art break! horror manga! reading things! podfic?

[badbastion]

It's so strange to have a relatively clean plate, art-wise. I think I'm gonna livestream tonight (starting pretty late), then draw one last thing I owe somebody, then kind of take a break on the art. If I want to draw something, I will, but if not, I'll go and play a game or read some horror manga or something \o/ I do believe there are some Junji Ito stories on the internet that are new to me, plus I have a few series I was reading. (If anyone shares my love for horror and guro, I would love some links. On tumblr, I watch hellyeahhorrormanga, and I find a lot of things through that blog. But I can't always find where to read them! lol)

Speaking of reading, I am SOOO BEHIND! When the bigbang season happened, I was so busy arting for my own things that I didn't really try to keep up with all the fic coming out. There was SO MUCH. I've got a lot of it bookmarked, and hopefully I can read a big chunk of that. I look forward to it; some of those summaries sounded amazing. lol Great Job, SPN Fandom! So many creative people, it's wonderful.

ALSO, years ago, I tried my hand at doing podfic as part of a self-esteem raising thing? Like, I was (and still kind of am) embarrassed of my voice and the way I speak, and I tried to conquer that by recording a few fics and (eep) sharing them with ~THE WORLD. Okay, so like 50 people total listened to my podfics. It helped though! I'm still a little insecure about it, but podficcing was fun, mistakes and mushmouth and all. I'd like to do it again (but by NO means at the same output level of my art, lol.) SOOOO I think it would be cool if a few people would link me to their own fics, and I could mangle record them :)

*Any rating works for me, but please nothing over 2000 words, and please stick to pairings/characters I already do.

*Give me a link to one or two stories please; I have trouble choosing if someone says "any of my stories would be great." Too much to process! :P

*I'll probably stop at the first five or six or something.

*There's no guarantee it'll get recorded--I've found that there are some writers whose rhythms or dialog just flummox me, and it has nothing to do with how good a fic is. I'm a novice, see, haha.

*Also, if aspects of the story are wildly outside of my interests, I'll... probably just skip it, sorry.

ETA: Thank you all! I think I've got enough experimental subjects, haha. Though if anyone wants to throw a Sam/Castiel fic my way to practice on, I'd be happy to give that one a try, too :)

Comments

[riyku.livejournal.com]

Congrats on cleaning off your fannish plate. Tell me, please, exactly how wonderful that feels? I don't think it's ever happened to me before, and I actually thought the concept was purely mythical. Looking forward to watching you draw tonight if you end up livestreaming.

Have fun reading bigbangs! We are ridiculously fortunate to be in a fandom that has so much talent and so much output. My 'to read' bookmarks are mountainous. Reckon I'll never catch up.

As for podficcing (which I know next to nothing about), a few people have recorded my fic, and have contacted me about switching some words around if they get tongue tied or there are too many sibilant sounds all put together, in order to make a cleaner sound, if that makes sense. Speaking of which, feel free to take a stab at any of mine. (Spoiler: I would love it) I've written a few shortish Sam/Dean recently: Winner Takes All, Watch the Bed Burn, or Closer which you inspired in the first place--kinda a full circle sort of thing.

If podficcing is something you're really thinking about getting into, can I also point you in the direction chemm80? She's a very prolific reader, knowledgeable and above all kind and super helpful, and I'm sure she'd be happy to answer any questions.

[badbastion.livejournal.com]

Ah, but I've only been in the fandom for half a year, and I'm wary of commitments anyway! So I never signed up for a whole lot, I do have art WIPs, but I don't count them. I either finish them or I don't, haha.

Great, thanks for the links! I will grab one of those :) And I'm glad I can make some wiggle room if i get tongue tied, because I do often.

I love chemm80's podfics so much! I've listened to soooo many; she really is prolific. Thanks for suggesting her--it's good to know she's kind and helpful (not that I thought otherwise, but you know what I mean.) If I need help, I will shyly send here a message :)

[badbastion.livejournal.com]

I haaaad to do Closer, for the foreskin action :o~~~ I may try to redo it later when I've got a little more control over my squishy pronunciation (it's not TOO too bad, but you should have heard the first draft, lol.)

So enough talking myself down, haha. Here is podfic! Thanks for letting me practice on your fic, and I enjoyed it!

[riyku.livejournal.com]

weird weird weird! I just got notification of this comment a minute ago. Talk about a delay. BUT! Hooray podfic! So happy that you found a fic to work with, really, and that you chose Closer, because I'm pretty fond of that one myself.

I'm up to my ears in my salt-burn-porn fic right now (24 hour tag challenge and this my fic is proving hard to get out right now), and I'm saving this to listen to as a prize in the wee hours of the morning, after I'm done, at which point I'll be back to flail all over you. Thanks so much, bas. You rock.