I wish I was a mermaid and was friends with all the fish

It's been a while since I did a Rookie Blue reaction post. So instead of that, have some rambly meta about Chris, Gail, and Dov. Because - well, you've met me, right?

( More than that and I'm sorry, you're over, you're done )

More self-indulgent meta! I wrote up the first part of this commentary a long time ago, and I meant to get to the rest of it shortly after I finished the series. Unfortunately, I got distracted for a while, but better late than never, right?

If you're looking for part one of the commentary, it's here. And if you're looking to read the fic itself, it's posted here.

This part covers What Goes Down from A Night At The Benetian to Up And Down And Back Again. Spoilers up to episode 3:20 - The Bitch Is Back.

( Commentary, canon, and more )

I'm currently working on a vid in a literally nonexistent fandom, so it's not like anyone is even going to notice if I do it wrong, let alone care, but, that aside:

I know that, like in fic, POV is an important choice, even if it isn't a huge part of the vid, and that it's important to have some sense of the POV a vid is from. But in my vid - well, it's not that it has no POV, it's just that ... ah, hell, it has no POV. I mean, sort of. I know, thematically, broadly, the POV of the vid. It's just that, when I break it down into scenes and shots and verses and lyrics, the POV kinda goes poof. Like, lyrically, some sections are able to remain in the POV I want, but others only make sense in the opposing POV (and sometimes both POVs occur within the same verse). And some of it (it's a shippy vid) is just in "their" POV - like, the anthropomorphic viewpoint of the relationship, I guess. And I was just wondering, how big a problem is this? Does every vid need to have a POV? Does that POV need to remain consistent (or to change at logical intervals, and to make it clear that a change has occurred)? Does the POV need to be that of a character, or observer, or can it be less literal and more of a figurative or thematic viewpoint? How much (in a song that's more about music than lyrics) are people really going to be paying attention and noticing unclear or undefined POVs? And if nobody's going to see the vid, is it more important to be technically correct or to make something I love, regardless of whether it would have others cringing at the flagrant disregard of basic vidding rules? ;)

Vidders (and vid watchers) on my flist - thoughts?

( On RPF, and specifically *why* )

Now, off to keep typing up my BSG crack!fic of doom, which is finished but still sitting in my notebook. It would be so much easier if I wrote directly onto my laptop, but I have this thing about writing on actual paper, so this is just what I have to deal with when I end up writing twenty pages' worth of fic.

I've been thinking about real person fic a lot lately.

( And here's what I've got )

Kyle Gallner is freaking adorable. I was already seriously fangirling Smallville episode 4:5 - Run before I ever watched Veronica Mars, but I rewatched the episode the other day, and man. I think I like Cassidy a little better now. That's probably wrong.

( Heroes: This got kinda long, so snip snip )

Since the first arc of What Goes Down has drawn to an end, and I finally sat down and plotted my way through the second, I thought I'd reward myself with some self-indulgent meta. This is basically a summary/cheat sheet to the first half of the series; a guide to what is (and isn't) going on, and how it relates to what's happening in canon at the same time. Spoilers for What Goes Down up to Amends (and references to upcoming chapters), and for Veronica Mars canon up to episode 3:9 - Spit & Eggs.

( Commentary under the cut )

Part two of the commentary is here.

Earlier today, I came across an entry by misscam (here) via metafandom about why - not who - people ship. It's not, I'm sure, a new topic of discussion, but it did get me thinking - about what I ship, and more curiously, about what I don't.

( Cut for seriously tl;dr fandom meta )