Podfic links and squee

[sophinisba]

Look, two exciting new podfic challenges!

I'm so totally signing up for chromatic_podfic and looking forward to the other results. There are only a couple signups so far but I'm hoping that's because a bunch of people are like me and are still deciding between a few ideas and lining up author permission. (Signups close on Jan. 22nd.) Besides podfics for chromatic fandoms and characters they are encouraging multiple languages and dialects. This will be so neat!

I will probably not sign up for podfic_bingo but it still looks really interesting, and they're just getting started with organizing and brainstorming prompts so there's still a lot of room for influencing how the challenge will go, if you feel like getting involved. A lot of what's there so far seems to be about experimenting and branching out with different ways of reading/recording/editing, which is a great goal but not really what I'm focused on these days.

In other news, I had to fly overnight last night when I wasn't feeling well. I can't sleep on planes and I expected it to be really awful, but I was listening to revolutionaryjo's podfic of Easy There by syllic and that filled me with warmth and happiness and longing and kept me in a good mood through the whole trip (except the takeoff and landing when I had to turn off my iPod). I haven't read the fic before and I'm really looking forward to listening to the rest to find out what happens. Also, as I had already noticed when reading Syllic's Seven Magpies and listening to lunchy_munchy's podfic of it, Merlin telling Arthur what to do in a gently authoritative way (as the prince in Seven Magpies and as the cox in Easy There) is one of the sexiest things ever.

Comments

[woldy]

Those sound like great podfic communities. I'll ahve to put a note in my diary prodding myself to record something when the thesis crazyness is over.

And thanks for pointing to the podfic of Easy There! Now I've got something to listen to while I do yoga tonight :-)

[sophinisba]

Awesome - I would think this would be a good inspiring one for yoga or working out because it's got a bunch of sexy toned athletes in it.

[cantarina]

Both of those communities made me flail (thankfully, it was the privacy of my own room :P) I probably won't sign up officially for the first, because I'm just not working well with deadlines right now, but I think I'd like to find something anyway and do it in my own time.

While I'm thinking about it, I really enjoyed your readings of "Be So Bold" and its remix! They're both such gorgeous stories.

[sophinisba]

Aw, great to hear you enjoyed the backpacking fics! I loved doing them (despite having to record the remix in the closet because of the rain) and it was a great way to finish off the year.

I'm looking back at the bingo brainstorming post and feeling more and more tempted to play. Actually I might end up doing three different bingo challenges this year. I really think it's a good format for me.

I haven't actually done any recording yet this year but I'm going to try to do some today!

[cantarina]

I love the acoustics of my closet, but it's turned out to be an uncomfortable position for much longer than half an hour. Nice solution to the rain problem, though. I wonder if Garageband would help filter that noise out as well. I'll have to experiment - rain is also a problem for me.

The more I go back to the brainstorming posts, the more invested I get. I really want to suggest "record a non-text based podfic", but this challenge is absolutely the wrong venue for that.

Good luck getting some recording done!

[sophinisba]

Aw, I never really read for more than an hour at a time anyway because both my voice and my computer's ability to handle the file tend to give out, but yeah, sitting in the closet wasn't very comfortable.

The weather today was fine though and I finished the recording I wanted to do in about an hour! \o/

Tell me more about non-text based podfic?

[cantarina]

Victory for Sophie :D

I've got two pieces on the go (although I'm beginning to doubt that the Dean/Cas will ever see the light of day) that are drawing on modern western storytelling story creation practices; the only textual records will be notes and maybe a transcript (mostly for accessibility purposes). I got tired of failing to finish my writing pieces, but wanted to tell my own stories, so I thought I'd try a different approach to story crafting. I think it's exactly in the spirit of podfic_bingo - pushing podficcers to try new things - but I worry that it's probably too different to suggest for this challenge. Unless someone's done it before and I just haven't heard of it.