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[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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I agree with a lot of the previous commenters: the really awesome thing about podfic is that I can listen to it while commuting to uni or while doing stuff (like cleaning! my flat is so much cleaner since I discovered podfic! it's awesome). But there's another reason that I haven't seen mentioned so far.


While I'm generally less of an aural than a visual person and rather read a fic than listen to it, I've discovered that there are some fics that work better for me when podficced. This is partly because I'm one of those horrible people who have grammar squicks (like, a sentence that begins with a participle clause? it. breaks. my. brain) that bother me a lot when reading but not at all when listening to the same fic. There are other fics that I only like in the podficced version and I have no idea why. This also works the other way round, of course: there are fics that I love, but that don't do anything for me as podfic, and then there are those that I like in both formats. I find this endlessly interesting because - apart from my grammar quirks - I just cannot explain that phenomenon. I mean, it's still the same story, right? Except for how apparently it isn't. So, yeah, what I wanted to say with that is: with podfic I can enjoy stories I probably wouldn't have if I'd only read them and that's totally awesome.