Snowflake Challenge #4: A very special Podficcer PSA

[myrdschaem]

In your own space, make a list of things that you wish existed in fandom or elsewhere, and/or that you'd like someone to create or do for you.

Besides the default, more people to discuss my micro fandoms with? (If anyone wants to talk, say, Delicious in Dungeon, SMT V, the Otherland books, Mushishi, Engelsfors or anything similar with me, hit me up!)

I'm going with the preaching-to-the-choir answer here and the choir is all podficcers. If you read this, think about making a permission statement about fanworks based on your fanworks! I made an exhaustive post about why and all the options years ago on tumblr, if you would like any help. Most podficcers naturally wish to have blanket permissions, but any statement helps. Authors or creators tend to think they will be around forever to just get asked for permission, but that's not feasible as platforms change and people vanish from fandom. Having your wishes spelled out clearly and succinctly is good for everyone. In long term, having statements around could help make fandom interactions smoother for everyone. Take some time and write one!

Comments

[muccamukk]

I hadn't seen that tumblr post before! Thanks for linking to it. It's really well put.

[myrdschaem]

Thank you, that's an honour. Overall I think there would be many benefits to have statements be more common, but pushing it to be all-or-nothing doesn't help imo. There are almost always limits for most permissions, but often people don't think about it in-depth. So the expectations are largely unmentioned. What gets me is how different fanwork categories get treated. I rarely see people asking for making fanart from a fic. Podfic outside of journal fens also moves away from that, I think. Certainly the people on youtube are more relaxed about it. For translations, the default seems to be to ask. From my perspective it feels weird how some fanwork types seem to be seen as "derivative" instead of "transformative" grades and people get protective over their fanworks.