dekedangle_rpfanon | #11 - Kopitar Prefers Amps That Go to Eleven

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Yeah, I give blanket permission because I genuinely don't care if people podfic my work if they get enjoyment out of doing so, but I feel awkward about it because I will never, ever listen to it.

I would listen to a podfic of my work if it doesn't involve a player that has an accent because a lot of accents make me cringe when I hear people try to do them, and if the work they choose to podfic isn't an explicit one. explicit podfics just make me feel like i'm having one sided phone sex with a stranger...

I wish podficcers in this fandom would stop doing Geno's accent. It's awful and othet newbie podficcers pick it up.

da

Your description made me laugh, nonny, because I so heartily agree.

Not that I'm anti-podfic in general, especially as an accessibility issue, because blind fans need porn too, and better it be read by an actual person who understands what they're saying rather than a computer program.

You don't need to be blind to enjoy podfic... I personally listen to it on long car trips.

this is pretty much exactly why i hate it. i come from a family who can't stand prolonged silence and hate to read, and my entire childhood was one long noisefest wherein the radio or tv was always on and, on the off chance books happened, they needed to be in the form of excruciating recordings that just. never. stopped. car trips were the pinnacle of this kind of torture. i'm sorry i want to read my book in speedy silence, family >:(

DA
I can't read in the car because I get wicked car sick! I haven't been on a trip with my family in a while but we would often listen to audiobooks in the car, and I liked it because you can listen to it if you want, but it's easier to tune out than music, imo.

it wasn't just in cars.

DA

Fuck, I wish I could read in cars. You're lucky if you can read in cars, anon. I so much as try for a minute and I'm already nauseated. This is also why I hate public transportation and am dreading the inevitable self-driving car revolution.

Fucking severe motion sickness.

it wasn't just in cars.

sa

also, a big part of it was that i never got to pick what was listened to, so it was like a double insult. not only do you not get the noise level you prefer, but the noise you would have hated anyway is now going to be filled with the biography of my favorite racist shithead politician! take those earbuds out, young lady, hdu insult preferences that aren't your own!

....lol it might be time for me to just go to bed :(

I identify so hard with this. I was raised by my grandmother who had every TV in her house on at top volume 24/7 and tuned to either Fox News or some creepy televangelist program, and if she ever found one of them turned off, even if she hadn't been in the room in ages, she'd get angry and sometimes even violent. As an adult, I consider the greatest possible luxuries on the planet to be 1) beautiful, blessed silence and 2) getting to choose what noise happens in my life.

I can read in cars but I'm always the one driving and it's a solo trip if I'm listening to an audio book so...

Audio fiction and podcasts are also great for doing chores, or while you work if your job involves something with your hands and not a ton of thought. I have a friend who has a repetitive assembly job and she goes through TONS of audiobooks and podcasts all the time.

Also, some people read slower than an audiobook or podfic reader does.

Also, some people read slower than an audiobook or podfic reader does.

I find that hard to believe. Citations, please.

NAYRT but maybe those people could be ESL and they're better at listening than reading?

ayrt

Uh, I hereby cite a guy I dated in college, for whom this was true? WTF?

The average adult reading speed is 250-300 wpm. That's the average, meaning many people are faster and many people are slower. The recommended audiobook reading speed is 150-160 wpm. Taken from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_per_minute#Reading_and_comprehension .

Given those numbers, it's not inconceivable that some people below the average are at or below audiobook speed.

NA

I'm not disputing that it's possible to read more slowly than a podfic, but this seems like a really disingenuous defense of podfic in a community pretty much defined by its interest in reading. Like, if you love listening to podfic, that's cool, but the idea that fandom spaces are overrun by people with below average reading ability is just ridiculous.

da

First, just because you have an interest in books and stories doesn't mean you're fast at reading. Those are not at all the same thing.

Second, this subthread is about the utility of audiobooks generally, not podfics specifically. It has been for several dozen comments now.

Third, podfic doesn't need "defending." It's a fannish activity people engage in, an amateur version of audiobooks, with most of the same bugs and features. There is nothing in that that requires defending from anyone.

Fourth, no one anywhere has said anything about fandom spaces "being overrun" by people who read slowly (much less having "below average reading ability," which isn't the same as reading slowly, either, and equating the two is weird and kind of screwed up). Don't strawman, dude. Again, this was suggested as one of many possible reasons people might be interested in audiobooks, and podfic by extension.

nayrt, but in this thread people have been equating audiobooks with podfics, getting defensive of audiobooks/podfics all over the place, and someone upthread literally offered reading more slowly than an audiobook/podfic as a reason those things are so useful. so maybe fandom is overrun with poor reading comprehension after all...

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NAYRT

The friend I spoke about who was dyslexic is now in a philosophy PhD program, so like, again. You can be bad at literally reading without being disinterested in reading. That is a thing that is possible. No one is saying that the community is overrun with such people, but there probably are some of them and why should it bother anyone who doesn't care about audiobooks/podfic that people are creating resources for them/each other?

da

Heh, I also have a dyslexic friend in a philosophy PhD program. And he's a big fan of audiobooks!

why should it bother anyone who doesn't care about audiobooks/podfic that people are creating resources for them/each other?

Maybe because those "resources", at least in fandom, are based off of other people's work that they potentially don't want to exist in that format?

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