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Total Podfic Year over Year
Well, my stats really feel like they reflect the burnout I've been going through, particularly in 2024 and 2025. I've got a nice little bell curve going on. It's been a big struggle to do things, particularly outside events. And I even had to cut back on events this year, which was good since I barely had energy to finish the ones I was in.
But I didn't have any defaults and I'm in a new job and hopeful I'll be able to start addressing the burnout in my irl life that will let me get back to fandom. While I was grabbing the stats it really felt like "wow, I used to podfic for fun outside of events" because it really has dropped for me outside of big events like voiceteam or pod_together.
I knew I was missing 2024 and 2025 from my spreadsheet. As I was wrapping up getting 2024 in it... I discovered a bunch of data missing for 2023... and then I found that I had only filled in like half of 2022... Whoops. I did a LOT of spreadsheet-ing this week.
Charts
The first two charts are just my hours/number of podfics per year. I don't think I'll ever get as high as 2020 again (at least not in the near future), but I was thinking about 70 hours was going to be sustainable for me and what I'd level out at... not so much.
Ratings of my Podfics
A lot of my other stats are pretty similar and haven't changed year over year on like "what kind of fic am I reading". This is the percentage by number of podfics per year. it's always kept about 10% in the NSFW range, and 90% in gen and sfw topics.
Though when you look at it by the % of the hours I've podfic'd you do see that part of the reason for this is that when I do record a NSFW pod, it tends to be a long one and there's a lot more variance. Like my Mature/Explicit percentage suddenly jumps to nearly 30-40% of what I record.
Category of my podfics
Simiarly patterns can be seen in the category (gen vs m/m vs f/m). This is where I really show I'm a gen podficcer lmao. I usually have a good chunk that is also M/M as most of my ships are in that category. But I will take a fic without romance over all of them and that hasn't really ever changed lmao.
It fluctuates again a bit as we look at number of hours record instead of number of podfics. It's a lot harder to find long fics that don't have ships and I also really love long fics. But still, I usually have just about 1/2 of my total hours record as gen fic.
Podfics During Events
Looking at it a different way, I've also noticed, the only time I can get motivated is during an event. And you can really see that reflected in these stats as well. The blue that doesn't have a label is the podfic I created for without an event going on.
So in 2022, 36% of my podfics (going by hours recorded) happened outside events.2023 had even more created outside events at almost 60% of my pods were created just for me. Then in 2024 we see a dramatic drop off with only 7% and in 2025 only 3% being created outside events. Big oof.
Fandoms
Doing just a truncated look on fandoms since I have too many my top fandom for the last 4 years by number of pods were
The rediculous upsets like that happened in 2023 (SPN had 26 hour recorded for it... but only 3 total podfics created) are why I always end up doing two versions of most of these charts lol. Sometimes I get lazy like I did for the events. It's generally been fandom that I see the biggest swings in "number p
Summary
So yeah. My main conclusion here is burnout sucks but I still love podficcing. I take what I can get motivation wise. My fandom shifts but my tastes generally stay the same no matter the fandom.
Well, my stats really feel like they reflect the burnout I've been going through, particularly in 2024 and 2025. I've got a nice little bell curve going on. It's been a big struggle to do things, particularly outside events. And I even had to cut back on events this year, which was good since I barely had energy to finish the ones I was in.
But I didn't have any defaults and I'm in a new job and hopeful I'll be able to start addressing the burnout in my irl life that will let me get back to fandom. While I was grabbing the stats it really felt like "wow, I used to podfic for fun outside of events" because it really has dropped for me outside of big events like voiceteam or pod_together.
I knew I was missing 2024 and 2025 from my spreadsheet. As I was wrapping up getting 2024 in it... I discovered a bunch of data missing for 2023... and then I found that I had only filled in like half of 2022... Whoops. I did a LOT of spreadsheet-ing this week.
Charts
The first two charts are just my hours/number of podfics per year. I don't think I'll ever get as high as 2020 again (at least not in the near future), but I was thinking about 70 hours was going to be sustainable for me and what I'd level out at... not so much.
Ratings of my Podfics
A lot of my other stats are pretty similar and haven't changed year over year on like "what kind of fic am I reading". This is the percentage by number of podfics per year. it's always kept about 10% in the NSFW range, and 90% in gen and sfw topics.
Though when you look at it by the % of the hours I've podfic'd you do see that part of the reason for this is that when I do record a NSFW pod, it tends to be a long one and there's a lot more variance. Like my Mature/Explicit percentage suddenly jumps to nearly 30-40% of what I record.
Category of my podfics
Simiarly patterns can be seen in the category (gen vs m/m vs f/m). This is where I really show I'm a gen podficcer lmao. I usually have a good chunk that is also M/M as most of my ships are in that category. But I will take a fic without romance over all of them and that hasn't really ever changed lmao.
It fluctuates again a bit as we look at number of hours record instead of number of podfics. It's a lot harder to find long fics that don't have ships and I also really love long fics. But still, I usually have just about 1/2 of my total hours record as gen fic.
Podfics During Events
Looking at it a different way, I've also noticed, the only time I can get motivated is during an event. And you can really see that reflected in these stats as well. The blue that doesn't have a label is the podfic I created for without an event going on.
So in 2022, 36% of my podfics (going by hours recorded) happened outside events.2023 had even more created outside events at almost 60% of my pods were created just for me. Then in 2024 we see a dramatic drop off with only 7% and in 2025 only 3% being created outside events. Big oof.
Fandoms
Doing just a truncated look on fandoms since I have too many my top fandom for the last 4 years by number of pods were
The rediculous upsets like that happened in 2023 (SPN had 26 hour recorded for it... but only 3 total podfics created) are why I always end up doing two versions of most of these charts lol. Sometimes I get lazy like I did for the events. It's generally been fandom that I see the biggest swings in "number p
Summary
So yeah. My main conclusion here is burnout sucks but I still love podficcing. I take what I can get motivation wise. My fandom shifts but my tastes generally stay the same no matter the fandom.
