Podfic for phoenixfalls: A Heap of Sun and Shadow

[holmesticemods]

Title: Podfic of A Heap of Sun and Shadow, by phoenixfalls
Recipient: phoenixfalls
Podfic Reader: sanguinity
Verse: Elementary
Characters/Pairings: always-a-girl!Sherlock Holmes/Joan Watson
Rating: G
Length: 1,152 words; approx 9 minutes
Additional Tags: Retirement Fic
Summary: Twenty-five years on, Joan and Sherlock retire to upstate New York together.

A Heap of Sun and Shadow

Comments

[phoenixfalls.livejournal.com]

Eeeee! I am positively squeeful about this podfic, thank you thank you thank you! You have a wonderful way of reading, very clear and precise so that all the emotional beats of the story really shine through. You've got the cadence of Sherlock's dialogue just right; she's very distinctly herself here, much more so than when her lines were just words on my screen.

Several lines -- "They weren't the sort of girlfriends who hugged" -- "Sherlock's spindly, stubbly legs" -- "You aren't going to try to convince me you've been pining all this time, are you?" -- are exactly the way I heard them in my head as I wrote them, and that is delightful. Even more delightful, a few lines -- "Joan trusted Sherlock, bone-deep" and "And just like then, the answer on her lips came not with any sort of hesitation or fear, but as a relief, a sense of things slotting into place delightfully." -- with those lines, you managed to get the feel, the emotion, that I was going for but that I didn't think I quite captured, your reading doing the heavy-lifting that my words didn't quite manage.

So thank you so, so much for this! I am honored.

[sanguinity]

Oh, I am glad you enjoyed this so well. I've always had an affection for this story, and that only increased during the process of recording it.

I know I already said this privately, but for the record: I reject the claim that I did any heavy-lifting. The cadences and rhetorical beats in "Heap of Sun and Shadow" are very spoken-word; if anything, I was only giving it a medium that it really wanted to be in.

(I'm not going to soon forgive you for "Sherlock's spindly stubbly legs," though. I had thought of doing "Telling the Bees" for you as a treat, and then I remembered what nightmare alliterations I put in that thing and decided that I'd need some time to forget what "Sherlock's spindly stubbly legs" had been like.)

You're very welcome, and thank you for the opportunity to record this for you!

[disheveledcurls.livejournal.com]

omfg whoever recorded this -- you're incredible!!!! you should record all the best fic in the fandom. it was truly a deligt to listen to.

[sanguinity]

You're very sweet, thank you. I enjoyed making these two enough that I may do it again.

[disheveledcurls.livejournal.com]

You totally should. I've considered making podfics of my favorite Elementary fics out there but I don't think my attempts would be anywhere near as good as your podfic was.

[sanguinity]

(Sorry, wrong login!)

Meh, podfics that exist are de facto better than ones that don't. You should totally make the podfic you're moved to make, and not fret about the rest of it. The respective authors will be thrilled to know that you cared enough about their work to spend that kind of time on it, and the listeners who prefer podfic to written word will be very happy to have something new to listen to, too.

[disheveledcurls.livejournal.com]

AHH, thanks so much for this, it means a lot. I guess I'll try to make a podfic, then, and see how it goes. <333