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A beautiful excerpt from the introduction of this fascinating piece, Podfic: Queer structures of sound by Olivia Johnston Riley:

Yawning on the bus ride home from work, you put on your headphones and press play on the 24-megabyte (MB) file labeled "chapter one" that is saved to your phone. A gentle, ambiguously gendered voice begins to tell you a story. It is a story you have read before, but you are too tired to read it now; you just want to listen. The sound is unfiltered, with the low buzz of an air conditioner and occasional mew of a cat in the background of the recording. For these twenty minutes, you are not alone, stuck on public transportation—you are sharing an intimate, sonic space with someone you have never met but who loves this fictional world as much as you do. The voice in your ear shapes the familiar words in ways you could have not predicted; you catch jokes you missed before, and the tragic rising narrative hits even harder as you mirror the emotion in the reader's voice. The story's familiar characters—characters from your favorite television show, reimagined first through fan fiction and now through the sonification of that story—are falling in love, right before your ears, like they were never allowed to on your TV screen. You keep listening as you arrive home, lingering at the door, the kitchen, doing mindless chores until the story comes to a close.

#love! this! #i have had this experience so many times

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vlad_shevchenko

#The happy sounds I made--

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OHH I WISH HE WAS A GIRL GUINEAPIG BC I *JUST* FINISHED A GORDITA

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An Intimate Sound–Podfic and Confluence

This week, I’ve been thinking a lot about podfic, i.e.., audio versions of fanfic, read out aloud. Podfic, as an audio-based medium, sits at the confluence of disability accessibility, performance, and of course, simply being a new form of narrative text.

In the first ever published article on podfic, Olivia Riley states:

“Audiobooks, another auditory predecessor of podfic, share podfic's emphasis on fictional narrative and vocal performance as well as other qualities typical to all the audio mediums so far discussed, including portability and ease of access. The comparison of podfic to audiobooks is particularly important because in my investigation I ran across numerous instances of listeners explicitly comparing the podfic experience to that of an audiobook, while only one referenced podcasts in relation to these audio narratives; thus, we must take into account how fans theorize their own texts and experiences.”

This particular comparison between audiobooks and podfics interests me; podcasts, whether fictional or non-fictional, arguably may be more intimate, in so much as we may get to listen to the speakers’ personal opinions, thoughts, ideas, etc. And yet, podfic finds itself standing more with audiobooks, despite sharing half its name with podcasts. I’d like to complicate this further, drawing from my own experience of both running zines with audio components, as well as interacting with fellow fans who make podfic, and who have had podfic made off their own work: fans are sometimes hesitant to provide permission to have their work read out aloud, concerned about the voice and audio work “exposing” perceived flaws in their written texts.

There’s a certain intimacy involved in the process, certainly, more than just that of getting a work beta-ed, or proof-read. It’s similar to the collaborative nature of fanart for fanfic, except fanart is welcomed with a lot less hesitance.

In the same article, Riley further goes on to explore this very intimacy:

“The audio performances of podfic produce a queer network of relations between the performer, the text, and the listener. To begin with, the text itself is an actor in podfic. All the podfics examined for this article were explicitly queer in their content, featuring queer(ed) characters, queer themes, romance, and often explicit sexuality. The characters in these podfics carry variously transformed and reimagined genders and sexualities. These podfics are palimpsests of many texts and authors, including the fan fic being read aloud, the source text the fan fic was inspired by, the contemporary fanon and fan community that shaped the fic's production, the various music and sound effects often used in these recordings, and the labor of all the creators who made these media. Further, through the reader's performance, listeners receive a unique interpretation of the fan fic being read, conveyed through the intonations and other subtleties that emphasize and elide various textual significances. This profusion of overlapping and sometimes contradictory layers of meaning impact how a listener understands a character's gender and sexuality, refusing the simplicity of heteronormative binaries.” RILEY, OLIVIA JOHNSTON. 2020. “PODFIC: QUEER STRUCTURES OF SOUND.” TRANSFORMATIVE WORKS AND CULTURES, NO. 34. HTTPS://DOI.ORG/10.3983/TWC.2020.1933.

There is, then, a definite sense of vulnerability in getting podfic made off one’s work. But podfic, I’d argue, is almost the most celebratory fan-object fandom has ever produced—it sits again on a confluence, not just of medium and accessibility, but of multiple creatives, all of whom have a singular contribution in making the final product. Podfic is, in many ways, a community object, more so than most fan-objects, simply by its nature of needing multiple inputs. 

What are your thoughts on podfic?

#all of this #and it's especially true for multi-voice podfics i'd say #i'd love to participate in one of those one day!!

