm explaining that properly). And, oh, John's faraway voice when he was telling Sherlock to breathe!

I really only ever need a person's voice in podfic but I'm always so impressed when people go above and beyond, especially when it works as well as it did here.

[revolutionaryjo]

That's so nice to hear! I took a lot of risks in terms of effects because the writing is so beautifullly artistic and I really wanted to convey that in the reading. Overall I've gotten very little feedback about it and I was starting to wonder if it didn't pan out as well as I'd hoped, so thank you for putting my fears to rest. Especially in regard to the static effect, John's faraway voice, the speech overlapping in/around the dream section. I spent a long, long time agonizing over how best to handle all that!