You can offer or request all four mediums on each request or offer if you want! Or you can just offer/request one medium. What's most important is that you offer enough to pass the minimums for offers and requests (eg you must request at least three separate fandoms) and that you're sure you're okay with any combination of fandom, relationship/character, medium, and freeform inside each request.
In this exchange (it varies from exchange to exchange) it's possible to tick the "any" box on offers to offer all freeforms but it's not possible to do so on requests. Participants who are requesting podfic are encouraged to be mindful about their tag selection and ideally suggest existing fic(s) that would fulfill the request, although podficcers do have the option of writing new fics. Podficcers may want to be careful about their offers and only offer fandom+relationship+freeform combinations that they're certain they can find a fic for -- which may mean offering more broad genre tags like "Hurt/Comfort" over the more specific ones.
Also, since you've never done an exchange with a tagset before I assume that that means you've never done a freeform exchange before! Welcome to your first one! In freeform exchanges, participants usually have to put in a little effort to make sure that they're matchable because the large number of freeforms means it's somewhat unlikely that just offering one's favorite relationship and a handful of random tags will be effective, and not everyone is willing to roll the dice on getting any freeform as an assignment. This comes in the form of browsing the requests summary to see what people in your fandom(s) (or desired medium!) are requesting and then (assuming you think you can create those things) making sure to offer tags to make yourself matchable to them. The extreme end of this practice is called "gaming", where a participant tries to make themselves matchable to a single specific request, but most people try to be matchable to a bunch of requests and then roll the dice to see which one they get. It's definitely more work, but it does at least allow a degree of control over things — and it means podficcers can see who's requesting podfics and try to match to podfic requests that are asking for ship+freeform combinations that they know can be fulfilled.
Practically speaking, the anonymous period for podficcers only runs from assignments to work reveals, because voices are inherently identifiable and we're not going to ask you to upload a version of the podfic with no intro for yourself and then have to reupload a version later -- I mean you can if you want, but it's not necessary! Also when it comes to finding a fic to podfic obviously you're allowed to deanon yourself to ask for permission to podfic if necessary. If you need to do this communication in public (eg, the only way to contact the author is in the AO3 comments of the fic in question) then please feel free to email the mod email for help! I'd be happy to pop into someone's comments to ask permission for you in order to preserve as much of the surprise as we can.
...this got very long, sorry. Hopefully it was helpful!
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Date: 2020-02-13 06:56 am (UTC)You can offer or request all four mediums on each request or offer if you want! Or you can just offer/request one medium. What's most important is that you offer enough to pass the minimums for offers and requests (eg you must request at least three separate fandoms) and that you're sure you're okay with any combination of fandom, relationship/character, medium, and freeform inside each request.
In this exchange (it varies from exchange to exchange) it's possible to tick the "any" box on offers to offer all freeforms but it's not possible to do so on requests. Participants who are requesting podfic are encouraged to be mindful about their tag selection and ideally suggest existing fic(s) that would fulfill the request, although podficcers do have the option of writing new fics. Podficcers may want to be careful about their offers and only offer fandom+relationship+freeform combinations that they're certain they can find a fic for -- which may mean offering more broad genre tags like "Hurt/Comfort" over the more specific ones.
Also, since you've never done an exchange with a tagset before I assume that that means you've never done a freeform exchange before! Welcome to your first one! In freeform exchanges, participants usually have to put in a little effort to make sure that they're matchable because the large number of freeforms means it's somewhat unlikely that just offering one's favorite relationship and a handful of random tags will be effective, and not everyone is willing to roll the dice on getting any freeform as an assignment. This comes in the form of browsing the requests summary to see what people in your fandom(s) (or desired medium!) are requesting and then (assuming you think you can create those things) making sure to offer tags to make yourself matchable to them. The extreme end of this practice is called "gaming", where a participant tries to make themselves matchable to a single specific request, but most people try to be matchable to a bunch of requests and then roll the dice to see which one they get. It's definitely more work, but it does at least allow a degree of control over things — and it means podficcers can see who's requesting podfics and try to match to podfic requests that are asking for ship+freeform combinations that they know can be fulfilled.
Practically speaking, the anonymous period for podficcers only runs from assignments to work reveals, because voices are inherently identifiable and we're not going to ask you to upload a version of the podfic with no intro for yourself and then have to reupload a version later -- I mean you can if you want, but it's not necessary! Also when it comes to finding a fic to podfic obviously you're allowed to deanon yourself to ask for permission to podfic if necessary. If you need to do this communication in public (eg, the only way to contact the author is in the AO3 comments of the fic in question) then please feel free to email the mod email for help! I'd be happy to pop into someone's comments to ask permission for you in order to preserve as much of the surprise as we can.
...this got very long, sorry. Hopefully it was helpful!