[Podfic] The Moon's Gonna Follow Me home by turningterrific

by PhenomenalAsterisk

Summary:

From Original:
Derek doesn’t want to call the window repair guy. He doesn’t want to sweep up the glass. He’ll inevitably miss a few shards and pull them out of the bottom of his bare feet for weeks.

He doesn’t want to try to make this place feel like home when it isn’t.

Derek stayed in Beacon Hills and tried to make it work because he wanted pack, wanted purpose. He gave his best effort and found himself back where he started: alone, with a few begrudging allies. He’s tired, and even though his werewolf body heals quickly, he feels the weary ache down to his center.

He packs his car with the few things he cares about enough to drag them from place to place. He locks the loft and calls a realtor about listing the building he’d bought in a misguided attempt to secure a future.

And then he leaves.

From Narrator:
A beautiful, funny, sexy story about Growth, and Grief, and Therapy, Learning How to Let yourself Love and Be Loved. Created for Churkey for Fandom Trumps Hate

Notes:

• For churkey.
• Inspired by The Moon's Gonna Follow Me Home by turningterrific
• Inspired by [Restricted Work] by Cinnigraphy (Cinnamaldeide) (Log in to access.)

 

Please note there are two tracks in this file, part 1 is 4:33 and part 2 is 4:27 and includes a few podficcers notes at the end.

Download mp3 directly from the Internet Archive here

Album Art created by the talented Cinnamaldeide for Fandom Trumps Hate

Text The Moon's Gonna Follow Me Home by turningterrific

Read by PhenomenalAsterisk

Music "Wood Duck" by the prolific and incredible Chad Crouch, from the album Bird Watching: Piano Preludes as found on the Free Music Archive Note- The author mentioned the title comes from Patty Griffin's Moon Song, but I chose not to include it for copyright reasons.

Permission to Podfic granted by the author

Podficcer's Notes:
What an endeavour! I picked this project up for Fandom Trumps Hate and decided to rocket blast myself from a few LibriVox projects to a 9-hour solo behemoth. What was I thinking?!? I couldn't begin recording until this past fall, and in the meantime I got my recording chops back up to snuff doing little Babble projects in the Drarry Discord. There are doubtless errors in this recording. Perhaps a retake didn't get edited out (before I discovered the magic of punch and roll), my acting is at times lackluster, there are inexplicable (and inexplicably) bad accents and a number of other things I could nitpick this for. BUT, it was certainly a labor of love. This story is magical and a joy to record. I laughed so much, and I hope as you listen you can hear how much I'm enjoying myself.  I should've made a blooper track of just my giggles, because I had to edit SOO MANY out. Honestly, this was just a hoot. I am so pleased to be a part of this work.

Notes:

I am fully aware this is not a perfect work. However, I welcome any comments or thoughtful notes, provided they come from a place of love. Especially if you hear an editing error, or have a request for a different file format. I am new to podficcing and still learning the ropes.

Thank you churkey, for your generous donation for Fandom Trumps Hate.

Thank you turningterrific, for crafting such a beautiful story, of slow growth, and healing, and allowing yourself to love and be loved.

Thank you cinnamaldeide, who gifted me the album art for my own Fandom Trumps Hate donation.

And Thank You, dear reader, for giving this beautiful story a listen. Please click through to share your comments and kudos on this podfic and/or the original source text by turningterrific, as spoons allow. My own spoon-distribution usually means comment replies are slow coming, if at all, but please know I cherish all your happy flails, kudos, and kind words. Thank you for being here! 😚

You can find me floundering intermittently through multiple fandoms on Tumblr @PhenomenalAsterisk