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#ITPE 2025 Masterlist

2025-12-27T17:26:28Z

Posted by: xdiorix

(If you'd like to see previous years' master lists, 2011 is here, 2012 is here, 2013 is here, 2014 is here, 2015 is here, 2016 is here, 2017 is here, 2018 is here, 2019 is here, 2020 is here, 2021 is here, 2022 is here, 2023 is here, and 2024 is here.)

Happy 15th annual #ITPE!!!! Thank you for bearing with us despite Tumblr sabotaging us not just once, but twice.

Here’s some stats and highlights from this year’s #ITPE!

We had 73 participants this year, and you made 293 podfics for a total run time of 124 hours, 16 minutes, and 4 seconds–that’s over FIVE DAYS of audio!

We have 4 simulpods this year! Incredible things happened in The Queen’s Thief fandom with deepestbluesky podding a gift for likethetrench, who recorded the same story for her recipient feelingsandtaxes, who in turn podded that story for lady-sci. Classic #ITPE antics! flowerparrish and tinybluebirdcloak gifted each other the same story as a treat, with flowerparrish also receiving a podfic of a story ze gifted to another recipient. Finally, jeremyknox | kbirbpods and opalsong both podded the same story for their recipients.

By far our most prolific gifter this year was flowerparrish, who (on top of modding duties) not only made 4 gifts for zir recipient (including a nearly 11 hour podfic), but also picked up 2 pinch hits and made 57 treats. Not far behind was jeremyknox | kbirbpods who also picked up a pinch hit and made 15 main gifts for faer recipients and 16 treats! Opalsong had a relatively restrained year (for her), but still made 10 gifts (nearly 10 hours of audio) for her recipient! rhea314 was also a generous gifter this year, making 8 main gifts for her recipient and 10 treats! pezzax was another of our prolific gifters this year, making 22 treats! We also had generous treaters in blackestglass, wanderingjedihistorian, chaoskiro, j03-05, and wilfriede! Honorable mentions to popcornfairy28 and reena-jenkins for the 3 and 5.5 hour (respectively) podfics they made for their recipients, and to betrayedbycinnamon for treating despite not being signed up to the exchange!

Finally, we'd like to extend some thank you’s to:

-Data mod flowersforgraves for converting all the sign up data to airtable which makes matching so much easier.
-Asymptotical and Dragonflies_and_Katydids for creating the coding we used to generate distribution day templates.
-Our pinch hitters alliaskisthepossibilityoflove, flowerparrish and jeremyknox | kbirbpods
-And as always, exmanhater for ITPE’s permanent hosting

Now let’s get on to what you’re really here for…..the masterlist!! Here’s the masterlist spreadsheet for this year’s exchange!

Happy listening!!!

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Chromatic Characters Podfic Anthology VI!

2025-10-01T04:09:14Z

Posted by: miss_marina95

This is the official post for the sixth annual Chromatic Characters Podfic Anthology! This year, the anthology contains 57 podfics, featuring 52 characters of color, read by 18 podficcers.

This year's optional theme was: persistence.

cover art by silverandblue

Listening options:

The Chromatic Characters Podfic Anthology VI podbook, (m4b format, 63 kbps, 153 mb, 05:30:53), with chapter stops for individual podfics

A zip file (236 mb) with all the anthology podfics in mp3 format

A spreadsheet with direct audio links or links to the AO3 pages where you can download individual anthology podfics and leave feedback

Links to the text of the fics, where you can go to leave kudos and comments for the wonderful authors, can be found in the "comments" section in the metadata of each mp3 file as well as in the spreadsheet. Thank you to Avanie, godoflaundrybaskets, wilfriede0815, wjgravity, and cosmicology for technical beta. We also thank the 5 cultural sensitivity betas who lent their time and knowledge to this anthology.

The bonus collection for podfics longer than the maximum for the CCPA and/or extra submissions can be found here.

You can find the full AO3 collection for this year here. Please feel free to leave feedback/comments on this post! You can also follow the podficcers to their individual AO3 accounts to find more of their work: 429_CarCrash, AirgiodSLV, bluedreaming,
blackglass, cosmicology, deepestbluesky, farkenshnoffingottom, flowerparrish, godoflaundrybaskets, kbirb, kitsuneheart, LittleRedRobinHood, mific, MistbornHero, pezzax, semperfiona, Tipsy_Kitty, and wilfriede0815.

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A change to the url for the Audiofic Archive

2025-09-13T09:46:37Z

Posted by: mific

We have a new alternate address for the Audiofic Archive: https://audioficarchive.org

This an additional domain name that works exactly like the old jinjurly one
Both this one and the prior one, and all links deriving from these urls will function normally
The new link makes it a little easier for us to manage domain name renewals

Podfics posted from now on will have the new address in the post link and in any audiofile links.

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Chromatic Characters Podfic Anthology VI Planning

2025-07-25T06:20:54Z

Posted by: xdiorix

Image credit: Vecteezy

Hello and welcome to the sixth round of the Chromatic Characters Podfic Anthology! As always, we’re collecting short podfics that center characters of color in different fandoms to release as an anthology and as a collection of individual files.

