a vintage year for scoundrels

Title: King and Lionheart
Fandom: The Wheel of Time
Characters: Lan and Moiraine
Music: Of Monsters and Men
Content notes: None
Summary: "As the world comes to an end, I'll be there to hold your hand."
Notes: Premiered at VidUKon 2022! Turns out that what it took to break my three year vidding block was a beautifully filmed show with only eight episodes, featuring a very important platonic friendship. Many thanks to alwaystheocean, cosmic_llin and walkthegale for feedback and cheerleading! Also if you like vids to King and Lionheart about powerful women whose coiffure reflects their emotional state and their quietly loyal bffs, I strongly recommend cosmic_llin's Voyager vid about Janeway and Tuvok, it's wonderful. <3
Download vid (2:08 minutes, 81MB) | subtitles (.srt file)
Also at: Youtube (with subtitles) | AO3 | Tumblr

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Friends, I am VJing a vidshow at vidukon_cardiff this year about people doing things they love, and am looking for recs! Vids can be about fictional people or real people, doing hobbies or interests or their jobs or anything, just as long as they love them and are having a good time (more or less). Particularly interested in vids centering brown people, queer people, disabled people, fat people and any other underrepresented groups!

Self-recs are encouraged, and if anyone feels suddenly inspired by the theme of the show and would like to make a premiere, please let me know, I would love that.

(Also come to VidUKon, it is great, it's happening online again this year so you don't even need to worry about getting to Cardiff!)

I had a great weekend at Vidukon, hanging out with some excellent humans, watching vids and dodging low flying Mass Effect spoilers. :D Here is the vid I made for Premieres:

Title: Supernova Girl
Fandom: Multifandom (see below for complete list)
Music: Zenon
Content notes: Some bright strobe-y lights
Summary: Zoom, zoom, zoom.
Notes: Premiered at vidukon_cardiff 2016. Thanks to silly_cleo for Farscape help and for suggesting the song, to cosmic_llin for Star Trek help and beta-ing, and to isagel for tech help! Mass Effect footage from fuschelfu and Operation SFX; starfield image from freelancah-d2k5mcu.
Download: here (2:50 minutes, 124MB) | subtitle .srt
Also at: Youtube | AO3 | Tumblr

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I went to VidUKon! It was great! I was really ill! If I'd realised how bad my cold was I would have thought seriously about not going - I thought on Friday morning that I was into the getting better stage, but apparently not - which would've been a shame. :( At least I probably wasn't contagious anymore? But other than that, it was such a fantastic con. ♥ (All the playlists are up on the website, with links to the vids!)

( report and recs, mostly recs )

- Doctor Who: I really loved "The Rings of Akhaten", but I am not posting about it because for some reason it affected me to the point where I can't read criticism of it without getting sad, even if the rational part of my brain is going "that's actually a good point", so. Instead I shall just go and poke ebay for Clara cosplay type stuff instead.

- Smallville #41 (Valkyrie #1): ( squee ) (In other comics news: new issues of Saga, Hawkeye AND Fearless Defenders on Wednesday? COMICS BONANZA. \o/)

- Registrations for vidukon_cardiff (both attending and supporting) close this weekend! If you're on the fence about whether to go or not, I really recommend it, it's a fun con.

- I have reached the point in my somewhat delayed Babylon 5 rewatch where I'm not sure which episodes I've seen before and which episodes I just know a lot about (early season two). IT IS CONFUSING. Mostly my feelings on it are IVANOVA I LOVE YOU; it's nice to know I haven't changed that much since I was 15.

- Dissertation is SO CLOSE to being finished. I wrote a draft of the abstract at the weekend. By "wrote it at the weekend" I mean I procrastinated until 8.15 on Sunday evening and then knocked it up in about twenty minutes. OH SELF. My flat is fairly clean now though, I even did that thing where you attach a duster to the end of the broom and de-cobweb the ceilings. So that's something.

I am doing a vidshow for vidukon_cardiff / vidukon! :D And am therefore looking for suggestions of vids to include. The theme is "space", so I'm looking for vids that are about or heavily feature space, spaceships, alien planets etc. All suggestions gratefully received, even the ones you think I probably already know about, because it's very likely that I don't! Plus, if you suggest things I already have on my list, I will feel validated, and that is always nice. ;D (Also, since I've never run a vidshow before, any general advice about that would be ace.) Thanks! ♥

(Warning: I am probably going to overuse the word "awesome" in this post.)

I had a really great time at VidUKon and met many lovely people, some of whom I was too shy to talk to properly, because I am rubbish like that. /o\

Moving on from my general failings... ( to the actual con report )

In conclusion: that was fantastic, I can't wait for the next one!

*crosses fingers that I haven't messed up any links*

Things I did yesterday:

- managed to get through my first assessed group presentation without falling over or anything, I'm calling that a win. Well, winnish, anyway. Public speaking is not exactly my forte.

- took down all the Christmas decorations, sadface. (Though, that reminds me: thank you for the cards, nentari, revolutionaren, oxymoron67 and ghost2! ♥)

- managed to make things for more fandom_stockings than I feared, but fewer than I'd hoped. So apologies in advance if you don't get anything from me, and rest assured that it is only because I am incompetent.

Other things I have been meaning to post about:

- I have registered for VidUKon! I've never been to a convention before, but this one looks like fun and is about vids, which I love, and is near me, AND carawj and cosmic_llin are going, all of which adds up to :D

- Jess texted me last night to tell me that last night's Thinking Allowed had a section on Doctor Who in it, starting at about 4'20! Haven't had a chance to listen to it myself yet, but thought I would link it for anyone else who might be interested.

- Speaking of Doctor Who, I never posted about the Christmas Special, did I? Short form: I really loved it, apart from some stuff that was mostly external to the episode itself. ( long form under the cut )