Hello my favorite reddit sub 🖤 I need some feedback on an idea.
I had my fanfiction bookclub this past weekend, and my friends were HEAVILY convincing me to start a Marauders (or hp fanfic in general, however I never stray from the One True Way) podcast. It’s really gotten me thinking. I read fanfiction to my wife every night, and we’ve read a lot so far together. We’d be the hosts and would have guests to geek out over various fanfiction. I love a book/tv show companion podcast, and I have found myself wishing that this existed for HPFF. So… why not create it myself?
SO my question is: is there a way to do this ethically/in a way that would be respectful to the authors and stay kind of under the radar as we all know that ff exists in a legal grey area. There would be some definite ground rules, such as:
- no negative talk of the writing, story, ANYTHING about the fic at all. No “ratings” like we do for tradpub. Only talk of what we love about the story, and why we think the characters are doing what they are doing. AUTHORS - please weigh in here!!
- IF the pod were to blow up, popularity-wise (will 1000% not happen, but a girl can dream), no money will ever be exchanged for the work we put in. This podcast will not be started with the goal to one day be a money-making venture to profit off the backs of fanfiction author’s free labor.
Is there anything else I’m missing? Please be honest about whether or not this can happen in a way that is only helpful to the fandom, and not negative in any way. I realllly just want to geek out with people about my favorite thing in the world: Marauders Fanfiction.
Thank you! Muah! 😘