podfic by the numbers
Feb. 21st, 2018 07:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kalakiryaWell, 2017's stats were different in all sorts of ways, much of which is down to the simple fact that I didn't make very much podfic last year. In 2015 I made about 38 hours of podfic, in 2016 I made about 28 hours, and in 2017 I made... about 3 hours of non-collaborative podfic. Which is a bit misleading, because I'm working on a long podfic that I just haven't posted, buuuuuut mostly not misleading, because that's a big change. What can I say, it was a really busy year!
The other reason these stats are different is because I somehow managed to make one podfic for every single category I usually do - so the count is nearly always 1. Go figure. On to the numbers!
Yup. Seems about right. Not much to say here. Moving on to the pairings!
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No femslash at all this year >.< I can't say I'm thrilled by that. Last year I tried to improve my ratio of dudeslash-to-ladyslash, and that is not a thing that I managed this year. On the other hand, last year I set myself the goal of not letting dudeslash be more than 50% of my output, and I did manage that!
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Last up, racial breakdown! As before, caveats apply as to the labels here - they're not great, and reflect a very narrow slice of very complicated issues. The "white" column is for a Teen Wolf fic that focuses on Erica and a hockey rpf fic that isn't sure if it focuses on Sid or Ovi, but since they both white, it's a moot point. The "undefined" is also for two podfics, one of which stars Breq of the Imperial Radch series, who is, to the best of my recollection, not physically described much in the first-person-narrated series. The other podfic in that category stars Juno Steel, who similarly narrates their sci-fi-noir podcast in the first person and is similarly little-described. The "multiracial" category is for just one podfic: Three-Point Turn, which stars Ramsey from the Fast and the Furious series. The character doesn't identify herself particularly, being busy hacking into things and driving cars that go very very fast, but the actor, Natalie Emmanuel, is herself multiracial.
My other goal for this year's podfic was to have no less than 50% of my output focus on characters of color, and, well, I didn't manage it, quite, because my original wording was deliberately specific. If I'd set myself the goal of less than 50% of my podfic would be about white characters, then I'd have managed, by about 1 minute and 10 seconds. But I had racially-undefined characters last year, so I worded my challenge carefully, and then didn't measure up. Damn.
But on the plus side, Black Panther, The Last Jedi, and a Wrinkle in Time (film) are all out this year, and by god if I have to light a fire under fandom's backside to get some fic about Okoye, you better believe I will. So, goals for this year, same as last year: no more than 50% dudeslash, and more than 50% focusing on characters of color.
The other reason these stats are different is because I somehow managed to make one podfic for every single category I usually do - so the count is nearly always 1. Go figure. On to the numbers!
Yup. Seems about right. Not much to say here. Moving on to the pairings! No femslash at all this year >.< I can't say I'm thrilled by that. Last year I tried to improve my ratio of dudeslash-to-ladyslash, and that is not a thing that I managed this year. On the other hand, last year I set myself the goal of not letting dudeslash be more than 50% of my output, and I did manage that!
Last up, racial breakdown! As before, caveats apply as to the labels here - they're not great, and reflect a very narrow slice of very complicated issues. The "white" column is for a Teen Wolf fic that focuses on Erica and a hockey rpf fic that isn't sure if it focuses on Sid or Ovi, but since they both white, it's a moot point. The "undefined" is also for two podfics, one of which stars Breq of the Imperial Radch series, who is, to the best of my recollection, not physically described much in the first-person-narrated series. The other podfic in that category stars Juno Steel, who similarly narrates their sci-fi-noir podcast in the first person and is similarly little-described. The "multiracial" category is for just one podfic: Three-Point Turn, which stars Ramsey from the Fast and the Furious series. The character doesn't identify herself particularly, being busy hacking into things and driving cars that go very very fast, but the actor, Natalie Emmanuel, is herself multiracial.
My other goal for this year's podfic was to have no less than 50% of my output focus on characters of color, and, well, I didn't manage it, quite, because my original wording was deliberately specific. If I'd set myself the goal of less than 50% of my podfic would be about white characters, then I'd have managed, by about 1 minute and 10 seconds. But I had racially-undefined characters last year, so I worded my challenge carefully, and then didn't measure up. Damn.
But on the plus side, Black Panther, The Last Jedi, and a Wrinkle in Time (film) are all out this year, and by god if I have to light a fire under fandom's backside to get some fic about Okoye, you better believe I will. So, goals for this year, same as last year: no more than 50% dudeslash, and more than 50% focusing on characters of color.
