Admin: The Podfic Challenge

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Trip's over, folks! Pack your suitcases, mail out your postcards, and hop back on the boat/bus/train/plane: the I ♥ Somewhere Else challenge is over. Thanks to everyone who recced a story (or three): I've certainly been enjoying the thought of life elsewhere. Preferably in Seattle. With fangirls.

At any rate, we've got a new challenge starting up today, and this one is in honour of amplificathon, the multi-fandom podfic recording challenge. Record a podfic, get a point. Record two podfics, get more points. And you can score even higher if it's your first recording, if you're podficcing in a new fandom or for a rare pairing (or, hell, even gen!) The recording challenge closes June 2nd, so please join the community and record your favourite story!

But Nos, you say, this is ds_recsredux. Why the hell are you talking about podfic?

Okay, ye of little faith, I'll explain. See, podfic is really cool. It allows authors and dedicated readers to put voice to the written word and perform stories using their voice. It also increases access to stories, because not all fans who want to read fanfiction can sit at a computer or use a mouse/keyboard for long periods of time. And finally, you can listen to a fangirl or fanboy read you porn as you drive to work or head to school on the bus or take a walk. What's better than that? Well, okay, maybe blowjobs in the back of the GTO, but podfic comes in at a close second.

So, in order to encourage some new folks to read and record podfic, we'd like to ask you to recommend your three favourite C6D podfic recordings. They can be of any length, pairing or fandom, as long as they're within the Canadian Six Degrees family (i.e. any TV show, movie or awesome "rock" video starring one of the due South cast). There are many, many recordings to choose from: jinjurly has created a massive index of audiofic over at her website, Jinjurly.com. You can search by fandom, which works out well for our recs challenge, since that means you can take a peak at the due South, Wilby Wonderful, Hard Core Logo and Slings & Arrows indexes. These lists aren't completely comprehensive, but jinjurly has searched high and low to collect as many audiofic recordings as possible. If the story you want to rec isn't available through jinjurly's lists, please do your best to provide us a link to the audio recording.

ETA: I'm very, very pretty, and as a result I forgot to mention that slidellra has a more comprehensive list of due South podfic over here, and as She of the Sexay Voice can tell you herself, podfic kinda rules.

Go take a listen to one or two (or a dozen) fics, and report back here with your recommendations. Let's celebrate the awesomeness of podfic!

This challenge will close in two weeks, which'll leave you plenty of time for downloading and listening. Get crackin'!