Fandom Snowflake Challenge: Day 4

Day 4

In your own space, create a fannish wishlist. No limits on size or type of fanwork; just tell us what you’d like to see. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so. And if you grant a wish, do the same thing!
 

Once more I'm a day late to the party, but I'm hoping I can manage two posts today and get caught up. In this case, the biggest item on my wishlist has been stated much more eloquently by others and there has been much discourse around it in the past day since everyone else posted, so I will just link you to some conversations happening here and here before I add my thoughts since I rather feel like the person who showed up fifteen minutes late to the meeting and burst in with my brilliant idea that everyone has already finished discussing. I keep telling myself someday I'll be relevant. I keep being wrong.

That done, here is my wishlist in no particular order. It gets a bit self-indulgent and existential in parts, as is the way of any wishlist I manage to throw together:

1. Transformative Works Statements
2. Time
3. Curated Rec Lists
4. More podficcers in my fandoms

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Fandom Snowflake Challenge: Day 5

Day 5
Recommend a fannish or creative resource.

Not a lot to say today, although I'll recommend a few things for podfic fandom, especially those looking to get into podfic, since that's a question I sometimes get asked:

• Podfic_tips - A livejournal community where people post entries with questions about anything and everything related to how to do podfic things (recommendations for microphones, tech stuff, audio editing, sound stuff, accessibility, best practices). It's a bit hard to search due to the way it's structured, but there is some REALLY good advice here and it's been going on for quite some time so it's a great repository of knowledge.
• Podfic 101 Tutorial by Paraka - old, but still a reasonably good podfic 101 tutorial post that will walk you through the basics of what podfic is, asking for permission, finding a fic, recording, basic editing. It's Audacity-centric as opposed to GarageBand. I won't link you to the GarageBand tutorial since unless you have the old version of GarageBand or a version you can use with legacy settings it won't help you much anyway. If anyone knows of/has an updated GarageBand tutorial with the newer versions, I would be much obliged if you pointed me in its direction.
• amplificathon - A DW community (there used to be a livejournal equivalent, but I don't know that anyone uses it anymore) where you can find A LOT of podfic. This started as a community to host the amplificathon podfic fest each spring where people would make WHOLE BUNCHES of podfic and post them here, but really people post there all year round now. It also used to feed the audiofic archive, although the archive has been experiencing some hosting issues of late, so I'm not sure everything is ending up there or whether they've been able to restore some of their lost files. Still, you can look through the amplificathon site and find SO MUCH PODFIC if you want to.
• Auralphonic - A podcast about podfic. It comes out monthly and covers a wide range of topics from tech stuff to fandom-specific recs to general talk about podfic. Good discussion about asking for podfic permissions, audio editing, best practices, tons of things. I highly recommend it if you're at all interested in getting into podfic or are even just a podfic listener who just wants more info.

Enjoy!