Last year was the first Hunger Games Valentine's Podfic Exchange. It began in order to combat developers monetizing fanfic with AI voices. We've now moved into our own blog to host this annually!
💌 What it is
Sign up as a podficcer and/or a fanfic author. I'll match up a podficcer to their "valentine" (a fanfic author) and set up a collection on ao3 for all of the podfic.
💌 Who can participate?
Anyone with an ao3 account can be a podficcer. Yes, even with your accent! Yes, even with just your phone to record! No matter what, you're better than any AI voice because you're human.
The works getting the podfic treatment are all part of the Hunger Games/TBOSAS/SOTR fandom. Any pairing or OC is ok! The only limit is that no podficcer will be expected to record for a work longer than 3k words, whether it's a one-shot or a chapter from a longer work.
💌 How?
First, we'll have a round of sign-ups for authors. Then once we have a total number of authors, we'll have a sign-up for those who would want to make a podfic. You can do one or both of these roles. Once we have the total number of podficcers to match the authors that sign up, we'll close the sign up for podficcers. We'll make matches between the podficcer and author and share with the podficcer the author they were assigned.
From there, podficcers make a podfic. See this post for more about the process of making a podfic.
Once you have your podfic made, get ready to post it to ao3! See more about the process of posting a podfic to ao3 here.
You will be able to submit to the ao3 collection on February 12 and the collection will go live on February 14 at 6:00 am PST.
💌 Why should I join?
Some people prefer to listen to audiobooks for a variety of reasons, including accessibility, and this helps expand their options for listening to fanfiction. It's a fun fandom-building activity. And as mentioned before, there have been a couple of attempts to monetize fanfiction with AI reading fanfic and this is a way to throw up a middle finger at this effort and give a gift to fanfiction authors.
We look forward to listening to all of the wonderful podfics this year!














