I've listened to Sam/Dean stories because FayJay read them, and I hate SPN.
And funnily enough, I, too, have listened to Sam/Dean stories because FayJay read them. So we both have that same 'follow-a-beloved-author' tendency: you across fandoms, me across media.
This whole discussion is really interesting to me. I love seeing everyone's different reasons for podfic love, and the idea of using podfic to get into stories you might not otherwise stick with is one I hadn't thought of.
It's funny, because I love pro audiobooks, and the idea of being able to listen to someone read to me while driving/working/whatever is definitely appealing. Just doesn't translate to fic for me. Maybe because my attitude towards fic consumption is differently emotionally invested somehow. Like it doesn't make much difference in how I process it if I read or listen to a non-fannish piece of writing, but when I read fanfic, I want to consume it some sort of different way.
Ultimately, I do think the visual/aural learning styles thing comes into it quite significantly, and I'm definitely a visual one on that spectrum. I want the thrill of scrolling down and discovering a particularly beautiful (or a particularly hot) turn of phrase as the dialogue unfolds, and that is a specifically *visual* thrill for me that I wouldn't get from someone else reading.
Interesting.
Thanks for posting this and getting discussion going. And for all your thoughts, too.
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And funnily enough, I, too, have listened to Sam/Dean stories because FayJay read them. So we both have that same 'follow-a-beloved-author' tendency: you across fandoms, me across media.
This whole discussion is really interesting to me. I love seeing everyone's different reasons for podfic love, and the idea of using podfic to get into stories you might not otherwise stick with is one I hadn't thought of.
It's funny, because I love pro audiobooks, and the idea of being able to listen to someone read to me while driving/working/whatever is definitely appealing. Just doesn't translate to fic for me. Maybe because my attitude towards fic consumption is differently emotionally invested somehow. Like it doesn't make much difference in how I process it if I read or listen to a non-fannish piece of writing, but when I read fanfic, I want to consume it some sort of different way.
Ultimately, I do think the visual/aural learning styles thing comes into it quite significantly, and I'm definitely a visual one on that spectrum. I want the thrill of scrolling down and discovering a particularly beautiful (or a particularly hot) turn of phrase as the dialogue unfolds, and that is a specifically *visual* thrill for me that I wouldn't get from someone else reading.
Interesting.
Thanks for posting this and getting discussion going. And for all your thoughts, too.