podfic

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Fan fiction read aloud and made into audio files available for streaming or download.

   • While smaller percentages (5 to 25 percent) participate in creating or listening to podfic (audio recordings of fan fiction), filk (fan music), or fan mixes (music playlists tailored to a source or fan work), […]
   • […] they may role-play; they may craft collaborative narratives via blogs or microblogging sites such as Twitter, perhaps writing from the point of view of a character; they may record their stories as podfic; […]
2. 2

   An individual work of recorded fanfic.

   • Creating and distributing fan videos, podfics (audiorecorded fan fiction), and filk (fandom-specific songs) required considerable expertise and complicated, expensive technology in the 1980s and even the 1990s.
   • All types of fan works were auctioned: fiction, digital art, videos, podfics, and fan labor including betaing (i.e., reading and editing) or translating stories.

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