Podfic of Academic Punk!

[luzula]

Wow, this seems to be the weekend of fannish productivity for me. So much podficcing. This one has been a WIP for about a month and a half, and I finally got around to finishing it! Mmm, I love my new recording equipment.

NOTE: If you had trouble with the long mp3 version, you can download it again--it's fixed, thanks to cybel.

Title: Academic Punk
Author: thehoyden
Reader: luzula
Fandom: due South, Fraser/Kowalski
Rating: R
Format: mp3, 128 mpbs

Part 1, 26.59 minutes, 24.7 mb, download at Sendspace
Part 2, 30.05 minutes, 27.5 mb, download at Sendspace
Part 3, 29.29 minutes, 27.0 mb, download at Sendspace
Part 4, 29.04 minutes, 26.6 mb, download at Sendspace
Part 5, 26.09 minutes, 23.9 mb, download at Sendspace

or the whole thing as one file: 2 hours and 21.28 minutes, 129.5 mb, download at Sendspace.

There is also an audiobook with a lovely cover by cybel, download it at Sendspace.

Reader's notes: This story is one of the classics of the fandom, and one of my favorite AU:s. Ray and Fraser are English professors, and the canon is adapted wonderfully to fit this scenario. I love the slow and delicious courtship in this story. Thanks to thehoyden for letting me record it, I enjoyed it! If anyone wants smaller files with lower quality, I'd be glad to upload some. ETA: Almost forgot, akamine_chan beta-listened to the first part of this. Any mispronunciations in the other parts are my fault, obviously.

Cross-posted to amplificathon.

Comments

[vsee.livejournal.com]

Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for recording this one. I've listened to the computer voice read this story more than twenty times over the years. I look forward to hearing your version so much.

[luzula]

You're welcome! I'm so glad to know people will be listening to it.

[vsee.livejournal.com]

Hey, dear, I wanted to let you know that you have some really odd technical problems in the complete file version, which I listened to all the way through today. Right around the 1 hour mark, there were several short sections where you probably made edits where I ended up hearing one version in one stereo channel (and consequently, in one ear) while I hear another version/section on the other channel and in the other ear. This happened maybe three times between the one hour mark and maybe around the 1:20 mark. I am wondering if this was from cutting and pasting while you were editing. If you need more specific notes, let me know.

Great reading, thanks again.

[luzula]

Hmm, yes. cybel told me about this, and she fixed it while making the audiobook. If you download the whole mp3 file again, I've updated the link to the fixed version.

[j-s-cavalcante.livejournal.com]

Neat! I can't wait to hear it.

And, oh, darn, I had a bunch of pronunciation notes I wanted to give you after the last one I heard you read. My bad. One of these days I'll go through everything again and get them all to you.

Still, I enjoyed the previous one very much--you like the academic fic? Me, too! And I am looking forward to this one. I listen to fic while I draw, since I often have to draw for hours at a stretch. It gets me through. \o/

[luzula]

Oh, I would love to get your pronunciation notes. akamine_chan has been beta-listening to a couple of my podfics, but she's been busy lately, so I didn't want to ask her again.

One thing I sometimes have trouble with is voiced and unvoiced "s"--Swedish only has unvoiced "s". If I don't think about it, I do pretty well, I think, since I did learn the language as a child. But if I start thinking about it I'll second-guess myself and get all uncertain. And it's not like there's a rule about it, like in French.

Hope you enjoy this one! And yeah, I do like academic AU:s. *g*

[zabira.livejournal.com]

yay! so much yay, luzula!!! \o/ thank you for this.

[luzula]

It was my pleasure!
: )

[texasbek.livejournal.com]

Thank you so kindly! I've just gotten into Podfic and this one is a fabulous story! Yea you!

[luzula]

Thanks for the comment, and I hope you enjoy the podfic!

[nos4a2no9.livejournal.com]

Hooray! I just finished listening to this one and you did a FABULOUS job! Truthfully, this isn't my favourite dS AU - I think it's because I did my graduate training in English and *know* people at the University of Guelph, and for some reason all of that material hits too close to home (I know, I know, I'm a weirdo).

But listening to your podfic made me see something new in the story, and you did such a wonderful job articulating Fraser's heartbreak and Ray's sensitive and very appealing personality. I adored them both here, and I think the investment in a new mic has been worth it: the story was clear and precise and your reading was very well done. Great job!

[luzula]

Well, I see what you mean--there's this other AU where Fraser is a Ph D student and Ray is his advisor, and that one squicks me a just a little bit, having been a Ph D student.

I'm glad you could appreciate it anyway, though! And, yeah, I love my new recording equipment. It's actually portable, so I can record without a computer.

[hsavinien.livejournal.com]

Ooooh.

Oh, rats, it looks like the file has expired. Would you mind putting it back up on sendspace?

[hsavinien.livejournal.com]

Ah, never mind, I found it on the audiofic archive. Looking forward to listening.

[luzula]

Yeah, everything is on the audiofic archive! It's an awesome resource. And I hope you enjoy the podfic! I'm somewhat annoyed with it myself, because I've figured out how to get the sound quality better than it is on this one, and now I've thrown away the original files, so I can't fix it. My recent ones have better quality. Oh, well.