The remixapod 2021 collection is now live! Creators will be anonymous until the reveal on Saturday 5th June.

Remixers, you may update the publish date on your works if you'd like.

Podficcers, remixers and spectators alike, please go and show some love to all our creators, who have made some fantastic fanworks for this year's challenge!

Remixapod 2021 AO3 collection.

If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to ask us! You can comment right here, on the FAQ post, on twitter remixapod or send us an email: remixapod at gmail.

Useful links: Intro & Rules - Content moderation policy - FAQ

We’re implementing content moderation rules for this and future years of remixapod, as part of our efforts to reduce racist and other oppressive content in fandom as a whole, and in remixapod in particular, based on the Voiceteam moderation rules. Any podfic submitted for remixapod and any remixes created for this challenge must follow these rules.

These rules are intended to provide a way to flag and address racist and other oppressive content in remixapod fanworks. They're also intended to help participants think carefully and respectfully about their fanworks, including, for creators, whether they would benefit from the help of a sensitivity reader or consult. (Please contact the mods if you’d like help finding a sensitivity reader/consult at any point during the challenge!)

These rules do not prevent participants from submitting or creating fanworks about oppressive contexts, and we strongly encourage participants to both submit and create fanworks that focus on BIPOC characters. If your fanwork deals with characters’ experiences of racism or oppression, please tag and/or provide warning notes appropriately.

Anyone may flag a remixapod fanwork which they believe does not meet the rules of the content policy, as described below, using this anonymous reporting form.

Content Moderation

• No podfic or creations containing racism, misogyny, ableism, fatmisia, transmisia or queermisia unless explicitly warned to contain such.
  • For example, language, slurs, tropes, character archetypes, etc.
  • Other oppressive tropes or language can also be flagged to mods and will be followed up in the same way as the above mentioned content.
• No podfic or creations which use real-life BIPOC tragedies as a backdrop for stories that center on a White character.
  • For example, AUs focused on a period of time where BIPOC people are oppressed, such as a Slavery AU.
• No podfic or creations which use negative stereotypes as a way to demonize or discard BIPOC characters in favor of White characters (i.e. ‘the angry Black woman’ or ‘the smart Asian’).
• No podfic or creations which whitewash BIPOC, or which erase BIPOC in order to center White characters.

Policy Enforcement

• If mods notice any of these content elements present in a podfic which has been submitted, we will remove it from the matching process. We may get in touch with the podficcer if this impacts our ability to match them.
• If we notice any of the above oppressive content elements in a remix which has been created, we will get in touch with the remixer to ask that the appropriate tags/warnings be added to the AO3 post. If the remixer does not follow these guidelines, the work will be removed from any remixapod collections.
• If anyone flags an untagged/unwarned oppressive trope or content, as detailed in the Content Moderation section, the mods will check for accuracy. If the oppressive trope/content is confirmed, the same steps will be followed as above.

If you have any feedback about other specific content you think we should be moderating, or any aspect of the content moderation policy, please let us know either through the usual methods or the anonymous reporting form.

If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to ask us! You can comment right here, on the FAQ post, on twitter remixapod or send us an email: remixapod at gmail.

Useful links: Intro & Rules - FAQ - Podficcer sign-ups - Remixer sign-ups

Nothing new to see here, just the relevant parts of the Intro and Rules post in one place for you. Please take another look at the Intro & Rules to refresh your memory, if you need to.

Sign up by submitting this google form. Sign-ups will be open from the 21st March to the 3rd April.

Things we need in your sign-up:

• Email address. We need an email address to contact you on, this is how we’ll send you your matched list of podfics.
• Fandoms. Include all the fandoms you could listen to a podfic and create a remix for, chosen from the tagset you can find on the sign-up form.

Guidelines for your sign-up:

• You can include a more tailored list of DNWs in your sign-up beyond the common ones we have listed. We won’t match you with podfics that contain those elements, as far as we’re able to guarantee without listening to the podfic.
• You may include a maximum podfic duration and you won’t be matched on podfic that go over this duration (the list of podfics you receive may contain ones that are longer than your max but this will not be one we specifically matched you on and there will be at least one podfic that matches your fandoms and is under your max).
• When you receive your match you will be able to see all of the podfic that your podficcer submitted, not just the podfic you were matched on. You are welcome to remix any of these and are not limited by what you signed up with.

Sign up by submitting this google form (this form will be open from the 21st March to the 3rd April).

Please don't hesitate to get in touch with us if you have any questions! You can comment right here, on the FAQ post, on twitter remixapod or send us an email: remixapod at gmail.

Useful links: Intro & Rules - Content moderation policy - FAQ - Podficcer sign-ups

Remixapod is a multi-fandom remix challenge where creators make multiformat fanworks that are remixes of, or inspired by, podfic and audio fanworks.

This challenge is in the fannish tradition of reverse big bangs, and remix challenges, but with a twist. Podficcers submit a number of works, and creators sign up with their fandom preferences to create multimedia remixes. Podfic submissions are matched to remixers, who then have two weeks to listen to the podfics they’ve received and find inspiration. They then have more or less a month to create a fanwork inspired by those podfic. We use ‘inspired’ in a general sense - we want remixers to consider podfics as complete works, so if there’s music, freetalk, cover art or sound effects that should also be considered. The complete work of a podfic also includes a podder’s tone, pacing, character voices they may or may not use, etc.

