Audio Stuff
May. 12th, 2021 11:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seekingferretI've listened to a few RBG related podcasts recently, the best of which has been Lauren Moxley Beatty's "The Ginsburg Tapes", which does an extremely close reading of the recordings of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's six Supreme Court oral arguments from before she was a Justice. The analysis is excellent, the tie to primary sources makes it even more compelling, and I learned a huge amount both about legal thought and also about political thought in general. The sense I developed as I listened was about the way in which Ginsburg's arguments might appear relatively conservative to an activist while having to make an absolutely revolutionary argument to the Justices on the court, and it was fascinating to think about the minutiae of that distinction.
A new podcast that I've listened to about half of is Maryanne Mohanraj and Benjamin Rosenbaum's chatty writing podcast Mohanraj and Rosenbaum are Humans. The podcasts are long and meaty- 1.5 to 2 hours each- and Mohanraj and Rosenbaum have long been favorite con speakers of mine and they are very entertaining and thought provoking to listen to in this format. I just listened to their over two hour interview/conversation with Cory Doctorow, which is so good, they talk for ages about how to balance thematic and philosophical development in a novel with actual character building, or maybe not even how to balance so much as how to let character and thematic development flow from each other.
This also reminded me that I participated in Doctorow's kickstarter for Attack Surface's audiobook, read by Amber Benson, but never listened to it. So I just started listening to it now, and so far it's really, really good. If you've read Little Brother or Homeland, this book is in the same series but instead of Marcus being the focus, Masha is the POV character, and it's such a fascinating new perspective.
Thirdly, I was podficced! One of my weirdest fics, of all things, my If on a winter's night a traveler fic "Only the Third Story in this Forsaken Fandom Whose Title Does Not Begin with If". I haven't listened to it fully yet but the opening section is so delightful to hear aloud.
[Podfic] Only the Third Story in this Forsaken Fandom Whose Title Does Not Begin with If (174 words) by CompassRose
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore | If on a Winter's Night a Traveller - Italo Calvino, 1/0, 2666 - Roberto Bolaño
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Manuel (1/0)/Original Female Character, Lotaria/Ermes Marana
Characters: Lotaria, Ermes Marana, Ludmilla (Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore), Tailsteak, Benno von Archimboldi, the Writer, Il Lettore | The Reader (Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore), Manuel (1/0)
Additional Tags: Metafiction, Meta, Mirrors, Simulacra, Very Dramatic Readings, Podfic & Podficced Works, Podfic, Podfic Length: 30-45 Minutes, Music, Sound Effects, Voiceteam 2021, Team Denim Gremlins
Summary:
A new podcast that I've listened to about half of is Maryanne Mohanraj and Benjamin Rosenbaum's chatty writing podcast Mohanraj and Rosenbaum are Humans. The podcasts are long and meaty- 1.5 to 2 hours each- and Mohanraj and Rosenbaum have long been favorite con speakers of mine and they are very entertaining and thought provoking to listen to in this format. I just listened to their over two hour interview/conversation with Cory Doctorow, which is so good, they talk for ages about how to balance thematic and philosophical development in a novel with actual character building, or maybe not even how to balance so much as how to let character and thematic development flow from each other.
This also reminded me that I participated in Doctorow's kickstarter for Attack Surface's audiobook, read by Amber Benson, but never listened to it. So I just started listening to it now, and so far it's really, really good. If you've read Little Brother or Homeland, this book is in the same series but instead of Marcus being the focus, Masha is the POV character, and it's such a fascinating new perspective.
Thirdly, I was podficced! One of my weirdest fics, of all things, my If on a winter's night a traveler fic "Only the Third Story in this Forsaken Fandom Whose Title Does Not Begin with If". I haven't listened to it fully yet but the opening section is so delightful to hear aloud.
[Podfic] Only the Third Story in this Forsaken Fandom Whose Title Does Not Begin with If (174 words) by CompassRose
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore | If on a Winter's Night a Traveller - Italo Calvino, 1/0, 2666 - Roberto Bolaño
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Manuel (1/0)/Original Female Character, Lotaria/Ermes Marana
Characters: Lotaria, Ermes Marana, Ludmilla (Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore), Tailsteak, Benno von Archimboldi, the Writer, Il Lettore | The Reader (Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore), Manuel (1/0)
Additional Tags: Metafiction, Meta, Mirrors, Simulacra, Very Dramatic Readings, Podfic & Podficced Works, Podfic, Podfic Length: 30-45 Minutes, Music, Sound Effects, Voiceteam 2021, Team Denim Gremlins
Summary:
You've decided to write If on a winter's night a traveller fanfic. Oh, you poor, poor soul. This can only end in blood and tears. If it even ends at all. You can write an ending, can't you?
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Recorded for a VoiceTeam 2021 Week 1 Challenge: Wavelength. Create an audio fanwork that feels very you: maybe it centers on a favorite trope, character, fandom, performance style, etc. (The Denim Gremlins).