Song/Artist: 'TSCC Opening Titles' by Bear McCreay

Fandom/Pairing: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Sarah/Cameron

Vidder: Masque101

 

I'm a geek.

I'm a fan girl.

And I'm proud.

And I like to show my geeky fan girl obsession whenever I can. When I was a Star Trek fan I started going to a sci-fi bar. When I was a Babylon 5 fan I attended conventions. When I became a Xena fan I began organising themed evenings. But I also wrote fan fiction, wore costumes and eventually fell into making music videos.

Though I liked it when people would tell me that my fan fiction had them hooked, that my costumes were eyecatching, it was when they told me that my music videos were amazing that I felt the most accomplished. When I would hear the fans chanting for 'Circle In The Sand' to be played one more time before the end of a By The Gods, or that time when we auctioned the 'Bitch' and 'Let Me Entertain You' videos and raised over £100 for charity that I knew I had something special.

In 2003, a year after the final By The Gods, I launched my website - Masque Productions. A place where I could archive all of the Xena music videos I had produced over the previous five years, where they could be downloaded by anyone who wanted them.

Then about a year ago somebody stumbled upon my single Bad Girls music video and posted the link to a messageboard; I started to receive requests to make another, I was more than happy to comply, in fact I made another nine.

And then I found YouTube.

I posted all of the Bad Girls videos and later the Xena videos joined them. I watched in total fascination as the viewing figures grew, the comments appeared and people subscribed to my 'channel'.

About six months ago there was an influx of comments for 'Right Kind Of Wrong' and when I checked the page the viewing figures had shot up by thousands, upon reading the comments I discovered that afterellen.com had picked the music video as the Lesbian YouTube 'Video of The Week'. Cool.

Back in February Bad Girls premiered on the LOGO channel in the United States, and in honour of this momentus occasion afterellen.com selected my 'I Will Survive' music video as an overview of the series. Very cool.

This weekend I received an email from a friend letting me know that afterellen.com had a small article about the Dinah Shore weekend that Renee O'Connor had attended; and in order to refresh memories of Xena: Warrior Princess they featured my 'I Turn To You' video. I think they like me over there, or at least they like my videos, which is still cool.

And so I will just take this opportunity to say thank you to Sarah Warn over at afterellen.com, as she seems to be the one who selects my videos. I'm glad she enjoys them.

Anyways, as I struggle with vague lyrics in a beautiful song and limited footage from dubious sources and a fandom that doesn't lend itself to making music videos, it was nice to be reminded why I do this. It's because I like to tell the story another way.

And because I'm still a geek and a fan girl at heart, and still very proud.

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