Well, as it's my project, I guess I should answer.
I haven't read the whole thread on the anonmeme, I don't need that kind of stress in my life.
I actually don't care if people don't like podfic. I think they're missing out, but hey, I don't like fic about tentacles, so.
This was something I had wanted to try for a long time, and five of my friends were kind enough to indulge me. The fic will in face be posted as text in a month, as was made clear at every point along the way. People can either wait, or not wait and forget about it. It's not like I track downloads, and I'm zen with podfic not getting a lot of comments so it's not likely that I'd notice either way if people did dl the recording or wait for the text version.
I did Spring Fling because I wanted to try something new, and because I'm irritated by the way podfic artists are seen sometimes as nothing more that human screen readers. I stand by by I did it. Interestingly no one has come to me with any of the concerns expressed in the meme. If they had, I could have told them my reasons, and pointed out that once to month is over authors are free to promote the hell out of their fics whereever they chose, so they wouldn't miss out.
Apologies if any of this sounds bullish or aggressive. I'm operating on a severe sleep deficit and I have many 20 minuts of internet time all day today and I don't have time to phrase and rephrase everything. If you click the spring fling tag in my journal you can find a post where I talk a bit more about my reasoning.
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I haven't read the whole thread on the anonmeme, I don't need that kind of stress in my life.
I actually don't care if people don't like podfic. I think they're missing out, but hey, I don't like fic about tentacles, so.
This was something I had wanted to try for a long time, and five of my friends were kind enough to indulge me. The fic will in face be posted as text in a month, as was made clear at every point along the way. People can either wait, or not wait and forget about it. It's not like I track downloads, and I'm zen with podfic not getting a lot of comments so it's not likely that I'd notice either way if people did dl the recording or wait for the text version.
I did Spring Fling because I wanted to try something new, and because I'm irritated by the way podfic artists are seen sometimes as nothing more that human screen readers. I stand by by I did it. Interestingly no one has come to me with any of the concerns expressed in the meme. If they had, I could have told them my reasons, and pointed out that once to month is over authors are free to promote the hell out of their fics whereever they chose, so they wouldn't miss out.
Apologies if any of this sounds bullish or aggressive. I'm operating on a severe sleep deficit and I have many 20 minuts of internet time all day today and I don't have time to phrase and rephrase everything. If you click the spring fling tag in my journal you can find a post where I talk a bit more about my reasoning.