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2019 podfic stats
Nov. 27th, 2020 06:26 pmIt is nearly December and I thought I had this entry written up somewhere but I can't find it so fuck it I'm typing directly into the text box.
I made 10 hours 42 minutes and 3 seconds of podfic, which is actually a lot more than I thought it would be, because last year was full of new-job and wedding-prep, which was fun-stress but still stress. Way less stressful than 2020 would turn out to be, but we didn't know that yet, and at any rate it was about 2 hours less than 2018.
Obviously the big stand-out here is the Black Panther series All The Stars (it's a series, so I only counted it once on the right-hand axis), which got redone twice (the clicks were hard to do right, but I really wanted to do justice to the story and the characters), but Guardian and Critical Role also get shout-outs.
Next up, the category of the main relationship (borrowing AO3 nomenclature, which I'm not thrilled with, but I've had trouble explaining what I'm doing here, even if it's clear to me, and this is the closest I've gotten). This is a somewhat awkward graph, because I've recently worked out that I'm actually trying to do two things: podfic things that aren't cis m/m and podfic things that are focused on non-dudes. These are related objectives, obviously, but not actually the same thing. However, I made these graphs before I worked this out, and if I don't post it now I never will, so here we go.
Mostly what this shows is that while I did manage to podfic a greater number of femslash podfics, I still spent most of my time on m/m podfics - more than three-quarters of my time, apparently. Once again, failed at the plan of podficcing less than 50% m/m. I might manage this in 2020, but mostly because An Eye for Quality is het, and I haven't made much other podfic this year :/
I did make progress in some ways - my femslash output was about 20% of my m/m output, which is... way lower than I'd like, but comparable to my last high-water mark, also of 20%, in 2016.
Which brings us to the analysis by racial background of the main character. This is always one I feel weird about, partly because I feel uncomfortable about shoving characters into boxes based on my American perception of them, partly because I feel uncomfortable labeling those boxes, and partly because I'm desperately worried that I'm fucking this up. Or rather, I'm sure I am, despite my good intentions. But this is supposed to help me pay attention to and be more deliberate about where I'm spending my time, with the goal of spending more time podficcing characters of color. And I'm coming from an American context, which is profoundly racist and has a very complicated relationship with its own racism. So with those caveats, here we go:
This data, and the gender/relationship data, was collected via the super-scientific "who do I remember this podfic being about, several weeks/months after I recorded it?" test. In the case of gender- or race-bent characters, it's focused on how the character was presented in the context of the story, rather than the context of canon. Several characters are not described, or not clearly-enough described, in either canon or the story to be able to categorize them; however, I did want to flag when those characters were portrayed by a white actor (this is Critical Role thing, to be clear).
So for the second year running, more than 50% of my total podfic output has focused on characters of color! And the third year of less-than-50% white characters! Super-pleased with both of those! Not sure I will manage it in 2020, because I had pretty ability to focus on anything, including podfc, but I'll keep trying.
So, 2021 resolutions: more femslash, keep on focusing on characters of color! No articulated hopes, because that feels like tempting fate.
I made 10 hours 42 minutes and 3 seconds of podfic, which is actually a lot more than I thought it would be, because last year was full of new-job and wedding-prep, which was fun-stress but still stress. Way less stressful than 2020 would turn out to be, but we didn't know that yet, and at any rate it was about 2 hours less than 2018.
Obviously the big stand-out here is the Black Panther series All The Stars (it's a series, so I only counted it once on the right-hand axis), which got redone twice (the clicks were hard to do right, but I really wanted to do justice to the story and the characters), but Guardian and Critical Role also get shout-outs.
Next up, the category of the main relationship (borrowing AO3 nomenclature, which I'm not thrilled with, but I've had trouble explaining what I'm doing here, even if it's clear to me, and this is the closest I've gotten). This is a somewhat awkward graph, because I've recently worked out that I'm actually trying to do two things: podfic things that aren't cis m/m and podfic things that are focused on non-dudes. These are related objectives, obviously, but not actually the same thing. However, I made these graphs before I worked this out, and if I don't post it now I never will, so here we go.
Mostly what this shows is that while I did manage to podfic a greater number of femslash podfics, I still spent most of my time on m/m podfics - more than three-quarters of my time, apparently. Once again, failed at the plan of podficcing less than 50% m/m. I might manage this in 2020, but mostly because An Eye for Quality is het, and I haven't made much other podfic this year :/
I did make progress in some ways - my femslash output was about 20% of my m/m output, which is... way lower than I'd like, but comparable to my last high-water mark, also of 20%, in 2016.
Which brings us to the analysis by racial background of the main character. This is always one I feel weird about, partly because I feel uncomfortable about shoving characters into boxes based on my American perception of them, partly because I feel uncomfortable labeling those boxes, and partly because I'm desperately worried that I'm fucking this up. Or rather, I'm sure I am, despite my good intentions. But this is supposed to help me pay attention to and be more deliberate about where I'm spending my time, with the goal of spending more time podficcing characters of color. And I'm coming from an American context, which is profoundly racist and has a very complicated relationship with its own racism. So with those caveats, here we go:
This data, and the gender/relationship data, was collected via the super-scientific "who do I remember this podfic being about, several weeks/months after I recorded it?" test. In the case of gender- or race-bent characters, it's focused on how the character was presented in the context of the story, rather than the context of canon. Several characters are not described, or not clearly-enough described, in either canon or the story to be able to categorize them; however, I did want to flag when those characters were portrayed by a white actor (this is Critical Role thing, to be clear).
So for the second year running, more than 50% of my total podfic output has focused on characters of color! And the third year of less-than-50% white characters! Super-pleased with both of those! Not sure I will manage it in 2020, because I had pretty ability to focus on anything, including podfc, but I'll keep trying.
So, 2021 resolutions: more femslash, keep on focusing on characters of color! No articulated hopes, because that feels like tempting fate.
