wanderings

Phoenix Burning by Yahtzee
Buffy the Vampire Slayer | 88,766 words | R | Buffy/Angel
Summary: At the end of Season Five, Buffy plunges to her death. Then she is resurrected -- 350 years in the future.
     + The Buffy/Angel fix-it fic that young me craved, plotty and twisty in a keep-you-up-past-your-bedtime way. Reasonably epic.

Let Me Go by kaydeefalls
Moana | 3:03 | G | Moana
Summary: Lock our eyes on distant horizons -- Moana, coming into her own.
Music: Copenhagen (Let Me Go) by Vienna Teng
     + This is such a lovely narrative vid about Moana's journey.

Change You Like A Remix by bessyboo
Multifandom | 4:12 | G
Summary: No, I think it looked a little better on me.
Music: The Phoenix by Fall Out Boy
     + So one of the tags is "guess who had a lot of meta feelings about the message of The LEGO Movie"; it's meta about Lego and transformative works. This feels and I think it is very personal - vidder-specific - this is not a vid about the history of fandom and it is not trying to be; it is meta feelings about transformative works, and the way in which the vidder has made themselves part of this vid is very cool.

Dance Monkeys by cupidsbow
Multifandom | 3:30 | G | Fred/Ginger
Summary: I beg to see you dance just one more time.
Music: Dance Monkey by Tones and I
     + I love this. There is the whole dance, monkey, dance angle, and also all of their dancing, which is such a joy - fluid and fun and beautiful. This makes me want to watch and rewatch all of their films.

Sisters are doin' it for themselves by colls
On the Basis of Sex | 4:28 | G | Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Summary: "You can't spell truth without RUTH"
Music: Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves by Eurythmics and Aretha Franklin
     + RBG and the fight for equality for women.

Suffer by anoel
Person of Interest | 1:31 | PG-13 | Root/Shaw
Summary: I kind of enjoy this sort of thing (I do, too).
Music: Suffer by Charlie Puth (Vince Staples & AndreaLo Remix)
     + Femslash kink vid with painplay and bondage and blood and needles and blades and consent issues and all of the Root/Shaw kink that's in canon, basically.

You Might Think by sisabet
Pushing Daisies | 3:06 | G | Ned/Chuck
All I want is you
Music: You Might Think by The Cars
     + So this is really fun and bouncy and the old-timey song is a fantastic match for the show's aesthetic. (It's kind of interesting watching a vid about a show where the love interests can't physically touch in the midst of this pandemic, and also thinking about the queerness of that premise in terms of what mainstream media representation of affection between same gender couples has looked like.)

I'll Be There by bironic
Roar | 2:20 | PG-13
Summary: Heartbreak and hostage situations! Bandits and booby traps! Smiles and sword fights! Team is team, no matter what.
Music: I'll Be There by Walk Off the Earth
     + I'd never heard of Roar, but it is late '90s action-adventure historical fantasy starring Heath Ledger and I am delighted. His face. All of their faces. Team. Hurt/comfort. This is excellent.

Renegades by bironic
Roar | 2:32 | PG-13
Summary: This is OUR home.
Music: Renegades by X Ambassadors
     + Taking on the Roman invaders. Uprising.

see it all by thingswithwings
Schitt's Creek | 5,064 words | NC-17 | David/Patrick
It’s not like David was trying to hide it. The truth of the matter is, he doesn’t wear skirts all that often, doesn’t get the urge all that often, and Patrick just hasn’t known him all that long. A year, Patrick’s known him a year, and David’s wardrobe is extensive; he really wasn’t trying to hide it.
     + Gender and sexuality and clothing and opening up and falling in love.

Let Me In by Trelkez
Train to Busan | 3:46 | PG-13
this heart's full of nevermore
Music: Let Me In by Glen Hansard
     + I haven't fully unpacked this yet but this is kind of emotionally devastating. It's delicate and full of flesh and blood and hurt.

