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  1. [Podfics] Cold Reads by Sirenby by

    Fandom: Big Time Rush (TV), Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon), Inception (2010), James Bond (Craig Movies), Sherlock (TV), 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù

    29 Jul 2025

    Summary

    For those of us who, for whatever reason, prefer audio to visual stories. Be you a migraine sufferer, blind/low-vision, or just want to listen to somethihg as you clean, podfics have got you covered.

    I hope my readings are emotive, evocative, and remain true to the core of the stories they portray. I was an actor in a past life, and couldn’t resist the allure of having my favourite stories voice acted instead of read by a tinny computer voice. Until I can figure out editing with low-vision, these are simply Cold Reads [i.e. read without editing, usually without practicing/having seen the text in a while, but it’s all fluid].

    I endeavour to include the author notes, as well—to make as much of the original fic accessible as possible, despite how inaccessible ao3 is. Which is also why I have GoogleDrive and Archive.org [https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Sirenby%22] accounts, where everything is cross-posted.

    Stories-wise, we have one-shots; we have long WIPs; we have a variety of fandoms. Want to suggest a fic? Drop me a comment and I’ll see if it’s in my wheelhouse.

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  2. [Podfic] The One Where They're Stars on HGTV by

    Fandom: Inception (2010)

    23 May 2025

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  3. Slytherin Tsukkiyama AU by ,

    Fandom: Haikyuu!!, Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling

    19 Apr 2025

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    “Being a Slytherin was exhilarating. And not just because of all the mischief Suga lead them into.“

    7 years later and he finally hits you with the angsty, pseudo-mystery magical continuation lol.

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  4. Where in the World is [Redacted for your safety] by

    Fandom: Carmen Sandiego (Cartoon 2019), Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?

    28 Apr 2025

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    Preparing to post Week 3 of my ‘one shot, once a week’ series made it spiral out of control, so I’ve got 3k more fic for that at some point…and the knowledge that the aforementioned one shot? That was just a side-plot. With a different ship than I intended jfdlsfjkdf.

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  5. Opposites and Synonyms Attract by ,

    Fandom: Haikyuu!!, Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types

    19 Apr 2025

    Summary

    Yamaguchi’s a dark soul with a bright body. Tsukishima’s enthralled.

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    A bunch of Tsukkiyama short stories set in different worlds. Each AU has the potential for more, but my current focus is getting all the AUs started.

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    A Swan's Song by

    Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic  

    08 Jun 2025

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    Never stop running Abram. Being found is worse than any death you can suffer at the hands of someone else.

    Her words echoed in Neil’s head, and he closed his eyes in an attempt to block them out. Leaning his head against the car window and letting the road bumps rattle his already aching body, he couldn’t help but agree. Maybe he was better off dead than the abused, wounded, pet he had become. But it was too late now. Neil’s fate had been sealed in that basement as he watched the life fade out from Mary’s Hatford’s eyes, and he had to make peace with that. This was his life now.

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    Or, a study in music, pain, and love intertwined together

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    20 Apr 2025

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    /Crazy/ good. You matched the tone perfectly, yet somehow made this darker and more intense than the start of AftG. Fuck…stuck with Nathan, being called Nathaniel…and Kevin’s injury as a musician /aches/. I wonder what instrument Andrew plays, how Neil’s gonna make it to the Foxhole…excellent set-up, goddamn. This is gonna haunt me in the most delicious of ways, and you haven’t even introduced the /music/ yet.

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    I adored your Allison, by the way. We never got that look at her life in canon: vapid, bitchy, apathetic socialite masking /more/. You’ve done her impeccable justice here. I think I’m a little in love with your characterizations? And how you weave everyone and everything into this world. Especially how it’s all magical, musical, alive with sound. Even your descriptions of music are lyrical. Gods.

    This continues to live rent free in my mind. I wish I had the words to properly explain how feral I feel about this fic, in a broody, bloody way as AftG does to us all. You really captured that grit here, btw.

    I’m excited to see how you play (ha) Nathan and the Moriyamas into letting Neil join the Foxes. I can’t wait to hear your music choices, too. Duets, trios, quartets, ensembles…you’ve already blessed us with beautiful music. I’m sure your mind will turn in ever more gorgeous ways.

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    Halo by

    Fandoms: The Avengers (2012)  

    18 Nov 2011

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    The timeline starts in a fall of glass. There’s a staggering loss of gravity as Tony stares up at the suddenly blue sky.

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    06 Jun 2022

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Your mind is amazing, thank you. Second-read was just as riveting as the first, /fuck/.

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    Of a Linear Circle by

    Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling

    04 Oct 2017

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    In September of 1971, Severus Snape finds a forgotten portrait of the Slytherin family in a dark corner of the Slytherin Common Room. At the time, he has no idea that talking portrait will affect the rest of his life.

    On 31st July 1995, Harry Potter disappears from Little Whinging a few minutes after midnight. The means of his departure are unfathomable, and the Order's only relief in their concern is the fact that Voldemort was not responsible.

    The rest of Wizarding Britain is too busy tearing down their Wizarding Savior via the press to be much concerned, at least until certain Slytherin allies decide that enough is fucking well enough.

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    03 Jun 2022

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Flamethrower. Wow. Just.

