sure, I can go for an ego boost just now

[such_heights]

Via isagel, modified to not just be fic:

If you were asked to pick one scene, one shot, one detail, one moment of some kind out of all the things I've made and say "This, this, for whatever reason, I remember, this is something that struck home with me, that I wanted to keep," what would it be?

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[woldy]

I'm going to cheat and give two. Maybe more than two, if more come to mind.

1.
Remus laughed a little, then he pulled Sirius into a hug. Sirius's eyes flew open, surprised, as Remus wrapped his arms firmly around Sirius's shoulders, and this wasn't some macho back-slapping prelude, this was an undeniable embrace, and Sirius didn't know what to do. His hands lingered uselessly into mid-air, and he was terrified that if he touched Remus, if he held him back, then he'd never let go.

Remus shifted, and he must have noticed the awkward tension Sirius was giving out. Sirius gritted his teeth, because however pathetic and useless he'd become, he must still be able, surely, to hug his friend. As soon as he'd thought that, his hands started moving of their own accord, moulding against the small of Remus's back and fitting against the structure of his body like they were meant to be there.

This was the least platonic hug imaginable, this was Sirius being so, so obvious, and he knew he'd blown it by how slowly Remus moved away, how he was openly staring at Sirius.

"I --" Sirius didn't know if there were any words that could prevent disaster. His breathing was shaky and a litany of curses and desperate pleas were running through his head. "I'm really sorry," he said.

"Oh god." Remus's tone was that of soft disbelief, and Sirius didn't understand, not until Remus reached a hand out and lays three fingertips along the trembling line of Sirius's cheekbone.

Oh.

2. the last thirty seconds or so of your Merlin Handlebars vid.

[isagel]

2. the last thirty seconds or so of your Merlin Handlebars vid.

This.

[such_heights]

Oh, goodness, I am so fond of that R/S scene myself but am still surprised it is not nauseatingly sweet for everyone else who reads it! So that made me smile a lot, thank you.

And you know, I rewatched that vid recently, and it was weird to see it now that S3 has wrapped up, and the ways it does and doesn't work with existing canon. The oddness of working with open sources!

[gorgeousnerd]

The end of Handlebars was the first thing that came to mind for me as well.

[some_stars]

Okay, I'm bad at superlatives, but ONE OF the most memorable moments for me from your vids is this shot in The Book Of Love, which is the first vid where I long-term remembered it, after watching, as being by you specifically, at 0:47. Where Morgana does a kind of dress-swishing little turn, and it meshes with the music so perfectly and it just was this perfect moment of music-visual-mood marriage. Objectively not, like, spectacular, but for some reason it really stuck with me.

[such_heights]

Aw, that is lovely to hear! That vid lives in an extra-squishy little bit of my heart. GIRLS.

[glass_icarus]

... UH. *goes to fanworks masterlist*

All of Bad Romance, and We Go Together, and oh my gosh if I start on your fic I will just never stop but most recently?

Toph sits in the shadow of a firebender-run tea shop in Ba Sing Se, in a time of peace, and the world is full of wonders and she has a family, and there is nothing she can't do, and no cages anywhere.

&hearts &hearts &hearts FOREVER OMG.

[such_heights]

<3333 AND THEN SHE GOES TO FOUND THE METAL KINGDOM, OBV.

[isagel]

Every single thing about "Tristan"!!! I was going to say the explosion and the Doctor on "the storm has come, and I am following", and then I was going to say the black and white shots of Rose and the Doctor on "you speak of love, but I've never heard of her", and then I was going to say the very end where Jack signs his name, and then I was going to say... You get the picture. I can't pick a moment, because that entire vid is perfect. (I think I told you at Vividcon that I have two very favourite Captain Jack vids, "Tristan" and SE's "This Is Everything", and I love watching them back to back, because they give such different perspectives on him.)

Also, I still love that moment in "Monsters and Heroes and Men" where the instrumental section in the middle of the music starts, and the camera sweeps in a circle around the arena.

But there's too much of your stuff I haven't watched, because I'm so far behind on Merlin and Doctor Who canon and don't want to be spoiled.

Oh! And "Butterflies and Hurricanes"! In particular the beginning "Change everything you are", and Gwen looking up when the music swells on "Fight", and the instrumental part at the end.

[such_heights]

I remain totally thrilled that you watch Tristan along with This Is Everything because that is definitely my favourite Jack vid! Tristan is a vid I look back on fondly because I like the ideas in it, but it's hard not to see all the things I would have done differently if I were making it now. I'm so glad it still works for you.

And in general, you are far too kind. <3 I'll be excited if you ever do catch up with Who, I'd love to see your take on the current characters!

[gorgeousnerd]

Seconding Tristan! I love the way beats are used in that vid.

[filomena]

This is a tough choice, but I think I have to pick the moment with Nancy and Jamie embracing in "Love is All You Need," because EVERY TIME I watch, I get tears in my eyes right there. And I equally love the montage of the Companions in the TARDIS near the end. The rhythm of action and song on that vid is just perfect to me.

