Luzula

Here's a little birthday podfic of troyswann/Salieri's Night is the Colour of a Self, which is a flashfic with Fraser, Kowalski and Dief. It has a lovely eerie feeling and awesome landscape description.

Oh, and go and check out the lovely Luzula she drew for me, too! I am tempted to change my icon, which I have not ever done.

These podfics are for andeincascade, for her generous donation to helpsomalia.

Title: Pacta Sunt Servanda
Author: arrow00
Reader: luzula
Fandom: due South
Pairing: Fraser/Kowalski
Rating: NC-17
Length: 15 m 37 s
Author's summary: War breaks out.
Notes: I'm grateful to malnpudl for listening and assuring me that my voice didn't sound too scratchy (it always gets a bit rough in the winter). Thanks to the author for the blanket permission.

Putting this one up streaming since it's fairy short (but you can download if you want, of course):


Title: How The Ray Was Won
Author: catwalksalone
Reader: luzula
Fandom: due South
Pairing: Kowalski/Vecchio
Rating: PG
Length: 55 m 26 s
Author's summary: See title. Or. One name, two men, three tasks and a motif. Or several.
Notes: This was a bit tricky to record because it's a story about people telling a story, and I was unsure of whether to separate the storytelling bits with some kind of sound cue, but I finally decided not to. I'm grateful to crinklysolution for beta listening and assuring me that the structure wasn't confusing in audio form, and for catching a couple of mispronunciations. Also, with this podfic I feel like I really learned to read Frannie, so yay for that! My Vecchio and Kowalski still sound too similar, though, but I hope you are still happy with this, Ande. Thanks to the author for the blanket permission.

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Happy birthday, helens78! You've brought me so much joy with your recording of my Shifter stories that I wanted to give you something back. I recorded this up in the mountains, and I've sat on it for two months--see, I am good at keeping secrets. : )

I hope you're having a good birthday! *hugs*

Title: What's a Good Friend to Do?
Author: helens78
Reader: luzula
Fandom: due South
Pairing: Fraser/Kowalski
Rating: NC-17
Length: 1 h 19 m 36 s
Author's summary: Fraser gets hit with some kind of mysterious powder! All of a sudden, Fraser needs sex. A lot of sex.
Notes: I've recorded so much gen lately that I've almost forgotten how much I enjoy recording porn. And this story is pretty much one long sex scene, so that worked out well. *g* I also really enjoyed reading in Ray POV.

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Happy birthday, Ande! I wish you many good things today and in the year to come. *hugs you tight*

I hope you like this! I even did stealthy research (via Aka) to see if you were a fan of crossdressing. : )

Title: Volcanic Geranium
Author: zelempa
Reader: luzula
Fandom: due South
Pairing: Fraser/Kowalski
Rating: R
Length: 2 h 21 m 36 s
Author's summary: Fraser raised his eyebrows thoughtfully. "Lipstick colour names can be rather obscure. I assume it's a metaphor to describe something fragile and lovely but also dangerous and potentially capable of raining hot destruction upon an unsuspecting citizenry. On the other hand, it may refer to the fact that this particular coral shade is common to molten lava and geraniums. Don't lick it."

"It tastes like Jujubes," Ray reported.

"Nevertheless, resist the urge."

Notes: Oof, this one was a challenge. The very thing I love about this story--the comedy and the snappy dialogue--was what made it hard to record. I don't think I've ever done so many retakes. Still, it's fun to stretch yourself and try something new. Thanks to the author for letting me record it!

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

( Three due South podfics )

Taking a break from a longer podfic to do something smaller. I got the idea for this from keerawa's podfic snippet collections, which I recced the other week. Also, I did my final set of recs for ds_recsredux yesterday.

