#dramatized audiobooks

[masked-and-mean]

I would like to rectify a shrine to GraphicAudio.

If I’m not reading, I’m listening. And Oh. My. God. Do I love them❤️❤️❤️❤️

How they make everything “A movie in your mind”. All the sound effects, the actors, it’s.. amazing. Period.

A movie creates the pictures, and decides what will be shown. Words let’s you create them yourself (and frankly I like mine better) but with audiobooks with background music and the goddamn actors takes the experience to whole another level!!!! 

There is this one actor who make me.. just… 🤤🤤🤤 and every time I hear his voice makes me a puddle. Doesn’t matter if he is a bad guy who will die in 5 min, in my notes he is The Daddy.

I mean.

Xaden - Fourt Wing

Orion - The Demon Queen Trials

Micah - Crescent City

Lucien - ACOTAR

unnamed demon - The Harbinger

I meeeeean, just go and listen. Spread the word! Glory to GraphicAudio!!! Glory to GraphicAudio!!!

[fantasyarcanum]

i’m once again listening to the Network Effect audiobook, but this time the dramatized version, and even thought is quite good with the full cast, sound effects and everything, i kinda of prefer the original version better. maybe is affective memory but the narration by Kevin R. Free is just too good

[springbudeyes]

Please enjoy the first installment of a new series I'd like to call Gamemode 0!

If you're waiting for Mianite Season Four (ha), this will hopefully tide you over. Gamemode 0 is a highly produced mini-series that tells a story through text, dramatic audio narration, a musical score, and images. It stars a villain who was an edgy Grim Reaper in 2015 and it poses the question—how much has Kikoku Botan really changed since 2015?

That question will be answered over the course of – I'm guessing – seven-ish chapters? The first chapter, which you're about to read and hear, is based on a Minecraft RP session held in a single night. Those present for the session include World Historian's original writer (me) and a group of talented role-players. More info under the cut!

Here's the cast:

Moth @robotmothpie as Ginkgo Belshem

CloudF11 @silent-moons-camp as Cloud Endernatus

Metal @mx-metal as Omu Vulcan

Honor @cult-of-athar as Fateshaper (the Big Bad)

Matthew (me) as World Historian

(All characters are voiced by me.)

Background:

The project was Mianite Etherealis. We played on a private 1.12 server for two years, ending in early 2023. The chapter you're about to read (titled Session One) covers the RP session that brought World Historian into the narrative.

I would almost go so far as to say that you're about to experience a canon World Historian mini-series with implications for all World Historian content in existence.

Is it actually canon? I don't know. It's as authentic as you'll ever get for WH, that's for sure. I've spent the last nine years developing the cosmology being used here. I planted the seeds for it when I created World Historian in 2015.

But no, Gamemode 0 isn't Dec-and-Tom-approved canon. And my astounding co-writers aren't offical Mianite writers. And Etherealis isn't a piece of lost Mianite media, though you can think of it that way if you'd like.

Vision:

Gamemode 0 will follow the plot of Mianite Etherealis for one more session, then embark on its own original plot centered on World Historian.

That being said, my aim with Gamemode 0 is to dig up a piece of the past and link it to the future. This series is one of many projects that could result from that effort. If it sees enough support, it could grow beyond text, images, and audio. We have endless headroom here.

If you're looking for Botan's history in Ruxomar, you'll find it. If you're hoping for a glimpse into Akemi and Mina's lives, you'll get it. If you seek all manner of strange World Historian lore, consider it yours. If you just wanna sink your teeth into a juicy hunk of Mianite meat, go get a napkin, you menace.

We have plenty of chapters to take us from the past, to the future, and back again. I could just list the plain facts about World Historian in a lore post, but I could never be satisfied with that. I'm a storyteller.

Disclaimer:

The players own their characters. Most of the dialogue and actions in Session One come straight from the corresponding RP session. I'm just putting it all to a narrative and making readability tweaks for first-timers.

Shout-outs:

Happy birthday yesterday, Honor! We love you!! I guess this is one of your presents. Thanks for letting World Historian take over as the big scary dude for a session. And sorry for writing out our best boy, Oleander. We should co-write something someday.

Cloud, thanks for going back to our defunct Minecraft world to set everything up and take the awesome shadered screenshots for Session One. Also thanks for making c!Cloud such a great POV character. He carries Gamemode 0.

Thank you, Moth, for the un-shadered screenies, for being my PR person, and for supporting me generally all the time. PDA PDA aaaaa!

