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paraka ([personal profile] paraka) wrote in [community profile] podficmeta 2011-05-13 11:29 am (UTC)

Yes, I do. Based on the question, the context of the discussion, and every podfic I've ever listened to. If there is no text version, the question doesn't make sense and we are talking about something altogether different.

Actually, the question reads: 2) If a story only ever gets posted as podfic, are you keeping something from people who prefer text?
No where in there does it say that there's a text version in existence, it simply says "story" which can just as easily imply a verbal story as a textual one. So this question totally makes sense if we're talking about stories without a text version.

And yes, historically most podfic/audiofic has been based on a story with a pre-existing text, however as [personal profile] busaikko pointed out (and as I suggested in my previous comment) that's not always the case. It may not be a common occurrence (at the moment) but making sweeping statements as you, and others in this discussion, have done ignores those exceptions. And unfortunately those kinds of sweeping statements have a habit of becoming a "fandom rule" and people feel they can't break them later on so I think it's important not to forget these uncommon occurrences.

And yet you bring exactly the same arguments
OK, and this is where I admit that I have never actually run across any zine wank (I was thinking about zines and hold back the online release of fic when I said I thought about zines) so can't actually speak to the wank side of the zine debate.

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