This is not reasonable...

[luzula]

So I was idly looking at Space Swap, yet another multi-fannish exchange (there are so many of them these days!). And it was open to fic/art/podfic/vids, so I thought there would be more fandoms I could offer, since I can podfic in many more fandoms than I can write. But it turns out that if you sign up as a podficcer, you also have to write the story you're going to podfic! Which means that they assume a podficcer is also automatically a writer, too.

This is not reasonable, is it? I mean, I've definitely participated in gift exchanges where you would sign up as a podficcer and record an already-existing story. The contribution of the podficcer is the performance, not the writing.

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[feroxargentea]

I saw that and thought it was bizarre. Podficcing is a skill in itself, not just "additional work" for a writer. It would be like asking an artist to write a short story before they were allowed to illustrate it.

[luzula]

Yeah. I discussed a bit with a mod, and they seem open to changing it next year. They portrayed it as concern for the podficcer, that they might not be able to find a story to record, but that's really up to the podficcer IMO. Like, I wouldn't sign up for podficcing a fandom/pairing/character where I didn't know there were plenty of stories to choose from.