Let me tell you a Story about the Steinwayverse, shall I? In spring of 2010 little old American me left her London study abroad program to travel to Spain all alone for ten days. It was fucking great because for once I didn't have to let my fellow classmates drag me down and away from the amazing art museums everywhere because they wanted to go shopping, or shame me for being giddy over Gaudi or trivialize works like Guernica. I went to wonderful places in that country and saw wonderful things in a very personal, private way that's mine, just mine, forever.

What isn't so great is a lot of long train/bus/trolley/metro/cable car trips to get to all the wonderful places with the wonderful things I was there to see. However, being the industrious fangirl I am, I of course had my ipod laden with podfic on to of the usual audiobooks, podcasts and music and one of those podfic was Ach, des Knaben Augen read by the incomparable Penny. She has a magnificent voice and the story is captivating and the music would appear between segments as I was traversing the cityscapes of Barcelona that I had one perfect afternoon out of my head. When I got back to my hostel I got online and tracked down the rest of the verse. I'm sitting in the top bunk of this techno-pop themed hostel I picked out of a hat basically and holy shit there are fourteen more stories! Yay! Twas before tablets were affordable so I loaded all 14 other stories onto my tiny little ipod touch and red them on the commutes in lieu of having someone to talk to. I had the Steinway group instead. Have you tried to read on an iPod Touch on a moving subway train filled with people who don't speak your language? It's unwise. It was totally freaking worth it, argh I loved your world and everyone in it so much.

Then I got to the last few stories which at the time were Wither Thou Goest and Soft Drowsy Hours. Needless to say Confused Cat was confused and kind of wounded? Because what the fuck? Who the fuck is Daniel and what is he doing in my story and what the hell? Nothing is beautiful and everything hurts and I am confused by this timeline. I nursed my wounds with Kevin Smith's Smodcast and sort of forgot about Steinwayverse in everything but theory because other fandoms overwhelmed my Inception obsession. Fast foreward to about three months ago, I started getting REALLY into podfic fandom again. I start in fandoms I'm active in and now, in January I've migrated back to Inception and what's this? Another Steinwayverse podcast? Holy shit is that more than a dozen new stories? Oh my god, it is.

So, starting now, I'm starting over at the very beginning and I'm only about 40 minutes into the podfic but I wanted to tell you because it took me back 3 years to when I was younger and different and much farther away and let you know that I may not remember comment again but that I'll be reading this, probably for days, and enjoying it all.