#audio book

[raitala]

So it is done! The complete read through of SVSSS.

If you have a friend who you can't make read SVSSS, you can now (possibly) make them listen to it whilst driving or folding laundry or something.

21 individual chapter files or a Zip folder of the whole thing can be found here.

There is also the Youtube channel for people who prefer that.

Content warning for the last chapter: Some very bad sex in part 2. Blood and pain. Somewhat dubious consent, considering LBH is out of his mind and SQQ (at least in part) doing it to save Binghe and save the world. Take care of yourself and skip 0:12:00 to 0:19:00 in video 21, part 2 or 1:32:00-1:39:00 on the chapt 21 MP3 if you need to.

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[postpunkindustrial]

Christopher Lee Reads Edgar Allan Poe – Tales Of Horror

Halloween Season: Edgar Allan Poe

Christopher Lee reads some Edgar Allen Poe and he goes hard. Get it from my Google Drive HERE

[lumalilies]

ILTV LN 5 the very end read through & reactions <3

[cherrb333]

Prologue done chapter 1 publishing tomorrow>:)

@sweaterrat and @sleepdeprivedbagels

I tried hopefully this is good lolol

[casdeanwin]

So I'm listening to a Nine x Rose audio (The Ashes of Eternity), and I love it so much. It's only just started, but it's amazing. It's from Rose's point of view. And she thinks how she loves bantering with the Doctor. He calls her brain unevolved, so Rose teasingly replies, "Are you calling me thick?" And the Doctor says, "No. I said your brain isn't as evolved as mine." And when Rose still isn't happy, he proceeds to hand her a pair of goggles and teaches her some things. It's really sweet. 🥰

[biggs-regretti]

Who doesn’t like an omniscient radio cowboy causing trouble for the masses? This is Buck Hensley’s RULES OF THE ROAD! 

[fritzmonorail]

Here I go.

[all-for-the-hyperfixation]

The person who is voicing Seth and Roland for this book, River, sent me one of their bloopers when they were speaking for Roland and it sent both of us as they turned gremlin so fast because they messed up saying 'back' SO we decided to share it (they gave me permission) ! So hey, if you wanna be goofy and have fun while recording on a fun passion project, I'd love to have you! More information here

[nahokura]

Listening to the Good Omens audio book rn

[the-best-of-the-myrmidona]

listen, I get that people can get upset over the Shadowhunters being given British accents by audiobooks and movie. However, I raise the question

What do they sound like?

Lightwoods have been described as having "the odd inflection of Idris". Multiple books ha e mentioned the Idris accent in some way.

What does that accent sound like, then?

[thebookdragonshoard]

The Wicked King by Holly Black: Review (SPOILERS)

Dearest gentle readers (sorry, I've been watching too much Bridgerton).

Anyways, hello bitches, bros, and nonbinary hoes!! (+10 points if you can name that reference). I will most likely be jumping around from scene to scene instead of reviewing them chronologically because like my thought process, I can't do anything in an orderly or linear fashion.

The Wicked King by Holly Black is a 30 chapter, 448 page (or 10hr 21min audio book) book and is the second installment in the The Folk of the Air trilogy. It is primarily a political fantasy with a subplot of romance centering around our main character, Jude Duarte. Given that this is the second book in the series and that you are reading this, I will assume you already know the characters.

First of all, I'd like to highlight the fact that this is a political fantasy with a SUBplot of romance. I love the fact that, although the growing relationship between Cardan and Jude is relevant to the story, it is not the main focus. I feel like lately, many books are either hinged on romance or completely cut it out, so it always feels as if it's all or nothing. And I appreciate that Holly Black, while still producing a well-written and convincing romance, gave us a complex and captivating political scene with the world-building to match.

One of my favorite aspects of this book was how we got to see more into the inner workings of the High Court and life inside the palace. It was something I often found myself curious about while reading the first book (The Cruel Prince). Plus, we also got to see more faerie revels, which are always fun scenes to read, in my opinion.

