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[wolfstarshipping]

The Shoebox Project by dorkorific & ladyjaida in Audio and Video by greeniron

@hprecfest day 3 prompt: a podfic

Relationships: Sirius Black/Remus Lupin, James Potter/Lily Evans Potter

Summary:

The Shoebox Project is a multimedia story of Remus Lupin, Sirius Black, James Potter, Peter Pettigrew, and Lily Evans in their last years at Hogwarts and first year after school. This is an audiobook and video compilation (and completion) of the collective attempts to podfic the SPB between 2004 and 2014.

Comment:

I've already posted a fic rec for the shoebox project years ago and have raved about this fic on many occasions over the years, but in my eyes this fic absolutely deserves its fandom classic status. And if you've ever wanted to read it but didn't want to download all the pdf files, I highly recommend checking out the podfic version! It's so lovely and it also includes all the art in the videos. I will try to find the tumblr post because I think I remember reading a meta post talking more in depth about the different recordings, but a little bit of that history is mentioned on ao3 as well, and I think the fact that the podfic consists of so many different recordings, done by different groups of fans over the years who were then collected and completed, speaks for the impact this fic has had on the fandom and the love it has deservedly received over the years.

[quietflorilegium]

"Basically this: I wish you were around so I could throw quiche on you."

Remus Lupin, ladyjaida and dorkorific, The Shoebox Project

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does anyone remember ladyjaida? She was an incredible writer a few years ago but I don't think I've seen anything of hers for a long time She was one of the authors of the legendary Shoebox project (marauders story), as well as coauthor of the Havemercy series (magical dragons and war and families and lovers and friends), and she also did this great fantastical fairly tale story called The 7th Swan, (mash up of a bunch of fairy tales and about two brothers who love each other), and another one about brothers called Master of Ravens, which kind of destroyed me a little back when I first read it and She's a great author and I haven't seen anything in a while and I'm wondering

[murderfeathers]

'If I didn't take hopeless cases, Prongs, I'd've locked you out the second you got here, and I'd've kept all the tea for myself.' He's had to train himself to wickedness, as well, a mischievousness that isn't quite his own. It's a refined job at patching James' and Sirius' habits together and adopting them, a third nature grafted over his second nature, which stands tall ever, cement and concrete and marble and so much stone, over the first. Those are instincts he wasn't born with, but they're entirely his own. He positions himself resolutely against them. It's a constant struggle that can't afford Sirius shaking water over him, touching him with wet fingers along marred skin, remnants of past moonlight.

Shoebox Project, Part Two

[murderfeathers]

Sirius watches the dark door where Remus has gone, absently shrugging off his jacket. He is not a particularly deep thinker when it comes to other people -- their tics, their surprises, their strange animal needs, all seem to him something of a waste of time and much better communicated by straight talk or at least straightforward deceit -- and so it unsettles him that he is so much aware of every part of Remus's existence. There are times when Remus's presence in a room makes him feel like the sun, and then there are times like this, when Remus makes him feel large and clumsy as a blind elephant. Sirius, who has been trained to move elegantly since he could barely move at all, cannot decide if this off-footedness that Remus inspires in him is horrible or fascinating.

Shoebox Project, Part Two

[dancinginthesetrees]

None of my followers know what this is, so you can move along if you're reading this on your dash. If you're reading it in the tag, HI!

so way back in 2007, this beautiful thing called the sbp_rpg happened, over on LJ. and there were some fun times had with some great people. I was just poking around in the old communities (ooc, watcher, the secretskept communities, and even the shoebox chat) and was realizing that I spent MONTHS writing fun stuff for hours every day/night with these people during a time in my life when I wasn't doing all that great in the real world, and I have no idea where in the world they are now or what they're doing with their lives. So hey, if any of you look in on this tag now and then over here on tumblr, drop me an ask and say hi. Even if you're seeing this post wayyyyy after I made it.

And I know there was some crossover between the sbp people and the Upside of Being Down MMM people, so (in the VERY UNLIKELY EVENT) if any of you are around here these days, I'd love to hear from you too. 

Anyway, if you see this, hi from the great beyond of the internet, friends! I hope you're all doing fabulously and that you still remain no one's cabbage before ten in the morning. And that your Sunday trousers are at hand, because the world's getting close to the end. 

[souffinx-blog]

I'm swamped with readings and loving it.

Considering that I've been bemoaning to some close friends on how I've been 'between so many readings*, I've no idea what to do with myself', I thought I ought to actually put up a list of what they actually are, if just to straighten things out.

*NOT academic readings, of course, but my blanket term for books, fanfiction etc.

PRESENTLY: Cold Fire by Kate Elliott

NEXT UP! (in no particular order): The Fabric of Life by holyfant (BBC Sherlock; Post-Reichenbach; NC17)

Tam Lin by Pamela Dean (Retelling of the ballad, modern college setting; Re-reading for the 2nd time)

The Shoebox Project by LadyJaida and Rave (Potterverse; WolfStar ship; PG13 - NC17; couple more chapters left D:)

The Onion Girl by Charles de Lint (Fantasy? Modern setting; Been meaning to read this)

The Game of Thrones by GRM (High fantasy? Everyone and Mark Reads have been recommending it)

Four (or Five) Reasons for Kidnapping Tony Stark by scifigrl47 (Avengers; crack; left with the last chapter)

Havemercy by Jaida Jones and Dani Bennett (Steampunk, dragons; WRITTEN BY JAIDA AND RAVE! :D)

Reflections by Diana Wynne Jones (Collection of her essays; I've not yet sat down to quietly appreciate all DWJ has left us) 

I'll update the list whenever there're radical changes, I guess. 

[ofantasticly-blog]

shoebox project

i haven't read the shoebox project since it first came out, years ago. but today i found it on pdf.

oh fuck.