Bessyboo

Fan
Name:	bessyboo
Alias(es):
Type:	cosplayer, podficcer, vidder
Fandoms:	Star Wars, Hockey RPF, Buzzfeed Unsolved, DCU, etc.
Communities:	AO3, LJ, DW, Twitter
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Bessyboo is a cosplayer, podficcer, and vidder. She has also been involved in organizing a podfic convention, Podfication, and has modded challenges such as the Informal Twitter Podfic Exchange.

Controversy

On 2021-05-02, forzandopod posted a Dreamwidth post titled so we need to talk about bessyboo...., in which they accused bessyboo of serial emotional abuse of her friends and roommates. In response, many people came forward in locked twitter threads and discord chats to talk about how their experiences with bessyboo reflected this and discussing how to move forward from here, especially considering bessyboo's BNF status in the podfic fandom. As of 2022-02-16, bessyboo hasn't responded publicly.

Example Works

Podfics and Other Audio Fanworks

Awesome Ladies Podfic Anthology cover (2017). Other podfic covers by Bessyboo can be found here.

Solo works

• Definitely Not Toni Stark's Voice Diary, posted to AO3 Sept 8, 2012
• Hoth Headcanons and the Saga of Stabby (PODFIC), posted to AO3 Jan 20, 2017
• Muscles Better and Nerves More (PODFIC), posted to AO3 Dec 31, 2018

Collaborations

• Texts from Caphalopods (Podfic), with Lunate8, Pennyplainknits, reena_jenkins, RevolutionaryJo, XanaTenshi, posted to AO3 April 7, 2013
• Open & Notorious, with anotherslashfan, argentumlupine, cantarina, fleurrochard, jedusaur, knight_tracer, Rhea314, Torra, Verbyna, posted to AO4 on Aug 25, 2014
• Sometimes a family is a cultural anthropologist, a PoliSci PhD, a snippy sophomore, a golden cat, a Snorkie, and a guy who just wants to build a really smart robot, with cantarina, exmanhater, forzandopod, savvygambols, opalsong, reena_jenkins, sophinisba, theleanansidhe, posted to AO3 Sept 14, 2018

Fanvids

• they're good dogs Brent (VID), a @dog_rates fanvid, posted to AO3 Jan 27, 2018
• so tired (VID), a Claire Saffitz fanvid, posted to AO3 on Jan 25, 2020

Tutorials, Meta, etc.

• PODFIC COVER TUTORIAL SERIES: The Basics (Part 1), posted on Livejournal on 8/7/11
• A Podfic Tagging & Organization Tutorial (aka "You, too, can now reap the benfits of Bess's OCD!"), posted to LiveJournal on 11/7/11
• let's make it a twitter podfic party, yo!, a Twitter Following Meme for podficcers, posted to Dreamwidth on Nov 8, 2011
• @vworpvworp's livetweeting thread of Bessyboo's panel, "YOUR FILE SIZE IS TOO DAMN BIG!!! Let's talk audio compression," Oct 21, 2017.
• Behind the Pod S1, Episode 1: bessyboo and reena_jenkins, posted to AO3 on Oct 27, 2019
• The Podfic-est Fandoms (on ao3)