Day 1: The History of Podfic

[paraka]

Welcome to pod_aware!

To post a work for pod_aware, please include the following in your post, somewhere easily visible to help spread awareness about podfic:

Podfic has a long and varied history, check out pod_aware on DW, LJ or Tumblr to hear some personal accounts of podfic history.

To make it easier for you, you can just copy and paste from here:
<strong>Podfic has a long and varied history, check out pod_aware on <a href="http://pod-aware.dreamwidth.org/16501.html">DW</a>, <a href="http://pod-aware.livejournal.com/27619.html">LJ</a> or <a href="http://pod-aware.tumblr.com/post/102270128606/day-1-the-history-of-podfic">Tumblr</a> to hear some personal accounts of podfic history.</strong>

To get us started, here's a podcast from anatsuno, general_jinjur and paraka

Downloads: MP3

Things mentioned or discussed in the podcast:
Sabotage by Calico
rageprufrock's podfics
The Audiofic Archive
amplificathon
The 1st Podbang
I wish I still had a link to that '60 Star Trek radio play /o\
Carol's Xena Fan Fiction Tape Consortium on Fanlore
Under Your Spell, the Willow/Tara podcast mentioned.
I do not remember or have links to the YouTube person I referred to.
This is possibly the YT series anatsuno refers to
podficmeta
the post on music in podfic
podficmeta's statement of purpose
fandomfan asking what's so great about podfic and the comment thread pointing out it's not a very politic question
bjewelled has since locked their post, however here's a post pointing to it with some discussion in the comments
My (really long) response to bjewelled
podslash on LJ
The Podfic Critical Feedback Exchange announcement post
podfic_tips on LJ
sgapodfic on LJ
house_podfic on LJ
ai_podfic on LJ
Clint Barton/Phil Coulson Podfic Archive
Bucky/Steve Podfic Archive
Podfic Platypus
Teen Wolf Podfics on twitter

Feel free to talk about today's theme in the comments and if you post pod_aware stuff off the comm, make sure to drop us a link so we can add you to the masterlist!

Comments

[originally_dw]

This was really, really interesting to listen to. Thanks all of you!

As someone who has been in fandom since 1998 but only really been in "podfic fandom" as such for the last year or so, it was awesome to get this potted history which I'm pretty sure I've never seen all in one place before. It was also interesting to consider how my personal fandom biography intersects with the development of podfic in specific fandoms; if I'd been into SGA, or SPN earlier than I did get into it, I imagine I would probably have become involved with podfic sooner too. I didn't start listening until Inception came along and I didn't start recording until much later than that.

I'm fascinated by all the work that went into making podfic a, I guess, 'legitimate' fanwork and that is still an ongoing process. I would love to see e.g. AO3 create specific templates for podfic and fanart as well as fic. Some of those links I've seen before but they're still kind of mind-boggling ("tell me what the point of podfic is" is a question that I find it hard to imagine someone asking about fic or fanart or meta).