graycardinal | Entries tagged with podfic

As threatened, this should start the catching-up process as to what I've been up to between posting droughts.

I've been blessed by fellow fans over the years with a generous handful of excellent podfics presenting stories of mine in audio form. I've also been thinking for a long time about trying my own hand at podfic, but till relatively recently my hardware setup hasn't been ideal for attempting it. But in this past round of Holmestice, I was matched with

rachelindeed , who'd written a truly excellent Mycroft-centered story for me in a much earlier round...and I decided the time had come to test the waters. So for that assignment, I fired up Audacity, produced a podfic of that story, and grinned quite a bit during the guessing phase as people speculated on who might have recorded the work. The comments were uniformly both enthusiastic and kind, and it's not at all unlikely I'll continue to produce occasional podfic as the muse arises.

Art in the Blood • Podfic
Source Work: Art in the Blood by

rachelindeed
Length: ~32 minutes
Fandom: Murder By Decree (1979)
Rating: General Audiences
Category: Gen
Warnings: Spoilers (reveals canon ending)
Characters: Mycroft Holmes, John Watson, Sherlock Holmes
Additional tags: POV Mycroft Holmes, Podfic, Podfic Length: 30-45 Minutes, Career Change, Character Study

After the events of Murder by Decree, Mycroft Holmes leaves the British government and tries to decide what to do with the rest of his life.

I also produced a treat for starfishstar - we had both recently expressed interest in "kitten!Holmes", inspired by about five seconds of animation at the end of the screen credits for the Remington Steele TV series showing a tabby cat with a deerstalker and a calabash pipe. With a bit of time on my hands after turning in the podfic, I considered how to approach the material, and unexpectedly came up with the perfect tag line for the feline version of the Holmes-and-Watson meeting scene. This was the result:

A Foregone Introduction
Fandom: kitten!Holmes, Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
Rating: General Audiences
Category: Gen
Warnings: none
Words: ~700
Characters: Dr. Stamford, Murray, Sherlock (kitten!Holmes), Watson (kitten!Holmes)
Additional tags: cats, canon TV

A fateful meeting takes place at the Bartholomew Street Animal Shelter.

This too was enthusiastically received, although there was (of course) no question during the guessing phase as to who'd written it.

Current Location: between virtual chairs
Current Music: "Remington Steele" theme

You may be looking a trifle askance at the number of exclamation points in that header, but I'm here to tell you that every one of them is deserved. I got a podfic rather than a fic - and it is a gorgeous, skillfully read, delightfully soundtracked version of the story I wrote just last round, in which Enola Holmes and Mary Russell join forces with sometime jungle princess Nell Watson, née Nylephtha Goode Curtis of the Zu-Vendi, to finally defeat the schemes of Von Bork, villainous German spymaster - with, of course, appropriate support from Sherlock Holmes.

To say I am delighted is several orders of understatement. The Women in the Case is fairly close to 7,000 words - it's a 43-minute audio - and between the length and the considerable dialogue (featuring the voices of three different women born on three different continents), creating any podcast at all amounts to a considerable effort on someone's part. Creating one this well-executed is a feat of impressive skill and reflects a high degree of dedication, and I can't begin to thank my anonymous creator sufficiently for having devoted that much work to my words. Here is your link; don't hesitate to go forth and listen!

The Women in the Case - Podfic
(Enola Holmes Series - Nancy Springer, Mary Russell - Laurie R. King, The Adventure of the Peerless Peer - Philip Jose Farmer)
Author (text): graycardinal
Producer/Narrator (Podfic): oldshrewsburyian
Rating: General Audiences
Length: ~43 minutes
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Enola Holmes & Mary Russell
Characters: Enola Holmes, Mary Russell, Original Moriarty Character(s), Sherlock Holmes, Nylepthah Watson, Von Bork
Additional Tags: Podfic & Podficced Works, Podfic Length: 30-45 Minutes, Bechdel Test Pass, Community: holmestice

Current Mood: ecstatic
Current Location: over Neptune (over the moon not being far enough up)
Current Music: "This Could Be The Start of Something Big" (Steve Allen & ensemble)

Reveals are complete and all is calm after the summer edition of Holmestice, which counts as highly entertaining all round (as per usual).

I was assigned to

sanguinity (who is a co-moderator, and so immune to being totally surprised), and thought briefly about writing a Dinosaur!Holmes story (the source is a very strange 2010 movie from The Asylum, specialist in offbeat adaptations of minor classics). But then I noticed a reference to a certain Philip José Farmer work in their request list, and instead did this:

The Women in the Case
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms, Enola Holmes Series - Nancy Springer, Mary Russell - Laurie R. King, The Adventure of the Peerless Peer - Philip Jose Farmer
Rating: General Audiences
Words: ~6700
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Enola Holmes & Mary Russell
Characters: Enola Holmes, Mary Russell, Nell Watson | Nylephtha Good Curtis, Sherlock Holmes, Von Bork, Original Moriarty Character(s)
Additional Tags: Women Being Awesome, Bechdel Test Pass, Alternate Universe - Fusion, Meta, Footnotes

An account from a cache of manuscripts attributed to Enola Holmes - which both answers a great many questions about significant women in the Holmesian canon, and raises a great many others.

