RMSE creator reveals!

[regshoe]

raremaleslashex creators have revealed!

My lovely Armadale gift was by isevsianne, whose writing I am very happy to have been introduced to here—thank you :)

The excellent Kidnapped fic was by verecunda, which I correctly guessed! And the also excellent FotH fic was by garonne, which I did not guess at first, but decided was more likely thinking it over afterwards.

I was very happy to see The Longest Journey, an obscure fave of mine for years and years that I'd never worked up the courage to write fic for, in the tagset, and so I finally got to write it when I matched to phantomtomato. :D And I loved re-reading the book and writing this happy fix-it for Rickie and Stewart.

The Circle at the Centre (2550 words) by regshoe
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Longest Journey - E.M. Forster
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Stewart Ansell/Rickie Elliot
Characters: Stewart Ansell, Rickie Elliot
Additional Tags: Getting Together, Implied Fix-It
Summary:

An evening in the Ansell home after Rickie’s return there; or, Stewart develops his philosophy.

As for the book itself, my re-read has generated thoughts which I will write about here at some point—for now, here's an out-of-context excerpt which some of you may find amusing:



[er, this book was published in 1907; that's not Forester's Hornblower, to be clear!]

raremaleslashex includes art and podfic as well as fic, and it suddenly occurred to me when I was signing up that hey, I record podfic, I could offer podfic! So I did; obviously I ended up matching on fic, but I thought it would be fun to do one or two short podfic treats, and thinking over the two Flight of the Heron requests and the stories I had in mind as possibilities for podficcing, I hit upon the elegant idea of recording one of garonne's and one of sanguinity's stories, each as a gift for the other. :D

[Podfic] Comfort Me With Apples (9 words) by regshoe
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Flight of the Heron - D. K. Broster
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ewen Cameron/Keith Windham
Characters: Ewen Cameron, Keith Windham
Additional Tags: Epistolary, Codes & Ciphers, Established Relationship, Long-Distance Relationship, Podfic, Podfic Length: 10-20 Minutes
Summary:

'Then it must be a cipher that none will suspect as a cipher,' Ewen answered stubbornly. 'Surely we can manage that.'

On the eve of war, Keith and Ewen devise a code to keep their letters private.

[Podfic] Ostend (9 words) by regshoe
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Flight of the Heron - D. K. Broster
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ewen Cameron/Keith Windham
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Character Death Fix, Podfic, Podfic Length: 10-20 Minutes
Summary:

Keith and Ewen meet on neutral ground, in an inn on the Flemish coast.

Exchange podfic is kind of a strange thing, because obviously it's not at all anonymous if one is creating for people who've heard one's podfic before (podficcing for a stranger in a new fandom might be different!). I like the mystery and speculation of the anon period with writing (even when it's not that much of a mystery), and I think I would feel unsatisfied with podfic as my only work in a multi-medium exchange, so doing these as treats worked very well.

Then I had to scramble at the last minute of posting them to find a way of uploading the files anonymously—box.com, my usual site, shows your username on shared files and I couldn't figure out a way to get it not to. Happily I recalled that Fastmail provides file sharing as well as email, and it doesn't show your email address, so that worked; and in fact I think I like the interface and aesthetic better than box.com, so I may just use Fastmail anyway in future.

Comments

[sanguinity]

What I get from your out-of-context snippet: Trying to like Hornblower gets you killed. I think that's hilarious. (All the dead midshipmen in the books find it slightly less hilarious!)

Yes, that's a problem with "anon" podfics in exchanges: you're only ever anon once, and even that's only if your first podfic is anon! Honestly, for holmestice (which takes anonymity and guessing WAY more seriously than any exchange I've ever seen -- it must be the amateur detectives in the fandom!), I've considered using a digital voice modulator to disguise myself. An extreme solution, to be sure...

Re Fastmail: I could not get the two podfic to load on my computer for love or money, and I don't know why. I ended up having to borrow grrlpup's iPad to hear your podfics. I was really hoping you'd revert to your usual hosting service when anon period was over, or at least upload to both in parallel? Please?

[regshoe]

Trying to like Hornblower gets you killed. I think that's hilarious. (All the dead midshipmen in the books find it slightly less hilarious!)

Oh dear... XD

Wow, that would be an extreme solution! But I am very amused by the idea of Sherlock Holmes using his powers of deduction to try and guess the creators in an exchange anon period.

Oh no, I am sorry about the files! No idea what went wrong with them—all the browsers I tried worked. I'll go back to box.com, then.

[sanguinity]

holmestice: We'd put up a guessing post each round, and some of the entries were works of art. We've had at least two people (starfishstar and scfrankles), correctly assign every single work of the thirty-to-fifty entries. Of course, they had a little more data to work with, as sign-up letters are public (both offers and requests), but they were still impressive feats of deduction. And we've had some heroic attempts to evade guessing, including someone posting from a sock so that they could kudos/comment on their own story... It can be a wild ride, over there. (And all the guessers said, "I would swear that's iwantthatcoat's story, but iwantthatcoat commented on it, so it can't be.")

I wasn't allowed to connect to the domain. I don't remember now what error message I got, but it kept saying to try again later, and later never worked.

[phantomtomato]

Thank you again for an amazing gift! <3

I’m so looking forward to your thoughts on your The Longest Journey reread! Re: your comment response on AO3, the beginning of the novel really does have Stewart be so openly affectionate, and I could see the Edwardian Oxbridge novel which features their friendship! Probably better that we didn’t get it, given Rickie/Stewart doesn’t seem to fit Forster’s preferred relationship mold, but still… Stewart’s character could quite easily have been dropped after Cambridge, and the fact that he isn’t and that he continues to care so much about Rickie feels significant.

[regshoe]

<3

Aww, I would totally read an Edwardian Oxbridge novel all about their friendship! But, as you say, perhaps not Forster's thing.

[luzula]

*snorts at the Hornblower quote* That is hilarious!

Yes, podfic is just impossible to do anonymously...

[regshoe]

It was a fun line to see suddenly while re-reading :D