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Title: [Podfic] night doesn't burn the colors

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences | Archive Warning: Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings | Fandom: Prodigal Son (TV 2019) | Category: Gen

Relationship(s): Gil Arroyo & Malcolm Bright

Character(s): Malcolm Bright, Gil Arroyo, JT Tarmel

Additional Tags: Whumptober 2020, Malcolm Bright POV, Malcolm Bright Has PTSD, Panic Attacks, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Angst, Memory Loss, Medication, Podfic, Podfic Length: 10-20 Minutes.

Time: 10 minutes, and 43 seconds.

Summary: Analinea's original summary: Side effects, in any case, have never been a synonym of medication for him, but one of life. He is trauma. Every toxic piece of him derives from one singular moment, a list that goes on and on of common side effects may include; his past, unlike the pills, brings no benefit to the table.

Behind The Pod - S01, Episode 5: Kess

Behind The Pod - Series (or Season) 1, Episode 5: Kess. Dated: December 2019.

Summary: Talking about disability and podfic, the podfic community, and podfic as art.

Their experience with CFS [Chronic Fatigue Syndrome] and being able to listen to fic that they could no longer read through the exhaustion and pain. They made a lot of beginner ‘Eh’ podfic and found community. The performance art bit came after talking about listening to Text-to-Speech versions of fic with no emotion. Overall, not what I was expecting from the basic description.

Clarification: There’s nothing wrong with a personal perspective. Based on the description and starting with series or season 2 episodes with multiple people taking part in each episode, I just wasn’t expecting one person’s perspective. While I’ve seen podfic presented as a beneficial accessibility feature for visual text based fic, some podficcers who view podficcing as performance art seem to make stylistic choices that don’t necessarily align with accessibility being the main feature of this type of fanwork.

In a prior Auralphonic episode that touched on the history of a “No Music Included” attitude, there seemed to be a quick jump to people being okay with additional sound tracks and effects once editing skills improved, but that comes across like hearing listeners made that switch. I mean, listeners with auditory processing issues and hard of hearing listeners didn’t just fade away, and to me, the original accessibility question is still there.

Some reading advice has come across like it’s assumed that listeners who want the full text can just go read the fanfic, so info like indicating to and from fields in emails is optional. From the perspective of someone who has done volunteer image descriptions here on tumblr, that seems presumptive about what the audience will find important. I’m not saying it’s wrong to make that choice as a podficcer, but I wouldn’t say that’s keeping accessibility and potential listeners who are blind or visually impaired in mind.

I’ve run into quite a bit of encouragement for nervous beginners about not letting an accent or reading in a non-native/fluent language get in the way of trying to make podfic, so I also thought there might be a mention of podficcers who don’t have a normate voice.

Tumblr Ask (Anonymous Works & Permission)

I'm keeping track of this tumblr ask and response. More for me than anything.

Anonymous ask:

Hi! I don't get this thing or blog much but if we have anonymous fics in a fandom which we do not want any pod fics made of and we do not give blanket permission what's the procedure with that? Thanks!

My response:

I don’t get this thing or blog much

“Podfic is an audio recording of fanfic, read aloud by a fan (or several).” - Fanlore page for Podfic. This is a sideblog where I’m poking around at podficcing, or creating podfic.

if we have anonymous fics in a fandom which we do not want any pod fics made of and we do not give blanket permission what's the procedure with that?

Just to cover my bases: In my permission tag, I’ve noted blanket permission, but blanket statements are not limited to providing blanket permission. (See: Blanket Statement.) Off the top of my head, someone provided a blanket no, and at least one person specified that podficcers should reach out and ask for permission for the fic in question, so you don’t have to provide blanket permission or nothing.

To get to your question: It depends on the podficcer, sometimes the fandom (and its particular etiquette), and it might depend on the site. Some podficcers will comment and ask for permission to podfic on an anonymous work, but others might not because they view anonymous works as fair game. As far as I know, ao3 allows the author to still comment or reply while showing up as Anonymous, but this isn’t true for all sites. (For more background on different fandom opinions about permission to podfic, see: Podfic Permission.)

This is just my advice, and there may be others who have different opinions, but I’d suggest putting a blanket statement in your author notes or end notes since you can’t point to a blanket statement in your profile. You don’t have to explain why, and you don’t need to put anything super long.

Suggestions:

• Please do not create podfic from this fic.
• Podfic policy: A blanket ‘no’ to all requests on anonymous work.