Ho! Ho! Ho! Have Three Holiday Season Podfics!
So, today's the fourth Sunday of Advent. Christmas is in 6 days. Walmart is reviving it's Black Friday sales at 9pm on Christmas Eve. Though I won't be there to go shopping, I do have holiday-themes podfics to help make these last few days before gift-giving more bearable. In ascending order, I present three podfics, complete with musical accompaniment, in three rather disparate fandoms - hopefully, there's some Spirit of the Season for everyone on the internet ;-)
1. First up is mine eyes have seen thy salvation, by boosette. Clocking in at 15 minutes, it's a bit of Star Trek Reboot Mirror'verse Kirk/Bones Christmas fic. The intro/ending song is "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen", as performed by Aimee Mann (my absolute favorite rendition of this song - I just love her voice here). I'm pretty sure that this is the kind of fic that's not only Christmas-appropriate, but listen-able all year long - there's backstory explored and developed for the Mirror'verse which I think is really clever, depth given to the characters' motivations besides "grow a goatee...stabity stab stab....to the agony booth!" My fave Mirror'verse fics are all along the lines of evil-because-we're-smart, not evil-because-the-author-likes-gratuitous-violence, and this is even better. Since I seem to be mucking up the raving review, here's boosette's summary: "The Gospel According to St. Bones or, what kind of people celebrate the life and works of a first-century Jewish mystic/healer who preached peace and forgiveness as ideal in the mirror universe?"
You can download this podfic as an mp3 right over here (thank you, paraka, for hosting me!) OR you can stream the story by clicking above.
2. Next in the queue is A Merry McShep Christmas, a cracky SGA-AU written by suki_blue. Featuring head-elf!Rodney and toy-testing-elf!John and SatanSanta!Caldwell, this podfic is all about life in the North Pole as they get ready for Christmas in the Pegasus Galaxy. I smiled throughout the entire fic, and was cracking up at this line: "Someone has mixed up children’s toys with adult. Vibrators are missing. Everything needs to be unwrapped or I am afraid someone may get quite a shock on Christmas morning. I dread to think where human adult female will stick Special Edition Daedalus." It's 25 minutes of Christmas cheer, including Johnny Mathis singing "It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas", and just plain fun.
You can download this podfic as an mp3 right over here (thanks, paraka, for hosting me!) OR you can stream the story by clicking above.
3. Lastly, and longest, is a J2 fic which is not strictly about Christmas - I recognize that not everyone celebrates Jesus's birthday, but everyone enjoys Black Friday! Seriously, besides Arbor Day, Black Friday's gotta be one of the world's best loved holidays, right? ;-) It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year, written by saone77, is fantastic. Usually I'm not overly thrilled by real-life-ish RPF, but I'd swear Danneel Harris in this fic is actually my cousin Ashley. We've done the Black Friday mall-a-thon every year together for the last seven years or so, and this is exactly her - point her in the direction of the shoe sales and get out of the way.... Plus, there's crazy relatives, toy scalpers, and a trip to the ER. Madcap hijinks abound. Intro/exit music is "It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year", by Amy Grant (she's a holiday staple in our house, so I couldn't leave her out). Best line? "...But those are the old Captain Awesome toys. This is the new Captain Awesome toy. The super, deluxe, limited edition, twelve inch, star-spangled, Captain Awesome toy.”
You can download this podfic as an mp3 right over here (thank you, paraka, for hosting me!) OR you can stream the story y clicking above..... and enjoy the fact that it's not YOU looking for Captain Awesome!
Hope everyone's gotten their shopping done by now, and if not, well....my well-wishes are with you. I'm off to go giftwrap!
1. First up is mine eyes have seen thy salvation, by boosette. Clocking in at 15 minutes, it's a bit of Star Trek Reboot Mirror'verse Kirk/Bones Christmas fic. The intro/ending song is "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen", as performed by Aimee Mann (my absolute favorite rendition of this song - I just love her voice here). I'm pretty sure that this is the kind of fic that's not only Christmas-appropriate, but listen-able all year long - there's backstory explored and developed for the Mirror'verse which I think is really clever, depth given to the characters' motivations besides "grow a goatee...stabity stab stab....to the agony booth!" My fave Mirror'verse fics are all along the lines of evil-because-we're-smart, not evil-because-the-author-likes-gratuitous-violence, and this is even better. Since I seem to be mucking up the raving review, here's boosette's summary: "The Gospel According to St. Bones or, what kind of people celebrate the life and works of a first-century Jewish mystic/healer who preached peace and forgiveness as ideal in the mirror universe?"
You can download this podfic as an mp3 right over here (thank you, paraka, for hosting me!) OR you can stream the story by clicking above.
2. Next in the queue is A Merry McShep Christmas, a cracky SGA-AU written by suki_blue. Featuring head-elf!Rodney and toy-testing-elf!John and SatanSanta!Caldwell, this podfic is all about life in the North Pole as they get ready for Christmas in the Pegasus Galaxy. I smiled throughout the entire fic, and was cracking up at this line: "Someone has mixed up children’s toys with adult. Vibrators are missing. Everything needs to be unwrapped or I am afraid someone may get quite a shock on Christmas morning. I dread to think where human adult female will stick Special Edition Daedalus." It's 25 minutes of Christmas cheer, including Johnny Mathis singing "It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas", and just plain fun.
You can download this podfic as an mp3 right over here (thanks, paraka, for hosting me!) OR you can stream the story by clicking above.
3. Lastly, and longest, is a J2 fic which is not strictly about Christmas - I recognize that not everyone celebrates Jesus's birthday, but everyone enjoys Black Friday! Seriously, besides Arbor Day, Black Friday's gotta be one of the world's best loved holidays, right? ;-) It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year, written by saone77, is fantastic. Usually I'm not overly thrilled by real-life-ish RPF, but I'd swear Danneel Harris in this fic is actually my cousin Ashley. We've done the Black Friday mall-a-thon every year together for the last seven years or so, and this is exactly her - point her in the direction of the shoe sales and get out of the way.... Plus, there's crazy relatives, toy scalpers, and a trip to the ER. Madcap hijinks abound. Intro/exit music is "It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year", by Amy Grant (she's a holiday staple in our house, so I couldn't leave her out). Best line? "...But those are the old Captain Awesome toys. This is the new Captain Awesome toy. The super, deluxe, limited edition, twelve inch, star-spangled, Captain Awesome toy.”
You can download this podfic as an mp3 right over here (thank you, paraka, for hosting me!) OR you can stream the story y clicking above..... and enjoy the fact that it's not YOU looking for Captain Awesome!
Hope everyone's gotten their shopping done by now, and if not, well....my well-wishes are with you. I'm off to go giftwrap!