[such_heights]

Aw, I am so pleased to hear that! Nancy and Jamie, bless! <3

[netgirl_y2k]

There's a bit in Call Me Uprising, a sort of montage of Amy/Rory scenes just before a shot of Amy hitting the "Forget" button in The Beast Below which I just think is stupendous. And that's just one moment out of a vid that I have watched many, many times and love muchly.

[such_heights]

Ooh, thank you! That section is one of my favourite pieces of editing I've done this year, I think. The visual themes of memory in this season were just delicious to play with.

[monanotlisa]

I remember watching a Doctor Who vid that I could never forget. :)

[such_heights]

<3333

[chaila]

glass_icarus beat me to the punch, but:

Toph sits in the shadow of a firebender-run tea shop in Ba Sing Se, in a time of peace, and the world is full of wonders and she has a family, and there is nothing she can't do, and no cages anywhere.

My mind immediately went to this. And that whole fic really, which was the perfect tag to that finale and everything I like about that whole series. That's a much better final scene for the girls than the ones they got, and they deserve it. <3

[such_heights]

Hurray, thank you! I love most of the finale a lot, but I really agree that I was left wanting more character resolution than we got.

[gorgeousnerd]

All of Glorious, but particularly the end, from where Kara's ship leaves Galactica and she grins on. (I just rewatched the video, and it still makes me teary-happy. I don't know how you do it!)

[such_heights]

eee, I'm so pleased it's still emotional for you! \o/

[sweetestdrain]

"Butterflies and Hurricanes" -- that last part of the vid when, for a moment, you think the vid is over, but then the music swells again and suddenly you see that Gwen is part of something much larger, and there are patterns and ripples and the Earth and the Doctor and holy shit.

"Of Monsters and Heroes and Men" -- something about that final "we survive" as the tiny figures are buried in the earth makes me start crying every time. I haven't even seen the movie! (Thanks to this vid, I don't have to.)

[such_heights]

Oh goodness, thank you! Both of those were emotional moments for me to make so I'm delighted they have a resonance for you.

[makai]

Hands down your Bad Romance video.

+I'm usually not huge on fanvids (either for the video editing, song choice/matching, etc) but I still love it.
+It works so PERFECTLY with the song, both by the canon proper and how you choose to use the clips.
+It's the one thing I make sure to have bookmarked and have recced waaaaaay more than anything else.


Impressively, despite that Morgana is usually my favorite character in modern Merlin and/or Arthur stories but with Merlin I've been so underwhelmed by Katie McGrath's acting (Angel, etc outshine her) that I've reacted more to the sub-par (imo) acting than if it had been a non-favorite character, I really love love love the clips of Morgana you use and feel they convey great emotion, subtly, etc.

None of this is to say I don't love other works of yours, but you just...blew me away with that video when you first made it and still do every time I rewatch it.

[such_heights]

Thank you, I'm so glad it stands up to rewatching for you!

[yue_ix]

I don't know if it counts, but this comment you once made: "AND THEN THERE WERE MAKEOUTS, THE END." (here for instance, though it's something you've said a lot, too.)

Because, I also want to believe there will always be happy endings. In Glorious, my favourite part is the end, when the girls have all managed to reach their goals. Yes they are terrifyingly alone when they do so sometimes, and unremarked, and those are things that need to change - but it's still happy, and still a success. We can do it.

[such_heights]

Heee! That totally counts, that's awesome. IT IS MY FANNISH PHILOSOPHY.

And yay, I'm glad to hear you say that - Glorious having a happy ending was so important to me, because yes. <3

[verasteine]

I'm going to cheat because I'm shit with details, but. Dance Commander is brilliant. It never ceased to put a smile on my face. You took a dark show and made it happy. I love that.

[such_heights]

\o/ Thanks!

[lefaym]

The moment where Rose and Martha hook up in "An Interstellar Burst". :)

[such_heights]

Aww, thank you! I like that part myself. Ah, Doctor Who femslash rarepairs, my favourite.

[thingswithwings]

oh wow, so hard to choose, but - right now, for me, it's the moment in Lullaby for a Stormy Night when the song shifts to "once I was a little child, and I was afraid," and grown-up Amy shows up and oh! from there until the end of the vid, basically, you have my entire heart. I can watch it in my brain without putting the vid on, is how much it's stuck with me.

[such_heights]

eeee, thank you! That is an awesome compliment, I am very glad you like it so much.

[kel_reiley]

basically every second of this vid - i want to hug it tight to my chest and never let go!

[such_heights]

Aw, thank you! That is one of the vids of my heart, it's true. <3

[emei]

The beginning of Bad Romance - Morgause cutting down the knights to the first beats of a bad romance immediatly just stuck in my brain. The whole vid sort of did, but the opening most of all. :)

[such_heights]

:D Thank you! Morgause's footage is so much fun to play with.

[beccatoria]

Eleventy slowly turning to look at the crack in Amy's bedroom wall, from The Big Bang, on the lyric, "[but once I was a child], and I was afraid". <3

[such_heights]

<333 Thank you! I'm really pleased with how much of an effect that moment seemed to have on people, I wasn't quite sure it was going to work.