nickelmountain

Another KISSES Fest has come and gone at audiofemme. We had a good turnout this year - I haven't had a chance to listen to any of the other Makeouts yet, but I really enjoyed working on the Peck on the Lips compilation, and was really impressed with everyone's contributions. Also, yue_ix did a fantastic job with the cover art. Everyone's been talking about it, and rightly so.

I know I'm biased because I'm both a co-mod and a contributor, but I highly recommend checking out the fest. You can find all the Pecks (and the cover art!) here, and the Makeouts are posted directly to audiofemme.

This year I recorded four Pecks and one Makeout. Streaming is available through the mp3 links for all of them. Here they are:


Title: The Waiting Song
Author: helens78
Fandom: One Tree Hill
Pairing: Karen Roe/Deb Scott
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 00:01:12
Summary: Karen knows how to wait.
Links: mp3 || m4b


Title: my love is unusual
Author: janie_tangerine
Fandom: Deadwood
Pairing: Joanie Stubbs/Jane Cannary
Rating: Explicit
Length: 00:05:05
Summary: Jane shakes whenever Joanie takes off her clothes.
Links: mp3 || m4b


Title: Payback
Author: thericketandoo
Fandom: Hannibal
Pairing: Freddie Lounds/Beverly Katz
Rating: Mature
Length: 00:05:48
Summary: Bev wasted no time forcing her way in as Freddie opened the door to the motel room. It was startling, how quickly Bev was inside and removing articles of clothing. Startling, yes, but in the best way possible.
Links: mp3 || m4b


Title: Two-Step
Author: raja815
Fandom: Star Trek TOS (with a certain character from AOS)
Pairing: Nyota Uhura/Gaila
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 00:09:56
Summary: It seems Uhura knows a few things about Orions.
Links: mp3 || m4b


Title: How Subtle the Links
Author: hanet
Fandom: Star Trek DS9/TNG
Pairing: Ro Laren/Kira Nerys
Rating: Mature
Length: 00:39:10
Summary: Ro Laren and Kira Nerys meet at the opening of a Bajoran Occupation Memorial.
Music: Haikuesque (When She Laughs), by Bibio
Written for the Femslash and Queergen Summer Exchange at wherenowoman.
Reader's Note: I originally asked permission to record this fic over a year ago. Maybe even a year and a half? I remember thinking I was behind in recording it when I first started to work on it for KISSES Fest last year. I failed out about halfway through the recording, through absolutely no fault of the fic's, and started over from scratch this year. I'm really glad I finally finished it. I love this story to pieces. <3
Links: mp3 || m4b

Thanks again to all the authors for giving me permission to podfic their work! If you enjoy these podfics, please do leave feedback for the authors.

And thanks as well to cantarina1 for being such a lovely co-mod! <333

We're down to the odds and ends here. Just a couple more posts. These are all really small fandom podfics. I probably won't ever record anything else in Dexter or Ginger Snaps, but I'd love to do more with The City & The City, Friday Night Lights, and Fright Night. The covers for Bright Yellow Sky and Pluck are both second or third attempts.


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Fandom: The City & The City (China Mieville)
Characters: Mahalia Geary, David Bowden, Yolanda Rodriguez
Summary: Mahalia has the room on the corner, less because she'd asked for it than because nobody else had wanted it. The view is nothing special: no neon, no dazzling architecture, no illicitly schizophrenic vista of the cities—nothing particularly Ul Qoman at all.


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Fandom: Dexter
Characters: Dexter Morgan, Brian Moser, Debra Morgan
Summary: We haven't met, but I killed someone you passed in the street once.


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Fandom: Friday Night Lights
Characters: Jess Merriweather, Vince Howard, Landry Clarke, and Vernon, Caleb, Darius, and Andre Merriweather
Summary: You just gotta keep doing it, okay, just keep doing it over and over, do it thousands of times, 'cause you'll get that muscle memory. Just y'know, just forget about the guys, the big guys charging at you, and the fans, the chaos, just like, zone in, inside yourself and forget it all, let it all, the chaos, just let it go. Just let it go, you know?


