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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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

[glittertine]

No words. Seriously. I've shied away from this part because of the summary, I could never bring myself to read it. But now, there's podfic, and... THANK YOU. So very, very much.

[revolutionaryjo]

Oh, it is entirely worth it, even though the summary is a bit scary. Trust me. I hope you enjoy the reading!

[cybel]

Totally looking forward to listening! Your podfics, and these stories, never disappoint!

[revolutionaryjo]

Thank you so much! I hope it lives up to your expectations. :)

[adhar25]

There is no way of expressing my joy that you have recorded this. It was beautiful, and I could feel my heart breaking listening to it. You have a wonderful voice, and I always enjoy listening to your work.

I shall go back to lurking now... *vanishes like a ninja*

[revolutionaryjo]

I'm so glad you liked it. Thank you very much, my ninja friend! :)

[inkbug]

I did a real double-take in front of my screen when I realised it's the Paradox series. There might have been flailing of an undignified fashion, but no need to focus on that when there is podfic to be enjoyed!

[revolutionaryjo]

Hee! I'm glad I could contribute to undignified flailing. I hope you enjoy the reading. :)

[(Anonymous)]

OMG!!! Apparently it's still Christmas, and this is the best thing I could hope for! I love this series soo dearly and come back to it again and again, and it's always been such a disappointment that the final installment was not podficced. I've wanted it so much I thought of actually recording it myself despite no experience! I'm delighted that it didn't come to that :D

A thousand blessings on your head, and I shall come back and squee some more, I'm sure, when I've had a chance to listen.

[revolutionaryjo]

Sounds like you are a lot like me! Except I always lose in a game of podfic chicken. I wait and I wait and I hope someone who is not me will do it so I don't have to go to the effort... and then I do it anyway. But I'm happy I could do you a service with this one. It's a series I'm constantly revisiting too. I hope you enjoy it! :D

You should try podficcing anyway! It's good fun.

[(Anonymous)]

I want to thank you for this reading! I love to listen to the other chapters and I was hoping someone would read this one. I don't have the reading voice for it or I would have done it myself. I am very excited.

[revolutionaryjo]

You're welcome! I just really, really needed for it to exist. I hope you enjoy it. :)

[dodificus]

Your archive pages are here: m4b | mp3

[revolutionaryjo]

Thank you! :D

[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!

[scienceofobsession]

Jo, this piece is absolutely fabulous. The things you've done with editing! The effects and overlapping and sounds and songs... so often having these things inserted into a fic drives me to distraction. But here you've done it sublimely, it's a joy to listen to! Add to it, of course, your soothing voice and wordstrings' infamously gorgeous words, and it's something to be celebrated. Thank you!

Certainly do not fear for the reception of this work you did, it's lovely. I second everything mentioned above.

[revolutionaryjo]

You are wonderful for saying so. Thank you! I'm really happy to hear the effects and music worked for you. I probably could have figured out a way to do a more straightforward reading of it, but I wanted to reflect the spirit of the writing, which is just so unique and often times visual. It was a challenge to do that in an audible format.

A Thousand Threads

[(Anonymous)]

Just listened to this again for the mmmmth time and loved it all over again. the music cues, the sound effects, your VOICE everything. wow. thanks for making it!
Sarah the Coat

Re: A Thousand Threads

[revolutionaryjo]

Thanks for dropping back in to leave me a comment about it! Knowing my work gets re-listen value is one of the best compliments I can get. I'm sincerely flattered. :)