We ask that remixers are clearly inspired by the work or that your remix is clearly an heir to the podfic, so things like fandom, or characters, or setting may be similar. We won’t be policing how you’re inspired, or how you take the prompt, and the work a remixer produces may be very similar or radically different from the podfic they received. That’s part of the joy! You can take a look at previous Remixapod AO3 collections to see some of the many ways this can take shape!

As much as we wish it, we can’t guarantee a perfect match. We will try our hardest to give you the best match we can but keep in mind that there is a wide variety of fandoms and tastes in an event like this and it’s impossible for everyone to all like the same things.

Previous Remixapod gift and treat collections on AO3

Timeline

Questions/Intros
6th March - 20th March - Podficcer Sign-ups
21st March - 3rd April - Remixer Sign-ups
4th April - 9th April - Matching
10th April - Matches Sent Out
10th April - 24th April - Remixer Listening Time (this is a guideline, you may use more or less time for listening/remixing, as long as you meet the deadline)
24th April - Check-In #1
17th April - 22nd May - Remixer Creating Time (this is a guideline)
8th May - Check-In #2
22nd May - Deadline
29th May - Collection Goes Live (anonymously)
5th June - Creators Revealed

*all dates are in UTC time

Podficcer Sign Ups

Rules

• Sign up with a minimum of 3 distinct podfics (in this instance meaning podfic that have been published individually or which can be listened to as standalone. Individual chapters of a longer podfic, for example, would not be eligible).
• The selection of podfic must be from a minimum of 3 different fandoms.
• No more than 6 podfic.
• The podfic submitted must be either from Blanket Permission works or be specifically permission for this challenge.
• If your podfic is a multivoice, you must have permission from collaborating podficcers before submitting it for remixapod.
• Your podfic, if posted on AO3, will be linked to the created remix as the inspiration.
• For each of your selected podfic, include a brief description/summary of why you’re submitting it, why you’d like to see a remix of it, or the parts of that podfic you particularly like or are proud of. (This makes it easier for the remixer to engage with your podfic and might lead to them listening to more of your submitted podfics than they might otherwise!)

Guidelines

• Any file format is okay, but please make sure the links are active and working.
• The podfic does not need to be posted on AO3, but we do need a static url where the podfic can be found (i.e. not a tumblr link. Dreamwidth/AO3/your own hosting is fine).
• A link to an archive which includes a summary, rating information, and download/streaming links (such as AO3, Dreamwidth/other journals, archive.org, etc.) is preferred over a link to an audio file.
• When choosing podfics, please follow your heart and go with the ones you most want to see remixed. However, you are being matched and we are limited by the fandom selections of our remixers. If you can, or wish to, include at least one podfic from a ‘large’ fandom as it will increase your chance of being matched.
• Please include at least one podfic rated below Mature as not every remixer will be inclined or able to listen to explicit content; this will make matching easier.
• Please include a mix of durations if possible. Not every remixer may be inclined or able to listen to a long podfic. Definitely submit your epic if you want to! But also consider submitting something under 20 minutes as well.

Remixer Sign Ups

Rules

• Sign up with a list of fandoms from the tag set that will be in the sign-up form. Include all the fandoms you could listen to a podfic and create a remix for.
• Include an email address to contact you with. This is how we’ll send you your matched list of podfics.
• All non text-based remixes must have a transcript or description (this can be alt-text for image remixes).
• Remix minimums are:
  • Traditional fic and not!fic: 500 words
  • Poetry: 20 lines
  • Podfic remix/splices: 1 minute
  • Oral not!fic: 3 minutes
  • Fanmix: 10 songs
  • Fanvid: 30 seconds
  • Digital art: 2000 pixels (20x100, 80x250, etc.)
  • For analogue art and other physical creations, the only minimum requirement is that you consider it complete.
  • For any formats where minimums are not specified, we only require that you consider it complete (or use your judgement).

Guidelines

• We have a list of common DNWs in the sign-up form as well as a space for any that are not in the provided list, you are welcome to list any DNWs you may have. Anything on these lists will preclude matching to podfics containing those elements, as far as we’re able to guarantee without listening to the podfic.
• You may include a maximum podfic duration and you won’t be matched on podfic that go over this duration (the list of podfics you receive may contain ones that are longer than your max but this will not be one we specifically matched you on and there will be at least one podfic that matches your fandoms and is under your max).
• When you receive your match you will be able to see all of the podfic that your podficcer submitted, not just the podfic you were matched on. You are welcome to remix any of these and are not limited by what you signed up with.

Content Moderation Policy

We’re implementing content moderation rules for this and future years of remixapod, as part of our efforts to reduce racist and other oppressive content in fandom as a whole, and in remixapod in particular. Any podfic submitted for remixapod must follow these guidelines, as well as any remixes created for this challenge.

Please see the full content moderation rules here.

Anyone may flag a remixapod fanwork which they believe does not meet the rules of the content policy, using this anonymous reporting form.

If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to ask us! You can comment right here, on the FAQ post, on twitter remixapod or send us an email: remixapod at gmail.

Useful links: FAQ - Content moderation policy - Podficcer sign-ups - Remixer sign-ups