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I went to a wedding this past weekend, and meant to get this thrown together before the weekend happened, but that did not happen, so it is instead a slightly belated wedding gift. Hilariously (to me, at least) Let's Get It Started was on this list before the weekend happened, and has become more fitting since.

01. The Brain Scoop | Know Today by

absternr | 1:00
I just want to know something today
+ This is excellent and does a great job of capturing Emily's enthusiasm for learning and science, and also a little bit that oh god, what am I doing, where am I going, is that a reanimated raccoon in my kitchen, I'm sure it's fine of being a young adult.

02. Whip It (2009) | Firework by

leanwellback | 3:49
come on, let your colours burst
+ Juno's journey, finding derby, her confidence, and herself.

03. Schitt's Creek | Slow Show by

sisabet | 4:07
I want to hurry home to you
+ David and Patrick, flailing a little bit, and finding each other. This is such a great weaving together of all of their moments up to the last season.

04. The Great British Bake Off | All In Together by

odessie | 3:13
all in together now
+ Such a wonderful celebration of GBBO - friendship, weirdness, creativity, and science. Small accomplishments, ridiculousness, and dancing.

05. Doctor Who | Love is Cool by

purplefringe and

such_heights | 2:32
one: for starry nights // love is endless
+ Ponds, the Doctor, and love. Full of dancing and chaos and so many hugs. Journeys, and love, love, love, love, love, love.

06. Multifandom | Stand By You by

thingswithwings | 4:01
love, you're not alone, 'cause I'm gonna stand by you
+ Teamwork makes the dream work. Trust, respect, and fighting the same fight.

thingswithwings's summary is "Male privilege is a shield; you can choose what you use the shield for." and, yeah, that's this vid, and its answer is "#LaunchWomenIntoTheAir".

07. Multifandom | Love You Like That by

smilebackwards | 1:26
you've got the real thing
+ A wonderful little packet of joy.

08. Multifandom | Cut to the Feeling by

AbsoluteDestiny | 3:28
I want to play where you play
+ All of the Disney love stories to Carly Rae Jepsen, just gloriously sugar-y pop.

09. Star Wars | Let's Get It Started by

bessyboo | 3:38
follow your intuition
+ Lightsabers, so many lightsabers, and fighting as dancing.

10. Doctor Who | Mothership by

laurashapiro | 2:29
dance you beautiful chunk of the universe
+ This vid has so much fun and movement in it; the beat-matching and lyrics-pairing are glorious.

11. I Love Lucy | Va Va Voom by

JetpackMonkey | 3:02
just hold on tight and let me do my dance
+ Old timey hijinks to a club tune. A fun tribute to Lucy and the show, with a few meta show business nods that are entertaining me a bit more than they should.

12. Multifandom | Starships by

bironic | 3:37
starships were meant to fly
+ A celebration of science fiction, space, and star ships. Gorgeously woven.

13. The Planets (2019)| Lanterns by

elipie | 3:50
the light that we have found
+ Humanity's striving towards the stars, literally. Hope and yearning. About science, the past, and the future.

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.

You Told the Drunks I Knew Karate by

settiai
Doctor Who | PG | 2:48 | Rory/Amy
Summary: "I do the dumbest things for you." Oh, Rory. No, scratch that. Oh, Ponds. ♥
Music: You Told the Drunks I Knew Karate by Zoey Van Goey

+
The song that this is set to is so much fun and also a perfect choice that

settiai uses to lay out this descriptive exploratory piece on Rory and his relationship with Amy and their relationship with the Doctor - and it's a romp. It's their loyalty and playfulness and striving and everything that makes them Ponds and made that part of the show a delight even when it was heart-wrenching- and it's *chinhands*ing and hearteyes and grin-inducing.

In the Mirror by

heresluck
Due South | PG-13 | 2:40 | Fraser/Ray K
Summary: I need a reminder of what I'm doing.
Music: In the Mirror by Nada Surf

+
A yearning, hopeful punch in the feels about kinship with great timing - I have spent so much time just watching how these two move in this and how the song falls around that; it's really lovely. It's also this perfect treatise on how life can feel and why people relationship. There's humour and this quiet sedateness and a steadiness to it and joy.

