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It's amazing how much feedback depends on fandom and focus. I think that I've only gotten better as a vidder in the past few months that I've been vidding. And I really do believe that If I Wrote You is currently the best vid that I've made, though I do hope to continue to improve.

Popularity-wise, Someone Else's Prayer is the vid that I still get requests to renew the link to. The fandoms are just so different. There's only one other Queer As Folk (UK) vid that I know of, while there are many more Firefly vids in existence.

Another thing to note is the focus. Someone Else's Prayer is about the popular couple of QAF, the one that everyone loves. The point of the series, in fact. If I Wrote You is a vid that is about a pairing that isn't terribly popular. Mal/Inara is often termed 'boring' or 'cliche' (I do love the underdog). There are plenty of people who just don't like the pairing at all, and there are enough vids in the FF fandom that people don't feel the need to watch every single one.

The two vids that I've gotten the least feedback for are for fandoms that are practically non-existent on lj. It really does make perfect sense.

Of course, an analysis such as this isn't going to change the way I choose what I vid. Because it's not so much a choice. Mal/Inara isn't my favorite FF pairing (Wash/Zoe, all the way). It isn't even my favorite Mal pairing (Mal/Simon! And recently, Mal/River, as well.). But when I heard the song, I could see Inara's face in my head and I knew that the song was about her and about how she feels about Mal. I knew that the 'spring that flooded all the streams' was Saffron. I could see it in my head, knew that canon had the right material for it. And I got the chance to play around with the beat, change in time with the music. It was just... delightful. Vidding is a lot of fun (it has its frustrating moments, too, but that makes the fun parts stand out more).

And... I'm not quite as insecure about vidding as I am about writing. I can watch a vid of my own and feel that it's good, and that's so hard for me to do with my writing. I can rewatch If I Wrote You and it hits me just the same way that it hits the people who are seeing it for the first time. It captures that longing that I feel in Inara, and when I watch the vid, I'm drowning in it.

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Date: 2005-10-15 10:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lasultrix.livejournal.com
Ah, Inara POV? Sounds good. I really don't see very much UST from his side, but from hers, certainly.

Shipping River feels dirtily fun because of the crazy and the consequent consent issues, but the crazy power being on her side. I suppose the ultimate you'd get that way would be Jayne/River...

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Date: 2005-10-16 08:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] londonkds.livejournal.com
I got put off River fics because of a highly praised Kaylee/River fic which seemed to me to go the opposite way in a very squicky way - involved Kaylee having sex with River and getting off on the fact that River kept forgetting what was going on, which, eeeeeek.

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Date: 2005-10-18 10:27 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] butterfly.livejournal.com
I am so glad that I never read that story because. Ew.

Also, wow, Simon would so kill Kaylee if he found out that she'd taken advantage of his sister like that.

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Date: 2005-10-18 10:24 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] butterfly.livejournal.com
Inara's love story is with Mal, but his is definitely with Serenity. As long as he has her, has his symbol of freedom, he'll find a way to survive, somehow.

I can't ship Jayne with anyone. Ever. Partly because of one line -- "That's why I never kiss 'em on the mouth." Partly just because... he's Jayne.

uhm hello

Date: 2005-10-16 06:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] inderpal.livejournal.com
ehm ... Hi! ...
You don't know me but I really adore your SW fanfic ....
but that is not the reason I am now writing you ... I just wanted to ask (since you've obviously seen Serenity) if you could tell me if someone who hasn't seen Firefly at all can still understand the movie.
Because I recently saw the trailer in the cinema and just fell in love with it (it's not out in Germany yet) and would really like to see it, but if I can't uderstand it , it would be a waste of money and that's something I don't really have atm ...
so sorry again for just popping into your journal but I had to ask someone and since none of my friends have seen Serenity I just thought of you ... so sorry again and I hope you return to the SW fandom soon ^^

Re: uhm hello

Date: 2005-10-18 10:26 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] butterfly.livejournal.com
You can definitely just walk right into Serenity and get a good enough impression of the universe. It's a really good movie, and Joss is good enough to give an interesting while still informative introduction for the movie.

And thank you! I definitely will be returning to SW. There's still a lot of stuff that I want to do in that fandom, story-wise.

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