podfic

Noun

podfic (countable and uncountable, plural podfics)

1. (slang, uncountable) Fan fiction read aloud and made into audio files available for streaming or download.
   • 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
   • […] 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
2. (countable, slang) An individual work of recorded fanfic.
   • 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...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
   • 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