Podfics: Community, Huge, NewsRadio

[sophinisba]

For amplificathon, I've recorded five fics that are at least a little bit meta.

Title: On a Steel Horse I Ride
Author blackwayfarers
Fandom: Community
Characters/Pairing: Troy Barnes/Annie Edison/Abed Nadir
Rating: PG
Contains: n/a
Summary: "Road trip," Abed says, nodding approvingly. "One car. Seven people. A country's worth of dramatic situations ripe for both comedy and tragedy."
File info: mp3 or m4b, 43 minutes without music/sound effects, 46:30 with music
Audiofic links (permanent):
-mp3 without music
-m4b without music
-mp3 with music
-m4b with music


Title: automated daydreaming
Author loveyouallwrong
Fandom: Community
Characters/Pairing: Troy Barnes/Abed Nadir
Rating: PG-13
Contains: n/a
Summary: The group gets an assignment and Abed gets a clue
File info: mp3, 14 minutes
Download link: automated daydreaming at Audiofic

Title: Intro to Public Relations
Author imperfectcircle aka happydork
Fandom: Community/Huge
Characters/Pairing: Troy Barnes/Abed Nadir/Becca Huffstatter
Rating: PG
Contains: n/a
Summary: "Troy, Abed," Jeff said. "This is Becca. Larry plays LERP with her. She's a warrior princess."
"What's LERP?" Pierce said. "Sounds like a skin disease."
Troy wanted to answer, but he was too busy watching Becca look at the floor. She was pretty, and warrior princesses were awesome.
File info: mp3, 18:30 minutes
Download link: Intro to Public Relations at Audiofic

Title: You're My Best Friend (And I Love You)
Author kyuuketsukirui aka torachan
Fandom: Huge
Characters/Pairing: Chloe Delgado/Becca Huffstatter
Rating: Mature
Contains: n/a
Summary: Becca has had best friends and she's had crushes, but she's never had a crush on her best friend before. Not a real crush anyway, the kind where she can't stop thinking about doing all those things she's only read (and written) about.
Reader's notes: Most of the fics in this set are sweet and silly, but this one is more realistic and sad.
File info: mp3, 7 minutes
Download link: You're My Best Friend at Audiofic

Title: The E-mail
Author sophinisba
Fandom: NewsRadio
Characters/Pairing: Dave Nelson/Lisa Miller (+ ensemble)
Rating: PG-13
Contains: n/a
Summary: Lisa is outed as a fan.
Reader's notes: I wrote this for Yuletide 2008, long before I got interested in podfic, but when I went back to read it last month there was unexpected podfic meta!
File info: mp3, 14:30 minutes
Download link: The E-mail at Audiofic

Bonus podfic recs!
More meta: The Discovery by ingridmatthews, read by dodificus, Sherlock Holmes: Holmes/Watson
More Community: Everyone Is a Robot by neigedens, read by thingswithwings, Community: Troy/Abed

Comments

[thingswithwings]

THIS IS SO EXCITING! *downloads all the Community ones immediately* I cannot wait to listen to them.

PS, thanks for the bonus rec. :)

[sophinisba]

Oh my gosh it took me a long time to finish the set! I have fallen behind in the amplificathon standings, but I get 100 points for this post! Small fandoms and metafic ftw.

[torachan]

Yay, thank you! :DDD

[sophinisba]

:D

[dodificus]

:D I'm in the middle of archiving these and got excited when I saw 'The Discovery' at the bottom of the page, thinking that you'd recorded it as well and I could listen to another version. But you recced me! Thanks so much<3

[sophinisba]

The Discovery would have been great for this set! I hadn't read it before I heard your version and it really cracked me up.

Thank you for the archive links!!

[dodificus]

I just got through listening to The Email and *loved* it. It's pretty much exactly how I remember NewsRadio and I love the meta aspect of it:D

[sophinisba]

Aw, thanks! That show was so great. I had a lot of fun going back and watching the first season while I was writing that fic.

[such_heights]

YAAAY COMMUNITY PODFIC. :DD

[sophinisba]

Troy and Abed with everyone ever!

[fiercynn]

aaaaah oh my gosh that is one of my favorite Community fics! OT3 = ♥! *downloads*

[sophinisba]

Omg Abed and Annie made Troy's face feel weird! How can anyone resist this?

