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I use this journal for posting my podfics. If you'd like to friend me in order to see when I release new recordings, I'd be delighted. No need to ask.

All of these stories have been recorded with permission from the wonderful authors. If you discover a story through one of these podfics and enjoy it, please let the author know.

Note: If you are an author who is comfortable having your fic recorded, please consider adding your name to the blanket podfic permission list. (Or leave a comment at this post and I or someone else will add you to the fanlore list.)

BANDOM:
The Anatomy of a Fall Frank/Gerard, 13 hours 2 min
Forever, Now Frank/Gerard pre-slash, 9 hours 17 min
Tell Me to Stop Brendon/Spencer, 3 hour 27 min
This Never Happened Frank/Gerard, 3 hours 5 min
A Guided Tour of the October Country, Frank/Gerard, 48 min.
As Mine See it and Beholder, Frank/Gerard, 19 + 24 (total 43) min.
Life on the Fashion Scene, Gen, 39 min.
This Might Get Messy, Kids Frank/Gerard, 13 min
Outside the Rules, Gen, 11 min (AI8 crossover, read with shiningartifact)
Feeling a Moment, Frank/Gerard, 11 min.
...Okay, So It's the Same Galaxy, a Couple Years Off, Frank/Gerard, 8 min.
Provisions, Gen, 6 min.
Go West, Young Ladies, Gen, 6 min (read with shiningartifact)

AMERICAN IDOL:
Building Jerusalem (Directions Not Included) Book One, Kris/Adam/Katy, 3 hours 45 min (+ 53 bonus minutes from Book Two)
Far Along This Road, Kris/Adam, 2 hours 54 min
Paper Gangsta, Kris/Adam, 1 hour 36 min.
All These Things That I've Done, Kris/Adam, 1 hour 35 min
Just One Sheep, Kris/Adam, 53 min
Take What We Want and Give the Rest Away, Kris/Adam, 47 min
Everything All the Time, Kris/Adam, 33 min
Hiding In Plain Sight, Kris/Adam, 18 min
Tequila Cake, Kris/Jim Cantiello, 12 min (read with bessyboo)
Sugar and Spice, Kris/Adam, 11 min
Two Beer Queer, Adam/Matt, 5 min
Untitled Katelyn/Lilly Drabble, Katelyn Epperly/Lilly Scott, 2 min

GLEE:
All the Other Ghosts (WIP), Kurt/Blaine, 11 hour 6 min so far (read with mcollinknight)
Step by Step Kurt/Blaine, 1 hour 20 min (read with reena_jenkins)
On the Line, Kurt/Blaine, 1 hour 17 min (read with bessyboo and jenepod)
Soon Enough, Kurt/Blaine, 42 min
Like a Girl Changes Clothes, girl!Kurt/girl!Blaine, 20 min
The Shame was on the Other Side, Blaine + Sam, 17 min (read with reena_jenkins)
the call of the nightbird, Kurt/Blaine, 15 min (read with reena_jenkins)
Love is Waiting, Kurt/Blaine, 13 min
A story set in modern times, about something that's so much older, Kurt/Blaine, 10 min
Give and Take, Kurt/Blaine, 8 min
Rending, Kurt/Blaine, 7 min
Freezing, Blaine/terrible choices, 4 min

TEEN WOLF:
you make my heart beat (faster), girl!Derek/girl!Stiles, 28 min
Lumberjack!Derek Notfic, Derek/Stiles, 8 min (read with the Informal Co-podfic Co-party of Muskrat Jamboree 2013)
Teen Wolf Coffee Orders, Gen, 7 min (read with reena_jenkins)
Voicing My Concerns, Derek/Stiles, 4 min (read with bessyboo)

VERONICA MARS:
Rich Dirt, Veronica/Logan, 25 min

EVERWOOD:
Give Me Back My Pieces, Hannah/Bright, 13 min

ELEMENTARY:
In Practice, Sherlock and Joan, 12 min

FEMINIST RYAN GOSLING:
When Fics Take on a Life of Their Own, Gen, 29 min (read with podcath)

HOMESTUCK:
Uniform Kink, Karkat/Equius, 15 min (read with opalsong)

TOUGH GUIDE TO FANTASYLAND:
The Tough Guide To Fantasy Cities, Gen, 19 min (read with reena_jenkins and Wesle)

