Podfic + fic blither
Hi, LJ! I come bearing gifts! Not from me, but from the lovely blueyeti, who has been very, very kind and podficced one of my fics!
Podfic for ‘Please Hang Up and Try Again.’
Fandom: Dresden Files; Pairing: Harry/Marcone.
Authors: Aja / bookshop and Hoyden / thehoyden.
I was just telling ana that I’m still really new to having my fic podficced, so every time it kind of strikes me dumb, because i feel like i’ve just been given something amazing and i don’t know how to respond in a way that does justice to the merit of the gift. So I’ll say this: My favorite memory of this fic was reading parts of it aloud to Hoyden and everysecondtues when we were holed up in Hoyden’s apartment in Chicago. Most of it was written in one day, with Hoyden and I trading quips and dialogue suggestions, and it felt more like interactive cheerleading than writing. It was fantastic. And it’s awesome to have that experience transmitted back to me in some way, via the awesome snark blueyeti puts into her reading. And the fun she has with the dialogue makes me remember all the fun *we* had with the dialogue, and it is a great cap-off to something that was a joy all around. It is full of love and I hope any of you who are Dresden fans or podfic fans will check it out. ♥
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I have been wanting to post a poll about this for days, so you guys are just going to have to bear with me while I babble about CHOICES.
writer’s block, i shall conquer you! *shakes fist of determination*
eta: let me clarify that in the Ariadne-centric question, option 3 is not about the fic becoming an Arthur/Eames fic. It would most likely be an Arthur/Ariadne and Ariadne/Eames fic (because that’s one of 2 kink meme prompts I’m thinking about filling). But it is always going to be an Ariadne-centric fic and I realize the poll makes it look like I was just sticking Ariadne in there as an excuse to write Arthur/Eames, which is emphatically not what I’m going to write.
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Read MoreFic: Please Hang Up And Try Again (Dresden Files, Harry/Marcone, NC-17, 7,800 words.)
I have fic! At long last I am able to post this. I had a hysterical, fantastic time writing this, or I should say co-writing it with thehoyden, who I seriously want as my fic partner in crime in all things now. We’re so in love with this pairing, you guys.
The least you need to know about the Dresden Files:
- hot wizard named Harry, crime-fighting supernatural detective in Chicagoland
- hilarious, tightly written pulp full of quirky characters, including Bob, an incorporeal genius spirit who lives in a skull, and a bad-ass mafia overlord named Gentleman John Marcone.
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“The subtitles thing, is that my fault?” “No, they just suck.”
Read MoreMy Name Is Jesus, And I Approved This Slash
I‘m sitting here surrounded by book-filled boxes and laptops and scores of copies of The Dresden Files. everysecondtues and thehoyden have been drowning me with amazing Harry/Marcone fic all day.
Our evening out has turned into a spontaneous squee/book-fest in which we have been lavishly reading slashfic aloud to each other – i mean, lavishly reading alllllll the Harry/Marcone scenes from Books 1, 2, and 5 
. We just got to the point at book 5 when Marcone saves Harry’s life with the freaking *Spoiler of Spoilers*.
“Theirloveissopure!” Hoyden just gushed.
“Their love is so impure,” Tuesday amended.
Then we all chorused in agreement.
“Theirloveisso…. approved by ancient artifacts!!!!!!” I flailed.
“You are going to make a livejournal post about this?” Hoyden demanded. “You have to! Jesus approves!”
JUST SERIOUSLY PEOPLE, HOW CAN YOU EVEN RESIST THIS:
Read MoreHow I spent my summer vac – I mean my weekend
What I did yesterday:
- barely refrained from confessing secrets to the world in a fit of total euphoria
- met up with thehoyden and everysecondtues
- hugged everysecondtues and babbled a lot. she promptly rewarded me for being a) late and b) largely incoherent by handing me over LIGHT/L DOUJINSHI.
“I checked to make sure you were still in the fandom,” she said.
“Who, me?” I said. “>:0 I’M NOT IN THE DEATH NOTE FANDOM I HATE DEATH NOTE. >:0 HATE HATE HATE” at which point she said “…” and Hoyden looked at me askance. - proceeded to try and explain my tumultuous relationship with Death Note which sort of turned into a schizophrenic babble about how Takeshi Obata is my lifelong hero and Raito is PRETTY MUCH MY FAVORITE GAY SERIAL KILLER FOREVER and Death Note is a crock of epic malarkey, and my hatred for it runs as deep and eternal as my love for Light / L and ESPECIALLY my new Light/L doujinshi, and just because Epon won’t stop making me post thousand-word essays to death note meta communities it *doesn’t mean i’m in the fandom!!!!* and I’m pretty sure that when I was done I sounded completely insane.