Moves by

sisabet
Teen Wolf | PG-13 | 3:15 | Stiles
These things get louder.
Music: Moves by The New Pornographers

+
Stiles' descent into the supernatural and just- him; it's a really great character piece, full of flailing and frustration and straining and tiny victories. There's Danny classed alongside Lydia, which I really appreciate, and all of the sides of the supernatural world that try to take a piece out of him. There's his relationship with Scott and with his father, really great facial expressions, fumbles and fist-pumps.

Take Your Guess by

bingeling
Sports Night | PG | 2:15 | Dan
Summary: It's all just chaos. And that's fine.
Music: Take Your Guess by Tom Rosenthal

+
Dan Rydell and his relationships, the things that didn't go his way, the battered bits, and everyone he loves. Found family, team, and, yeah, chaos. Feelings, how the people around you matter, and keeping on. Part character study, part ensemble vid, part partnership; I have a lot of feelings about Dan Rydell's eyes now and his relationship with Casey.

Current Mood: hot

01. Your Mother by

ghost_lingering
Saga | R | 1:27 | Alana & Hazel
Audio: If I Should Have A Daughter by Sarah Kay

This is a really engaging comics vid that packs a really strong emotional punch. The source is a still medium and it's set to spoken word, and it moves and pulls you in, and just might make you cry. It's about love and strength and unrelenting optimism in the face of terrible things.

02. L.E.S. Artistes by

cherryice
Terminator Movies | R | 3:30 | Sarah Connor
Summary: Sarah Connor. To tell it straight, I'm trying to build a wall.
Music: L.E.S. Artistes - Santigold

The story of the Terminator films, about Sarah's voyage, fighting the darkness with all you have, and hammering yourself into a weapon in the fire. This vid hurts a bit - there's a kind of rawness to it, well-executed.

03. Hammerhead by

such_heights
Doctor Who | PG | 3:34 | Martha Jones
Summary: Prove 'em wrong, girl.
Music: A Brand

A vid about Martha fighting, and shining, and winning. I love Martha so much, and this reminds me why, with her facing down everyone's shit, and always carving her path and making friends. Martha Jones talks to people and she listens and she fights, and she saves the world, and herself. This vid captures her perfectly.

04. Rescue by

cosmic_llin
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries | PG | 3:46 | Phrynne, Dot
Summary: We don't need no rescuing, we're ok.
Song: Rescue by Yuna

Phrynne faces the world fearlessly and Dot faces her fears; it's a vid about them and all the women of the Phyrnne Fisher verse facing things down and being there to support each other as they do, in good and bad times. This is such an uplifting vid.

(This post is for

snowflake_challenge. Details about the fifth day are here.)

So Vividcon was two weekends ago now and this past weekend I had Fannish Time With Sines and decided to put together a vid playlist for her. This is it.

( Here. )

Current Mood: accomplished

Stray Italian Greyhound by

kaydeefalls
Summary: what do I do with a love that won't sit still? An Amy Pond vid.
It's an incredibly pretty vid. I have a lot of love for the song choice, which is very much fitting, and also results in a clip of Eleven straining against both the floor and a pair of handcuffs to the lyric "stray Italian greyhound" - that just makes me really, mysteriously, happy. The Amy in this is fantastic. She is so very much herself and having all kinds of adventures and doing things. It's excellent.
(Song: Stray Italian Greyhound by Vienna Teng)

Black Dove (January) by

kiki_miserychic
Summary: River Song was a January girl, she never let on how insane it was.
It's an interesting examination of River's identity and some of its realities. It's another vid that's really pretty and uses an excellent song. The vid pieces together all of these little moments that make up River's story and her identity. It's River, so I've a pretty strong *clutch to chest and cherish forever* urge with this vid. Her story's a little sad and a lot defiant; the vid is also those things.
(Song: Black-Dove (January) by Tori Amos)

Begin by

such_heights
Summary: "I'm thinking about how I just want to open up and give and give and give."
It's a vid about Martha's journey and, kind of incidentally, about how Martha is continually awesome. The song that it uses doesn't have lyrics that do the heavy-lifting for the Martha is awesome thing, and it's not a song with a lot of drive or edge that way, it's a little quieter with that message, with more showing than telling. It's wonderful.
(Song: Begin by Ben Lee)

So,

sinesofinsanity showed me the trailer for Sucker Punch Saturday morning. We said things like "A Series of Unfortunate Events" and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "her face" and "video games" and "explosions" at each other and then

sinesofinsanity looked it up on imdb and wiki and we gleefully repeated phrases like "female ensemble cast", "Alice in Wonderland", "1950s" and "baby dragon". So, essentially: young women, action-fantasy, explosions. I'm looking forward to it.

