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Feb. 8th, 2025 08:02 pmFor Festivids this year I made Campaign Playlist for ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
seekingferret, a D&D movie vid that functions as a.) a shout out to a.) the work my past DMs have put into setting up music for our campaigns and b.) a lament about how difficult it is to find anything viddable in the many, many D&D playlists on YouTube.
The actual playlist is now up in Chapter 2 of the work on AO3; if you do nothing else I encourage you to check out Hi De Hi Hi De Ho Hit That Goblin With The Old Banjo, my favorite banger discovered over the course of this project. Thanks toshati and genarti for beta help, jothra for being the inspirational DM in question, and scribe and feedingonwind for patiently listening to me complain about how scribe's Disaster Party was ALREADY the best meta vid for the D&D movie and it was cruel of anybody to ask me to make another
seekingferret, a D&D movie vid that functions as a.) a shout out to a.) the work my past DMs have put into setting up music for our campaigns and b.) a lament about how difficult it is to find anything viddable in the many, many D&D playlists on YouTube. The actual playlist is now up in Chapter 2 of the work on AO3; if you do nothing else I encourage you to check out Hi De Hi Hi De Ho Hit That Goblin With The Old Banjo, my favorite banger discovered over the course of this project. Thanks to
shati and genarti for beta help, jothra for being the inspirational DM in question, and scribe and feedingonwind for patiently listening to me complain about how scribe's Disaster Party was ALREADY the best meta vid for the D&D movie and it was cruel of anybody to ask me to make another(no subject)
Feb. 6th, 2025 08:22 pmIt's Festivids! I received two extremely delightful Court Jester vids -- Make 'Em Laugh and Better Not Wake The Baby -- both in their own ways replete with incredibly good jokes and beautiful encapsulations of the Particular Energy of this movie.
There are also a bunch of other great vids this year; I haven't had a chance to watch all the ones I wanted yet but here's a bunch I enjoyed from my first pass:
You Told The Drunks I Knew Karate (Derry Girls)
nearly impossible to go wrong with a You Told The Drunks I Knew Karate vid and this is perhaps the perfect source for it
Fabulous (Derry Girls)
Sister Michael is so majestic
Next Episode (Murderbot)
really impressed by the conceit and the technical skill on display
Phantom Stranger (Severance)
creeped me the hell out [enormously laudatory]
Cross My Heart I Hope U Die (Severance)
incredible evocation of the entire thriller that is The Helly Show
The Hour is Yours (Severance)
great joke until it isn't in the best possible way
We Were Here (Space Sweepers)
beautiful vid that filled me with Emotion about this movie and all the very hot people in it
The Spear Cuts Through Water (The Spear Cuts Through Water)
beautiful book vid that evokes all the layers of the source text
Perfect Femme (Stick It)
it IS a femininomenon!! made me immediately want to go rewatch the whole movie
Arnaq (True Detective: Night Country)
I've not actually seen this show but the vid gave me chills
There are also a bunch of other great vids this year; I haven't had a chance to watch all the ones I wanted yet but here's a bunch I enjoyed from my first pass:
You Told The Drunks I Knew Karate (Derry Girls)
nearly impossible to go wrong with a You Told The Drunks I Knew Karate vid and this is perhaps the perfect source for it
Fabulous (Derry Girls)
Sister Michael is so majestic
Next Episode (Murderbot)
really impressed by the conceit and the technical skill on display
Phantom Stranger (Severance)
creeped me the hell out [enormously laudatory]
Cross My Heart I Hope U Die (Severance)
incredible evocation of the entire thriller that is The Helly Show
The Hour is Yours (Severance)
great joke until it isn't in the best possible way
We Were Here (Space Sweepers)
beautiful vid that filled me with Emotion about this movie and all the very hot people in it
The Spear Cuts Through Water (The Spear Cuts Through Water)
beautiful book vid that evokes all the layers of the source text
Perfect Femme (Stick It)
it IS a femininomenon!! made me immediately want to go rewatch the whole movie
Arnaq (True Detective: Night Country)
I've not actually seen this show but the vid gave me chills
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Feb. 12th, 2024 10:53 pmFor Festivids this year I spent weeks trying to find the perfect song that combined 'thirties vibes,' 'murder vibes,' and 'lesbian vibes,' and then threw up my hands and vidded Couple of Mirrors (the romance novelist/lesbian assassin cdrama) to "Anything Goes":
I think of this as sort of the 'once as farce' flip side of the Chicago Typewriter vid I made a few years ago: once again we've got snipers and swing dancing and newsboy hats and homoeroticism and will the rising violent chaos have any lasting impact on the central romance? It absolutely will not, let's finish up this gunfight in the middle of the street and go right back to cute lesbian domesticity and arguments over what kind of soap to buy at the store!
Anyway I had a great time making it, many thanks toshati for the beta and genarti for kindly agreeing to rewatch the entire series with me as prep, a great time in and of itself.
I did not have time to make a Festivids rec post this year before reveals for anything but my own gifts, but it's really an incredible collection this year -- the several fantastic Moby Dick vids and the several fantastic Shakespeare vids alone would be enough by themselves to make this feel like a banner year to me tbh even without the various other delights I've come across -- and I recommend taking the time to roll around in it!
I think of this as sort of the 'once as farce' flip side of the Chicago Typewriter vid I made a few years ago: once again we've got snipers and swing dancing and newsboy hats and homoeroticism and will the rising violent chaos have any lasting impact on the central romance? It absolutely will not, let's finish up this gunfight in the middle of the street and go right back to cute lesbian domesticity and arguments over what kind of soap to buy at the store!
Anyway I had a great time making it, many thanks to
shati for the beta and genarti for kindly agreeing to rewatch the entire series with me as prep, a great time in and of itself.I did not have time to make a Festivids rec post this year before reveals for anything but my own gifts, but it's really an incredible collection this year -- the several fantastic Moby Dick vids and the several fantastic Shakespeare vids alone would be enough by themselves to make this feel like a banner year to me tbh even without the various other delights I've come across -- and I recommend taking the time to roll around in it!
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Feb. 4th, 2024 10:34 amIt's been a week of gifts and delights for me! First, sophia_sol bound my story "Suradanna and the Sea" -- published online in The Fantasist in 2016, but never available in a print version -- into a couple of really beautiful physical books as their first bookbinding project, and sent me one of the copies, which arrived yesterday.
Up until The Iron Children, "Suradanna" was the longest thing I'd ever written/published and I think perhaps the best, and I am so unbelievably delighted that it will now get to live in my house and not just on my computer, and thatsophia_sol chose it of all the things that live on the computer to bind. I have just been Gazing at it all morning and will probably spend the rest of my Sunday doing so at intermittent intervals.
