Bardicvoice
In real life, Bardicvoice is Mary Dominiak, a 50-something voice artist recording audiobooks at her home in Northern Virginia when she isn’t touring the USA with a restored WWII B-17 bomber. She’s an occasional fiction writer, a former career Federal civil servant, and a non-practicing lawyer. As if that wasn’t enough, she’s also a television production junkie fascinated by the entire process of how stories are taken from concept to script to screen. Mary watched Supernatural from the beginning, but stupidly didn’t fall head-over-heels for it until seeing Faith made her realize she’d just been viewing the surface, missing the true depth of character beneath. She started blogging the show at the beginning of season two, first on the TV Guide website (back when it had a community feature, now gone) and then on LiveJournal and the supernatural.tv fan website, writing in-depth episode reviews. In November 2006, she started posting meta under the umbrella title of Supernatural University, featuring analytical articles exploring topics in psychology, philosophy, theology, law, and myth as they relate to the show. When Alice asked if she’d like to do occasional reviews and open a new Supernatural University campus on Winchester Family Business, she jumped at the chance!
For Bardicvoice’s pre-WFB archives and fanfic, go to Bardic’s Descant:
Class is in session. 😀
Welcome Mary!! Love the way your analyses add so much more dimension! Also enjoy your fiction so much that I d(r)abbled a little myself! Welcome!!
Welcome to the group. I can’t wait to read more of your stuff!
Awesome. Very happy to have you here!
Welcome, welcome welcome!
It’s an absolute joy to have you here!
I am a huge fan of your work 🙂
A warm Hello to you.
I read some of your other artikels and loved them all.
Glad to see you get some notice. Your recaps and analysis are an essential part of my Supernatural experience. Best wishes to you! -RG
I always look forward to read what you have to say, it’s so informative.
This may not be the place to put this. LJ just wouldn’t accept my comment.
I just found out (April 2013) about your fanfic. [i]Last Rites[/i] touched me from first word to last. I cried the entire time I read it. The story felt huge – it felt as if it impacted, instead of being outside, the show. It was so beautifully written that it felt true, as if it had really taken place in an episode of SPN. It felt true, following the canon of SPN. It felt true, triggering feelings of my own losses. It felt true, so that Dean’s death stabbed me in the heart and I could not stop crying. 😥
Sam getting through preparing Dean’s body for burial by remembering how Dean got him through preparing John’s – I can’t find the words. It gave me chills.
The way you took Sam from weeping to his driven but empty [i]Mystery Spot [/i] devastation was heartbreaking.
I know that this is 5 or so years later, and we know what has happened to Sam and Dean since then. And I still cry (?). But I had to tell you, even though I can’t write well enough to describe it even to ME, how much this story meant to me. I’ve just started reading your fanfic and essays on this site and they are all fascinating. Thank you for all the hard work you put into your writing.
I am having trouble submitting this comment. It may not be important for you to read one comment about something you did 5 years ago (or it is), but it means a lot for me to submit it because I’m loving you a lot right now. :sigh: So I’m going to keep trying! Now I’m trying on WFB.