Talk:Climbing Up The Walls

The page says This vid is both an AU storytelling vid -- aka a vid that posits what would happen if these character pairs really did have a sexual relationship. How is this AU? Don't all pairing vids for pairings that aren't canon (yet) do that?

"It supports its AU storytelling with a cohesive narrative structure. The younger sibling is constantly in physical and emotional danger, older sibling devotes himself entirely to protection of younger sibling". This part here seems to describe an interpretation of canon and not something that needs to be constructed. Also, the three story lines don't seem connected in a crossing universes kind of way, meaning all three storylines happen in their own universes and are only connected on a meta level. This makes Climbing Up The Walls a great meta vid but I don't see any AU or constructed reality parts. o_O --Doro 12:08, 26 November 2011 (UTC)

As far as I can tell, the AU and constructed reality aspects stem mainly from the (fairly extensive) use of footage and stills from outside the three fandoms in question. Which strongly imply that each sibling pair indeed is or ends up having sex. For which there is no canon footage support, thus the constructed reality/AU label, I assume. (Some of the other external source -- including stills and other imagery -- that isn't sexual in nature implies pretty clearly that the older sibs consider themselves more monstrous or their families more broken than they do in the canons, so also somewhat of a constructed reality possibility there?)

(I'd think of this as a meta vid first too (ditto for Unnatural Selection) but then we run up against how metavids are currently defined on fanlore: which seems to be pretty much solely as vids about vidmaking and/or fandom/fans, rather than as vids with a strong meta narrative firmly set within one or more fandoms?) --Sk 12:49, 26 November 2011 (UTC)

I'd suggest that the vid is a technical marvel, but it is neither AU, Constructed Reality, or meta. As such, it belongs with the vids that show how fandom has progressed with its mastery of technology, following in the lines of "I put you there" (which is both a technical marvel and a meta vid) and others that have a technical "Wow" factor for when they were created, like the first digital vids. And I have no clue what to call them, but I think that's the category that it belongs in. --rache 21:19, 26 November 2011 (UTC)