the24thkey

Stats

Once again including my ITPE project, even if it technically belongs in January, I've posted 11 podfics in 2017.

Longest: before things come together, 04:36:18

Shortest: people headin' out for the sun, 09:04

3 collabs

Total time: 09:37:19

Additionally, I took part in two big multi-voice projects.


What was the best podfic you made this year?

before things come together has been very well received, and I am really proud of it. I think it suits my reading style well, and I put a lot of love into it. I'm really glad that people have given it a try even if they're not in BTS fandom!
Somewhat to my own surprise, I realized that They Have Taken Photographs of Our Footprints in the Dust (SW: Rogue One) also counts into 2017's stats. I posted it so early in January that it feels forever ago, but that one is also a strong contender and personal favourite.


What was the best cover you made this year?

I'm still pleased with how the cover for Wheelhouse (Bond movies) came together, so it's either that or the one for SUP, SO SEDUCTIVE (BTS) for the font combination. Both pretty minimalist, but that's what I'm good at. And while I actually made it in 2015 or 2016 (I think), I've always been very pleased with the cover I made for While Recognizing the Importance of Luck in Certain Situations, Eve Genoard Continues to Disapprove of Gambling (Baccano!)


Personal favourite, for whatever reason?

SUP, SO SEDUCTIVE (BTS) is up there among my favourite things I've ever made, I love it SO MUCH. I'm super proud of it, too. I don't usually do straight-up PWPs, but I think it came out really well and hopefully pretty hot. Also it's hilarious, and I always love the funny ones best. pack off the sunset glow (SEVENTEEN) is a late but strong contender for that very reason.


Most underappreciated?

While Recognizing the Importance of Luck in Certain Situations, Eve Genoard Continues to Disapprove of Gambling (Baccano!), one of my collabs with Rhea. Then again, the Baccano fandom is like, 3 people, and that already includes Rhea and me. I was also expecting a bit more for i want you (really, i mean really) (BTS) because, well. It's a really cute and funny coffee shop au? But in general BTS fandom has been absolutely wonderful to me and my work, so I really can't complain.


Most difficult to make?

Down River Road (Haikyuu!!) gave me some trouble because the voices didn't quite work out the way I wanted them to, and before things come together (BTS) was a struggle because I had only just gotten into kpop and the Korean names were really difficult. I did my best, though!
That aside I'm actually really pleased with everything I've posted this year and I feel like I've improved a lot in a couple of ways. I'm trying to become less of a perfectionist, and as a consequence I've become a lot faster at editing. Most of my recent podfics have an incredible turn around time from when I started recording to the date of posting, and even They Have Taken Photographs of Our Footprints in the Dust was completed within 8 days.


Most "ah ha ha I can't believe I'm doing this"?

SUP, SO SEDUCTIVE (BTS), definitely. I mean, it's lingerie porn. I did something really silly with the music. And just the recording experience was very weird. I read the fic shortly after it was first posted, laughed my ass off, asked for permission and then recorded and posted it in two days, laughing even more throughout the entire thing. Again, pack off the sunset glow (SEVENTEEN) is a runner up for how it had me belting out songs at 9 PM, hoping really, really hard that our downstairs neighbours wouldn't be able to hear me.


Biggest learning experience?

All my kpop podfics, in general. I'm already working on a base level of two languages with any podfic I record, English and German, and adding Korean to that, even if it's just names, was pretty difficult. More so than with anime fandoms, because I can at lest speak Japanese, too. Also, hearing peoples' actual singing and speaking voices as much as I did with the amount of kpop videos I watched, it was surprisingly difficult to find some character voices. I didn't really have that problem back in bandom, but then I didn't watch nearly as many interviews etc. back then.


What's next? 

A weirdly competitive part of me wants to record enough podfic for one or two fandoms that they overtake hockey on my AO3 profile, hah. I have a couple projects I'm currently working on that I'm very excited about, and some vague plans for future podfics. And I want to record some more collabs! I finally hit 50 podfics in 2017, so I wonder what next year will bring. Probably not 100, but maybe 80? We'll see. ;D

So I've been meaning to put all my back-log of podfic on dreamwidth for ages, to the point that there's way too much for individual posts. But it's time at last, so let's do this: All the podfic I've posted on the AO3 since 2016.

First up: all the collabs I did with all the amazing, wonderful podficcers I'm lucky to know. <3 I've done a lot of them so far and every time it's such a great experience. Covers included if they were made by me because I like having them on my dw as well.



( ALL OF THE COLLABS )

 

the song went on forever by salvage (Guardians of the Galaxy, gen) is a short and sweet story about cuddling. A++++ all around and recorded for my fellow sky pirate forzandopod. The pic I used for the cover actually ends right about where the text begins, so I had to spend some quality time with the stamp tool, or whatever it's called. The podfic comes in at an adorable 06:02 and can be downloaded here. \o/



Chacun à son goût by thehoyden (Dresden Files, Harry/Marcone) is a classic and an old favourite. I decided almost immediately to record this for my darling hananobira , having apparently forgotten just how many opera terms are in there. XD Endless thanks to kalakirya for helping me with the surprise!Italian and fishpatrol for being my trusty beta. For the cover art I used a picture of what I think is actually a Chicago opera house? I tried finding one of a private box, but alas, the google fu was not with me.

I ended up listening to quite a bit of opera thanks to working on this, and actually watched some sort of movie version of La Boheme on youtube. The song at the beginning of this podfic is an instrumental version of quando m'en vo, aka Musetta's solo, because she's my fav. :D The music at the end is the prelude to La Traviata, though I also considered the overture of Die Fledermaus. Also: at some point I'm going to release a blooper reel that includes the 5 minutes I spent freaking out about the pronunciation of segue. I mean, seriously? SEGWAY? 

