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[skygiants]

Once again I have reaped a BUMPER crop off Festivids and I'm so delighted by all of them!

Wannabe is a fantastic vid for my perfect Talk of the Town OT3 that made me shriek with delight at various points while experiencing it. The exchange of smirks across the courtroom during 'I wanna zig a zig a'!

Drive It Like You Stole It is a vid for the Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint webtoon, the thing I absolutely least expected to get and I am so thrilled by it; the technical skill involved absolutely blew me away and! also! it is simply so funny!

20 Years is a Jumanji vid that, without exaggeration, made me cry, and then made me cry again when I watched it with genarti twenty minutes later, I'm so glad I don't have to try and explain why this children's film series gives me enormous feelings anymore and can just point people to this vid instead

I have by no means had time to watch everything in the collection but while I'm here and sliding under the wire before reveals, a few others from the ones I've watched that I really liked:

nameless bodies, unremembered rooms is the only Andor vid I was sure it was legal for me to watch (we haven't seen the last two episodes yet!) and I am so glad I got to see it and re-experience Emotions about the prison arc

Trees did a great job of making me Feel Wonder not in spite of but with/because of the truly phenomenally 80s effects of the BBC Narnia 1988 show (my childhood!)

Another Night and On All Hallow's Eve are two extremely different Hocus Pocus vids -- the first is a celebration of the incorrigible Sanderson Sisters and the second is an aesthetic experiment in silent film and I had a great time with both

barbie world is a Locked Tomb vid and it is a masterpiece

(We) Didn't Just Come Here To Dance is an homage to the timeless, iconic choreography of Newsies On Broadway and I cherish every unnecessary chest bump

Here It Goes Again has more or less singlehandedly convinced me that I need to move Star Trek: Lower Decks higher up my watch list, what incredible chaos

Tom Paine's Bones is another great Talk of the Town vid and I simply cannot believe we got two this year ... what a blessing for me, personally

Weapon of Choice is an incredibly hypnotic Busby Berkeley dance movies vid, I could watch this for hours

Handmade is a beautiful & immersive collage of a vid for the Li Ziqi YouTube channel that makes me want to go make something with my hands immediately

That's What I Am is an ode to Victor/Victoria of Victor/Victoria, a character who is perfect to me, as is this vid

(I also loved every single one off the Everything Everywhere All At Once vids as well as all the Severance vids but there are so many .... forgive me ..... I can't carry them all .....)

Comments

[hebethen]

I was thinking to myself halfway through poking around these that a surprisingly nontrivial percentage of my music "library" consists of stuff I found through fanvids, even though I don't... really seek out fanvids on my own basically ever. I suppose you are to blame for a nontrivial percentage of the nontrivial percentage :P

[landingtree]

That Locked Tomb vid is incredible, truly a sight to behold

Edited to add: also it’s gradually becoming clear that I’m going to be a fan of the Mointain Goats someday, it hasn’t happened yet, but I keep on running into them, this Andor vid is one more straw on the absence-of-a-mountain goat’s back.

[goodbyebird]

Currently working my way through the sources I've watched, and my god, the skill these vidders have!

[kate_nepveu]

I always mean to watch vids and somehow never do, but I'm keeping this post open for the recs!

[osprey_archer]

That Jumanji vid is such a gut punch.

Also YES you should absolutely move Star Trek: Lower Decks higher on your watch list, incredible chaos indeed! They understood the assignment and they truly went for it.

[alias_sqbr]

Thanks, these were great! And you should definitely watch Lower Decks :)

[jazzfish]

Holy cats that Weapon Of Choice vid. I thought it was impossible to improve on Chris Walken in a hotel lobby, and I was o so wrong.

[rachelmanija]

So what I'm getting is I should watch Jumanji, huh? I thought it was the kind of extremely broad comedy I don't like but it looks like it also involves emotions?

[rachelmanija]

The Everything Everywhere All At Once vids are really great.

[skygiants]

I will gladly take that credit! :P (it tends to be how I discover a lot of new music too tbh ....)

[skygiants]

IT'S SUCH A WORK OF ART

I used to be a person who had one or two Mountain Goats songs they really liked and was otherwise indifferent to them, and now, I regret to say, I am a person who is a fan of The Mountain Goats ... the undertow is difficult to resist!

[skygiants]

RIGHT?? EVERYONE'S SO GOOD

[skygiants]

Time-based media is tricky! I am grateful to the reveal deadline for giving me the impetus to actually sit down and work my way through a bunch (and the small size of the collection, which always gives me hope that I'll actually make it before the deadline, unlike with Yuletide which I know I never will.)

[skygiants]

THEY'RE ALL SO GOOD

[skygiants]

Twenty years! Twenty YEARS.

I've been really wanting to! It felt like I should wait until I finished Voyager but perhaps ... they could overlap ....

[skygiants]

Glad you enjoyed them! :D It's definitely on my list -- the next Star Trek I want to see after we finish Voyager, for sure but we'll see if I end up waiting that long.

[skygiants]

The absolutely hypnotic geometric patterns!!

[skygiants]

asjd;kfldj okay so I don't want to mislead you, it's not that it isn't a broad children's comedy but it definitely also involves emotions and quite a bit of stealth horror -- the emotional heart of Jumanji is "two children play cursed game, both of them spend the next several decades trapped in their worst moment (one emotionally and the other one quite literally in a haunted nightmare jungle), the only way out is to confront their shared terror and guilt and accept responsibility for themselves and others" ... I would posit: it's good! I care about them quite a lot!

[rachelmanija]

HMMM this actually sounds kind of up my alley.

[osprey_archer]

Do it do it do

[skygiants]

I truly think it might be!! It's the reason the movie has stuck with me for twenty years (the other reason being that I watched it approximately nine times the year it came out) despite the fact that so much of it IS also "and now our living room is trampled by elephants."

(ETA: for specificity's sake, I'm mostly talking about the 1995 Jumanji here, which is the one that most feels like it has a Steven King short story at its heart -- I like the later ones too and they do have some of this also but the balance of wacky :: creepy/bittersweet is very differently weighted.)

Thanks for the recs

[eileenlufkin]

I enjoyed watching these!