The Chromatic Characters Podfic Anthology aims to spotlight podfics that portray characters of color as full, multifaceted beings. We welcome podfics that are positive, happy, and fluffy as much as we do podfics where characters of color grapple with heavier themes. We value the beautiful complexity and diversity of people, identities, cultures, and experiences. We hope to promote the creation of more creative works (fannish or otherwise) that reflect these values.

This year's submission deadline is September 12th, and we will post on September 30th.

Our theme for this year's anthology is persistence. It's optional—all podfics are welcome as long as they follow the rules laid out in the Submission Guidelines—but feel free to let it inspire you if you'd like and to interpret it as broadly as you'd like.

If you’d like to get a sense of this project, you can see the previous CCPA anthologies here, here, here, here, and here.

To Podficcers: Interested in participating? We'd love to have you. This should be a low-stress project, even for people who are new to podficcing, due to the word-count: 1500 words or less (with many being as short as 1-2 minutes.) If you'd like to record something for this anthology, please fill out this quick google form and we'll send you the link to the spreadsheet where we'll be keeping track of all the podfics.

Here are some good places for finding short fics about characters of color:
-The Character(s) of Color, Female Character of Color, LGBTQ Character of Color, or Male Character of Color tags at the AO3, limited to word counts of 1500 or less.
-The Dark Agenda Collection on AO3 (includes fanworks from Chromatic Yuletide, Chromatic Remix Redux, Kaleidoscope Fanwork Exchange, Kaleidoscope Treats, and Racebending Revenge)
-chromatic_fanfic
-The Chamber collection
-Chromaticvision drabble collection
-Seeing Color collection
-Marvel POC Characters Fanworks Exchange
-Awesome People of Colour are Awesome: Comment-a-thon on DW and the AO3 collection
-No White Saviors Allowed-- Challenges for The 100 Characters of Color
-Not Green or Blue ficathon for characters of color in comics

Since this project has a relatively quick turnaround time, you may want to refer to this database of authors who have posted blanket permission statements and/or install this browser extension that highlights all blanket permission authors from that database in green.

As an aid to encourage mindfulness when selecting stories for the anthology, we strongly recommend you to check out this resource from Writing With Color about common stereotypes and tropes in stories about characters of color. We would like to encourage thoughtful representation in the stories included in this anthology as much as possible.

To the Podcurious: A number of prolific podficcers have gotten their start by contributing to the Awesome Ladies Podfic Anthology, which this anthology is based on. If you have ever thought you might like to create podfic, this could be a really great starting place. It's low pressure, you'll get a lot of listeners, you're contributing to a cool fanwork that celebrates our love for characters of color, and it's not too intense of a spotlight, because your piece is in the company of many other voices.

To Everyone: Feel free to comment with links to other fests or specific works that you think would be a good fit for this anthology. Additionally, we are looking for technical beta listeners who can absolutely commit to at LEAST two hours of beta listening between September 13th and 20th to check for volume issues, errors and inconsistencies, metadata, etc. In addition, if you are a person of color who would be willing to lend their services as a contextual content beta (formerly known as cultural sensitivity listeners in previous years), please let us know if you'd be available and interested; we'd be very grateful!

To Participants and Contextual Content Betas: This year we'll be implementing the same matching process for contextual content betas as last year. If you're willing to provide your services as a contextual content beta, we'll ask you to provide a brief description of your background and what you feel confident in providing input on. We'll provide you access to the submission spreadsheet and you can let us know if there are any fandoms/characters/submissions you know you'll be comfortable beta-ing.

When the submission window closes, participants will also be asked to look over the briefs provided and let the mods know which content beta sounds like the best match for their submissions. As mods, we are not familiar with every character and fandom submitted and will be relying on participants to help us connect your submissions with the closest possible match. Contextual content betas check that submissions reflect the mission of the anthology. They are our "sniff tests." They help us by letting us know if there's anything about a submission that would give them pause about including it in an anthology celebrating characters of color. They are also a second set of eyes for content warnings. It's possible that your content beta won't be familiar with something in your submission. As the CCPA mod team values lived experience as the best source of knowledge, content betas may, at their discretion, offer additional cultural insight and guidance to the best of their ability.

To Authors: We've had some awesome authors get involved in the past, in pod_together style, to create short pieces for CCPA in collaboration with podficcers. If you’re an author who’s interested in writing for characters of color and is seeking podficcers to work with, feel free to comment below. Podficcers who would like this sort of collaboration, please reply directly to the authors.

Below you will find our rules and submission guidelines. If you have any additional questions, please let us know!

Basic Rules

Each reader can make up to 5 podfics to include in the anthology (though an unlimited number may be included in the spreadsheet/AO3 collection), and each story should be no more than 1500 words.
All stories should focus on characters of color, including racebent characters.
All fandoms, including rpf fandoms, are eligible.
All podfics should be submitted in mp3 format.
As long as it is still the day of the deadline anywhere on Earth, you are allowed to submit podfics.
Effects are fine, but please do not use intro or outro music in the version of the podfic you submit for the Anthology (just for the sake of time—it's usually hours long, so we'd like to keep each podficlet within it to the header info we requested, the words of the story, and "the end" in order to not expand the time further.) If you'd like to add in music to the version that you crosspost or that goes into the excel spreadsheet of individual podficlets, that's totally fine! In addition, if you'd like to include a podficcer freetalk about why you chose to record a particular story for the anthology, please feel free to include those on your individual AO3 posts!
Important note: Please make sure you read and follow the Submission Guidelines. It helps everything flow together much better, and it makes the mods' jobs so much easier!

