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jarrow
D.E.B.S. | 3:04 | G | Amy/Lucy
Summary: We ain't gonna live forever...
Music: 4ever by The Veronicas
+

jarrow's got a note just over their vid embed that reads, in part: "happy lesbian hijinks." That's this vid. They are so gay and the movie is so camp and it is glorious pop-driven wallow in Amy and Lucy's love story in all of its camp gay glory.

If It Isn't Her, It Isn't Here by

gwenfrankenstein
D.E.B.S. | 2:52 | PG-13 | Amy/Lucy
Summary: My imagination is rattling its cage.
Music: If It Isn't Her by Ani DiFranco
+This is one of those vids that very much is weaving its audio with its visual, to the tune of lyric and visual matches and there's so much atmospheric groove in the song, too, so it's this mix of precision and vibes that's immersive and satisfying. (They fall in love to Ani DiFranco: it's super gay and great.)

Love At First Sight by

heresluck
Glee | 2:36 | G | Kurt/Blaine
Summary: Then there was you.
Music: Love At First Sight by Kylie Minogue
+It was love, guys. I have so much nostalgia for what I watched of early seasons Kurt and Blaine and that representation in that ridiculous show, and just - the instant *hearteyes* and singing and dancing and mild pining and kissing and pop music. It is here and it is fantastic.

am I only dreaming? by

thingswithwings
GLOW | 1:50 | PG-13 | Arthie/Yolanda
Summary: A tribute to this beautiful little love story!
Music: Eternal Flame by The Bangles
+This made me *chinhands*. Two women dancing and being in love with each other in the '80s.

come home to my heart by

dollsome
Good Omens | G | Aziraphale/Crowley
Summary: In your car, the radio up / We keep trying to talk about us / I’m someone you maybe might love. Falling in love with the world, and each other. An Ineffable Husbands fanvid.
Music: Supercut by Lorde
+They're doing the best they can, and they're so in love, and they've been so in love for so long, without quite saying it outright, and my heart.

Saving Me & You by

purplefringe
Imagine Me & You/Saving Face | 3:29 | G | Luce/Rachel, Wil/Vivian
Summary: Lesbian love in London and New York. A fluffy vid for Imagine Me & You and Saving Face.
Music: Kiss Me by Sixpence None The Richer
+Gay fall lesbian vibes! Gay fall lesbian vibes! Sometimes that is all I want, but yeah, this is a great interweaving of the two narratives and all of their little matching tropes. It brings me joy.

Under Pressure by

violace
The Martian | 3:45 | G
Summary: "Every human being has a basic instinct to help each other out. This is so fundamentally human that it's found in every culture without exception."
Music: Under Pressure by David Bowie and Queen
+I love the Neil deGrasse Tyson open and the optimism. A pop-y film narrative vid with some great beats.

Dancing in the Dark by

starlady
Marvel | 3:18 | PG-13 | Kamala Khan
Summary: You can't start a fire without a spark.
Music: Dancing in the Dark by Lucy Dacus
+The song choice is gutting and perfect. Kamala Khan, and her friends and neighbours and family and neighbourhood, and yeah.

Our Version of Events by

alwaystheocean
Pride/Rent | 4:43 | G
(no summary)
Music: Read All About it, Pt III - Emeli Sandé
+Queer community and activism in the face of all of the shit that gets thrown at us. There's a bit in Pride where Mark is like, you know who Thatcher also hates, yeah? So we're going to be friends, the gays and the miners, because fuck Thatcher in particular, and that's kind of a lot of this vid, friends, but also just a good life strategy in general: band together with the other people that are getting stomped on.

Take Me Out by

jarrow
Saving Face | 3:13 | PG-13 | Wil/Vivian
Summary: Wil needs to get her shit together and ask Vivian out already, for crying out loud.
Music: Take Me by AJ & Aly
+The '80s-inspired soundtrack and some of the cuts are giving, like, dueSouth fanvid, in the best way. Except it's a textually queer source and so it is so, so much better. (I love them and this makes me happy.)

