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 :)

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[badbastion.livejournal.com]

Hello there! here I am, asking for help. In a general way; I'm afraid I don't know enough to ask specific questions yet, lol.

I've posted some of the podfics that came of this post here: http://badbastion.livejournal.com/21948.html

When you have the time, could I ask you to listen to one or two of them, and tell me if I'm doing anything wrong? Or if there's something I should keep doing, or if you notice anything I should work on. I've asked for feedback in the post, but I would really love your very experienced feedback before I start in on the next batch. I would reeeeally appreciate it if you could do this.

Here are some specifics of how I record:

*I use Audacity, and I record on one track, pausing verbally (but not the program) when I make mistakes and restarting reading at the beginning of a sentence, then I edit out all the mistakes after I've recorded the whole track. I think I did use more tracks on one or two of them to fix things, before I remembered that that wasn't the best way. ETA: I reworded a lot of this paragraph, because I was super confusing.

*I use a wireless headset mic (Plantronics 995H if it matters) that I charge up on days I know I'll be recording. I have one other headset mic that is not as good (I think it's a gaming mic) and I can't afford to buy a microphone, unless it's less than $20 or so.

*I turn off all fans and make a sheet-tent around my desk. I do this at around 3-5 am, when everyone's asleep. (I'm in an apartment with thin walls, haha.)

*I usually brush my teeth about 1-3 hours before I record. I drink a full bottle of water before i start, then drink water and diet pepsi while I'm recording. I've tried drinking tea with honey beforehand, but that just made my mouth feel sticky for the rest of the night.

*I do the thing where I have the fic in notepad at the top of the screen and audacity at the bottom, and I scroll down when I take mistake- or drink- breaks.

*I have no idea how to get the occasional rough catch out of my voice, or if it's possible. I smoked for about 8? years, then quit a year and a half ago.

So there's all that information if it helps :)

[applegeuse.livejournal.com]

Hey, of course! :D Absolutely! :D Downloading them now and I'll get back to you later today! <3 <3 <3 <3