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Podfic: Let You Kiss Me
Sep. 21st, 2010 10:04 pmThere's something wonderful about someone offering to make a podfic of your story. It's a labour of love. Like creating a cover or postinga rec, it's something that a fellow fan does simply because something in your story touched them, caused a reaction, gave them a moment of glee.
It's wonderful to be asked. (And for the record, if anyone wants to record my fics, go ahead. It's awesome of you to offer your time like that.)
There is something undescribably thrilling about having your favourite podfic reader do this.
But nothing compares to the utter joy of the first time you listen to it and discover that the story you loved, the story you had to get down in words and imagined so clearly, has been made so much *better*.
I just listened to Fayjay's recording of Let Me Kiss You (So Sweet and So Soft) (podfic/audiobook). I'm not sure my glee can be textually rendered.
First of all, Fayjay has such a great grasp of the voices. I't slike listening to Anthony Head read a Doctor Who fic -- the way he pronounces the Doctor's dialogue doesn't sound like David Tennant, but there's some inherent Doctorness to it that makes you respond, that is so clearly the character. I have more of a physical reaction to Fayjay's Sherlock-voice than I do to Benedict Cumberbatch's actual Sherlock-voice; it works for me more than I can say.
(Which is not to discredit her John-voice, just that her Sherlock-voice always makes me think, "Wow, I should pay more attention to the sound of Sherlock speaking in the show because -- sexy.")
Second of all, it's the intonation. The way she hits "buggery fuck" perfectly, the way I always imagined it, the way I myself have been known to say it when stuck in traffic, late and hitting an endless monotony of red lights. The way she says "the possibility of sex" in a way I hadn't quite imagined but once I heard it, I knew without a doubt that that's exactly how John would think it, with that underlying wonder about the whole idea.
I don't know if I can describe the complete glee I felt listening to this, the way it was the story inside my head except *better*, more vivid, more alive, more *them*. But, oh, I'm totally going to be listening to that a few more times this week.
It's wonderful to be asked. (And for the record, if anyone wants to record my fics, go ahead. It's awesome of you to offer your time like that.)
There is something undescribably thrilling about having your favourite podfic reader do this.
But nothing compares to the utter joy of the first time you listen to it and discover that the story you loved, the story you had to get down in words and imagined so clearly, has been made so much *better*.
I just listened to Fayjay's recording of Let Me Kiss You (So Sweet and So Soft) (podfic/audiobook). I'm not sure my glee can be textually rendered.
First of all, Fayjay has such a great grasp of the voices. I't slike listening to Anthony Head read a Doctor Who fic -- the way he pronounces the Doctor's dialogue doesn't sound like David Tennant, but there's some inherent Doctorness to it that makes you respond, that is so clearly the character. I have more of a physical reaction to Fayjay's Sherlock-voice than I do to Benedict Cumberbatch's actual Sherlock-voice; it works for me more than I can say.
(Which is not to discredit her John-voice, just that her Sherlock-voice always makes me think, "Wow, I should pay more attention to the sound of Sherlock speaking in the show because -- sexy.")
Second of all, it's the intonation. The way she hits "buggery fuck" perfectly, the way I always imagined it, the way I myself have been known to say it when stuck in traffic, late and hitting an endless monotony of red lights. The way she says "the possibility of sex" in a way I hadn't quite imagined but once I heard it, I knew without a doubt that that's exactly how John would think it, with that underlying wonder about the whole idea.
I don't know if I can describe the complete glee I felt listening to this, the way it was the story inside my head except *better*, more vivid, more alive, more *them*. But, oh, I'm totally going to be listening to that a few more times this week.
