The Science of Phonaesthetics
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I just realized (a bit late) that it’s been a year since I posted my first podfic, The Progress of Sherlock Holmes, to Amplificathon.
I’m so ridiculously glad that I made the decision to toss caution and nerves and doubt to the wind and throw my hand in at podficcing. I’m richer in friendships, confidence, skill, knowledge, and sheer joy than I could have ever imagined when I decided to start participating in fandom culture in the only way I knew how a year ago.
So, yes, I suppose I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who’s stuck with me along the way, to every friend I’ve made, and to every person who’s ever told me that what I do had a positive impact on their experience as a fan, or just as a person. Thanks especially to Ivy for the permission to podfic her phenomenal story, and to all the writers who’ve given me permission to podfic their work since. It’s really meant the world to me, and I’m so grateful for every single one of you guys.
On that note, in case anyone wants to give the old girl a re-listen or rec it to a friend, here she is :)
xo Cellar Door
Bahahahahah.
Hah…hughh.
This is apparently the result of attempting to record a fic with zero prep and a sizable glass of Pinot in my bloodstream. I hit the smutty bits and it’s alllll over.
Enjoy…?
xo Cellar Door
PS: The podfic in question — if I can stop being a silly loon for long enough to finish it — will be up this weekend :)
Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone!
This isn’t really a podfic per se, just a snippet involving one of my favorite couples from one of my favorite excerpts from one of my favorite books ever.
And it’s about biscuits. And trains. And Englishness. And embarrassing miscommunications. And love.
Hope you enjoy.
xo Cellar Door
PS: please excuse my wildly fluctuating accents (I recorded this with zero prep on a whim, wheeeee) as well as a few minor textual inaccuracies (I had to look this scene up online as I can’t seem to locate my copy of the book, and I have a feeling the transcript I found wasn’t entirely correct. Ah well. Cheers, mates.)
Oh coffee…
You really are the best!
Wait… coffee, you feel a bit cold…
Noooooooo! How could you? How could you become such a vile beast?!
~mmmm coffee~
mmmmmm -!
WHAT?
I’VE BEEN DECEIVED!!!
COFFEE, I THOUGHT YOU UNDERSTOOD ME!
You’ll never hurt me, will you Hercules?
Oooone soooong
I have but ooone sooooong
One song
Only for youuuuuu*makes coffee, jumps on bandwagon*
Love you all. Cheers!
Coffee, it’s like you get me <3
YAY!
So here she is, my first ACD canon podfic. Two Days was written by the wonderfully talented tweedisgood, and it was such a pleasure (and a challenge, holy Batman) to record one of Tweed’s fics for my first Holmestice.
Also, thanks to numberthescars for the cover art! Check out their incredible Holmestice gift art, Anniversary, for AfroGeekGoddess.
- Original Holmestice post here
- Original text here
- Cover art by numberthescars
- Length: 45:50
- Music used: George’s Waltz (2), Shigeru Umebayashi
- Rating: Explicit
Enjoy!
xo Cellar Door
PS: Thank you again and again to the amazing mods over at Amplificathon for their lightning-quick archiving.
Reblog for anyone in different timezones or who missed it yesterday :)
YAY!
So here she is, my first ACD canon podfic. Two Days was written by the wonderfully talented tweedisgood, and it was such a pleasure (and a challenge, holy Batman) to record one of Tweed’s fics for my first Holmestice.
Also, thanks to numberthescars for the cover art! Check out their incredible Holmestice gift art, Anniversary, for AfroGeekGoddess.
- Original Holmestice post here
- Original text here
- Cover art by numberthescars
- Length: 45:50
- Music used: George’s Waltz (2), Shigeru Umebayashi
- Rating: Explicit
Enjoy!
xo Cellar Door
PS: Thank you again and again to the amazing mods over at Amplificathon for their lightning-quick archiving.
It’s my contribution to this year’s Holmestice, and we can’t de-anon quiiiiiiiite yet, but soon!
xo Cellar Door
I’ll be in California with friends and family for the next week or so, so I won’t be online much, but I’ll be back in 2013 in full force with lots of delicious podfic lovin’, I promise!
Cheers,
Cellar Door
It’s the attack of George Bernard Shaw’s pronunciation poem of doom, part two!
This is an example of my cobbled-together, wildly inconsistent, ever-evolving, all-purpose British narration voice, which I use in most of my Sherlock podfics. I try and tweak my character voices to suit, but, hopefully, my narration stays fairly consistent in tone, diction, etc. Maybe too hopefully :-p
Also, this was hard. And enjoyable. That sounds a bit naughty.
xo Cellar Door
PS: words I mispronounced: Terpsichore (terps-IK-or-ee), Aver (ah-VERR), Defer (de-FERR — goodness. Can’t believe I mispronounced that one. All the rhyming tripped me up!)
So SoundCloud’s being a butt, and the recording’s too big to post both versions at the same time in one file, and Tumblr won’t let you post more than one audio post in a day, so here’s my born-and-raised west coast American accent version of George Bernard Shaw’s pronunciation poem now, and I’ll post my random-British-person-narrator-accent-that-I-use-in-my-Sherlock-podfics one tomorrow for the heck of it.
My, that was a long, rambling sentence :)
xo Cellar Door
