cosmic_llin

These are most of the vids I've ever made, arranged by fandom and roughly in chronological order with the most recent on top. The Star Trek ones, the most recent, link to LJ entries, most of the others go to youtube.

( Star Trek )

( Doctor Who )

( The Sarah Jane Adventures )

( Other )

I made two vids this year!

Title of vid: Make Them Gold
Recipient: Talumin
Fandom: DC Super Hero Girls
Music: Make Them Gold by CHVRCHES
Summary: I will be with you in the fray.
Content notes: No standardized notes apply
Unsigned length: 03:31

I really enjoyed making this vid! Folks, if you haven't seen this show, it is the CUTEST, it's all about DC superheroes being at high school together and it's full of friendship and teamwork and all that good stuff.

Irritatingly, I haven't yet been able to render the signed version without weird green flashes appearing every few bars, so watch this space on that one, and in the meantime here's the unsigned version again:



Title of vid: Majestic Shark Sharks
Recipient: frith-in-thorns
Fandom: Shark (2015)
Music: Storms in Africa by Enya
Summary: Sharks are beautiful.
Content notes: contains brief scenes of shark birth.
Unsigned length: 03:38

So this weekend I accidentally a vid? I've been wanting to vid Bunheads since we watched it all over a few days a couple of months ago, and I'd had this song in mind almost from the start. Lately I've been engaged in a slow and steady clipping process for a couple of quite big and involved vids, and on Friday night I suddenly had an urge to just vid something really quickly and get it out there without thinking about it too hard, and this seemed to fit the bill! So here it is, in its unbeta-ed glory.

Song: Home, by Ingrid Michaelson
Fandom: Bunheads
Length: 4.07
Size: 147mb
Download: HERE
Content Notes: None (hmm... apart from, to be safe, a bit of blurry motion)
Summary: Michelle, Fanny, Sasha and the Paradise Dance Academy.

So, this year for Festivids I received not one but two absolutely wonderful M*A*S*H vids! This one is an utterly gorgeous and perfect Margaret character study, and this one is a thoughtful and lovely Father Mulcahy one. I love them both so ridiculously much! <3

As to what I made, this year I made four! I had loads of fun with my assignment and I also made treats for the first time! \o/ Thanks to carawj for her epic patience and assistance during this process! Here they all are (subtitles coming later since I am slooooow):

Song: You're Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile, Annie Cast (1982)
Fandom: The Addams Family Films
Length: 2.03
Size: 71.5 mb
Download: HERE
Summary: When Wednesday Addams smiles... be afraid.
Content Notes: some flashing, cartoonish violence/murder attempts, vague allusions to self-harm and suicide, large quantities of fake blood, white people dressing in Native American costume

So, here are two vids! One I just finished today and one I made weeks ago and forgot to post here...

Song: King and Lionheart, Of Monsters and Men
Fandom: Star Trek: Voyager
Length: 4.21
Size: 94mb
Download: HERE and subtitles HERE
Notes: Huge thanks to carawj and usuallyhats for betaing, and touchdownpossum for clip suggestions and cheerleading!

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Song: Puppy Love, Dolly Parton
Length: 1:42
Download: HERE and subtitles HERE
Featuring: 101 Dalmatians, Bolt, Beethoven, Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey, Oliver and Company, Wishbone, The Littlest Hobo, Star Trek: Voyager, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Space Buddies, Snow Buddies, The Aristocats, All Dogs Go to Heaven, The Little Mermaid, Warehouse 13, The Legend of Korra
Notes: This was a birthday present for carawj ! I’ve been meaning to make it for a while so I’m really pleased I finally got around to it! Apologies for the terrible size/aspect ratio issues, for some reason this one gave me a lot of trouble! (I’m not kidding when I say I really don’t understand the technical side of vidding!)
 

 Hello all!

I'm running a Star Trek friendship-themed ficathon... 

Details here...

At the moment we're in the tag nominations stage, so if you're thinking of participating, check out the profile/FAQ and then head over to the tagset and check out which friendships are nominated so far, and nominate any extra ones you might like to write or read about!

Actual sign-ups open on July 12, until July 20! Tell your friends! :)

chaila said: Sell me on the Vorkosigan saga! I know nothing! :)

Ooh! A fun one for my last post for this December Talking thingy! The Vorkosigan series is basically a big old family saga about an aristocratic, politically-powerful family on a world that's kind of like Space Imperial Russia. 

Now, some instinct tells me the way to get chaila into a series is by pushing the awesome women angle... and the Vorkosigan Saga is really, really good for that. Cordelia is one of my favourite characters in anything ever - she has this way of solving problems with a combination of quick-thinking, amateur psychology and just jumping and seeing what happens, and she really gets people, and she uses that skill to literally change worlds. Alys knows everybody and everything and exactly what needs doing in any situation, and her smooth elegance is the packaging for a will of iron and a kind heart. Elena and Elli are both breathtakingly competent soldiers, and both of them figure out what they want and need and go for it, in very different ways. Taura is just wonderful and adorable and deserves all the hugs. Ekaterin is brave and smart and strong and passionate. And that's before you get to all the Koudelkas, Laisa, Tej, Helen Vorthys, and a dozen other beautifully-drawn, amazing side characters. And because it's a saga, and all of these women are either members of or peripherally involved with the central Vorkosigan family, you get to see most of them change and grow over the course of several decades and it's always a pleasure to watch.

I mean, I don't want to tell you lies, the (arguably) central character of the whole series is a guy, but he's 1) surrounded by varied and amazing women characters, and 2) absolutely fascinating and totally lovable in spite of his many major flaws, and that's coming from me, the person who's just not that interested in dudes in fiction.

There's so much good stuff going on in these books - political intrigue, spaceships, really good, thoughtful, consistent world building, some interesting sex/gender stuff (although some elements are kind of awkwardly dated, it still comes out pretty much positive overall), discussion of various types of prejudice and how it can be fought against, interesting points about different ways of having and using power, jokes both silly and clever and stories of every sort. Because of the sheer number of books in the series, sometimes it's space opera and sometimes it's a farce and sometimes it's a comedy of manners and sometimes it's just 400 pages of heartbreak that you'll want to throw across the room.

But the most consistent thread running through the whole series is family and identity - what makes you who you are, how the people you love help make you, and you make them in turn, how you change as you get older, how your perspective changes with you, how family is not always blood and blood is not always family, how you distinguish yourself from others and how you identify yourself with them, what makes a family and what makes an individual. These books have some of the deepest and most thoughtful explorations of these questions I've ever seen in literature.

Now, if that interests you, a few tips for how to get into reading them:

( Mild spoilers if you want to go in 100% unknowing... )