amplificathon

Title: A Heap of Broken Images (the digital life remix)
Author: glim
Reader: originally
Fandoms: Merlin
Pairings: Merlin/Arthur Pendragon
Rating: T
Length: 00:10:50
Author's Summary: Arthur finds a picture online.
Additional notes: recorded for Merlin Podfic Bang 2014. Cover art by me.




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I've been a little slow to archive my most recent podfics, but here they are.

Title: Auteur Theory
Author: scioscribe
Reader: originally
Fandoms: Community
Pairings: background Troy Barnes/Abed Nadir, background Troy Barnes/Britta Perry
Rating: T
Length: 00:15:02
Author's Summary: Nadir’s body of work has been examined before—and in much broader and deeper contexts than this blog!—most notably in 24 Hours to Live, the collection of essays edited by Rachel Baxter, and his own What I Thought About the Movies I Made: The Abed Nadir Story—but for those of you already saying tl;dr, here’s an abbreviated summation of how auteur theory lets us realize the true brilliance of Nadir’s filmmaking.
Additional notes: Metafic, queer gen.

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Title: Heart of Stone
Author: zeen
Reader: originally
Fandoms: Tam Lin (Traditional Scottish Ballad)
Pairings: Janet/Tam Lin, The Queen/Tam Lin, The Queen/Janet
Rating: M
Length: 00:23:10
Author's Summary: Janet and Tam Lin's first year together.
Reader's Notes: Thank you to zeen for giving blanket permission to podfic :)

I have a weakness for 'what happened next' stories for fairy tales and a weakness for Scottish traditional stories, which this story combines beautifully. For those unfamiliar with the original tale, I highly recommend Eileen McCallum's reading of the Burns version.

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10 (Tam Lin fandom) + 10 (Janet/Tam Lin) + 10 (Queen/Tam Lin) + 10 (Queen/Janet) x 3 = 120

Title: What Fools These Mortals Be
Author: evol_love
Reader: originally
Fandoms: Romeo And Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, As You Like It, Measure for Measure
Pairings: Desdemona/Emilia, Mercutio/Benvolio, Olivia/Viola, Orsino/Sebastian, Viola/Olivia/Orsino/Sebastian, Helena/Hermia, Hermia/Lysander, Juliet/Romeo
Rating: G
Length: 00:19:33
Author's Summary: Various shenanigans of various Shakespeare characters when prom season arrives at their high school.
Reader's Notes: Thanks to evol_love for having blanket permission to podfic. :)

So, er... well, this week was the bard's birthday, so naturally the right choice to commemorate that is to record a massively cracky high-school AU. (I also recorded a performance of a Lady Macbeth monologue if you want something more serious). I actually think he would approve of this kind of thing, since the majority of what good Will did himself was essentially AU fanfiction, and this story is just the right mix of funny, bawdy and serious.

As a content note, there's a homophobic slur in here, although it's not aimed at anyone and is in the context of "don't use that word".

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Oh boy, points.

5 (Romeo And Juliet) + 5 (A Midsummer Night's Dream) + 5 (Twelfth Night) + 10 (As You Like It) + 10 (Measure for Measure) + 10 (Desdemona/Emilia) + 10 (Mercutio/Benvolio) + 10 (Olivia/Viola) + 10 (Orsino/Sebastian) + 10 (Viola/Olivia/Orsino/Sebastian) + 10 (Helena/Hermia) + 10 (Hermia/Lysander) + 5 (Juliet/Romeo) = 110 x 2 = 220 (hey, what a shame it wasn't 30 seconds longer, haha)

Title: Should The Kingdom Fall
Author: keerawa
Reader: originally
Fandom: Hadestown (musical)
Pairing: Hades/Persephone
Rating: G
Length: 00:03:30
Author's Summary: Hades' greatest enemy is the one who loves him most.
Reader's Notes: Thanks so much to keerawa for giving blanket permission to podfic! This is just a tiny story, but I couldn't resist the beautiful language and imagery.

Music included in this recording is How Long? from Hadestown. Since it's a music-based fandom, this is my preferred version, but I've also included a no-music version since I speak over the music at the beginning and I know that's a problem for some people. The cover art is taken from the album artwork by Peter Nevins.

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10 (fandom) + 5 (pairing) = 15

Title: He Knows Why
Author: BabyKay47
Reader: originally
Fandom: Misfits
Pairing: Simon Bellamy/Alisha Bailey
Rating: T
Length: 00:06:13
Warnings: Mourning canonical character death
Author's Summary: Simon finally gets the answer to the question he's been wondering ever since he learned about his future self.
Reader's Notes: For those unfamiliar with Misfits, it's a fantastic show and I strongly recommend watching at least the first three series (it's British, so they're short). Simon and Alisha have one of the most tragically beautiful love stories, along with one of the most gorgeously filmed sex scenes, I've ever seen on TV. Cover by me, as usual.

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10 (fandom) + 10 (pairing) = 20

Could I get a Misfits tag, please? :)

Title: Of Women Flower Of All
Author: rachel2205
Reader: originally
Fandom: Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire
Pairing: Sansa Stark/Margaery Tyrell
Rating: G
Length: 00:28:08

Author's Summary: In the spring of 1483, Lady Sansa Percy is lonely and afraid in Westminster. But the arrival of King Joffrey's bride-to-be from the Continent changes everything.

Reader's notes: I'm an absolute sucker for a historical AU, and especially a historical AU featuring ladies in love. Please do go and check out rachel2205's original story, because she has written out a whole background for the fic that grounds it in history.

I was drawn to the beautiful framing of this fic in period-appropriate verse and music, which I have included here in the recording: Guillaume de Machaut's setting of the Agnus Dei; Of a Rose Synge We, performed by Asteria; Alysoun, performed by John Fleagle; and Hush Thee My Dove, performed by Patrice O'Neill (and also by me as a rather emotional Sansa).

Cover design is by me.

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(5 (Game of Thrones) + 10 (Sansa/Margaery)) x 3 = 45

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(5 (Game of Thrones) + 10 (Oberyn/Jaime) + 10 (Jaime/Cersei)) x 3 = 75

Total points this post: 120