Finally listened to the podcast episode of Dispatch and it made me want to dip my toe into new waters, only recently I dared to start listening to podcasts especially in English. So, can you tell me what app you use on your phone to listen to the podfics and can you rec me a few of yours to start me with? 🥺 Something around one hour, enough time to listen while cooking.
All content creators should get all the love and appreciation so everyone should give some feedback if they like the things we get from the creators, hopefully with this episode more podfic creators and other ones will get more love and appreciation ❤️
Ohhhhh! Welcome to the world of podfics, darling! 🥰
And yes. I hope so too. 💜 So many creators get discouraged by it. Feedback plays such an important role in continued motivation, and podficcing is just so thankless. 🥺💔
As for the app, you can use pretty much any MP3 player or music app. I personally use this one. I just really love the setup. I paid a couple of dollars to permanently remove ads when I first got it. And I've used it ever since! But there are a TON of MP3 apps, and any will work. 💛
As for a couple of mine to start with while you cook, maybe try one of these six! These are all standalone fics (or can be listened to as a standalone fic - one is technically the first fic in a series).
I’m assuming you’re looking for Buddie podfics. 😂
I’ll share these by length from shortest to longest, so hopefully you can find something that works for you! They range from 42 minutes to 1 hour and 5 minutes.
“Love in the Time of TikTok” by @evandiaz [Rated T, Length: 42:34]
Summary: "It seems kind of dystopian to let millions of people know he’s in love with his best friend before telling said best friend first, doesn’t it?
It’s not like anyone he knows in real life watches his TikToks anyway, so he can be a little freer with the truth even if doesn’t tell his followers everything. He already keeps a tight cinch around his emotions when he’s at work, he can let his guard down a little on here, right?"
“my heart’s a secret, tell me you’ll keep it” by @sibylsleaves [Rated T, Length: 44:47]
Summary: Buck’s first mistake was coming to the bar.
Actually, scratch that—his first mistake was falling hopelessly in love with his best friend, but he’s not sure he could’ve prevented that one.
But the bar—that he could have avoided. And the first shot of tequila. And the second, and third, and fourth.
His seventh mistake was watching Eddie get hit-on by a dead ringer for Chris Evans.
His eighth—and arguably most egregious—mistake was talking to Chimney.
Or, Buck tells Chimney a secret. This proves to be a mistake.
“dream of some epiphany” by @extasiswings [Rated M, Length: 48:23]
Summary: Evan Buckley is lost.
It’s happenstance that he wanders into the navy recruiting center—he’s been in San Diego for a few weeks, bartending late nights and weekends, living in a house with three other guys not because he needs the roommates but because he doesn’t want to be alone, and the military is…respectable. Stable. So Buck thinks maybe and opens the door.
Buck leaves ten minutes later with a set of printed instructions for sending his first letter, assured that he can drop it off whenever he’s ready, and a name.
Staff Sergeant Edmundo “Eddie” Diaz.
“beauty in the small things” by @thisissirius [Rated M, Length: 49:58]
Summary: I don’t want therapy.
I don’t want to self-medicate.
I don’t want to be a failure to my son.
How, then, is a guy supposed to deal with everything he suffered during war without damaging himself and his family?
Yeah, writing wasn’t my first thought either, but here we are.
“Carbon Date Me, Excavate Me” by @extasiswings & @letmetellyouaboutmyfeels [Rated M, Length: 51:28]
Summary: Evan "Buck" Buckley has made a name for himself as the independent bad boy of archaeology. At least, until Professor Eddie Diaz shows up with his fedora and good looks and starts beating Buck to the punch more often than not.
Buck hates his stupid six-pack covered guts.
Except for how... he might not.
“baby, say you’ll always keep me” by @hattalove [Rated T, Length: 1:04:54]
Summary: “Yeah,” Eddie says, and the darkness behind his eyelids takes on a white edge. “Be good. Nice to be married,” he yanks on Buck’s t-shirt, “best friend.”
Finally, Buck takes a breath that sounds off somehow, but he laughs too, and that sounds normal, Eddie thinks. A normal laugh.“
Sure, Eds,” he says, and there’s his hand in Eddie’s hair again, a puff of breath on the crown of Eddie’s head like Buck leaned in to press a kiss there and then stopped, but why would he stop—“I’ll marry you if you remind me tomorrow.”
or the one in which joking about being married to your best friend is all fun and games, right up until you realize that you're not laughing.
