Go! Tell it on the mountain!

[zvi]

fandomfan asks what's so great about podfic?. I'm not sure that it's particularly useful to have that discussion with someone for whom the mere concept hits her embarrassment squick, but, in the more general case, why do you like podfic? Why do you like listening to it, why do you like making it, why do you like manipulating it (if you make covers or podbooks or work on one of the archives), why do you like teaching other people to do it, why do you like discussing it here?

And, even more so, what do you say when someone who doesn't already get it asks these questions?

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[dodificus]

You do indeed resemble that remkark:D

Anyway what I meant was, it doesn't shatter any mental construction I have of the world/characters I'm otherwise reading about; it doesn't break a fourth wall or disperse a visualisation, cos I wasn't having those anyway when I was reading.

Yes, exactly! I don't tend to visualise that much when I read, although for different reasons than you. So nothing is hardwired in my brain that's going to be shattered if I listen to a podfic, it's always *adding* something to the experience, not taking away.

I'm sure I could say more about what I like, but my bed (and my lulling podfic!) is waiting. *g*

Listening to podfic in bed is the *best*.