For the record...

[hollywoodgrrl]

My first year at Vividcon was 2009 and I had THE GREATEST TIME OF MY LIFE. elynross and the concom were all brilliant and it broke my heart to see all the wank thrown at them afterwards (once everyone was home and in their safe space again).

For the current wank I'd like to point everyone to jarrow's post because he says sooo much goodness. Meanwhile I'll be e

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[lilly_the_kid]

I read part of the recent wank and I can understand that you feel pressured now. I hope it won't spoil the con for you.

Are you going this year? If yes, I hope you still have a great time! I've never been to it myself but from what I read and heard it must be amazing!

[hollywoodgrrl]

I obviously don't want people to be hurt, but I also don't like the idea that trigger warnings will make people assume the worst from a vid and choose to skip it when it could easily be an exaggeration of warnings by a vidder trying to cover all bases and be all PC and the vid isn't that triggery at all.

I'm going this year, yup, and despite the wankstroms I highly recommend Vividcon to anyone. It's really the greatest party ever. :D

[lilly_the_kid]

That's exactly how I feel. Yes, nobody should get hurt due to a lack of warnings, but when I think about possible warnings for my vids I only come up with stuff which would totally distort my own perception of the vid. And how can I then descibe it in a way that seems completely wrong to me?
Does this make sense? I don't know...

[hollywoodgrrl]

Yup, it makes sense, especially since I mentioned something similar in one of the comments below. That as the artist you're forced to label your own art and maybe that's not something you wanted to do. At times you might want the audience to come up with their own conceptions of the vid. Something like that. ;)

[lilly_the_kid]

Sorry to keep babbling on... but, yeah, it's the labeling that I don't like. I'm a big fan of ambiguity. I love reading or watching something and having more than one "meaning" to choose from. Often I feel that as soon as one definite statement is made the magic's gone.
:)

[hollywoodgrrl]

Indeed! It should be up to the vidder to reveal how much they want to give away. Maybe what one person sees as triggery content is totally not in someone else's eyes.