I Know A Place by

heresluck
Sense8 |4:34 | PG-13
Summary: Don't you be afraid of love and affection.
Music: I Know A Place by MUNA
+Friends and lovers, up against the world together, and basking in the sun, too.

Skeleton Song by

Isagel
Slings & Arrows | 3:42 | G | Geoffrey Tennant & Oliver Welles
Summary: Skeleton, you are my friend.
Music: Skeleton Song by Kate Nash
+Oliver and Geoffrey, and Geoffrey's relationship with their continued relationship. (Brilliant.)

Crowded Table by

Isagel
Star Trek | 4:19 | G
Summary: The plural of queer is family.
Music: Crowded Table by Joshua Radin
+ Disco. Queers in space taking care of each other, doing space things with their friends.

Gold by

ohvienna
Star Trek | 1:29 | G | Deanna Troi/William Riker
Summary: “Because we have to be willing to go through that door to what’s next.”
Music: Gold by Kina Grannis & Jome
+I haven't seen Picard, so all I'm getting out of this is Troi and Riker, older and in space together again, hugging and kissing like they've kissed before, with a sun-dappled green past or future apart or together, spangled with twinkle lights.

Undress Rehearsal by

findmeinthealps
Taskmaster RPF | 3:32 | PG-13 | Alex Horne
Summary: "There is an unfortunate amount of my flesh in this one." - Alex Horne
Music: Undress Rehearsal by Timeflies
+Alex Horne and a lot of his Taskmaster tropes - exposing his flesh, getting sprayed by water, and generally being used.

How You Like That by

marah_sarie
Under the Queen's Umbrella | 3:04 | G | Queen Im Hwa-ryeong
Summary: If you come for Queen Im Hwa-ryeong, you best not miss.
Music: How You Like That by BLACKPINK
+All the shots in this are gorgeous. Queen Im Hwa-ryeong's imma fuck you up face is a thing of beauty. (I haven't seen this drama, but this vid is excellent.)

Exile by

frayadjacent
Xena | 4:48 | G | Xena/Gabrielle
Summary: My complicated feelings about the Xena series finale.
Music: Exile by Taylor Swift feat. Bon Iver
+I really like the inclusion of all of the other bury your gays clips - they make this video and really hammer in what the finale ending was and how unnecessary it was.

Hapiyut shel Harley Quinn / הפיוט של הארלי קווין by

seekingferret
DCU | 4:06 | R | Cassandra Cain & Harleen Quinzel
Summary: Harley Quinn attempts Teshuvah. The good thing about Teshuvah being a process is that you can do it more than once.
Music: Bird on a Wire by k.d. lang
+ Footage from the Birds of Prey film. All of the messiness of being human and trying to sort everything out, with violence and sparkles and friendship. The song choice for this vid is pretty magic: k.d. lang is a great tonal fit for this Harley Quinn, and the lyrics and cadence shine through. It's gloriously cinematic.

a strange pair by

turquoisetumult
The Fall | 2:48 | G | Alexandria & Roy Walker
Summary: "are you trying to save my soul?"
Music: Experience by Ludovico Einaudi
+ This made me cry. The Fall is a gorgeous film and then this is: like, all of its punches, dialogue included. Dramatic and lovely.

Mass in B Minor

purplefringe
Good Omens | 3:09 | G
Summary: A vid examining the theological arguments, biblical concepts and questions of morality represented in Good Omens.
Music: Mass in B Minor by J. S. Bach
+I really love the ambition of this vid, and how Bach is used to highlight the grandiose nature of the plan, of the Christian mythos, and serve as a contrast to the tone of the book and miniseries. It's a clever distillation of the work focused on the two main religious characters, with some fantastic tongue-in-cheek.

