[Critical Role] 5 podfics

[xdiorix]

Title: Phantom Pains by icarus_chained
Reader: blackglass
Bingo Square(s): gen
Fandom: Critical Role
Pairing: None, Pike-centric gen
Length: 10:31
Summary: Sometimes, when she touched them, when she trailed her fingers across now-whole skin, Pike's fingers ached.

Link to Podfic: At AO3


Title: this heart is a foolish one by mischief7manager
Reader: blackglass
Bingo Square(s): angst, read with silence
Fandom: Critical Role
Pairing: mentions of Vax/Keyleth, but mostly Keyleth-centric gen
Length: 12:27
Summary: "Keyleth doesn’t get the sex thing. The love thing, though, that she gets. If anything, Keyleth might have too much experience with that. Somehow, none of that is any help at all when she’s standing in front of the Sun Tree watching Vax walk away from her. She almost wishes it was just a sex thing. She’s heard enough from the others in Vox Machina that she could probably come up with a response in that case. She has no idea what to do with this."

A character study.

Link to Podfic: At AO3


Title: can't we get a little grace by pearwaldorf
Reader: blackglass
Bingo Square(s): minor character
Fandom: Critical Role
Pairing: None, Cassandra-centric gen
Length: 6:50
Summary: She catches Pike’s eye. “Thank you,” she says softly.

“You’re welcome,” she replies. Pike also looks like she’s been crying. Cassandra is glad that her brother has so many people who care about him, but she is also envious of them, the way they know him in ways she never will. How he is part of a family she does not belong to.

Link to Podfic: At AO3


Title: we are full of stories to be told by redledgers
Reader: blackglass
Bingo Square(s): try an accent
Fandom: Critical Role
Pairing: None, Percy + Keyleth friendship
Length: 7:54
Summary: Percy latched on to Keyleth early on, their friendship growing to a point of mild inseparability. Post Vorugal.

Link to Podfic: At AO3


Title: Wash Me by sabinelagrande
Reader: blackglass
Bingo Square(s): group sex, higher vocal range
Fandom: Critical Role
Pairing: Keyleth/Pike/Vex'ahlia
Length: 15:57
Summary: Pike has a close call, and Vex and Keyleth do their best to make it better.

Link to Podfic: At AO3

Comments

[fire_juggler]

HI!!!!!!!! *waves* It's so so so lovely to have your voice in my ear again! My life has been crazy slammed (all work and no play makes FJ a dull girl). I've been listening to P_B podfics in the calm periods and writing down notes on the train. What follows may or may not be in anyway coherent, but it is no less heartfelt (literally copy/pasted from my spur-of-the-moment phone-notes). All of these were wonderful!

Phantom Pains: You do so well with these really intense character studies. You get this super quiet intensity in the way you read that just works really well for this kind of fic. It feels very internal, like we get to really burrow into the character in question and feel what they are feeling. I really loved this a lot. ♥ ♥ ♥

this heart is a foolish one: This was really beautifully hurt-y and full of feels. I loved the way you got into Keyleth's POV and all the conflicted feelings happening inside her, and the lovely interactions at the end between Percy, Vax, and Keyleth. T__________T

can't we get a little grace: This made me a little weepy. You got Cassandra's emotional state perfectly -- all the desperation and love and FEEEEELS. *sniffs* Really beautiful.

we are full of stories to be told: I so enjoyed the way you read the quiet conversation here. It was a lovely little snippet and felt really intimate.

Wash Me: As always, your pacing works really well for me. Also, I was so happy to get more of Pike. I have a soft spot for Pike and I really really really love the way you read her. Also, YAY FOR THE LADIES!!!!!!!!!!! SO lovely. :D

[xdiorix]

:D :D :D Thank you so much!!! I feel like a lot of my work, especially my early work, is very much about comedy and zany shenanigans, which is a lot of fun! But it's also a nice change of pace to do some quieter projects and really inhabit a character's headspace. It doesn't tend to be as popular though, so your feedback is always so appreciated. When AO3 gives me crickets, thinking "FJ WILL LISTEN TO THIS AND SAY NICE THINGS AT LEAST" gets me through. <3 <3 <3