Hellllooooo LJ-Land....
May. 21st, 2003 10:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sisabetHere is the deal. I wanted to post all about the finale and my feelings and all good stuff, but then I started vidding and now... well I will go to bed soon... Sigh. I was supposed to take a break for a while as well. I love this part though, well all except for the clipping. I don't want to clip for this vid - I just want them all ready and magically appearing so nothing slows me down.
Oh - finale thought: That Spike? Turned out to be a really decent fella.
I've been totally AWOL from LJ for a few weeks. One reason was I was super-vigilant about finale spoilers and another was just general disheartedness over Grey (Gray - whatever, get over the spelling) Day. I supported it, I think it went well, I have had numerous responses from vidders and would be vidders who learned something so I consider the whole dealio a rousing success. The backlash wasn't fun and being called pretentious by people whose opinion I respect hurt. I don't see the pretentiousness in what we did, but my Daddy did tell me once I was putting on airs at the tobacco auction so it could be a valid charge.
I feel passionately about the issue of fanvideos to an extent that I can't even explain. It has opened me up creatively in avenues I always had in me but never could access before. I'm good at this and I like it. This is almost a first for me (not the being good at something - the enjoying it part) and I treasure it. An attack on what we as vidders do with our creative medium feels almost like an attack on me personally and I can respond very viscerally. I am learning to ignore, however. There will be some people that will not wrap their minds around the concept of respect for fan-art and will never want to cease the arguments and challenges and endless freaking thinly veiled discussions that are just another cry for "Look at me!! I exist!!!" And truthfully, if you can't respect me or my craft, well than that is your right. My right is than to ignore you and enjoy myself.
Honestly - this is a dead horse. Steal from my vids and I will be pissed. Period. I will ask you to stop. Period. If you don't I will call you out in public! Exclamation point. I won't pursue legal means cause there aren't any and dude I am sooo not litigious anyway. I will refer to the accepted norms of my community. If you want acceptance in that community you respect others and conform to the rules. Conform is not always a bad word - plus the slogan "I'm a Rebel! I steal clips!" - very lame. Lamest of the lame in fact.
Oh - finale thought: That Spike? Turned out to be a really decent fella.
I've been totally AWOL from LJ for a few weeks. One reason was I was super-vigilant about finale spoilers and another was just general disheartedness over Grey (Gray - whatever, get over the spelling) Day. I supported it, I think it went well, I have had numerous responses from vidders and would be vidders who learned something so I consider the whole dealio a rousing success. The backlash wasn't fun and being called pretentious by people whose opinion I respect hurt. I don't see the pretentiousness in what we did, but my Daddy did tell me once I was putting on airs at the tobacco auction so it could be a valid charge.
I feel passionately about the issue of fanvideos to an extent that I can't even explain. It has opened me up creatively in avenues I always had in me but never could access before. I'm good at this and I like it. This is almost a first for me (not the being good at something - the enjoying it part) and I treasure it. An attack on what we as vidders do with our creative medium feels almost like an attack on me personally and I can respond very viscerally. I am learning to ignore, however. There will be some people that will not wrap their minds around the concept of respect for fan-art and will never want to cease the arguments and challenges and endless freaking thinly veiled discussions that are just another cry for "Look at me!! I exist!!!" And truthfully, if you can't respect me or my craft, well than that is your right. My right is than to ignore you and enjoy myself.
Honestly - this is a dead horse. Steal from my vids and I will be pissed. Period. I will ask you to stop. Period. If you don't I will call you out in public! Exclamation point. I won't pursue legal means cause there aren't any and dude I am sooo not litigious anyway. I will refer to the accepted norms of my community. If you want acceptance in that community you respect others and conform to the rules. Conform is not always a bad word - plus the slogan "I'm a Rebel! I steal clips!" - very lame. Lamest of the lame in fact.
