[Podfic] Bad Thing

by sunsandships

Summary:

Ilya Rozanov has seen the tape on Hollander, seen his blazing speed and his quick hands, his almost psychic ability to know where the puck will be. Hollander is a magician on the ice, the best prospect in the world except for Ilya himself.

But up close, Hollander looks young. Soft. Western. He has big eyes and freckles across his nose like a little kid. He is attractive in the way that many young men are attractive, his face not yet hardened by the work of the real world, and he seems nervous to be out here, nervous to be seen with Ilya. Because Ilya has been forced to learn everything about Hollander, Ilya knows that Hollander is older than him, not much, a few weeks. But looking at him, Ilya feels weary and old. He hates that.

Podfic of Bad Thing by synchronik.

Notes:

• Inspired by Bad Thing I: Saddle Up, Cowboy by synchronik

Author's Notes:

The best way to describe this work, I think, is as a novelization of the television series told from Ilya Rozanov's point of view. What happens in the series will happen, more or less, in this work.

Please note, I did read both Heated Rivalry and The Long Game by Rachel Reid, but that was some time ago and my recollection of them is spotty at best. Because they are novels and this is a written story, I did NOT consult the books in order to reduce the chance that I would inadvertently plagiarize them. That means that where the television series leaves a gap in the narrative, I may fill it with something very different than what happens in the books. We will all end up at the cottage, but some of us are taking a slightly different path to get there.

This novelization means that potentially triggering things that happen in the series (like mental health issues) will happen in this work. NOTE, HOWEVER, no new issues will be added in this work. No one dies. No one is outed. No one is assaulted. This is just the story of the show as if it were from Ilya's point of view.

Podficcer's Notes:

Thank you so much to synchronik, for writing this lovely series getting into Ilya's head and under his skin, and for giving me permission to take a stab at podficcing it. This is my first podfic, and I'm a little nervous putting it out into the world, but I loved this series so much, both the characterization choices and the way the prose sounded in my head as I read it -- so, I felt pulled to read it aloud into the world.

Music Credits:

Bad Thing - Cailin Russo

All the Things She Said - t.A.T.u & Harrison

I'll Believe in Anything - Wolf Parade

Direct link to where this is hosted: Archive.org

MP3 files also available for download from Google Drive