New reading: horizon's "Thou Goddess" · 5:45pm Mar 15th, 2015
New reading is live.
This is, in my opinion, one of the best stories in all the fandom. The subtle fusion of prose and poetry here is positively masterful. Present Perfect, who is far more eloquent than I, had this to say about the work:
HORIZON YOU ALFUHSLUGBDFKLHBASLFYSDAAAAAA I SWEAR I WILL FIND YOU
Would you just ascend already and leave the rest of us peons to our purgatory? :|
Well said, sir. My sentiments exactly.
My esteemed collaborator for this project was none other than IMShadow007, who's appeared in many of Scribbler's readings, as well as Illya Leonov's wonderful production The Incandescent Brilliance. She voices Twilight and Luna better than any other VA in the fandom. She's also an absolute saint for being willing to work with a rank amateur like me. There is apparently an unspoken protocol when VA's collaborate, and as this was my first collaboration project, I was unaware of such a protocol, and consequently made everything much harder for her than it should have been. She was much more patient with me than I would have been in her shoes.
Thanks also to horizon himself, who was kind enough to provide me with feedback on how the poetry parts were supposed to be read, since I seriously know nothing about reading poetry.
There are some puns in the story that wouldn't really carry through in an audio version, so I decided to caption the story, sort of karaoke-style. It was a process of trial and error, but now that I've got the workflow down, it's not actually very much effort to do so. I think it's kind of nice just having something to look at while you listen, if nothing else; DeftFunk has long used it to great effect. Depending on the feedback, I may decide to start captioning all my readings.
Do tell me what you think,, and if you like it be sure to show horizon and IMShadow007 some love, too.
A live reading of this masterpiece?! ALL MY YES!!
Sheerest magnificence. Wonder. Majesty. I am in awe. Your audiobooks are awesome and you should feel awesome.
Also, as I said on Horizon's blogpost, I am much taken with this version of Dotted Line[1] which sounds quite Vetinari-ish.
[1] I.e. "My Lord Secretary."
2880088 2885058 You're too kind.
2885263 This is actually my first time hearing the original, so no, it wasn't deliberate.
I found it on thedashdub's channel, and just thought it worked well. The original is actually quite appropriate for the story too though, don't you think? Quite the happy accident.
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Except, I just found out the Nightwish version is a cover also. Derp.
2885302 lol, well whoever wrote it first, the lyrics fit well anyway.