fandom snowflake challenge Day 14

[kaixo]

Day 14

In your own space, create your own challenge. Whatever your challenge is, and have fun with it! Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

For writers, I just want to challenge yourself to put a transformative statement on your work, tbh. Have a think if it's going to be yes, no, or maybe, then make a decision.

My friend is outchere looking for fics in a fandom to podfic. Out of 125 fics on her spreadsheet, none have transformative statements. Come on, writers, we need to do better.

Comments

[analise010]

As her co-podficcer, also searching for fics, I AGREE WITH THIS SENTIMENT.

P.S. To all those here from Snowflake Challenge - You can also make a transformative works statement if you are NOT a writer. If you don't think that you have anything transformable, YOU DO! If you don't think these statements are important, THEY ARE.

[mekare]

Thanks to analise010 I already did this last year :-)

[kiki_eng]

Yeah, I think some writers don't get how important that permission statement is, and having someone make a transformative work of yours is like the best comment and compliment ever.

Thanks again, for challenging people to this.

[sophinisba]

Thank you for this post!

[spikedluv]

I did this because of a previous Snowflake!

[itsadrizzit]

Thanks for this post and for continuing to be a champion of the cause. It's frustrating for me to finally be in a large-ish fandom and STILL not be able to find fic that has any sort of transformative works statement. I think it's getting a lot more visibility and more authors are giving statements than ever before, but clearly there's still a lot of work to do about spreading the word.

Thanks to all the people that responded to this post and said you've done this. I appreciate it greatly as it makes my life as a podficcer much easier and means I can find a fic today and record it tomorrow if I want without having to wait for someone to get back to me or feeling like I'm bothering an author by sending them messages across platforms.

I also appreciate the perspectives here. It's not incorrect to say that someone creating a podfic of your work is a rec of sorts, because it can be, but very few (if any) people making transformative works do it to make the author happy (unless the author happens to be a friend of yours). Certainly I have podficced things just because I loved the fic so much and I needed to record it and share it and spend more time with it, but podfic takes TIME, which is something I think isn't often spoken about. It's not as though I just read a story, decide to record it, read it into a microphone for half an hour, then post it. It's hours of my life spent recording, editing, re-recording (sometimes), adding music/effects sometimes, making cover art, uploading, creating a post...it's an effort so if I'm going to do it it might be as a thanks to the author for a story or a recommendation, sure, but it's also because I wanted to create my own art with it, and I don't want people to lose that perspective.

Anyway, as someone who is accumulating a list of things to podfic and NONE of them has a transformative works statements, thanks for the advocacy and I ask all of you with statements and all of you reading this to share this with your friends so we can spread the word across fandom and hopefully help out our fellow fen.

[siberian_skys]

I finally lit a fire under my butt and got this done earlier today. I don't know why I've been dragging my feet. I found other peoples's comments on your post interesting. I didn't realize just how many opinions there are on this. I fall strongly on the ask first side of things, but reading other peoples' opinions on this has me re-thinking my position. For now I'm leaving my transformative statement as is, but that may change down the line. Your post and the other responses to it have given me a lot to think about.

[lilly_c]

My transformative work policy is here

Well ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

I have part of one anyway.

[silveradept]

Where would a good place be to stick it? I've added something to my AO3 profile about all of my works. Should they also brew on each individual bit?