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I've finished my Festivids assignment and I hope the recipient loves it as much as I loved making it. Now I'm left with more vidding energy but no project I want to work on. I've looked through the list of Festivids signups but didn't see anything that inspired me to make a treat.

I think what I really want to vid is Big Hero 6, which I just saw a few days ago. Great balance of characters, beautifully conceived universe, fantastic message of caring, and homage to applied science as a good thing - I want to watch this with my granddaughters and I really want to vid it. But I'm going to wait until good quality source is legitimately available. In the meantime, I'm going to have this in my backbrain as I listen to music, looking for just the right song.

Dear Festividder, before I say anything else let me start with thia: Thank you! That someone else shares my obscure fannish loves is so wonderful.

Song choice I'll leave totally up to you. I've got fairly broad taste in music and love finding new artists and songs, so even if you use something I've never heard of, I'll be happy. Also, if you vid like I do, vidding inspiration is so tied up in song choice that I would hate to muddle you're creative process.

Here's my wish list.

3rd Rock from the Sun
I'd absolutely love a vid focusing on Sally or Tommy or anything, really, highlighting the sheer insanity of the show.

Good Eats
This is my “Please, Santa, bring me a pony” Festivids request. Every year I ask for a Good Eats vid. And every year I do not get one, just like Santa's lifelong failure to bring me my beautiful pony. At this point I’d love any vid at all with Alton Brown and his puppets and his props and his food.

Europa Report
I'm not sure what kind of vid I want for this movie, but I can tell what I liked about it. I am an absolute sucker for stories of space exploration, for examining what it takes to live together in the enclosed space of a ship, for the wonder and terror of the unknown.

Gravity
Ryan Stone’s sheer determination to keep struggling against the seemingly hopeless situation and her drive to survive made me love her and and the movie so much.

Endgame
A vid all about Arkady Balagan, his arrogance and flaws and quirky approach to helping those who come to him would make be very, very happy.

War of the Worlds: Goliath
Any vid at all for this movie would be wonderful, but I particularly like the dieselpunk atmosphere and the way the Eric Wells and his team pull together to kick Martian ass. And Teddy Roosevelt! A kick-ass Teddy Roosevelt vid would be sweet, too.

Queen of Swords
Colonel Luis Montoya makes my heart go pitty-pat. Add a side helping of Dr. Helm and I’d be even more delighted.

I'm sad to be missing Vividcon this year, but that will probably only last until my plane takes off Monday on the way to Worldcon in London . It is a consolation to know that with the supporting membership my dvds of vids will be waiting for me when I get back. And I'll try and watch some of the livestreaming vid shows, too, if I have time this weekend.

I did make a Sleepy Hollow vid for Club Vivid. I love John Cho's poor, undead, lovesick Andy Brooks and wanted to give him his own little vid of unrequited love.

I had planned on submitting this as a nonattending premiere vid at Vividcon, but I'll just go ahead and post it now, instead.

Title: Fear and Delight
Music: The Correspondents
Lyrics after the vid.

Summary: Love and swords, always a dangerous combination.




Oh but I know you'll cause me grief
Close friends of mine are in disbelief
As they can see what's underneath
Fluttering lashes red lips and pearly white teeth...
I don't show it but I quiver whenever you come near
and I cannot decipher between the thrill and the fear,
I want to stop but I like it too much to let it stop here,
It's wrong but I want you tonight

It was of my own volition but I fell in deep
by running the distance I'd been advised to keep
I trot to the wolf as a doting sheep
it's wrong but I want you tonight

Fear and Delight,
all the way through the night
with a little derring-do I'll fall in love with you

Fear and Delight,
all the way through the night
with a little derring-do I'll fall in love with you

I'm a little boy who's going to be getting his fingers burnt
but I can see the lesson's got to got to got to be learnt
they say that boys have been destroyed but they weren't
It's wrong but I want you tonight

In any case my friends it's too late
like a moth to light like a beast to bate
and I know the black widow eat it's mate
It's wrong but I want you tonight

Fear and Delight,
all the way through the night
with a little derring-do I'll fall in love with you

Fear and Delight,
all the way through the night
with a little derring-do I'll fall in love with you

I've been pretty meh about dw and lj lately, mostly just use them as a placeholder for storing links for vids or writing about vids. I've never used the more social aspects of either one and I'm slowly coming around to using AO3 as a place to hold the vids. That just leaves one other main use for lj, which was posting con reports. Over the next year I'll be attending PWFC , British Fest , Loncon3 , and Gallifrey One, as well as having some vids premiering at Vividcon, so I've been thinking about how I want to do my con reports in the future.

I'm currently in the process of creating a tumblr for all of these things. The older con reports will still be up on lj, but I'm seriously considering moving to tumblr for new content from here on out.

Reveals are up, and I now know that sabinetzin made the wonderful the Monty Python vid Banging Them Together

I made two vids this year: I’m British, a Sleepy Hollow vid for sabaceanbabe



and Madness, a Warm Bodies vid for Dayln

It's going to take me a while to get through all the vids, but one thing I've noted in watching vids and reading everyone's vid squee is just how wonderful Festivids is. Of course there's all the small fandoms that deserve a little more recognition. But there's also the sheer variety of vids; there's literally something for everyone. You like your vids sweet and schmoopy, horror-movie creepy, girl powery - Festivids has something for you. Costume dramas, cop shows, sf, Bollywood, urban fantasy, vintage black-and-white movies and more, all vidded.

On to my latest batch of recs.

Stop Dragging My Heart Around
(Indiana Jones)
All Star (Lego Lord of the Rings)
9 to 5 (Lego Star Wars)
Drop (Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou)
A Night Like This Marx Brothers movies)
Sex Yeah (Masters of Sex)
Sexyback (Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries)
The Edge of Glory (Mulan)
Dirtee Disco (The Muppet Show)

festivids is live and I'm just going to make a pot of coffee and sink into vids for the rest of the day.

I got a wonderful, absurd and funny gift - everything a vid for Monty Python and Holy Grail should be! I'll be posting links and recs after reveals.

I've got a review article to write for a newsletter, holiday plans to make, a whole list of movies I want to watch and the TBR book pile keeps growing, but damn I'm on a roll with festivids. The vid for my assignment is going great and in listening to some new music this morning an idea for a treat just dropped into my lap. Don't know if I'll have time, but damn I'll try.

Just when I think I've made my last Highlander vid, new ideas pop into my head. Last spring I was listening to the new album by Professor Elemental and this song jumped out at me as perfect for an Amanda-chasing-Duncan vid. I know, the singer is a man and the POV is for a woman, but it works for me. Hope it works for you, too.

I'd originally thought I might get this done for Vividcon, but that didn't work. Then I wanted to squeeze this in before Festivids kicked off, but it didn't look like that was going to happen, either. Congress intervened by closing down the government fr 16 days. Since I was one of those furloughed Federal workers, I used some of that time to make this vid. killabeez stepped in with a quick beta and some good HL insights. So, I present to you:

You Remind Me of a Car




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