Speaking of faerie revels, the revel on the night of the Hunter's Moon. First of all, I deeply despise Locke, and I just had to say that somewhere. Anyways, I like to believe that Jude being crowned Queen of Mirth was not only coincidental in her being the only mortal girl there, but also foreshadowing for the end of the book, when Jude rises to High Queen of Elfhame. Especially how, with her 'coronation' as Queen of Mirth, she was mocked and ridiculed the entire time (as per the game). When Jude is named High Queen and declares as such at the end of the book, the folk around her have much of the same reaction and start laughing at her almost instantaneously, Just like crowing a mortal as Queen of Mirth is meant to be a joke, Jude being crowned as the High Queen is received as a joke by the folk, however true it may be. Furthermore, a part of me has to admire the way Jude handled herself as Queen of Mirth and remained composed despite all the insults and ridiculed, even going so far as to turn the situation in her favor towards the end of the scene. For instance, how she strips herself naked before allowing the folk to dress her in the tattered gown given to the Queen of Mirth. It's such a powerful move for her and it basically screams to the folk that despite, no, in the face their cruel intentions, she can still hold her head high and that none of them could strip her of her dignity, despite how hard they may try. She silently says that whatever they may do to embarass her pales in comparison of what she can do to embarass herself and that, even though she is mortal, she is just as faerie as the rest of them, if not more so. Which I have personally thought since her first scheme to get Cardan on the throne. I think this quote sums it up very well. "After all, if the insult to me is pointing out that I am mortal, than this is my riposte: I live here, too, and I know the rules. Perhaps I even know them better than you since you were born into them, but I had to learn. Perhaps I know them better than you because you have greater leeway to break them."

However, even though Jude was the main focus of the scene, I have to bring up Cardan's actions. Because oh my gods, Cardan. First of all, how he makes sure that Taryn isn't there that night makes me believe that he did it not only because Jude asked him to help protect her from Locke, but that he also did it for Jude's sake. Because what would have been the one worse thing for Jude than her being named Queen of Mirth? If it were Taryn instead. Because I fully believe Locke would do it with zero hesitation, even though Taryn was supposed to be his lover. Additionally, Cardan tried to warn Jude to leave the revel towards the beginning of the scene, effectively trying to protect her from Locke's torment. And then what Cardan said when Locke asked about his feelings for Jude. " I have too often been troubled by dreams of Jude... her face features prominently in my most frequent nightmares... But I believe it is only that her beauty is unique... Excruciating. Alarming. Distressing." We all know that Cardan, being faerie, cannot lie and therefore has to be telling some form of the truth in this scene. And at first read, it's all too easy to assume he is being intentionally cruel. I certainly thought so at first. But then I remembered how Cardan previously admitted his attraction to Jude, more specifically how much it terrified him. Taking this into account, we realize that Cardan is actually complimenting Jude here. It is not that her beauty is excruciating, alarming, and distressing. Or that her face haunts his nightmares. But, rather, that her looks are excruciating, alarming, and distressing, and that her face haunts his nightmares because Cardan finds her beautiful, which he feels like he shouldn't because Jude is a mortal. Also, I like how, at the end of their shared dance, Cardan tells Jude she is allowed to stay or leave as she likes, effectively leaving the choice up to her. Giving her the option to leave insinuates that he is aware of how unsettled she must be after being named Queen of Mirth and that she may want to be alone to deal with her feelings about it, but also giving her the choice to stay essentially says that he isn't going to assume that she is still some weak, mortal girl that cant handle the pressure. Basically, he gives her the option to leave for her own sake if she must, no judgement included, or to stay and tough it out if she feels capable of it, also no judgement included.

Let's fast forward to the end of Taryn and Locke's wedding, aka the first betrayal scene. I was guessing the entire novel who the traitor would be, but I was not at all suspecting The Ghost. I suppose after the beginning sparring scene between Jude and The Ghost, I should have expected it but, you know what they say. Ignorance is bliss. So, The Ghost and Vulciber manage to lure Jude away to The Tower of Forgetting via an attack against it from the Undersea. And once there, it is revealed that The Ghost was the traitor and Jude gets the faerie equivalent of chloroformed. Talk about losing father figures, am I right? That makes what, 3 lost father figures for Jude?? Depenfing on your definition of lost if Madoc counts or not. Anyways, Jude then wakes up underwater as a prisoner of the Undersea. I, again, really enjoy how well this whole scenario highlights Jude's uncanny ability to lie and play a role. Consider, she manages to trick Queen Orlagh and Baelkin into believing she was glamored into adoring them. Even though Queen Orlagh is a major power in faerieland and is older than High King Eldred himself. And even though Baelkin's Hollow Hall was full of glamored mortals, meaning that he definitely should have been able to tell Jude wasn't actually glamored. You'd think at least one of them would have been able to tell. Or that even Nicasia should have been able to tell, given that out of the three she had been around Jude the most. It just goes to show again that even though Jude is mortal, she is just as faerie as the rest of the folk. And at the mention of Baelkin and this whole ordeal, am I the only one who audibly gagged when Jude had to kiss Baelkin? I can't be the only one. Her murdering him? Fully justified, and not even for him slaughtering his entire family save for Cardan and Oak. Good for Jude.