AWESOME LADIES PODFIC ANTHOLOGY FICLETS
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: American Girls, Buffy, 3 min
Harry Potter: Blow Me Bluebell Bubbles, Alice Longbottom, 2 min
The Hunger Games: Trust, Rue, 1 min
Wicked: Me Without You Is Less Than None, Glinda/Elphaba, 4 min
Into the Woods: Ever After, Red, 3 min
Paper Towns: Out of Orbit, Margo, 2 min

AWESOME LADIES PODFIC ANTHOLOGY II FICLETS
The Good Wife: This Is Why, Kalinda, 5 min

AWESOME LADIES PODFIC ANTHOLOGY III FICLETS
Daria: Cold and Hot, Daria/Jane, 7 min
Glee: The City (The One) That Knows How, Tina, 6 min
Brave: Arktos, The Witch, 2 min

#INFORMALTWITTERPODFICEXCHANGE FICLETS
Glee: The One Where Blaine Gets Slushied, Kurt/Blaine, 5 min
Harry Potter: Sunset, Harry/Draco, 3 min
Harry Potter: In Favor, Harry/Draco, 3 min
Harry Potter: Untitled Stocking Stuffer, Harry/Draco, 4 min
Harry Potter: Untitled Steampunk Harry/Draco Wingfic, Harry/Draco, 8 min

Bandom Podfic Master Lists: MCR P!atD

I *love* having cover art created for my podfic, so at the recent OTW auction, I bid on a couple cover art auctions, and I won! \o/! This means I got to ask the amazingly talented karomeled to play with making cover art for my Elementary podfic, In Practice, and within a few hours she had created not one but *two* beautiful options. Here they are:





RIGHT? How flipping gorgeous are they, both so simple and quiet but powerful, just like the story and (I hope) like the podfic.

So in conclusion, cover art is amazing, karomeled is amazing and if she ever does another auction like this I will be first in line, and now the podfic of In Practice has a podbook version and a cover attached to the mp3! :D

Title: All the Other Ghosts (Parts 6–10 of 30)
Author: rainjoyswriting
Reader: klb & mcollinknight
Fandom: Glee
Pairing: Kurt/Blaine
Rating: NC-17
Length: 5:56:38
Warnings: See author's warnings here


(cover art by hapakitsune)

Links to mp3s: Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 (right-click save to download)
Link to podbooks (m4bs): Parts 1–10 OR Parts 1–5 | Parts 6–10

Reader's Note: I have actually been making pretty good time on this, and am now a third of the way through! (And it's only a chapter or two away from becoming my longest podfic ever.)

I also have amazing cover art now, made by hapakitsune. And with my shiny new cover art, I was able to compile groups of chapters into podbook (m4b) format. I wasn't sure whether to go with two smaller groups of chapters or one larger group, so I've just done both options. You can DL Parts 1–5 and Parts 6–10 or, if you have 540 MB of space, Parts 1–10 all at once.

I still love this story more than anything. I'm still channeling basically my entire life and all my feelings through this story and having an amazing time doing it. If you haven't been following the tumblr updates of individual chapters, this is a pretty substantial chunk of story and I hope you enjoy the journey. I'll post again here when I finish Part 15, or you can follow individual chapter updates on my tumblr

Title: In Practice
Author: inlovewithnight
Reader: klb
Rating: PG or PG-13 maybe?
Fandom: Elementary
Pairing: Joan and Sherlock (Non-sexual Kink)
Length: 0:11:56


cover art by karomeled

Direct link to mp3 (right-click save): Here
Mediafire link to mp3: Here
Direct link to m4b (right-click save): Here

Reader’s Note: Yesterday was reflectedeve's birthday, and she requested Elementary podfic! Which I'd been wanting to do but hadn't actually taken steps towards yet, so this was perfect. I'd read this story a while ago and found it really endearing and also very relevant to my own interests and my interpretation of Joan and Sherlock, but I was still in NO WAY prepared for how intense my feelings would be when I actually sat down to record and edit it as a podfic. All of the nuances of this are just so perfect for them, and so beautiful. I maybe didn't do the best job at differentiating their voices, and I didn't even attempt a British accent (IT'S FOR THE BEST, TRUST ME), but I did put a lot of thought into basically every second of every line reading, and I'm really excited to get to post this now and, by doing so, have a way to express all my feelings about this to the world!