And, speaking of things that live on the computer: it's Festivids time and despite being a criminal who never actually posted my Festivids letter I have received not one but not two vids as gifts:
1. An Eye for An Eye -- this is a Romeo + Juliet (1996) vid that's using all of Luhrmann's symbolism to make a really interesting and thoughtful argument about the meta-arc and cosmology of the play; it's an extremely cool work of vid-as-essay and is definitely going to be living in my head whenever I watch the movie again
2. Boys Keep Swinging -- all I can say about this frankly is that my cross-production Twelfth Night fanvid last year walked so that this vid could RUN, I am just rolling gleefully around like Scrooge McDuck in my pile of Rosalinds, PLEASE go check it out, it's everything that I always want As You Like It to be!
AND, speaking of Shakespeare -- this last one is not a gift for me in particular except for all the ways that it is, but I have been having the world's best time with Emails from an Actor, a real-time readalong of various books published from Within The Experience Of Participating In the 1964 John Gielgud-Richard Burton production of Hamlet.
The two books in question are Letters from an Actor by William Redfield, a moderately famous actor who played Guildenstern in the show, and John Gielgud Directs Richard Burton In Hamlet: A Journal of Rehearsals, by Richard L. Sterne, who had more or less just graduated acting school at the time and was playing A Gentleman.
The joy of Redfield is that he has five million opinions about everything, especially his colleagues. He will drop into monologue at the drop of a hat and it WILL contain some of the wildest sentences that you have ever seen in your life. We are only one week into the project and I have already forced people to experience a number of Redfield quotes against their will, ( which I will give you a sampling of here )
The joy of Sterne is that, while his prose is very restrained and documentarian compared to Redfields, he SECRETLY SMUGGLED A TAPE RECORDER DISGUISED AS A BRIEFCASE with him into every rehearsal so he's putting down direct quotes. Many of these are just genuinely interesting thoughts and conversations about Hamlet staging but also sometimes they're completely different from the 'Gielgud said' as reported by Redfield, which is just a great time every time for me personally.
I know many of us at this juncture are burned out on email newsletter fiction but if you have any interest in Hamlet, in the actual process of putting together a theatrical production, or in wild and funny opinions held by B-tier theatrical actors in the 1960s, I cannot more highly recommend this experience.
sophia_sol bound my story "Suradanna and the Sea" -- published online in The Fantasist in 2016, but never available in a print version -- into a couple of really beautiful physical books as their first bookbinding project, and sent me one of the copies, which arrived yesterday. Up until The Iron Children, "Suradanna" was the longest thing I'd ever written/published and I think perhaps the best, and I am so unbelievably delighted that it will now get to live in my house and not just on my computer, and that
sophia_sol chose it of all the things that live on the computer to bind. I have just been Gazing at it all morning and will probably spend the rest of my Sunday doing so at intermittent intervals. And, speaking of things that live on the computer: it's Festivids time and despite being a criminal who never actually posted my Festivids letter I have received not one but not two vids as gifts:
1. An Eye for An Eye -- this is a Romeo + Juliet (1996) vid that's using all of Luhrmann's symbolism to make a really interesting and thoughtful argument about the meta-arc and cosmology of the play; it's an extremely cool work of vid-as-essay and is definitely going to be living in my head whenever I watch the movie again
2. Boys Keep Swinging -- all I can say about this frankly is that my cross-production Twelfth Night fanvid last year walked so that this vid could RUN, I am just rolling gleefully around like Scrooge McDuck in my pile of Rosalinds, PLEASE go check it out, it's everything that I always want As You Like It to be!
AND, speaking of Shakespeare -- this last one is not a gift for me in particular except for all the ways that it is, but I have been having the world's best time with Emails from an Actor, a real-time readalong of various books published from Within The Experience Of Participating In the 1964 John Gielgud-Richard Burton production of Hamlet.
The two books in question are Letters from an Actor by William Redfield, a moderately famous actor who played Guildenstern in the show, and John Gielgud Directs Richard Burton In Hamlet: A Journal of Rehearsals, by Richard L. Sterne, who had more or less just graduated acting school at the time and was playing A Gentleman.
The joy of Redfield is that he has five million opinions about everything, especially his colleagues. He will drop into monologue at the drop of a hat and it WILL contain some of the wildest sentences that you have ever seen in your life. We are only one week into the project and I have already forced people to experience a number of Redfield quotes against their will, ( which I will give you a sampling of here )
The joy of Sterne is that, while his prose is very restrained and documentarian compared to Redfields, he SECRETLY SMUGGLED A TAPE RECORDER DISGUISED AS A BRIEFCASE with him into every rehearsal so he's putting down direct quotes. Many of these are just genuinely interesting thoughts and conversations about Hamlet staging but also sometimes they're completely different from the 'Gielgud said' as reported by Redfield, which is just a great time every time for me personally.
I know many of us at this juncture are burned out on email newsletter fiction but if you have any interest in Hamlet, in the actual process of putting together a theatrical production, or in wild and funny opinions held by B-tier theatrical actors in the 1960s, I cannot more highly recommend this experience.
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Feb. 4th, 2023 04:37 pmAnd to follow up: I also made a vid this year! (for scribe, making me two for two this winter on 'going to someone's house and lying to their face about the fact that I had not been assigned to them in a fandom holiday exchange' ... friendship is a wondrous thing).
