*watches again* Yep, still monumentally slashy! :D Funny how just a few moments make it seem so. Anyway I have been thinking about this (in general, not just about this vid), because it's very interesting. Sometimes I too feel like I miss the point of a vid, and so I just kind of slink away from it without further thought, which I think is the wrong response. Because vids cross lines. Really good vids can be seen from many different angles. For example, aren't all character vids arguments? Arguing for a particular view of a character? And shipper vids almost always also have to be character vids for the respective characters? Different viewers may just focus more on one bit than the other, either because of what they want to see, like you say, or for whatever reason. But coming from a different angle isn't seeing the vid "wrong." At least I don't think it is. There's a point in my first vid where I intended something pretty specific, and of the people who commented about that specific moment, all of them saw the opposite. But I thought that was awesome, not "wrong." And I wonder if most vidders wouldn't think that way too.
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*watches again* Yep, still monumentally slashy! :D Funny how just a few moments make it seem so. Anyway I have been thinking about this (in general, not just about this vid), because it's very interesting. Sometimes I too feel like I miss the point of a vid, and so I just kind of slink away from it without further thought, which I think is the wrong response. Because vids cross lines. Really good vids can be seen from many different angles. For example, aren't all character vids arguments? Arguing for a particular view of a character? And shipper vids almost always also have to be character vids for the respective characters? Different viewers may just focus more on one bit than the other, either because of what they want to see, like you say, or for whatever reason. But coming from a different angle isn't seeing the vid "wrong." At least I don't think it is. There's a point in my first vid where I intended something pretty specific, and of the people who commented about that specific moment, all of them saw the opposite. But I thought that was awesome, not "wrong." And I wonder if most vidders wouldn't think that way too.