Welcome to Pod Aware

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Podfic is this awesome fanwork where dedicated fans create audiobooks of fanfic. The podfic community has a great, supportive and encouraging environment with lots of rich content; only thing is, it can be a bit insular.

There are so many people out there that have never heard of podfic or only vaguely know what it is. This comm is designed to spread awareness of podfic and help us share our love with others.

How are we going to do this? For one week (November 7-13) every day there will be a topic to talk about regarding podfic. But! We're not just going to talk about podfic, to help spread awareness we're going to make stuff!

You can make whatever you'd like, it can be a podfic of course but it doesn't have to have anything to do with podfic. It could be a fic, art, icons, pic spam, meta, rec list, vid, anything you'd like! Feel free to get creative in whatever it is you do or would like to do.

For each day's topic, we're going to have a little blurb explaining the topic. All we ask is that you include that blurb wherever you post your fanwork (and we encourage you to post it anywhere/everywhere). That way when people come across your fanwork they can see the information about podfic and become a little more informed about what it is.

Sign Up Info

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For each day of pod_aware there's going to be a theme, a subject we will expand on to help spread awareness. Here are the planned topics:

November 7: Podfic 101/Why We Podfic
November 8: Blanket Permission
November 9: Author/Podficcer Relationships
November 10: Accents
November 11: Feedback
November 12: Repodding
November 13: Encouraging Podfic

All you have to do in order to participate is to post something (and remember, the something doesn't have to be podfic related, or related to that day's theme) on one of these days with a little bit of information about podfic (provided) and link to it in on this comm. That's the bare minimum. You don't have to post something every day (but you can and it's totally encouraged!), just post what you're able to/comfortable with on as many days as you want.

You don't have to sign up in advance however here are the reasons why you might want to (and why we want you to):

• Commitment motivates some people to complete things.


• Sign ups help your mods gauge people's interest levels and help us give a more even flow fanworks.


• Writing about what you're thinking of doing lets other people send you encouragement!

If you do choose to sign up now, sign ups are less of a firm commitment than a heads up of your plans. If you end up doing more or less, that's ok too.

Here's the sign up form:
<strong>Name:</strong> <strong>Day(s) you're interested in posting on:</strong> <strong>What kind of fanwork(s)/fandoms are you thinking of posting?</strong>