But that’s okay because then we spent the rest of the day mooning ourselves dizzy over the following beautiful things:
- Iron Man
- Robert Downey Jr
- Robert Downey Jr as Iron Man
- Robert Downey Jr’s amazing forearms
- John Marcone
- George Clooney
- George Clooney as John Marcone
- The inevitable hotness of George Clooney as John Marcone in vintage 20′s Chicago fashion
- George Marcone Clooney’s amazing suits
- George Marcone Clooney’s amazing forearms
- George Marcone Clooney’s amazing eyes/smile/crow’s feet/hair/voice/smirk/laugh/walk/aura
- How much everysecondtues Dresden/Marcone fic is rocking our hot George Clooney vibe ahhhhhhh
- George Clooney, can I just say that again? I don’t think I ever really got the George Clooney thing until I turned him into John Marcone and now he’s basically the hottest thing I have ever seen on the planet + hot mob boss.
Literally by like 4 am last night, after spending all day talking about hot Harry Dresden/John Marcone you have no idea ahhh, and then mainlining Leatherheads and Ocean’s Eleven, the three of us were just sort of left helplessly to ooze.
GOD.
Just. sadfj;akldsjfskl. Sorry, but just.
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THINGS:
- ROBERT DOWNEY JR IS SO HOT. I’ve always loved this guy I mean really really loved, ever since he totally swished his way through Only You and into my heart, and I was so D: about the whole drug thing and so when he came through it and now, the result, HOLY SHIT THE RESULT.
- ROBERT DOWNEY JR IS SO HOT.
- Iron Man blew me away. Iron Man has sort of redefined all my notions about sci-fi in a night. I’ve never actually loved or even really liked a superhero before. Just. Never. I love Tony Stark, holy shit. I can’t get over how engaging he is as a character, how this movie looked SO LAME until ROBERT DOWNEY JR just pretty much owned life as we know it and turned it into this fantastic allegory about coming to terms with our world and our responsibilities in the post-Bush era, and still made it a YAY AMERICA blockbuster, while making his character changes totally believable. god. I can’t get over it, I’m so happy right now, I want to watch it over and over again. And the way you don’t know what kind of man he is at all, even though you instinctively like him anyway, until he says “I refuse” without even having to dwell on it and you’re just like ‘oh fuck yeah i knew you were that guy, i knew it’ and then he becomes that guy and it’s SO AHHHHH. okay. just. ksjflsfkjas;flsdfdlk.
- Where is the Robert Downey/Terrence Howard slash, people, don’t let me down. Where is it. I REFUSE TO WAIT TIL YULETIDE FOR THIS.
- And speaking of rare pairings, thehoyden keeps sending me pieces of her in-progress Dresden/Marcone fic and it’s so hot that I keep trying to reread snippets of it at work which is about the time my boss will come by and be like “hey, Aja, how are you?” and i’m all “I’M NOT READING PORN I SWEAR!” yeah. life, so hard.
- Still don’t have apartment. Mildly desperate. Prayers and rosary beads, voodoo, sacrificial offerings on my behalf, etc. are all appreciated.
- Still haven’t remotely waded through my Top 5 meme. Hikago still the happiest thing in my life ever outside of j-pop.
- Hey, is that a Saeki/Ashiwara fandom surge of interest I see? ROCK ON.
- Forgot to say that the absolute best part of my trip to Norfolk this time out has been meeting myrafur, who is basically made of lulz and sex and kindness, and who lured me to an abandoned italian eatery in the middle of deserted VaBeach, aka the Twilight Zone, where we then had a foursome with a hot young sailor and his hot fiancee. I’m not exaggerating. We may have broken some furniture. *whistles*
- Kish, you still need to email me.
everysecondtues, are you and Hoyden and I seriously getting together this weekend to SQUEE MORE ABOUT DRESDEN FILES? that is so awesome i can’t even articulate it. Everyone else please read these books and then come to B-town and MEET HOYDEN AND I, WE WILL MAKE IT WORTH THE DRIVE. *_*
- jlksfdfldjfljk oh fuck it PLEASE JUST TALK TO ME ABOUT IRON MAN.
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