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sophinisba) wrote2011-04-04 11:03 pm
sophinisba) wrote2011-04-04 11:03 pm
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I AM REALLY EXCITED ABOUT ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
amplificathon!! Like, way more excited than I have any right to be considering other things happening in my life idek. I want to record all the fics! I want to get all the points! Ahhhhh!
I love the way this challenge is set up to encourage variety and diversity, so you get more points if you're new to podficcing or if you're doing a fandom or a ship or a LANGUAGE that isn't represented in the Audiofic archive yet. But I also love that even if you are posting your one hundredth John/Rodney fic, YOU STILL GET POINTS! <3 <3 ETA: You get points for doing a podfic at all and you get points for yourself and you get points for SGA and you get points for John and Rodney's love. Yay! /ETA
So like to get into the spirit of things I feel like I should be doing some super rare thing (and hey I am a fan of rare fandoms, I have podficced some rare fandoms before) but instead I recorded a new Merlin fic yesterday and I have plans to do others, even though Merlin is one of the three most popular fandoms in the archive and therefore gets the least points. I am doing Gwen/Merlin though so I think it is in the spirit of things and I will get extra pairing points and also oh man I <3 those kids so much. Damn.
Actually it was weird for me to see that Merlin was one of the three biggest fandoms in the archive, along with SGA and SPN. I was surprised, though I shouldn't be, and then yesterday I mentioned it to a friend and she was surprised but then sort of said well, yeah, that makes sense. I mean we do have a comm that's just for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
merlinpodfic and that gets pretty regular traffic, and we have some really prolific podficcers putting in a ton of effort to do the big Arthur/Merlin epics. That is pretty awesome!
I mean, as excited as I am aboutamplificathon and all the rare pairing and ship stuff it's going to generate, damn, those of us who are fans of podfic and of Arthur/Merlin are really lucky that we have so much good stuff to listen to. Sometimes it's exciting because it's a refreshing new take on the pairing and sometimes it's exciting because it's just so damn OLD SCHOOL and perfect.
For example:
This weekend I listened tosuch_heights's recording of The History of Two Conversations (On Paper). Now this is a classic, as Merlin fics go. It is from January of 2009. (2009!) But I had never read it and didn't realize it was from back then. I was just listening and feeling, "This is just right! I will never get sick of the Magical Reveal omg!" The fic is clever and funny and angsty and hot but what I liked best about it was how familiar it was. Also such_heights's accent is easy for me to understand and her voice is familiar to me because I've listened to other podfics of hers and watched video of her talking and read lots of her posts and think of her as a friend. All this added to my enjoyment of the podfic.
But then also! Right now I'm in the middle of listening to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nu_breed's recording of What Looks Like Crazy (actually I am listening to the podbook) and it's totally different and also great. It's an Arthur/Merlin modern AU where Merlin is HIV-positive. It's another one I haven't read and it's a reader I've never listened to before. It took me a little while to get used to their voice and way of reading but by a few minutes in I was really loving it. I love the way they laugh while reading dialogue. When I'm reading I only ever do that when the narrative says to and I always struggle to get it right and I have to record a whole bunch of takes, but nu_breed does it a lot and it just sounds very natural and intimate somehow, and reminds me a little bit of baranduin's way of talking, even though their accents are very different. So it is like being with a friend even though it's somebody I don't know at all, and that is pretty awesome too. (Plus also the story is great - recommended especially if you like LONGING, and stories about people who haven't been in a relationship in a long time and are scared to open themselves up to getting hurt ahhhhhh.)
In conclusion, yay podfic!
amplificathon!! Like, way more excited than I have any right to be considering other things happening in my life idek. I want to record all the fics! I want to get all the points! Ahhhhh!I love the way this challenge is set up to encourage variety and diversity, so you get more points if you're new to podficcing or if you're doing a fandom or a ship or a LANGUAGE that isn't represented in the Audiofic archive yet. But I also love that even if you are posting your one hundredth John/Rodney fic, YOU STILL GET POINTS! <3 <3 ETA: You get points for doing a podfic at all and you get points for yourself and you get points for SGA and you get points for John and Rodney's love. Yay! /ETA
So like to get into the spirit of things I feel like I should be doing some super rare thing (and hey I am a fan of rare fandoms, I have podficced some rare fandoms before) but instead I recorded a new Merlin fic yesterday and I have plans to do others, even though Merlin is one of the three most popular fandoms in the archive and therefore gets the least points. I am doing Gwen/Merlin though so I think it is in the spirit of things and I will get extra pairing points and also oh man I <3 those kids so much. Damn.
Actually it was weird for me to see that Merlin was one of the three biggest fandoms in the archive, along with SGA and SPN. I was surprised, though I shouldn't be, and then yesterday I mentioned it to a friend and she was surprised but then sort of said well, yeah, that makes sense. I mean we do have a comm that's just for
merlinpodfic and that gets pretty regular traffic, and we have some really prolific podficcers putting in a ton of effort to do the big Arthur/Merlin epics. That is pretty awesome!I mean, as excited as I am about
amplificathon and all the rare pairing and ship stuff it's going to generate, damn, those of us who are fans of podfic and of Arthur/Merlin are really lucky that we have so much good stuff to listen to. Sometimes it's exciting because it's a refreshing new take on the pairing and sometimes it's exciting because it's just so damn OLD SCHOOL and perfect. For example:
This weekend I listened to
such_heights's recording of The History of Two Conversations (On Paper). Now this is a classic, as Merlin fics go. It is from January of 2009. (2009!) But I had never read it and didn't realize it was from back then. I was just listening and feeling, "This is just right! I will never get sick of the Magical Reveal omg!" The fic is clever and funny and angsty and hot but what I liked best about it was how familiar it was. Also such_heights's accent is easy for me to understand and her voice is familiar to me because I've listened to other podfics of hers and watched video of her talking and read lots of her posts and think of her as a friend. All this added to my enjoyment of the podfic.But then also! Right now I'm in the middle of listening to
nu_breed's recording of What Looks Like Crazy (actually I am listening to the podbook) and it's totally different and also great. It's an Arthur/Merlin modern AU where Merlin is HIV-positive. It's another one I haven't read and it's a reader I've never listened to before. It took me a little while to get used to their voice and way of reading but by a few minutes in I was really loving it. I love the way they laugh while reading dialogue. When I'm reading I only ever do that when the narrative says to and I always struggle to get it right and I have to record a whole bunch of takes, but nu_breed does it a lot and it just sounds very natural and intimate somehow, and reminds me a little bit of baranduin's way of talking, even though their accents are very different. So it is like being with a friend even though it's somebody I don't know at all, and that is pretty awesome too. (Plus also the story is great - recommended especially if you like LONGING, and stories about people who haven't been in a relationship in a long time and are scared to open themselves up to getting hurt ahhhhhh.)In conclusion, yay podfic!
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AWWW. What a nice thing to say! <3 Thank you, sweets.
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