What fanworks do you make? What fan activities do you participate in?Which necessitated a trip to Urban Dictionary. I was pretty sure I'd never filked or machinima'ed, but if I had I'd want to know about it. I inserted links above for the terms I didn't know, or didn't know a couple of years ago.
Then I got to the comments on this survey, which added even more to my vocabulary:
- "I mostly just watch fandom from f_w, to be honest."
- "I do game translations but I also do game playthroughs on Youtube."
- "And fangirl/boy, and write bandom RPF, and include the term 'selling out' in their vocabulary?"
Would your song about the Soldier with Green Whiskers count as a filk?
ReplyDeleteI’d forgotten about that item.
ReplyDeleteI suppose that if someone were to write music for those rhymes, and then perform the result at an Oz convention, it would become filk.
I haven’t heard any filk music at the Oz conventions I’ve been to, however. One reason might be the plethora of professional Oz music—can filk compete with “Over the Rainbow” or “Beautiful Green Peanuts”? But maybe I’ve just attended the wrong conventions.