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Part 1 of devoted sciences [podfic]
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Published:
2025-08-01
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2025-09-04
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this devotion may contain side-effects [podfic]

Summary:

After the doctor hurts Rio, a freshly-orphaned Viktor is taken in at The Last Drop. Years later, there's a riot on the bridge. When Silco doesn't return, Viktor sets out to find him — only to witness one father trying to drown the other.

In which child-Viktor refuses to abandon Silco; an act of devotion that changes the trajectory of Zaun's uprising. While Vander negotiates with Enforcers, Silco builds an empire in the dark. Someone has to fund his son's endless charity work. Send the kids to school. Cure Grey Lung in a decade. Single-parenting a revolution is hard.

There's siblings-of-divorce, waverider eggs, volatile crystals...and a Piltie wandering around the Lanes looking for blue gems and a ghost.

Illustrated! +more art on tumblr, bsky, twitter, insta.

 

[This podfic updates weekly on Fridays!]

Notes:

If you’re noticing minute breaks in the audio at the start of paragraphs or sentences, you might want to change your earphones to one that accommodates a greater range of frequencies or switch to headphones!

Some streaming control tips! Each chapter’s recording will be divided into several separate files/recordings, so you can skip directly past any parts you don’t feel like hearing using the back and forward arrows. If you need to know what part you are on, check your media player which should show the file name. You can also change the playback speed by clicking the three dots. If you'd like to access the whole playlist or download files, click on the Internet Archive symbol; you can see the chapter cover art there too!

Please do not feed this podfic into any AI-based platform for any reason. I take a lot of care to manually process the audio and use platforms that do not rely on or train AI, and I would like my voice to remain mine.

(See the end of the work for more notes.)

Chapter 1

Summary:

“I see we’re running a daycare as well as a revolution.”

In which we must apply gentle 'stray cat' approach when encountering a baby who has lost home + parents all at once. Especially when that baby knows his way around ventilation vents and a spanner.

Notes:

Cover art by @amorisrat ! Thank you so much!!!

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37 minutes, 51 seconds

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Chapter 1
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Notes:

I’m so excited to be podficcing this devotion may contain side effects! Shout-out to the author, owepossum, for being the reason that I have compressed files available with my fics now. They suggested it and in doing so, made my podfics more accessible to more people; I’m grateful to them for that and for letting me record their beautiful fic.

Also, additional thanks to @amorisrat (tumblr) for the beautiful cover art! I'm so very amazed at your talent and grateful that you would let me use it for the chapter cover art.