(Also on AO3 here)
This is the first proper multi-source vid I have made and also gave me the opportunity to collect a dragon's hoard of Twelfth Nights; since I got some questions in comments, a breakdown of the sources is as follows as well as my impressions of skimming through them very fast looking for matchable clips:
Twelfth Night (1996 film): baby Helena Bonham Carter is here, and also Toby Stephens and Imogen Stubbs. A perfectly solid Twelfth Night with a lot of great moustachio'd-Viola footage but unhelpfully mixes & mashes up its scenes in such a way that I had a hard time finding the most homoerotic visuals until it was almost too late. Antonio is sad at the end, which is helpful, but the camera is very zoomed out and focused on Ben Kingsley while he does it, which is not
Twelfth Night (National Theater Live 2017): this is the one with Tamsin Grieg as Malvolia! I was already fond of this one and got fonder because it was both my highest quality source (visually) and also my most dynamic (in terms of movement and staging; bless the Orsino/Viola boxing scene) and also EVERYONE makes out and visibly emotes and pines at each other in ways that are very clear and viddable, though it still zooms out too far on sad Antonio at the end
Twelfth Night (Royal Shakespeare Company 2017): this is the one with vaguely Ottoman costuming where Viola wears a gold robe and cute little maroon hat; desperately want to see it in full but unfortunately could only find the couple of scenes that they put up on YouTube, which, fortunately for me, were all very homoerotic. Very sad I couldn't fit Orsino painting artistic male nudes into the vid but sometimes one has to murder a darling
Twelfth Night (Public Theater 2018): I got to see this musical version live a few years ago and I'm SO sad the clips that are up on YouTube are so minimal, and for some reason very focused on Sebastian, Antonio, and Malvolio, which did balance out the Royal Shakespeare Company clips that were all Viola, Orsino and Olivia ... anyway the cheery Malvolio in the car trunk, the confused Sebastian in the blue vest and the very earnest Antonio in the do-rag come from here
Twelfth Night (Globe Theater 2012): this is the all-male Extremely Historically Accurate production which unfortunately uses such VERY stylized staging and movement and such stiff camerawork that was shockingly challenging to find good clips for vidding ... felt important however to include nonetheless so whenever something clear and dramatic DID happen I tried to use it
Twelfth Night (1986 film): this is the very 80s one with the David Bowie-esque Viola where they walk off into the air at the end -- it was a very fortuitous find from YouTube which also includes a very baby Geoffrey Rush as Sir Andrew, who unfortunately did not make it into the vid although if I'd had another verse to play with I would have tried to do a sad Sir Andrew verse probably. He was adored once!
Twelfth Night | Dvenadtsataya noch (1955 film): another lucky YouTube find! This is a midcentury Soviet Twelfth Night that I really want to watch in full, I'm so curious about the adaptation choices and what they kept & cut. Unsurprisingly glories less in homoeroticism than most of my other sources, but has a lot of helpful lute-strumming footage, which does help make up for it for my purposes here ...
The Animated Tales: Twelfth Night (1992): big shout out towickedtrue who let me know that a.) this exists and b.) can be found on DailyMotion! Given that this is a whole Twelfth Night squeezed into thirty minutes I did not expect it to be my most important source but in fact this ended up being VITAL and without it I genuinely don't think the vid would have worked at all, those little stop-motion puppets are just so expressive and visually clear about what is happening at all times!
She's the Man (2006): God I love this stupid film. If you're not familiar with it, Amanda Bynes and Channing Tatum are here, and they're doing Twelfth Night on a soccer team, and it's a gem! and also very helpful to my specific purposes here for visually signifying We're Getting Weird With Twelfth Night!
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare (Meel Bros Pictures): special thanks to this three-minute YouTube video for children for another important Moustache Viola
Special thanks also to my betasinnerbrat, shati who kindly let me describe to her at length all the parts of the plot of Twelfth Night that do not appear in She's The Man, and aria who told me (among other very important advice) that I should have more revolving Malvolio, which is TRUE and yet tragically impossible as only one of my sources has actual footage of a Malvolio revolving! This remains my greatest regret.
scribe, making me two for two this winter on 'going to someone's house and lying to their face about the fact that I had not been assigned to them in a fandom holiday exchange' ... friendship is a wondrous thing). (Also on AO3 here)
This is the first proper multi-source vid I have made and also gave me the opportunity to collect a dragon's hoard of Twelfth Nights; since I got some questions in comments, a breakdown of the sources is as follows as well as my impressions of skimming through them very fast looking for matchable clips:
Twelfth Night (1996 film): baby Helena Bonham Carter is here, and also Toby Stephens and Imogen Stubbs. A perfectly solid Twelfth Night with a lot of great moustachio'd-Viola footage but unhelpfully mixes & mashes up its scenes in such a way that I had a hard time finding the most homoerotic visuals until it was almost too late. Antonio is sad at the end, which is helpful, but the camera is very zoomed out and focused on Ben Kingsley while he does it, which is not
Twelfth Night (National Theater Live 2017): this is the one with Tamsin Grieg as Malvolia! I was already fond of this one and got fonder because it was both my highest quality source (visually) and also my most dynamic (in terms of movement and staging; bless the Orsino/Viola boxing scene) and also EVERYONE makes out and visibly emotes and pines at each other in ways that are very clear and viddable, though it still zooms out too far on sad Antonio at the end
Twelfth Night (Royal Shakespeare Company 2017): this is the one with vaguely Ottoman costuming where Viola wears a gold robe and cute little maroon hat; desperately want to see it in full but unfortunately could only find the couple of scenes that they put up on YouTube, which, fortunately for me, were all very homoerotic. Very sad I couldn't fit Orsino painting artistic male nudes into the vid but sometimes one has to murder a darling
Twelfth Night (Public Theater 2018): I got to see this musical version live a few years ago and I'm SO sad the clips that are up on YouTube are so minimal, and for some reason very focused on Sebastian, Antonio, and Malvolio, which did balance out the Royal Shakespeare Company clips that were all Viola, Orsino and Olivia ... anyway the cheery Malvolio in the car trunk, the confused Sebastian in the blue vest and the very earnest Antonio in the do-rag come from here
Twelfth Night (Globe Theater 2012): this is the all-male Extremely Historically Accurate production which unfortunately uses such VERY stylized staging and movement and such stiff camerawork that was shockingly challenging to find good clips for vidding ... felt important however to include nonetheless so whenever something clear and dramatic DID happen I tried to use it
Twelfth Night (1986 film): this is the very 80s one with the David Bowie-esque Viola where they walk off into the air at the end -- it was a very fortuitous find from YouTube which also includes a very baby Geoffrey Rush as Sir Andrew, who unfortunately did not make it into the vid although if I'd had another verse to play with I would have tried to do a sad Sir Andrew verse probably. He was adored once!
Twelfth Night | Dvenadtsataya noch (1955 film): another lucky YouTube find! This is a midcentury Soviet Twelfth Night that I really want to watch in full, I'm so curious about the adaptation choices and what they kept & cut. Unsurprisingly glories less in homoeroticism than most of my other sources, but has a lot of helpful lute-strumming footage, which does help make up for it for my purposes here ...
The Animated Tales: Twelfth Night (1992): big shout out to
wickedtrue who let me know that a.) this exists and b.) can be found on DailyMotion! Given that this is a whole Twelfth Night squeezed into thirty minutes I did not expect it to be my most important source but in fact this ended up being VITAL and without it I genuinely don't think the vid would have worked at all, those little stop-motion puppets are just so expressive and visually clear about what is happening at all times! She's the Man (2006): God I love this stupid film. If you're not familiar with it, Amanda Bynes and Channing Tatum are here, and they're doing Twelfth Night on a soccer team, and it's a gem! and also very helpful to my specific purposes here for visually signifying We're Getting Weird With Twelfth Night!
