New Podfic: Wind from the South (by Nos4a2no9)

[arrow00]

Hey guys: I recorded Nos' Wind from the South
because I adore it beyond all measure. There is so much
freakin' emotion in this story, tightly packed down deep
beneath a layer of desolation so profound it's like an
avalanche. All drawn masterfully by Nos with her smooth
and stark words. It is to weep.


Title: Wind from the South
Author: nos4a2no9
Fandom: dS
Pairing: Fraser/RayK, Fraser/OFC
Raging: PG-13
Author's website: www.wasbeautiful.com
Story text: Wind from the South
Podfic version: [right mouse-click and save as] (32 MB | mp3 | 32:46)
(Now mirrored here by General Jinjur.)
Notes: Thanks to Nos for helping me with foreign language pronunciations.

Comments

[general-jinjur.livejournal.com]

i've been maintaining a podfic archive here and i would really like to mirror and include this. what do you think?

[arrow00.livejournal.com]

What a neat idea. Sure thing. Go for it.

[general-jinjur.livejournal.com]

hooray! it's up, here - thank you!

[arrow00.livejournal.com]

Cool, thanks.

Is your login name from the Oz book?

[general-jinjur.livejournal.com]

yes.

[arrow00.livejournal.com]

I loved Jinjur! She got an unfair deal in my book.

[general-jinjur.livejournal.com]

i like to think there's a whole thread of subversiveness that carries forward through her life. i mean, when she raised her army of revolt, she was just a kid - she had a reasonable gripe, and actually managed to accomplish her goals - she took control of the city, she was charismatic, she was able to articulate exactly what was necessary. but she was still just a kid, and she had no idea how to carry things forward. and since she had neither the ability to bluff and weird likeability of the wizard (either personally or in the body of the scarecrow as his designate), nor the divine right of ozma, she didn't have glinda's backing. hell, i don't think there would ever have been aware that she needed that backing, that glinda's overarching power/knowledge of events kingdom-wide are what made the government possible. she knocked out a bureaucracy that was functioning purely out of habit, but she had nothing to replace it with.

erm, anyway. i think she settles, later in life, but her initial goal - putting women into visible positions of power - is accomplished anyway.

she's my favorite.

[arrow00.livejournal.com]

What a terrific analysis. Some people are just meant to be leaders, and she was definitely one of them.

Screw the patriarchy!

[zabira.livejournal.com]

yay, arrow! i love that story, and i'm SO excited about you making podfics! \o/ more please?

[arrow00.livejournal.com]

eh, we'll see how this one flies, first...I have kind of a weird voice. :)

yeah, it's my absolute favorite of hers. the language and tone are just incredible.

[andeincascade.livejournal.com]

OMG, Arrow, you have a voice for podcasting, very sultry! You've got, like, cello undertones or something; mellow and rich, like really good coffee. I LOVED listening to it! I adore this story and you certainly did it justice.

Please, please, please trade off again!. I want to hear more of you and Nos has the perfect voicing to read yours. I always get an extra emotional jolt, and hey, I'm a Leo, we dig that kind of thing. *g* I weep and weep.

[arrow00.livejournal.com]

Hey Ande:

Thanks, I'm relieved you liked it. :) That story made me weep and weep and WEEP.

Right now Nos is urging me to record a Speranza piece, which I think I would love to do. She is such a terrific writer. Really, I think she set the bar in the fandom and it's wonderful for all of us that it's set so high.

[luzula]

Listened to this now, and it's gorgeous, you have a great voice. Do you sing? Because I bet you'd make a wonderful alto.

The pacing is good, too, it's faster than mine, but part of the reason I go slowly is that I'm not a native speaker, I think. Anyway, the words come through quite clearly. The reading feels quite different from the way I did it, but it's hard to put my finger on what makes the difference.

Oh, and if you're thinking about doing Speranza stories--I'm doing "Four Virtues", it'll be finished soon. Just so we don't do the double thing again... *g*

[arrow00.livejournal.com]

Hey Luz. I'm so relieved you liked it (and that the pacing didn't seem too fast.)

Yeah, I sing. Have a couple of groups. I'm closer to baritone than alto, though. I'm kind of a freak. :)

Thanks for the heads up about "Four Virtues." I'm thinking about doing "Eight Sessions" and then, if I get the gumption, "An Admirable Solution."

What's the best way to find out if someone else is already working on something?

[luzula]

That is so cool. The baritone thing, I mean. I used to sing in a choir (I was second alto), but now I mostly sing together with my sister.

