Podfic: "If Fate Should Reverse Our Positions" (Flight of the Heron)

[luzula]

Ta da! My longest podfic ever. : D Not my longest audiobook, though--that would be Peter Kropotkin's autobiography Memoirs of a Revolutionary at about 17 hours.

[Podfic] If Fate Should Reverse Our Positions by Luzula
Fandom: The Jacobite Trilogy - D. K. Broster
Length: 7h 21 min
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Ewen Cameron/Keith Windham
Characters: Ewen Cameron, Keith Windham, Archibald Cameron of Lochiel, Donald Cameron 19th Lochiel (c.1695 - 1748), Earl of Stowe (Jacobite Trilogy), Lady Stowe (Jacobite Trilogy), Francis Delahaye, James St Clair, Henry Hawley, Charles Edward Stuart (1720 – 1788), Lachlan MacMartin, Neil MacMartin, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Podfic, Podfic Length: 7-10 Hours, Alternate History, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, Romance, Slow Burn, War, Battlefield Violence, Swordfighting, Duty, Honour, First Time, Grief/Mourning, Plotty, Emotional Hurt/Comfort
Summary: In July of 1745, Charles Edward Stuart lands in Scotland, but he does not come alone: a regiment of the Irish Brigade is with him. And thus is the course of history changed, for Britain and for Keith and Ewen.

This has not been beta-listened, but it has benefited from regshoe's careful beta-listening to other things I've recorded! No more will I emphasize the wrong syllable of the noun "despatch"...

Comments

[regshoe]

Wahey! I was just thinking of ordering another big batch of yarn for my next knitting project—good to know I'll have plenty to listen to when I get started on it :D

And I'm glad that my beta-listening has been useful :)

[luzula]

Ooh, what are you going to make with the yarn? And I hope you enjoy the podfic when you get around to it. : )

Yes, definitely helpful! I mean, "despatch" is not a terribly common word outside of FotH, but there are fairly common words that you've helped me pronounce better as well, like "bury" and "inadvertent".

[regshoe]

I'm sure I will! I'm going to try making a sleeveless jumper with a Fair Isle pattern, something I've wanted to do for ages :D Unfortunately the colours I want are out of stock at the moment, so it'll have to wait a bit...

[luzula]

I don't know how reliable my simple image search on "Fair Isle pattern", but they all look terribly complicated! Wow.

I'm very fond of those sweaters with concentric ring patterns of various sorts around the neck--I've got two such sweaters I've bought on Iceland, and the wool is somehow very light but warm, too.

[regshoe]

Yes, that's the thing! The one I'm doing is a diamond pattern with 'only' six different colours—I'm sure it'll take a while to work out the technique but it should be a good challenge :D

Oh yes, those ones are nice too. I remember reading how colourwork serves the practical purpose of making the clothes warmer, because the different strands of wool going across the fabric add insulation.

[luzula]

I remember reading how colourwork serves the practical purpose of making the clothes warmer, because the different strands of wool going across the fabric add insulation.

Oh, interesting! I hadn't realized that.

There was a period of my life where I did a bit of simple knitting, but since at the same time I was also working on my dissertation and playing computer games, my hands unsurprisingly suffered. So I've sworn off knitting and computer games, but not typing...

[garonne]

Yay! I did not know you were planning to finish this so soon.

(Also, you made me hurry off to look up the pronunciation of the word 'despatch' :D )

[luzula]

Ha ha, well, recording is just a daily habit now.

I assumed "despatch" was one of those words that had the emphasis on the first syllable when it was a noun, and on the second when it was a verb, but no, it turned out the emphasis was on the second syllable in both cases...

[china_shop]

Ta da! My longest podfic ever. : D

Congratulations!! :-)

[luzula]

Thank you! : D

[hyarrowen]

Whoo-hoo!

[luzula]

Indeed! Recording is just a daily habit by now, so it didn't even feel that long...

[feroxargentea]

Yay! I actually read this one with my eyes already (but always glad to have a podfic too) --- not sure if I left feedback because I'm SO BEHIND with AO3 commenting, but here's a kudos IOU...

[luzula]

Aww, no problem--I don't want to give you additional pressure if you're stressed. I hope you enjoy the podfic, anyway! <3