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.”
2013, Robin Brenner, "Teen Literature and Fan Culture", Young Adult Library Services, Volume 11, Number 4, Summer 2013, page 35:
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, Kate Goldsworthy, "Limitless diversity: Fanfiction and the future of the book", Kill Your Darlings, Number 15, September 2013:
There's podfic, the equivalent of audiobooks. Other fanworks include tea blends, puppet shows and iPhone cases.
2013 December 27, nizah, “Garak&Bashir Valentine gift exchange”, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated[1] (Usenet):
[…] so if you can offer to make a giftwork in ANY of four formats (art, fic, podfic, vid), please come and join us!
On these sites, users could post fan art, fanvids (fan videos), fanfiction, podfic (fanfiction read-alouds), or other fan materials.
2014, Karen Hellekson, "Fan fiction", in The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media (eds. Marie-Laure Ryan, Lori Emerson, & Benjamin J. Robertson), The Johns Hopkins University Press (2014), →ISBN, page 188:
[…] 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; […]
2016, Abigail De Kosnik, Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom, page 265:
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.
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.”
2014, The Fan Fiction Studies Reader (Karen Hellekson & Kristina Busse), University of Iowa Press (2014), →ISBN, pages 193-194:
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.
2018, Jennifer Wojton & Lynnette Porter, Sherlock and Digital Fandom: The Meeting of Creativity, Community and Advocacy, page 152:
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.
Verb: "(fandom slang) to produce a podfic of a work of fan fiction"[edit]
2013, Anne Jamison, Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World, BenBella Books (2013), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
That's the reason I allow adaptations of the Paradox 'verse without having to ask my permission as well . . . the same reason you can podfic anything I write as wordstrings or Katie Forsythe, […]