amplificathon

this year's amplificathon yielded a staggering one hundred fifty-eight hours, forty-five minutes, and thirty-four seconds of new podfic. because we weighted points for recording times this year, the top winners were rewarded for that massive productivity--but we thought that the top number of hours produced by someone outside the points-based winners circle was worth notice as well. strictly speaking, twilight_angel was the third most prolific reader this year. she read eleven hours, twenty minutes, and forty-one seconds worth of podfic!

twilight_angel!! in your honor:

the secret life of scientists, by julad
sga, mckay/zelenka
read by aphelant
download the mp3 (archive entry coming soon) (0:57:34, 51.6 MB)


and, for bragging, two beautiful winner graphics, by fish_echo and parisindy!!! feel free to hotlink!

we're working away on prizes for all of our various and sundry winners, but first, the prizes for everyone! an assortment of lovely participant banners, donated by cybel, parisindy, and raz0rgirl!

( this way to the badges of honor! )

so one of the aims of the amplificathon was to introduce diversity into the podfic available in fandom. we mostly did that by pushing for more fandoms - the happy accident was diversity in story types. most ficathons have a 1,000 word minimum - which means that a lot of the rare pairings are mostly short stories, ficlets, and drabbles, topping off at around 1,000 to 2,000 words. most of the podfics recorded prior to this challenge were much, much longer than that. i mean honestly, you can't swing a cat without hitting an epic in spn and sga. that makes it a little tough to let readers or listeners dip into the format, and the amount of time commitment for anything over 4,000 words gets crazy fast, and approaches exponential at some point (yes, i once recorded a nineteen hour long podfic. i had to do a lot of wacky and improbable things to make that possible, and i try not to think about how much working time it actually took. if we want more podfic in the world, that isn't a sustainable model). short fics are manageable and actually help reflect the reality of the extant written fics! okay, i'm not sure i'm making sense, but: <3.

one of the beauties of a drabble or ficlet is the economy of words, and the demonstration of the skill it takes to convey a story in a tiny space. pulling the reader into your universe for half a breath at a time. reading those stories is a challenge, and i think it's pretty awesome that people were willing to give it a shot.

leviticus_lied managed the very shortest of these palm-of-the-hand stories, at 47 seconds (she had a close competitor at 50 seconds!)




leviticus_lied's prizes include the lovely graphic seen above, donated by trialia, the lovely graphic seen below, donated by raz0rgirl,and a read-to-order podfic donated by dodificus.




title: coffeemaker fettucine and a silver ring
author: thehighwaywoman
fandom: spn rps, jared/jensen
click to download (32.6 MB)
running time - 30:08


\o/ YAY leviticus_lied! \o/

thank you and congratulations!

you know what we love, hereabouts? new readers. a high percentage of participants were new readers from the start, and we expected and encouraged that. seeing all of the late entrants was a fantastic thing as well, but i have to admit that we didn't really promote the challenge much after it started, and we didn't manage to figure out a way to reward participants for seducing new readers in to podficcing. as a consequence, the late entrants came in to an ongoing challenge as outsiders. that takes extra fortitude, and it's awesome.

but anyhow. you know what we especially love? people who finally talk themselves into trying podfic two weeks before the end of the challenge with no expectation of winning anything, who then manage to place fourth. :D

malnpudl's first post was made on may 25, in the last two weeks of the challenge. she managed to earn two hundred and fifty-two points, and the fashionably late award!




malnpudl's prizes include the lovely graphic seen above, donated by liviapenn, and a read-to-order podfic donated by kinseyx. (this podfic will be privately delivered.)



\o/ YAY malnpudl! \o/

thank you and congratulations!

yay! okay, we're off to a good start, and i'm about to enter the first points in the big point chart!

but first! busaikko was good enough to make us a variation on the promo graphic, and kind enough to allow us all to share it.


html for posting: <img src="http://jinjurly.com/img/amplipromobusaikko.jpg" alt="because sometimes you want to read hands free">

yeah.