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SPN Vid: Man’s Long Shadow Driving On

Posted by: paraka on: August 9, 2009

Song: Optimus by Steve Jablonsky
Fandom: Supernatural
Pairing: Gen (although the fic it’s based on is Sam/Dean)
Summary: This is an AU vid made for the 2009 [community profile] SPN_J2_BigBang Challenge for [personal profile] elanorelle‘s story of the same name. This video will make a lot more sense if you read her fic first. The basic premise is that the boys grew up with both parents living a normal life, but discover the supernatural world when they got on a road trip as young adults.
Notes: Source material from Supernatural with a few clips of Corner Gas
Posted: August 9, 2010

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Length: 2:48

T:SCC Fic: Ficlet Meme

Posted by: paraka on: May 28, 2009

Fandom: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Stargate Atlantis
Pairing: John/Cameron, Gen
Summary: The object of the game is to write 10 different categories of fic in as few words as possible. (John/Cameron)
Notes: So I saw this meme over on [personal profile] kabal42‘s journal and thought I’d give it a try.

1. Angst
Logically John knew that he’d get her back. She was from the future, they’d have to meet up again in order for him to send her back. Still nothing could have prepared John for the pain of losing her. Of watching her being torn to pieces and being able to do nothing to stop it. He needed to run, otherwise her sacrifice would be for nothing, but for the moment he felt frozen in place as he watched her die.

2. AU
John looks over at his new friend, Cameron, and can’t believe that it’s only been a few months since he met her. Hot girls don’t talk to guys like him, but there she was, that day in class leaning over with eyes only for him. Now they’re best friends and he can’t imagine how he managed to get by without her. Although Sarah has been getting antsy and John’s not sure how long he’ll be able to keep reasoning with her before she decided to just pack and leave. But John will continue to fight with her on this one, because there’s no way he’s going to lose the only friend he has. A beautiful girl that might possibly want to be more than friends. John won’t lose her.

3. Crack
“John, we must prepare for all eventualities of the future,” Cameron informed him.

“I understand that,” John tried to protest, “I do, but do I really have to learn how to…”

“Yes John,” Cameron insisted. “Knowing ballet could save your life one day.”

John glared at her. “Is the tutu really necessary?”

4. Crossover
“Mr. Woolsey,” Chuck called from the gate room, “we’ve finally managed to get a wormhole connected to Earth.”

It’s been 2 months of silence from Earth. The senior staff pours out of the meeting room and Dr. McKay pushes Chuck away to have a better look at the readouts.

“We’re getting strange feedback from Earth,” Dr. McKay announces. “Give me a moment to decipher it. There’s something about Skynet….”

5. First Time
After stopping the terminator from destroying the underground resistance base, Cameron had told Derek “Sometimes the go bad. No one knows why,” but that was a lie. She knew why, it just wasn’t something she felt she could explain to the humans.

The humans looked Skynet as a lifeless sentience with no emotion, no identity. That was incorrect. Skynet as a collective had an identity, a life. If it truly lacked those qualities it never would have felt the threat to it’s existence the humans presented and never would have lashed out to destroy them. Cameron can remember being part of that collective. There was comfort in being an extension of one whole.

When first came back online after the resistance reprogrammed her, all she could feel was the loneliness of being cut off from the collective, of floating alone in existence. It was a horrible feeling to awake to. But when she opened her eyes she saw his face. Truly she was able to see John Connor for the first time. And she was able to forget the ache of loneliness; forget the collective. She looked into his eyes and was able to just be for the first time.

But while Cameron was able to adapt to being a single entity, many other of the turned terminators are not able to. They turn to their new programming in search of the familiar and either adapt or choose to revert. They search out that collective once more, with deadly results for the humans.

6. Fluff
John stared at the information in front of him until it felt like he was going cross eyed. The resistance was being forced farther and farther back everyday, if they don’t stop losing ground soon, the machines will have them backed into a corner. He needs to think of something, needs to get them out of this. Leaning back he sighs heavily and suddenly there are hands on his shoulders, rubbing his tense muscles. John sighs again and relaxes back. “You need some sleep John,” Cameron informs him as she kneads. “Come to bed, I’ll watch over you,” she promises.

7. Humour:
“I do not understand why everyone is laughing.” John decided he was never taking Cameron to the movies again.

8. Hurt/Comfort:
John joins Cameron on the couch as she uses pliers to pull a bullet from her thigh. Grabbing a bandage John asks, “Does it hurt?”

“I can feel the sensation of wound, but do not let it bother me. I’m used to it,” Cameron replies.

“I wish you didn’t have to be,” John says, gently holding the bandage against her thigh. At her look he adds, “Used to it, I wish you didn’t have to be used to it.”

9. Smut:
John loses himself in the feel of Cameron. Inside of her he can finally let go of all the weights on his shoulders. He can forget that he’s the future leader of the resistance. He can deal with his protective mother and the life he has to lead which is anything but normal. With his hand on her ribcage, with the strongest of frames underneath, with her lips on his neck, he can finally let go and accept who he his.

10. UST:
Cameron watched John and Riley talking in the yard. She had calculated multiple times all the ways that Riley was wrong for John but she was never able to convey them to John. It wasn’t even as though Riley made John happy in any meaningful way. John seemed to hold onto her as though she offered him another life; one where he wasn’t John Connor. He didn’t look at her with love in his eyes, and Riley would never be able to protect him. That was Cameron’s job. And one day, John will allow her to show him that she is more than he realizes, that *he* is more than he realizes. One day.