Title: All the Other Ghosts (Parts 1–5 of 30)
Author: rainjoyswriting
Reader: klb & mcollinknight
Fandom: Glee
Pairing: Kurt/Blaine
Rating: NC-17 eventually
Length: 5:09:10
Warnings: See author's warnings here
Direct Links: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 (right-click save to download)

Reader's Note: As ridiculous as it may be to finish the longest podfic I've ever made and then immediately dive into a podfic project OVER TWICE AS LONG, there was never much question in my mind of whether I was going to record this story. It just got under my skin too much, it haunted me, okay, there was nothing to do with all those feelings except channel them into podfic performance. (And con one of my favorite podficcers in the universe, mcollinknight, to contribute her podficcing genius as well!)

For those not in Glee fandom and not sure whether to follow me into this story, let me make a pitch: this story is amazing. It doesn't depend on knowledge of, or love of, Glee. It's complicated and beautiful and about trying to do what is right and about being hurt and trying to trust and be safe at the same time. It's about fandom, in some really thoughtful and fascinating ways. It's about what it means to be brave, and what it means to be strong, and what it means to be a hero, and it just. Seriously, if you're on the fence, I'm asking you to give it a try and see if it can win you over, because I really truly believe in this story.

If you are in Glee fandom and have found your way here, you probably already know how amazing this story is. I hope that for some, it can add something to the (already frankly sublime) experience of this fic—a new perspective and interpretation, perhaps, or the ability to experience the story at new times: while washing the dishes, at the gym, driving to work, falling asleep...

This performance isn’t perfect. There are a million places where I falter and don’t quite hit what I wanted to say, although hopefully it’s still close enough to get something across of what I intended. This fic is so huge and important to me right now—I walk down the street and look up at rooftops while I listen through drafts of chapters and it *feels* like the Ghost is up there, and it makes me feel safer, as wild as that is. I just… hope some fraction of everything this story means to me comes through in this, is able to make someone else think something new, feel something new, add something to the world of the story.

So here is my experience of a story that overwhelms me with my response to it. Here is my invitation to share in that, if that idea is something that sounds good to you.

I'll be posting individual chapters to my tumblr, and every 5 chapters I'll make a post to my LJ/my DW/amplificathon/kurt_blaine, so if you do decide to listen along, you can keep an eye either place, depending on what size updates you want.

Title: The Tough Guide To Fantasy Cities
Author: marycrawford
Readers: klb, reena_jenkins, wesle
Rating: PG
Fandom: Tough Guide To Fantasyland - Diana Wynne Jones
Pairing: Gen
Length: 19:01


cover art by reena_jenkins

Direct link to The Tough Guide to Fantasy Cities: Here (right-click save to download)
Mediafire link to The Tough Guide to Fantasy Cities: Here

Reader's Note: reena_jenkins came to visit me on Sunday! YAY. And, of course, we love performing together—she is such a joy to work with, seriously—so it wasn't long before we started looking for fics that would work. And now that I have finally convinced my wonderful amazing boyfriend, wesle, to start making podfic, he got roped in as well. And Reena found this super fun story, and we sat on my couch and passed the mic around, and tried not to laugh too loudly at each others' sections (although I admit I needed about 10 seconds to catch my breath after Zombies Do It With Detachment). Anyway, it was quick and not super polished, but so so fun which I think fits perfectly with this already super fun story. Hopefully the good time we were having will come through in the listening experience!

Title: The Anatomy of a Fall (Part 12 of 12)
Author: novembersmith
Reader: klb
Fandom: Bandom
Pairing: Frank/Gerard
Rating: NC-17
Length: 1:15:30


cover art by aneas

Direct link to The Anatomy of a Fall Part 12 mp3: Here (right-click save to download)
Mediafire link to The Anatomy of a Fall Part 12 mp3: Here

Reader's Note: I mean.

What do I say?

My heart is pounding. My hands are shaking. This project means that much to me. And here we are at the end together.

I don't know what to say about the story. I don't know what there is to tell you that I haven't already put into my performance. I told novembersmith I was almost done and she asked me, "how did you do it?" And I said "Just. Love. And I had a lot to say." And now I suppose I've said it.

So instead of talking about the story itself, let me talk to you about the outro.

When I go to see movies in theatres, I always stay until the end of the credits, and I don't speak until the music stops playing. To me, that's sacred time. Time for processing, for letting everything sink in and fall into place inside me. And time for making the transition back from the world of the movie into the world of my own life, in the slow way that feels good, like waking up from a dream on one of those perfect mornings when you can take all the time you want to surface.

So with a podfic this long, of course I gave you credits music. If you, like me, stay until the end of movies, then you'll know exactly what to do with it. If not, use it however you'd like. It's a song that's incredibly dear to me, by a band that's incredibly dear to me, and it encapsulates much of what I feel about the story.

