we're all stories in the end

( fandom meme )

Vids Roundup

I made 7 vids in 2015.

Festivids
The Hardest of Hearts (Maleficent)
She Keeps Me Warm (Saving Face)
Get Lucky (Singin' in the Rain)

Between (Doctor Who, Clara, Twelve & Danny, s8 overview)

Fly (multifandom, awesome women)

Uptown Funk (Parks and Recreation, Vidukon premiere)

We Got History (Multifandom, fannish review of the year)

( meme questions )

Wheeeee, another vid in the Aims vidding project has gone up!

purplefringe has made Never Look Away (Doctor Who, Eleven & Clara)

It's so perfect and beautiful. I think purplefringe has really outdone herself on this one - there's so much packed into every moment, lots of layers of narrative and symbolism and also their precious faces. It gives me MANY FEELINGS and it's really really pretty too.

I'm so so pleased with all of the Aims - they're all brilliant, and have a lovely range of sources, themes, and interpretations of the songs, plus a lot of focus on women. Just two more to go now! We're hoping to be able to show all of them as a Vidukon vid show which would be pretty awesome.

Speaking of - Vidukon! Is a thing, happening in Cardiff at the end of June, and if you like watching and talking about vids and can get yourself there you should definitely come. Create an account on the website to register, and even if you don't want to register just yet you can join in discussion about possible panel topics etc.

We'll also be accepting premieres whether you're attending the con or not (deadline: April 27th).

In additional con news, I'm going to doing some vidding content on the fanworks track at Nine Worlds this year, and am also chatting to some of the people at Worldcon about doing something similar with them as they're trying to get fanworks involved. So if you're doing the London con circuit this summer, come and watch some vids with me!

I'm running some vidding programming for the Fanfic track at Nine Worlds. In particular, I'm doing a talk on vidding, which I'm aiming at fans who probably read fic but don't necessarily know so much about vids.

Crowdsourcing a little bit of my research here - I'd really like to hear about other people's experiences of discovering vids.

I'd love to know about the first vids you can remember watching.

a) Which fandoms were they in?

b) Which websites did you hear about them from?
eta: that was poorly worded, lots of you saw your first vids offline via cons, tapeswaps etc. Tell me about that too!

I'm particularly interested in hearing about fandoms other than Western media fandoms, and websites other than LJ/DW, but all responses will be helpful!

2012 fanworks roundup!

( masterlist & meme questions )

+ New entries over at the hug fest including fic for The Hunger Games, Lord of the Rings, Star Trek XI, Harry Potter, Soul Eater, BBC Sherlock and XMFC. All are lovely. <3333

+ The current challenge over at vidrecs is character studies!

+ This month's challenge at kink_bingo is super cool - themed gift baskets on a range of topics from 'all the feels' to 'supervillains', it's very awesome.

+ The winners are up for The Fourth Wall vidding awards - many thanks to obsessive24 and hollywoodgrrl for shortlisting Blue Caravan and writing such a kind review for it. :DDD

+ I am currently rolling around in the middle of ten whole days off work, it's pretty magical. Though I should try to remember that I aim to actually do things like finish my Remix story and finally make that auction vid for a very patient counteragent. Yay making things! And also sleeping, there has been a lot of that too.

While I fret over watching the NY Senate live stream as they vote on same-sex marriage in the state, were_duck gave me some more questions:

( includes spoilers for Doctor Who 6x07 )

+ Over at wiscon_vidparty I am hosting a discussion for anyone trying to/planning on submitting a premiere for Wiscon (myself included, oh dear /o\).

+ The response to the female character trope fest has been fabulous so far, thank you all very much! We are onto ten pages of prompts in under 24 hours, good grief. fly_to_dawn is my hero for coding up the first nine of those pages. Depending on how things are shaping up by Thursday or Friday, may need to slightly rethink structure in order to minimise unwieldiness.

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It is that time of year again! Let's start off with some vid chatter, last seen at obsessive24's journal.

( stuff what I made )

( meme questions )

ao3vidders is hosting an auction to raise funds for the AO3 to help them create a more permanent home for vidders online. More information and a masterlist here, and my thread here.

I'm offering:

Doctor Who (2005), Torchwood, Legend of the Seeker, Firefly, Merlin, Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles, Harry Potter, Star Trek XI, Battlestar Galactica, White Collar. I'd also be happy to try to vid a film whether I've seen it or not, or anything else you think I'm familiar with - email to check.

My Club Vivid vid is uploading right now, argh, flail, etc. I am cautiously excited about it, though!

Latest fuck yeah she's awesome round up:

+ frangipani on The Tale of Admiral Wan Zafirah ibna Wan Mahmud

+ scrollgirl is picspamming the ladies of Stargate - Day One, Day Two.

+ bewize on Hit Girl (Kick-Ass)

+ littlebutfierce on female characters in baseball animanga.