Ao3 and Podfic Tags
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Was doing some research into the podfic tags on ao3 and wanted to get down some thoughts with what I found.
Disclaimer: Obviously these are just all suggestions. You are free to tag, or not tag, your work as you see fit. This is just outlining (1) how the parent tags work and (2) what are some common tags I see people using for podfic.
Podfic Availability
Most podficcers use the ao3 tags “Podfic” or “Podfic & Podficced Work” tags. What I’d suggest is actually using the “Podfic” tag. How Ao3′s tagging system works is there are parent tags and sub set tags.
For this example, I’ll just use the tags that are relevant to podfic fandom:
If you filter works via the “Podfic & Podficced Works” tag, you will get anything that has been directly tagged with “Podfic & Podficced Works” but also anything tagged with Podfic, Podfic Anthology, Read by the Author, OR Podfic Available.
Conversely, if you filter works via the “Podfic” tag, you will ONLY see fics tagged with the “Podfic” tag and not anything that got solo tagged with “Podfic & Podficced Works” or things like “Podfic Avaliable”.
TLDR;
Permission to Podfic
Permission to podfic has been traditionally an area of much discussion. As a podficcer, I’d love if everyone had a transformative works statement: whether it’s no, or yes please!, or even just “I’d rather be asked for each fic.”
If you want examples fanlore has a ton of them: https://fanlore.org/wiki/Blanket_Permission_to_Podfic
There’s not a great way in AO3 to search if someone has Blanket Permission (BP) or not; we’ve had people in the community try and solve this problem. There’s a great list of people with entries in the fanlore article about BP, but also had people within the community develop tools like https://www.fpslist.org.
Adding BP is most commonly done on your ao3 profile. I’d encourage you, even if you don’t think anyone would ever want to podfic your story, please add your own transformative work statement! Since Ao3 doesn’t currently have an easy way for us to tell if you’re open to podfic, adding a BP statement is a small thing you can do contribute to the infrastructure of podfic as a whole.
There are also some additional tags you could add to the work itself to encourage podfic:
The nice things about these is instead of searching by author, this allows us to filter per work and find ones that have BP. Normally searching by author might tell you what fandoms they have written for (via fpslist.org) but it won’t tell you: characters, tropes, warnings, or anything else.
I mean, personally, I’ve literally podficing a story because it had that tag.
Other Podfic Tags
A couple other podfic tags I've seen used around (or I'm personally trying to make happen, lol) that don't seem to be under the umbrellas mentioned above:
Was doing some research into the podfic tags on ao3 and wanted to get down some thoughts with what I found.
Disclaimer: Obviously these are just all suggestions. You are free to tag, or not tag, your work as you see fit. This is just outlining (1) how the parent tags work and (2) what are some common tags I see people using for podfic.
Podfic Availability
Most podficcers use the ao3 tags “Podfic” or “Podfic & Podficced Work” tags. What I’d suggest is actually using the “Podfic” tag. How Ao3′s tagging system works is there are parent tags and sub set tags.
For this example, I’ll just use the tags that are relevant to podfic fandom:
If you filter works via the “Podfic & Podficced Works” tag, you will get anything that has been directly tagged with “Podfic & Podficced Works” but also anything tagged with Podfic, Podfic Anthology, Read by the Author, OR Podfic Available.
Conversely, if you filter works via the “Podfic” tag, you will ONLY see fics tagged with the “Podfic” tag and not anything that got solo tagged with “Podfic & Podficced Works” or things like “Podfic Avaliable”.
TLDR;
- “Podfic & Podficced Works”: use this if you’re searching for podfic. It should pull up all works that have already been podficced. But unfortunately will also pull up all the other child tags to so it might not only be podfic. Some people use this to mark podfic though so you might pick up some others that aren't in the "Podfic" tag :/
- “Podfic”: use this if you’re posting podfic. It will be slightly more specific and if people use the simple podfic tag to search, you’ll show up. If they use the above “Podfic & Podficced Works” tag, you will also show up!
- “Podfic Available”: if someone has posted a podfic of your text, you can use this to indicate that someone has already podfic’d your story! Awesome!
Permission to Podfic
Permission to podfic has been traditionally an area of much discussion. As a podficcer, I’d love if everyone had a transformative works statement: whether it’s no, or yes please!, or even just “I’d rather be asked for each fic.”
If you want examples fanlore has a ton of them: https://fanlore.org/wiki/Blanket_Permission_to_Podfic
There’s not a great way in AO3 to search if someone has Blanket Permission (BP) or not; we’ve had people in the community try and solve this problem. There’s a great list of people with entries in the fanlore article about BP, but also had people within the community develop tools like https://www.fpslist.org.
Adding BP is most commonly done on your ao3 profile. I’d encourage you, even if you don’t think anyone would ever want to podfic your story, please add your own transformative work statement! Since Ao3 doesn’t currently have an easy way for us to tell if you’re open to podfic, adding a BP statement is a small thing you can do contribute to the infrastructure of podfic as a whole.
There are also some additional tags you could add to the work itself to encourage podfic:
- “Podfic Welcome” tag (2,897 works): https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Podfic%20Welcome
- “Blanket Permission” tag (2,046 works): https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Blanket%20Permission
The nice things about these is instead of searching by author, this allows us to filter per work and find ones that have BP. Normally searching by author might tell you what fandoms they have written for (via fpslist.org) but it won’t tell you: characters, tropes, warnings, or anything else.
I mean, personally, I’ve literally podficing a story because it had that tag.
Other Podfic Tags
A couple other podfic tags I've seen used around (or I'm personally trying to make happen, lol) that don't seem to be under the umbrellas mentioned above:
- Podfic Length: X-Y
- Audio Format: Z
- Podfic Collaboration
- Multivoice
- Bloopers (has not yet been canonized)
- Experimental Style
- Sound Effects
- Podfic Cover Art
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Date: 2019-11-09 10:59 pm (UTC)