amplificathon

Story: Zero (AO3, DW, LJ) by isagel

Reader: susan_voight

Fandom: Avengers

Relationship/Characters: Clint Barton/Steve Rogers/Natasha Romanov

Author's summary: “Yes, ma'am, please,” he says. It makes his dick harder, to beg for it, to address her like that, like a superior.

Content notes: no standard notes apply. Author's rating and notes: explicit; (skip) Domination/submission, caning, someone being held down, a kink for orders and obedience in a military framework.

Length: 5 minutes, 49 seconds

Download or Stream: at the Archive of Our Own (to reduce time spent fighting linkrot). If AO3 is down, check out my reader page at the audiofic archive or my Google Drive.

Reader's note: because this story packs a lot of characterization into a few words.

Feedback and constructive criticism: always welcome.

Also posted to amplificathon and AO3.

Story: Jigsaw (AO3, author's site) by dira

Reader: susan_voight

Fandom: Stargate SG-1

Author's summary: Jack wakes up in the SGC to the news that his team is dead. If he weren't hearing the news from General Hammond he might not believe it--and even so it's not quite real until he sees the bodies. Once he does, he knows nothing is ever going to be the same again.

Sam wakes up in the SGC to the news that she is now the senior member of SG-1. Jack O'Neill is dead. For Sam and her team, nothing is ever going to be the same again.

SG-1 might be able to go on like this--Sam's going to keep her team together if it kills her--but a man who's lost his team is capable of anything, and Jack's about to do the unthinkable to make things right.

Content notes: Daniel/Jack/Sam/Teal'c and various subsets thereof. Contains major character deaths and brief thoughts of suicide; no other standard notes apply. Author's rating: teen and up.

Length: 07:31:06.

Download or Stream: at the Archive of Our Own (to reduce time spent fighting linkrot). If AO3 is down, check out my reader page at the audiofic archive or my Google Drive.

Reader's note: I love this story and I wanted the challenge of a really long fic. This may have been more challenge than I really needed, but six months later, I still love the story, so it was probably worth it. :)

The cover art is by milanthruil and is used by permission. The instrumental snippet for section breaks is from "Devotion" by Tracy Chapman, part of the author's playlist for this story; it's available at Amazon and iTunes.

Feedback and constructive criticism: adored in all possible universes.

Story: FANDOM IS SRS BZNESS by dhobikikutti

Reader: susan_voight

Fandom: Leverage

Author's summary: So then, because he’s Hardison, he created a fandom.

Content notes: gen; no standard notes apply. Author's rating: general audiences.

Download or Stream: at the Archive of Our Own (to reduce time spent fighting linkrot). If AO3 is down, check out my reader page at the audiofic archive or my Google Drive.

Reader's note: I am currently trying to record something very long and emotionally fraught, and needed to record something upbeat and quickly-finished as a break. Hardison is always great fun to read and I love the layers of meta in this story.

Feedback and constructive criticism: better than betaing (but probably not better than actually writing) the Fic That Ate Yuletide.

Also posted to amplificathon, chromatic_podfic, and AO3.

Story: Cast Some Light by busaikko

Reader: susan_voight

Fandom: SGA

Author's summary: John's finally got a chance to dress up, and his team comes with.

Content notes: gen; no standard notes apply. Author's rating: general audiences.

Download or Stream: at the Archive of Our Own (to reduce time spent fighting linkrot). If AO3 is down, check out my reader page at the audiofic archive or my Google Drive.

Reader's note: one of my favorite stories by busaikko for its really lovely bittersweetness.

The original story has an epigraph, which the author gave me permission to omit because I felt unable to do justice to the French.

Feedback and constructive criticism: better than black lace parasols with concealed blades.

Also posted to amplificathon, sgapodfic, and AO3.

Story: Killing Elvis by hradzka

Reader: susan_voight

Fandom: Alien movie series

Author's summary:
Dr. Liu,

Got your final report yesterday on Project LV-426. I'm amazed. Great work all around. It's been forwarded to the Chair, our friends at the Pentagon, the Defense Appropriations Committee, and DARPA. The acid-resistant armor is something that should really catch their eye.

