Podfic: “Disconnect”
Just posted the first three chapters of a podfic I’m doing of @tinsnip‘s story “Disconnect.” It’s 46 min. long, about 44 MB.
[Podfic] Disconnect (link to AO3)
Read by wcdarling
About the podfic (pasting in from AO3):
Once again, recording someone else’s story. I’ll be posting most of this a chapter at a time and adding the download links, but the first download is Chapters 1-3 because the first two are shorter.
A bit of background on why I decided to record this story: I don’t “do” the Deep Dish Nine AU, or at least I didn’t, until recently the story “Complementing Baggage” appeared here on AO3 as a new story. I glanced at it, not meaning to read, but I got hooked and wow, it was a great story, and the kind that made you want more. And since I knew that it had sprung from a previous story, I hunted that story down, and it was this one – “Disconnect”, as well as its sequel “Splice”. And OMG, “Disconnect” really got to me, as does pretty much all of tinsnip’s writing.
And why do I love it? First, “The Wire” is up there in my very favorite DS9 episodes, so that’s obvious, but second, and more importantly, this story just goes so deeply into the issues involved with addiction, withdrawal, what it does not just to them but to someone close to them if they witness it, how the partner copes, and just what a fucking sick shit show it is. Both the POVs are there. Finally, I’ll name I guess the third, fourth and fifth parts I loved: realism, details, and some great shouting matches.
My reading: The perspective in the story alternates between Garak and Julian. Sometimes a whole chapter will be just from one POV but in some chapters it will switch from section to section. I try to convey with my voice. Hopefully it’s easy enough to spot the transitions. That goes for the bits of internal dialog that are appear throughout; I say them a bit more quietly so you can tell the characters aren’t speaking the works out loud.
I’ll try to record at least one chapter this week, hopefully more.
Wendy
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