December 15thish - Two Responses

seekingferret asks: "Is there a genre or style of music that you think should be vidded more often, either by yourself or by others?"

I feel really horrible, but my answer here is, "I dunno." I'm not a music guy by nature, so I'm constantly playing catch-up on what good vidding music is. I approach vidding from a source-first perspective. My brain is filled with source. I seek out music so I can vid it.

vagabondage asks: "How did you find fandom, and how long have you been involved? What about fandom appealed to you, and what place does it have in your life?"

There are two fandom circles. I've been a member of horror fandom since I was in grade-school and a member of the horror fannish community when I said, "I can't find a website that speaks to me" and so created one. My journey as a horror fan was big in that it developed me intellectually. I was constantly seeking out film criticism and film theory and film history and trying to piece together this picture of movies, culture, and society via the lens of horror. I was always kind of off to the side within the community, however. It was very dude-dominated and I was never very comfortable there.

I found fandom as we know it via Buffy. Somebody posted the music tracks for the Buffy musical to a horror listserv I belonged to and I listened to them, then sought out the episode. Then I sought out all the episodes. Then I sought out the fans. I get into more of what I found here.

Being part of that fannish circle and then expanding to other online RP and then the vidding community developed me socially. I used to be kind of a huge loser. Now I have some of the best, smartest, coolest friends in the world. That makes me super, super happy.