Women of the Sentinel Fandom Podficby Laurie laurie_ky

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"Women of the Sentinel Fandom Podfic" - podfic by Laurie laurie_ky.

Fandom(s): The Sentinel
Character(s)/Pairing(s):Naomi Sandburg, Alex Barnes, Grace Ellison, Blair Sandburg, Jim Ellison. Mention of Jim Ellison/Blair Sandburg.
Content Notes/Warnings:Rape scene in Something Told the Wild Goose. Themes: sentinel/guide bonding, mother and child relationships, family expectations, choices, hippie life.
Summary: Four podfics that show what may have happened in the lives of three women characters: Naomi Sandburg, Alex Barnes, and Grace Ellison.

Acknowledgements:
I thought that this challenge, to focus on the women in fandom, was an interesting idea, so I took a look at the Sentinel fandom and chose four stories to podfic.
Maternal Instinct by Autumn Skies
Oil and Water by Jane Davitt
Always and Forever by Rent Girl 2
Something Told the Wild Geese by Blue Wolf (rape scene)

I also did a fan-mix of songs based on these four stories, and it can be downloaded from Megaupload.

There is a wonderful meta essay by magician113 where she not only discusses the role Naomi, Grace and Alex played in the show, but takes a look at most of the other women characters, and how the show treated them. She did this as a complement to my podfics, and I'm very happy she did so.

Links to discussions, podfics, podbooks, texts, fan-mix and the meta essay are here at my lj. I also posted to Dreamwidth.

Laurie

"Buck up, it's Baroque" - fiction by naraht

[naraht]

"Buck up, it's Baroque" - fiction by naraht.

Fandom(s): Hilda Tablet/Classical Composers RPF
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Hilda Tablet/Elsa Strauss, Benjamin Britten/Peter Pears, Hilda Tablet/Imogen Holst
Wordcount | Rating: 15,119 | Teen
Content Notes: 1950s, Banter, Bisexual Character, Canon Queer Character, Canon Queer Relationship, Feminist Themes, Humor, Making Music, Opera, Pederasty, Queer Themes, Women Being Awesome
Summary: Roll over, Beethoven and move over, Benjamin Britten… it's Hilda Tablet, the "eminent twelve-tone composeress." When Hilda and her muse, soprano Elsa Strauss, are special guests at the Aldeburgh Festival, they leave havoc, romantic entanglements and modern music in their wake.
Acknowledgements: Thanks to trascendenza for stepping in at the very last minute and doing a great illustration of Elsa, mid-aria!

Read "Buck up, it's Baroque" at the AO3