Ahem. Anyway, the podifc is 1:11:50 long and can be downloaded here.




The One with the Bros by andavs (Teen Wolf, Derek/Stiles) might actually be my surprise!favourite, just because the narration was so much fun to record. I mean, it's a story about Stiles, Derek and Scott fighting (well, 'fighting') against a coven made of frat bro witches. How amazing is that? Hella amazing. And hella funny. I was so happy that I thought of this when I was contemplating what to record for reena_jenkins . It's perfect for her (I hope). 

And I'm so pleased with how the cover turned out, I can't even tell you. I found that guy just by googling frat bro, photoshopped the Ucla logo on there, and boom, super fast yet super cool cover art. i guess alternatively I could have taken a picture of work bro in one of his Ucla shirts (no but seriously, why does he have all of those, we're in Germany) but I'm sorry to say he wouldn't have been able to pull off that glorious douchiness/swagger. The music, as stated, is from that college song, and my super-short-notice beta was the lovely yue_ix . <3

The podfic comes in at a very pleasing 54:45 and can be downloaded here.

Enjoy~ <3

Hiya Internets, it's been a while!

This month is one of fangirl visits and traveling (except for the next one and a half weeks, during which I have to go to work, ugh) that I've been looking forward to all year, and so far it's been AMAZING. <3 Maybe I'll get around to writing it up sometime, but for now I just want to write an overdue crosspost, since ~a certain someone~ (:P) helpfully reminded me that I hadn't done it yet. I present to you - drumroll please - the podfic project of my heart for the two and a half years it took me to finish it:



Early last month I finally finished editing bring it if you really want it by staraflur (Hockey RPF, Patrick Kane/Jonathan Toews), aka probably my favourite Harry Potter AU in the history of ever. I ended up recording like, 10 minutes of gushy reader's notes, so I don't want to get into too much detail here except to say that I'm honestly amazed that I managed to do this. It took me forever, but I made it, and I'm still really proud of that. And as always, beta was provided by fishpatrol, who is the best. <333

The podfic comes in at 15 hours 31 minutes and 3 seconds (!!!!!) and you can download it all in one .zip file over here, graciously hosted by the wonderful paraka.

It's also a fic that stands alone very well, so even if you don't know the fandom, give it a try if you like HP-AUs and epic world building!

Enjoy <3

Happy #ITPE reveals, y'all! :D I got the loveliest gift and two awesome treats this year - two Inception podfics and one Check, Please! podfic - so you should head over to the masterlist to check those out.

I got the lovely Hananobira as my recipient this year, so right from the beginning I knew I was gonna record some Hockey RPF for her. I somehow ended up recording about 2 and a half hours total, which was a bit much with all the other stuff I had going on. ^^''' I am very pleased with the result though, so. Here we go.



God, You Two Are So Married written by popfly (Hockey RPF, Jamie Benn/Tyler Seguin) started as 'Eh, I guess I'd better record Hana some Jamie/Tyler.' and ended up as 'Oh my god this project is my baby, I love it so much!'. It's pretty normal for me to fall more in love with a story while recording it, but in this case I'm just so pleased with how it turned out. The music I used for this is Wouldn't It Be Nice by The Pet Shop Boys, which is one of those songs that's just on my laptop and I have no idea why? I've downloaded a lot of fanmixes over the years, I guess it might've been on one of those. At first I wasn't quite sure if it was a good song to use - I really like it, but I can never quite figure out if it's sincere or ironic - but whatever, it fit. A sappy song for a ridiculously cute story.

I'm also super pleased with the cover art! At first I had something very different planned, but as it turns out, using other people's wedding photos for a cover feels a bit creepy. Even if it's just pictures of their dogs. <.< I eventually came across a stock image of a speech bubble made ot of symbols and decided to adapt that, using some stuff from from the stock image and adding some others that fit the story. I think this might be my new favourite cover, seriously.

Beta was provided by fishpatrol , the podfic is 37:46 minutes long and you can download it here.




Dude, Where's The Stanley Cup?! by svmadelyn (Hockey RPF, Jonathan Toews/Patrick Kane) is a story I had previously considered recording, so that choice was easy. It gave me a bit more trouble than I expected - I feel like I should've done something to separate the scenes more clearly, and Geno is barely in it, but man his lines are hard! - but it was also super fun to try out some over the top performances. Shawzy is my favourite part of this, hands down. I wasn't quite sure whether I should really include the author's notes at the beginning since they're quite long, but I felt like the info about just who the hell Mike and Phil are should probably be included.

I considered several songs for this podfic, including some from the movie soundtrack, some country songs, and, at some point, 500 Miles by The Proclaimers. In the end none of it really felt right and I was already a day over the deadline, so I went ahead with it as it is. Thinking about it now, Geronimo by Sheppard really is the one that feels the most appropriate, even though I decided against it because the lyrics didn't fit. I'm still not very good with choosing music unless the title is from a song, really.

The cover art is the first thing I did for this project. I tried several things, but in the end I really wanted to use the logo after spending forever changing it, so. A map and a minivan it is. Many thanks to kalakirya for jumping in as beta on very short notice. The podfic comes in at 1:55:28 and can be downloaded here.

I've been looking forward to doing this since I saw it going around last year. I even started a spreadsheet because of it, though that might also just be because Podficcers/spreadsheets = OTP.

( Here we go! )