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare (Meel Bros Pictures): special thanks to this three-minute YouTube video for children for another important Moustache Viola
Special thanks also to my betas
innerbrat, shati who kindly let me describe to her at length all the parts of the plot of Twelfth Night that do not appear in She's The Man, and aria who told me (among other very important advice) that I should have more revolving Malvolio, which is TRUE and yet tragically impossible as only one of my sources has actual footage of a Malvolio revolving! This remains my greatest regret.(no subject)
Feb. 4th, 2023 01:24 amOnce 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 withgenarti 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 .....)
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 .....)
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Oct. 23rd, 2022 08:35 amDear Festividder,
Thank you so much for making a vid for me! I will absolutely be delighted by whatever you make, and I'm really looking forward to watching it! This letter contains a variety of prompts (most copied from previous years) but please disregard absolutely anything that doesn't speak to you and make the vid of your heart.
Safety fandoms: The Talk of the Town (1942) [SAFETY], Camelot (1967) [SAFETY]
TV shows: 부암동 복수자들 | Avengers Social Club, 완벽한 아내 | Ms. Perfect
Umbrella fandom: Jumanji Movies [UMBRELLA]
Webnovels/Webtoons: 전지적 독자 시점 - 싱숑 | Omniscient Reader - Sing-Shong, 살아남은로맨스 | Surviving Romance (Webcomic)
( The Talk of the Town (1942) )
( Camelot (1967) )
( 부암동 복수자들 | Avengers Social Club )
( 완벽한 아내 | Ms. Perfect )
( Jumanji Movies [UMBRELLA] )
( 전지적 독자 시점 - 싱숑 | Omniscient Reader - Sing-Shong )
( 살아남은로맨스 | Surviving Romance (Webcomic) )
Thank you so much for making a vid for me! I will absolutely be delighted by whatever you make, and I'm really looking forward to watching it! This letter contains a variety of prompts (most copied from previous years) but please disregard absolutely anything that doesn't speak to you and make the vid of your heart.
Safety fandoms: The Talk of the Town (1942) [SAFETY], Camelot (1967) [SAFETY]
TV shows: 부암동 복수자들 | Avengers Social Club, 완벽한 아내 | Ms. Perfect
Umbrella fandom: Jumanji Movies [UMBRELLA]
Webnovels/Webtoons: 전지적 독자 시점 - 싱숑 | Omniscient Reader - Sing-Shong, 살아남은로맨스 | Surviving Romance (Webcomic)
( The Talk of the Town (1942) )
( Camelot (1967) )
( 부암동 복수자들 | Avengers Social Club )
( 완벽한 아내 | Ms. Perfect )
( Jumanji Movies [UMBRELLA] )
( 전지적 독자 시점 - 싱숑 | Omniscient Reader - Sing-Shong )
( 살아남은로맨스 | Surviving Romance (Webcomic) )
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Jan. 29th, 2022 02:25 pmHoly shit I got SIX Festivids? SIX!! I am drowning in undeserved bounty -- I made one vid in the collection, clearly not pulling my weight! -- and absolutely delighted about it.
I got a full bouquet of Much Ado vids, displaying an extremely delightful range:
Much Ado About True Love, a really charming and funny Beatrice/Benedick vid that leans beautifully into the incredible facial acting and comic timing
Anything You Can Do, just a perfect match of audio and source - competitive sneaking! competitive masquerading! competitive tasteful homoerotic bathing!
Sheila-Na-Gig, a sharp and disturbing look at the Hero & Claudius storyline that uses extremely smart editing choices to examine the gaze of the film
Girls Chase Boys, a truly delightful ensemble vid that brings some of the more backgrounded characters to the foreground while reveling in the general chaotic rom-com atmosphere of the movie
And, to top it off, I also got two incredible Muppet Treasure Island vids:
Sailing for Adventure, an instrumental vid that uses the Pirates of the Caribbean theme to incredible effect to capture the arc of the film -- I seal-clapped at the shot of Kermit heroically frog-leaping to the clashing fight percussion, but the whole thing is gold
In the Pirates, another perfect match of sound and source that makes such effective use of the Muppet version of "In The Navy" that I would genuinely believe this was a Muppets' own promo for the film
Thank you so much for everyone who vidded for me, I have spent my whole morning just reveling in my riches while the snow swirls around outside: ideal January activities, IMO.
I got a full bouquet of Much Ado vids, displaying an extremely delightful range:
Much Ado About True Love, a really charming and funny Beatrice/Benedick vid that leans beautifully into the incredible facial acting and comic timing
Anything You Can Do, just a perfect match of audio and source - competitive sneaking! competitive masquerading! competitive tasteful homoerotic bathing!
Sheila-Na-Gig, a sharp and disturbing look at the Hero & Claudius storyline that uses extremely smart editing choices to examine the gaze of the film
Girls Chase Boys, a truly delightful ensemble vid that brings some of the more backgrounded characters to the foreground while reveling in the general chaotic rom-com atmosphere of the movie
And, to top it off, I also got two incredible Muppet Treasure Island vids:
Sailing for Adventure, an instrumental vid that uses the Pirates of the Caribbean theme to incredible effect to capture the arc of the film -- I seal-clapped at the shot of Kermit heroically frog-leaping to the clashing fight percussion, but the whole thing is gold
In the Pirates, another perfect match of sound and source that makes such effective use of the Muppet version of "In The Navy" that I would genuinely believe this was a Muppets' own promo for the film
Thank you so much for everyone who vidded for me, I have spent my whole morning just reveling in my riches while the snow swirls around outside: ideal January activities, IMO.
(no subject)
Oct. 23rd, 2021 10:59 pmDear Festividder,
Thank you so much for making a vid for me! I will absolutely be delighted by whatever you make, and I'm really looking forward to watching it! This letter contains a variety of prompts (most copied from previous years) but please disregard absolutely anything that doesn't speak to you and make the vid of your heart.
Safety fandoms: Into the Woods (1991) [SAFETY], Jumanji (1995) [SAFETY], Much Ado About Nothing (1993) [SAFETY], Muppet Treasure Island (1996) [SAFETY], Notre-Dame de Paris (1999) [SAFETY]
TV shows: 힐러 | Healer, 부암동 복수자들 | Avengers Social Club (TV)
( Into the Woods (1991) )
( Jumanji (1995 )
( Much Ado About Nothing (1993) )
( Muppet Treasure Island )
( Notre-Dame de Paris )
( 힐러 | Healer )
( 부암동 복수자들 | Avengers Social Club )
Thank you so much for making a vid for me! I will absolutely be delighted by whatever you make, and I'm really looking forward to watching it! This letter contains a variety of prompts (most copied from previous years) but please disregard absolutely anything that doesn't speak to you and make the vid of your heart.