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Fandom: Fright Night (2011)
Characters: Charley Brewster/Jerry
Summary: Charley's friend has been turned and now his neighbor is dead. Charley goes back in for the kill. It doesn't go as well as he'd planned.


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Fandom: Ginger Snaps (2000)
Characters: Ginger Fitzgerald/Brigitte Fitzgerald
Summary: Ginger's wants have never been anything but dangerous.

Here are today's set of podfic covers. I'm still not completely happy with the first one in the Star Trek batch, but I feel pretty good about both of the Fireflys.

Here's four for Star Trek:


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Star Trek AOS
Characters: Jim Kirk/Spock
Summary: "During a rare shoreleave on Earth over the holidays, Kirk convinces Spock to take a road trip with him. He didn't count on a record snowfall. Now they're stranded in a motel room for Christmas, and stir-craziness is beginning to set in..."


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Star Trek AOS
Characters: Gaila/Christine Chapel
Summary: "On her birthday, Gaila takes Chapel on a surprise trip."


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Star Trek TNG
Characters: Deanna Troi/Selar
Summary: "Deanna had never done it with a Vulcan before."


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Star Trek DS9
Characters: Kira Nerys/Jadzia Dax
Summary: "The monastery scene in 02x03, 'The Siege': Kira makes sense of Jadzia in vedek's robes."

...and two for Firefly:


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Characters: Inara Serra/Kaylee Frye
Summary: "The second time Inara kissed her, Kaylee realised there were things she hadn't even dared to dream."


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Characters: River Tam/Kaylee Frye
Summary: "'If Serenity were a woman, River thinks, they would be much the same.' Four drabbles on the same theme."

I've made six Fringe podfics to date, so here are six shiny new covers to go with them. A couple of these covers are among my favorites so far. A warning - the sixth cover is mildly NSFW.

You know what I discovered while I was making these covers? I discovered that doing a Google image search for Anna Torv is an exceptionally pleasant way to spend an afternoon. Her face, you guys. Her face.

Actually, the same goes for Jasika Nicole. Hmm.

I may need to go find myself some more Astrid/Olivia. I haven't read any new Fringe fic since S5 stomped all over my heart, but Astrid/Olivia sounds really good to me right now.

Anyway. Here they are:


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Characters: Olivia Dunham/Peter Bishop, Walter Bishop
Summary: "It starts like this." Spoilers through early S2.


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Characters: Olivia Dunham/Peter Bishop, Astrid Farnsworth, Walter Bishop
Summary: "It is hard to let go of what might have been, especially when it's been presented in the flesh." Spoilers through mid S3.


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Characters: Olivia Dunham/Astrid Farnsworth, with references to red!Olivia and red!Astrid
Summary: "Set post-3x09 Marionette to the tune of care, equations, untainted, comfort, lab time, probabilities, milkshake, numbers, desire, something new, and intervention."


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Characters: Astrid Farnsworth & Walter Bishop, with Gene the cow
Summary: "Astrid didn't want to be Walter Bishop's lab assistant. Unfortunately, neither did anyone else." Set during early S1.


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Characters: Olivia Dunham/Olivia Dunham (red!/!blue!)
Summary: "They need each other." S3.




...and here's the mildly NSFW one:





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Characters: Olivia Dunham/Emily Prentiss (crossover with Criminal Minds)
Summary: "Sometimes they win." No spoilers for any season of either show.

Sorry for the spamming. I swear this is it from me today. I've posted four new podfics to amplificathon and AO3 in the last couple of months, but never posted them to my journal. That's a little weird for me, so here they are:





Title: 8 early drafts of Sam Winchester's college admission essay and the one he sent to Stanford (the sweet little blond jam)
Author: nwhepcat
Readers: nwhepcat & nickelmountain
Cover Artist: nickelmountain
Fandom: Supernatural
Rating: Teen & Up
Pairings: Gen
Length: 00:29:57
Summary: Sam thinks no one knows what he's scrawling in his wire-bound notebook at odd times during the days and nights. He would be wrong.

Download: mp3 || m4b
Streaming available through mp3 link.

