I HATE Valentines Day. So you get anti-Valentines podfic.

[bessyboo]

I HATE Valentines Day. Always have, since I was old enough to associate it with anything other than free candy at school (which means 5th or 6th grade). (See rant from 10th grade here.) As far as I'm concerned, it's a corporate conspiracy to shamelessly make money on candy, flowers, cards, and useless trinkets, and has the added bonus of making

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[luzula]

Oh yay! I love this story. Looking forward to listening! *downloads*

[bessyboo]

Hope you like it! *^^*

[luzula]

I did enjoy it! It flowed very naturally and was a pleasure to listen to. Also, your Joe voice was awesome.

[bessyboo]

Eee, I'm so glad you liked it! *beams*

And haha, thank you, Joe is *so* much fun XD

[ariastar]

gfkds okay how much do I adore this! As a general rule I enjoy podfic of my work, just as a way of approaching it from a fresh angle, but this is delightful. I am kind of in awe of your Cheryl voice, because she genuinely sounds the way she does in the show, and both Joe and Billy were also particularly great. I think what I love best about this podfic, though, is that I certainly knew what I was talking about when I wrote the fic, but I don't know how well it actually translated to the page -- and you absolutely know what I was talking about too. It's like good Shakespeare, actually, in that it makes perfect sense when someone who knows what the words mean is reading it, and wow did you get all the layers. <3

Also worth commenting on: the still of Billy you have for the cover art is exactly the perfect one, and my abiding Decemberists love is really pleased with the instrumentals from California One.

In conclusion, YAY. :D

[bessyboo]

Oh my god, I don't even know where to start with responding to this, because my initial response to ALL OF THIS COMMENT can basically be summed up:

bessyboo: OH MY GOD LOOK ARIA LEFT ME AWESOME FEEDBACK
moonlingmaid: Yes she did. That is very nice feedback.
bessyboo: *FLAILS HELPLESSLY AROUND*
moonlingmaid: *nods*
bessyboo: Oh my god, ahhhhh, I cannot get over how awesome this feedback is! *flappy hands*
moonlingmaid: *nods some more*
bessyboo: Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!
moonlingmaid: No more Coke for you. *goes back to watching vids on her laptop while Bess flails around the room*

Rinse and repeat for roughly ten minutes.

SO YES. I shall address your points with semi-organized bullet points!

--Re: Cheryl--as moonlingmaid has pointed out to me, I should probably admit here that I am, in fact, a Stage Manager IRL, so Cheryl voice? Comes particularly naturally to me. Although honestly I'm more of a Maria than a Cheryl XD (One day, I will find a fic that is Maria POV, and I will cackle gleefully and then record it so hard!)
--As for Joe and Billy, Joe is seriously just so...out there, that his voice seems to come

[ariastar]

I am pretty sure that at this point we are just a ridiculous circle of joy. :D

I guess I should not be surprised that you read the DVD commentary shortly before recording, but I am glad that it helped inform you, because omg that worked out so spectacularly well. I absolutely stand by my good Shakespearean actor comparison!

djklsdkjfd I WAS MEANT FOR THE STAGE. Actually my friend olivia_circe keeps threatening to make a Slings & Arrows vid to it, although as far as I know she hasn't done it yet. So basically I approve of the song choice so hard.

No worries about being tl;dr! I am grinning pretty hard right now myself.

[bessyboo]

CIRCLE OF JOY! \o/ *revels in it*

Heee, yay! I now feel like I did, like, research! Haha.

OH MY GOD, I totally keep going, "moonlingmaid! WE SHOULD MAKE A S & A VID TO THAT!" And she keeps goings, "No, it's too literal!" And I'm like, "FINE. *pouts*" So if someone else did that vid? It would make me smile a lot :DDD

Edited for keyboard FAIL.