Six Merlin podfics: Gwen/Merlin, Gwen/Morgana, and other pairings

[sophinisba]

You guys, there were no Gwen/Merlin podfics in the archive and I love this pairing A LOT, so I decided to record a bunch of them and get lots of amplificathon points! I had so much fun!!

Note that the main pairing on Emei's is Gwen/Morgana. Also, "Wonder What You Are" had been anonymous at the meme until now and capricornucopia is just claiming and reposting it tonight on the occasion of the podfic going up, so I'm sure she'd appreciate hearing from you.

UPDATE Sept. 8, 2015: All six podfics and the podbook now available for streaming and download at the AO3: Gwen/Merlin and Gwen/Morgana podfic giftpack 2011



Title: Dwell in Possibility
Author: glim
Pairing: Gwen/Merlin, Gwen/Merlin/Morgana (background Gwen/Morgana)
Rating: PG-13
Contains: n/a
File info: mp3, 7.4 MB, 16 minutes
Audiofic link Download Dwell in Possibility

Title: It's How You Take Them Off
Author: significantowl
Pairing: Gwen/Merlin
Rating: PG-13
Contains: n/a
File info: mp3, 4.5 MB, 9:45 minutes
Audiofic link Download It's How You Take Them Off

Title: Wonder What You Are
Author: capricornucopia aka capriccio
Pairing: Gwen/Merlin
Rating: PG
Contains: off-screen canon-compliant character death, grieving
File info: mp3, 5.6 MB, 12:15 minutes
Audiofic link Download Wonder What You Are

Title: untitled
Author: srin
Pairing: Gwen/Merlin (implied Gwen/Morgana)
Rating: R
Contains: Merlin with breasts
File info: mp3, 4.2 MB, 9 minutes
Audiofic link Download Srin's fic

Title: Just Friends
Author: merry_magpie
Pairing: Gwen/Merlin (implied Gwen/Morgana, Arthur/Merlin)
Rating: NC-17
Contains: spanking
File info: mp3, 5.5 MB, 12 minutes
Audiofic link Download Just Friends

Title: Bird of Passage
Author: emei
Pairing: Gwen/Morgana, Gwen/Merlin, Gwen/Arthur, Gwen/Vivian, Gwen/Lancelot
Rating: R
Contains: bondage, polyamory
File info: mp3, 5.4 MB, 11:45 minutes
Audiofic link Download Bird of Passage

If you prefer, download all six (1 hour and 10 minutes) in one file:
Gwen/Merlin and Gwen/Morgana giftpack.m4b at Audiofic or MediaFire (podbook - lets you skip through the fics as chapters in iTunes or on an iPod)
Gwen/Merlin and Gwen/Morgana giftpack.mp3 or MediaFire (no chapter stops, but works on other mp3-players)

Comments

[glim]

I am very excited to listen to all of these! ♥

[sophinisba]

Yay I hope you like them! Oh man I remember when you first posted that fic at the Fleet and I was like "Oh man I have finally found my people in this fandom!" :D

[emei]

Hurrah! Downloading and looking forward to listening to all of these. :D

[such_heights]

eeee, Bird of Passage! Especially pleased that you recorded that one. <3

[meri]

I'm still kind of insanely pleased that you recorded one of my fics. ♥ And I can't wait to listen to all of these because I love Merlin/Gwen so much.

[meri]

Also, I need to learn how to do that "chapters" thing for iTunes. So handy.

[fish_echo]

Hallo! I'm archiving this bunch (it'll probably take me a day or so, but the links are coming! :D ), and it seems that srin's fic seems to be titled 'Just One of Those Things'. I'll archive it under that. If you'd like to change the file (&/ the compilations), let me know and I'll update my files. Or you can keep it as is, whatever works!

Congrats on the points for this entry! :)

[themadlurker]

Yay!

[themadlurker]

I hope you'll excuse me butting in, but 'Just One of Those Things' is actually a Merlin/Arthur fic in the same post as the one sophinisba recorded. If you scroll down to "Untitled Gwen/Merlin-with-breasts, R, ~1370 words", you'll find this one. :)

[fish_echo]

*facepalm* Thank you!

[sophinisba]

Do you think it would be better if I linked to the cutid? That's here: http://mad-poetics.livejournal.com/10033.html#cutid3
but if you use it you miss the heading info about the fic.

Anyway thank you so much for the archiving!

[sophinisba]

♥ :D

[sophinisba]

Yay! I'd been meaning to do yours for like a year so it feels really good to finally have these up!

[sophinisba]

Yeah, that the one that's a little bit out of place in a Gwen/Merlin collection, but I didn't feel like I could not record it either. It's so good oh man.

