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thingswithwings! I'm sorry this is up so late; in a typical feat of getting-the-dates-wrong, I thought this was meant to be for tomorrow. BUT NO. In North America, it is still December 10th!
Today's topic is f/f podfic, which I find to be an onerous, imposing chore. This post wound up being a mix of my own personal f/f & podfic history, an extremely incomplete and biased history of the f/f podfic community, and last but not least, a love letter to the stuff.
Let's start at the beginning: I don't know exactly when I got interested in f/f but I don't think I really started identifying primarily a femslasher until about late 2008 (a few years after I'd come out), when I entered the Supernatural fandom and made it actually really a lot, for me, about the show's women.
I've never been much of a writer, even when I was using that word to identify myself, so when the first round of spn_fs_exchange rolled around a while later, I looked on a little enviously but didn't sign-up to either write, mix, or art. But I'd discovered podfic for the third (and final) time just before I fell hard and fast for SamnDean and Jensen Ackles' pretty pretty eyelashes, and hatched this really ambitious idea that that I would podfic every story that came out of the exchange.
The podfic scene was fairly different in 2009. f/f works (and women-centric works in general) still don't dominate now but they were much thinner on the ground back then. At the time, despite SPN having an already-massive presence on the Audiofic Archive, there wasn't a single f/f podfic for that fandom. (I know. I looked. The first one to go up, I think, was eventually my first proper podfic, mercuries' most excellent The Ecstasy of the Rose.)
It took a long while, but I did eventually realise I couldn't podfic an entire exchange by myself. That turned into some brainstorming, some consulting with the spn_fs_exchange mods (who were podfic-friendly, if also a little podfic-baffled), and the creation of podfic_project. By rights, it should have been something like "spn_podfic_project" but I'd already known I wanted it to grow into what it's become;
audiofemme. (Sitenote: Official IDF has been running it owns audiofic project for the last two years, but we're entirely unaffiliated and coming at podfic/audiofic - the split is right there in what we call it - and in for me, even at f/f in very different ways. But check it out if they're you're cuppa!)
Shortly after I made the call for volunteers to work on podfic_project and the Supernatural Femmeslash Podfic Project, I attended Wincon 2010. Two completely strangers recognized me, by username, as "that femslash podficcer". NOT SORRY that this is and remains, to my knowledge, the first time I'd gained any wider fandom notoriety (and if the story's ever turns out to be not true, then I still wouldn't tell it any different)
We got a small, but larger-than-it-had-any-right-to-be amount of podfic out of the Supernatural Femmeslash Podfic Project! (froggyfun365 really mad the project as big a success it was by podficcing as much as the rest of us combined!) The next person I remember consistently posting f/f content to Amplificathon was
sophinisba.
quintenttsy,
croissantkatie,
exmanhater and the whole rest of my immediate circle of f/f podficcer friends followed along in the next year or two, I think? They can tell you their own histories better than I can! I love that f/f podfic keeps getting more and more common as podfic fandom keeps growing. I love that other people are making it harder for me to earn rare pairing f/f points during Amplificathon. I love that had I entered the scene now, or even a year or two ago, I never would have had that Wincon reputation as "the" femslash podficcer. I love that there's f/f podfic that really suit my tastes in tropes/writing style/whatever and I love that there's f/f podfic for canons I've never heard of and for canons I don't like. I love that there's f/f podfic I will probably never stumble across, because it's on social media sites I don't use or use well enough. I don't care about that, not really. I love finding just enough of it to know that it exists. Because there didn't used to much of anything at all.
I do f/f podfic... well, we don't all femslash for all of the same reasons, regardless of the fanwork medium we work in, but I can't imagine any of mine are new under the sun. I LOVE stories about women. I love stories about women who desire or love other other women. I like seeing that part of myself on the page. I love how some of it is just so fucking hot and sexy and brilliant for it. f/f podfic is a coming together of two of the things I'm arguably most passionate about in all of fandom and it's great. It's better than great. It's awesome. It's incredible. It's a pleasure.