Submission Guidelines
For the sake of consistency within the anthology, we'd like to ask that everyone follow these guidelines for eligible fics and the metadata you include in the podfic:

-All recordings should begin and end with two seconds of silence.

-Each reading should begin, "[Title], written by [author], read by [reader]. Fandom: [Fandom]." Then, if applicable, provide a content warning if oppression is thematic to the work. Please also specifically warn for slurs, depictions of hate crimes; and racist microaggressions. We also suggest including appropriate warnings or content notes for common triggers such as sexual assault, graphic violence, and major character death. (This is not to say that we discourage stories in which characters engage with the lived realities of racism and colonialism; rather that we recognize that some listeners may not be in a space where they want to engage with those kinds of themes and should have a choice to opt in or out of listening.) Please refer to this document for suggested guidelines about when and what to warn for, as well as resources for defining and identifying microaggressions.

-Each reading should end with "The End".

-The metadata should follow this format:

Name: Title
Artist: readername (reader) & authorname (author)
Year: 2025
Album: Chromatic Characters Podfic Anthology VI
Comments: Text at: http://link
Genre: Podfic
(Note: Capitalize reader and author names as they’re displayed on AO3; same goes for titles.)

-To help make sure the volume across the anthology is consistent, we are providing a benchmark volume file to use for volume-matching. Please make sure that your own podfics are approximately matched to this volume. One way is to listen to the benchmark at a comfortable volume, then listen to your file, and if you don't find the transition jarring or feel a need to turn the volume up or down when the file switches, you're good! If you aren't sure how to adjust volume, in Audacity it's Amplify under the Effects menu, and in Garageband it's track volume (the blue line here). If you have more questions, feel free to ask in the comments! The benchmark volume file is here (right-click save to download; thanks to klb for letting us use the benchmark volume from ALPA). ALTERNATIVELY, you may use the volume normalization feature on auphonic, which levels audio at a consistent volume. You can create a free account which allows you to process up to 2 hours of audio per month. If you would prefer not to sign up for an account, you may contact a mod who can process your audio for you.

New this year!: As we did last year, we are opening a bonus collection where you can submit podfic of those stories you found and loved but were too long for the anthology. Consider this permission/motivation to record and share those stories! This is completely optional--these submissions do not need to be submitted via the google spreadsheet or beta'd, nor do they need to follow any kind of standardized header format/volume guidelines. This collection will be revealed at the same time as the anthology on September 30th, so you'll have until the 29th to submit your podfics.

Your mods for this event are blackglass and miss_marina95. We can be contacted at ccpamods or at ccpamods at gmail.

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Europodfriends 2026 - Signups open!

2025-03-12T22:37:16Z

Posted by: frecklebombfic

Your friendly local European podfic meetup is now happening in Dresden, from Fri 20 to Mon 23 Feb 2026!

Signups are open until Wednesday 26th March!

For more information on our date and location change, and how EPF works, take a look at this post on our DW comm. Look out for our posts on the various other social medias, and boost if you can!

Tumblr / Bluesky / Mastodon / Twitter

As always, if you have any questions then leave a comment here or email us - europodfriends at gmail dot com

Look forward to seeing you there!

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Europodfriends 2026 - Date & Location Poll

2025-02-27T12:15:17Z

Posted by: frecklebombfic

Hello europodfriends!

You may know that we’re not having a meetup this October, instead moving it to early 2026; you may not know that we’re also choosing a new venue. We want your help to figure out exactly WHEN and WHERE it will be:

Fill out this form to vote, by 9th March!

We have a few dates and places in mind, so tell us what you think of the options. We also need a non-binding budget estimate from you. As in previous years, we don't have a flat fee for attendance, instead we ask you what you can afford and take our budget from that total. Also as in previous years, we will try to make some of our budget available as sponsorship for people who need some help to attend.

Please do boost posts on our other social media and spread the word!

Tumblr / Bluesky / Mastodon / Twitter

As always, if you have any questions then leave a comment here or email us - europodfriends@gmail.com

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Out of the Auditary 2025!

2025-02-20T14:13:55Z

Posted by: sylvaine

Out of the Auditary returns for another year! This is a fest for podficcing works that don't fit into the "standard" fiction format, such as meta, not!fic, epistolary and chatfic, video game codes entries, fake scientific articles, poetry, and many more! Rules and details are here on AO3; submission deadline is March 30th! If you'd like examples as to what was created for this fest in previous years, check out the parent collection.

If you want to promo the fest, RT this skeet on Bluesky, boost it on mastodon, reblog this tumblr post, or just copy & paste this code:

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The 2025 Podfic Big Bang is open!

