Ugh

[grammarwoman]

So I was going to post about how I'm proud of myself for making a treat for Festivids, and accepting that it received an average response and not the glowing dozens of comments I've had in previous years, which is fair because it was kind of a slapdash effort, but then I tested positive for Covid yesterday and I'm just done with this week.

I mean, I do have a lot of feelings, like determination that NEXT YEAR I'll have made an impression on the vidding community such that someone will at least post my vid in the "Guess the Festividder" chain, even if my name isn't mentioned, maybe by working on a treat in advance so it doesn't end up a hot mess.

I also have feelings about the friend who attended a gaming session sick and didn't mask or test beforehand, thereby infecting me AND the kid, but I'm trying to be gracious, because 4 years was a good run to avoid it, and it's partly on me for not getting the family in for the latest vax (though I did get the flu shot, and spend most of December and January slogging through with an unrelated cold), and apologies were offered, but we're still sick. At least our schedules are flexible enough that it's more of an annoyance than a crisis, and so far our symptoms have been pretty mild, and I am not borrowing trouble by worrying about Long Covid just yet. Though the taste of a metallic rat having died in my mouth can go away any time, thanks Paxlovid. Today we wait to see if the spouse is also positive; it was almost cute yesterday the way he kept forgetting that maybe he shouldn't be in close quarters with me until he's confirmed one way or the other.

I took yesterday and today off work, since my brain is noping out of concentrating right now. Heartstopper in its various forms has been keeping me company. Bless fandom for sharing.

In short: UGH.

Comments

[grammarwoman]

<3 - Thanks! Not gonna lie, Long Covid scares me, especially for the kid's sake.

I saw your recent post and realized shamefully that I completely neglected to include the music details on my vid. I will fix that when I post the updated version for reveals.

I've only left a few comments myself, so I'm certainly failing to be the change I want to see and so on. I am...bemused, maybe?...at the tension between the older vidding style of no talky-face, to the newer trend of including dialog and sounds from the media. I'm kinda tempted to try my hand at the newer style, if only to see how the heck they separate out the different audio tracks to get only the sounds they want, while still making them discernible above the vid's music track.

I'm also giving myself grace about skipping vids for things I want to watch unspoiled, or DNWs with gore/horror, and stuff like that, and giving others the same grace for passing over my vids.

[ghost_lingering]

You are by NO MEANS the only one who didn't list song details. At some points in my vid watching it seemed like more people DIDN'T list songs than people who did. I'm not sure if I feel better or worse knowing it's not just The Youth who are not listing songs though. HMMMMM.

I enjoy vids that include dialogue & SFX, at least when they do it well (there are definitely some that don't properly isolate the tracks!), but I think what perplexes me more is song choice? It feels like there's been a narrowing of the artists & songs being chosen? I haven't actually looked back at past Festivids or VVC playlists or what have you, so maybe this is perception only & not a real thing. I mean, it's not like I never choose songs / artists that other people vid. [Redacted comment here because I don't want to inadvertently give away the treat I made.] & I don't think it's possible OR desirable to go back to the days when it was a faux pas to vid a song that already had a vid made to it, but IDEK it feels like there used to be more emphasis placed on song choice? I could totally be talking out my ass though.

I've definitely skipped some vids that I don't know the source, so I think giving grace is good all around. & I think about the years when vids I made did numbers (the time I vidded Saga) & even then I was still comparing myself to vids & vidders that seemed to getting a better response.

[grammarwoman]

Huh. I hadn't really picked up on the song choice issue this round, though I have by no means watched everything, so maybe I didn't have a big enough sample? I know I get obsessive about picking The Right Song when I'm diving in, enough so that I feel like I spend more reviewing music options than actually putting the vid together. For me, once I have The Right Song, everything else just flows.

I still feel weird about re-using songs that been implemented before, but I also have all the cringes about my Pirates of Penzance Festivid experience from years before when I inadvertently used the same song that had been used the previous year for the same source.