A mixed bag of stuff I just wanna say...

[ash48]

I had a lovely afternoon with cupidsbow today (yay! another WA vidder!) we chatted all things vidding and I'm excited to be part of a vidding panel at SwanCon.

She shared a vid that was made for her for festivids and IT IS AMAZING!!! SERIOUSLY! You HAVE to watch this vid. (It was recced to me earlier but I had only got a chance to watch it today).

Staying

Comments

[percysowner]

I've never been over to that comm. Now you have managed to intrigue me. However, I hate drama and nastyness, so I think I will continue to avoid it.

[ash48]

I try to avoid posting about it for the sheer fact that by doing so draws attention to it. I get torn between taking my own advice and completely ignoring it (which I do most of the time) or posting a mini rant because it makes my blood boil so.

Looks like my boiling blood won out this time. Unfortunately it is like watching a train crash. Hate what's going on but at the same time fascinated by what's going on. My fascination for it wore off very very quickly and now it just pisses me off.

Continuing to avoid it is the best approach for sure. It does nothing more than leave a nasty taste in your mouth.

[amberdreams]

quickreaver has just confirmed my decision to never go there. I second your letter to your flisties!

[ash48]

Good call! :)

[alienat]

I was never that much into the Alien movies but the video is awesome and very beautiful (if you can aliens and gore call it that LOL)

I hate that anon place. Stumbled about it when I posted my first BB in 2010, got bashed pretty hard and never went back there. I'm sorry for everyone who ever had to see something like this. No matter how much you tell yourself that it doesn't matter what they say, it still hurts.

And I never know if it's really that popular, of if it's just two or three people posing as more to say nasty things about others.

*goes back to writing her BB*

[ash48]

No matter how much you tell yourself that it doesn't matter what they say, it still hurts.

I think that's the thing. I think some fans go in thinking I don't care what they say until they see the hurtful stuff and then they can't erase it. I just think there are more positive places to hang out...;)

And yay BB!! \o/ Can't wait to see what you're writing.
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[alienat]

There are definitely more positive places to hang out, like here for example. :D

[ash48]

<33 :))

[de_nugis]

I've had a lot of my best discussions in Spn fandom on the anonmeme. A lot of my worst, too, 'tis true -- the place does tend towards extremes (though it's relatively low on Sam vs Dean wank, which is my particular least favorite thing, it does get very unpleasant in the shipping war and bros vs Cas departments). But certainly my meta take on the show would be much, much shallower and narrower without the varied viewpoints there, and I would hate to have missed steampunk clockwork Sam (the result of soulfisting gone wrong), baby walrus Sam, Linda and Dean's wedding planning business, sloth Misha and his smiling muscle man keeper, Dean's grudge book, Misha's psychic cock and Sam's sentient peen, and a whole lot of other wonderful and creative and poignant and cracky things that come out of that place

[ash48]

Thank you for your perspective on the place. I suspected there must be more to it than being spiteful and nasty. I think because I only ever see the result of the nasty I imagine that's all it is. I mean, I've seen other threads that I mostly found boring. I really don't like the idea of having a conversation without knowing who I am talking to.

It's great that all those fun things have come out of there. I remember when all that fun stuff was being discussed on someone's actual journal. These days there's less of that so maybe that's the place to go for it. I suppose my feeling is that it's a shame that there isn't a place to have those discussions without it being anonymous (or that there's a "safe" place to go to discuss things anonymously). I totally get that anonymity allows people to express their real thoughts without recrimination - something we do need to be able to do sometimes, as fans can get pretty nasty when real opinions are expressed

[fourtenpm]

I agree with you on the fic discussion font. I used to go there during bigbang seasons, to get a feel about the newly posted fics. A lot of questions over there were something like "was it a romcom?" sorta thing. However, I do not think that is a place for author to visit, especially right after posting and not enough distanced to the work, 'cause the posters there tended to grab onto one detail/character that was not the main point of the story and went on and on and on with it.

[cordelia_gray]

Agreed. I've had some amazing conversations there, which have really expanded my views on the show, on characters, on all sorts of things. And I've been introduced to a lot of fic and art I would never have otherwise seen or read.

There is a lot of nastiness there, for sure, and there are times where I check it and hit the back button immediately because it seems like no-one has anything good to say. And it can serve as an amplifier for the wankiest opinions, at times.

But I do see a lot of value in it, despite all that. It's a mixed bag, but there's a lot of good stuff in it as well as the bad.

[cassiopeia7]

That Alien vid, OMFG! *sets hands on fire with friction from unending mad applause* Wow. That is some Ash-class vidding right there -- AMAZING! Thank you for linking this!!

If you don't know what I'm talking about LUCKY YOU!

Alas, I know exactly what you're talking about. That place needs a good salting and burning down, it really does. Or just set Ripley loose over there with a flamethrower, that'll work, too.

[ash48]

That is some Ash-class vidding right there -- AMAZING!

Awww, that's a lovely thing to say (<33) but my feeling is I wish I was half that good. Vids like that give me something to aspire to..:)

Or just set Ripley loose over there with a flamethrower

HA! I love your thinking! <33

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