REC: The Shoebox Project Aloud (podfic and video)
This rec is a trip down memory lane for many of us. :) And if you haven't been in fandom when the Shoebox Project was created in 2004, you have something brilliant to look forward to.
What is the Shoebox Project: "The Shoebox Project is a multimedia story of Remus Lupin, Sirius Black, James Potter, Peter Pettigrew, and Lily Evans in their last years at Hogwarts and first year after school."
Or, as this article from Wall Street Journal Online summarises it: "The story is a prequel of sorts, focusing on Harry Potter's now deceased parents, along with two other wizards, Remus and Sirius, imagining them as teenage wizards finding themselves in high school [?] during the 1970s. Interspersed in the text of the stories are scrawled notes that look like they were written by the characters themselves." ;)
Thanks to the efforts of numerous readers in the years 2004, 2009 and 2014, the Shoebox Project is now available as a 25 hours podfic reading and a 26-part vidfic with the original (and some new) content of the shoebox illustrating the podfics.
Authors: ladyjaida and dorkorific
Readers: reena_jenkins, Litra, greeniron and many, many more
Original Story: (as pdf, mobi and epub) The Shoebox Project
Characters/Pairings: Remus Lupin/Sirius Black, James Potter/Lily Evans, Peter Pettigrew
Rating: PG-13
Length: 25 hours
Podfics for downloading and videos: The Shoebox Project Aloud (900,9 MB total)
Why I rec this: The Shoebox Project is like a shoebox full of scraps and bits from the lives the Marauders and Lily, complete with story snippets, letters, journal entries, music, notes that James and Sirius passed along in class, conversations between Remus und Sirius on platform 9 ¾ and and and ... It is hilariously funny, it is touching and even heart-breaking. It has brought to life the Marauder's era to me like no other fanfic ever. And it is one, if not the most original fannish creation that I have ever read and I wish like burning there was something like this for Harry/Draco. I have just started listening to the podfics but already I wish for an entire work-free weekend where I could do nothing but listen to the readings and get transported into the beautiful world of the Shoebox Project.
What is the Shoebox Project: "The Shoebox Project is a multimedia story of Remus Lupin, Sirius Black, James Potter, Peter Pettigrew, and Lily Evans in their last years at Hogwarts and first year after school."
Or, as this article from Wall Street Journal Online summarises it: "The story is a prequel of sorts, focusing on Harry Potter's now deceased parents, along with two other wizards, Remus and Sirius, imagining them as teenage wizards finding themselves in high school [?] during the 1970s. Interspersed in the text of the stories are scrawled notes that look like they were written by the characters themselves." ;)
Thanks to the efforts of numerous readers in the years 2004, 2009 and 2014, the Shoebox Project is now available as a 25 hours podfic reading and a 26-part vidfic with the original (and some new) content of the shoebox illustrating the podfics.
Authors: ladyjaida and dorkorific
Readers: reena_jenkins, Litra, greeniron and many, many more
Original Story: (as pdf, mobi and epub) The Shoebox Project
Characters/Pairings: Remus Lupin/Sirius Black, James Potter/Lily Evans, Peter Pettigrew
Rating: PG-13
Length: 25 hours
Podfics for downloading and videos: The Shoebox Project Aloud (900,9 MB total)
Why I rec this: The Shoebox Project is like a shoebox full of scraps and bits from the lives the Marauders and Lily, complete with story snippets, letters, journal entries, music, notes that James and Sirius passed along in class, conversations between Remus und Sirius on platform 9 ¾ and and and ... It is hilariously funny, it is touching and even heart-breaking. It has brought to life the Marauder's era to me like no other fanfic ever. And it is one, if not the most original fannish creation that I have ever read and I wish like burning there was something like this for Harry/Draco. I have just started listening to the podfics but already I wish for an entire work-free weekend where I could do nothing but listen to the readings and get transported into the beautiful world of the Shoebox Project.