Sound/Voice Meme for Doctor Who

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So, er, like, y'know, I went and did a meme, like.

Yoinked from eve11 here.

The internet is an amazing place that has allowed us to communicate and share with each other, but there is just something about listening to someone else's voice and getting to know them through the things that make them unique. Cadence, accent, the amount of times someone says "UM" -- all of those things are a delightful way to appreciate the friends you already have and the friends you are hoping to make.

The instructions are super easy: record yourself answering the questions below the jump and then post it in the comments!

- What is your username, and where did you come up with it?

- Tell us where you are from and something about it

- When did you start watching DW? When did you get into fandom?

- Who is your favorite Doctor? Who is your favorite companion?

- Pronounce the following words: Aunt, Route, Caramel, Syrup, Pajamas, Potato, Gif, Tumblr, TARDIS, Brigadier, Bad Wolf, Vortex Manipulator, Morbius, Ponds, Sonic, Eye of Orion, Susan, Polly, Pertwee, Eccleston, Adric, Capaldi, Clara, Medusa Cascade, Tereleptil, Cybermat, Vashta Nerada, Sweetie, Zygon, Dalek, Raxicoricofallipatorius, your favorite bit of anatomy, and a dirty word of your choosing.

- Share something you love about your primary DW ship. If you prefer, share something about your favorite episode.

- Share a favorite story or piece of art/vid (with fandom/pairing/author) that you think everyone should read or view.

- What is your favorite DW quote?

- If you could travel to anywhere in Time and Space, from Earth history or any of the worlds on the show, where would you go?

- Do you have a hobby outside of fandom?

- Anything else you'd like to add?


I followed eve11's lead in downloading an application called Audacity which allows you to make and edit voice recordings very easily via your computer (if you have a newish one, it will probably have a built in microphone even if you never use it), and used a site called Tindeck, which is kind of like Photobucket for audio recordings, to upload to 'tinternet.

And because I'm me and I always use a hundred words where ten would do, I ended up with a rambling 90 minute monologue that I had to split up into multiple parts in order to upload them to the site XD:

Part One: The riveting story of my username, musings about my home town, my childhood Who viewing and H.G. Wells:

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Part Two: The Five Doctors, the Target novels, Transformers comics, first steps into fanfic and Sontarans:

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Part Three: Sontarans (cont.), Seville, getting online, cultural splits in fandom and musings on favourite Doctors:

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Part Four: Controversial(?) opinions on 80s Doctor Who, John Nathan-Turner and company, and why I love the Seventh Doctor, Ace and their era so much:

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Part Five: Me pronouncing various words, with numerous digressions about American English, lemon juice and poor 70s sitcoms; Shipping various 60s companions (including useless William Hartnell "impression"); Harry Sullivan's blazer:

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Part Six: Lengthy thoughts on the Doctor, Romana and their "thing", Romana's character development, and various actors of the period:

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Part Seven: Yet more thoughts on Doctor/Romana, just how great City of Death is, Romana II's "daftness", and thoughts on why the Third and Fourth Doctors act the way they do when the Time Lords come calling:

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Part Eight: Doctor/companion separations (some moaning about the new series), where Romana could go after Warriors' Gate, Gallifreyan political reform and the Time War; Fic recs:

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Part Nine: Fanvid recs, including me ill-advisedly singing; favourite Doctor Who quotations; pontificating on how Doctor who should end; hobbies, history etc. and signoff (including guest appearance from my jingling cat):

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Here are the various fanworks I rec somewhere in there amongst all of the "likes" and "y'knows":

vvj5's stories on Teaspoon

ClocketPatch's stories on Teaspoon

Calapine's fanvids (link to Youtube)

UNIT - The Self Preservation Society by DocJackz

I tried and failed to locate the Ian and Barbara and Torchwood fic I mention in passing on the recording; if any of you have any ideas as to what it might have been, please let me know. If I run across it in the meantime, I will post the link.

And as I say, I quite enjoyed doing that. I hope you enjoyed it too. It was quite recreational. If any of you have any suggestions about other things I could ramble about and post here, then please let me know. :)


EDIT: I've had a bit of feedback from a couple of listeners who have said that the sound on the linked recordings is very low for them, so be warned you may need to crank your volume up a bit. :)