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[PODFIC] A Respectable Young Man by out_there

Summary:

Lan Xichen is in love with his very close friend, Meng Yao, who is currently working and studying and trying to gain his father's respect, and doesn't have time to date anyone. Lan Xichen is devoted and waiting, but all of his friends and family keep trying to set him up with much nicer, more respectable young men.

Podfic of A Respectable Young Man by out_there.

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Notes:

✨ Headphones are recommended (but not required) when listening to the non-clean version of this podfic ✨

This was for the Voice Team 2024 challenge: BRAIN ART [N points for each player who contributes, where N is the number of points earned for the challenge used]: “Misread” a challenge from the previous two rounds by changing a single word or phrase. Fulfill the new challenge you have just created.

AKA in which I, Tako, "misread" the HIGH FIVE challenge as "TRY FIVE, SIX, OR SEVEN!".

(See the end of the work for more notes.)

Chapter 1

Notes:

(See the end of the chapter for notes.)

Chapter Text


Cover art by TAKONXMZ (twitter, tumblr, bsky)

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Notes:

Hello! Longtime no podfic!

My last post was in August ... while I was in the midst of ... a *bunch* of stuff 👁️👄👁️ Summer was quite crazy actually -- kicked off with Voice Team in May, took a podfic break in June (i got burnt out!), running XiYao gotcha4Gaza for July + August (onward)... and then I crashed out for a few months playing 600+ hours of Baldur's Gate 3! 😌🤡✨ I have a number of podfics not yet posted on ao3 because the editing (imo) are yet to be ✨ finalized ✨ ... But out of all of the podfic WIPs I wanted to post first, I wanted it to be this one.

I actually finished recording this in May. But I was editing all throughout June. I ended up going into a higher production for this fic because I really really really love it. My editing process is kind of anal retentive in ways that make me question my neurotypical-ness (lmao?) -- as in, I listen and re-listen to an edited podfic over and over again to make sure volume, pacing, timing, musical cues, foley effect placements are *just* right. And in the process of listening to this podfic over and over again, I keep, like, finding new things and little details in the story, and I honestly kept falling in love with the fic over and over again... 😢😭🥺 Like I really love that Lan Xichen would choose A-Yao over and over again in any lifetime no matter the circumstances and would stick by his side (I love that brand of loyalty ig?!)... And!!! Because I'm super sentimental, I chose Chet Baker's Time After Time as the intro/outro song for this podfic because uhhhhh that's uhh that's my wedding song KLJDFGHLSKDFJH 😭😭😭😭 and bc Chet Baker is *such* a mood, I ended up just using mostly Chet Baker renditions for all the musical choices in this podfic!! I'm so freakin' cheesey y'all like... 😌💦

As for chapter two: truthfully, that one is ... pretty done and listenable. EXCEPT for the added foley effects. My schedule really picked up while I was starting to edit that in and I hadn't finished that since. Because I like to go above and beyond for some projects that is special to me for very little reward of course lmaoooo but I will finish finalizing it as I am coming back into the swing of things (as I am currently finalizing two podfics to fulfill g4g prompts).

Anyways...

Music used:
Time After Time by Chet Baker
It's Always You by Chet Baker!
Tenderly (Walter Gross) (lead trumpet) performed by Chet Baker
Tenderly (Walter Gross) (lead piano) performed by Hank Jones Great Jazz Trio
* Honorable mentions:
if you like the song tenderly, and you like jazz, here is Ben Webster's rendition.
If you like jazz vocalists, here's Sarah Vaugn's rendition.

I like jazz can you tell i really like jazz

Chapter 2

Notes:

(See the end of the chapter for notes.)

Chapter Text


Cover art by TAKONXMZ (twitter, tumblr, bsky)

Streaming

A Respectable Young Man by out_there

CLEAN version (no sfx/music)

Alternative streams and downloadable files
gdrive | archive.org

Notes:

H e l l o 👁️👄👁️

My life ... had gotten really crazy and I kinda stopped podficcing after a while. 😅 I sat on this edit for a long time and only regained the spoons to add all(?) the Foley sfx i wanted to put into this. I'm sorry it's been like 5-6 months since I dropped the first chapter (and I totally had recorded both chapters, like, basically a year ago! Geez). But yeah, uhhhh, the hearing in my right ear had always been bad due to a poorly managed childhood infection, but recently the tinnitus has gotten worse. There are days when it isn't so bad, and there are other days where I feel legit handicapped and just live with impaired hearing for a week or two in my right ear. It's very trippy and totally messes with depth perception, it's kind of wild. I should probably see an audiologist. Anyway, on top of having eczema in both of my damn ear canals and needing to manage that... my means of podfic editing kind of made it worse sometimes? And it was a bit discouraging especially if I wanted to produce really high production type of stuff where there's different sfx and sound volumes and .. the like... it started to get hard for me to edit podfics, and i've never wanted to inflict my own sense of perfectionism and dumb high standards on a beta listener. So I just kind of turned inward and focused on other things that were happening in my life, like some private family stuff (and D&D 🤪💦). Very sorry for dropping off of the face of the earth!! I do have a habit of just kind of squirreling away into a hole whenever I'm faced with even silly hardships (I'm fine tho)!!!

I might still come back to making podfics one day 🥲 Sorry for just taking an impromptu break from, like, everything... 😅

I have read every single one of the kind comments I've received. They're all incredibly touching and I apologize for not replying to them right away! It means so much that people are still listening to my xiyao podfics even months and years after they've been posted. Errr, I think I technically still have some unreleased podfics 👁️👄👁️ like 6 really short ones ... that I hadn't posted simply bc I hadn't drawn art covers for them. Which is SUCH a silly reason LMAO? Anyway, I don't wanna gatekeep 'em, if anyone wants they can find them in my archive dot org page here. There are the ones with no album art... 😂 I will post them on ao3... some day. 🤡

Music used:
Isn't It Romantic? by Chet Baker
Almost Blue by Chet Baker
Time After Time (instrumental) by Chet Baker
Time After Time (live 'Rare Chet' album ver.) by Chet Baker
Thank you so much to the author of this fic and for podficcing permission! Please give out_there some love in the form of comments and kudos in the original fic, A Respectable Young Man!

Notes:

Thank you so much to the author of this fic and for podficcing permission, and sorry for the wait!!! Please give out_there some love in the form of comments and kudos in the original fic, A Respectable Young Man!

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