: August 5, 2008
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fan_eunice: vid blather - the way I vid almost entirely from the gut and without a storyboard makes it a lot like putting together a puzzle without looking at the picture on the box first for me -- elspethdixon: If You Write It, They Will Come - Ship-conversion via fanworks, however, happens all over the place in fandom, all the time. Among other things, it's one reason why ship manifestos exist. Vids, fic, art, meta -- all of it encourages our interest in a pairing. The more often we see a ship discussed, written about, drawn, etc., the more likely we are to check the pairing out -