Podfic in 2020

[luzula]

Flight of the Heron podfic: (all are Ewen Cameron/Keith Windham)
If Fate Should Reverse Our Positions by me (7h 21m)
A Great Service and a Bitter Grief by me (3h 24m)
A Thousand Dreams in One Drop of Ink by garonne (46m)
Up in the Grey Hills by regshoe (1h 4m)
That Good Faith, To Which an Enemy as Well as a Friend Is Entitled by me (5h 39m)
When the Fighting is Over by hyarrowen (30m)
Shore and Ship and Moonrise by hyarrowen (2h 24m)
Steadiness under Fire by hyarrowen (16m)
An Ally Better than the Sidhe by hyarrowen (1h 23m)

Non-podfic:
Flemington by Violet Jacob (8h 3m)

I posted 30h 50m of podfic and audiobooks in 2020. If I include recorded and unposted stuff, it's about 45 hours, depending on how I count stuff that's recorded but not edited, and prooflistened but not corrected. The unposted stuff is two big projects, one long unfinished Pride & Prejudice podfic, and one seekrit book project.

This is a lot compared to 2019, when I only recorded a total of four podfics, which together were 2h 49m! I felt almost sure that this year's podficcing was some kind of record for me, and if I count the unposted stuff, it is. BUT in 2010, I posted 73 podfics(!!) which were 42h 19m long in total! This was in the craziness of Amplificathon's heyday, when I won third place in the competition. Nowadays, I dislike recording short podfics, because of the administration involved in posting. I can't even imagine posting 73 podfics in one year! *boggles* Never again...

But on the whole, I've had great fun having a podfic revival, even if I feel rather isolated from other podficcers nowadays.

Comments

[regshoe]

Aww, another excellent bit of fannish productivity :D Podfic hasn't been something I was much aware of in fandom before this year, and I've really liked listening to your FotH podfics—it's been a great new way to enjoy some lovely stories.

[luzula]

I feel blessed that all three of the other active people in the fandom actually enjoy podfic, and moreover, have enjoyed mine--that is not something to take for granted. : )

And I'm glad to introduce you to a new form of fanwork!

[chestnut_pod]

*applause*

I'm so glad it's been a pleasant renaissance!

[luzula]

Thanks, it has been! Although I've been having some recent podfic isses I'll probably make a separate post about...

[garonne]

You remind me that I have not listened to your podfics of hyarrowen's stories in a really long time and want to do so again. I listened right after I read the novel, but it will be fun to do so again after having spent so much more time thinking about these characters.

Also, I have listened to so many podfics that came out of Amplificathon and was always glad it existed, but I had no idea it was a competition!

[luzula]

I hope you enjoy them! I haven't reread those stories since I recorded them, I suppose I'm afraid of wearing them out. But I'll definitely reread/relisten at some point.

Most of the year, Amplificathon was just a comm for announcing podfic and for mods of the audiofic archive to archive podfic from. But for about two months of the year, it was a podfic competition with a complicated points system where long podfics and rare fandoms/pairings would give more points. And that's the original purpose of the comm, too.

[jesse_the_k]

We're so lucky!

[luzula]

Awwww. ♥