06/10/2010: Dramatic Molzapart
This is very out of the blue, but I was listening to some dramatic readings on YouTube and something possessed me to create this.Dramatic reading of the Molzapart portion of "Molzapart and Rainteicune" by the author
I should warn you that I have the most horrible-sounding voice in the world, the worst accent ever, and really should have done more in the way of the 'dramatic' part. And I tripped up a couple of times, and I sometimes misread a little, and a couple of times I'm starting to burst out laughing and you can really hear it.
It might be good to have the text in front of you if you're going to listen to it, so for reference, you can find that in all its awful glory here.
I also recorded myself doing the first couple of paragraphs of the Rainteicune portion in two different attempts at funny voices and once the Alan detour in a normal voice, but unless you really want to hear that I will hide that away forever.
Chapter 54 is… not really coming along, I'm afraid. But uh, I'll try to poke myself to continue with it. Right now I'm in the process of going through some affiliation requests and the like, so. When I'm not taking lengthy breaks to record dramatic readings of my ridiculous fanfiction, that is.
COMMENTARY DONE
Comments
Leafpool (06/10/2010 01:12:13)
… out of curiosity, is this at all inspired by mine and other people's readings of StarKits Prophcy? :o
Butterfree (06/10/2010 01:45:22)
I saw you talking about dramatic readings in that thread, listened to those, went "Hm, maybe I should find some more dramatic readings of infamous badfics," listened to a few of those and then wanted to do this. So yes.
Mark Aged (06/10/2010 02:40:31)
Hilarious. Your voice is kinda cute, and also perfect for not-really-dramatic readings!
Steele (06/10/2010 04:14:02)
My browser won't lemme listen. >_< Buttttttt I'll try more. I wanna hear what you sound like…
elyvorg (06/10/2010 09:14:58)
I'm all for hearing the Rainteicune one. =P That one's the more amusing story anyway, thanks to all the logic-fail detours.
Venomoth (06/10/2010 15:04:13)
I was going to take your word for it in that your voice was horrible-sounding with the worst accent 'ever', and I generally prefer not to have my impression of what your voice must sound like mentally as I read your ascerbic commentary, but Mark Aged's remark does intrigue me as to whether your voice really does sound kind of cute.
….it might be the accent; people with New Zealand accents are described to sound "cute", so it might incidentally be the same with yours.
Butterfree (06/10/2010 15:46:52)
but Mark Aged's remark does intrigue me as to whether your voice really does sound kind of cute.It really doesn't. And my accent is less a cute consistent set of endearing idiosyncrasies in vowel pronunciation and more some awful attempt at sounding American that does poorly with some English consonant combinations and stress placements and for some reason the word 'English'. It's awful.
Mudskipper (06/10/2010 17:30:03)
I'm not sure how or why, but the way you say the word "Pokémon" is the cutest thing ever.
Pure Umbreon (06/10/2010 19:47:03)
Yes, I really want to hear the Rainteicune one as well.
And I think the whole thing went over pretty well. Sure, you made some stress errors, and I felt that the middle didn't have nearly the emphasis the beginning did, but it was rather entertaining anyway. I liked it.
Venomoth (06/10/2010 21:09:40)
Your statement is affirmed to me; I shall not listen to it.
Mark Aged (06/10/2010 22:25:36)
Oh come now, don't be so hard on yourself, your voice really does a cute appeal to it!
*listens to it again*
Tiffano (06/10/2010 22:37:10)
Your voice is so cuuute! 8D I love your accent too. It adds to the drama. :D
ShadowDusk (06/10/2010 23:39:53)
rayquaza can learn and forget fly look at
http://www.serebii.net/pokedex-dp/384.shtml
you will see.
Leafpool (06/11/2010 00:06:44)
shadow, if you've ever read the actual Molzapart and Rainteicune, SHE IS AWARE OF THAT FACT.
b_l_minu (06/11/2010 00:16:09)
I would just love to hear a dramatic reading that includes the words, "the pokéball melt."
Raitora Kuro Yamiraku (06/11/2010 00:59:24)
Show us Raintecune. The detours were the most amusing part, in my honest opinion (yes, I have the capacity to type more then four letters, thank you).
Butterfree (06/11/2010 03:31:32)
…can Rayquaza actually forget Fly? I mean, yeah, it learns it, but I wouldn't think the games have a special exception programmed for Rayquaza to be able to forget a move marked as an HM move, especially since the whole reason you can't forget HM moves is so that you can't get yourself stuck in a place by forgetting the HM move you used to get there.
