Fleet Radio Audio Commentaries and yay long fics

[sophinisba]

Hey Merlin fans, camelot_fleet is organizing a new project to make audio commentaries to go with Merlin episodes. Get on Skype with a friend or three, watch one of your favorite Merlin episodes, talk about it, record, edit, and post for everyone to share! Doesn't that sound like fun?! I don't really get how the technical parts will work, but I'm sure it's doable and there will be support for newbies at the comm. You do not have to be a camelot_fleet regular to participate.

I'll be chatting with such_heights about 2x04, "Lancelot and Guinevere", and probably also with isabear about 1x10, "The Moment of Truth", though I'm happy to step out of the way if a few other people want to do that one, since I know it's a popular episode. Each of these teams could use another person or two, and fly_to_dawn wants collaborators to talk about how awesome Gwen is in "The Once and Future Queen", and then there are all the other episodes! Whee!

Go read more and sign up at the Organization Post!

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(I keep thinking I'll finish things and then rec but since I enjoy things most when I'm in the middle of them...)

I am about two thirds of the way through reading new_kate's epic Arthur/Merlin fic Arcane Asylum and I love it SOOOOOOO MUCH! I was telling a friend the other night it's got so many of my narrative kinks, and so much emotion, so much plot and powerful Merlin, and so much Hunith, and just the right level of angst for my taste. It's like it was made just for me, except that it wasn't so I don't feel any pressure to read through it quickly in order to comment! I'm a slow and easily distracted reader and the fic is loooong (125K) and I've been savoring it for about a week, thinking about it as I'm cooking or riding my bike or falling asleep at night. LOVE.

It is the same author who wrote Steam, the Merlin steampunk big bang that I'm in the middle of listening to as a wonderful podfic by pennyplainknits! I'm also loving lunchy_munchy's podfic of syllic's Seven Magpies, one of my favorite fics from last year's camelotsolstice.

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A wee technical thing - lately the little box for crossposting my entries to LJ keeps getting unchecked. Has anyone else noticed this? I feel a little weird opening up a support request about it because I'm not sure if it's a bug. I mean, I should be paying attention to all the boxes anyway. But I thought it stayed checked before.

Comments

[zephre]

I signed up to do commentaries, too - sounds like fun and a neat way to get to know people!

I can't wait to see what you think when you finish Arcane Asylum! :D I loved it.

[sophinisba]

I can't wait to see what you think when you finish Arcane Asylum! :D

Ah ha ha this is an intriguing comment and makes me want to rush to the end (and see whether I feel even sillier about my gushing than I do now omg). I suppose I might finish tonight but it's unlikely. I just love that there is so much of it!

I am kind of hoping we might um try chatting for a bit with our teammates before we do the actual live commentary! I'm afraid I'll be shy and won't be able to talk, but then I think of when I met bewarethesmirk and b_hallward last month and we got into some fun conversation about Merlin canon and fandom pretty quickly.

[timeasmymeasure]

If you've checked to make sure that your settings on the other sites options page are set to crosspost by default, you might want to put in a support request, just in case :)

[sophinisba]

Ah, there it is! That box on the other sites page had gotten itself unchecked, probably the last time I was changing the settings on whether to disable LJ comments. Thanks!

[timeasmymeasure]

No prob!
Glad it wasn't a bug :)