Where Is All The Podfic?

[kerravonsen]

Gah! I've been looking through the amplificathon archives - why is 90% of podfic slash? (!!!???) I'm currently on "skip=100" on the "archived" tag and I have found three stories which aren't slash, in fandoms I know. Four if you count the one which I already got from elsewhere.
All the Sherlock podfic there is John/Sherlock.
All the ST:Reboot podfic there is Jim/Spock.
All the Harry Potter podfic there is either Harry/Draco or Harry/Snape.
Then we have the huge amount of Supernatural slash. And the Avengers slash. And the Merlin slash. And the Inception slash. And the RPF slash. And the fandoms-I'd-never-heard-of-before slash (e.g. Teen Wolf). And of course the one single Man From UNCLE story was... slash.
Oh, I think there was one Magnificent 7 gen story. And, astonishingly, one Supernatural gen story. But I don't follow Mag7 or SPN.
(sigh)

Maybe I need to learn how to make podfic. But I have so many other things I want to do instead. (sigh)

Comments

[tptigger]

Because 90% of all fic is slash? And then of the other 10%, 7 is het. Do Not Get Me Started.

[busaikko]

(here via network)

It depends on the fandom. Supernatural has a community (http://spn-gen-podfics.livejournal.com/) for gen podfic.

The audiofic archive lists gen with a separate tag, so:
http://www.audiofic.jinjurly.com/category/sherlock-bbcgen
http://www.audiofic.jinjurly.com/category/fandomcriminal-minds/criminal-mindsgen
http://www.audiofic.jinjurly.com/category/fandomsupernatural/supernaturalgen
and so on.

Here is one Mag7 story (http://amplificathon.livejournal.com/1460117.html) not sure if it's the one that you found; some Bandom/Stargate (http://amplificathon.livejournal.com/1417732.html); Firefly (http://amplificathon.livejournal.com/1391806.html); a mixed bag, Harry Potter, Bandom, Buffy, the Lilo&Stitch/Hawaii 5-0 one is delightful (http://amplificathon.livejournal.com/1421857.html), Discworld (http://reena-jenkins.livejournal.com/), Dr Who (http://amplificathon.livejournal.com/1254813.html)... I'm reccing a lot by one of my favorite readers, reena jenkins, who created a monumental and fanciful, astounding podifc compendium called The Intangible Residuum: A Collection Of Stories (http://amplificathon.livejournal.com/1078262.html), many of which are gen and which are all quirky and fascinating.

[jinxed-wood.livejournal.com]

Ack! I meant to leave a link to the audiofic archive I'm fond of - below is a direct link to their Sherlock BBC gen section - and the webmistress hosts them on the site which is wonderful. Thanks to her I still can get a copy of my solitary podfic experiment that was eaten by megaupload!

http://www.audiofic.jinjurly.com/category/sherlock-bbcgen

[sixpence-jones.livejournal.com]

I've read a few books onto cds for a library at our church (hubs is a hobbyist sound engineer) so I think podfic is something I might be able to do...

What is the form on making your own podfic? Do you have to ask the fic authors permission or can you just go ahead and do it? The reason I ask this is, while I'm sure it is only polite to ask, some authors have left or moved fandoms.

And then do you have to store it somewhere in particular or what? Please forgive the technoduncy questions but I am interested.

[persephone-kore.livejournal.com]

If you checked Avengers, do you want a Thor movieverse mostly-gen podfic? I didn't mention it before because (1) I cowrote it with khilari and feared that might be in poor taste and (2) I didn't think you wanted that fandom.

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

Can you convert You Tube videos to MP3?
If not this website may help

http://www.listentoyoutube.com/index.php

There are a number of podfics on You Tube, for example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLikzSwmxag

This is the first of a series done by a member of The Yahoo Sarek/Amanda group.

If you like Benedict Cumbebatch's voice:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoAr_0r6kaY

Or Christopher Lee's

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyxsPHWSxlY

This isn't exchange related but...

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