Fandom Snowflake Challenge (04)
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static_whisperDay #4: In your own space, make a list of things that you wish existed in fandom or elsewhere, and/or that you'd like someone to create or do for you.
Wish #1: In line with analise010's first wish, create a transformative works statement. (There are helpful resources about phrasing and how to do that at that link.)
Please assume that you're dealing with a stranger. They might be looking for an Unfamiliar Fandom fill, so they have no idea about your fandom's specific drama that went down five years ago relating to a gift exchange. If they're approaching you via AO3 comments, they might not know how to find you on LiveJournal or Dreamwidth already. They have no idea how you feel about transformative works if your AO3 profile is blank, so they might try asking you with zero idea of what's in your sticky posts or tags elsewhere. They might have found your work by a specific AO3 tag search, so they may not know the best way to contact you that you put in the end notes of your 55th fic.
It's fine if you put, "No, I do not give permission for anyone to create podfic of my fanfic." You can get as specific as you want if that's what makes you comfortable (only works rated Teen or Mature, if it's view-locked to logged-in users you must copy that to the podfic, only works tagged #Podfic Welcome, etc.). I'd appreciate if anyone who wants to be asked first indicated their preferred means of contact, especially if they don't reply to AO3 comments, but an "ask first" is still an alright transformative works statement. This isn't something that can have a 'wrong' answer, you know?
Wish #2: If you've never tried looking for a fic with permission to podfic before, consider giving it a go.
You definitely do not have to try to podfic the fic, and it's alright if you don't have the spoons or energy to try this type of search more than once. To make this not seem pointless, try recommending a work - fic or meta - that can be podficced without asking the author from one of your fandoms in the comments. (I am not making any promises to personally podfic all of the rec'ed works, but I'll try reading almost any rec that doesn't delve into suicide or suicidal ideation or feature a Teacher/Student ship.)
If you're not sure how to start looking for a work that could be podficced: It depends on the tagging whims of the fandom and sometimes how large it is, but you can try searching within the Blanket Permission or Podfic Welcome tags on AO3, or look for your fandom in the Fanworks Permission Statements List or FPS List.
Wish #3: Sometimes, I'd really like a magical pronunciation cheat sheet to appear when I'm trying to podfic in an unfamiliar fandom for a gift.
Practically speaking, I could ask someone in the Podfichat server or hope I could DuckDuckGo "how to pronounce Name". I'm sure there's always someone who would suggest watching the tv show or movie long enough to pick up the pronunciation of locations or in-world stuff, or they'd point that this is what betas could do. I dunno if pronunciations could be a thing that fandom wikis could include, but I'm more grumbling to myself. I'm not opposed to reading fanfic for a canon I'm unfamiliar with for a gifted podfic; I'm just very wary of sounding like I'm butchering words and names.
Wish #1: In line with analise010's first wish, create a transformative works statement. (There are helpful resources about phrasing and how to do that at that link.)
Please assume that you're dealing with a stranger. They might be looking for an Unfamiliar Fandom fill, so they have no idea about your fandom's specific drama that went down five years ago relating to a gift exchange. If they're approaching you via AO3 comments, they might not know how to find you on LiveJournal or Dreamwidth already. They have no idea how you feel about transformative works if your AO3 profile is blank, so they might try asking you with zero idea of what's in your sticky posts or tags elsewhere. They might have found your work by a specific AO3 tag search, so they may not know the best way to contact you that you put in the end notes of your 55th fic.
It's fine if you put, "No, I do not give permission for anyone to create podfic of my fanfic." You can get as specific as you want if that's what makes you comfortable (only works rated Teen or Mature, if it's view-locked to logged-in users you must copy that to the podfic, only works tagged #Podfic Welcome, etc.). I'd appreciate if anyone who wants to be asked first indicated their preferred means of contact, especially if they don't reply to AO3 comments, but an "ask first" is still an alright transformative works statement. This isn't something that can have a 'wrong' answer, you know?
Wish #2: If you've never tried looking for a fic with permission to podfic before, consider giving it a go.
You definitely do not have to try to podfic the fic, and it's alright if you don't have the spoons or energy to try this type of search more than once. To make this not seem pointless, try recommending a work - fic or meta - that can be podficced without asking the author from one of your fandoms in the comments. (I am not making any promises to personally podfic all of the rec'ed works, but I'll try reading almost any rec that doesn't delve into suicide or suicidal ideation or feature a Teacher/Student ship.)
