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[frayadjacent]

That End of Year Vidding Meme has the category "Most Unintentionally Telling Video". I usually skip that one because I don't even know what that means. Until now, anyway.

I realized that my WIP unintentionally shows that the most important relationships for Buffy -- to me -- are her relationships with Dawn and with Willow. (Giles is also super important to me! But he didn't make it into the vid as much.) I've spent a lot of time thinking about and discussing her relationships with Angel, Riley, and Spike, and there's a lot of important stuff about her character in there. But at the end of the day, it's all about Buffy & Dawn, Buffy & Willow, and Buffy & Giles.

Comments

[yourlibrarian]

That's an interesting category. I often find that to be an intriguing aspect of fanfic -- the things I gather from it, especially for an overall fandom, by seeing what people really want to write about.

[frayadjacent]

Yeah, I suspect that the vidding meme is adapted from a fic meme. And that category makes more sense in fic, because you can literally write anything, whereas with vidding you're generally limited to available footage. So, while personal preferences and whatnot certainly can sneak in there, it's probably generally less obvious. There's probably more "unintentionally telling" in terms of what kinds of characters or music or types of vids one makes, though.

[yourlibrarian]

True. In fact I think that vidding genres can be harder to pin down generally exactly because there are certain limitations and also, probably, because visuals are subject to an even wider interpretation than words.