Podfic: "A Monster By Any Other Name, Chapter Eleven"

[alice_alaizabel]

Name: A Monster By Any Other Name, Chapter Eleven
Authors: brosedshield and lavinialavender
Reader: alice_alaizabel
Warnings: Full list here
Length: 1:06:19
Pairing: Sam/Dean (but not Wincest: AU where they're not brothers)
Summary: The same old Sam and Dean love story with a darkfic twist. Sam grew up in a concentration for monsters, Dean was raised an only child: together, they make each other

Comments

[lavinialavender]

AHHHHH SO AMAZING

Oh jeez, I have so much trepidation about listening to this episode...aaaaaaack....

YOU ONLY HAVE TWO LEFT! And only one intensely horrible one!

[alice_alaizabel]

Yes! I AM ALMOST DONE!! *prepares party*

[alice_alaizabel]

Oh, and also, I know you have trepidation about listening to this chapter, but...YOU WROTE IT, I HAD TO RECORD IT, YOU HAVE TO LISTEN TO IT!!!

*runs away laughing maniacally*

[lavinialavender]

Lol, DAMN THIS TRUTH.

I wonder how well I'll handle it tomorrow morning at work... I kept jerking my head down and to the side through parts of Ch. 9.

[star_damaged]

So I'm a terrible person as I cheated and read the rest cause guh! Awful and needed some happy which it was. And then wasn't. But most importantly nobody told me THE STORY ISN@T FINISHED! I thought it was done as I hadn't seen any updates for it in a while.

What am I supposed to do now?

[lavinialavender]

Just wait one more month. :) We're going to be back at the end of the year with more updates. Glad you enjoyed it so much, and I hope you keep enjoying Alice's podfic, too!

[alice_alaizabel]

I agree with Lavinia; only one more month.

And Lavinia - ONE MONTH?? YEE!! *fangirly squeal*

Ahem. I hope to have Part One finished by the end of the year too. WE SHALL COINCIDE!

[lavinialavender]

We HOPE one more month. We haven't made our chapter quota yet for when we want to resume, but...hopefully we'll pull it together.

WOW, that would be amazing. :D

AND, I just finished listening to Ch. 11, finally, so I'll go start a new comment as a proper response...

[lavinialavender]

I realized something as I listened to this one.

This chapter was never meant to be read aloud.

Nor the next one, I'm pretty sure. It's meant to be skimmed as fast as possible, or skipped entirely, as the reader prefers. Because, yikes. And it must have been worse for you to read aloud than for me to listen.

A few notes I made at the start:

I find it very interesting how your tone changes for different narration. The start of this chapter, for instance: your voice is softer, but I think more resigned.

Ooooh, I do like how you're handling the Director's voice.

I also still like how you do Kayla's.

And, sigh, what misery. At least the end is in sight...

[alice_alaizabel]

I am so glad you like the Director's voice; I'm still not sure about him. But I do like Kayla's. I've still not quite worked out what accent it is - Texas as done by someone only vaguely familar with a Texas accent. I randomly decided Kayla is from somewhere in the Deep South on a whim, and it really stuck with me. I also, for reasons known only to myself, am convinced that Rebecca was from New England. (I was reading Lovecraft and Stephen King when I was doing her chapters, that probably influenced it quite a bit)

When you started with "This chapter was never meant to be read aloud" I immediately thought oh crap, she hated it. Yeah, I wasn't all that happy with this one; I'm liking Chapter Twelve a bit more (liking is perhaps too strong a word: pleased with it would probably be better).

Yeah, I am not sure what was happening with my voice when I was recording that. It wasn't just the recording; my voice has been all over the place the last couple of weeks. I've been going from speaking very softly to VERY LOUDLY on the drop of a

[lavinialavender]

When you started with "This chapter was never meant to be read aloud" I immediately thought oh crap, she hated it.
Oh no, that wasn't what I meant at all!! And I really didn't notice any difference in quality - no, I thought you handled it marvelously well, absolutely breathtaking considering the material (that honestly does feel gratuitous to me now, or at least knowing Ch. 12 is on the way too, and all the times I've been through it before).

Seriously, I think you did the most admirable job possible. I can't imagine anyone handling it with more dignity and keeping collected, maintaining all the voices and even narration, all the way through.

[alice_alaizabel]

Oh yeah, I knew that the second I read on after the line! Sorry, didn't make myself clear. ^__^

I am so glad you like it. I have eight pages left of Chapter Twelve, out of, I think, sixteen. And then! And then!

LAST CHAPTER! WOO!

Not that that one starts off particularly nicely either. BUT! It ends well!

(PS: THAT ICON! *weeps*)