Well, yes, but then again, I was at VividCon, so...

Dude. I hate you. t sends death glares

t realizes who self is glaring and hastenly lowers eyes in order to avoid ass-kicking

OK. Reading the con reports was almost like actually being there. Still, watching "Haunted" and "Uninvited" for the first time? Getting to see "Peacekeeper" on a big-ass projection screen? (uh, maybe it was a regular TV screen, but it would have been more envy-worthy if it was a projection screen, so in my imagination, it was.) Watching folks bursting out weeping during "Beautitudes"? Color me green. Maybe I should try to go to the one next year, wallflower tendencies be damned.

I'm a little worried that they arrived over the weekend when I was gone and got stolen from in front of my door.

I've ordered my H:LotS S3 DVDs and Farscape S2 set like, a month ago. Apparently, they were shipped almost 3 weeks ago from DeepDiscountDVDs (granted, via the cheap & slow free-delivery option) but have yet to arrive. I am really, really worried that they have been stolen, since the pacels which do not require signatures are usually just left on a big communal table on the lobby of my building. I should have stuck with amazon with their UPS packaging & tracking system, and just paid a little more. Damn.

Katie, if your set doesn't arrive & you can get yourself to someone who can copy DVDs, I'll be happy to lend you mine.

Thanks. I may take you up on that if it comes to it.

Beatitudes didn't do as much for me as I expected it to after the fantastic reviews it got, unfortunately. Her Xander and Willow character vids blew me away, though. Wow. (Er, not that they're on said DVD, because I assume they're not.)

Big screens do matter, don't they? One of my most fondly-remembered fannish experiences was Hush on the big screen at the TV museum (yeah, there's some long name for it that I'm not going to look up) in NYC. Of course, I was sitting next to a big Riley fan at the time, which added to the entertainment value. ("Wow. He's... big.")

Does anybody in the New England area have/is getting the Vividcon DVD? I only heard about it starting a few days ago -- if I'd known that it existed I would have ordered....

Er, not that they're on said DVD, because I assume they're not.

If you're talking about "Transparent" and ...uhm, blocking on the name of Laura S.'s Xander vid..., no they are not on the set. Actually, "Beautitudes" is not on the set either. I liked it a lot (probably more than you did), but I thought sisabet's "Peacekeeper" was a much richer vid thematically.

But her DueSouth vid, "Wonder of Birds", is on the set, and *that* my friend, is one fantastic piece of work.

Jill, unfortunately, the Vividcon organizers are no longer taking orders, but they have said it would be fine if folks made copies for their friends using DVD burners as long as it is not done for profit.

Yeah, that's them. Beatitudes I ended up wanting to nitpick, so it ended up in that "we all experience beloved shows in different ways" place.

Wonder of Birds is on it? Oh, fabulous. I can tell it's going to be stronger bigger, where you can feel the movement.

Seeing as it's okay with the Vividcon folks, I'd be more than happy to burn a copy of mine for anyone who wants one, assuming mine ever shows up. Er, well, I'll try, anyway; keep in mind I have not actually used my spiffy new DVD burner yet.

Enjoying my VividCon DVDs, although it certainly brought back the seething jealousy at not going.

"Razzle Dazzle" cracks my shit up. Loved here's luck's "Superstar". And I remember snorking at a Stargate vid...oh, the Schoolhouse Rock one.

It's hard to actually do my work and not just park myself on the couch with the vids.

but they have said it would be fine if folks made copies for their friends using DVD burners as long as it is not done for profit.

Oh, that is excellent news. I was turning green over here.

The vid DVDs sound wonderful. Yes, that was a hint you heard crashing oh-so-subtly to the floor.

I'm sorry, I thought I'd tried to make it clear that this is my visceral feeling

Right. That's why the "I don't agree" part -- my visceral feeling is different -- and the "no, this is the line" part -- our lines are different places, and we probably won't convince each other to move. All good, just expressed differently.

We're all allowed to say whatever the fuck we want, you know?

Weeeell -- the full and thorough inference to be taken is that Person A can say anything she pleases, but that Person B has just as much right to yell at Person A for that pleasing. And for Person A to yell back.

"Take what you want, and pay for it" is a philosophy that, in practice, ends up with only the most abrasive and thick-skinned people willing to participate. That kind of bad currency will drive me out, I don't know about other people.

Bothers me, but people I know and respect read and write it, and I'm not going to tell them they can't. OTOH I'm not gonna read it, either. ::shrugs::

It bothers me enough that I have to avoid the places where it's at. I have found myself not visiting web sites, not reading blogs, of people I formerly corresponded with a great deal, because I'm afraid I'll run across something I'm not comfortable seeing. (Sort of like how, if you are uncomfortable around people doing drugs, you come up with an excuse not to go to Coworker X's house.) Practically speaking, this means I'm sort of losing friends, and not participating in the "mainstream" of fanfic, because the current mainstream -- its trends, anyway -- make me need to not be there.

I don't see as how my choices make the fanfic world at large a poorer place, particularly, but I'm certainly sorry to find myself at the margins. I guess I'm sort of in Betsy's camp, although my instincts would not have been to call it a "moral" line.

The vid DVDs sound wonderful. Yes, that was a hint you heard crashing oh-so-subtly to the floor.

Heh. I'll mention it once I've got ahold of my copy.

It's wrong to use a drabble as an excuse to look at the social security records for most common baby names in 1988, isn't it? At least I don't have a cat to vacuum.