Jesus Christ. On second thought, no... pretty sure he wouldn't appreciate this.
I sincerely hope that most of these are the same person, because I would hate to think there are very many more of them out there. The arrogant, ignorant gall of it! Because reading style is completely under a person's control, as are her voice, inflection and accent. And goodness knows if that's true, then performance choices such as acting, and the voices one gives the characters are incredibly easy to fix. And by "fix" I mean, "Do them the way Anonymous likes to hear them."
This is doing fandom wrong if I ever saw it. The ONLY thing to do with fanworks that you don't care for is to click away. I don't mind listeners calling attention to mistakes in the recording—in fact I encourage it—and for sure I've often thought, "This story could have used a beta reader. Or two." but you don't criticize people for something they can't help.
Really, fandom? Really?
*sighs* I hope this post was helpful for you in venting some of the hurt, my dear. It's easy to say, "Pay no attention to these idiots." but much harder to do. For example, I read a comment on one of the anon memes—I went looking for it, so that's on me—that said something like, "I hate to say it because she's such a nice woman, but chemm80 reads like a robot." Even that—nowhere near as ugly as this— was something I couldn't quite shake off, and I think of it every time I read, and I'm pretty sure it was somewhere in the neighborhood of two years ago. People need to think before they speak type. On the other hand, this person had some idea of what they were doing, or they wouldn't have commented anon. Maybe someone will listen to this post and realize that their comments really aren't helpful at all. If they want to actually help, here's a link to the proper way to comment on podfic; maybe you can direct any future idiots there.
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I sincerely hope that most of these are the same person, because I would hate to think there are very many more of them out there. The arrogant, ignorant gall of it! Because reading style is completely under a person's control, as are her voice, inflection and accent. And goodness knows if that's true, then performance choices such as acting, and the voices one gives the characters are incredibly easy to fix. And by "fix" I mean, "Do them the way Anonymous likes to hear them."
This is doing fandom wrong if I ever saw it. The ONLY thing to do with fanworks that you don't care for is to click away. I don't mind listeners calling attention to mistakes in the recording—in fact I encourage it—and for sure I've often thought, "This story could have used a beta reader. Or two." but you don't criticize people for something they can't help.
Really, fandom? Really?
*sighs* I hope this post was helpful for you in venting some of the hurt, my dear. It's easy to say, "Pay no attention to these idiots." but much harder to do. For example, I read a comment on one of the anon memes—I went looking for it, so that's on me—that said something like, "I hate to say it because she's such a nice woman, but chemm80 reads like a robot." Even that—nowhere near as ugly as this— was something I couldn't quite shake off, and I think of it every time I read, and I'm pretty sure it was somewhere in the neighborhood of two years ago. People need to think before they
speaktype. On the other hand, this person had some idea of what they were doing, or they wouldn't have commented anon. Maybe someone will listen to this post and realize that their comments really aren't helpful at all. If they want to actually help, here's a link to the proper way to comment on podfic; maybe you can direct any future idiots there.