Safety fandoms: Into the Woods (1991) [SAFETY], Jumanji (1995) [SAFETY], Much Ado About Nothing (1993) [SAFETY], Muppet Treasure Island (1996) [SAFETY], Notre-Dame de Paris (1999) [SAFETY]
TV shows: 힐러 | Healer, 부암동 복수자들 | Avengers Social Club (TV)
( Into the Woods (1991) )
( Jumanji (1995 )
( Much Ado About Nothing (1993) )
( Muppet Treasure Island )
( Notre-Dame de Paris )
( 힐러 | Healer )
( 부암동 복수자들 | Avengers Social Club )
(no subject)
Feb. 6th, 2021 01:44 pmFor Festivids this year I made "Sunset Curve Never Gone Tour" for bessyboo, a Julie and the Phantoms vid about the power of friendship and nineties pop-rock!
On Tumblr | On AO3
(I am very grateful for TRULY invaluable beta commentary fromshati and bluestalking which ensured that this vid was not ENTIRELY three minutes of incomprehensible dance numbers.)
For those of you who have not previously experienced Julie and the Phantoms: this show is an all-Kenny-Ortega-all-the-time spectacular (Kenny Ortega being the mastermind behind eternal classics Newsies, Hocus Pocus, and the High School Musical trilogy, among others) about a nineties boyband that suffers a collective tragic demise after an encounter with some bad hot dogs on the eve of their breakout performance.
Fortunately, they get a second chance when teen musician Julie accidentally summons their ghosts twenty years later, and they make the subsequent discovery that they can appear to the public IF and only if they are Jamming Onstage with Julie. Hijinks, ghost shenanigans, and large number of enthusiastic dance numbers ensue!
Subplots include but are not limited to:
- the band helping Julie reconnect to music after losing her groove in the aftermath of her mother's death
- a probably-doomed romance between Julie and a ghost boyband member
- a possibly-doomed romance between a ghost boyband member and a fellow ghost lad
- warm family and friendship vibes between Julie, her best friend (eventually ghost-aware), her little brother (ghost-suspicious), and her dad (completely ghost-oblivious but very supportive!)
- an evil ghost hotelier who wants to compel the band into an eternity of musical ghost indentured servitude!
Obviously if you put "Kenny Ortega" and "ghost shenanigans" into the same sentence I am always going to be there with bells on, but I would genuinely recommend the show to anyone looking for some warm quarantimes entertainment. Eight half-hour episodes in season 1 and each of them is a solid 20% bops!
bessyboo, a Julie and the Phantoms vid about the power of friendship and nineties pop-rock! On Tumblr | On AO3
(I am very grateful for TRULY invaluable beta commentary from
shati and bluestalking which ensured that this vid was not ENTIRELY three minutes of incomprehensible dance numbers.)For those of you who have not previously experienced Julie and the Phantoms: this show is an all-Kenny-Ortega-all-the-time spectacular (Kenny Ortega being the mastermind behind eternal classics Newsies, Hocus Pocus, and the High School Musical trilogy, among others) about a nineties boyband that suffers a collective tragic demise after an encounter with some bad hot dogs on the eve of their breakout performance.
Fortunately, they get a second chance when teen musician Julie accidentally summons their ghosts twenty years later, and they make the subsequent discovery that they can appear to the public IF and only if they are Jamming Onstage with Julie. Hijinks, ghost shenanigans, and large number of enthusiastic dance numbers ensue!
Subplots include but are not limited to:
- the band helping Julie reconnect to music after losing her groove in the aftermath of her mother's death
- a probably-doomed romance between Julie and a ghost boyband member
- a possibly-doomed romance between a ghost boyband member and a fellow ghost lad
- warm family and friendship vibes between Julie, her best friend (eventually ghost-aware), her little brother (ghost-suspicious), and her dad (completely ghost-oblivious but very supportive!)
- an evil ghost hotelier who wants to compel the band into an eternity of musical ghost indentured servitude!
Obviously if you put "Kenny Ortega" and "ghost shenanigans" into the same sentence I am always going to be there with bells on, but I would genuinely recommend the show to anyone looking for some warm quarantimes entertainment. Eight half-hour episodes in season 1 and each of them is a solid 20% bops!
(no subject)
Jan. 30th, 2021 12:07 pmFour festivids for me this year? FOUR? All PERFECTION? I am completely overcome, I've done nothing all morning except watch them over and over.
Three of them are Hotel del Luna vids, each stunningly glorious perfection in its own way: "twice as tragedy and once as farce," is what I said togenarti this morning once I'd woken her up and demanded she allow me to screen my bounty for her.
Diamond focuses on the tragedy of Jang Man-Wol and her 1300 years of attempting to get revenge or otherwise work through it (badly!); it is gorgeous with knife-sharp editing and, also, coincidentally, many knives!
Aren't Captives is a really beautiful spoken-word poetry vid about one of my favorite B-plots, in which two teen ghosts (one of whom has come into permanent possession of a living body) fall in love, and is exactly as haunting in every respect as it should be.
Both of these are extremely beautiful vids that are very much about grief and loss; as a palate-cleaner, there is also:
Motel 6, a series of advertisements for our favorite ghost hotel that is one of the most galaxy brain things I've ever seen, I too felt like I was ascending to another plane every time I got hit with another perfect joke or incredible shot of someone doing the OK-hand.
In addition to these HDL riches, I also received a vid for Jumanji (1995):
Still Beating, a vid that looks at this nonsense children's movie replete with 90s special effects and pulls out of it exactly the heartwrenching second-chance story that has had me completely fucked up about Jumanji-of-all-things since I was ten years old.
And now it is nine in the evening and I've spent almost the entire day just freewheeling back and forth between Hotel del Luna feelings and Jumanji feelings. Thank you, mystery vidders, I'm so delighted!
Three of them are Hotel del Luna vids, each stunningly glorious perfection in its own way: "twice as tragedy and once as farce," is what I said to
genarti this morning once I'd woken her up and demanded she allow me to screen my bounty for her. Diamond focuses on the tragedy of Jang Man-Wol and her 1300 years of attempting to get revenge or otherwise work through it (badly!); it is gorgeous with knife-sharp editing and, also, coincidentally, many knives!