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Also like...this guy is really just telling on himself that he's never darkened the door of his nearest affirming church. I go to a PCUSA church and there are many joyful, affable LGBTQ+ people and couples (including the pastor and her wife), and many of them are in their 50s and 60s. Anyone who doesn't stick to a hateful bubble of right-wing ideologues can find plenty of people like this. Yes, older generations lost countless wonderful souls...but there are survivors, and many of them have chosen to cultivate warm, happy personalities despite the suffering they've faced.

If homophobes weren't so awful to LGBT people, then maybe we'd be happier.

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someone needs to arrive to the met gala wearing pants and a tshirt that says "karl lagerfield i hope you are rotting in hell" 😐

#oh now that would be iconic #unlike this boring & unlikeable theme #can the theme just be fandom or cosplay?? imagine #or superheroes? #or. the concept of gender #or sth important and relevant but also high-concept & poetic like ''fear of earth; fear of space''

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Commandant Hux (Brian Gleeson) in THE MANDALORIAN - Chapter 23: The Spies

#oh this is Not how i pictured him but! #i really want hux backstory content #and this seems super well done

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there’s just some fics... they never leave u bro. i’ll be sitting on the toilet four years later thinking about the 94k enemies to lovers fic that captured my soul

#you never have to wonder; you never have to ask #by #gamesformay #really the exr of all time #this fic makes that pairing REALISTIC AND BELIEVABLE in honestly quite a sad way #that i love so so much.

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I CAST IT! *I CAST IT!!*

Like to charge reblog to cast

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what is the innocent sambucus doing in this ominous bouquet

*gives you a foxglove* *gives you a nightshade* *gives you a devil’s trumpet* *gives you a moonflower* *gives you an oleander* *gives you a lily of the valley* *gives you a hydrangea* *gives you wisteria* *gives you a buttercup* *gives you a daffodil* *gives you an iris* *gives you elder berries* *gives you a

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i have decided that to simplify my life and make everyone else's worse i am going to combine american and british spellings. for example:

•centere

•programmme

•graey

•apflatment

#ohhh i am Purposefully not going to show this to my partner

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take a knife to bring to the roman senate

reblog for more stabbing

#YES this is what i wanted

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coming into today there was so much ides-of-march-based humor and now, when i log onto the Caesar-Stabbing-Website on the actual 15th of March, whERE IS MY CONTENT??

surprisingly sparse? GIMME KNIVES

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#oooh investing early in this post

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SNOW LEMONADE

Rating: G | 3172 words | One-shot | Wangxian

Alternate Universe - Modern Setting | Romance | Romantic Comedy | Getting to Know Each Other | Falling In Love | First Meetings | Meet-Cute | Kid Fic | Happy Ending | Podfic Welcome

In which A-Yuan tries to sell snow at his makeshift lemonade stand to buy himself a bunny plushie and ends up acquiring a Rich Gege in the process.

#oh this looks super cute im gonna read it tomorrow

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God and humanity teamed up to invent banana

they need to invent a food that i do not have to do any work to prepare and also is cheap and also is nutritious and also tastes good and also that doesn’t hurt my tummy

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It's just my headcanon and probably contradicting several canon sources that I haven't read, but I like to think that Hux is fairly well-liked as general by his crew.

Not only is Hux closer in age to the other young officers due to his fast rise through the ranks than the other generals, but he also went through the same training and indoctrination as them.

So he's intimately familiar with how cruel those other generals are. I mean, look at Pryde with his weird riding crop or whatever it is he's carrying. Why would he have such a thing on the bridge of a Star Destroyer? Exactly, to physically punish anything he perceives as a misdemeanour.

In my hc, the FO officers are all used to suffering abuse by their older, ex-Imperial superiors.

Hux, having been put through the same humiliation as them and with his hatred for his father and the old relics of a crumbled empire, isn't like that. He refuses to be like them.

Hux doesn’t use corporal punishment on his officers.

That is not to say that he is a nice person or has any tolerance for shenanigans or anything less than perfect disciple.

He is strict and demanding, but he is fair to his officers, especially his hand-picked bridge crew. Of course, if he notices someone standing in the way of his goals or trying to move against him, he'd depose of them without a second thought.

But if you follow his orders, he will treat you much better than any other FO general who sees the young men and women as nothing but means to restore the old Empire.

And that's why his crew is loyal and willing to do everything for him, making the Finalizer the most sought-after Star Destroyer to serve on (except for the occasions Kylo Ren is aboard).

So yeah, that's my personal hc developed for a story I'll never write because I have neither the talent nor the stamina for longfics.

#oh this is tasty food