Now, I'm pretty much guaranteed to love most celebratory femslash vids, especially when I'm familiar with most of the source material. But I really wanted to say how much I appreciate this as a multi-fandom vid that focuses on a limited number of stories (6) and lets us keep coming back to them and see the relationships at different moments and with more complexity. A lot of multis have so many sources that the individual clips and sources don't have that much power compared to the overall narrative flow of the vid, but I liked that you did something different here. This is the kind of vid that sends you back to the source (or makes me want to hunt down shows I haven't seen).
I also found this vid made me think a lot about text and subtext and how different sources give the pairings more or less emphatic support in their visuals. Because we are largely trained not to see sexual tension or connections at all between women or to minimize it when we do (in contrast to what fandom trains its members to do with male-male relationships), femslash vids have a different burden on them, and have to guide the viewer toward a shipping interpretation. I think that's what you're doing with Willow and Tara, as the commenter above notes--and it was especially nice to see a canon couple included.
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Now, I'm pretty much guaranteed to love most celebratory femslash vids, especially when I'm familiar with most of the source material. But I really wanted to say how much I appreciate this as a multi-fandom vid that focuses on a limited number of stories (6) and lets us keep coming back to them and see the relationships at different moments and with more complexity. A lot of multis have so many sources that the individual clips and sources don't have that much power compared to the overall narrative flow of the vid, but I liked that you did something different here. This is the kind of vid that sends you back to the source (or makes me want to hunt down shows I haven't seen).
I also found this vid made me think a lot about text and subtext and how different sources give the pairings more or less emphatic support in their visuals. Because we are largely trained not to see sexual tension or connections at all between women or to minimize it when we do (in contrast to what fandom trains its members to do with male-male relationships), femslash vids have a different burden on them, and have to guide the viewer toward a shipping interpretation. I think that's what you're doing with Willow and Tara, as the commenter above notes--and it was especially nice to see a canon couple included.