Some kind of charming SGA CrackFic for your Saturday afternoon.

I think I've rarely had so much pure giddy fun in a fandom before.

Oh, that was hysterical.

What is it about SGA fandom that makes crackfic actually work as entertainment? I know that I'd be rolling my eyes if it were done with any other show's characters....

I think it's the cheerful admission that yes, I'm on drugs, but isn't it fun?

Yet I don't like such things in Farscape fic. Though, then again, the actual show had stuff way more twisted than what fanfic authors can normally come up with.

All of you bitches out now! Crichton is mine.

This is for calling me Sparky. [whhhp-pshh]

And this is for "Fluffy". [whhhp-pshh]

And this is for "Buckwheat." [whhhp-pshh] Whatever that means.

Hmm. Maybe it's that nobody sane can have much reverence for the source material? (In the SGA case.)

Duck, run.

A formal analysis of the mood-structure of hand-waving: two comparative cases. (Yeah, I don't know, but I get what you all are describing.)

Sounds like a good advanced literature paper, actually.

Came across a fantastic vid-analysis on the LJ vidding community. Complete with a response by someone who didn't get the point at all. Seems to think that one cannot have an opinion about a vid if one doesn't know the source. So I can't have an opinion on a story if I haven't watched the show? Huh.

Well, on a technical level, of course that's dumb, but on a character/plot level I think fanfiction *is* different from vidding, and in ways that make me like vidding a lot less, in all honesty.

It seems to me that most vids just recapitulate the story of the source (movie vids, in particular, I mostly have found extremely dull or confusing, depending on whether or not I know the source text), or tell the story of the relationship the vidder likes across multiple episodes/instances. So there are plenty of very effective vids that are indeed totally dependent on your knowledge of the source, whereas fanfiction is more likely to ask "what if something completely different had happened?"

The vids I have liked have been ones that created some sort of radical disjunction (see, e.g., the shallot/Ces video for the Sharks!!1! challenge) and used the music to ask me to look at the source material in new ways. Most vids just use the music to emphasize some point about the source, which can be fun for an evening's entertainment, but there have been very very very few I've ever wanted to watch a second time. (And, yes, I've been walked through The Highlights of Vividcon two years in a row, by extremely knowledgeable vidders and vidding fans, so it's not a problem with the quality of the vids I've seen.)

As always, YBMV, but I can see where the person is coming from, even if they put it badly.

I've not generally been a fan of vids myself, though the "Hey ya" vid with footage from "Smile Time" and the aforementioned "Sharks" are notable exceptions. With fanfic the author isn't dependent on images derived from the source, but theoretically has free range to spark any image in my imagination.