Finally, let's skip to the end of the book (aka the five stages of literary grief) because this review is already much longer than I anticipated. First off, Cardan rgiving up the Court of Termites just to arrange Jude's release??? No one can say he is NOT a romantic. And when Cardan has been poisoned by wraithberry at the masquerade ball, completely and utterly inebriated, and yet he still manages to come to Jude's defense when she is being threatened by Baelkin? Chef's kiss. It truly shows that Cardan has come such a long way from despising her, and his attraction towards her, in the first book to openly doing things that can be interpreted as fondness for her, even in front of the entire court and even when poisoned. And from there, Jude manages to trick the antidote away from Baelkin and kills him in a duel, before returning to Cardan. This leads us to the second betrayal of the book: Taryn.

Taryn tricks Cardan into believing she is Jude while he is still sobering up from the wraithberry and asks requested half the army plus Madoc to be released from their oaths to the crown. To which Cardan agrees without question, due to how much trust he now has in Jude. I didn't see The Ghost's betrayal coming, but I had my suspcicions about Taryn from the get go. She was being overly nice to Jude the entire book, despite her betrayal with Locke in the first book. I feel like this betrayal hurt worse for Jude than that of The Ghost's, because Jude had decided to give Taryn a second chance, despite her broken heart from the first book. And then Taryn turned right back around and stabbed a second knife into Jude's back, right next to the one from the first book.

After that whole debacle, Cardan summons Jude back to his room later in the night. And this is when he asks Jude to give him control of himself back, in exchange for her hand in marriage, making her the High Queen of Elfhame. Obviously, Jude accepts because she stills feels like that helpless mortal on the inside, and what better solution is there for than feeling than acquiring more power and respect. The next day, Queen Orlagh demands an audience with the High King and reveals she is furious about the murder of Baelkin, her ambassador. She threatens war and almost goes through with it. Before she can, Cardan quite literally boils the sea and raises an entirely new island of Elfhame. Which, if you recall, the original 3 islands were raised up by Queen Mab herself. I also interpret this as foreshadowing, however for the next book and the whole Cardan prophecy, specifically the "...a great ruler will rise" bit. Because Queen Mab is regarded in faerie as the greatest ruler there was, having the Blood Crown forged for her descendants. I find it's only fitting that Cardan raises up an island of Elfhame, as Mab did, in his, arguably, first moment acting as a true High King of Elfhame. Orlagh then goes on to back down, still demanding justice for Baelkin. And Cardan gives it to her, by exiling Jude back to the mortal realm until she is pardoned by the Crown. (a loop-hole she could have exploited right then and there since she was the High Queen and therefore part of the Crown). Which enraged me to no end at the time, given that they had just gotten married (a fact that thrilled me.) Again I say: they are the definition of enemies to lovers.

That's all I have for y'all, folks. If this review erred too far on the side of essay, then too bad, so sad. I enjoy writing essays (clearly.)

[impulsivelycontentious]

Finishing a good podfic / audio book always leaves me feeling like my life is now empty and missing something and there's a void that will never be filled. It is a very dramatic sensation.

[chapter15studios]

fully casted romantasy audio drama <3

hi, it's been a while since i posted on here, but people say the tumblr AD community is really loving?

please consider checking out my audiodrama called He Who Forsakes the Crown. it's a fully casted fantasy/romance audio drama following a tormented prince through his journey of getting away from bad habits and generational trauma. we also have fun maidens and stoic lady captains dealing with some major stuff as well.

this is my attempt of spinning the typical "toxic romance" trope around!

my crew and i have been working on this show for over three years now! the series finale is planned to come out this november, meaning the journey is almost done :( this project is made entirely by dedicated volunteers. i don't think i've worked harder on anything else in my life, i've written, casted, engineered, and drew the promotional art myself (with the help of some amazing people).

the show currently has 33 episodes out. we're available on all podcast players, and our website is right here (currently under maintenence!!)

thank you <3

[mushroomgrenade]

My long awaited Casting Call guide for animation students and anyone who needs it — ie narrative, story telling, etc is live!!

Reblogs are appreciated!

I made this in the intent for animation students in my college program at the start, but if anyone needs it, please feel free to use this! My goal was to make this process easier for people who are just joining in the voice acting scene for the first time. It can be intimidating when you don’t know how it works, and every industry has its own unique set of rules, criteria, and requirements. I hope this serves to be a helpful guide to anyone who decides to use it!!

Art by @dizzystarfie

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