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Podfic - "This Bitter Earth"

Apr 24, 2010 20:22

For those of y'all into that newfangled podfic stuff, waiting4rain42 has kindly recorded my SPN/Criminal Minds crossover, "This Bitter Earth." You can find links to m4b, m4a, wma, and mp3 formats here ( Read more... )

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roque_clasique April 25 2010, 03:13:39 UTC

i am thrilled at what this new orleans research may entail. also i gutted a shit-ton of shotgun houses way back when. strange memories.

art_savage April 25 2010, 13:45:17 UTC

Ooooh! *is fascinated* I would love to know...well, pretty much everything about your experience. Do tell!

BTW, everything I've written since last Wednesday is longhand, so I have NO CLUE what my word count is. It's actually quite liberating. ;)

roque_clasique May 3 2010, 18:20:00 UTC

Most of my experience was relegated to wearing hazard suits and putting other peoples' ruined possessions into trashbags. It was pretty depressing. I also used a lot of hammers and shovels. I don't know if that is relevant to your research. I do have more details if you are interested.

art_savage May 4 2010, 01:13:57 UTC

Ah, crap, here I was thinking of gutting as "ooh, the first step toward fixing things!" I didn't even think about all the stuff left behind. Christ, that would be depressing.

I do have plenty of questions, if you're willing to share. (God, I feel like kind of a douche, an information vulture. Really, I hope you don't mind.) You didn't say specifically, but were you in New Orleans proper? One neighborhood in particular? And when? And what businesses and services were up and running at that point? (I've driven myself crazy trying to put together timelines...)

Man, I could probably think of more, but I'm already bugging you enough. And really, I've probably over-researched already, but I'm super paranoid about getting everything right for this fic, or at least not wrong. Seriously, I spent an hour with my therapist a few weeks ago, angsting and weeping about the whole thing. What right do I have, as an outsider who wasn't there, to appropriate this tragedy for something as trivial as fanfic? If I weren't writing from ( ... )

roque_clasique May 4 2010, 02:40:54 UTC

I don't mind answering questions at all. And I know exactly exactly exactly where your points of trauma come from, having struggled with the same thing a million times -- am I "allowed" to write about this? Am I authorized? etc. But you know, I really do think that NOT writing about Katrina is just as harmful, in a way -- it's continuing the trend of keeping things quiet, of not talking about preventable tragedy, of un-acknowledgment. This was a huge fucking deal for our country, and it damn well SHOULD be in fanfiction! We write about every other freakin' thing, we can't tiptoe around truth, you know? If you do it with awareness and respect, you have as much right to write about it as anyone else ( ... )

art_savage May 6 2010, 15:23:08 UTC

Damn, it's crazy how long after Katrina things were - and still are - fucked up. Of course, here in Ohio a lot of people had (relatively minor) damage from Hurricane Ike in 2008, and you still see some blue tarps and roof damage that was never fixed.

I can definitely see how your experience would have been tough to handle, and that's got nothing to do with your being "emotional." Anybody who claims to dig through the ruins of someone else's life without feeling something is either not human or just way better at compartmentalizing than you and I. Hell, I've been a mess just reading about this stuff. I couldn't get through the prologue of 1 Dead in Attic without getting all weepy ( ... )

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