Little Numbers by

Rhea
Hikaru no Go | 3:40 | G | Shi Guang/Yu Liang
Summary: These numbers could be lucky for you.
Music: Little Numbers by BOY
+So there's a live action TV adaptation of this that exists now that's the source for this vid. It's great. I only know Hikaru no Go through being a person who has existed in fandom for a number of years and my knowledge is patchy, but this vid fills me with delight. It is the story of estranged childhood friends/rivals(?) to lovers, and it's sweet and adorable and full of tension and light.

Gänseblümchen by

Rhea
The King: Eternal Monarch | 3:18 | G | Kang Sin Jae
Summary: Es war schon wieder so ein Morgen | It was another one of those mornings
(Or the Sin-jae just really needs a hug vid)
Music: Gänseblümchen by Ganz Schön Feist
+I don't know this source, didn't know this song, and have very little German. None of this stopped this from becoming one of my favourite vids this winter. (Turn on the subtitles and watch this vid.) There is something incredibly satisfying to me about the lyrics "I'm a daisy in the sunshine and through my petals the sun is flowing into me" paired with scenes of frustration and resignation and happiness.

Run Away With Me by

sisabet and

sweetestdrain
Legend of Fei | 4:11 | G | Xie Yun/Zhou Fei
Summary: Xie Yun has a proposal.
Music: Run Away with Me by Carly Rae Jepsen
+ They are in love. Historical costume drama (including swords) set to CRJ's saxophone-laden pop. The title card is perfect and the whole thing is a joy to watch. The alternate blurb is this: "I have no ambition. Neither for literary nor military achievement. I only want to be a maid brushing my future wife's hair."

Jenny by

seekingferret
Macdonald Hall | 2:47 | G | Cathy/Diane
And I sank my face into your hair/ And then I inhaled as deeply as I possibly could
Music: Jenny by Erin McKeown
+ Cute and kind of perfectly summed up by the keyhole heart at the end.

Banshee by

CherryIce
Marvel | 3:44 | G |Miles Morales, Gwen Stacy, Peter Benjamin Parker, Peter Parker, May Parker, Peni Parker, Peter Porker, Peter B. Parker, Aaron Davis
Summary: I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.
Music: Banshee by Santigold
+ Made me grin from the outset. The music is a perfect match for the animation style and the vid uses it to hit heavy emotional beats while also embracing its joy. There are so many excellent sequences in this.

Good Girls by

helcinda
Marvel | 2:13 | G | Xu Xialing
Is it easier when you don't have to start again?
When you don't wanna make amends?
I want to know that feeling
Music: Good Girls by Chvrches
+ There are a lot of really great emotional things happening in this vid that I don't understand because I haven't seen Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings yet. Little sister figure becomes a warrior, grows up, deals with loss, and becomes the centre of their story, maybe? It's pretty.

Balance by

absternr
Nirvana in Fire | 2:36 | G | Liyang
Summary: Liyang, her family, and her choices.
Music: Balance by Dessa
+ Gorgeously woven epic. The pacing of this and the ending are arresting.

A Shot in the Dark by

Krim
Only Murders in the Building | 2:27 | PG-13
Summary: Three residents of a ritzy New York City apartment building form an unlikely alliance (and friendship) to solve a murder in their building
Music: The Pink Panther Theme by Henry Mancini
+ (Yet more source material I haven't seen.) A fun and fitting exploration of the tone of the show, I think.

Stray Italian Greyhound by

periru3
Our Flag Means Death | 4:09 | G | Ed/Stede
Summary: This feeling calls for everything that Ed is not
Music: Stray Italian Greyhound by Vienna Teng
+ Made me *chinhands*.

Power in Union by

condnsdmlk
Pride | 2:51 | G
Summary: It all amounts to nothing if together we don't stand.
Music: Power in a Union by Billy Bragg
+ Anthemic. Friendship and resistance. A sharply focused pro-union vid that captures what the thing is about, the film, unions, and allyship, all.

Go Boys Go by

BrokenMnemonic
Star Trek | 2:42 | G
Summary: The price of exploration.
Music: The Chemical Workers' Song by Great Big Sea
+ "Everyday you're in this place you're two days nearer death". TOS's redshirts and their many varied ends. Incredibly grounded in the song, lyrics and rhythm, both. Fantastic.

