Of magical perfume and true love.
Podfic of Love Potions by Telanu.
First posted on AO3 in February 2025.
(See the end of the work for more notes.)
Cover by wilfriede0815
Listen with music:
Length: 11:39, Size: 9.7 MB
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No music:
Length: 11:09, Size: 7.9 MB
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Oh, Love Potions... This has always been one of my favorite DWP oneshots. And even back when I first read it, I had this inkling that it would be so cool if there was a version of this story where the perfume's scent, this poignant and intangible thing, would be represented by music. That was long before I became a podficcer. (Actually, back then I was more imagining something like a video: still illustrations, some quotes from the story, and music. Something along those lines anyway.) Anyway, once I did begin to make podfic, and podfic with music, I of course thought of "Love Potions". I also settled pretty quickly on Schumann's "Erster Verlust", too. (First loss... it seemed quite fitting for a story about Miranda and Andy not even realizing the things they've lost here.) And yet it took me actual years to finish this. Probably because it had been such an aspirational project for me for such a long time, and because I had so many different potential ideas of how to do turn it into audio that would do it justice. In any case, I have now decided to use my piano recordings from summer 2023 and the narration from spring 2024 and finally produce it. So here we are :)
Image credit: Photo by William Bout on Unsplash.
Thank you, Telanu, for allowing me to record your stories.
Thank you for listening! I hope you enjoyed it and, as always, would love to hear form you in the comments :)