Amazing "Thou Goddess" dramatic reading · 10:05am Mar 17th, 2015
While I was neck-deep in Writeoff reviews this last weekend, Neighrator Pony posted something magical:
This is just ... it's ... wow. As I told him via PM, "Oh man, I'm only eleven minutes in and I'm falling in love with the story all over again." Crisp narration, a voice for Scansion that's now the definitive one inside my head, and some downright amazing Twilight and Luna voice-acting by IMShadow007. From that first ethereal, distorted "help me please" to the final sonnet, this just oozes production values, and it's a clear labor of love.
If you've already read Thou Goddess, this is one to savor (I've now re-listened to it three times), and if you haven't, this does a wonderful job of drawing forth the emotions of my pony magnum opus. (Neighrator also went to the effort of having the Youtube video display the text along with the narration, so you can see some of the wordplay that doesn't translate well to voice.) At 35 minutes long, it's a great way to add magic to a commute, or an excuse to curl up with some hot chocolate amid the bleak winter chill.
Seriously, though, this is an amazing piece of work and I'm humbled at the skill and dedication that was poured into it.
(I had had some vague idea of releasing an annotated version of the story to go along with this, but life got in the way. There is one in progress (as in, words have been typed, and are posted-but-unpublished on FIMFic), but with all the other projects begging for my attention I can't promise a timeline on it.)
Magnificent! Just... no other word. Magnificent in the highest degree.
This is professional audiobook quality. This is good professional audiobook quality. Wow.
Also, I am much taken with this version of Dotted Line who sounds like a cross between Lord Vetinari and Tom Waits.
Hmm, okay, I usually don't like audio readings of stories but...
Well, you just made this one sound so good...
A truly wonderful job. I can't recommend Neighrator Pony's work highly enough!
Hmm. Hmmmmmmm. Hm.
Imma try it.
Everypony seems to think this story is best one ever, and maybe listening to it can work? I haven't tried the listen to a story thing yet.
Good--something to listen to while I mend my socks.
Quite well read
Worth another half-hour of my time, just like the original.