Okay, I keep coming back to this post and trying to decide what to do, and I have decided that, yes, I will give my blessing to use my work as a negative example.
But I will also say that I am fairly sensitive about podfic, which is, after all, my own voice and my own acting skills, such as they are. Getting better about it, but still not at all thick-skinned. And so if possible, I would prefer that if somebody does use me as a negative example, they do it gently, just trying to keep my feelings in mind as much as possible while still making their point. Wording matters a lot to me, and even though I conceptually know that one person's opinion isn't the end of the world and that even if they are right about one problem with my readings that doesn't mean they think I totally suck, etc., I kind of feel like I need the extra gentleness and carefulness in wording in order to *feel* that as well as intellectually know it.
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But I will also say that I am fairly sensitive about podfic, which is, after all, my own voice and my own acting skills, such as they are. Getting better about it, but still not at all thick-skinned. And so if possible, I would prefer that if somebody does use me as a negative example, they do it gently, just trying to keep my feelings in mind as much as possible while still making their point. Wording matters a lot to me, and even though I conceptually know that one person's opinion isn't the end of the world and that even if they are right about one problem with my readings that doesn't mean they think I totally suck, etc., I kind of feel like I need the extra gentleness and carefulness in wording in order to *feel* that as well as intellectually know it.