part 367 bears and wolves oh my

[aphanon_meme]

YOU DID IT, I'M SO PROUD OF YOU. Well, it's been a year. I hope it was a good one for you--and that 2018 is even better! And maybe we'll finally get that fansub of even one of the musicals... just maybe.

Enjoy part 367!

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Re: itt: penny for your thoughts

[(Anonymous)]

I wish audiobooks would employ at least two readers, one male and one female, for books with a lot of dialogue.

It's inevitably unintentionally funny/awkward sounding when someone tries to do the different voices for characters of opposite gender. Men doing a female voice usually make the character sound whiny or like the narrator is mocking the character; women doing a male voice are usually slightly less grating to my ear (well, granted, there's an obvious bias since I'm a woman) but also make those characters silly and cartoonish even if the scene demands a serious tone.

I do understand that an audiobook is not a radio play and doesn't have the same budget, and I'm sure just the hassle of coordinating timing between two people and/or editing together two people's performances would require a lot more labor... but it would make SUCH a big difference for many books.

This comes to mind because I'm currently listening to Hex by Thomas Heuvelt and every time the narrator reads the dialogue for a female character - or kids, it's even worse with kids - it's like nails on a chalkboard. I'm not blaming the dude, he has a fairly deep, gritty tough-guy kind of voice which sounds great for most of the story and I'm sure it isn't easy to try to force it into a higher pitch. But god I wish they'd got a female narrator to do the female characters' lines. Every woman in this story sounds like a cross between Mickey Mouse and a whoopee cushion.

Re: itt: penny for your thoughts

[(Anonymous)]

I FEEL THE SAME WAY