And thanks, Metal, for being the cool one. B)

Calls to action:

Mianitees, shower love upon my friends. I know Moth and Cloud would jump at the opportunity to answer asks about their passionately crafted OCs. And so would Honor and Metal, I suspect. With the right motivation, who knows what they could create?

The link will send you to my Substack blog, where you'll be able to read, listen, like, and subscribe to my newsletter. The paid subscription has no advantage over the free one; most of you will pick free, but if anyone would like to support me financially, that would be super appreciated. (If we get some traction with subs, I'll set up sub goals and a budget for upgrades to my production.) I plan to release Gamemode 0 chapters as frequently as I can, but I will post something to my Substack every month—Mianite related or not.

Also please like and reblog this Tumblr post if you dig it and want to see more.

Now go and enjoy your food.

[secondbeatsongs]

forbidden Narnia adaptation where Tim Curry is the white witch and David Bowie is Aslan, send post

[zasmn]

It's been a few years since I latched onto a media, but I definitely rapidly gained the Murderbot Diaries as a special interest

[a-whiff-of-a-dream]

I need a (good!!) cinographic adaptation of emily wildes encyclopedia of faeries only to see how wendell throws up his arms in the air when he yells 'do you want to marry me!'

[oh-cramity-its-amity]

no yeah dont ever underestimate my guilty pleasure for YA wlw romance novels that feel like rom coms about two losers (affectionate) being dumb and then somehow falling in love. what do u want from me. i literally just read an entire book in like under a day. was it good? sorta?? BUT THE THING IS you literally dont take it super seriously. dont overthink it. its literally just there for the vibes and silly feelings. OH i forgot how much i literally used to EAT these books up as a teen. like i would not go anywhere without a ya romance book in my hands. i was THAT person. irl romance? nahhh. give me that silly meetcute situation between characters. guess that translated well to fanfic.

[jeanmoreaux]

as a teen i was always so excited to be home alone but now as an adult it’s like. wow. i am so bored without my siblings barging into my room to show me a stupid meme. it would be so great if there was someone around to watch a movie with me. i really miss hearing the white noise of voices from across the room that usually accompany my sitting here and reading a book.

[catfishofoldin99colours]

oh dear the book is reaching Blorbo levels of a Dangerous Calibre

[wishfulimaginings]

Been listening to the Graphic Audiobook of Fourth Wing. I kept thinking this version is not for me until the moment Violet sees Xaden .

The change in music , the change in the tone of her voice , I could almost imagine it being played in slow motion if it were a movie . The cinematic beauty of that scene is 😭😭😭😭

[dragontummy]

One of the big things they don't warn you about when it comes to being a system that co-fronts easily is that sometimes you'll all end up distracting each other from what you're each trying to do. One person will be playing a game and unable to read anything because another person will be listening to an audiobook while a THIRD person is passively thinking about one of their ocs, resulting in everyone having a hard time focusing on literally anything

[fallloverfic]

"Nimona" comic audio dramatization

More people should listen to the Nimona audiobook/dramatization (4 October 2016) (this is a preview featuring Jonathan Davis as Ballister Blackheart and Rebecca Soler as Nimona):

There's another preview and links to buy here. A lot of libraries also have copies of it if you wanna see if it's available that way.

Mini cast list:

Narrator: Peter Bradbury

Nimona: Rebecca Soler

Lord Ballister Blackheart: Jonathan Davis

Sir Ambrosius Goldenloin: Marc Thompson

The Director: January LaVoy

Dr. Meredith Blitzmeyer: Natalie Gold

Rudy: David Pittu

[lindensea]

Love it when an audiobook is so good I drive everywhere in a trance-like state

[zasmn]

I'm waiting on the library so I can listen to the last two books in the Murderbot Diaries. I technically could buy the next two dramatized audiobooks, but I'd rather buy the series in book form and if I buy the last two audiobooks I'd need to buy the first five so I could relisten to them all and then well, I'll have spent so much money that buying the physical books would be out of my budget

[enbysiriusblack]

i think i have a few mutuals who are into/know iwtv. so just gonna say this real quick

louis de pointe du lac <333 my fav depressed, plagued with moral quandary vampire ever <3 he's so silly. he's such a mess. i love him.

[doublernothing]

Took several months to record on-and-off, but I've finished the longest chapter of my Princess Bride audiobook! Detailing Buttercup's capture all the way to the Fire Swamp, with backstories for Inigo and Fezzik not seen in the film!