But when it's finished, keep listening. Because at the very end, I've shared with you one last thing that's incredibly precious to me. It's a poem, written by Dorianne Laux and read by novembersmith, that was part of my birthday present from novembersmith this year. I've never shared it with anybody else before, and I'll probably never share any of the other poems, but I had to give this one to you for a couple reasons. One, because I really wanted this podfic to have novembersmith's voice in it as well as mine. And two, when you hear her reading this poem, you'll know she could have been saying these words straight to Gerard. Or Frank. Or any of us readers. It's perfect, and when I listen back through the mp3 for this chapter, as I've done several times in editing, her reading is the part that always brings tears to my eyes.

Although you'll notice that I may have gotten a bit choked up a few times when reading the chapter as well, especially on the last line! Sorry about that! But I'm keeping it in, because maybe that's part of what I had to say—how much this means, how hard it is to close the book on beloved characters. Even when they're walking off hand in hand on their way to have hot wall sex in the woods. (NO NECROPHILIA ;P)

Aaaand that's enough talking from me. I'll put up a post later tonight with a zip of all the mp3 chapters and with the podbook. Love you all, whether you comment or not, whether I even know you're there or not, for making the decision to take this journey with me. It's been fucking awesome.

XO,
klb

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What's next? Do you have any podfic goals for next year?

I do! Obviously my first goal is to finish Anatomy of a Fall, which hopefully I can do quite soon. I only have 3 more scenes to record, and then 2 chapters to edit and post. I'm hoping I can have that done by the end of January?

After I finish AOAF, I'm pretty sure I'm done with bandom podfic forever. I've been out of bandom for years now, but I wasn't super strongly *in* any other fandom, so I just continued podficcing many of the bandom fics I'd already read and loved. But now I AM super passionate about another fandom, and that fandom is Glee, and right now basically all I want to do is make Glee podfic all day long. Including one project that is EVEN LONGER THAN AOAF AHAHA WHAT AM I DOING, but I've decided that if I set rules for myself that value speed over precision and don't let myself get caught up fussing with the details, I can do it.

I'm kinda not quite ready to announce yet, and I doubt many of you are in Glee fandom anyway (and if there is a mass unfriending of bandom followers after you read this, I promise to not be offended!). But when I get 5 chapters finished, I am going to announce the project and start posting, and I am so so excited. I just feel really blessed to be the first person to put voice to this particular story. Just, like... this story is exactly where I want to live, and I *get* to live there, and I get to bring others along with me, maybe even some who haven't been to the world of that story before, and that fills me with YES and joy and hope for 2013.

Title: The Anatomy of a Fall (Part 9 of 12)
Author: novembersmith
Reader: klb
Fandom: Bandom
Pairing: Frank/Gerard
Rating: NC-17 (this part R for language)
Length: 0:55:36


cover art by aneas

Direct link to The Anatomy of a Fall Part 9 mp3: Here (right-click save to download)
Mediafire link to The Anatomy of a Fall Part 9 mp3: Here

Reader's Note: With this chapter, Anatomy of a Fall is now officially the longest podfic I've ever done—and I've still got three chapters to go! This chapter is a bit of a calm before all the *action* that's coming up, but it was really nice to get to spend time with Ray and Bob and Frank all together. Honestly, all I can think in all these chapters is how, despite everything that's a mess in his life, that gloom that pervaded Gerard's POV in the beginning is just gone, and his happiness, even though it's very complicated happiness, is so wonderful to witness. :)

P.S. NEXT CHAPTER THERE IS PORN

And speaking of porn, before I end this note, I will quickly point you to some Homestuck D/s chatfic that I co-recorded with the intimidatingly talented opalsong. It's Karkat/Equius, uniform kink, entitled, appropriately enough, Uniform Kink, and it was a lot of fun. There are two versions posted, but I prefer the version where she's Equius and I'm Karkat (although I prefer both of her performances to either of mine—she's kind of masterful at Homestuck characterization...)

Quickly, before I post Chapter 8 of Anatomy of a Fall, I've put together a podbook (m4b) for the first 6 chapters, and I wanted to drop the link here!

So, to save people who are just starting this podfic journey the trouble of having to download 6 separate mp3s for the first half, here is the AOAF First Half Podbook! (right-click save).

I will post a podbook of the second half, as well as a zip file of all the individual mp3 chapters, when I have finished the rest of the story.