2025-01-01T06:46:39Z

Posted by: kitsuneheart

After a way-too-long hiatus, the Podfic Big Bang is back!

What is the Podfic Big Bang?
The Podfic Big Bang encourages participants to make podfics of epic length; 10,000 words or more. The 2025 Podfic Big Bang will run from today, January 1st, until March 31st.

You can find more details at the post on our Dreamwidth page here.

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#ITPE 2024 Masterlist

2024-12-27T23:19:02Z

Posted by: xdiorix

(If you'd like to see previous years' master lists, 2011 is here, 2012 is here, 2013 is here, 2014 is here, 2015 is here, 2016 is here, 2017 is here, 2018 is here, 2019 is here, 2020 is here, 2021 is here, 2022 is here, and 2023 is here.)

Happy 14th annual #ITPE/technically 1st Informal Tumblr Podfic Exchange!!!! Thank you for bearing with us in our switch to a new platform! We’ve had a few hiccups but now that we know where those are, future years will hopefully run much more smoothly!

Here’s some stats and highlights from this year’s #ITPE!

We had 81 participants this year, and you made 313 podfics (including some ~sekrit~ gifts not available on the masterlist) for a total run time of 140 hours, 59 minutes, and 4 seconds–that’s over FIVE DAYS of audio!

We have 4 simulpods this year! Which is less than we expected, given some of the niche fandoms and crossovers we matched y’all on, so congratulations on finding a diversity of fics to record! sunshineprincejeremyknox | flowerparrish and jeremyknox | kbirbpods were responsible for two of those simulpods, one which they gifted to each other and the other which they both gifted to the same person. eafay70 and tinybluebirdcloak both gifted the same fic to read-by-silverandblue. Finally, alliaskisthepossibilityoflove and rhea314 both recorded the same fic for different participants!

While #ITPE encourages participants to embrace the no-minimums, low-stress vibe, some of y’all do like to Do the Most, and we like to recognize extraordinary effort when we see it!

Opalsong, usually a notorious podfic robot, has had a lot going on this year in terms of school and was worried she would not be able to hit the productivity highs of previous years. So we, as mods, thought, “Great! We know what to do! We’ll match her with someone on one very specific OT3 that this recipient has been requesting for years, in a fandom not especially known for blanket permission, and that way Opal won’t feel compelled to make a bajillion podfics because the pool will be so small! We are solving so many problems with this match!” And we thought we were so clever! Only for Opalsong to find a 90k fanfic and turn in a 12 hour podfic. Well. We tried! But clearly Opalsong is going to Opalsong. <3

By far our most prolific gifter this year was sunshineprincejeremyknox | flowerparrish, who not only made 6 gifts for zir recipient (including a 4 hour podfic), but also 31 treats. Not far behind was mistbornhero who made 7 main gifts and 23 treats! jeremyknox | kbirbpods made 4 main gifts and 18 treats! We also had generous treaters in wanderingjedihistorian, reena-jenkins, blackestglass, pezzax, and wilfriede! Plus, honorable mentions to daisydiversions and Annapods for the 10 and 6 hour (respectively) podfics they made for their recipients!

Finally, we'd like to extend some thank you’s to:

-Data mod flowersforgraves for converting all the sign up data to airtable which makes matching so much easier.
-Asymptotical and Dragonflies_and_Katydids for creating the coding we used to generate distribution day templates.
-Everyone who offered to pinch hit, especially sunshineprincejeremyknox | flowerparrish and Jetainia, though thankfully we did not end up needing them to fulfill those pinch hits!
-And as always, exmanhater for ITPE’s permanent hosting

Now let’s get on to what you’re really here for…..the masterlist!! Here’s the masterlist spreadsheet for this year’s exchange!

Happy listening!!!

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Three Nine Worlds podfics

2024-12-14T16:25:31Z

Posted by: kalakirya

Title: Heart of Sorrow, Heart of Silver
Author: RoundedLoaf
Reader: kalakirya
Fandom: Nine Worlds
Pairings: none
Rating: teen and up
Summary: For the first time since the Fall, the Grand Duchess of Damara celebrates Silverheart with her family.
content notes: canonical Shallyr terribleness
Length: 00:16:10
text at AO3

download as an mp3 (many thanks to paraka <3)

Title: The End of Our Exploring
Author: yunitsa
Reader: kalakirya
Fandom: Nine Worlds
Pairings: Artorin Damara/Cliopher "Kip" Mdang
Rating: teen and up
Summary: In which I finally make my way home.
content notes: none
Length: 00:15:24
text at AO3

download as an mp3 (many thanks to paraka <3)

Title: A Letter
Author: breadandroses
Reader: kalakirya
Fandom: Nine Worlds
Pairings: Artorin Damara/Cliopher "Kip" Mdang
Rating: general audiences
Summary: A letter written in Gorjo City, on the occasion of the viceroyship ceremony.
content notes: none
Length: 00:08:00
text at AO3

download as an mp3 (many thanks to paraka <3)

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[podfic stats] primary microphone mini-survey & live(-ish) results

2024-12-01T16:02:54Z

Posted by: bluedreaming

There are often discussions about podficcer starter mics and what mics people use, but the results vary widely depending on who sees the question and responds. For instance, I feel like there's an impression that the Blue Snowball and Blue Snowball iCE are popular podficcer mics, but is that actually the case?