    The pen is mightier than the sword, /indeed/.

    Good /gods/ this is dfnilssdjnf *so amazing!* I’ve re-listened and re-read this at least thrice already, and I don’t want to stop.

    Just. First and foremost: thank you so much for creating a fantasy world that’s diverse, where even the main character is a gay, relatively dark-skinned poc who’s native language isn’t English. And he’s /competent/, and doesn’t fall into negative stereotypes, I just. I’m so glad to have been able to read this, and to continue reading this. And also the way he’s so accepting?? I had so many gender feels with the non binary and trans characters, you would not /believe/. Or, you would, but like. I’m still in shock and awe, methinks.

    Also the /languages/ (and /cultures/). I’m a budding polyglot, and I cannot tell you how many times I nerd-cried over how delightful and beautiful all your details are, and how much I get to learn while reading a story so great it doesn’t feel like learning, just having fun.

    Also holY fuck extra appreciation for your magic system and lore, like. I /know/ for a /fact/ you did your research with potions ingredients, because I’ve been using blahberries/bilberry extract for my eyes, and legit called them ‘magical’ with how much they helped. What resources do you use, if I May ask, and how do I acquire them??? Also the way everything you say makes sense—I loathe our education system, too. Why can’t I identify trees, flowers, herbs, plants, etc.??? That’s such a useful, /needed/ skill!!! Not to mention the detail you go in for wand lore, and Mind Magic /holy shit/. I just.

    I’ve been using a few Mind Magic techniques for meditation, and it’s been really helpful?? I just remember the ‘Not. Empty.’ (Nieg. Emptieg.? I can hear it in tehren’s voice lol), and focusing on sounds outside of my body, and it’s just. So much more grounding, and easier to do. Thank you.

    But that whole process made me further appreciate how you’ve made all your magic, lore, etc., /useful/ in our world, too. And I just. Thank you. From the depths of my heart, /thank you/. This is what literature should be. This is the pinnacle of writing: teaching that doesn’t feel like effort, stories to help you remember to do and be healthier, representation, /fun/, care, /emotion/.

    Nizar is literally my new role model, which is why I have to ask: how??!!! I’m just. In awe, and a little bit in love, and a lot of “him, I want to be like /him/.”

    Major kudos to you for creating him, and Severus, and a relationship that’s so healthy I’m crying, and the tears are watering my crops.

    You will probably see me crying in the comments in the future at various points, so while this isn’t farewell, I will call it the end of this first circle. Of course, there will be more. A circle has no end.

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    Record-Breaking by

    Fandoms: Yuri!!! on Ice (Anime)  

    01 Sep 2020

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    Yuuri Katsuki can skate really well, when no one is watching. It's only a matter of time before he does something amazing, and the world takes notice.

    It starts with Phichit, gets to Sochi, and ends, as everything does, with Victor.

    In which Yuuri does things, Phichit is the MVP (Yuuko a close second), and Victor is smitten.

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    “He skates alright when he is skating for a thousand people. He skates better when he is alone.”

     

    “He skates best when he is skating for an audience of one.”

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    24 Feb 2022

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    Holy shit this was /amazing/?? The characterisations, the way the plot went from ‘Yuuri is undeniably hot, but only people who aren’t him know this Fact’ to ‘Yuuri being able to skate better than he does alone’. So proud of my boi, still shaking with laughter at Yuuko’s mind games.

    This story has been so /sweet/ and mostly platonic in a way I rarely see, but really needed. Thank you for showing the importance and power of platonic friendships, too. His and Phichit’s relationship also had me,,,crying. I’m so happy we got more Phichit moments and scenes with you, thank you!! He’s one of my favourite characters, and I’m glad to see him getting the recognition and love he deserves.

    I still love how everyone fell head over heels for Yuuri, and then Ascended when he took off his glasses. You made Sochi even better than the anime (and it was Glorious there—I’ll never forget those pictures, and now I’ll never forget /that pole/ and Breakdance battle of Stamina and Steadiness), which. What a Yuuri Katsuki thing to pull, damn.

    This was like watching a TV show mixed with one of Yuuri’s skates. Time was suspended. Everything was vivid, magical, and gods, I can’t wait to re-read this and experience this all again.

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    Titanomachy by

    Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia  

    06 Nov 2021

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    A deep curiosity about a new vigilante running around leads Midoriya Izuku down a spiral of events.

    The first time he saw this person, Izuku couldn’t shake the sense of familiarity in the person’s fighting style, but he couldn’t place why. Izuku had so many questions about who this new person was. Was he an underground hero he'd had never heard about? How long had they been working if they were? Was there such a thing as an underground vigilante… well more underground than most already were? Did he know them?

    Little did he know where these questions would lead him when he sat down one day to find answers.

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    23 Feb 2022

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Holy shut this was /amazinggggg/!! Im even more impressed you used prompts /in order/- the narrative was so cohesive im honestly still in shock. Your humour is amazing, and I wish. I had. More of those memes. They had my dying of laughter.

    I love the growth in the boys? From their early vigilante days, they’ve grown so much while keeping their relationship pure, which. Is beautiful.

    I love how I can picture a future for the two here on in, without you even needing to write it. You wrote enough for me to imagine the world continuing to turn.