I think it was at my first Escapade that I attended a panel which related somehow to privacy and visibility. (It might have also been about lj? I'm not sure anymore; it was probably 2001 or 2002...) Anyway, someone made the point that people aren't always comfortable having their lj usernames identified in panel reports. It hadn't even occurred to me that that might be the case, but since then I generally don't use people's names in my panel notes, though I often ID the moderator by username. But mileage clearly varies on this as on everything...
Like you, I'm excited rather than troubled by the expansions I perceive in the vidding world. Part of this may be because I'm pretty certain that the things I personally like will continue to be created; another part of it is probably because my tastes have broadened over my years in vid fandom, so having more of a smorgasbord of things to watch makes me happy.
I'm fascinated by your assertion that vidding is intertwined with slash fandom; I mean, it is for me, because slash fandom is how I came into fandom and active fannishness, but surely there are other vidders and vid fans who came in to vidding not via slash. Still, I really appreciate your point that all of this reads differently, and has different meanings, for people who have slash as a sexual identity, people for whom "slash" means "us," people who enjoy it but don't find it inextricable to their identity (and presumably people who actively dislike it, too.)
I need women to be present in the text, as well as reshaping it.
That's a gorgeous way to phrase that; thank you. I'm struggling with this a little bit, because in a lot of ways my needs are more on the other end of the spectrum. I want to see women's work, I want to see how we reshape the characters and their stories -- that's what really gets me going, on all kinds of levels. And I like having women in the text, too! but it doesn't seem to be the same kind of need for me that I think intellectually that it should be. So that's something I'm ruminating on a lot at the moment.
But regardless, I'm happy that you're beginning to get the "more" that you need. :-)
Creative ferment is exciting, it's the sign of a living, changing artform, it makes me so happy that it's going on.
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Like you, I'm excited rather than troubled by the expansions I perceive in the vidding world. Part of this may be because I'm pretty certain that the things I personally like will continue to be created; another part of it is probably because my tastes have broadened over my years in vid fandom, so having more of a smorgasbord of things to watch makes me happy.
I'm fascinated by your assertion that vidding is intertwined with slash fandom; I mean, it is for me, because slash fandom is how I came into fandom and active fannishness, but surely there are other vidders and vid fans who came in to vidding not via slash. Still, I really appreciate your point that all of this reads differently, and has different meanings, for people who have slash as a sexual identity, people for whom "slash" means "us," people who enjoy it but don't find it inextricable to their identity (and presumably people who actively dislike it, too.)
I need women to be present in the text, as well as reshaping it.
That's a gorgeous way to phrase that; thank you. I'm struggling with this a little bit, because in a lot of ways my needs are more on the other end of the spectrum. I want to see women's work, I want to see how we reshape the characters and their stories -- that's what really gets me going, on all kinds of levels. And I like having women in the text, too! but it doesn't seem to be the same kind of need for me that I think intellectually that it should be. So that's something I'm ruminating on a lot at the moment.
But regardless, I'm happy that you're beginning to get the "more" that you need. :-)
Creative ferment is exciting, it's the sign of a living, changing artform, it makes me so happy that it's going on.
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