I have a commentary! EEEE!

[sholio]

leesa_perrie did a DVD-style commentary for my SGA/Knight Rider AU "Knights Errant"; commentary, with link to original story, can be read here.

What's really kind of cool here (well, besides "EEEEE! Commentary! On my story!") is that there's a lot about these external "DVD commentary"-type things that I'd never really gotten before seeing one of my own and reading through it in detail. The thing is, I'd never been that interested in doing DVD commentaries of my own fic (an occasional short "making of the fic" post is about the closest I want to come to it) and never read more than bits and pieces of others' commentaries. This is not because I don't like them -- actually, I find the whole idea very interesting, and more power to people for doing them -- but I just don't really seem to fan in that way, most of the time. (Every time I make a blanket statement like that, I keep finding exceptions. So now I put the disclaimer in there rather than looking like an idiot later on. *g*)

But the DVD commentaries by readers are different! They're like a review! And I love reviews! Heaven knows why, but I read them obsessively -- reviews of fic (mine, other people's), fic recs, reviews of movies and TV. And this is like the longest, most detailed review ever.

I never wanted to do one before! But now I do, and I'm browsing down the list of authors to see if there's anyone whose story I want to annotate. This is COOL. I really don't think I ever got why people do this before, but now I do -- or (editing my post to be more accurate here) I've found a toehold for me on a fannish practice that I'd never really participated in before. Of course I can't presume to speak for other people's motivations, but it's more meaningful to me, personally, now.