if you prefer vids that match the lyrics to the action in the clip ... or vids that have a strong narrative arc, or vids that focus on a particular theme, or vids that are just pretty clips set to music
Ha ha yes, I like all of those things. I'll try to think some more about my favorite things though and make a post. I guess it's hard to know, for a medium where I've never been a creator, how much talk about preferences is helpful and how much is stifling. :/
Eruthros's post and the comments were really...disconcerting and illuminating for me. I reacted against a lot of what was said there - about how it's *just* boundary policing and not really about what's likely to get written in a fest - but I don't know how well I was listening there. I could be defensive because she could very well have pulled a sentence from my Yuletide letter and then everybody could have made fun of my awkward phrasing about not wanting to read about piss and shit. :) It's definitely affected the way I write those for the better, although there's also the issue of other people making up sign-up forms, so for instance merlinfemfest has a space for "Things I won't touch with a ten-foot jousting stick" whereas I'd be more likely just to say "I would prefer not to write..."
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Ha ha yes, I like all of those things. I'll try to think some more about my favorite things though and make a post. I guess it's hard to know, for a medium where I've never been a creator, how much talk about preferences is helpful and how much is stifling. :/
Eruthros's post and the comments were really...disconcerting and illuminating for me. I reacted against a lot of what was said there - about how it's *just* boundary policing and not really about what's likely to get written in a fest - but I don't know how well I was listening there. I could be defensive because she could very well have pulled a sentence from my Yuletide letter and then everybody could have made fun of my awkward phrasing about not wanting to read about piss and shit. :) It's definitely affected the way I write those for the better, although there's also the issue of other people making up sign-up forms, so for instance merlinfemfest has a space for "Things I won't touch with a ten-foot jousting stick" whereas I'd be more likely just to say "I would prefer not to write..."