I've had parts of the underlying action in mind for this since writing a prior Enola Holmes story some rounds back -- having wondered what effect Enola's presence in the Russellverse might have had on the events of The Beekeeper's Apprentice. But I didn't know how to fill the glaring hole I'd chopped in the back end of that book till I did a quick reread of Peerless Peer. It was clear at once that (1) bringing "Nell" home would be a catalyst for more feminine strategizing, and (2) that swapping in a freshly escaped Von Bork for the Moriarty I'd displace would set up a revised finale very nicely indeed.

Not surprisingly, I fooled pretty much no one in the guessing round with this contribution, but it was great fun to write and seems to have pleased its readers, so all is well on the home front.

As to gifts: it was a season for podfic this round:

[Podfic] The Kincardine File: Notes From an Untold Case by flashforeward
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
Rating: General Audiences
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Length: 0-10 minutes
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Mary Morstan, Mycroft Holmes
Additional Tags: Epistolary, Untold Cases of Sherlock Holmes, Podfic, Podfic Length: 0-10 Minutes

A podfic of Gray Cardinal's fic "The Kincardine File"

What it says on the tin – a collection of notes and correspondence from a case for which no full manuscript has been found (almost certainly because Watson thought better of writing this one up for posterity).

A lovely reading of one of my prior Holmestice stories -- in this case, a short epistolary account of a matter that didn't make it into Watson's official memoirs. I am delighted to be able to listen to this; I was a CBS Radio Mystery Theater fan back in the day, and Holmesian tales in general tends to make for good audio material.

And then, while the treat was officially for

starfishstar , the written story podficced below was originally a gift to me in a prior round, so I count this as a double win on my end. It's an excerpt from a longer story by

language_escapes, written for me (for which my prompt was essentially "how do you explain Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes being alive and well this far into the 21st century?"). I am hoping that the teaser here will eventually be expanded into a complete reading....

[Podfic] an excerpt from Blood Relatives by starfishstar
Fandom: Mary Russell - Laurie R. King, Dracula series - Fred Saberhagen
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 0-10 minutes
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Mary Russell, Mina Harker
Additional Tags: Podfic, Podfic Length: 0-10 Minutes, Crossover, Post-Canon, excerpt

A teaser excerpt from “Blood Relatives” by language_escapes .

Left at home while Holmes is away applying his skills to the war effort, Russell receives an unexpected visitor.

Current Mood: cheerful
Current Location: a Muppet theater
Current Music: a lone violin, playing something by Sarasate

Comes word today that another of my older fics -- this one originally a commentfic from a challenge of

liviapenn's -- has been adapted for podfic.

This one is Unscrambling An Egg, in which we find the Adam West Batman memory-wiped; can Batgirl and Robin save him? Tune into the linked Bat-channel to find out!

Current Mood: enthralled
Current Location: a back alley in Gotham City
Current Music: the Batgirl-Cycle horn in emergency mode

What it says on the headline. Here's the link:

Facing the Music (podfic) -- podfic by blackglass (aka

xdiorix) story by Gray Cardinal

"No, worlds music, with an S."

This was originally a crossover-intensive Buffyverse drabble-sequence written for

tthdrabbles; the podfic adds the actual songs referenced in the chapter-titles and thereby creates a really nifty short radio adventure in a way that I totally failed to anticipate when I wrote the initial work. I am utterly delighted and charmed.

So thanks to jedibuttercup all over again for hosting the

tthdrabbles comm, and to blackglass for a fantastic translation-to-audio of a story I had a lot of fun writing.

Current Mood: bouncy
Current Location: over the moon
Current Music: see above

My "Into A Bar" story is live -- in this case, together with bonus podfic, courtesy of the estimable and gracious

malnpudl

Title: Chance Meetings • (podfic version by

malnpudl)
Fandoms: MCU, Castle
Word count: ~2300
Rating/Contents: G / no warnings needed
Summary: One of the five men in Manhattan most likely to be working for HYDRA has just left a brewpub in Morningside Heights. Now that he's gone, it's time for the story to start....

Current Mood: bouncy
Current Location: in search of brownies
Current Music: "The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers"

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Entries tagged with podfic

Fic: Written for Holmestice, Winter 2022 (x2)

Holmestice 2021: Recorded for Me!!!!!!!!

Holmestice (Summer 2020): Written & Received

Yet more secondary Bat-media!

I've been (brilliantly) podficced!

Fic/Podfic: Chance Meetings (MCU/Castle)