kingstoken

Challenge #10

In your own space, talk about one of your fandom firsts. This could be your first fandom, your first fandom friend, the first fanwork you created, the first fanwork you interacted with... The options are endless!

I wasn't sure what to put here at first, because I've talked about some of my early fandoms several times before and I don't really feel like doing to again, so instead I'm going to talk about the first time someone podficced one of my fics.

Back in 2020 was the first time someone podficced one of my fics, you can still see my squee post here. It is such a special feeling when someone chooses your fic and puts the time and effort into crafting an audio version of it. It is so interesting to see how they choose to interpret the character's voices, the inflections they use, where they chose to pause, or the emotion they put behind it. It can really change how you think about your own fic, sometimes how they preformed it is exactly how you pictured it in your head, but sometimes they do it differently and it makes you think about how your work is interpreted by others.

I've been very lucky to have a few of my fics podficced over the last few years, I made a promo post for them on tumblr, because they deserve more love, and I recently reblogged it adding the wonderful podfic of my OFMD fic The Past Is A Damaged Thing by the amazing peasina, that I got for fandomtrees.

Anyways, if you want your fic podficced the only tips I have are to have a transformative work statement, here is mine on my AO3 profile.  Other than that, sometimes there will be events/challenges where podficcers will ask fans to sign-up saying they give permission for their fics to be podficced, I remember doing that once or twice, I didn't get podfic from those events, but I think those lists often get shared among podfic communities.