Poll: Vid Watching

[thefourthvine]

This is the counterpart to the poll I posted earlier. (It, uh, had to undergo some revisions after the results of that poll.) And this one is for anyone who has ever seen a vid.

Again, feel totally free to pimp. I'd love to get a range of responses on this one.

After this, there'll be a round of vid meta coming out, but then I swear we'll go back to fan fiction. I'm really starting to miss recommending the written word.

[Poll #800594]

Comments

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

I always feel like I'm bothering people to ask.

You're not, truly. Vidders like to be asked for passwords; it's like downloads - it tells them someone is interested in their stuff.

And if you're willing to do it, the easiest way is probably to get the major passwords in one swoop and log into each page when you get the password (provided your browser saves password info). That way, when new vids come out, or when you hit recs for old vids, or when you're bored and looking for something to dl, you'll have the passwords.

(MMWD did a very good round-up of the major password-required sites here (http://makesmewannadie.livejournal.com/255203.html); if you send off for all those passwords, you'll basically never have to do it again. And AMV.org is an auto-responder, like any other site registration, and triptychvids.com may be an auto-responder, though I'm not sure.)

But then, I spent the first six years of my fannish life as a fanfiction ninja (posting fic in the night! Never talking to anyone!)

Great. Now I want to be a fan fiction ninja. But, really, too late for that. It just sounds so cool.

I hope, at the very least, that you have a fan fiction ninja icon. Your long and successful ninja career deserves icon immortalization.

[melpemone.livejournal.com]

I did it! I emailed three people for passwords. I'm so proud of me. :-) Thanks for that link to MMWD's round-up - I somehow managed to miss that. And two people have got back to me, and they've all been very nice. I am most relieved.

... I still feel annoying, though. :-)

(While I'm here, may I recommend Post Blue (http://obsessive24.livejournal.com/112993.html) by obsessive24 (Firefly, Simon/River, would win some sort of Technical Achievement Award if there were such a thing)? Just in case you haven't seen it? Because WOW.)

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

*cheers*

And with three passwords, you're one-third of the way there. (Can I ask which three you got? In return, I offer to tell you some of my favorite vids on whichever sites they are; all those sites have fabulous vids on offer.)

And Post Blue is definitely technically amazing, though I have to appreciate it from kind of at a distance; I find Firefly vids are really tough to connect to if you don't know the source - much more difficult than, say, Angel or Buffy vids were in the days when I didn't know who those characters were. But I totally agree with the WOW. It is a stunning vid.)

(My favorite obsessive24 vid from a standpoint of pure personal joy is this one (http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members/members_videoinfo.php?v=98270), because it showcases my beloved Akira/Hikaru pairing in Hikaru no Go. I first saw this vid when I knew nothing about HnG, and in fact spent much of the vid thinking Akira was a girl because of his hair, and I loved it, despite the challenge of the slow pace. And I love it even more that I know the whole canon.)