podfic

While smaller percentages (5 to 25 percent) participate in creating or listening to podfic (audio recordings of fan fiction), filk (fan music), or fan mixes (music playlists tailored to a source or fan work), […]

Other suggestions included “Fan work tags as high level mandatory categories with appropriate related characteristics, i.e. length and/or size for vid and podfic instead of word count...” This refers to the fact that the Archive accepts other types of fanwork than fic, including art, videos and “podfics,” or recordings of fic, which, much like audiovisual items requiring different catalog records than books, would benefit from different “fields.”

Creating and distributing fan videos, podfics (audiorecorded fan fiction), and filk (fandom-specific songs) required considerable expertise and complicated, expensive technology in the 1980s and even the 1990s.