Title: Glimpses of Fraser family history
Author and reader: luzula
Fandom: due South
Characters and pairings: Fraser family gen (also including Martha Fraser/George Fraser, Bob Fraser/Caroline Fraser, and Benton Fraser/Eric Kitikmeot)
Rating: PG-13
Content notes: Child abuse (in Martha Fraser's childhood), mention of canonical character death, the butchering of a deer.
Length: 19 m 1 s
Notes: This is a collection of eleven snippets written for ds_snippets, all focusing on Fraser family history, and read as a single podfic. They're arranged chronologically, from Martha Fraser's childhood to Benton Fraser's first kiss. You can find them all under the heading "Snippets about the Fraser family" on my fic index.

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A couple of podfics. I'm getting a thing for reading in old-fashioned British fandoms, I think--it's so much fun.

Title: The Passage of Time
Author and reader: luzula
Fandom: due South
Pairing: mostly gen (some past Fraser/Kowalski, and some Fraser/OMC)
Rating: PG-13
Length: 35 m 51 s
Summary: Fraser, growing old.
Notes: This is one of my favorite of my own stories.

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Title: The Zombreyad
Author: Anonymous
Reader: luzula
Fandom: Master and Commander gen
Rating: R, I would guess
Length: 1 h 12 m 34 s
Warnings: Post-apocalyptic, horror, injury, character death, the living dead
Notes: This story is just like canon, except with zombies. Thanks to the author for letting me record it!

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Title: The Reaching Out One
Author: alex51324
Reader: luzula
Fandom: due South
Pairing: Fraser/Kowalski
Rating: NC-17
Length: 6 h 10 m 35 s
Author's summary: It's ten years after the events of CoTW (in other words, the present day). After the Quest, Fraser and Ray went back to their regular lives--Fraser as a Mountie in Deline, NWT and Ray as a detective in Chicago, IL. Every year they take their vacation time together and look for the hand of Franklin, the reaching out one, and when they run out of time they put a pin in the map and the next year they pick up where they left off. The story begins when Diefenbaker dies and the whole house of cards crumbles. Ray and Fraser have an adventure, confront their feelings, and rebuild their lives on a more solid foundation.

Notes: This is a post-CotW story that feels fresh and new, and I love it to pieces. I'm afraid the recording is a bit uneven, though. I first started it back in October last year, but then I had a cold that lasted for five months, and then came Amplificathon. Now that I listen to the bits I did last fall, I notice that my reading style has changed, partly because of taking singing lessons, and partly because I've speeded up a bit. Also, I've been moving around, so there are different acoustics in different parts of the story. But I don't seem to have the energy to re-record the first half (especially since I already had to do some re-recording because of lost files). Whew, this was a long project. Thanks to the author for letting me record it!

Download part one and part two at Sendspace. (It's in eight mp3 files, but I can't upload it all in one zip file--it's too big.)


Title: Sixteenth of June
Author: resonant
Reader: luzula
Fandom: due South
Pairing: Fraser/Kowalski
Rating: NC-17
Length: 1 h 14 m 26 s
Author's summary: Fraser keeps an eye on Ray for signs of a broken heart.
Notes: This one's a classic. I think the part I enjoyed most here was doing an impression of Bob Fraser singing "Danny Boy" pitched too high for his voice. *g* Thanks to the author for the blanket permission!

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Title: Quiet In Drowning
Author: nos
Reader: luzula
Fandom: Wilby Wonderful
Characters: Duck, Buddy, OMCs
Rating: NC-17
Length: 57 m 07 s
Author's warning: This story contains graphic, violent and disturbing subject matter, including non-con.
Author's summary: It rained the morning Duck McDonald left home.
Notes: This is not exactly a happy story, but there's hope at the end, and I can imagine that something like this did happen to Duck. I hope I did it justice. Thanks to the author for letting me record it!

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By popular request, here's a podfic of the due South ficfinding poem, compiled by travels_in_time, and read as earnestly as I could. : )

Download link (mp3, 5:30 minutes)

And yeah, I know it looks like I'm only recording short and/or experimental podfic nowadays, but I do have a long project, which I'm about halfway through. I have no idea when it'll be done, though.