We're expecting some big grant money from this.

Burke

Burke,

Did you read even the executive summary of my report? There are some interesting biomaterials that we could work with, but I stressed, multiple times, that this creature is far too dangerous to even consider using in military research projects. It's aggressive, stupid, vicious, aggressive, impossible to train, and did I mention aggressive?

. . .their limbs work on hydraulic principles and operate under pressure, which is why they splurt like a popped water balloon when they get hit in those Marine camera feeds we saw. A slight wound to a limb takes them right the hell out of commission, and now your troops have to deal with an insanely aggressive and stupid xenomorphic K-9 unit that oh by the way IS BLEEDING ACID.

Content notes: gen; no standard notes apply. Author's rating: mature.

Download or Stream: at the Archive of Our Own (to reduce time spent fighting linkrot). If AO3 is down, check out my reader page at the audiofic archive or my Google Drive.

Reader's note: because this is an incredibly fun story and because an epistolatory fic seemed like a good challenge.

Thanks to the author for giving me permission to remove redundant email headers and the like from this reading; luzula for beta; and Language Log for the pronunciation of "Liu."

Feedback and constructive criticism: better than alien taxidermy.

Also posted to amplificathon and AO3.

Story: The First Cut Is the Deepest (LJ, DW, AO3) by dira
Reader: susan_voight
Fandom: SG-1
Author's summary: The Tau'ri's paper was as unexpectedly dangerous as they were themselves. Teal'c raised his eyebrows, impressed.
Content notes: Gen; no standard notes apply. Author's rating and notes: general audiences; graphic depiction of paper cuts.
Listen: 00:06:45, 4.6 MB MP3; download from Dropbox or stream at Dreamwidth.

Reader's note: because I fully agree that there needed to be fic about the first time Teal'c gets a paper cut.

Feedback and constructive criticism: better than band-aids.

Also posted to amplificathon, sg1podfic, and AO3.

Story: The Most Important Meal by dsudis

Reader: susan_voight

Fandom: Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (movie)

Author's summary: Guinevere and Joe go to breakfast.

Content notes: Guinevere/Joe; no standard notes apply. Author's rating: general audiences.

Download or Stream: at the Archive of Our Own (to reduce time spent fighting linkrot). If AO3 is down, check out my reader page at the audiofic archive or my Google Drive.

Reader's note: Even if you don't care for my podfics, you must at least read this story if you've seen the movie, because it is an absolutely perfect epilogue, almost heartbreaking in its gentle care for the characters.

Feedback and constructive criticism: better than tea and toast.

Also posted to amplificathon and AO3.

Story: Homework by busaikko
Reader: susan_voight
Fandom: SGA
Author's summary: For some reason, after his father's funeral Dave Sheppard keeps getting e-mail from Ronon Dex.
Content notes: John/Ronon. Author's rating and notes: teen and up, no content notes.
Download or Stream: at the Archive of Our Own (to reduce time spent fighting linkrot).

Story: Fieldwork (LJ, DW, AO3) by rheanna
Reader: susan_voight
Fandom: SGA
Author's summary: Ronon starts his e-mail correspondence with Sheppard's brother more or less by mistake.
Content notes: John/Ronon. Author's rating and notes: general audiences, no content notes.
Download or Stream: at the Archive of Our Own (to reduce time spent fighting linkrot).

If AO3 is down, check out my reader page at the audiofic archive or my Google Drive.

Reader's note: Because I love the looks at the Sheppard family in these two stories, and because I was looking for something basically gen to read after kink_bingo.

In addition, because of some changes to my recording setup, the sound quality on these is not the same than my past podfics. I think it's cleaner, but at any rate: different.

Feedback and constructive criticism: better than unexpected, and unexpectedly rewarding, penpal relationships.

Also posted to amplificathon, sgapodfic, and AO3 (Homework, Fieldwork).