So, out of curiosity, I put together a mini-survery and simple results interface. If you're interested, you can find more information on podficmeta at primary microphone mini-survey & live(-ish) results. You can also jump right to the single-question mini-survey (Airtable form) or live(-ish) results (Airtable interface).

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Primary Hosting Site Poll

2024-10-13T19:05:17Z

Posted by: mistbornhero

archive.org has been down for a couple days and because of that, I feel like a lot of podfic has been down? I've been curious about how much of podfic has been down or gives the impression of being down because the streaming options don't work, even if your backup links still work. (I mean, even ao3 had to make an announcement post of only archive.org being down because of the embeds showing error messages)

I'm running the poll on tumblr because it's easily shared and quick for casting the vote on, it will be open for the whole week. If you don't have a tumblr but want to contribute for ✨stats✨ leave a comment with "no tumblr, but I use [option]" When it closes I'll make a pretty pie chart and edit this post to show it, so I'll add the numbers there.

If you've got a tumblr account, please vote here! You can also join the "podfic" community, which is a new tumblr feature, still in beta so a little wonky in places, but it might be worth joining if you ever want to open the site and see podfic things?

Here are the options as a numbered list! I got a lot of them from "A Breakdown of Podfic Hosting Options" by GodOfLaundryBaskets, so check out their post if you want to know more about any of them!

archive.org
self-hosting (includes paraka)
audiofic archive
file hosting site, allows < audio > streaming on ao3 (dropbox*, blackblaze)
file hosting site, streaming off ao3 (googledrive, dropbox*, box, mega.nz)
soundcloud
spotify
youtube
mediafire
github
other podcast site

If you, too, have Opinions TM, as a listener or a podficcer, on which ones are nice to use either for uploading or for listening on please comment on this post! I'd be interested!!

There's no general "other" option because I wanted to avoid things like "other - I don't podfic" comments

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The Podfic Big Bang returns! Soon!

2024-10-08T04:53:04Z

Posted by: kitsuneheart

It’s been too long! And that’s on mod Kit. But I’m back and ready to GO!

Now, the next Podfic Big Bang will not begin immediately. The plan is to establish a yearly schedule, and I also don’t like spanning years. So, we’re waiting for the new year! That gives you plenty of time to plan.

But, since it’s been a long time, perhaps you have some questions.

What?
The Podfic Big Bang is a scheduled event which asks podficcers to record, edit, and post podfics of epic length. At minimum, 10,000 words.

Who?
Anyone, in any fandom, can participate in the Podfic Big Bang, but please make sure you have permission to record your podfic of choice.

When?
The signup and start date will be January 1st, and the end date will be March 31st, with check-ins throughout.

Where?
Announcements and check-in posts will be made on Dreamwidth and Tumblr. Twitter will also be used for backup announcements, but will not be a primary communication tool. On March 15th, the AO3 collection will open for posting, though you are encouraged to post your podfic to the PBB Dreamwidth page, as well.

How?
Well, personally, I recommend recording a little bit every day. But you can also go wild and do the entire thing in a weekend. Just make sure you get some food, water, and sleep, huh?

Why?
Because we all like more podfic, but sometimes you want MOAR PODFIC.

Community
I recommend you join the PodfiChat Discord group. There are multiple discussion channels, including one just for project and fest discussions, which is where you can keep in touch with one-another outside of check-ins!

Rules

Minimum length: 10,000 words
- A multi-part series that adds up to 10,000 or more words is acceptable, but each part posted for PBB must not have been posted by you before. Multipods are always welcome!
- So, if you’ve posted part 1 of a series, you can do parts 2+ for PBB, but part 1 does NOT count towards the word total.
You may submit as many qualifying works as you wish.
Collaboration is okay, but please specify that you are on a team when signing up.

Schedule

Sign-ups begin: January 1st, 2025
Check-in #1: January 22, 2025
Check-in #2: February 12th, 2025
Check-in #3: March 5th, 2025
Collection opens: March 15th, 2025
Collection closes: March 31st, 2025

Check-ins
We highly recommend you participate in check-ins, whether on Dreamwidth, Tumblr, or Discord. However, you will not be disqualified for missing check-ins. This is casual, ya’ll.

Cover art
At check-in #3, a separate post will be made to the general Amplificathon Dreamwidth page, allowing podficcers to request art.

Posting guidelines
An AO3 collection for Podfic Big Bang 2025 will be opened on March 15th. This will be a REVEALED collection, so your podfic will appear once it’s posted, instead of waiting for the 31st. BUT, once the 31st is over (UTC time), the collection will close, and no further works will be accepted.

Want to talk to us directly?
The best way to contact Kitsune Heart is through Discord, particularly the PodfiChat Discord! She is user KitsuneHeart#8371.

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Chromatic Characters Podfic Anthology V!

