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Thanks must go to [personal profile] kaixo and [personal profile] analise010 for their invaluable contributions to this post.

This has been crossposted to Tumblr and AO3.


Fellow podficcers, from newcomers tp those who have been around even longer than me, I have some thoughts to share. There has been some discussion lately about podfic covers and the way that we all say they aren’t expected, yet also rarely post without them--even going out of our way to commission them from others if we don’t have the time/inclination to do them ourselves. I want to empower us all to change this.

My part of this discussion came about while watching someone get into podficcing for the first time. She is a prolific writer and I've recorded many of her fics. She's friends with several podficcers and has embraced the art and championed the cause of transformative works statements amongst other writers. She's undertaken podfic a bit as an academic exercise in that she wanted to try it so she could better understand the process of creating podfic and what goes into it. She's set a goal of a target number of hours of work and a target number of fics to record in order to understand the process and see whether or not podfic is for her. Watching someone undertake podficcing from a scientific perspective and posting detailed notes about what she struggles with along the way has really opened my eyes to all the little things involved in creating podfic that I take for granted. Most of these things have a pretty steep learning curve. Reading about her undertakings, I'm struck by the thought that podfic doesn't have the low barrier to entry that I thought it did.

 

 

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Day 7

In your own space, create a love meme for yourself. Let people tell you how amazing and awesome and loveable you really are.

I'm never really sure exactly what to do with these things. Like, do I leave you a link to my work and you praise it? Do you generally talk about how great I am. It's funny because I never use this journal so I have like three followers probably and I'm not sure how familiar anyone is with me or my work. So...

I guess comment as you will. Say what you want. I'm not here to ask people to validate me. I mean, *I* think I'm pretty amazing, but y'all are entitled to your own opinions.

If you want to learn more about my work you can visit my AO3 page.

If you want to read all about the rest of my life and hear my random yellings about football and all the ridiculous shit that goes on in my life you can follow me on Twitter (it's locked, so it helps if your usernames match what you have on here or if you indicate somehow who you are or that you're fannish or check out my Tumblr.

Okay? Okay.

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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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Day 3

In your own space, post recs for at least three fanworks that you did not create. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

So, this is a weird thing to say, but recs are hard for me. I don't want to have to say that, but I have this weird thing where:

(1) I can't REMEMBER anything, so I have often consumed AMAZING fanworks and knew they were AMAZING fanworks and then sort of...forgotten they existed. Which is sad, but I sometimes go through my AO3 bookmarks like "what IS this?" and it turns out it was a really great work that had a lot of impact on me and I had forgotten it and I read it again and it seems vaguely familiar but it's not this instant recognition thing. Bright side, I get to enjoy it again.

(2) in many instances I can't parse things. I'm on the autism spectrum, which means I see things as sort of universally good or universally bad (or in this case "enjoyed" or "didn't enjoy") which makes it hard to assign relative rankings to works. So something that is SO AMAZINGLY IMPACTFUL often gets ranked the same as something that was pretty good, but not overly memorable.

(3) I never know how to tell people WHY I enjoyed a work or WHAT I enjoyed, I just sort of...know I enjoyed it. Like...this affected me in some way and therefore I connected to it. I don't usually ask why. I'm a highly emotional person so if something tugged at an emotion or made me connect to it in some cryptic way, it becomes "I like this thing" and I just let that be what it is.

That said, there are works I come back to from time to time, so I will share those with you here. I will probably miss some, but here are ones I know for sure impacted me in some way for some reason. Due to point 3, they are offered with minimal explanation because the only thing I will have for you consistently is "they were good and I liked them" which is unhelpful.

I encourage you to check all these out and leave feedback, especially since many of them are in smaller fandoms or are older works or are podfics and probably need your love.

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Day 2

In your own space, share a favorite memory about fandom: the first time you got into fandom, the last time a fanwork touched your heart, crazy times with fellow fans (whether on-line or off-line), a lovely comment you’ve received or have left for someone. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.


I actually have a few instances to talk about, all of them over the past year.

The first is a locally hosted/run event for the podfic community, Podfication. This year was the second year of the event and although I attended the first year and I enjoyed myself and met some truly great friends there, I didn't feel like I had hugely connected with people (for a lot of reasons, mostly me not knowing how to socialise). So, I went into year two thinking, okay, well, I'll know some people and I'll try to be more social this year and that's fine. They'd implemented a podfic buddy system that I participated in and my buddy was SO GREAT about integrating me into things, etc. and it felt so good to have that. I am hugely appreciative to KLB for that and am glad she was my buddy! That said, I was sort of blown away with how many people who had been at the event in year one but I hadn't really spoken with because I was bad at speaking with people/participating REMEMBERED WHO I WAS from the previous year, even though we hadn't interacted online at all in the interim. It was this moment where, for the first time, I felt like a real, actual member of the podfic community and not just someone who hung out on the periphery and made podfics over here in her little corner of fandom where no one else is really making podfic. I had gone in expecting to sort of still be a fringe participant and for the first time I felt like I was an actual member of the community and that people knew who I was, and that was really special to me.

Second, pod_together. This was my first year participating in Pod Together, which is a fandom fest where authors team up with podficcers and write a story specifically to be podficced, then the podficcer records it. This year I co-wrote and co-recorded the story, and my co-collaborator and I decided that since the fic really had quite an ensemble cast in it, we could use more voices. It was in a fandom where there are VERY FEW podficcers and none of the people I had direct connection with in the podfic community were in the fandom, so I didn't really expect a lot of interest. When I asked the mods if they could find me up to seven voices, I thought we'd probably get a few and people would just take multiple roles and that would be fine. Instead, we filled all seven roles in less than half a day and everyone was SO GREAT to work with and I was just blown away by the willingness of people to help with my project even though they had no idea what was happening in the story or who these people were.

Third, and DEFINTELY not least. for Christmas this year, two of my fandom friends [personal profile] analise010 and [personal profile] kaixo teamed up to create a fic/podfic (pod together style) JUST FOR ME. My main pairing is a rarepair where I create much of the content (although kaixo indulges me far too often, really!) and analise010, while she's my adopted fandom sibling, is NOT AT ALL in this fandom and doesn't really know anything about it. Yet analise010 reached out and asked if kaixo would write a fic and then kaixo wrote multiple fics (both of which were great) and let analise010 choose and she chose THE SUPER LONG ONE and it's an AU that I wanted to exist but knew I couldn't write and it's truly an amazing fic. I will always treasure this in both written and audio form as a coming together of two friends I wouldn't have were it not for fandom. It was a truly, truly, truly special and humbling moment for me and I don't think I can ever express my appreciation fully.

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