House of Leaves

Day 10 – Pairings – Have you ever gone outside your comfort zone tried to vid a pairing you liked, but found you couldn't, or a pairing you didn't like, and found you could?

I ship plenty of mainstream pairings, but I love unconventional couples in vids and fanfics and ship wars are something I don't really understand, it just seems silly. I only have five stalled projects on couples I didn't feel strongly enough to finish, but mostly this was me playing around one evening and then letting the idea go without deleting the project. The other projects in that folder will get finished at one point in time. My outdated to-do-list includes several pairings, I probably won't realize, because I moved on from these fandoms. What keeps annoying me, is when I stumble over a perfect song for a pairing I have lost interest in or I don't feel strongly enough to vid in the first place. This has nothing to do with my comfort zone and all with my impulse to not let a good song go to waste.

Going outside of my comfort zone is a bit hard, because I don't think I have a defined comfort zone. The motivation for a project comes either from a place of love or 'wouldn't it be cool'-desire, so I don't associate negative emotions with vidding. Even the challenges Xandra and I issue are positive, we want to see something very badly and we know the other can provide it. Besides I don't believe in restricting myself, especially not this year.

So maybe my answer would be the impulse behind the Cordelia/Fred vid 'Crazy'. It was my first femme slash vid and more importantly, my statement about every male character pining for Fred. I didn't want to bash Fred, but I needed to vent my anger and react to the final straw, Spike's crush on her. So why not by Fred falling in love with Cordelia first, which lead to 'Crazy' and all was right again in my world.