Reminder: Podfic Recs Challenge Closing Soon!

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Hi all!

Just a reminder that we're still taking recommendations for your top three favourite due South/C6D podfics. Tell us about that podfic you've listened to over and over again! Let us know about a new favourite! Any story under the C6D umbrella is fair game, and we haven't had any Wilby Wonderful or HCL podfic recs yet. So come on down!

The challenge will close Sunday evening at 11:59pm Chicago time, so you've still got the whole weekend to talk podfic. (And I apologize for the lame pun).

Con Job

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Title: Con Job
Author/reader: keerawa
Pairing: Fraser/RayK, RayK/OMC
Rating: NC17
Length: 32 minutes / 22MB / 5300 words

Why I'm reccing this podfic: This is an angsty story about what being undercover means to Ray K. The insights about how Ray prepares himself for being someone else are wonderful; I tend to forget that Ray is undercover as Vecchio, canonically, and that the way he approaches Fraser must be colored by this. I also really like the ending, which is not precisely happy, but I enjoy endings which are not precisely happy.

The reading is very well done. Keerawa has a pleasant voice, reads slowly, and infuses each line with meaning and energy. The individual characters come across clearly, including Ray-as-Ray and Ray-as-Gary both. The porn is quite sexy, and perhaps listening to this story while grocery shopping was not the smartest idea I've ever had.

I mostly prefer to rec in my own journal and on my website, but I wanted to put this one out here because it's an example of a truly outstanding reading of a due South story.

Con Job (links to both text and podfic versions)