2024-09-30T17:11:39Z

Posted by: xdiorix

This is the official post for the fifth annual Chromatic Characters Podfic Anthology! This year, the anthology contains 47 podfics featuring 62 characters of color read by 12 podficcers.

This year's optional theme was: family.

cover art by silverandblue

Listening options:

The Chromatic Characters Podfic Anthology V podbook, (m4b format, 63 kbps, 134 mb, 04:48:04), with chapter stops for individual podfics

A zip file (217 mb) with all the anthology podfics in mp3 format

A spreadsheet with direct audio links or links to the AO3 pages where you can download individual anthology podfics and leave feedback

Links to the text of the fics, where you can go to leave kudos and comments for the wonderful authors, can be found in the "comments" section in the metadata of each mp3 file as well as in the spreadsheet. Thank you to Avanie, godoflaundrybaskets, deepestbluesky, DevilWithABirdDress, and sunkitten_shash for technical beta. We also thank the 5 cultural sensitivity betas who lent their time and knowledge to this anthology.

The bonus collection for podfics longer than the maximum for the CCPA and/or extra submissions can be found here.

You can find the full AO3 collection for this year here. Please feel free to leave feedback/comments on this post! You can also follow the podficcers to their individual AO3 accounts to find more of their work:
blackglass, cosmicology, deepestbluesky, flowerparrish, godoflaundrybaskets, kbirb, LittleRedRobinHood, MistbornHero, pezzax, Rhea314, tipsy_kitty, and wilfriede0815.

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ITPE Platform Move Survey

2024-09-09T01:09:36Z

Posted by: xdiorix

Hello friends! As mentioned last ITPE, we are planning on hosting the exchange this year on a new platform and we'd like your input on what platforms you'd be willing to move to. A survey link is embedded in this doc about what we're looking to prioritize in the exchange & for a new platform. We've also compiled a list of pros/cons for various platforms. Please read through the doc first-- the link to the survey is at the end! Responses are open until the 17th https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x_5V6pBfdEXpSO9JyJTOsyEYCLgjS7xLKr8z-KkBp6k/pub

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The PokéPod Project: Signups Open

2024-08-17T17:34:37Z

Posted by: peasina

The PokéPod Project

Links: pokepodproject | pokepodproject | AO3 Collection | Writer Signup Form | Podficcer Signup Form

Hello! I'd love to share The PokéPod Project with you all. This is a collaborative event that aims to create a fic (between 100 - 1000 words) about each of the original 151 Pokémon plus a podfic (audiobook version) of each of those newly written stories. Once the project is complete, a podfic anthology will be created containing all 151 stories in Pokedex order. Please visit our DW or Tumblr linked above for more info about how this works. We would love you to join us!

Signups are now open for writers and podficcers.

Schedule

14 Aug: Writer & Podficcer Signups Open

25 Aug: Writer Signups Close

27 Aug: Latest writing assignments go out

17 Sep: Writing Deadline & Podficcer Signups Close

1 Oct: Podfic deadline (2 weeks creation period)

8 Oct: Anthology + Collection revealed

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Chromatic Characters Podfic Anthology V Planning!

2024-07-26T21:10:27Z

Posted by: xdiorix

Hello and welcome to the fifth round of the Chromatic Characters Podfic Anthology! As always, we’re collecting short podfics that center characters of color in different fandoms to release as an anthology and as a collection of individual files.

The Chromatic Characters Podfic Anthology aims to spotlight podfics that portray characters of color as full, multifaceted beings. We welcome podfics that are positive, happy, and fluffy as much as we do podfics where characters of color grapple with heavier themes. We value the beautiful complexity and diversity of people, identities, cultures, and experiences. We hope to promote the creation of more creative works (fannish or otherwise) that reflect these values.

This year's submission deadline is September 12th, and we will post on September 30th.

Our theme for this year's anthology is family. It's optional—all podfics are welcome as long as they follow the rules laid out in the Submission Guidelines—but feel free to let it inspire you if you'd like and to interpret it as broadly as you'd like (after all--family isn't just your blood!).

If you’d like to get a sense of this project, you can see the previous CCPA anthologies here, here, here, and here.

To Podficcers: Interested in participating? We'd love to have you. This should be a low-stress project, even for people who are new to podficcing, due to the word-count: 1500 words or less (with many being as short as 1-2 minutes.) If you'd like to record something for this anthology, please fill out this quick google form and we'll send you the link to the spreadsheet where we'll be keeping track of all the podfics.

Here are some good places for finding short fics about characters of color:
-The Character(s) of Color, Female Character of Color, LGBTQ Character of Color, or Male Character of Color tags at the AO3, limited to word counts of 1500 or less.
-The Dark Agenda Collection on AO3 (includes fanworks from Chromatic Yuletide, Chromatic Remix Redux, Kaleidoscope Fanwork Exchange, Kaleidoscope Treats, and Racebending Revenge)
-chromatic_fanfic
-The Chamber collection
-Chromaticvision drabble collection
-Seeing Color collection
-Marvel POC Characters Fanworks Exchange
-Awesome People of Colour are Awesome: Comment-a-thon on DW and the AO3 collection
-No White Saviors Allowed-- Challenges for The 100 Characters of Color
-Not Green or Blue ficathon for characters of color in comics

Since this project has a relatively quick turnaround time, you may want to refer to this database of authors who have posted blanket permission statements and/or install this browser extension that highlights all blanket permission authors from that database in green.