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thingswithwings! I'm sorry this is up so late; in a typical feat of getting-the-dates-wrong, I thought this was meant to be for tomorrow. BUT NO. In North America, it is still December 10th!
Today's topic is f/f podfic, which I find to be an onerous, imposing chore. This post wound up being a mix of my own personal f/f & podfic history, an extremely incomplete and biased history of the f/f podfic community, and last but not least, a love letter to the stuff.
Let's start at the beginning: I don't know exactly when I got interested in f/f but I don't think I really started identifying primarily a femslasher until about late 2008 (a few years after I'd come out), when I entered the Supernatural fandom and made it actually really a lot, for me, about the show's women.
I've never been much of a writer, even when I was using that word to identify myself, so when the first round of spn_fs_exchange rolled around a while later, I looked on a little enviously but didn't sign-up to either write, mix, or art. But I'd discovered podfic for the third (and final) time just before I fell hard and fast for SamnDean and Jensen Ackles' pretty pretty eyelashes, and hatched this really ambitious idea that that I would podfic every story that came out of the exchange.
The podfic scene was fairly different in 2009. f/f works (and women-centric works in general) still don't dominate now but they were much thinner on the ground back then. At the time, despite SPN having an already-massive presence on the Audiofic Archive, there wasn't a single f/f podfic for that fandom. (I know. I looked. The first one to go up, I think, was eventually my first proper podfic, mercuries' most excellent The Ecstasy of the Rose.)
It took a long while, but I did eventually realise I couldn't podfic an entire exchange by myself. That turned into some brainstorming, some consulting with the spn_fs_exchange mods (who were podfic-friendly, if also a little podfic-baffled), and the creation of podfic_project. By rights, it should have been something like "spn_podfic_project" but I'd already known I wanted it to grow into what it's become;
audiofemme. (Sitenote: Official IDF has been running it owns audiofic project for the last two years, but we're entirely unaffiliated and coming at podfic/audiofic - the split is right there in what we call it - and in for me, even at f/f in very different ways. But check it out if they're you're cuppa!)
Shortly after I made the call for volunteers to work on podfic_project and the Supernatural Femmeslash Podfic Project, I attended Wincon 2010. Two completely strangers recognized me, by username, as "that femslash podficcer". NOT SORRY that this is and remains, to my knowledge, the first time I'd gained any wider fandom notoriety (and if the story's ever turns out to be not true, then I still wouldn't tell it any different)
We got a small, but larger-than-it-had-any-right-to-be amount of podfic out of the Supernatural Femmeslash Podfic Project! (froggyfun365 really mad the project as big a success it was by podficcing as much as the rest of us combined!) The next person I remember consistently posting f/f content to Amplificathon was
sophinisba.
quintenttsy,
croissantkatie,
exmanhater and the whole rest of my immediate circle of f/f podficcer friends followed along in the next year or two, I think? They can tell you their own histories better than I can! I love that f/f podfic keeps getting more and more common as podfic fandom keeps growing. I love that other people are making it harder for me to earn rare pairing f/f points during Amplificathon. I love that had I entered the scene now, or even a year or two ago, I never would have had that Wincon reputation as "the" femslash podficcer. I love that there's f/f podfic that really suit my tastes in tropes/writing style/whatever and I love that there's f/f podfic for canons I've never heard of and for canons I don't like. I love that there's f/f podfic I will probably never stumble across, because it's on social media sites I don't use or use well enough. I don't care about that, not really. I love finding just enough of it to know that it exists. Because there didn't used to much of anything at all.
I do f/f podfic... well, we don't all femslash for all of the same reasons, regardless of the fanwork medium we work in, but I can't imagine any of mine are new under the sun. I LOVE stories about women. I love stories about women who desire or love other other women. I like seeing that part of myself on the page. I love how some of it is just so fucking hot and sexy and brilliant for it. f/f podfic is a coming together of two of the things I'm arguably most passionate about in all of fandom and it's great. It's better than great. It's awesome. It's incredible. It's a pleasure.
This entry was also posted at http://cantarina.dreamwidth.org/184249.html. (comments:
)