galadhir

Got to celebrate them!

So, now that I've put that extra eight bars into the choreography, everything has settled into a much more regular structure, and I have started to be able to hear the different parts of the music and the shifts between them.

Which means that today I managed to dance the whole thing through twice without getting lost. And on one of those occasions the stick nearly fell off my head and I had to grab it and do some improvisation with it before getting it balanced again and joining back in when the next section arrived.

Admittedly this is partly because I simplified one of the choruses, but it's early days and I may be able to de-simplify it now I understand how it all fits together. (As long as I remember all this tomorrow.)

The skirt arrived and needs turning up, but the sewing machine is in the conservatory and I'm not going to sit in a glass room in 29C weather. I'll do that this evening.

So instead I've read and edited another chapter of my podfic of Guanyin's Gift. In which Jin Guangyao gets to do his life all over again from the age of eight. Armed with a lifetime of cultivation and spy skills, and a lifetime's knowledge of the politics of the cultivation world, he gets it much more right this time around.

A Podfic of 'Guanyin's Gift' by Galadhir

You can't build a goddess of mercy a large temple and pay for priests to worship her every day without earning at least some merit. Aka, by divine mercy, Jin Guangyao gets a chance to do his life all over again.

And on a lighter note, I have begun podficcing my own Oak and Willow, which conveniently has shortish chapters that I can both record and edit in a day. Much easier than having to record for an hour at a time!

Oak and Willow being the story of Celeborn and Galadriel during the First Age of Middle-earth, told from the Sindarin point of view, with digressions to cover the invention of writing, the first rising of the sun and the moon, and so much elvish racism and politics.

First three chapters up at Ao3

Chapter Three is up here

In which Yanli teaches her husband to make dumplings, learns that he can dance, and gets delightfully drunk.

Huzzah! I have finished recording and editing my podfic of Last of our Kind, by Shiome

I've also gathered all the links into Chapter One, so you only need to have one Ao3 page open on your device to get access to the links for every chapter. (IDK, it's a feature I've appreciated when other podficcers do it.)

This has taken over 14 weeks because there was time off over Christmas, but I'm very proud of it. I even did the voices :)

So without more ado

Full and complete podfic of Last of Our Kind by Shiome, podfic by Galadhir

Getting lured back to Tumblr by all the Untamed content over there. Mostly going through the blogs of Jin Guangyao stans and reblogging everything - basically being irritating to two websites at once. But this time I'm going to post about it here, so I don't just end up fading out again.

The Untamed/MDZS fandom must be the largest I've ever been in, and that includes the Tolkien fandom, and it is absolutely bursting with really great fic. Quite a lot of which is even Jin Guangyao centric. Of course I've done my usual thing of gravitating to a widely controversial character rather than nestling happily in the main pairing, which cuts down my reading choices somewhat. But I don't think I could ever be content shipping a pairing for which the canon had already come through. What is left for the fan writer to fix in those cases? Much harder to give JGY a happy ending, especially if you also want everyone else (except Jin Guangshan, he can die) to live and be happy too. But that's what makes it fun.

I'm currently in the middle of podficcing Shiome's Last of our kind, for which I can just about manage to produce a chapter a week. There are 14 chapters and I've done 8. So that should be finished in February. After which, I'm in a quandary as to whether I podfic Derillarch's Peony to Lotus series, or whether I attempt to finish the story I started writing months and months ago.

(That's 'The Will of Heaven', in which JGY comes back to life the same way WWX did, and must attempt to become Lan Furen while fooling the rest of the cultivation world that he is someone else entirely, or else deal with the consequences.)

There is so much good fic out there that it doesn't seem like the fandom needs mine. But there are not very many JGY centric podfics, so I do almost feel like I can make a bigger difference by podficcing than by writing, atm.