Awesome weekend with ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
mresundance and if you're not jealous you SHOULD BE. Because there was Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and I got to pimp him into Community. Also, being with actual internet meant being able to download what I have missed of this season's Community so my plan for the rest of today is to catch up. And then to actually work on my CVV vid some more once there is less glare on my monitor.
Anyway, random thought/question bearing no relation to awesome weekend. I have made no secret of my irritation at the tendency to talk about fandom as though fandom/being fannish=fic. One of the reasons I started kind of avoiding fandom wide meta discussions, really, is getting annoyed with how other methods of being fannish and/or creative within fandom get treated as, I dunno, like sidelines or supplementary to fic when that simply isn't true for many of us.
Which leads me to a thing I have noticed and been pondering. That although I know quite a few people who started out writing fic and then took up vidding, or always did both, what I haven't really seen is people who started in vidding and then later started writing fic in addition. And several I can think of who don't even really read it at all. I know I go extremely long (sometimes years) stretches where I don't read any (or very little fic) at all, and it doesn't have very much impact on my fannishness either way. Which kinda got me to wondering about why there seems to be crossover one way and not really the other, and if that's also true for other creative expressions of fannishness that are *not* fic, and how that affects the conversation/perception of what it means to be fannish.
I don't even know where I'm going with that ramble. Will shut up now and see if anyone has anything actually useful to say :)
mresundance and if you're not jealous you SHOULD BE. Because there was Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and I got to pimp him into Community. Also, being with actual internet meant being able to download what I have missed of this season's Community so my plan for the rest of today is to catch up. And then to actually work on my CVV vid some more once there is less glare on my monitor. Anyway, random thought/question bearing no relation to awesome weekend. I have made no secret of my irritation at the tendency to talk about fandom as though fandom/being fannish=fic. One of the reasons I started kind of avoiding fandom wide meta discussions, really, is getting annoyed with how other methods of being fannish and/or creative within fandom get treated as, I dunno, like sidelines or supplementary to fic when that simply isn't true for many of us.
Which leads me to a thing I have noticed and been pondering. That although I know quite a few people who started out writing fic and then took up vidding, or always did both, what I haven't really seen is people who started in vidding and then later started writing fic in addition. And several I can think of who don't even really read it at all. I know I go extremely long (sometimes years) stretches where I don't read any (or very little fic) at all, and it doesn't have very much impact on my fannishness either way. Which kinda got me to wondering about why there seems to be crossover one way and not really the other, and if that's also true for other creative expressions of fannishness that are *not* fic, and how that affects the conversation/perception of what it means to be fannish.
I don't even know where I'm going with that ramble. Will shut up now and see if anyone has anything actually useful to say :)
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Well, I totally agree that it *should* be. And then, in this corner, we have reality.
Though I am amused by the possibilities of the sleep analogy. (Vid insomnia!) What would the equivalent of sleep deprivation be, I wonder?
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Heh. Yeah, I've never understood why people who've never vidded seem to think it's so easy. Well, throwing clips at a timeline *is* easy -- if you sat a chimpanzee at an AVID machine, it would probably end up creating a vid -- but making GOOD vids? Not so much.
What would the equivalent of sleep deprivation be, I wonder?
Vid farr! \o/