As an aid to encourage mindfulness when selecting stories for the anthology, we strongly recommend you to check out this resource from Writing With Color about common stereotypes and tropes in stories about characters of color. We would like to encourage thoughtful representation in the stories included in this anthology as much as possible.

To the Podcurious: A number of prolific podficcers have gotten their start by contributing to the Awesome Ladies Podfic Anthology, which this anthology is based on. If you have ever thought you might like to create podfic, this could be a really great starting place. It's low pressure, you'll get a lot of listeners, you're contributing to a cool fanwork that celebrates our love for characters of color, and it's not too intense of a spotlight, because your piece is in the company of many other voices.

To Everyone: Feel free to comment with links to other fests or specific works that you think would be a good fit for this anthology. Additionally, we are looking for technical beta listeners who can absolutely commit to at LEAST two hours of beta listening between September 13th and 20th to check for volume issues, errors and inconsistencies, metadata, etc. In addition, if you are a person of color who would be willing to lend their services as a contextual content beta (formerly known as cultural sensitivity listeners in previous years), please let us know if you'd be available and interested; we'd be very grateful!

To Participants and Contextual Content Betas: This year we'll be implementing the same matching process for contextual content betas as last year. If you're willing to provide your services as a contextual content beta, we'll ask you to provide a brief description of your background and what you feel confident in providing input on. We'll provide you access to the submission spreadsheet and you can let us know if there are any fandoms/characters/submissions you know you'll be comfortable beta-ing.

When the submission window closes, participants will also be asked to look over the briefs provided and let the mods know which content beta sounds like the best match for their submissions. As mods, we are not familiar with every character and fandom submitted and will be relying on participants to help us connect your submissions with the closest possible match. Contextual content betas check that submissions reflect the mission of the anthology. They are our "sniff tests." They help us by letting us know if there's anything about a submission that would give them pause about including it in an anthology celebrating characters of color. They are also a second set of eyes for content warnings. It's possible that your content beta won't be familiar with something in your submission. As the CCPA mod team values lived experience as the best source of knowledge, content betas may, at their discretion, offer additional cultural insight and guidance to the best of their ability.

To Authors: We've had some awesome authors get involved in the past, in pod_together style, to create short pieces for CCPA in collaboration with podficcers. If you’re an author who’s interested in writing for characters of color and is seeking podficcers to work with, feel free to comment below. Podficcers who would like this sort of collaboration, please reply directly to the authors.

Below you will find our rules and submission guidelines. If you have any additional questions, please let us know!

Basic Rules

Each reader can make up to 5 podfics to include in the anthology (though an unlimited number may be included in the spreadsheet/AO3 collection), and each story should be no more than 1500 words.
All stories should focus on characters of color, including racebent characters.
All fandoms, including rpf fandoms, are eligible.
All podfics should be submitted in mp3 format.
As long as it is still the day of the deadline anywhere on Earth, you are allowed to submit podfics.
Effects are fine, but please do not use intro or outro music in the version of the podfic you submit for the Anthology (just for the sake of time—it's usually hours long, so we'd like to keep each podficlet within it to the header info we requested, the words of the story, and "the end" in order to not expand the time further.) If you'd like to add in music to the version that you crosspost or that goes into the excel spreadsheet of individual podficlets, that's totally fine! In addition, if you'd like to include a podficcer freetalk about why you chose to record a particular story for the anthology, please feel free to include those on your individual AO3 posts!
Important note: Please make sure you read and follow the Submission Guidelines. It helps everything flow together much better, and it makes the mods' jobs so much easier!

Name: Title
Artist: readername (reader) & authorname (author)
Year: 2024
Album: Chromatic Characters Podfic Anthology V
Comments: Text at: http://link
Genre: Podfic
(Note: Capitalize reader and author names as they’re displayed on AO3; same goes for titles.)

[podfic meta] so! the infamous Read by the Author tag - by Elany

2024-06-22T19:40:34Z

Posted by: bluedreaming

This was shared by Elany/Elany on 20 June 2024 and posted on Dreamwidth with permission. I thought it was interesting!

So! The infamous Read by the Author tag, right.

I got curious about whether the state of that tag is really as bad as it seems, so I got some numbers from the past, well, technically past 20 years but past 2006-07 there's no works with that tag and even before then some were very likely backdated. Still, I'm including those also because 2015 marks an interesting shift.

tl;dr it's bad you guys lmao

► ( full post at podficmeta )

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DA2: A Detailed Accounting [...]

