sophinisba: Gwen looking sexy from Merlin season 2 promo pics (gwen by infinitesunrise)
Sophinisba Solis ([personal profile] sophinisba) wrote2012-06-14 11:44 am

Merlin podfic: "Arcane Asylum" by new_kate

Title: Arcane Asylum
Author: [livejournal.com profile] new_kate
Reader: [personal profile] 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 [community profile] podficbigbang challenge, by far the longest podfic I've ever made. I started recording this in December! Big thanks to [personal profile] eosrose for running the challenge and hosting the files, [livejournal.com profile] lolafeist for making the covers, and my Twitter friends and the folks at [community profile] 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
Arcane Asylum 1 cover, black-and-white photo of an old asylum or prison
Arcane Asylum 2 cover, black-and-white silhouette of a gargoyle
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)

[identity profile] applegeuse.livejournal.com 2012-11-27 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
I've been slowly listening to this over several days, and finally finished it today! You did such an absolutely wonderful job with this reading! Your reading was perfectly emotive, and so steady, and your editing was FLAWLESS! <3 <3 <3 I especially liked how you read the section that was in Merlin's POV; you handled the transition in tone in that section really beautifully.

Thank you for recording this! :)