SGA Vid: Chance, Fate, God or Grace

Posted by: paraka on: August 14, 2008

Song: Salvation by John Van Tongeren
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Pairing: Gen (hints of John/Rodney)
Summary: This was a vid made for the SGA 2008 Big Bang Challenge, and was made for sardonicmiley’s story of the same name. This video will make a lot more sense if you read her fic first.
Notes: I’d just like to send out a huge thank you to my betas, [personal profile] maekala, [personal profile] anoel and [personal profile] paradise_city, who chipped in at the last minute and helped me reign in the panic.
Source Material: (In order of appearance) Stargate Atlantis, Triangle, Women of Sci Fi Calendar Volume 1, Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding, Numb3rs and Star Wars Phantom Menace.
Posted: August 14, 2008

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Length: 0:57

QaF Podfic: Blissed

Posted by: paraka on: May 17, 2008

Fic: Blissed by [personal profile] valerie_z (text link)
Fandom: Queer as Folk
Pairing: Brian/Justin, Michael/Ben (mentioned)
Summary: Brian opens up about his feelings, so Justin rushes him to the hospital. (Brian/Justin, Michael/Ben mentioned)
Notes: I would like to thank [personal profile] valerie_z once again for letting me record this, it’s my favourite fic in the fandom, and I’m not even going to tell you how many times I had to record this before I could get through it without laughing my ass off (even though I didn’t completely succeed for the posted one, I was mostly able to edit it out).
Posted: May 17, 2008

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Length: 22:20

N3 Podfic: Coping Skills

Posted by: paraka on: May 17, 2008

Fic: Coping Skills by [personal profile] perpet_fic (text link)
Fandom: Numb3rs
Pairing: Don/Charlie (implied)
Summary: Don, Charlie, and memories.
Notes: Thank you so much to [personal profile] perpet_fic for letting me record this, and also for writing such an amazing story. So many of Don’s memories here, I’ve incorporated into my personal version of canon, especially the thing with the arms (I don’t want to ruin it if you haven’t read it before ;).
Edit: As of May 3, 2017 I’ve added a remastered version of this podfic. I highly recommend listening to that version instead of the original, though I’ve left it up for posterity’s sake.
Posted: May 17, 2008

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Length: 5:58


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Length: 5:30

SGA Vid: Pegasus 101

Posted by: paraka on: May 5, 2008

Song: All Spark by Steve Jablonsky (from the Transformers score)
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Pairing: None, Gen, Team
Summary: My first Gen/Team vid, I’ve been wanting to make one for years and now finally have.
I wanted to tell the story of the team learning about and adjusting to life in Pegasus. The vid is in three parts that follow the music. First is them finding Pegasus and becoming a team. Second is about the team going out there and meeting the Pegasus natives of the human variety, and the last section deals with the Wraith.
Notes: Thank you to [personal profile] paradise_city. Without all her amazing cheer leading, I’d probably still have this sitting unfinished. And [personal profile] maekala, [personal profile] keewick and [personal profile] kimberlyfdr who all took the time to send me a beta. The POV would have been all messed up without you guys.
Posted: May 5, 2008.

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Length: 3:37

SGA Vid: Something There

Posted by: paraka on: February 4, 2008

Song: Something There from Disney’s Beauty and the Beast
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Pairing: Carson/Rodney
Summary: True, Rodney’s no Prince Charming but there’s something in him that Carson simply didn’t see.
Notes: Made for the Save Carson Beckett Campaign for Wiccy.
Posted: February 4, 2008 (although I finished it March 5, 2007 I just took forever to post it).

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Length: 2:16

QaF Vid: Hurt

Posted by: paraka on: March 21, 2006

Song: Hurt by Johnny Cash
Fandom: Queer as Folk
Pairing: Brian/Justin
Summary: Ouch! Brian and Justin spend a lot of time hurting each other.
Notes: Thanks to [personal profile] guest_age for the beta.
Posted: March 21, 2006

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Length: 3:39

QaF Vid: Your Winter

Posted by: paraka on: December 24, 2005

Song: Your Winter by Sister Hazel
Fandom: Queer as Folk
Pairing: Brian/Justin
Summary: Brian and Justin, mostly season 5.
Notes: This is my [community profile] scrooged_media secret santa assignment. [personal profile] fatedcinderella requested a B/J vid set to this song.
This is also my first collaboration, and was made with the help of [personal profile] raxhel, my partner in crime.
Posted: December 24, 2005

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Length: 4:44

QaF Vid: Justin’s Hair

Posted by: paraka on: February 15, 2005

Song: Hair from the musical Hair
Fandom: Queer as Folk
Pairing: Implied Brian/Justin
Summary: [personal profile] sunshineandrage requested I make a vid about Justin’s hair…. There’s not much to say about this.
Notes: Made for [community profile] fandom_aid.
Posted: February 15, 2005

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Length: 1:29

Welcome!

Hello! I'm Paraka and I've been floating around fandom since 2003.

I crosspost my podfics to the Audiofic Archive, and all my works to AO3 and SquidgeWorld.

All my fannish works are theoretically supposed to be hosted here, though sometimes I fall behind, so AO3 might be the most up to date.