Pod-O-Ween 2024 Announcement!

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Pod_O_Ween is an informal podfic event for the Spooky Season! Crafted out of a true love of this hallowed season (and podfic!), we are so thankful for the support we've had in growing this small but scary challenge! This is our seventh annual Pod_O_Ween event, and we'd like to thank you all for your love and support in making this event possible! Pod_O_Ween is an event that prides itself on being completely stress free, and so we have NO SIGN UPS, NO RESPONSIBILITIES, NO PRESSURE. All you have to do is have fun, so let's turn up the juice and see what shakes loose!

GET T-T-T-T-TRICKY?

Working off of some of the innovations we made last year, we've decided to go back to basics! Pod_O_Ween this year is made up of 13 simple prompts that we call our TRICKS. Whlie there are no bonus tricks that will be revealed, we've given you a lucky number to work with.

These prompts are there to help get you inspired to make some podfic! If you are inspired by one of our prompts, please feel free to fill the prompt in whatever way takes your fancy. As always, the mods would like to mention that these prompts DO NOT need to be taken individually, and can be combined with others if you choose to do so! We'd also love to see discussion on these prompts for how they could be interpreted: stay tuned on our twitter for some examples and brainstorming.

The Official 2024 prompt list is alive and kicking both here on dreamwidth (HERE!) and on our twitter (HERE!), and you can fill the prompts at any time from the beginning of October! By no means are you obligated to fill all of these prompts! Please take our ghoulish little game at your own pace! However, if you would like to fill all of our prompts (we've got our eyes on you~), then consider it a challenge! Please feel free to retweet or share our prompts, anyone is welcome to get involved.

TREAT YOSELF:

Ah yes, treat time! For treats, any person can make a request for something they would like to see in our Pod_O_Ween Collection for 2024. Please post your treat requests HERE! You can ask for anything in your treat, be it a specific fic, a trope, a fandom, the featuring of a concept, object or being, even the inclusion of specific characters. For those of you who want a bit of an extra challenge, try to combine the requests in these treats into what you're recording for our tricks! But do not fear, you can still just fill a spoopy podfic for a treat if you want without touching our main prompts. In addition, outside of the standard treat format please know that these podfics can also be gifts to others just because! This is your podfic, we're just listening to it!

There are so many ways to play, and we're happy for you to mix and match and fill as much as you'd like to! It's your candy, and you can put it where you want to! The most important guideline is to have fun! Make sure that you enjoy what you record.

All filled prompts must be uploaded to the Pod_O_Ween 2024 Collection (HERE!) by midnight on 30th of October Mountain Daylight Time (USA GMT-6). Posted works will be revealed each Thursday (starting on Thursday the 10th), throughout the month of October, with the final reveal on the 31st of October in the evening. Spend the whole month getting into the mood of the season by listening as podfics are revealed each week!!

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:

All podfic are accepted, but please also adhere to your appropriate tagging and/or warning specifics as much as you can. Feel free to run with prompts, but if you are unsure in any way about your chosen fill, our golden rule is ASK ASK ASK!

There is no set word count, minimum or maximum. Anything that you can achieve in the time would be Spooktacular, and we'd all love to hear it!

Again, please post your treat requests/challenges on this post HERE! We've included a handy template for those who need some guidance.

We are accepting of all types of podfic, including not!fic, multi-voice podfic, experimental and alternate podfic, as well as the traditional type. We don't want to limit you: if you're inspired, go for your lives!

You may fill as many prompts, and make as treat requests, as you would like!

 

Cover art is NOT MANDATORY, however if you would like to provide cover art, please go ahead! We at Pod_O_Ween are happy to assist in any way with cover art as well, and will put up a request thread closer to the release date. If anyone would like to volunteer to help with cover art, we would love the help!

We also have a sticker for those wishing to use cover art! Inspired by annapods and their lemon stickers, we have given little Podkin his own sticker! Link to download HERE!

This is an INFORMAL event. There is no obligation to fill prompts, as this is purely for the fun of the season! As such, other than our collection deadline - there are no deadlines or check-ins! We also understand that this is a rather short notice event, so please take your time and do not stress! If you would like to fill something, but are not sure what to do, we are happy to assist you in finding a fic that is right for you to the best of our ability! Please do not hesitate to message us!

Feel free to post your fic to Dreamwidth as well as Ao3, but we will also provide a masterlist post of all podfics here on dreamwidth, with weekly reveals being posted on our twitter.

POSTING TEMPLATE :

When it comes to posting, all we ask is that you mention somewhere the challenge, what prompt it was filled for and - in the event of treats (don't think we forgot about those), that you mention the giftee!

TIMELINE :

01.10.24 : POD_O_WEEN TRICKS are posted!
10.10.24 : Week One REVEALS
17.10.24 : Week Two REVEALS
24.10.24 : Week Three REVEALS
26.10.24 : Final Date for TREAT REQUESTS
30.10.24 : Final Date for POSTING to AO3 Collection : follow this LINK TO POST!
31.10.24 : FINAL PODFIC REVEAL IN THE EVENING!

And that's it! We hope you have a terrifically terrifying Halloween with us! If you have any questions or queries, please feel free to reply here, or message us both on this Dreamwidth, and at @PodWeen on twitter!.

Let's get spooky with it!
- Pod_O_Ween Mods (Cain AKA hurry_cain)