If you're not sure how to start looking for a work that could be podficced: It depends on the tagging whims of the fandom and sometimes how large it is, but you can try searching within the Blanket Permission or Podfic Welcome tags on AO3, or look for your fandom in the Fanworks Permission Statements List or FPS List.
Wish #3: Sometimes, I'd really like a magical pronunciation cheat sheet to appear when I'm trying to podfic in an unfamiliar fandom for a gift.
Practically speaking, I could ask someone in the Podfichat server or hope I could DuckDuckGo "how to pronounce Name". I'm sure there's always someone who would suggest watching the tv show or movie long enough to pick up the pronunciation of locations or in-world stuff, or they'd point that this is what betas could do. I dunno if pronunciations could be a thing that fandom wikis could include, but I'm more grumbling to myself. I'm not opposed to reading fanfic for a canon I'm unfamiliar with for a gifted podfic; I'm just very wary of sounding like I'm butchering words and names.
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Date: 2022-01-09 03:02 pm (UTC)I think the two troublesome words there are the place names Pavuvu (PA-voo-voo) and Banika (ban-EE-ka).
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Date: 2022-01-10 12:47 am (UTC)Hm. There's enough of a compelling premise that even with zero background on the fandom or the characters, it's a nice read. It's relatively short enough that it could work for something like a bingo fill alright.
From a strictly thinking of my podficcing process stance, I could see myself reading this and then dealing with at least one re-read in the editing process. It's a one shot, which isn't a requirement, but it makes an unfamiliar fandom and ship easier to podfic, for me. By my slowest and fastest estimated words per minute, I'd say 4,305 words falls somewhere between 28 and 35 minutes. (Not super important here, but it's the sort of thing that can factor into splitting up a work into multiple recording sessions and drag out the editing time.)
Most of the names would probably be alright on a first read (Eddie, Andy, Gunny). I'd probably just go with 'hey-knee' for Haney and 'ber-gin' (like begin, not the gin drink) for Burgin. Burgie would probably roll off as 'ber-ghee'. The biggest focus would be the locations, especially since one appears in the title.
In looking up Pavuvu, I'd probably copy the video (around 01:48) with something like 'puh-voo-voo'. (It comes up twice in the fic.) Banika would probably be my troublesome one. On my own, I would probably look it up and attempt 'ban-ickuh' (reading a sample sentence from the fic sounds more like 'ban-eh-kuh' to my ears). Honestly, I would probably just pick one and be consistent instead of worrying each time the word came up (granted, eight times).
And that's the probably boring sort of prep that would go into considering this fic. Overall, it's a medium to strong maybe, but my confidence about actually recording and editing eight Banikas is a wild card. I am slowly starting to recognise this ship in The Pacific fic I'm looking at, though, so it was an interesting rec.
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Date: 2022-01-10 12:56 am (UTC)Anyway, I'm sure tookish would be delighted if you did it!
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Date: 2022-01-10 06:24 am (UTC)Now that I've gotten rid of most of the prep, I'm a bit tempted. However, I'll need to wait and see if there's room between a nearly 72K epistolary fic that I'm in the process of podficcing and a yet to be announced Big Bang word count starting in May/June.
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Date: 2022-02-23 11:16 pm (UTC)Went back and forth on gifting it, but I decided to just reply here on DW: A podfic of After Banika is now up.
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Date: 2022-01-09 08:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-01-09 10:48 pm (UTC)I feel like what I want to describe might actually have a word and exist already, but I just don't know the phrase for what I'm trying to think of.
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Date: 2022-01-10 04:07 am (UTC)I have updated my transformative works policy to invite people to ask for help with pronunciation.
>>I dunno if pronunciations could be a thing that fandom wikis could include<<
It's not a bad idea. For TV or movies, they could include soundclips. I have added this to my suggestion for making newbie pages for a fandom.
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Date: 2022-01-10 04:52 am (UTC)i didn't even know there were ways to search for fic by whether or not the author is ok with podfic. you learn something new every day. :D
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Date: 2022-01-10 06:31 am (UTC)i didn't even know there were ways to search for fic by whether or not the author is ok with podfic. you learn something new every day. :D
I'm happy to have helped you learn something new today.
I started out with a fandom that didn't use either of the tag options, so it was kind of life changing when I found out there were easier ways than trying to compile my own lists of authors with permission. The FPS List has a link to a browser extension that will make it even easier, too. (Authors with blanket permission will appear green, and a box can be checkmarked to only show authors with blanket permission in searches.)