Podfic - "This Bitter Earth"
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
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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.
The bitch of it is, I have no idea how much Katrina-related material will even make it into this fic. Originally I thought this would be a fairly simple story: Sam & Dean go to New Orleans on a hunt, mid- to late-Season 5, and stuff from Dean's previous hunt there keeps coming up. I wanted to do back-and-forth scenes alternating past and present. It's coming out sort of like that, but not exactly. I started to think that if I spent too much time with the past, it would kill the momentum of the present. Now it's looking like there will be several flashback-type scenes interspersed throughout, but it's a pain in the ass trying to figure out where they might fit, and how much is too much.
Really, I have no idea whether I can still pull this thing together. I've got these crazy amounts of research floating around in my head - architecture, historic preservation, post-K life, New Orleans dialect, folk Catholicism - not to mention bits of my personal SPN canon I'm trying to work in. Suffice it to say I've been going through quite a bit of Excedrin.
I definitely appreciate your sharing your knowledge - and if I ever get this thing into readable shape, I hope you'll smack me upside the head if you notice things I've fucked up!
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