Rebels Rising by

condnsdmlk
Star Wars | 2:51 | G
Summary: Rebel. Resist.
Music: The Phoenix by Fall Out Boy
+ Space lasers, rebellion, and death. War. (Fast-paced and shiny.)

All Star by

hartknyx
Taskmaster RPF | 3:32 | G
Summary: The tasks start coming and they don't stop coming.
Music: All Star by Smash Mouth
+ Featuring every contestant of the first 12 series and many visually-rendered lyrics. (e.g. "her finger and her thumb in the shape of an L on her forehead". Always satisfying.) Dancing! Victory! Failure! Smashing things! Exploding things! Music! Sport! Greg Davies' shiny gold head! Et cetera! Fun.

try your best by

hartknyx
Taskmaster RPF | 3:49 | G
Summary: The triumphs and defeats, the epic highs and lows of British comedy.
Music: Fix You by Coldplay
+ Gloriously dramatic. The show's slow pans of failures, crying, so much crying, and lying on the ground, contrasted with all of the victory arms and shots that made it, triumph writ high.

Fight For It by

runawaynun
Ted Lasso | 3:37 | G
Summary: I'm gonna stand here and fight with you.
Music: Fight For It by Lucy Spraggan
+ Such a good pick-me-up vid. Masking pain and solidarity and small triumphs and deciding to dance. Choosing to stand with other people, finding your people, supporting them and being supported. How the shit never goes away, but friendship and believing in people help over and over again.

Let Love Be Your Energy by

such_heights
Ted Lasso | 3:28 | G
Summary: 'He thinks he's mad now, wait til we win him over.' 'He'll be furious!'
Music: Let Love Be Your Energy by Robbie Williams
+ Sports, Ted Lasso, winning people over, and accepting the mission. (I'm still processing this vid.)

Rainbow Connection by

lilly_the_kid
Wilby Wonderful | 2:40 | G | Dan Jarvis/Duck McDonald
Summary: When I wanna see my future, I just look into your eyes.
Music: Rainbow Connection by Garfunkel and Oates
+ The Dan/Duck storyline: really cute in places, and fragile and yearning. This vid is very grounded in the time of the film, with the song choice, especially, and is about some of the realities of being queer at that time, the fear and the lack of status. (On the content warning front: mind the "suicidal thoughts" tag; it goes a bit beyond that.)

I threw this playlist together last summer in advance of a wedding day I figured I'd have a lot of downtime around since I wasn't in the wedding party; the wedding was great but the downtime didn't happen so much.

01. Wonder Woman (2017) | Titanium by

Anoel | 2:50
You shoot me down, but I won't fall.
Wonder Woman as the indestructible warrior, who made herself into a blade and then chose how to wield that power. This feels like something to dance to, full of furious confidence and so many goddamned feelings about Diana of Themiscrya.

02. Pride (2014) | This Sullen Welsh Heart by

futuransky | 3:49
You can't keep on struggling when you're alone.
A vid about helping your fellow man and victory amidst defeat, maybe. It reminds me of that Margaret Mead quote ("Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.") and is full of feeling and how the small things matter and can be great. Unions, allies, friendship, love, and oppression. It's like a beautiful dream that everything would be alright if we could all just hold hands.

03. Imagine Me & You (2005) | Come and Find Me by

chaila | 2:51
I would guess that you put something up my sleeve.
Luce and Rachel's love story, distilled, sweet and lovely, set to a kind of hopeful longing Josh Ritter song, and more syrupy than the film itself - a glorious wallow.

04. Yuri!!! on Ice | Never Look Away by

helcinda | 3:37
Some nights we're choking on the words / But some we light on fire
A devastating combination of physical and emotional beats with an intro like a dance, spliced skating synced to music like a good routine and transitioning to a profusion of feelings and events. Yuuri and Victor are excellent and so damn human and so in love and it's that - lovely and joyful and utterly, utterly human.

