Dictionary

podfic en · NOUN

Etymology

From iPod + fic.

Meanings

1. (slang, uncountable) Fan fiction read aloud and made into audio files available for streaming or download.
   • […] they may role-play; they may craft collaborative narratives via blogs or microblogging sites such as Twitter, perhaps writing from the point of view of a character; they may record their stories as podfic; […] 2014, Karen Hellekson, “Fan fiction”, in Marie-Laure Ryan, Lori Emerson, Benjamin J. Robertson, editors, The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media, The Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 188:
   • While smaller percentages (5 to 25 percent) participate in creating or listening to podfic (audio recordings of fan fiction), filk (fan music), or fan mixes (music playlists tailored to a source or fan work), […] 2013, Robin Brenner, "Teen Literature and Fan Culture", Young Adult Library Services, Volume 11, Number 4, Summer 2013, page 35
   • In her oral history, jinjurly (2012), who founded and maintains the Audiofic Archive, the largest online archive of podfic, describes podfic as the physicalization of fan fiction, which she acknowledges some fans find distasteful and off-putting. 2016, Abigail De Kosnik, Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom, page 265:
2. (countable, slang) An individual work of recorded fanfic.
   • Creating and distributing fan videos, podfics (audiorecorded fan fiction), and filk (fandom-specific songs) required considerable expertise and complicated, expensive technology in the 1980s and even the 1990s. 2014, The Fan Fiction Studies Reader (Karen Hellekson & Kristina Busse), University of Iowa Press (2014), pages 193-194
   • Other suggestions included “Fan work tags as high level mandatory categories with appropriate related characteristics, i.e. length and/or size for vid and podfic instead of word count...” This refers to the fact that the Archive accepts other types of fanwork than fic, including art, videos and “podfics,” or recordings of fic, which, much like audiovisual items requiring different catalog records than books, would benefit from different “fields.” 2012, Kelly Lynn Dalton, "Searching the Archive of Our Own: The Usefulness of the Tagging Structure", thesis submitted to University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, page 53
   • All types of fan works were auctioned: fiction, digital art, videos, podfics, and fan labor including betaing (i.e., reading and editing) or translating stories. 2018, Jennifer Wojton, Lynnette Porter, Sherlock and Digital Fandom: The Meeting of Creativity, Community and Advocacy, page 152:

Forms

Deriveds

podficcer

Translations (1)

ru подфи́к (fanfic made into an audio file)