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Giant moment of YIKES today: listening to a podfic on ao3, and then being smacked at the end with the podficcer's patreon advertisement, where folks pay to get access to podfic. Glancing at their works where this advertisement appears, it's all blanket permission stuff.

Folks getting into podfic: DO NOT DO THIS. First, advertising patreons on ao3 is a huge no go, even when you do it auditorily rather than via text. It is very much against terms of service, and puts the site at risk. Second, though: authors giving you blanket permission to podfic are not giving you permission to make money off their work. I can't believe I need to say this, but if you are going to record fic for money? You need that fic author's SPECIFIC permission. And you should probably be sharing any proceeds with them, though that is something you can negotiate individually. But taking something freely offered for free transformative use and making money from it? That is a huge violation of trust in the community, and could result in authors pulling their blanket permission.

But DG, you may say, I should get to turn my side hobby into a hustle just like fanartists do! Fine. If you are a skilled podficcer who produces high quality audio, you already have an option for that - go pick up work as an audiobook narrator on audible. It's not hard for a skilled reader to find ocassional gig work that way, and it's something I did years ago when I was poor and unemployed.

In summary: Don't put the whole podfic community at risk just to make a buck. Follow the rules of the sites you use, respect authors' rights, and look elsewhere for your side hustle.

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The Warrior of Light has the best dialogue sometimes

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such an eventful world raid lmao.

when i realized what mob they were referring to, i malfunctioned 'cause i didnt know the nAME - and if i search it might take time and they'll leave so i just went for triangle ashddhakdhak

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Look I’m a simple woman with simple tastes. I like my villains intelligent, unhinged and obsessed with the hero to the point of homoeroticism

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The original babygirl

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put the reading from my music history class through a text-to-speech voice thingy while minecrafting to see if that’d help me focus but the way it says “boogie woogie bugle boy” keeps sending me into fits of hysterics

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I love collecting diagrams and images of Black Mages in precarious scenarios and I need more

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Venat arriving with the squad’s only braincell.

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Alfred: NOT AGAIN

Inspired by this

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Forbidden dating sim route: the guidance counselor. 👀

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Garden of Eden