Luzula

...both collaborations with sanguinity.

Firstly, we did pod_together with her writing and me reading. I asked her for Bush/Hornblower smut, and wow, did she deliver! *boggles* I prompted her with "filthy pining" which I afterwards felt was sort of run-of-the-mill and not very inspiring, but something inspired her, anyway. This fic is sort of an exercise in "how close can you get to having sex with someone and still have it be deniable". Turns out it's damn close! I had lots of fun recording this. Also, I appreciated her attention to having the women they have sex with have some agency and thoughts of their own, so far as that is possible to show in Hornblower's POV.

Nearly Enough (15555 words) by sanguinity, Luzula_podfic
Fandom: Hornblower - C. S. Forester
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: William Bush/Horatio Hornblower, William Bush/OFCs, Horatio Hornblower/OFCs
Characters: Horatio Hornblower, William Bush
Additional Tags: Pining, Voyeurism, Prostitution, Drunken carousing, Plausible Deniability Foursome, Plausible Deniability Threesome, Period-Typical Homophobia, Internalized Homophobia, Book 2: Lieutenant Hornblower, Kingston - Freeform, Podfic & Podficced Works, Dom/sub Undertones, Podfic Length: 1.5-2 Hours
Summary: Over the course of two wild days and two wild nights in Kingston, Hornblower must choose which he wants more: command of the Retribution, or Lieutenant William Bush.

Secondly, I have recorded The Gleam in the North for Librivox! sanguinity was my DPL (dedicated proof-listener) over there, and I salute her for her feedback and attention to detail.

[Audiobook] The Gleam in the North by Luzula_podfic
Fandom: The Jacobite Trilogy | The Flight of the Heron Series - D. K. Broster
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Characters: Ewen Cameron, Margaret Cameron, Alison Grant (Jacobite Trilogy), Archibald Cameron of Lochiel, Hector Grant, Lord Aveling (Jacobite Trilogy), Lady Stowe (Jacobite Trilogy), Lord Stowe (Jacobite Trilogy), Donald Cameron (Jacobite Trilogy), Keith Cameron
Additional Tags: Audio Book, Adventure, 18th Century, Scotland, Grief/Mourning, Captivity, Religion, Honor, Book 2: The Gleam in the North, Podfic Length: 10-15 Hours
Summary: Six years have passed since the failed Jacobite rising of 1745. Ewen Cameron's quiet life on his Scottish Highland estate is threatened when his loyalty to the Cause again demands that he support a new Jacobite plot. During the course of his adventures, he meets the family of his friend Keith Windham. Ewen's loyalty endangers him, but the danger faced by his cousin Dr. Archibald Cameron is even greater. The book is partly based on historical events.

I think I will now take a break from podficcing for a while--my teaching is starting up for the fall, and I've just been recording so much for the past few years! But I am vaguely contemplating recording Broster's The Yellow Poppy for Librivox next year...

Have a new podfic! : ) Thanks to the author for excellent beta-listening.

[Podfic] A Grimly Ghost (2h 2min) by Luzula
Fandom: The Jacobite Trilogy | The Flight of the Heron Series - D. K. Broster
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Ewen Cameron & Lachlan MacMartin, Ewen Cameron/Keith Windham, Lachlan MacMartin & Keith Windham
Characters: Ewen Cameron, Keith Windham, Lachlan MacMartin
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Undeath, Character Death Fix, Podfic, Podfic Length: 2-2.5 Hours
Summary:

Lachlan is killed by Loch Tarff, when he attacks Keith and Keith shoots him in self-defence, after all. But that's not going to stop him...

By popular demand the existence of people who want to listen to it, here is the first podfic chapter of my recent fic. : ) For a change, I'll upload it in chapters as they get finished, so subscribe to the work if you want to be notified of new chunks of podfic.

I felt like a change from all the British historical fandoms, so here we go! I'll be recording the first two chapters of this monster fic, here's the first. : )

[Podfic] Known Associates by Luzula
Chapters: 1/8
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers, Peggy Carter/Steve Rogers, James "Rhodey" Rhodes/Steve Rogers, Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson, Steve Rogers/Original Character(s), Bruce Banner & Steve Rogers, Steve Rogers & Natasha Romanov, Maria Hill/Natasha Romanov (background), Tony Stark/Pepper Potts/James "Rhodey" Rhodes (background)
Characters: Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes, Peggy Carter, James "Rhodey" Rhodes, Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Sam Wilson (Marvel), Bruce Banner, Nick Fury, Maria Hill, Arnie Roth, Pepper Potts, Tony Stark
Additional Tags: Podfic, Backstory, Protests, Polyamory, Found Family, Queer History, 1940s, Sex Work, Labor Unions, Queer Culture, Genderqueer Character, Body Dysphoria, Drawing, Makeup
Summary:

Steve Rogers isn't a self-made man. Or, how a tough little Brooklyn fairy got turned into Captain America, and then turned back.

I am finished with my 14 hour long Librivox audiobook of D K Broster's book Mr Rowl (1924), a fun, Heyer-esque adventure story about a French parole prisoner in England during the Napoleonic Wars. It's a het romance with a side serving of slash. Thanks go to regshoe for being my proof-listener! I appreciated very much the constructive feedback and attention to detail. : )

So, regshoe and I did pod_together, er, together, and here's the result! It was clear from the beginning that we were going to do something inspired by folk songs, and I rambled about various songs that I like. And regshoe went with the idea that maybe Robert Burns' "Song Composed in August", most often known as "Westlin' Winds", was about a bird shape-shifter. My favorite version of that song is here, by the way, sung by Karine Polwart--it's so beautiful! Then she put various other ballads in for me to sing as part of the story, as well, which I always love to do. Also I learned about the ecology of grouse moors. It was a fun collaboration!

