New fandom, new way of contributing to fandom

[galadhir]

So, I'm now mostly lurking in The Untamed fandom (and also doing podfic of one of my favourite fics.) I guess this means I need Jin Guangyao icons now :)

Making podfic is a lot easier than I thought. The main problem (for me) is just tripping over my tongue, but a lot of that can be fixed in the editing.

A podfic of Last of Our Kind by Shiome

On a ship to Dongying, a man awakens grievously injured, missing not only a hand but also a good chunk of his memories.

Travelling across a foreign land and dealing with local ghosts, Meng Yao(?) tries to remember and Lan Xichen tries to forget. But on the way to retracing and rekindling old feelings, they realize they are being followed.

Music is Inspiring Asia by Lexin Music from Pixabay

Comments

[stultiloquentia]

Wooo, we got another one! Hehehe welcome.

[galadhir]

LOL! Thank you :) Yeah, I'm on my third viewing of the series and about half way through the book, and I'm inhaling meta as fast as I can. It's great!

[mistressofmuses]

Podfic is something I've often thought about wanting to get into, largely because I love to read aloud, but I never have. Trying to find music or sound effects (though I know those aren't really required), plus trying to get a recording setup that produces clean audio seems intimidating to me!

[galadhir]

Oh, good news then! Because you can get Audacity (a free audio recording and editing suite) free here https://www.audacityteam.org/
and you can get free open source music on Pixabay and honestly, I record with a fairly basic microphone on my computer desk and then edit out the room noise in Audacity later.

It takes a bit of fiddling about before you can edit out the room noise without making your voice sound weird, but I think I've got it in chapter two, and that was even without taking the ticking clock off the wall.

[mistressofmuses]

Ooh, thank you for the links! I have heard of Audacity, but never used it. May be worth giving it a shot - I didn't realize it could help with things like cleaning up room noise and that sort of thing.

And I knew that pixabay had some open source images and things, but didn't realize it also had music!

I'll have to look into some sort of basic microphone setup... but it seems more doable than I've really thought it could be, ha.

[galadhir]

Definitely :) And even the microphone isn't too expensive. I think mine was around the £35 mark, which makes a good Christmas present :)

Audacity's website has a load of tutorials for cleaning up sound, and there are also a lot of useful demonstration vids on YouTube, but it's not really complicated. You could definitely do it.

[mistressofmuses]

That's pretty reasonable, cost-wise. Definitely something worth looking into! Thanks for the advice!

[sunshine304]

Ohh that fic is so great!
It's funny how CQL takes over people's life! XD I've been in this fandom for over two years now and it's a whole lot of fun! :D

[galadhir]

It is, isn't it! It's one of the more believable fix-its that I've read, since it works through rebuilding Lan Xichen's shattered trust as well as showing you why the two of them *are* actually really suited for each other.

I play the pennywhistle and I have to admit to already having bought a tassel for it as a result of this series. I'm sure the obsession will only grow from there :)

[sunshine304]

Yes, I'm always so sad for LXC, who is kinda forgotten in CQL, shattered as he is... So I really enjoyed this fic, as it works through so many issues so well and it also quite suspenseful on its own.

Uh oh you've already started to buy the merch! Lost cause! XD

[galadhir]

LOL! Yep, I'm even growing my hair out so I can start wearing hair ornaments :)