( Reader's Note )


Title: And the Devil Got His Due
Author: liliaeth
Reader & Cover Artist: nickelmountain
Fandom: Supernatural
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Gen
Spoilers: AU from Jus In Bello, spoilers for general situation of S4
Length: 00:33:51
Intro & Outro Music: Jubilee Street, by Nick Cave
Summary: "Ready like a court order to keep you in a maximum security prison in Nevada until trial, ready like isolation in a soundproof, windowless cell so small that between you and me it's probably unconstitutional. How's that for ready? Take a good look at Sam, you two will never see one another again."

Download: mp3 || m4b
Streaming available through mp3 link.

( Reader's Note )



Title: A House in His Head
Author: jmtorres
Reader & Cover Artist: nickelmountain
Fandom: Cyteen (C.J. Cherryh)
Characters: Grant ALX-972, Justin Warrick, Jordan Warrick, Ariane Emory I
Pairing: Grant ALX-972/Justin Warrick
Rating/Warnings: Teen and Up. The fandom is the warning (seriously, it's pretty fucked up). Contains non-explicit references to canonical rape.
Length: 00:30:15
Summary: "He wasn't standing in a house with a wall of safes anymore; he was standing in front of a safe with most of a house in it, like an Escher."
Intro/Outro Music: Distortions, by Clinic

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Streaming available through mp3 link.




Title: experimental procedure
Author: lindensphinx
Reader & Cover Artist: nickelmountain
Fandom: Cyteen (C.J. Cherryh)
Characters: Ariane Emory II, Justin Warrick, Grant ALX-972, Florian AF-9979 II, Catlin AC-7892 II (with references to Ari I, Florian I, & Catlin I)
Rating/Warnings: Mature. The fandom is the warning. (I told you, it's messed up.) Contains references to canonical rape.
Length: 00:18:59
Summary: "Ari hasn't thought of the right way to watch that tape. Yet."
Intro/Outro Music: Human Qualities, by Explosions in the Sky

Download: mp3 || m4b
Streaming available through mp3 link.

Note: This is a re-recording. I first podficced this story in 2011, but when I listened to it again recently I decided I wanted to do it over. This is the version I prefer.

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( Reader's Notes )

fandomaid is hosting an auction to raise funds for areas affected by Hurricane Sandy. Bidding starts immediately, and ends at 4pm CST November 29th. I'm offering one podfic of up to 5000 words, but for a donation of $50 or more I'll raise that limit to 15,000 words. You can find my offer here. 

This is a podfic-friendly auction, but the language of it is less overtly so than it was for Somalia, or than other similar auctions I've participated in. As such, it's leaning very fic-heavy at the moment. I would really, really love to bid on some podfic - if any other podficcers on my flist are up for it, you should totally consider posting an offer! 

1) I'm a procrastinator. Like, a really, really bad one. I know. I'm sorry.

2) I'm hosting a podfic listening party at wincon this year. (I know, that's just over a week away. I'm terrible. Shut up.) I have some podfics in mind that I know I want to include, but I don't want it to just be my taste/my fandoms/etc. If you have any recs, I'd love to hear them!

The listening party is only 50 minutes, so in the interest of hearing a diverse range of voices and fandoms, I'm looking primarily at podfics around 5 minutes long, give or take a couple minutes. All fandoms, pairings, and ratings are welcome. If you know of a short podfic that you think represents everything awesome about podfic in general, or a specific reader, or podfic in a particular fandom, please tell me about it in the comments! Self recs are totally welcome. You can also @reply or DM me on Twitter (nickelmountain)

Fandoms I don't listen in very much that I'd especially love some recs for include: Bandom (including AI), Glee, SPN RPF, Teen Wolf, and The Social Network. I also want to make sure to include new favorites and old standbys like the Avengers, Harry Potter, SGA, and (of course) Supernatural. I know where to look & have some ideas in mind for those, but again, diversity rules. 

When I first submitted the idea to wincon, I thought I'd be all organized and on top of things (stop laughing), and that I'd try to model it after the vid party - which meant including one or two premieres. Now there's obviously not nearly enough time to ask someone to record something brand new for next week, but, that said...if you are interested in premiering a short podfic at the podfic listening party, just let me know. 

Thanks for your help!