Merlin podfic: "Arcane Asylum" by new_kate

[sophinisba]

Title: Arcane Asylum
Author: new_kate
Reader: sophinisba
Fandom: Merlin
Starring: Arthur/Merlin (+ everybody)
Rating: NC-17
Contains: sexual assault and mind-control sex (not between the main pairing), imprisonment, graphic violence, death of minor characters, grief, occasional discriminatory language.
Author's summary: "Modern AU. For the last twenty two years Uther Pendragon has been waging war on magic. Now his son Arthur has been framed for a magical crime and sent to the prison for magic users. Arthur is instantly targeted by the inmates, but mysterious top dog Merlin takes him under his wing. They form a bond, and Merlin decides to help Arthur clear his name."
Reader's notes For the podficbigbang challenge, by far the longest podfic I've ever made. I started recording this in December! Big thanks to eosrose for running the challenge and hosting the files, lolafeist for making the covers, and my Twitter friends and the folks at remopodmo for all their encouragement!!
I liked both of Lola's covers so much that I didn't know which one to choose, but as it turned out my audiobook building software couldn't fit the whole thing in one file anyway, so I put it in two parts and I get to use both! The fic itself has 16 chapters and is not divided in two parts; if you download the m4b (audiobook) version you should be able to see chapter stops on your iPod.
Length: 12 hours and 43 minutes (omg)
Text links: AO3, LJ
Other podfic posts: podficbigbang on DW, podficbigbang on LJ, podficbigbang website

Arcane Asylum download links
Part 1, 6 hrs 1 min	Part 2, 6 hrs 42 min
mp3 pt 1 at Sendspace, 206.7 MB	mp3 pt 2 at Sendspace, 230 MB
m4b pt 1 at MediaFire, 169 MB	m4b pt 2 at MediaFire, 185 MB
mp3 pts 1 and 2 at podficbigbang 430.3 MB (.zip, right-click save)
m4b pts 1 and 2 at podficbigbang 347.6 MB (.zip, right-click save)

Comments

[crinklysolution]

I finished listening to this today, and wow, what a fantastic work you have created! Incredible story you chose to record, so epic in scope and content. But what captured my attention was your storytelling ability - you did an excellent, heartfelt and I think truly brilliant job. I loved all your voices, your Merlin and Arthur were just right - but your Gwen voice was delightfully tentative and you did an awesome job of making Sophia sound manipulative and bitchy but with an evil sense of humor as well. It is so good I am sure I will listen to it again - thank you ever so much for putting the hours and hours into it that you must have had to. You really knocked it out of the park with this one...

[sophinisba]

Thank you so much for this comment (and sorry for not answering earlier). I loved doing the voices on this and Sophia's was probably my favorite. new_kate did such a fabulous job with her characterization (and so many others) that when I got to that section I knew exactly what I wanted to do - it was SO much fun.