Fanlore:Featured Article Archives/2021: Week 47

A repod is a podfic of a fanfic that has already been podficced. The term can also be used as a verb: to repod.

Repods are most often created by a different podficcer, but fans have been known to revisit fics they've podded before (usually on purpose, sometimes to create a multi-voice version of a previously single-voiced work, or vice-versa; rarely because they forgot they podficced the story once already.

In the early years of podfic fandom, repods were rare as deliberately re-recording an existing podfic was often considered useless, a faux-pas or even a slight to the previous podfic(cer). This norm changed in the 2010s thanks to some members of the podfic community making a conscious decision to encourage repods. Therefore, some of the earliest repods were deliberate, and for a time, podficcers who found themselves accidentally recording the same story at the same time tried to coordinate posting schedules.

The likelihood of accidental repods rose with the increasing popularity of blanket permission. More and more podficcers started vocally advocating for repodding as a normal, desirable practice in the community.

In 2014, a pod_aware podcast suggested multipod as a broader term to describe the existence of multiple podfic versions of a fanfic. Simulpod also exists, referring to the simultaneous creation of multiple versions.