Sophinisba Solis

Title: Plotted
Author: locketofyourhair
Reader: sophinisba
Fandom: Inception
Starring: Ariadne(/Arthur)
Rating: PG-13
Contains: n/a
Reader's notes: For the "writing on the body" square on my kink_bingo card!
File info: mp3, 1.5 MB, 3:09 minutes
Links: download at MediaFire or listen streaming at SoundCloud

Title: Avec mes souvenirs
Author: airgiodslv
Fandom: Inception
Characters/Ships: Ariadne/Mal (other pairings mentioned)
Rating: R
Contains: violence, character death, rough sex (within dreams)
Author's summary: "Ariadne licks her lips. Her hands are trembling, and she feels euphoric, triumphant just standing in this place, in front of this woman who makes her feel like a girl, like a child."
Length: 13 minutes
Reader's notes: For my dear fitz_y. Thank you for being such a good friend to me this year and for keeping on with your femslash enthusiasm despite having moved to a fandom with only one living female character. :P Merry Christmas bb!
Listen: Download Avec mes souvenirs.mp3 at MediaFire
or listen here:

Titles: Sickness and Shame, Prognosis, Prägnanz
Author: recrudescence
Reader: sophinisba
Fandom: Inception
Rating: NC-17
Ship: Arthur/Eames

Okay so about six weeks ago I posted a podfic of recrudscence's teenaged patient/pediatrician Arthur/Eames story Sickness and Shame. And dodificus said I had a voice made for porn and should therefore also do the sequels (in which Arthur is legal), and I was reminded how susceptible I am to flattery. So here are those sequels! Content notes and other details cut for length.

( previously posted: Sickness and Shame )

( new: Prognosis )

( new: Prägnanz )

Or look, you can download all three as a set, with handy chapter stops in the m4b version. It comes out to 2 hours and 36 minutes (longer than any podfic I've done before!). I am using the whole thing for the "medical kink" square on my second kink_bingo card.

Sickness and Shame series mp3 (89.8 MB)
Sickness and Shame series m4b (74.7 MB)

My Canadian friends, I am sorry! *hugs*

I was meaning anyway to make a post about things that have been making me happy lately, so maybe you will also find some of them distracting.

*roga talked about the NPR Pop Culture Happy Hour and it has become my new favorite podcast. It makes me think of how such_heights sometimes shows us clips of the Doctor Who cast hanging out and asks, Why are these people not my best friends? I want the PCHH team to be my friends, except in some ways listening to the podcast is even better because there's no pressure on me to think of what to say. I just get to listen to these four friends enjoying each other's company and talking about things like movies and music and TV. Yay! It's a very upbeat show and all the people laugh a lot.

*omg Abed!!! Troy and Shirley and everybody too but I mean omg Abed!

*AHHHHH THE VIDEO WITH COLIN MORGAN READING FROM HENRY IV I CAN'T EVEN TALK ABOUT IT YOU GUYS ALL I CAN DO IS WATCH IT OVER AND OVER OH GOD I WANT HIM AND SHAKESPEARE FOREVER (even though I feel kind of bad because it looks like it wasn't really supposed to be public on the Internet).

*( podficcing )

*Here's a fic and podfic rec! The Space Race, written by nostalgia and read by juniperphoenix, about 20 minutes. Doctor Who, Eleven and River, stranded in the '50s! It is light and clever and features the Doctor being discombobulated by River, which is always awesome.

*Here is another! Ach, des Knaben Augen, written by toomuchploor, read by pennyplainknits and with art, audio editing, and accompanying podmix by xenakis, about two and a half hours. Inception, Arthur/Eames, but look even if you're not into that pairing this is a really fantastic podfic, I mean it will expand your conception of how great podfic can be. The recording integrates pieces of the Schubert and Beethoven the characters are practicing and performing and it adds so much to the story. <3 <3

*Doctor Who is back! Treme is back! And there will be new episodes of The Good Wife starting tomorrow and I'm all caught up! WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO ALICIA AND KALINDA???

*Lots of activity on Dreamwidth for three_weeks_for_dw. I was hoping to participate and I haven't really felt up to it, but there are a bunch of mini fanwork fests and friending memes and random extra posts and I am in favor. I've also been enjoying reading a lot of people's responses to the 21 days of Dreamwidth meme, including several people in the last couple days answering the question about the community you wish were more active by saying, eh, Dreamwidth has more activity on personal journals and less on communities, and that's okay.

Here are two recent posts about Community:
-Blast from the past post: Community by livrelibre
-Community: a tv show by thingswithwings. I haven't read this post yet but I'm excited to because it's a post I asked T'wings to make, which again makes me feel powerful and important, and also I'm interested in what she has to say. Yay!

-Thank you, folks who've been talking to me about the appeal of anon memes! (I'm not talking specifically about mean_merlin here.) I've mostly been having these conversations in chat, which is, I think, where I tend to get that release of expressing unpopular opinions or talking about thoughts I'm still working through, without having to worry that I'll say something wrong and someone will hold it against me forever. For other people it works better to do that anon.

-I'm not into Inception fandom and neither is telesilla, but I've enjoyed reading people's responses to her post asking what the appeal is (and also that other friends-locked post that a friend made the other day ♥).

-From Hating Music in Podfic to Loving it: A Convert's Journey by podcath at podficmeta is an interesting post and discussion! I've never had strong feelings against music in podfics but I used to dislike doing it for the ones I made. I found it technically difficult and also felt too insecure about my own musical tastes to want to impose them on people (especially because I was seeing people complain about music in podfics before I ever started listening to them). Lately though I've also been starting to come around, and thinking about how music might add something to the way I want to present a story, rather than just adding it in because it's something some listeners seem to want. I'm looking forward to playing around with this when I get into the later edits of A Lever and a Place to Stand.

-For years I've had friends telling me how awesome bandom was and that it didn't matter that I didn't know who the characters were, that I could still enjoy the fics. And I said, No way! How could I possibly enjoy a fic if I didn't care about the characters?! However, a few weeks ago I finally broke down and read a couple Panic! at the Disco fics, and they were great (and made me care about the characters)!
-Tell me to stop by airgiodslv - kink and relationship!
-Fair Market Value by arsenicjade - slavefic with earnest farmers!
-Call It Home by disarm_d - slavefic in space!
And now I am listening to Gerard Way's Vampire Detective Agency, pandarus's reading of the fic by jjtaylor. It's not even PatD! It's some other band, so I can't even go back to roga's PatD Primer & Picspam to figure out how I should picture this Frank person, and yet OMG I LOVE THIS FIC/PODFIC SO MUCH! Frank's devotion to Gerard is giving me such a lovely old school Frodo/Sam vibe (without LotR fandom disillusionment) as well as reminding me of Watson and Holmes and then ALSO it's got vampires and zombies and anti-discrimination campaigns and charming awkwardness and humor and I just <3 <3 <3 it! There are a whole bunch of characters whose names are unfamiliar to me and that's keeping me from being able to follow the story all that closely, but that is totally fine! Bandom fans, you were right and I was wrong.