Would you be delighted to have your fics recorded into podfics (aka audio versions of your words)?
You can tell us in a permission statement!
Does the idea of your words being turned into a pod churn your stomach and make you want to hide in the forest (ie you DON’T give permission)?
You can tell us in a permission statement!
Do you have boundaries, are some works a yes and some a no? Do you like the idea of art but no pods or pods but no translations?
You can tell us in a permission statement!
Who is ‘Us’?
We’re like the cool weird aunts (gn) at your family reunion that few people listen to and even fewer respond to, but we continue to be cool and weird despite the radio silence because we know that there are other cool, weird aunts around that get excited about the same things we do.
We’re pocket friends who are deep in your fandoms and already enamoured with your words; and we’re internet randos who go squirrelling for food, fandom blind, so that we can record it for team challenges. We’re fans who wish our favourite fics were audiobooks so we could listen to them over and over on our daily commute, or in the bath, or when we’re hiding from the world under a weighted blanket.
We’re people who want to turn eyeball cake into earball cake, and we need to know if your bakery is open. (Not a euphemism. Unless…?)
Okay, weird aunt, so what IS a permission statement?
It’s a sentence or three in your ao3 (or other) profile that tells other creatives where you stand about related works.
Here is a great post with more detail and here is an example of mine:
I love podfics, fan art and translations, and I’d die of happy if one of my fics has moved you to create.
It’s a blanket yes from me for art and podfics - but I like to be asked on a case-by-case basis for translations (unless we know each other outside of ao3 then go forth and do your thing). Please ask in a comment on the fic! I read all my comments and will respond.
(And PLEASE, whether we know each other or not, share your creation w me so I can die of happy, as per above, and so I can share your work in kind!)
If creating your own seems too hard, and my bakery matches your bakery, feel free to copy and paste.
That’s it!
If I’ve encouraged you to make a permission statement regarding your own works please let me know in the next *checks watch* three days so I can get some extra cool weird aunty points for a cool, weird team challenge xx
