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Challenge #6
In your own space, make a list — anything between one and ten things is a sweet spot, but don't feel constrained by that! - of things that you wish existed in fandom or elsewhere, or that you'd like someone to make for you. Are you dying for podfic of your writing? Do you need icons for a character that doesn't get much fanart? Is there a story you want to read? Are you looking for new canons to get into? Would you like a collaborator for a project?
The thing that has kept me going in the Sherlock fandom has been the podfic. Podfic, if you don't know, are audio recordings of fanfic stories.
Sherlock has had some very, very consistent podficcers whom I love. That is to say, for the last two years, there have been podficcers posting nearly every single week day. I am not joshing. I would wake up to go to work, and my daily routine included downloading the day's podfic chapter to listen on my commute to work in the morning.
The first daily podficcer was Consulting Smartass, and when life made her drop out of it, Locked in Johnlock took over. She even changed her name to Podfixx so that she could post Good Omens fics and do commercial work as well.
Podfic has been part of my routine. If I had a wish, it would be to find more daily podfic to listen to.
I've been thinking about it, and what might be nice is to curate a playlist and put it up so that I can get a chapter a day. Make a channel, or a podcast, or an RSS feed. It would be a bit difficult to get permissions because people are fussy about their podfic, but when I tried to use soundcloud's natural Channel services, it shuffled the podfic chapters which was just WRONG.
Okay, bear with me. I'm thinking as I type.
I made a podcast about podfic called Midnight fic obsession where I would post excerpts of podfic so that people could find the originals to listen to, but sometimes the originals were hard to find. Have you ever looked for old podfic on AO3? Some of them were hosted on sites that are no longer there. They are LOST!
So reccing podfic is not enough. We need to preserve it.
What I want to be able to do, is to host/preserve entire podfic, and make an RSS feed that can be listened to like a radio channel or a podcast on a nice/ low cost or free service, that will allow setting up daily releases in advance so that I can put the Halloween fic in October and the Valentine fic in January, etc.
And this is hard because of the unwritten rules of fandom. It isn't possible to just license. people dislike losing control of their fic. They won't want me to store and broadcast a copy of their stories. And podfic hosting sites often have bans against explicit works.
But I can hear it in my head clear as glass. A channel where every morning, or every evening before I go to bed, I can listen to a serialized story from beginning to end, and then start another the next day. How can I make it a reality?
Do any of you listen to podfic daily? Who is still posting now, and in what fandoms?
Does anyone know how to make a daily RSS feed of someone else's chapters? Is this something Pillowfort can do? Comments, encouragement, or sympathy appreciated.
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I know that this is the last minute to post. 11:41pm by my clock, but when I think of Blue I remember the classic French movie by Krzysztof Kieślowski of that name. It is part of his three colors set of classic films, and I have adored it since the first time I saw it.
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