05. Hamilton RPF | I Gotta Feeling by

elipie | 4:07
Go out and smash it!
The experience of being a Hamilton fan unfolded a lot like this for me; there's a sense of discovery and excitement and possibility, footage of the stage and backstage and actors and all of the same types of clips I was plowing through - a sense of excitement not just for what was on the stage but the process of getting it on the stage and what it meant for the people involved in that and what the production and the process and its success meant for the players and the audience. (Like, yeah, tonight's gonna be a good good night.)

06. Space RPF | Going through space with the world by

bironic | 2:08
From "day in the life of an astronaut" videos to international stardom; or, Chris Hadfield and his adorable mustache.
This vid does exactly what it says in the summary and is this quiet lovely utterly captivating build of science communication and music and laughter and space and learning and dreams and this man who captured our hearts. Well-structured and completely charming.

07. Pacific Rim (2013) | The Breaking Light by

such_heights | 4:22
Let your lion heart cleave the waves.
This vid renders fight scenes delicate. It's about loss and hope and kinship and is a really great reading of the film. The Vienna Teng song it's set to does a good a good job of helping to strip the source down and exhibit all of this physical and emotional vulnerability; this vid draws on the source's themes and makes everything feel very real and emotionally proximate while also sustaining this strong atmospheric mood. I'm gibbering, basically, but this vid does all kinds of cool things and is just lovely.

08. The Martian (2015) | Pompeii by

milly | 2:47
"In the face of overwhelming odds, I'm left with only one option, I'm gonna have to science the shit out of this."
This is another vid that captures the meaning of its film source - this is The Martian's survival story, science and flailing and ridiculous victories and the terrible shit that just happens. It's a story of triumph and humans human-ing. There are some neat beats with light in this that I've stared at a lot but mostly when I watch this vid what goes through my head is how am I going to be an optimist about this?; it drives that message through. I love it.

09. Hidden Figures (2016) | Phenomenal Woman by

odessie | 2:33
Breaking boundaries and chasing fire
If Laura Mvula had done the film's soundtrack I imagine the experience would have felt like this, that is- glorious. The three leads fly.

10. Black Panther (2018) | Shrimp by

such_heights | 0:45
"Just because something works doesn't mean it can't be improved." A Shuri vidlet.
This vidlet does an excellent job of showing just why Shuri is so many people's favourite; she's the best. This thing is fun and kind of adorable.

11. Star Wars | Desperado by

fightingarrival | 3:06
There ain’t nothing here for me anymore, but I don’t want to be alone. (A WisCon 41 premiere)
Finn's relationships with Poe and Rey - that joy and optimism and hand-holding - set against what they're fighting against. This vid feels sexy the way noir films are, like something balanced on an edge about to fall over.

12. A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery (1987) | Heroes by

starlady | 3:19
We can be us, just for one day
When Peter and Harriet first meet in the series he falls in love, instantly, and she likes him well enough but is going through an ordeal, just got out of a serious relationship, and there's an unequal power dynamic between them, so she turns him down and it is absolutely the right thing to do. Harriet works on recovering and Peter tries to be there for her without getting in the way or hurting her in the process. There's all of this delicious pining and working on their relationship and doing work so that they can be in a relationship before they get together, and that's what this vid is - that striving, and that dream. It made me go seek out this adaptation and then, when I was trying to write this, go watch it again.

13. Elementary | Puncture Repair by

purplefringe | 1:48
I leaned on you today (and I have promises to keep)
Pain and tragedy and need countered by support and companionship and friendship. Quiet and gorgeous.

14. Multifandom | Stand By You by

thingswithwings | 4:01
Male privilege is a shield; you can choose what you use that shield for.
Watching this vid without crying has been an effort. There's a kind of purity to it - that it's all of these moments of true partnership and teamwork and respect and trust and friendship and support; it's beautiful and it makes me cry. It's probably why this playlist exists and is basically my wish for my friend and each one of us, that we have this, but with less peril. (Goals, cultural.)

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