I'll Mount the Air on Swallow's Wings (8002 words/53 minutes) by Luzula_podfic, regshoe
Fandom: Song Composed in August - Robert Burns
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Narrator/Peggy (Song Composed in August)
Characters: Narrator (Song Composed in August), Peggy (Song Composed in August)
Additional Tags: Birds, Shapeshifting, Folk Music
Summary:

A holiday to the grouse moors of Scotland provides an opportunity to get to know the local bird life—but things turn out to be a bit more complicated than that.

[Podfic] An Ever-Fixed Mark (65 words) by Luzula
Fandom: Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Length: 19 h 56 min (dammit, almost 20 hours...)
Relationships: Elizabeth Bennet/Fitzwilliam Darcy, Elizabeth Bennet/Colonel Fitzwilliam
Characters: Elizabeth Bennet, Fitzwilliam Darcy, Colonel Fitzwilliam (Pride and Prejudice), Georgiana Darcy, Catherine de Bourgh, Anne de Bourgh, Jane Bennet, Charles Bingley, Charlotte Lucas, Kitty Bennet, Lydia Bennet, Mr. Bennet (Pride and Prejudice), Mrs. Bennet (Pride and Prejudice), Mary Crawford, Duke of Wellington, Ensemble
Additional Tags: Podfic Length: 15-20 Hours, Podfic, Soulmate-Identifying Marks, Slow Burn, War, Marriage, Regency Romance, Grief/Mourning
Summary: One would think that having the name of one's soulmate appear on one's wrist on one's sixteenth birthday would make matrimony much less complicated. It mostly does not. And not at all for Miss Elizabeth Bennet of Longbourne. (A deconstruction of the soulmark trope.)

Ta da, behold my longest podfic ever! \o/ I really enjoyed recording this. Most fun thing about the reading: Lady Catherine's dialogue.

Flight of the Heron podfic: (all are Ewen Cameron/Keith Windham)
If Fate Should Reverse Our Positions by me (7h 21m)
A Great Service and a Bitter Grief by me (3h 24m)
A Thousand Dreams in One Drop of Ink by garonne (46m)
Up in the Grey Hills by regshoe (1h 4m)
That Good Faith, To Which an Enemy as Well as a Friend Is Entitled by me (5h 39m)
When the Fighting is Over by hyarrowen (30m)
Shore and Ship and Moonrise by hyarrowen (2h 24m)
Steadiness under Fire by hyarrowen (16m)
An Ally Better than the Sidhe by hyarrowen (1h 23m)

Non-podfic:
Flemington by Violet Jacob (8h 3m)

I posted 30h 50m of podfic and audiobooks in 2020. If I include recorded and unposted stuff, it's about 45 hours, depending on how I count stuff that's recorded but not edited, and prooflistened but not corrected. The unposted stuff is two big projects, one long unfinished Pride & Prejudice podfic, and one seekrit book project.

This is a lot compared to 2019, when I only recorded a total of four podfics, which together were 2h 49m! I felt almost sure that this year's podficcing was some kind of record for me, and if I count the unposted stuff, it is. BUT in 2010, I posted 73 podfics(!!) which were 42h 19m long in total! This was in the craziness of Amplificathon's heyday, when I won third place in the competition. Nowadays, I dislike recording short podfics, because of the administration involved in posting. I can't even imagine posting 73 podfics in one year! *boggles* Never again...

But on the whole, I've had great fun having a podfic revival, even if I feel rather isolated from other podficcers nowadays.

All right, here's the rest of the podfic of my long alternate history AU! The whole of it is over ten hours. : D

[Podfic] A Great Service and a Bitter Grief by Luzula
Fandom: The Jacobite Trilogy - D. K. Broster
Length: 3 h 24 min
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ewen Cameron/Keith Windham
Characters: Ewen Cameron, Keith Windham, James St Clair, Charles Edward Stuart (1720 – 1788), Archibald Cameron of Lochiel, Donald Cameron 19th Lochiel (c.1695 - 1748), Earl of Stowe (Jacobite Trilogy), Lady Stowe (Jacobite Trilogy), Lachlan MacMartin, Neil MacMartin, Francis Delahaye
Additional Tags: Podfic, Podfic Length: 3-3.5 Hours, Alternate History, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, Romance, War, Plotty, Politics, Alternate Universe of an Alternate Universe, Character Death Fix, Happy Ending
Series: Part 2 of [Podfic] If Fate Should Reverse Our Positions
Summary:

An alternate happy ending to "If Fate Should Reverse Our Positions", with no major character death.

[Podfic] A Thousand Dreams in One Drop of Ink by Luzula
Fandom: Flight of the Heron - D. K. Broster
Length: 46 min
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ewen Cameron/Keith Windham
Characters: Ewen Cameron, Keith Windham
Additional Tags: Podfic, Podfic Length: 45-60 Minutes, Epistolary, Character Death Fix, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
Summary: A decade-long courtship by letter.

I love epistolary fic, so obviously I was going to podfic this. It also contains a Gaelic poem, and I have done my best with this with the help of garonne and the learngaelic.scot website, but any errors are obviously my own.

Probably the last podfic for a while...but eventually I will definitely record regshoe's recently posted Flight of the Heron fic No Unfitting Harbour. Much recommended.