Upcoming new podfic challenge: Tide Pod

[obstinatecondolement]

Hi there! tidepodchallenge is/will be a new podfic challenge that will debut soon (hopefully January 1st 2023) where participants make podfics based on fics in the Yuletide collection (N.B. only works written by authors with blanket permission statements, or who have given permission for their fic to be recorded). It is intended to be a low stress, no deadline event that you complete at your own pace to spread the joy of small fandoms that the Yuletide exchange brings throughout the year and increase the number of podfics in those fandoms.

I have uploaded a mod post to the comm that links to a brainstorming/planning document on Google Docs that has commenting permissions enabled for anyone with the link. I am more than happy to share editing privileges with anyone who wants them so that they can add suggestions to the document directly, and you do not have to commit to co-modding with me in order to edit the planning document or help with finetuning the format. That said, anyone who would like to co-mod is welcome with open arms!

Please join the comm and consider participating when we get started! And, of course, feel free to read the document and leave suggests in comments either on Google Docs itself or in the comments to this post or the mod post linked here.

Comments

[chestnut_pod]

What a cool idea!

[obstinatecondolement]

Thank you! I'm very keen to get started myself. I hope that you will join us!

Please also feel absolutely free to have a look at the linked document and let me know your thoughts if you would like to, because I have only been involved in the podfic community for a relatively short period of time and I would love to have the input of people who are more knowledgable than I am.

[static_whisper]

I don't think you'll get an overwhelming amount of interaction, but I do want to give a slight heads up that I shared this info in the Pillowfort Podfic community (with a reblog into a more general fandom comm).

If you want more control over where this planning stage info is spread, I can delete the post [which will delete any reblogs].

[obstinatecondolement]

I don't mind at all! The link that I've shared publicly just has commenting privileges, so it's not a huge deal if it's spread beyond my immediate line of sight, and if anyone on Pillowfort wants to get involved they are more than welcome to hit me up by email! I do have a Pillowfort account and have since 2018, but shamefully have not yet used it in any substantial way so it's not a great way to get in touch with me.

[static_whisper]

Alright. I don't know if the Podfic community isn't mostly people already in the podfichat Discord server, tbh, but I guessed that FandomOlds might have some people who are more familiar with modding events.