there will be a fish

So...I never got around to actually crossposting about the Amplificathon 2013 podfics I did. *is super belated* I figured I should probably get on that before Amplificathon 2014 rolled around.

I joined up a week before the deadline, and I'd never recorded anything before, so I started with my own stories and a couple of Katie's. When I inevitably fumble my way through the early part of a learning curve, I prefer it be my own stuff (or my clone's) that bears the brunt of it. Anyway:

(click on any of the covers or titles to download via the marvelous audiofic archive)



Three May Keep A Secret( details )



Here( details )



Pun In The Sun( details )



Guidance( details )



OTR( details )



habeas corpus( details )



The Sincerest Form of Flattery( details )

I woke up waaaay too early this morning and couldn't go back to sleep, ugh. Then I wasted several hours of my life to the tentacled embrace of the state bureacracy, bought an enormous amount of sushi, and ate it while watching NCIS:LA with my sister. (Let me just say: KENSI AND DEEKS, I LOVES THEM. I still love Sam and G, too, but Kensi is the bomb, and I am incredibly fond of Deeks' puppyish facade and badass/marshmallow center, and I totally ship them, which I haven't done for a m/f cop partnership since, hmm, Life I think. I know it's not the most brilliant show in the world (HAHAHA), but it still makes me happy. ♥). I did pass the time waiting on Godot bureaucrats by re-reading Dorothy L. Sayers' awesome essay "Aristotle on Detective Fiction," though, so it wasn't a total waste of time. I like to read that essay and think about TV crime procedurals. I was thinking, I could scan it and put it up here if anyone's interested? It took me a lot of effort to obtain a copy of Unpopular Opinions in order to read it in the first place, so I'm okay with loaning it out to y'all, so to speak.

In other news, I was reading some fic earlier that made me want to put together a short rec list of chase-related stories. I love chase stories a lot -- especially when they manage to involve either spies, or falsely-accused innocent persons.

1. The fic responsible for this list: Paper Chase (Sherlock/White Collar, genish) by copperbadge. He just wrote a sequel to it, Rematch, hence the rec, because I was just thrilled. I mean, it's a Sherlock/White Collar crossover with plot! Even if it weren't written brilliantly by Sam, I would've wanted to read it. Really, really fun, I highly recommend it. (Bonus: if you're a podfic person, there's a great co-read one of Paper Chase -- the Sherlock&John-POV sections read by a Brit, and the Neal&Peter bits read by an American, which is fun.)

2. The classic: Finders Keepers (The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Illya/Napoleon) by Taliesin. I know most of the young 'uns on my flist won't know this fandom, but I don't care, you should still read it. It's got spies! Running around 1960s New York! There's pie! Flirting! Shenanigans! Tie-dye! Bathhouses! Seriously, I love this fic. It's just so darn playful.

3. The remake: The Fugitive (Numb3rs). I almost didn't read this because a) I'd never seen Numb3rs before, b) it features an OFC, and c) it's on The Pit of Voles. Seriously, that's a lot of negatives. But I adore The Fugitive, so I gave it a shot, and it's really really fun. It made me want to watch Numb3rs, after which I re-read this and realized just how well-characterized it actually was. The OFC turns out to be rather awesome, and the entire team is well-written, and Don is excellent. Long! Plotty! Interesting! *thumbs up*

4. The one pretending to be just one thing: Okay, so I'm technically recommending Little Girl Lost (The Pretender, Parker/Jarod) by neonhummingbird and butterflykiki, but I kinda also just want to rec the entire show in general, which is one long, delicious game of cat-and-mouse. It also has Miss Parker, one of my favorite female TV characters ever. You think your favorite TV lady is badass? Yeah, so...Parker would have her in a quivering, submissive little puddle in about five minutes flat. She's the best. Her and Jarod's whole "you run; I chase" dynamic is probably one of the reasons I love the trope so much that I post a list like this. Warped, I tell you, warped while I was young and impressionable... :)

Okay, I guess that suffices. Um...enjoy! If you have your own favorite chase-related stories, please feel free to share.

Aside from Josh Charles, who I love even though he hasn't had a really substantial storyline just yet, I think my favorite part about this show is when Alicia and Kalinda (Archie Panjabi, who rocks) are hanging out together -- whether that be investigating cases in a smart and professional manner, or Kalinda tricking Alicia into taking a shot of tequila as a fake "law firm tradition." :D Hooray for consistently passing the Bechdel test in such a charming way! Plus, they have that whole opposite-but-complementary-personalities thing going on, of which I'm always a fan. maribouquet once dubbed it "rapport and repartee," which I think says it nicely.

I've never seen Matt Czuchry in anything, but I really like his voice. Is that shallow of me? I think he's doing a great job with his character, too (charming, ambitious, manipulative but not evil, that curious statement about not really being interested in litigation), but I'm kinda fixated on his voice at the moment. And I gotta like a guy who has Eight Legged Freaks, Jake 2.0, Veronica Mars, and voice-acting for Justice League all on his resume. Not to mention that, according to my friend, he and Josh Charles have epic ping-pong battles on set. <3

Also, I hadn't realized the show was produced by Scott Free Productions -- i.e., Ridley & Tony Scott's production company, i.e. the guys who do Numb3rs. I think that bodes well for certain elements of the show; Numb3rs, while it is a very formulaic, lightly-entertaining rather than heavy-hitting procedural, has always done a very satisfying job with its family dynamics. I see some of the same qualities in TGW, so *crosses fingers*.