Aren't Captives is a really beautiful spoken-word poetry vid about one of my favorite B-plots, in which two teen ghosts (one of whom has come into permanent possession of a living body) fall in love, and is exactly as haunting in every respect as it should be.
Both of these are extremely beautiful vids that are very much about grief and loss; as a palate-cleaner, there is also:
Motel 6, a series of advertisements for our favorite ghost hotel that is one of the most galaxy brain things I've ever seen, I too felt like I was ascending to another plane every time I got hit with another perfect joke or incredible shot of someone doing the OK-hand.
In addition to these HDL riches, I also received a vid for Jumanji (1995):
Still Beating, a vid that looks at this nonsense children's movie replete with 90s special effects and pulls out of it exactly the heartwrenching second-chance story that has had me completely fucked up about Jumanji-of-all-things since I was ten years old.
And now it is nine in the evening and I've spent almost the entire day just freewheeling back and forth between Hotel del Luna feelings and Jumanji feelings. Thank you, mystery vidders, I'm so delighted!
(no subject)
Oct. 24th, 2020 10:47 pmDear Festividder,
Thank you so much for making a vid for me! I will absolutely be delighted by whatever you make, and I'm really looking forward to watching it! Bits of this letter are copied from previous years, bits are all-new, disregard absolutely anything that doesn't speak to you and make the vid of your heart.
Safety fandoms: Notre-Dame de Paris (1999), Into the Woods (1991), Jumanji (1995)
TV shows: 7 Seeds, 미스터 션샤인 | Mr. Sunshine (TV), 힐러 | Healer, 시카고 타자기 | Chicago Typewriter (TV), 호텔 델루나 | Hotel Del Luna (TV)
( Notre-Dame de Paris )
( Into the Woods (1991) )
( Jumanji (1995 )
( 7 Seeds )
( 미스터 션샤인 | Mr. Sunshine (TV) )
( 힐러 | Healer )
( 시카고 타자기 | Chicago Typewriter )
( 호텔 델루나 | Hotel Del Luna )
Thank you so much for making a vid for me! I will absolutely be delighted by whatever you make, and I'm really looking forward to watching it! Bits of this letter are copied from previous years, bits are all-new, disregard absolutely anything that doesn't speak to you and make the vid of your heart.
Safety fandoms: Notre-Dame de Paris (1999), Into the Woods (1991), Jumanji (1995)
TV shows: 7 Seeds, 미스터 션샤인 | Mr. Sunshine (TV), 힐러 | Healer, 시카고 타자기 | Chicago Typewriter (TV), 호텔 델루나 | Hotel Del Luna (TV)
( Notre-Dame de Paris )
( Into the Woods (1991) )
( Jumanji (1995 )
( 7 Seeds )
( 미스터 션샤인 | Mr. Sunshine (TV) )
( 힐러 | Healer )
( 시카고 타자기 | Chicago Typewriter )
( 호텔 델루나 | Hotel Del Luna )
(no subject)
Feb. 1st, 2020 10:12 pmFor Festivids this year I made "what's to come" for trelkez, a Jesus/Judas vid for the 2018 Jesus Christ Superstar Live performance set to, uh, Tegan and Sara's song "Superstar."
ME, STARING AT MY SONG CHOICE: idk, should I really do this? It feels very unsubtle ...
genarti: You can't be too unsubtle! It's Andrew Lloyd Webber!
ME, ONE WEEK LATER, STARING AT MY DRAFT: idk, should I tone it down a little? It feels very dramatic ...
genarti: You can't be too dramatic! It's Andrew Lloyd Webber!
I'd enjoyed the performance a lot when I saw it, and I thought it would be fun to vid, so I hadn't really thought twice about offering it as a fandom. It was somewhat to my surprise that once I started working on it, I began to feel some kind of way about making this vid as a Jewish person; more and more it became, for me, a vid specifically about some Jewish guys, and the thing they started that got very intense on them very fast.
In related news,feedingonwind and shati both provided absolutely invaluable beta feedback for this vid but shati in particular is the person who talked me out of using 'tfw when your boyfriend starts a cult and then you try and put the brakes on and end up just making a bigger, weirder cult' as my summary on AO3.
(On AO3) (On Tumblr)
trelkez, a Jesus/Judas vid for the 2018 Jesus Christ Superstar Live performance set to, uh, Tegan and Sara's song "Superstar."ME, STARING AT MY SONG CHOICE: idk, should I really do this? It feels very unsubtle ...
genarti: You can't be too unsubtle! It's Andrew Lloyd Webber! ME, ONE WEEK LATER, STARING AT MY DRAFT: idk, should I tone it down a little? It feels very dramatic ...
genarti: You can't be too dramatic! It's Andrew Lloyd Webber!I'd enjoyed the performance a lot when I saw it, and I thought it would be fun to vid, so I hadn't really thought twice about offering it as a fandom. It was somewhat to my surprise that once I started working on it, I began to feel some kind of way about making this vid as a Jewish person; more and more it became, for me, a vid specifically about some Jewish guys, and the thing they started that got very intense on them very fast.
In related news,
feedingonwind and shati both provided absolutely invaluable beta feedback for this vid but shati in particular is the person who talked me out of using 'tfw when your boyfriend starts a cult and then you try and put the brakes on and end up just making a bigger, weirder cult' as my summary on AO3. (On AO3) (On Tumblr)
(no subject)
Feb. 1st, 2020 12:26 pmahhhh I super meant to make my Festivids rec post before reveals happened, but I haven't actually looked at anyone's names yet so we'll just pretend I actually did finish composing this under the wire!
I received not one but two extremely delightful vids:
Slow Hope, for the recent anime adaptation of my beloved 7 Seeds, which does an incredible job pulling out the gorgeous landscapes and atmosphere of the show and the key theme of the relationships that pull you through impossible times
Me Oyen, Me Escuchen, a Los Espookys vid which you should all go watch if my post about it from a few months ago even moderately intrigued you because it will give you a better sense of the bizarre, affectionate, exuberant mood of the show than anything I could have possibly said
I have not had a chance to watch through the entire collection but I did see a bunch of others that delighted me particularly, including but not limited to:
Hello My Old Heart - both Moana vids were really good this year but this one was my favorite for the nonlinear storytelling and the thematic build
Nothing But the Water - a beautiful Underground vid focusing on Ernestine that manages to both capture the complexities of her character and give her a moment of grace
We're Here, But Should We Have Come? - I've never seen Travel Man but the comic timing on this vid is so brilliant that it absolutely doesn't matter
Good As Hell - also true for this Midsommar vid; a gem and a work of art
Grounds for Divorce - David Tennant's Hamlet, A+ atmosphere and use of thematic symbolism
They're On Their Way - Muppet Treasure Island is my absolute favorite Muppet movie and this my new favorite Muppet vid
...and now I have to go to chorus practice so the vid that I made will wait until tonight!