[sophinisba]

You cannot actually do the chapters thing in iTunes, sadly. I bought an application called Audiobook Builder for $10, but apparently there's also a way of doing it online without having to use any software of your own.

Anyway yay podfics! I hope you enjoy them! It was so fun putting this set together, with so many common themes that I love.

[fish_echo]

Well, when I archive the fic, I'll link to the cut for the text link (and hope that the reader scrolls up) just to avoid exactly my confusion and the 'reply to author' link will go to the post at large... but since it's your own post, you can either link to the post as a whole and tell people to scroll down, or link to the cut and tell people to scroll up for the headers... it's times like this that I kind of wish LJ supported hash-tags (or whatever they're officially called) more easily-- they can be hand-coded in, but the poster has to remember to do it themselves... Anywhoo, yeah, I'm rambling now! *goes off to archive things, really*

[fish_echo]

http://audiofic.jinjurly.com/dwell-in-possibility
http://audiofic.jinjurly.com/its-how-you-take-them-off
http://audiofic.jinjurly.com/untitled-gwenmerlin-with-breasts
http://audiofic.jinjurly.com/just-friends
http://audiofic.jinjurly.com/bird-of-passage

I'm waiting to hear back from capricornucopia on preferred author name at the archive (which is also holding up posting the compilations), but in the meanwhile, the direct links are:
Wonder What You Are http://podfic.jinjurly.com/audfiles/6201104225.zip
mp3 compilation http://podfic.jinjurly.com/audfiles/6201104221.zip
m4b compilation http://podfic.jinjurly.com/audfiles/6201104222.zip

(Let me know if I stuffed anything up?)

[sophinisba]

Yeah, I have used anchor tags a couple times when posting multiple ficlets in one post, and then I used those links in my fic index, but since they're hidden they wouldn't be useful to someone else doing recs or a podfic or remix. Eh, I think I will switch to the cutid link on this one.

[sophinisba]

Hooray links! Actually this reminds me, does the archive generally prefer that we link to the title pages or are the direct links okay too?

[fish_echo]

but since they're hidden they wouldn't be useful to someone else doing recs or a podfic or remix.
Hm, good point! :/

[fish_echo]

Ooooh, good question! I feel like I ought to know the answer and yet I've never actually asked jinjurly. Would you rather email her on this or shall I?

I know that I as a reader prefer to be linked to the archive title pages (just because I like navigating from there). OTOH, since the three direct-file links I gave you will be updated in the next few days, it'll be fine for you to use those until the title pages are generated, regardless of what the general policy is.

[sophinisba]

I wondered if some folks might prefer to just right-click save from here rather than go through the extra step of going to the title page there. But on the other hand going to the title page is nice for then browsing around the archive. I think I'll just keep the sendspace links up for now and then add the title pages once they're up.

Thank you very much for doing this!

[fish_echo]

That works!

And you are quite welcome! :D After all, I'd have nothing to do if no one recorded anything! *hugs*

[fish_echo]

http://audiofic.jinjurly.com/gwenmerlin-and-gwenmorgana-giftpack
http://audiofic.jinjurly.com/gwenmerlin-and-gwenmorgana-giftpack-audiobook
http://audiofic.jinjurly.com/wonder-what-you-are

And out of curiosity, I asked if there's an official stance on linking to the file directly or to the front page-- the official word is you can do whichever you like, the archive has no preference! :D

[capriccio]

So awesome! I'm listening to it again and I do really love your Gwen voice. ♥

Thanks so much for doing this. :D

[sophinisba]

Thank you again for getting back to me and de-anoning on the fic! It was really great to have that happen. :)

[yue_ix]

I've downloaded the whole giftpack and am halfway through! It's all lovely so far. =)

[sophinisba]

Thank you!

[srin]

And belatedly, ♥ on this, too. (Also, man, I'd forgotten how ridiculous Gwen/Merlin-with-breasts was. And am sorry for the linking difficulties the posting format caused - I'd never expected that ficlet to be something that anyone would need to link to!)

[sophinisba]

Much more belatedly, thank you. <3 <3

[leish]

I don't think I've left you feedback before which is criminal because you are seriously one of my favourite podficcers. I love your voice, it's got this really soothing quality to it and it's always lovely to listen to, and it's gotten to the point that it's basically fic!Gwen's voice in my head.

The Merlin with breasts podficlet was the first I downloaded, I'm pretty sure, and I love it a lot, you do humour so well, but Bird of Passage is probably my favourite. The way you read Gwen, the way you read Morgana, and the subtle undercurrent of tension the whole way through, it's just, it's so satisfying, but your podfics always are. ♥