Firefly podfic: "Navigations" by solvent

[sophinisba]

Title: Navigations
Author: solvent
Fandom: Firefly
Rating: PG-13
Contains: reference to canon threats of sexual assault
Author's summary: "Kaylee, post 'Objects in Space'."
Reader's notes: Recorded for the "consent play" square on my kink_bingo card. This is not a playful story but I think it works. Thanks to rubynye for suggesting it!
File info: mp3, 2.9 mb, 6:25 minutes, 3.0 MB
Download/streaming link: Navigations on MediaFire

I'm also trying to embed the audio here on Dreamwidth but am having some technical difficulties. *crosses fingers*

Comments

[anatsuno]

I listened to this from the embed. :D I don't think I would have downloaded it otherwise, is why I thought it was worth saying.
I am a little tired and I drifted off a few times, but it was lovely. <3

[sophinisba]

Thank you for letting me know that! The embed took some extra effort and frustration, as you know, so it's good to know someone found it useful.

[ex_solvent311]

Oh, thank you for this; I really like what you've done with it, especially the use you made of the audio from the actual episode, which captures the ugly intrusiveness of those thoughts much more clearly than anything I could have done with the text. It's very nicely done.

(Also, this sounds a bit ridiculous, but I'm so pleased to hear that the text sounds natural in your lovely North American accent! After I'd written it, I was concerned that I had allowed my own unKaylee-like English accent to shape her voice; but it doesn't come across that way in your reading, which makes me happy.)

[sophinisba]

Thanks, I'm really glad that this reading worked for you! I am familiar with accent/dialect angst because most of my writing and podficcing these days is in Merlin fandom; I never know if my writing sounds quite right and I know that a lot of fans prefer to hear their Merlin podfic read with a British accent. On the other hand, I think part of the reason I've never gotten deep into Firefly fandom is that a lot of authors play up that dialect more than I like to read. That can make recording a podfic especially challenging sometimes, but I thought your language sounded really natural and it was easy to read. By the way, I was able to finish the kink_bingo blackout I was working on in time for the deadline this weekend, so thanks a lot for helping me get there! :)

[luzula]

I loved this! I listened from the embed as well. I would've listened to it anyway, but that made it easier.

Your reading was great! Even though the subject was potentially upsetting, I liked how you read it calmly and, well, a little serenely. Contemplative, sort of. And it was cool with the included dialogue from the episode, even though I didn't quite catch was he was saying in the first such line. I've never seen that done before.