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melannen ([personal profile] melannen) wrote2013-11-06 04:28 pm

Help me with Les Mis podcast? Anyone?

ETA: Okay, I think I have enough people! LM fandom friends you are awesome ♥ we will do this thing.


So: /report is doing guest episodes during their mid-year hiatus this year, and one topic that they mentioned they'd love to have somebody do is Les Misérables fandom. I just heard back from them, and apparently they still haven't had anybody offer to do Les Mis.

Les Mis fandom, we can make this happen! I'm willing to organize and do all the audio editing and tech stuff, but I can't do a podcast just talking to myself (I know. I've tried. It doesn't work.) and all the people I've asked so far are too shy to talk into a mike. So I need 1-3 other people who are in Les Miserables fandom, who would like to spend a couple of hours in the near future talking about this fandom on Skype, to go out to an audience of probably a few thousand listeners.

Is there anybody reading this who thinks that describes them? If it doesn't describe you, but you know people who might be interested, would you let them know?

All you have to do is be able to ramble about Les Mis fandom with me and maybe a few other fanpeople, in something resembling English, over Skype, for a few hours in the next month or so.

You don't have to a) be a bnf, b) already be my friend, c) be any sort of expert, d) have podcasting experience, or e) do anything in the fandom other than lurk, although of course I wouldn't turn down anybody who is! It would be nice if you are familiar with /report, or if you can pronounce the names of Les Amis properly (since I can't), and I'd prefer if you're over 17 in case we start talking about porn a lot, but none of those are required.

Podcasting is basically the only fannish medium I haven't messed around with, so I would love to take this chance to try it and screw up in the most public way possible.

Let me know either through tumblr or dw or email (this username at yahoo) if you're interested, and we'll put something together!
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[personal profile] sophia_sol 2013-11-06 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)
I could...probably do that... if you want me? It sounds like it would be an interesting experience! I don't guarantee I will have lots of coherent things to say, but I have been in Les Mis fandom for much of the last year and I am not mic-shy.

(ftr, I am over 17, can do a decent job at pronouncing the names of the Amis, and have never heard of /report before. If it's important that I be familiar with /report I could listen to a few episodes or whatever to get a feel for what it's like.)
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[personal profile] sophia_sol 2013-11-06 09:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay, that sounds lovely! :D I will look forward to it, whether you get more volunteers or not.
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[personal profile] lannamichaels 2013-11-07 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
I'd love to squee about Les Mis with you, but not entirely sure I want it recorded and also I'm bad at talking, especially when I'm excited. ;) But I totally look forward to listening to this ep. :D
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[personal profile] holli 2013-11-07 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
I am slightly fandom-adjacent to Les Mis, but I do like to ramble with fanpeople. Depending on when you want to record, I could do it.