The Giles Thing - now in audio!

[drsquidlove]

A-maaaaaa-zing!!!

The incredible dark_dreymer has podfic'd The Giles Thing! All 128 000 words of it!

It's fourteen freakin' hours. (dark_dreymer is not only awesome, but also crazy.) This could keep you occupied as you drove from Sydney to Adelaide. Or London to Edinburgh and back. It could last from Chicago to Las Vegas with enough left for cruising down the Strip. It could entertain you while you ran three full marathons.

And it is so good. There is something weirdly narcissistic but also lovely about laughing at a joke that I wrote... but it's new and awesome because dark_dreymer delivered it so perfectly. It's such a great reading.

The Giles Thing, read by dark_dreymer



(And this poster is by katekat. Giles Thing has all the awesome bells and whistles!)

If you've never read it before, it's a Giles/Xander story (if you hadn't figured that out from katekat's poster). It begins when a degenerate teenaged Rupert Giles time-travels his way into Sunnydale, and kind of into Xander's pants. He isn't around long, but it's long enough to leave a trail of chaos, and to get Giles and Xander to see each other differently. Xander flails a lot; Giles sighs and rubs his eyes a lot. If you'd like to read along with the audio, the text version is here. Or hit the gilesthing tag on this post.

S.

Comments

[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

Audio! That's thrilling. And the poster is awesome.

[sparrow2000.livejournal.com]

Wow, that really is a labour of love!

[drsquidlove.livejournal.com]

I know, right! It's amazing.

When dark_dreymer asked, I assumed it would just be the first story, but nope, the whole kit and kaboodle.

S.

[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

Of course now I'm rereading The Giles Thing. I just finished the first section so they've returned Ripper to his past. Fabulous story!

[drsquidlove.livejournal.com]

Hee, I'm enjoying it all over again, too. Thank you!

And, the poster is awesome. katekat has a gift.

S.

[thismaz.livejournal.com]

Wow, that is a lot of reading out loud. *is impressed. And pleased for you*

[drsquidlove.livejournal.com]

There's no way I could listen to myself for that long. or speak clearly for so long. Ten minutes in, I'd be racing through

S.

[mazephoenix.livejournal.com]

That's awesome. I wonder how long a "Someone like you" podfic would be..ohh,don't look at me, I lack the skills and stamina.

[drsquidlove.livejournal.com]

Ha. That's about twice the length, so around 28 hours?

No sane person would attempt it.

S.

[macaroncey.livejournal.com]

Your fics are evil because I'm not even in Buffy fandom (I watched and loved of course but everyone loved Buffy I guess) and now I'm listening the podfic and reading your fic because your stories are like Footlocker's clerks: you walk outside the store and they bring you inside and you don't even need running shoes. With your fics is the same thing, I read few lines and I want read everything even if I don't know the subject (I hadn't watched SVU except few episodes, then I started your fic and I was in love).

[drsquidlove.livejournal.com]

Mine is an evil laugh.

SVU is easy enough to get into if you like Oz, because Elliot is just like an AU Chris by an author who doesn't accept the serial killer storyline. Hell, I only watched SVU because I'd read enough Toby/Elliot that it made sense.

I think my fic has that Footlocker advantage because I like to write stories that are all about persuading reluctant believers into the pairings? In every fandom, I seem write at least one story which accepts that the pairing is unlikely, and positions the characters to find it unlikely, so I have to persuade the characters (and therefore readers) into it.

And also thank you, and I hope you enjoy it!

S.