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There is so much bad podfic on my phone, it's kind of unbelievable.
I love reading aloud very very much, and I love reading fic aloud, and a lot of the fics that are my absolute favorites don't get a ton of attention (or at least, not as much as I feel they deserve, which is ALL OF IT), so there isn't podfic. I've come to appreciate podfic more and more as a medium, particularly as I've been working from home - and perhaps especially as I've started moving back onto campus a few days a week and working alone in a large workspace on more physical, less "thinky" tasks than I do at home - but I'm so particular about what I want to listen to and unfortunately am not a huge fan of most of what's out there for my preferred pairing. (There's some that I love, but a lot of it just doesn't do it for me.) So I've started just recording things on my phone and keeping them for myself or a few friends.
Sometimes I've considered whether I should share them more widely, but a few things always stop me.
a) as I've said, this is not good quality. First of all, they're recorded on my voice memos app on my phone, so not a fancy microphone, and there are all sorts of little audio issues when I move around or bump into something accidentally. Also, I'm not a quality reader. I used to think I was better at reading aloud than I am, and now listening to some of my own readings, I go OOF.
b) Sort of a subset of a), but these are not edited at all and I am too lazy to learn how to edit. There's already so much I theoretically want to do but keep putting off, so why on earth would this get any kind of priority? There are all sorts of places where I fumble over words or have those background noises, have no idea how to cut them out, and am too much of a slacker t o try to make better.
c) I feel so weird putting my voice on the internet? I have so many thoughts about persona and pseudonym and the construction of an online identity, and there are certainly some friends I have with whom I have moved into a different stage of relationship involving sharing faces and voices and occasionally personal details, but I can't do that on a larger scale. I kind of love existing as a construction solely formed of the words I put on a screen, in which people's subconscious image of me is probably a pink rose and their internal construction of my voice is based solely on the cadence of my writing. Crossing that boundary feels so dangerous to me, like I'd be stepping off a precipice from which I wouldn't be able to return.
But all the same, I keep feeling like I wish I could share these with people, if only so I could force others to engage with these fics I love and then talk to me about them. Isn't that the dream?
I love reading aloud very very much, and I love reading fic aloud, and a lot of the fics that are my absolute favorites don't get a ton of attention (or at least, not as much as I feel they deserve, which is ALL OF IT), so there isn't podfic. I've come to appreciate podfic more and more as a medium, particularly as I've been working from home - and perhaps especially as I've started moving back onto campus a few days a week and working alone in a large workspace on more physical, less "thinky" tasks than I do at home - but I'm so particular about what I want to listen to and unfortunately am not a huge fan of most of what's out there for my preferred pairing. (There's some that I love, but a lot of it just doesn't do it for me.) So I've started just recording things on my phone and keeping them for myself or a few friends.
Sometimes I've considered whether I should share them more widely, but a few things always stop me.
a) as I've said, this is not good quality. First of all, they're recorded on my voice memos app on my phone, so not a fancy microphone, and there are all sorts of little audio issues when I move around or bump into something accidentally. Also, I'm not a quality reader. I used to think I was better at reading aloud than I am, and now listening to some of my own readings, I go OOF.
b) Sort of a subset of a), but these are not edited at all and I am too lazy to learn how to edit. There's already so much I theoretically want to do but keep putting off, so why on earth would this get any kind of priority? There are all sorts of places where I fumble over words or have those background noises, have no idea how to cut them out, and am too much of a slacker t o try to make better.
c) I feel so weird putting my voice on the internet? I have so many thoughts about persona and pseudonym and the construction of an online identity, and there are certainly some friends I have with whom I have moved into a different stage of relationship involving sharing faces and voices and occasionally personal details, but I can't do that on a larger scale. I kind of love existing as a construction solely formed of the words I put on a screen, in which people's subconscious image of me is probably a pink rose and their internal construction of my voice is based solely on the cadence of my writing. Crossing that boundary feels so dangerous to me, like I'd be stepping off a precipice from which I wouldn't be able to return.
But all the same, I keep feeling like I wish I could share these with people, if only so I could force others to engage with these fics I love and then talk to me about them. Isn't that the dream?