I received not one but two extremely delightful vids:
Slow Hope, for the recent anime adaptation of my beloved 7 Seeds, which does an incredible job pulling out the gorgeous landscapes and atmosphere of the show and the key theme of the relationships that pull you through impossible times
Me Oyen, Me Escuchen, a Los Espookys vid which you should all go watch if my post about it from a few months ago even moderately intrigued you because it will give you a better sense of the bizarre, affectionate, exuberant mood of the show than anything I could have possibly said
I have not had a chance to watch through the entire collection but I did see a bunch of others that delighted me particularly, including but not limited to:
Hello My Old Heart - both Moana vids were really good this year but this one was my favorite for the nonlinear storytelling and the thematic build
Nothing But the Water - a beautiful Underground vid focusing on Ernestine that manages to both capture the complexities of her character and give her a moment of grace
We're Here, But Should We Have Come? - I've never seen Travel Man but the comic timing on this vid is so brilliant that it absolutely doesn't matter
Good As Hell - also true for this Midsommar vid; a gem and a work of art
Grounds for Divorce - David Tennant's Hamlet, A+ atmosphere and use of thematic symbolism
They're On Their Way - Muppet Treasure Island is my absolute favorite Muppet movie and this my new favorite Muppet vid
...and now I have to go to chorus practice so the vid that I made will wait until tonight!
(no subject)
Oct. 25th, 2019 10:49 pmDear Festividder,
Thank you so much for making a vid for me! I will absolutely be delighted by whatever you make, and I'm really looking forward to watching it! Bits of this letter are copied from previous years, bits are all-new, disregard absolutely anything that doesn't speak to you and make the vid of your heart.
Safety fandoms: Notre-Dame de Paris (1999), Muppet Treasure Island (1996)
TV shows: Los Espookys (TV), 7 Seeds, 미스터 션샤인 | Mr. Sunshine (TV), 부암동 복수자들 | Avengers Social Club, 인현왕후의男子 | Queen In Hyun's Man (TV), 힐러 | Healer
( Notre-Dame de Paris )
( Muppet Treasure Island (1996) )
( Los Espookys )
( 7 Seeds )
( 미스터 션샤인 | Mr. Sunshine (TV) )
( 부암동 복수자들 | Avengers Social Club )
( 인현왕후의男子 | Queen In Hyun's Man (TV) )
( 힐러 | Healer )
Thank you so much for making a vid for me! I will absolutely be delighted by whatever you make, and I'm really looking forward to watching it! Bits of this letter are copied from previous years, bits are all-new, disregard absolutely anything that doesn't speak to you and make the vid of your heart.
Safety fandoms: Notre-Dame de Paris (1999), Muppet Treasure Island (1996)
TV shows: Los Espookys (TV), 7 Seeds, 미스터 션샤인 | Mr. Sunshine (TV), 부암동 복수자들 | Avengers Social Club, 인현왕후의男子 | Queen In Hyun's Man (TV), 힐러 | Healer
( Notre-Dame de Paris )
( Muppet Treasure Island (1996) )
( Los Espookys )
( 7 Seeds )
( 미스터 션샤인 | Mr. Sunshine (TV) )
( 부암동 복수자들 | Avengers Social Club )
( 인현왕후의男子 | Queen In Hyun's Man (TV) )
( 힐러 | Healer )
(no subject)
Feb. 3rd, 2019 11:51 amI also made a vid for Festivids!
Title: Lockdown
Fandom: Underground (TV)
Music: Love Lockdown by Kanye West
Summary: Keep your love locked down ... you lose
(warnings for fast/stuttery cuts, graphic violence, and traumatic themes)
AO3 | Tumblr
Honestly, making and posting this vid stressed me out maybe more than any other fanwork I have ever created. Underground is an amazing show and Noah and Cato are such incredibly rich, complex characters and I was terrified of not doing that justice -- and I still don't think I actually did, but I'm glad I continued with it and finished it anyway, because the process gave me new perspective on the show and their arcs that I didn't have before beginning it.
Anyway if you're thinking of watching the show I promise it's really astoundingly good and there are some more optimistic elements in it so please don't take this vid as a guide ... to its entirety ....
Title: Lockdown
Fandom: Underground (TV)
Music: Love Lockdown by Kanye West
Summary: Keep your love locked down ... you lose
(warnings for fast/stuttery cuts, graphic violence, and traumatic themes)
AO3 | Tumblr
Honestly, making and posting this vid stressed me out maybe more than any other fanwork I have ever created. Underground is an amazing show and Noah and Cato are such incredibly rich, complex characters and I was terrified of not doing that justice -- and I still don't think I actually did, but I'm glad I continued with it and finished it anyway, because the process gave me new perspective on the show and their arcs that I didn't have before beginning it.
Anyway if you're thinking of watching the show I promise it's really astoundingly good and there are some more optimistic elements in it so please don't take this vid as a guide ... to its entirety ....
(no subject)
Feb. 1st, 2019 11:25 pmI'm so pleased with my gift for this year's Festivids! I got The Journey, a really well-edited vid which gets at a ton of what I find so fascinating about the 1956 version of Anastasia - the dense atmosphere and deep psychological ambiguity of it.
So you should all take three minutes out of your life to watch that, and then if you have some more vid-watching time to spare here under the wire before reveals tomorrow are a few other things from the collection that I liked:
Goodbye, a gorgeously creepy vid for The Innocents (which is a 1961 movie based on The Turn of the Screw, for those unfamiliar)
Tail As Old As Time, My Cat From Hell, THEY'RE ALL GOOD CATS
Glass Coffins, a Carmen Sandiego Classic vid that is beautifully full of HIGH DRAMA and yet also somehow poignant??