Two Trucks by findmeinthealps and Neery
Transformers | 3:29 | PG-13 | Megatron/Optimus Prime, Everyone/Everyone
Summary: (Having Sex)
Music: Two Trucks by Lemon Demon
     + It is exactly what it says on the tin: two trucks, having sex. A+ (This is crack, but now I have meta questions about masculinity as presented in the Transformers.)

Hurricane by alpheratz
The Untamed | 3:11 | G | Lan Zhan/Wei Ying
Summary: You're the finest thing that I've done. (Lan Wangji, Wei Wuxian, and their son.)
Music: Hurricane by The Hush Sound
     + Pretty. This is a let-me-show-you-their-epic-love-to-piano-music thing, a bit.

ascend and try again by alpheratz
The Untamed | 1:38 | G | Wei Ying
You shouldn't ever feel pain.
Music: Ascend and Try Again by Okay Kaya
     + A Wei Wuxian vid about the most important people in his life and maybe also his journey and the way he keeps coming. (I haven't seen the source.)

Unstrictly Ballroom by Ariaste
The Untamed | 47,522 words | PG-13 | Lan Zhan/Wei Ying
Summary: Thirteen years ago, Wei Wuxian brought scandal and shame down upon his head and was thrown out of the competitive ballroom dance circuit. He vanished, never to be heard from again.
Lan Wangji aches when he remembers the way Wei Ying danced--like a laugh given movement and form. He has never stopped searching for him.
     + The Strictly Ballroom AU where they face down homophobia in the dance circuit world through dance and ensemble plots, and dance all the dances. The Cloud Recesses is a dance studio, Lan Zhan is forced to teach teenagers to tango and hates it. ...also technically a stripper AU.

Daylight by helcinda
The Untamed | 4:15 | G | Lan Zhan/Wei Ying
I once believed love would be black and white / But it's golden
Music: Daylight by Taylor Swift
     + Wei Ying's pain with Lan Zhan as sunlight and then vice versa. This works as a Taylor Swift music video - thematically and in terms of the aesthetics of the imagery - like, if there were to be a Taylor Swift music video about historical fantasy Chinese cultivators who met as teenagers, fell in love, and were kept apart for many years by duty - this works.

Heaven by helcinda
The Untamed | 4:22 | G | Lan Zhan/Wei Ying
Trying to embrace the picture I paint / And colour me free
Music: Heaven by Troye Sivan
     + Lan Zhan's love of Wei Ying.

through a window softly by impossibletruths
The Untamed | 14,102 words | PG-13 | Lan Zhan/Wei Ying
Summary: Wei Wuxian plays the flute. Someone in Wei Wuxian's apartment complex plays violin. Sometimes, they play the flute and the violin together, and it's... nice. It's really nice. It's sort of the nicest thing going on in his life right now, honestly.
It's like the poets say: Music is love in search of a word.
     + Music student college AU with identity porn.

Untitled Goose Game Vid by eruthros and thingswithwings
Untitled Goose Game | 1:57 | G | goose
Summary: HAVOC
Music: Bad Reputation by Joan Jett
     + Sometimes you just want to watch a goose fuck some shit up and hassle some people. Satisfying.

Lawless by CherryIce
Whip It | 3:08 | G
Summary: There are many ways to shine.
Music: Lawless by Troi Irons
     + Follows the narrative of the movie and does a really great job of matching the emotional beats of the song. I love this.

clearing out some stuff from my browser, mostly from snowflake recs, I think

I Am the Night by Chash
Brooklyn Nine-Nine/DCU | 2,026 words | G | Jake Peralta
Summary: A new vigilante rises in New York City. The official position of the NYPD is that he's a criminal.
Jake Peralta thinks he needs a sweater.
+ Great ensemble care-taking fic, cute, A+ crossover.

closer by lucystonersix
Buffy the Vampire Slayer | 3:30 | PG-13 | multiship
Song: Closer by Tegan and Sara
+ All of the ships, so many.