Kind of in response to some things that are being watched and the ridiculously good mood that

sinesofinsanity sent me off in Saturday: vid recs.

Suddenly I See by

kuwdora
Castle
One of the things that's great about Castle is that its lead is surrounded by awesome women. This is a vid about three women in Castle's life and his relationship with each of them. It is an exceptionally happy thing and wonderful. I really like the way city shots are used in the song's intro and the way the song is divvied up. There are very distinct sections that flow really well. I like the way each woman gets approximately equal billing time and the content itself is joyous and fun.
(Song: Suddenly I See by KT Tunstall)

OMG! by

obsessive24
Doctor Who/Torchwood
This is a hilarious and wonderful tribute to new Who companions. It's another one of those vids that uses its song really well.

obsessive24 uses a bootlegged version of the song that has all of these DJ voice-overs meant to prevent bootlegging, so there's a bit of potential inherent in the song for things to have gone rather pear-shaped in the vidding process. This is not so, instead the vid is made exponentially more awesome by the inclusion of all of these extraneous bits. The majority of the vid is a lovely tribute to the female companions and then there are these glorious bits with Jack that enhance it; it's a really fun piece.
(Song: Oh My God performed by Mark Ronson feat. Lily Allen)

Five Years' Time by

such_heights
Doctor Who
So this is the part where I admit that I ship Amy/Rory something furious because they are both awesome and they are adorable together. This is a ship vid and it is amazing. It is gloriously happy-making and captures the pairing incredibly well. There's best friends, squabbling, laughing, fumbling, epicness, and love throughout along with this great scrapbook of time feel born out of the use of stills opening and closing. It's incredibly joyful.
(Song: Five Years' Time by Noah and the Whale)

Current Mood: thoughtful

Tear You Apart by

bradcpu
Firefly
The happiest ship in the world made bloody disturbing. It explores a very interesting idea. I love the use of secondary footage in this vid.
(Song: Tear You Apart by She Wants Revenge)

Handlebars by

flummery
Doctor Who
The video synchs with the lyrics of the audio in all sorts of wonderful ways. It is, by turns, wonderfully amusing and frigheningly true in the story it tells. It reminds me of a number of the doctor's more scary aspects and the ending is perfect.
(Song: Handlebars by Flobots)

The Bitch Prince by

wistful_fever
Merlin
Arthur is such a bitch. The vid's incredibly pretty and rather well structured. Much of what I like about the show is here.
(Song: Bitch by Meredith Brooks)

Current Mood: blah
Current Music: Rasputina - Transylvanian Concubine

Explanatory vids, and a vid that is perhaps, ok, it's crack, but it's delicious.

Doctor Who - Space Dementia (Doctor/Master) by nastally
This video is incredibly, incredibly useful if you haven't seen or didn't grow up with the old Doctor Who series. It combines clips from both the old and new series and is pretty much a crash-course on the relationship between the Master and the Doctor. I wouldn't class it as a typical ship vid. That said, it does create a better understanding of it.

Doctor Who - Hanging by a Moment (Doctor/Sarah Jane) by nastally
This is kind of really nice dryer fluff. The kind that's still warm and is all soft and stuff. It's a good look at the Doctor with one of his companions. It has kind of a scrap book feel to it, actually - the sort of thing that you'd pull out when you were feeling a bit nostalgic and wanted to look back.

Papa Don't Preach by

fan_euniceand

trelkez
The extent to which I am in love with this vid has, I think, slightly disturbed others, or possibly left them in a state of fuzzy confusion, I'm not sure. Yes, it's set to that Madonna song, and it's Torchwood/Doctor Who, and mpreg. *cackles gleefully* It's completely brilliant. The song acts as narration to the epic tale of Jack's unplanned pregnancy and his adventures in love.

Current Mood: hungry

wanderings

40:12 dance, you beautiful chunk of the universe [vid playlist]

tidies tabs

the windows open wide

stronger than

46:56 Vid Playlist for Sines

Companions Travelling

Happiness

I'm not sure I want to know how many times I've watched these.

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