All Star, The Good Place, an absolute standout featuring Manny Jacinto's absolutely standout face
Ninefox, a beautifully weird and wonderful book vid that does a stellar job capturing the beautifully weird and wonderful Machineries of Empire books
A whole slew of really delightful Ocean's 8 vids, but I'm going to call out (Don't See) Too Many Rivals Now for having the coolest arc and cutting, and Lift for making the visuals feel fresh after watching four other vids
In Another Life, a Ginger Snaps vid that fills me with jealousy for extremely successfully vidding the one Vienna Teng song I would never have been able to figure out how to vid to
Supernova, which is very much the kind of vid I hoped someone would make out of the Wrinkle in Time film
Little Bit More, just a really well-done vid that showcases all the things that one likes about Killing Eve if one likes Killing Eve
Prove It On Me, a paean to the most dapper lesbian in Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
Dance To Another Tune, which makes me want to watch the rest of the first season of The Runaways
smile (the worst is yet to come), which suffused me with fond Dead Like Me nostalgia
Sisters of the Moon, a love letter to the heroines of Hidden Figures
Miss Me With The Bullshit, which I have watched multiple times already despite the fact that I've never seen The Expanse because the character has such a good face
And relatedly, Soldier definitely depicts a perfect lesbian soldier/politician show that I tragically suspect is not quite what The Expanse actually is
However, I get the feeling that Crazy, Classic Life is very much what the actual show Pose is and I'm one thousand percent here for it -- this vid is just beautiful
And now I have to go fall over but there's a whole bunch of other great stuff in the collection as well that I didn't have time to shout out!
So you should all take three minutes out of your life to watch that, and then if you have some more vid-watching time to spare here under the wire before reveals tomorrow are a few other things from the collection that I liked:
Goodbye, a gorgeously creepy vid for The Innocents (which is a 1961 movie based on The Turn of the Screw, for those unfamiliar)
Tail As Old As Time, My Cat From Hell, THEY'RE ALL GOOD CATS
Glass Coffins, a Carmen Sandiego Classic vid that is beautifully full of HIGH DRAMA and yet also somehow poignant??
All Star, The Good Place, an absolute standout featuring Manny Jacinto's absolutely standout face
Ninefox, a beautifully weird and wonderful book vid that does a stellar job capturing the beautifully weird and wonderful Machineries of Empire books
A whole slew of really delightful Ocean's 8 vids, but I'm going to call out (Don't See) Too Many Rivals Now for having the coolest arc and cutting, and Lift for making the visuals feel fresh after watching four other vids
In Another Life, a Ginger Snaps vid that fills me with jealousy for extremely successfully vidding the one Vienna Teng song I would never have been able to figure out how to vid to
Supernova, which is very much the kind of vid I hoped someone would make out of the Wrinkle in Time film
Little Bit More, just a really well-done vid that showcases all the things that one likes about Killing Eve if one likes Killing Eve
Prove It On Me, a paean to the most dapper lesbian in Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
Dance To Another Tune, which makes me want to watch the rest of the first season of The Runaways
smile (the worst is yet to come), which suffused me with fond Dead Like Me nostalgia
Sisters of the Moon, a love letter to the heroines of Hidden Figures
Miss Me With The Bullshit, which I have watched multiple times already despite the fact that I've never seen The Expanse because the character has such a good face
And relatedly, Soldier definitely depicts a perfect lesbian soldier/politician show that I tragically suspect is not quite what The Expanse actually is
However, I get the feeling that Crazy, Classic Life is very much what the actual show Pose is and I'm one thousand percent here for it -- this vid is just beautiful
And now I have to go fall over but there's a whole bunch of other great stuff in the collection as well that I didn't have time to shout out!
(no subject)
Oct. 27th, 2018 09:33 pmDear Festividder,
Thank you so much for making a vid for me! I will absolutely be delighted by whatever you make, and I'm really looking forward to watching it! Bits of this letter are copied from previous years, bits are all-new, disregard absolutely anything that doesn't speak to you and make the vid of your heart.
As a sidenote, a bunch of my safety fandoms this year turned out to be film/theater versions of classic works of literature; for any of these, please feel free to pull in additional related source material if the spirit moves you.
Safety fandoms: Anastasia (1956), Notre-Dame de Paris (1999), Muppet Treasure Island (1996), The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982)
TV shows: 부암동 복수자들 | Avengers Social Club, 청춘시대 | Age of Youth, 시카고 타자기 | Chicago Typewriter, 힐러 | Healer
( Anastasia (1956) )
( Notre-Dame de Paris (1999) )
( Muppet Treasure Island (1996) )
( The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982) )
( 부암동 복수자들 | Avengers Social Club )
( 청춘시대 | Age of Youth )
( 시카고 타자기 | Chicago Typewriter )
( 힐러 | Healer )
Thank you so much for making a vid for me! I will absolutely be delighted by whatever you make, and I'm really looking forward to watching it! Bits of this letter are copied from previous years, bits are all-new, disregard absolutely anything that doesn't speak to you and make the vid of your heart.
As a sidenote, a bunch of my safety fandoms this year turned out to be film/theater versions of classic works of literature; for any of these, please feel free to pull in additional related source material if the spirit moves you.
Safety fandoms: Anastasia (1956), Notre-Dame de Paris (1999), Muppet Treasure Island (1996), The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982)
TV shows: 부암동 복수자들 | Avengers Social Club, 청춘시대 | Age of Youth, 시카고 타자기 | Chicago Typewriter, 힐러 | Healer
( Anastasia (1956) )
( Notre-Dame de Paris (1999) )
( Muppet Treasure Island (1996) )
( The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982) )
( 부암동 복수자들 | Avengers Social Club )
( 청춘시대 | Age of Youth )
( 시카고 타자기 | Chicago Typewriter )
( 힐러 | Healer )
(no subject)
Oct. 28th, 2017 05:26 pmDear Festividder,
Thank you so much for making a vid for me! I am super excited to be participating in this exchange for the third year, and whatever you do, it is one hundred percent a certainty that I will be delighted by it.
Safety fandoms: Into the Woods (1991), Notre-Dame de Paris (1999), Much Ado About Nothing (1993), The Mermaid (2016)
TV shows: Chicago Typewriter, Ms. Perfect
Manga/still image: 7 Seeds, 20th Century Boys
( Into the Woods )
( Notre-Dame de Paris )
( Much Ado About Nothing )
( The Mermaid )
( Chicago Typewriter )
( Ms. Perfect )
( 7 Seeds )
( 20th Century Boys )
Thank you so much for making a vid for me! I am super excited to be participating in this exchange for the third year, and whatever you do, it is one hundred percent a certainty that I will be delighted by it.
Safety fandoms: Into the Woods (1991), Notre-Dame de Paris (1999), Much Ado About Nothing (1993), The Mermaid (2016)
TV shows: Chicago Typewriter, Ms. Perfect
Manga/still image: 7 Seeds, 20th Century Boys
( Into the Woods )
( Notre-Dame de Paris )
( Much Ado About Nothing )
( The Mermaid )
( Chicago Typewriter )
( Ms. Perfect )
( 7 Seeds )
( 20th Century Boys )