#blessed by thehoyden
Buzzfeed RPF | 9,363 words | NC-17 | Ryan/Shane
Of course Shane would rather not work; he’d like it to be like the good old days, and who wouldn’t? But a demon’s gotta eat, and he can’t even get a discount on his rent because it turns out it’s a lot harder to influence faceless companies with ominous dreams. Ergo: gainful employment at Buzzfeed.
+ Fun. I loved this.

Love, That Loosener of Limbs by amatalefay
Doctor Who | 253 words | G | Bill Potts/Sappho
Summary: “Like, finally here's a poem that isn't just some bloke whining about how a beautiful girl won’t give him sex, and it's basically ‘sweet mother, I’m too gay to do my chores, blame Aphrodite’. Like, honestly? Most relatable thing I’ve read in years.”
Bill meets Sappho.
+ This was super cute and fun.

darkness by KatrinDepp
Doctor Who | 2:10 | PG | The Doctor
Song: Evidence by Falling Up
+ Some day when I am more over my personal hiatus from the show I will sit down and have thinky thoughts about the theme of this.

Happy Holidays, scorpling! by anonymous
Good Omens | art | G | Crowley and Aziraphale
+ exchange art for scorpling with a yet-unrevealed creator, sketchy and dreamy and lovely

Stately Homes of Wiltshire by waspabi
Harry Potter | 57,582 words | NC-17 | Harry/Draco
Summary: Malfoy Manor has mould, dry rot and an infestation of unusually historical poltergeists. Harry Potter is on the case.
+ I cannot remember if I have read this or not but I am excited about it. Plotty-looking thing! A house!

The Crossroads by The_Spoony_Bard
LOTR | art | G | Mairon and Eönwë
+ I am not a Silmarillion person. I have not read it. This is gorgeous. The ink work, and then the colour. Stunning.

"elevator music" by k8+therobot
Marvel | 3:04 | PG-13 | Steve Rogers
Song: The Girl From Ipanema by Eartha Kitt
Summary: "when she passes, I smile, but she doesn't see"
+ I love the idea behind this, and Eartha Kitt. (Still super-distracted by how much I love her, have not processed this thing.)

Judith and her Maidservant by Siria
Marvel | 1,146 words | PG-13 | Dora Skirth
Later, Dora would think back on it and realise that clinically speaking, she had died.
+ Fix it fic for the Venom film I haven't seen - satisfying and just generally awesome.

Mr. Holmes: Beekeeper by Educated inYellow
Mr. Holmes | 4:02 | PG | Sherlock Holmes
Summary:A vid exploring the themes of the film Mr. Holmes (2015), starring Ian McKellan.
Song: The Beekeeper by Dessa
+ An excellent argument for watching that film, chock full of feeling.

Bootleg Turn by leupagus
Rivers of London | 4,641 words | NC-17 | Peter/Thomas
Sahra and Jaget have taken to texting or emailing me specs of the interior of a Jaguar Mark 2 followed by a long string of question marks. It makes me wish I had an answer for them. But more than that it makes me wish I had better friends.
+ Car sex and them messing with each other a bit en route to that.

The Quiet Gentleman by Antares
Stargate: Atlantis | art | G | John/Rodney
+ Regency AU and I have nostalgia. It's great.

Linguistic Ambiguities in Vulcan Ethical Codes by elumish
Star Trek | 5,770 words | PG-13 | James T. Kirk
The thing people always forget is that it was a Vulcan ship that reached Tarsus IV first.
+ riff of lazulisong's Graduate Vulcan for Fun and Profit, secretly smart Kirk fluent in Vulcan, cute?

firefly by peradi
Star Wars | 4,483 words | PG | BB-8
Summary: Humanity is infectious, Finn makes friends with droids, and K2 cannot get any rest: the story of how Rogue One flies again.
+ Robots/humanity fan club.