I'd think the best way of finding out if someone's doing a podfic is to ask the author. I know Speranza's given blanket permission, but I still think people would check with her, or at least I did. I do know that Eight Sessions is on Zabira's to-do list (at the top of her LJ), but there are a lot of stories on that list, so you could ask her.

I think you could go straight to "An Admirable Solution", I'd love to hear your take on Fraser's ballads in the beginning... : )

[dodificus.livejournal.com]

Oh. My. GOD.

Your voice is this amazing thing that I have no words for. You read like you could have been recording a professional audio book, I felt like you'd started reading and just kept on going until you reached the end, that's how seamless and steady it was.

I've never read that story before and you made it into this whole *experience*, your reading added gravity to a story which is already fairly heavy going and sad. I felt like I was sinking into the bed, weighed down with Fraser's heaviness.

Your voice is so strange and unique and I adored it, please tell me you have another podfic in the pipeline. At this point I would download any fic you read. I would download you reading the phone book and end up crying by the end of it:)

[arrow00.livejournal.com]

Hey dodi:

wow, thank you most kindly. I'm so glad you enjoyed it so much.

I felt like I was sinking into the bed, weighed down with Fraser's heaviness.

lovely image...

I am working on recording Speranza's "An Admirable Solution" next...

Thank you so much for listening. Your note meant the world to me.

[cybel]

You read so beautifully, and the story is so breathtaking.

Would you like me to compile a podbook for you? This just adds a cover, makes it automatically bookmarkable, and, for those with iTunes, moves it out of the Music folder and into a separate Audiobooks folder where it won't be seen or heard when browsing or listening to songs. It also then automatically shows up in an Audiobooks playlist on an iPod.

I know Nos can compile them as well and may want to make her own, so I dropped her a note about it.

Again, gorgeous work! I hope you read many more stories, including some of your own, of course.

[cybel]

Nos gave her permission for the podbook and sent me a lovely cover for it, so I uploaded here.

Would you mind if I posted the book to podslash, or would you like to do so?

I'm very much looking forward to your next podfic, both because I adore Ces' stories and I'm looking forward to hearing more of your lovely voice.

[arrow00.livejournal.com]

wow, nice job! I've never seen a podbook before. How cool. And what a gorgeous cover.

You made it, so I think you should post it, eh? I'll add a link to this posting...should I upload it to my site?

Thanks for the note and the encouragement. I have a cold right now so Ces' story will have to wait until I sound less like a foghorn. :)

I couldn't possibly record my own stories, I don't think. It's hard enough even posting 'em sometimes.

[cybel]

Please, post it anywhere you like; it's yours and Nos'. I just ran it through my software program. I only asked about podslash because that's where I often post, and I noticed you hadn't put the podfic up there. I'll, as always, list all credits and link back to your original post.

Thanks again for letting me participate in this!

[jesse_the_k]

Finally got around to listening to this, and all those raves up there were exactly right.

I wept even harder this time, and I'd already re-read Nos' fabulous story twice.

You have mad narrating skillz--you know your way around a mic, and it shows. You do an excellent job with shifting voices without attempting to do each voice as a character. (Unless you're Jim Dale, it's not worth trying to do this. Hey, even if you are Jim Dale.) Your pacing is just right.

Mooooooooore!

[arrow00.livejournal.com]

ooh, Jim Dale. you have invoked the master. :)

thanks much, jesse, that means a lot. truth is, Nos' words really don't need me to get in the way. she's pure poetry all by herself.

[nos4a2no9.livejournal.com]

*blushes and runs away*

Arrow, I'm working on an F/K quest!fic right now and I just wrote, "his foot was numb as a block of ice. It was ice-like." I assure you, the poetry is few and far between, and it takes a lot of work to get it right. :-)

Thank you for the kind words, my friend!

[arrow00.livejournal.com]

heehee. ::sits here wondering if e e cummings ever had to, like, EDIT.::

[nos4a2no9.livejournal.com]

Awww, thanks for the kind words about the story! And arrow00 really did a fabulous job - she's amazing. I think it's one of my favourite dS readings (which, um, I might be slightly biased, but still :-) And you're right: the pacing is excellent, and she does have mad narrating skillz. \arrow/

[busaikko]

I was recced this podfic, and after listening agree totally and will be reccing it myself. The story is amazing in the way it gets into Fraser's grief and depression and the cold, and your reading pulls the listeners into that world. Brilliant! Thank you.

[arrow00.livejournal.com]

thank you! the ending of that story still just gets me. just gets me.