Podfics for Mergatrude!

[luzula]

These are recorded for mergatrude, for the charity auction helpbrazil2011. Thanks for the donation! I hope you enjoy the podfics. : )

Title: Thus, every feather obeys the wind
Author: mergatrude
Reader: luzula
Fandom: due South
Pairing: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski
Rating: PG
Length: 12 m 13 s
Notes: This is a wingfic, but it's different from most wingfics--it's a sad and wistful story, and I love it to bits. It's written in a non-linear fashion, and I'd love feedback on how that works as a podfic.

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Title: Ray is kissing Fraser
Author: mergatrude
Reader: luzula
Fandom: due South
Pairing: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski
Rating: PG-13
Length: 5 m 22 s
Notes: This is a sweet little kissing ficlet.

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Title: Guard Duty
Author: brigantine
Reader: luzula
Fandom: due South
Pairing: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski
Rating: PG-13
Length: 44 m 41 s
Author's summary: Stanley Raymond Kowalski's world is about to take a sharp left turn.
Notes: This is a fun story and was a delight to record. Thanks to the author for letting me record it!

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Comments

[marianas]

Downloaded Guard Duty. I loved that story when I read it and I'm delighted you made a podfic of it. Will be back later with comments on the actual recording.

[luzula]

I hope you enjoy it! And I'd love feedback on the reading. : )

[mergatrude]

Eeeeeeeee! Thank you! I can't wait to listen, as I'm very curious as to how 'Thus...' works as a podfic, too.

Thank you, again! &hearts

[luzula]

Have been away from the internet for a week, and I didn't have time to reply before I left. Anyway, I'd love to hear what you think of them! I re-recorded "Thus..." from scratch because I wasn't happy with the first version, actually, but I think the second turned out fairly well. One thing that I could perhaps have done (but didn't) was to have little sounds separating the sections. But I usually just leave a pause between sections, so I did that here, too. Hopefully it's not confusing.

[mergatrude]

It's taken me a while to process this experience, but I think your reading is beautiful! Thank you so much.

I'm so familiar with the story, though, so I don't know how it would sound to someone who hadn't seen the structure of the story on the screen/page.

Thank you, again. Your voice is beautiful, and I felt you managed to capture the restraint of the piece, as a narrative composed by Fraser, while allowing the underlying emotions to come out. I am overwhelmed.

[luzula]

I'm so glad you liked it! I love reading Fraser POV. And I agree with you--of course the story makes sense when you already know it. Perhaps I should've asked someone who's unfamiliar with it to beta-listen.

[j_s_cavalcante]

She won YOU! AWESOME! :)

Thanks for the podfics! I have FOUR paintings due Monday (okay, studies, but still..and they're landscapes which are so...not my thing. (I know, Fraser would be appalled. :) I am downloading. I was going to say that I wasn't sure about downloading the sad piece, but I just reread, and of course it is brilliant as well as sad. So I will download that one, too, though I will probably keep it off shuffle and may only be able to hear it once. *sniffles*

Anyway, I am still in awe that Merg won YOU. Lucky, lucky Merg! :) {{{hugs}}}

[luzula]

Have been away from the internet for a week (dogsledding!), and I didn't have time to reply before I left. I hope your paintings have gone well despite the lack of human bodies in them (which I assume is your thing). : )

You know that I recorded a really long podfic before Christmas, right? (china_shop's "The Sweet Hereafter")? You can find it here.

[j_s_cavalcante]

Dogsledding!

I totally brag about you dogsledding and I show my family your postcards, you know. :) I've been on a dogsled once, just for a few minutes, and wow. Really fun! Sled dogs are amazing.

As for the podfic, I'm so sorry if I didn't comment yet on the reading of "The Sweet Hereafter"! I did download it, and I eventually listened to the whole thing while I was away on vacation during the holidays, but I wanted to listen again. It's such a complex story--and with the, er, difficult imagery of Fraser bodyswapping with his dad, not to mention crossing that border between life and death, I need to be in the right frame of mind to listen again. You did a fabulous job as usual, though! I don't think I had ever actually read that story.

I take pronunciation notes in my head for you all the time, still--because I promised to, and because I know you want them, not because I think your readings need any revision, because I really love them just the way they are. I just have to find a way to fit in, time-wise and logistically, the task of sitting down and recording the words for you. I'll get there, though, probably this summer.

I'm starting to fit fannish things in around the edges, these days, and actually I happen to have something for you that I have been planning to post. Typically, I get almost to the point of doing it, and then another deadline rolls around. :/ I have a deadline tonight, but if I can make time to post, I will. Otherwise I will post the thing tomorrow.

And you are so right about the paintings. I just confessed that very fact to my landscape teacher today. Human subjects are what inspire me, and so landscape is kind of just a backdrop to me, as a painter. But I really appreciate beautiful landscapes, I just have not been lined up with the idea that I am somebody who can paint them. With paintbrush in hand, I look at a scene, and I think "Huh? There's nothing there!" So of course the class isn't going as well as it could. *sigh* I am awaiting an epiphany. :)

You have just made my day 1,7482,929 times better, and I think I will listen to lots of your podfic while painting today. {{{Luz}}}

[luzula]

Well, there is a new postcard on its way. : )

As for the podfic, I'm so sorry if I didn't comment yet on the reading of "The Sweet Hereafter"!

No problem! You don't have to comment on everything--I just wanted to make sure you'd seen it. It was interesting to read, because I don't think I've read Bob Fraser before. I like the way he came out, though. And I would still love to get your pronunciation notes! But no worries, just do it when you have the time.

actually I happen to have something for you that I have been planning to post

Ooh! *anticipates*

Human subjects are what inspire me, and so landscape is kind of just a backdrop to me, as a painter.

Hee. I don't paint, but if I did, I would probably love landscapes. All my desktop backgrounds are landscape or nature photos, at least.

[luzula]

Oh, and I forgot to say: I had so much use for your hobo gloves during the dogsledding (and other times, too)! They were ideal when I needed an extra layer underneath my gloves.

[how-obscure.livejournal.com]

Downloaded the two mergatrude stories. They were awesome to listen to! The non-linear organization of Thus, every feather obeys the wind worked just as well in podfic as it did in written form. You put some great emotion into those angsty lines!

[luzula]

Thank you! I actually re-recorded the whole of "Thus, every feather..." from scratch because I wasn't happy with the first recording, and I very rarely do that. It's great to hear that the recording worked for you.