Comment Meta

[amaresu]

Femslash Mini Meta fest was an utter fail this year. And I'm still not in a place where I could do it, so I purpose Comment Meta. And let's have it cover all things female and fannish. However you define those.

How it works

1. Post a meta topic in a top level comment. Use the subject line for the meta subject and expand as you want in the body of the comment. Or don't.

2. Repeat Step 1 for as many meta ideas as you have.

3. Comment on other meta topics.


It's kinda like a kink meme, only with meta. Feel free to browse the mini meta tag for ideas.

This is meant to be about as low pressure as it comes. Feel free to write on your own journal/Tumblr/blog and link back here. Respond with as little or as much as you want. This post will remain open indefinitely, so please track it if that makes things easier for you.

Comments

Re: femslash production

[elspethdixon]

I know charmax back in the day created some absolutely amazing Xena femslash vids. (Which reminds me - I need to check to make sure that my copy of "Boom Boom Bah" survived my most recent "transfer all files to a new computer" experience)

I'm not a vidder, so my $0.02 is probably worth more like $0.01, but my theory is that it's two things:

1) There are fewer vidders in general than there are writers/fanartists, so there are fewer vids overall.

and 2) F/f pairings can be harder to vid than most of the really popular m/m and m/f ones, because vidders are confined to working with actual canon footage most of the time, and many f/f pairings have less total screentime together than canon het pairings or than TV Show X's two intensely homoerotic male leads. It's possible to manipulate footage and edit shots together to make it look like characters are interacting when they're actually not, but that takes more time, effort, and technical skill than doing a pairing vid for a couple who have a lot of screentime gazing into one another's eyes and kissing and fighting off badguys back to back. It would be much easier to make a Tony/Pepper vid or Thor/Loki vid (for example) than a Natasha/Maria vid.

Anec-data: I've seen at least twice as many yuri AMVs over the years as I have live-action f/f vids, and most of those have been for characters that do have lots of onscreen interaction.