Snapecast - an appeal to Honour our Snape

[sigune]

I would like to launch an appeal to you:



In their latest episode, the staff at snapecast has asked their listeners to compose epitaphs for Snape. I am really not good at this sort of thing, but I know that many of you are, and therefore I would ask you to please, please contribute a short crazy poem or a snarky line or two.

Send your epitaphs to severus (at) snapecast (dot) com; or if you like to send a soundbite, you can phone Snapecast through Skype; their username is (surprise!) "snapecast". The deadline is 11 August.


For myself, I clearly haven't recovered yet from the blow that was Deathly Hallows, and all I could come up with was a bitter


Here lies Snape.
By life a complex character, he died a stereotype.
May his fate remind you of the harm a Mary Sue can do.


I know I'm not exactly doing Snape a favour here, so I was hoping that one of you might.

Comments

[pennswoods.livejournal.com]

We're thrilled to receive it, and it's exactly what we're looking for. Among the fandom (and even among the snapecast crew) the response to Snape's death was as multilayered as his character. We're hoping the epitaphs we receive reflect as many reactions as possible.

We'd love very much to have your voice reading this. Any chance of that?

[sigune.livejournal.com]

I will have to see what I can do - I'd have to buy a new headset in order to make it possible. The one that I have, "guaranteed to work with Skype", has never worked with Skype (as Gina can testify), and I have lately been unable to record with Audacity either, for some reason. Ah well. The old set was a waste of money, a new one shouldn't be. I'll try to arrange things :-).

[pennswoods.livejournal.com]

I have another option that would spare you the need to buy a mic. We've can call you over the phone from the Snapecast Skype account and I can use Pamela to record you onto my computer. This is how the Orson Scott Card interview was done since he doesn't have Skype or anything.

[sigune.livejournal.com]

It's okay; I got myself a new headset (I needed one anyway as the old one was never any use - never trust a brand called "Trust") - it's a spiffy one too, and the tests at least yielded results on Audacity as well as Skype (yay!).

So - do I just phone Snapecast on Skype and read the epitaph out? (I've obviously never done this before, on account of, well, the stupid first headset.)

[(Anonymous)]

Excellent! You have 2 options.

On Skype, you can call our snapecast account and leave a voicemail when prompted.

or

You can record yourself on Audacity. Convert it to an .ogg file, and attach it in an e-mail to severus @ snapecast dot com

The quality of audacity files is usually clearer than the skype voicemails, but it's up to you which you prefer.

[pennswoods.livejournal.com]

Sorry. That was me above. I forgot to log in.