Yeah, I guess what makes podfic different from fanfic is that someone's voice would be more likely to get a person-who-knows-them-in-RL's attention (in an "I know someone who sounds kinda like that") way, and if it got their attention enough, they could go to that person's journal and confirm. I think most of the time, if someone googled a person's fandom username with enough dedication, they could find enough hints about where the person lived, when the person's birthday was, etc., that they could confirm their suspicions, or at least make them a lot more solid.
It would take a decent amount of effort on the part of the person investigating, but I see how it is possible, even for me, to get discovered for podfic, not *solely* through voice, but through a combination of voice and other small clues.
EXACTLY.
And, you know, who I am in RL is very much the same as who I am online - just, online it includes some NC17 bits in the fanfic I read and write - and that's the stuff that could totally bite me in the ass. But my interests, my writing style, my speech patterns, my humour - I mean, IF somebody were at the point of thinking "Shit, that sounds like Fay! And this is the kind of thing she would totally do..." and started playing detective, I think I'd be buggered. Everyone knows I love to read, write, act etc, and that I'm an internet geek, and podficcing is a combination of these things. Hell, I do this kind of reading-aloud-to-groups performance fairly often in the course of my job (just last week I was reading 'The Not So Jolly Roger' with great fervour and much brandishing-of-invisible-cutlasses and "ARRRRRR"-ing. It was awesome).
My RL/Fannish identity situation isn't some kind of Clark Kent/Superman thing. In RL, I'm pretty much exactly the same, only in technicolour (which in my case means looking like the bastard-child-of-Mary-Poppins-and-Doctor-Who, wielding parasols and colour-co-ordinated fans and singing absent-mindedly to jazz standards. Also, acting in the local community theatre productions in a variety of capacities - currently in a production which involves wearing nothing but a bath towel. Low profile just ain't part of my mission statement).
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It would take a decent amount of effort on the part of the person investigating, but I see how it is possible, even for me, to get discovered for podfic, not *solely* through voice, but through a combination of voice and other small clues.
EXACTLY.
And, you know, who I am in RL is very much the same as who I am online - just, online it includes some NC17 bits in the fanfic I read and write - and that's the stuff that could totally bite me in the ass. But my interests, my writing style, my speech patterns, my humour - I mean, IF somebody were at the point of thinking "Shit, that sounds like Fay! And this is the kind of thing she would totally do..." and started playing detective, I think I'd be buggered. Everyone knows I love to read, write, act etc, and that I'm an internet geek, and podficcing is a combination of these things. Hell, I do this kind of reading-aloud-to-groups performance fairly often in the course of my job (just last week I was reading 'The Not So Jolly Roger' with great fervour and much brandishing-of-invisible-cutlasses and "ARRRRRR"-ing. It was awesome).
My RL/Fannish identity situation isn't some kind of Clark Kent/Superman thing. In RL, I'm pretty much exactly the same, only in technicolour (which in my case means looking like the bastard-child-of-Mary-Poppins-and-Doctor-Who, wielding parasols and colour-co-ordinated fans and singing absent-mindedly to jazz standards. Also, acting in the local community theatre productions in a variety of capacities - currently in a production which involves wearing nothing but a bath towel. Low profile just ain't part of my mission statement).