Fandom Secrets

[paraka]

Over at LJ's fandomsecrets someone made a podfic secret (thanks to brimtoast for the link).

I'm really curious as to what others in the podfic community think of it, it's had some very mixed reactions in the thread I linked to above.

Comments

[paraka]

idk. I don't say things like "I'll be in my bunk" but I do say things like "that was hot" without meaning I found it arousing.
Hmm, that's interesting to me. Because, for me, I would have to find something arousing on some level before I would call something hot.

Like, yeah, you might not literally be laughing when you type LOL, but you are conveying that you found it amusing, even if it's not so extreme as to cause you to laugh out loud. But you wouldn't say LOL in response to something that wasn't humourous at all, would you?

I don't know, maybe I'm just too literal of a person.

[torachan]

Well, I don't tend to get phsycially aroused from reading, but I like the word hot to describe well-written, interesting sex that I find appealing. So I don't really see it as any different to me saying I found a fic funny, but I never laughed or smiled. Just because it didn't provoke a physical response doesn't mean I didn't appreciate it.

Anyway, I also meant to add before that I actually was in fandom for many years before I realised people actually jerked off reading fanfic, so!