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1. chainofclovers Mon 20 Feb 2023 08:54PM UTC

   

   A very, very, very delayed comment...but thank you SO MUCH for recording this. I listened to it on a walk today (after listening to klb's latest podfic!) and I love it so much. Hopefully I will figure out the right way to articulate this, but your reading style with this one was very conversational and intimate and casual, not flippant in a bad way but almost...like...calm and cool and fun in a way that kind of reinforces what I wanted most to say about agnosticism here?! Like, on one hand, faith (and lack of faith) and all the rituals and practices that go along with that are very life-altering and important. But on the other hand, there's something--at least for me--that's really liberating about just doubling down on not knowing what is going on with all that, and respecting that meaning can come from a lot of different places but nothing is certain. And you really captured that with your tone of voice and pacing here and I appreciate it so much!

   Also you absolutely nailed the voice of the cringey permissive god just telling Ted to have sex on Sunday mornings since it's not like he'll be at church. Your reading of those lines made me smile so much. I'm so grateful to you for sharing this!

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2. klb Sun 09 Jul 2023 08:39PM UTC

   

   This is one of my favorites of the podfics you've posted. It's all very smooth and clear, navigating the long sentences and meandering trains of thought gorgeously, with no rush, giving just the right amount of time and weight to each moment. The reading just *evokes* beautiful Sunday mornings, calm and curious and contemplative and grateful.

   I love the reading of Ted, good on ya for making it to forty-six. You’re sad, but not as sad as your dad was, and you can thank me for that. But you’re obviously not going to thank me at church (I’m not just all-powerful but all-knowing, remember?), so why don’t I order you and Rebecca a sunny morning? Make sure to affirm life together, maybe several times. I’ll look the other way when you come.. All the jokes totally land and there's a sweetness and affection to this imaginary God that Ted doesn't believe in (but maybe doesn't all the way not-believe-in).

   The way Ted's traumatic past is discussed is calm and matter-of-fact too, but weighty. You can tell it means something to him, but in this moment not in a way that makes him afraid to touch it.

   Also I think it's cool to hear you be able to pronounce Thierry Zoreaux's name all accurately Frenchly.

   Also it was fun listening to these two chainofclovers podfics back to back and noticing the commonalities. Headcanon very much accepted that Ted is always bad at making words sex and that everyone has their own brain-rooms with various degrees of locks on the doors <3

   And this exchange was so fun and well-delivered: “Are you asking if I ever worry that a mystical force I neither believe in nor reject is judging me for enjoying myself instead of going to sit in a room where some human man is going to bore me or offend me depending on how spicy he’s feeling today?”

   “Exactly. You get it.”

   Finally, I like the moment near the end of hearing background dog collar jingling! I love those moments that ground podfics in the real world and in the real lives of real people, and this is a great story for a bit of that.

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