Anyway, you may or may not remember that Molzapart and Rainteicune was written in 2001, before we had even an inkling that there were going to be games called Ruby and Sapphire, so I was actually right at the time. Fancy that.
I'm starting to think I should record another reading of the Rainteicune portion and try to ham it up a bit more. It'll probably be fun.
Butterfree (06/11/2010 04:08:45)
…and here we go. Rainteicune, part one.
I actually tried my hand at editing here; there's one sentence I rerecorded and I cut out some fumbling in another spot. I don't know how audible it is if you don't know it's there.
EDIT: Okay, the rerecorded sentence is really, really audible thanks to the sudden lack of background hum (no idea how that happened). The cutting seems to have come out nicely, though.
Pure Umbreon (06/11/2010 20:21:23)
emphasis is much better in this one. Now all that is left is part 2 =D
Negrek (06/13/2010 08:46:08)
And my accent is less a cute consistent set of endearing idiosyncrasies in vowel pronunciation and more some awful attempt at sounding American that does poorly with some English consonant combinations and stress placements and for some reason the word 'English'. It's awful."Attempt" at sounding American? :P I'm not sure why you would be trying to attempt that, but IMO you're much closer to a some-kind-of-British thing at the moment. The accent kind of reminds me of how Gwen from the show Torchwood speaks.
Mostly I was just amused that you pronounce blizzard "blee-zard."
Butterfree (06/13/2010 10:14:51)
"Attempt" at sounding American? :P I'm not sure why you would be trying to attempt that, but IMO you're much closer to a some-kind-of-British thing at the moment.Because most English I hear and thus have for spoken reference is American? Though here I ended up sounding a good deal more British than I usually do because I was taking inspiration from my friend (largely because she loves reading everything dramatically), whose accent is mostly British-sounding.
Of course, I really have no idea what I'm talking about because Icelandic has for all intents and purposes no dialect differences whatsoever and so I grew up without ever developing an ear for accents; in my perception English classes into approximately "stereotypical Texan", "British-ish" and "something else". So… ignore me.
Mudskipper (06/14/2010 15:21:02)
I just did some testing of my own.
Rayquaza can learn Fly by level-up, but it cannot forget it without using the Move Deleter. Same thing with Salamence.
Kratos (06/15/2010 00:24:06)
Hm. Well, I'd heard your voice briefly before and I didn't think it sounded like anything in particular then (other than "foreign" and "vaguely European", derp derp stupid American), but after hearing it over a longer period of time… I'd actually say you sound more Irish than British, given the way you stress some sounds and the slight lilting tone you seem to have.
Bahaha I haven't read Moltzapart and Rainteicune in forever. Hearing it aloud was quite amusing.
Kratos (06/15/2010 00:32:34)
next time maybe listen to both before posting stupid just an idea
Anyway, yeah. You've definitely got a pseudo-Irish accent going on there. That "Oh, Charlie!" bit especially–I cracked up at that part. I don't think you can get any more stereotypically Irish than the way you just said that. ;)
Shadow Serenity (06/15/2010 08:27:29)
I laughed quite a bit at the "Oh, Charlie!" part as well. I have to admit, I rather like your voice, I don't get why you think it's so bad.
Anyway, I laughed at a good deal of this, I do hope you record part 2.
Brock (06/18/2010 00:07:48)
I laughed. Your voice in both of these sound nothing like I had imagined. Your accent is not horrible, it actually kind of sounds Israeli instead of Icelandic.
Oh-Paching (06/19/2010 15:44:44)
I thought your voice would be deeper. O_o
Joseph (06/22/2010 13:48:18)
Haha. Your voice sounds completely different to how I imagined it. I must say, instead of American, it sounds more like some of my relatives who live in Newcastle.
Sorry for the late reply.
Fox McCloud (07/03/2010 18:37:48)
…
Gold.
opaltiger (07/03/2010 23:20:02)
The accent kind of reminds me of how Gwen from the show Torchwood speaks.
I have to say that the idea of Butterfree speaking with a Welsh accent is amusing me greatly.
SilverUmbreon (10/08/2010 03:30:02)
I loved it!…However, I accidentially downloaded it to my dad's Itunes, and need to figure out how to get it off before he finds it, he would be confused!
Scytherian Poetry (10/09/2010 11:47:33)
You should try sounding Australian. The really stereotypical Australian that all Americans for some reason think we sound like. I'll throw another shrimp on the barby for ya if you do. (that ad is a national joke. go look it up.)