AMP12: Day 15
So, I was freaking out a little bit the other day (and by freaking out, I mean Tweeting in ALL CAPS (Y'know, I'm noticing a disturbing trend towards way too much time spent on Twitter. It's just, there're so many podficcers over there! And they say such funny things about gay porns!), but whatever) because I had a podfic - or a ficlet to be podficced by someone else - that fit every square on my au_bingo card EXCEPT ONE. I had NO FILLS for my "AUTO RACING' square! OH NOES!
But then....dun duh-duh-dunnnn.... helens78 swooped in to the rescue! Remember that time I made a podfic of her XMFC Car Thieves AU, Ignition? Well, she'd been contemplating writing a sequel, and was fantastically awesome enough to crank it out over the span of only four days. So, ladies and gents, mutant-lovers and fast car aficionados, may I present for your listening pleasure:
Acceleration, written by helens78, takes place a few weeks after Charles and Erik stole that gorgeous little Audi R8 - the boys are together, for a value of together that means "they're stealing cars or fucking, or they're fucking in or on the cars they steal." And then, Erik asks Charles on a DATE. So sweet.....except for how Erik's ex, Sebastian Shaw, is making pervy eyes at Charles when they get there. Also, many people don't consider drag-racing against mutants to be a sweet first date.
In Acceleration, Erik brings a Corvette Z06 to the races - which (if I've done my Google Searching correctly) is the car on the cover for this podfic. Ignition had a straight-from-the-car-ad podfic cover, and sticking with the theme worked pretty well for Acceleration, too. I really liked how this image looked like "the end of a stretch of road in which a bunch of cars have decided to take up residence" described by helens78 in the story. The Intro/Outro music for this podfic is How We Roll (Fast Five Remix) feat. Busta Rhymes by Don Omar - it's the song that played during the end credits of Fast Five, and since that was a movie about fast cars...and this is a podfic about fast cars... it made sense to put 'em together :-)
One other note: this podfic was recorded after I upgraded my laptop's OS.....and after I forgot to save all my GarageBand settings. I lost my Voice Of Death filter, my Flashbacks filter, my Footnotes filter, and my Telepathy filter. Which means, of course, that though I tried to recreate the telepathy effect for Charles in this podfic, I'm pretty sure it doesn't actually sound the same as his telepathy in Ignition. Hopefully, this won't interfere with anyone's enjoyment of the series.
You can find the mp3 of Acceleration over here (thank you, paraka, for hosting me!), or you can click below to stream the story:
(And, in case anyone missed it, I'm using this podfic to fill my "auto racing" square for au_bingo. Have you been paying attention or not?)
But then....dun duh-duh-dunnnn.... helens78 swooped in to the rescue! Remember that time I made a podfic of her XMFC Car Thieves AU, Ignition? Well, she'd been contemplating writing a sequel, and was fantastically awesome enough to crank it out over the span of only four days. So, ladies and gents, mutant-lovers and fast car aficionados, may I present for your listening pleasure:
Acceleration, written by helens78, takes place a few weeks after Charles and Erik stole that gorgeous little Audi R8 - the boys are together, for a value of together that means "they're stealing cars or fucking, or they're fucking in or on the cars they steal." And then, Erik asks Charles on a DATE. So sweet.....except for how Erik's ex, Sebastian Shaw, is making pervy eyes at Charles when they get there. Also, many people don't consider drag-racing against mutants to be a sweet first date.
In Acceleration, Erik brings a Corvette Z06 to the races - which (if I've done my Google Searching correctly) is the car on the cover for this podfic. Ignition had a straight-from-the-car-ad podfic cover, and sticking with the theme worked pretty well for Acceleration, too. I really liked how this image looked like "the end of a stretch of road in which a bunch of cars have decided to take up residence" described by helens78 in the story. The Intro/Outro music for this podfic is How We Roll (Fast Five Remix) feat. Busta Rhymes by Don Omar - it's the song that played during the end credits of Fast Five, and since that was a movie about fast cars...and this is a podfic about fast cars... it made sense to put 'em together :-)
One other note: this podfic was recorded after I upgraded my laptop's OS.....and after I forgot to save all my GarageBand settings. I lost my Voice Of Death filter, my Flashbacks filter, my Footnotes filter, and my Telepathy filter. Which means, of course, that though I tried to recreate the telepathy effect for Charles in this podfic, I'm pretty sure it doesn't actually sound the same as his telepathy in Ignition. Hopefully, this won't interfere with anyone's enjoyment of the series.
You can find the mp3 of Acceleration over here (thank you, paraka, for hosting me!), or you can click below to stream the story:
(And, in case anyone missed it, I'm using this podfic to fill my "auto racing" square for au_bingo. Have you been paying attention or not?)