I listen to A LOT of podfics. I've been going through the AO3 podfic tag chronologically under the HP fandom for a couple of years now, listening to just about everything that's come out. I'm currently in 2022, which is soon after I came back to fandom and started podficcing myself. I am so grateful to @etl-echo-audiobooks for taking me on as a narrator and I've made a number of wonderful friends over the past few years through the process.
But today, I want to shout out one particular ETL Echo narrator who I think is just the 🐝bee's knees🐝. @karmacookiereads is incredibly talented, as well as being a team player, endlessly giving to and supportive of others in fandom, and very discerning in her choice of fics. She's reliable and puts out a ton of high quality work. I've so enjoyed working with her on projects like the beast that is Manacled by @senlinyu and our multi-voice projects like AITA for being "obsessed" with my childhood nemesis by @rainstormradish and Lost and Found by @tequilamockingbyrd. And whenever I'm in a Dramione reading slump, I know listening to Karma can get me out of it. Karma, I've so enjoyed the conversations we've had about process, best practices, and ethics surrounding transformative and deriviative work and I'm so grateful to have you in my ears and my life. 💖
And now, my TOP THREE ✨ karma_cookie ✨ recs.
🎧 Choice and Chance by @chaoticcrumpets (M, 12 hours, Draco x Hermione, multiverse
An accident in the Department of Mysteries leaves Hermione Granger stranded in a world not quite her own, her only companion the unknowable Draco Malfoy. Together, they learn who they truly are by virtue of who they could have been.
🎧 too little, too late by @treacherous-talks (M, 46 minutes, Percy Weasley-centric, recorded for Fandom Is Political theme week 2025)
By the time Percy realises, it’s too late.
Far.
Too.
Late.
By the time he realises that he’s working for a fascist pure blood regime; that they promoted him specifically as a way to spy on his family, just as his father had said; it’s too late for Percy to just walk away.
Or: Arthur knows he's let Percy down. He does his best to fix it.
🎧 Dépaysment by @setissma (E, 3.5 hours, Draco x Hermione)
“We’re actually banking on the media attention,” Harry said, mildly. “I don’t want you going as someone else.”
“She’s going to have to go with someone else,” Malfoy said. “End of story.”