2024-06-12T22:24:18Z

Posted by: kalakirya

Title: A Detailed Accounting of the Rigorous and Remarkable Struggles Faced by One Fereldan Refugee in the Singularly Capricious City of Kirkwall, as Experienced by the Illustrious Author
Author: loquaciousquark
Reader: kalakirya
Fandom: Dragon Age 2
Pairings: Fenris/Female Hawke, Donnic Hendyr/Aveline Vallen
Rating: Mature
Summary: Hawke keeps a journal.
content notes: none
Length: 7:49:47
text at AO3

download as a zipped file of mp3s (many thanks to paraka <3)

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STREAMING

Chapter 1
Length: 0:23:55
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Chapter 2
Length: 0:13:40
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Chapter 3
Length: 0:20:20
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Chapter 4
Length: 0:21:12
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Chapter 5
Length: 0:25:21
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Chapter 6
Length: 0:19:01
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Chapter 7
Length: 0:14:19
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Chapter 8
Length: 0:20:26
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Chapter 9
Length: 0:20:21
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Chapter 10
Length: 0:19:34
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Chapter 11
Length: 0:18:56
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Chapter 12
Length: 0:18:49
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Chapter 13
Length: 0:19:32
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Chapter 14
Length: 0:20:07
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Chapter 15
Length: 0:19:20
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Chapter 16
Length: 0:16:26
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Chapter 17
Length: 0:24:32
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Chapter 18
Length: 0:18:29
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Chapter 19
Length: 0:22:47
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Chapter 20
Length: 0:21:51
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Chapter 21
Length: 0:26:57
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Chapter 22
Length: 0:43:42
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Out of the Auditary 2024!

2024-03-14T09:16:05Z

Posted by: sylvaine

Out of the Auditary returns for another year! This is a fest for podficcing works that don't fit into the "standard" fiction format, such as meta, not!fic, epistolary and chatfic, video game codes entries, fake scientific articles, poetry, and many more! Rules and details are here on AO3; submission deadline is April 29th! If you'd like examples as to what was created for this fest in previous years, check out the parent collection.

If you want to promo the fest, retweet this tweet, boost it on mastodon, reblog this tumblr post, or just copy & paste this code:

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five podfics: Word of Honor, Word of Honor RPF, Qi Ye

2024-03-12T04:19:52Z

Posted by: aethel

I've made too many podfics since the last time I posted here, so here are a few of the longer ones:

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Nine Worlds: with a winged heart

2024-01-28T01:05:26Z

Posted by: kalakirya

Title: with a winged heart
Author: celebros
Reader: kalakirya
Fandom: Nine Worlds / Lays of the Hearthfire
Pairings: Artorin Damara (aka Fitzroy Angursell)/Cliopher "Kip" Mdang
Rating: Explicit
Summary:

"Cliopher. Cliopher. Cliopher."

I blink. It's Conju, standing with his hands on my shoulders, and I go to answer him and realize that I am already speaking, babbling, and Franzel is behind him, wringing his hands and looking near tears. I try to focus on what I'm saying, but it's like a stream, light and splashing past me, too quick to hold, not enough to catch, somehow, somehow –

A few weeks before the start of the viceroyship ceremonies, Kip finds himself the unwitting recipient of a truth serum.

content notes: none
Length: 3:38:49
text at AO3

download zipped file of mp3s (many thanks to paraka <3) (streaming and download of individual chapters a little further down!)

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Streaming of individual chapters:

Chapter 1 (34:12)

Chapter 2 (28:53)

Chapter 3 (23:19)

Chapter 4 (33:24)

Chapter 5 (28:50)

Chapter 6 (1:19:58)

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Leading Ladies PodFest 2024

2024-01-25T23:41:56Z

Posted by: littleredrobinhood

Leading Ladies PodFest is a fest for short podfics celebrating female characters in the tradition of the Awesome Ladies Podfic Anthology.

Podfics and other audio works featuring any female character in any fandom are allowed. Works are encouraged to be less than 1500 words/15 minutes. The optional theme this year is "traditions".

The collection opens for posting on February 1st and all works will be revealed on February 29th.

Check out the AO3 collection for full rules and reach out here or on Tumblr with any questions!

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Nine Worlds: Darkness and Light

2024-01-21T16:57:28Z

Posted by: kalakirya

Title: Darkness and Light
Author: SunInGlory
Reader: kalakirya
Fandom: Nine Worlds / Lays of the Hearthfire
Pairings: Artorin Damara | Fitzroy Angursell/Cliopher "Kip" Mdang
Rating: Teen and up
Summary: Cliopher Mdang has been kidnapped and thinks he's going to die. His Radiancy is never going to let that happen.
content notes: n/a
Length: 0:16:47
text at AO3

download as an mp3 (many thanks to paraka <3)

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Nine Worlds: Emerald Truth, Three Ways

2024-01-21T01:49:53Z

Posted by: kalakirya

Title: Emerald Truth, Three Ways
Author: toffeecape
Reader: kalakirya
Fandom: Lays of the Hearthfire (subset of Nine Worlds)
Pairings: Artorin Damara | Fitzroy Angursell/Cliopher "Kip" Mdang, Adelia Ealoapeha/Cliopher "Kip" Mdang, Cliopher "Kip" Mdang & Conju an Vilius
Rating: Mature
Summary: Three ways truth serum could have been deployed during the Emerald Conspiracy case.
content notes: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Length: 0:47:31
Text at AO3

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