[happydork]

Oh, wow! Listening to your podfic of my story was just one long moment of delight! It was even more fun than writing the story in the first place. :D

[sophinisba]

Yay awesome! I had a ball recording it as well. I was so delighted to find that crossover. :)

[themadlurker]

Yay! I like that NewsRadio fic a lot. Looking forward to listening to the podfic!

[sophinisba]

Aw yay NewsRadio! Hope you like it. :)

[themadlurker]

It was great! Such a great podfic and your Bill is especially fun. :D

[sophinisba]

♥

[scintilla10]

I just listened to both your Community podfics and I ADORED them. Really wonderful and happy-making! :D

[sophinisba]

Oh, thank you! This reminds me that I should go ahead and post them to community_tv. Whee!

[idella]

I listened to both of your Community podfics and I thought they were just awesome. I had such a blast listening, let me tell you. :D

[sophinisba]

Hi, I am sorry I missed responding to your comment before! I'm really happy you had fun listening to my Community podfics!

[idella]

Hi, I am just coming back to say that I adore your performance of 'On a Steel Horse I Ride'! I've listened to it several times now (it's totally becoming a comfort listen) and I basically love everything about it. I love the way I can hear the characters' voices in your voice, and the music and sound effects (the crickets!) are perfect, and someonce else commented about how you capture the ambience of road trips, which is so true. This podfic makes me very happy; thank you for making it. ♥

[thingswithwings]

I commented earlier that I could not wait to listen to those podfics, but I did in fact wait a while! But I just enjoyed "automated daydreaming" and "Intro to Public Relations" while doing the dishes (I haaaaate doing the dishes I needed help!) and I really enjoyed both of them - you conveyed all of the cuteness inherent in Troy/Abed, which is a pretty amazing feat. ALL THE CUTENESS. I will totally listen to them again. :)

[thingswithwings]

I listened to "On a Steel Horse I Ride" today, while on the bus and then while making banana bread, and . . . wow. Just, wow. This may be my favourite podfic of yours, ever. THE MUSIC! You did such a beautiful job of evoking that dreamy, unreal, easy road trip feeling - I laughed out loud when "cue soundtrack" broke into "Born to Be Wild," but a lot of the later music choices made me feel that introspective, slightly sad, slightly glad feeling of road trips . . . ugh it's so well done! And the crickets at night!

Plus your character voices are really really good - especially Troy, I could just hear Donald Glover's delivery in your voice. Oh my gosh I loved this.

I have a long car trip coming up, and was planning on compiling some podfic for the purpose, and you can bet all your internet dollars that I will be listening to this on that road trip, probably several times.

Also, if you ever wanted to put out a soundtrack for the podfic, I would not be averse!

In conclusion, <3.

[sophinisba]

Thank you very much for saying all these things, Megan! You know, it's funny, there are a few podfics where I've gone to a lot of trouble with the sound effects and music and maybe one or two people comment on them, and then also ones that are very plain readings and that are much more popular. It is always hard to say! But anyway, yeah, Steel Horse took ages and I felt pretty angsty about whether the sound effects and music would work, so thank you! Sadly I do not actually own most of the songs so a soundtrack would not work, but I can say that a lot of them are on the Easy Rider soundtrack.

TROY WHEN HE GETS UPSET. <3

[dodificus]

Someone recc'd your Community podfic (can't remember who/where) and I didn't listen to them the first time round because I hadn't started watching the show yet. BUT OMG HOW PERFECTLY WRITTEN IS AUTOMATED DAYDREAMING? It's like one of the scriptwriters sat down and wrote some fanfic<3

[sophinisba]

I know right? I thought the Duncan voice on that one was especially great, and the egg assignment is so the kind of thing that would happen at Greendale. :D

[sunspot]

Just finished listening to On A Steel Horse I Ride and it was fully awesome :D

[sophinisba]

Thank you!!

[letsgofriday]

I listened to On A Steel Horse I Ride last night, and I have to say it was perfect. I thought you got everyone, especially Troy's, voices down perfectly. I also loved what you did with the music :)

[sophinisba]

Thank you so much! Reading Troy's parts was a lot of fun, whereas the music stuff was a lot of fiddly work so I'm really glad that made a difference for you. :)

[idella]

I listened to 'Intro to Public Relations' and I really enjoyed it! I especially like your creepy Abed-Lilith voice, and your Troy and Abed voices and banter on date 3 & 3/4. This was a lot of fun to listen to, despite the fact I'm not familiar with 'Huge'.

[sophinisba]

Thank you! <3 <3