wanderings

Home by cosmic_llin
Bunheads | 4:07 | G
Summary: Michelle, Fanny, Sasha and the Paradise Dance Academy.
Music: Home by Ingrid Michaelson
     + I haven't seen the source material but there's this really lovely vibe of happiness in the face of some kind of uncertainty/disappointment, friendship bringing people together, and dance as a necessity - joy and healing and meaning.

Real-Life Consequences of Role-Playing Games by theimprobable1
Community | 7,297 | NC-17 | Abed/Annie
Summary: After their game of Dungeons & Dragons, Annie can't stop thinking about the elf maiden.
     + Delightful.

How Much Is that Geisha in the Window? by Lierdumoa
Firefly | 2:56 | PG-13
Summary: Critique of the anti-Asian racism and confederate apologia in Firefly.
Music: Boyd's Journey by Damon Albarn and Michael Nyman; "How Much ... Window?" by Adam Baldwin, Nathan Fillian and Gina Torres
     + Damning.

Afterlife by thingswithwings
The Good Place | 4:07 | G
Summary: Turns out life isn't a puzzle that can just be solved one time, and it's done. You wake up every day, and you solve it again.
Music: Afterlife by Ingrid Michaelson
     + Dancing and Friendship. This vid gives me feelings (about a show I've never properly watched).

your reputation and your good intent by itsanizzyb
Knives Out | 3:29 | R | Marta, Benoit, Ransom
Summary: "you know you shouldn't be there but it's way past bed, there's comfort in the fingers of your good intent"
just a knives out vid
Music: Good Intent by Kimbra
     + Lovely, with an excellent genre-y vibe.

We Are Golden by seekingferret
Macdonald Hall | 3:59 | G | Boots/Bruno/Cathy/Diane
Teenage dreams in a teenage circus/
Running around like a clown on purpose
Music: We Are Golden by Mika
     + Sweet and happy, the first few times I watched this I was rendered incoherent with joy, basically, because of my desperate love of MacDonald Hall, Mika, and all the things this vid chooses to be.

Life Changes by elipie
Marvel | 2:59 | G | Peter & Ned, Peter & Tony
Summary: I keep on trying to fly
Music: Life Changes by Good Charlotte
     + Friendship, growing up, and becoming. Fantastic clip and style choices. *chinhands*-inducing.

Pynk by Tafadhali
Multifandom | 4:07 | PG-13
Summary: Pink is the truth you can't hide, maybe
A celebration of girlhood, girl friends, and girlfriends.
Music: Pynk by Janelle Monae ft. Grimes
     + Accurate summary is accurate. I haven't finished processing this vid. (I feel, like, as a consequence of this being a multifandom vid that there's stuff to unpack here in terms of what does it say about and how does the vid define the things that it celebrates and how does the media represent these things. Who, what, and how are they represented and why?)

you wait and you wonder who'll take on your odds by paperclipbitch
The Queen's Gambit | 138,010 | NC-17 | Beth/Benny
“Don’t think of it as marriage,” Benny tells her. “Think of it as castling."
Beth raises an eyebrow. “Am I the king or the rook in this analogy?”
     + Post-series marriage of convenience. It's been a while since I've read this, but I remember it being incredibly rich - everyone's fleshed out with things going on in their life, and the texture and tension of Beth and Benny's relationship, its transformations, and the context it exists in is delightful.

Shaky Ground by CherryIce
Saving Face | 3:11 | G | Vivian/Wil
Maybe I should chance it.
Music: Shaky Ground by Freedom Fry
     + Happy-making. This vid does such a good job of matching the tension of its song and of capturing the entirety of the film, not just the one central love story.

What I Need by cosmic_llin
Saving Face | 2:23 | G | Vivian/Wil
a girl who ain't afraid to love me
Music: What I Need, by Hayley Kiyoko (feat. Kehlani)
     + Gentle and satisfying.

A Strange Adventure with Mrs. Nakamura the Safety Consultant by shiplizard
Spirited Away | 6,016 | PG-13 | OMC, Chihiro
Summary: Haruki is a young administrative assistant at a large power management company. He's just been assigned to spy on (in his capacity of personal aide) the strange Nakamura Chihiro-- a sensibly dressed Safety Inspector with a sensible husband tucked somewhere in the country, and a sensible approach to her work...
...and a closer relationship with the Spirit World than she puts on her resume.
     + Chihiro, human engineering firm project liaison to the spirit world, self-appointed.

Hello by Molly
Stargate: Atlantis | 2:53 | John/Atlantis, McKay/Sheppard, Team
Summary: SGA in the wild dark yonder.
Music: Hello by Poe
     + A post-season 1 vid that fills me with nostalgia.

Red tulips (and their correct application) by rabbitinthewoods
Star Trek | 4,903 | PG-13 | Keiko/Miles, Bashir/Garak
Summary: After the incident with Gilora, the O'Briens have a dinner, and Miles gripes about argumentative Cardassian flirting. They have had a lot of wine, which is probably why he's telling this story, and probably why another Cardassian gets mentioned, and Julian too, and most definitely why Miles forgets himself and mentions all the times he's seen them arguing.
“They...argue?” Keiko's voice is very quiet.
“Yes, I was just saying…” Oh. Oh no. “You don’t think?”
And suddenly the two of them are involved in his best friend's love life, which Miles is most definitely (not) regretting.
     + Keiko and Miles get drunk and meddle.

strive seek find yield by waldorph
Star Trek | 68,199 | NC-17 | Jim/Spock
Summary: Spock is heir to the Federation throne, Jim is Prince of America because his fucking brother abdicated, and the Klingons are on the verge of blowing shit up--a love story.
     + Spoctoria! A glorious space romp.

Death of Me by kuwdora
Underwater | 2:53 | R | Nora, Emily, Liam, Captain Lucien, Rodrigo, Cthulu and Cthulu’s babies
Someone help me
Screaming out, I’m down on my knees
This will be the death of me
I feel it in my bones
The Devil’s at at my doorstep
This will be the death of me
Music: Death of Me by Saint Phnx
     + Monster horror in a bottle starring Kristen Stewart. I love the way this song is vidded to light along with everything else that this vid is doing.

best friends forever by varnes
The Untamed | 16,736 | PG-13 | Jin Ling/Lan Jingyi
Summary: It happened like this: Jin Ling was a sect leader now, which was, and Jingyi really meant this, fucking hilarious. There were few things funnier, in his honest opinion.
Because he was young, and inexperienced, and also — it had to be said — a real shithead, there was apparently some belief amongst his advisors that the best way forward, to promote the picture of a stable, mature sect leader who absolutely did not cry at the drop of a hat, was for Jin Ling to get married.
OR: Jin Ling and Jingyi get engaged.
Things spiral from there.
     + Fun. A lark. A frolic. A+.

Marry for Love by tuesday
The Untamed | 3,025 | PG-13 | Jiang Yanli/Nie Huaisang
Summary: Nie Huaisang snapped open his fan and covered his face. "Be careful. I'll take advantage."
     + Time travel fix-it fic wherein Huaisang subtly manipulates the cultivation world and accidentally brings about his own HEA.

Themes and Variations in F# Major by nyargles
The Untamed | 18,173 | NC-17 | Lan Zhan/Wei Ying
Summary: The thing with musical prodigies is that they're soloists, and soloists play alone. He doesn't want to play alone anymore.
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"A summer guest lecture series? Oh, very nice. I wish I could sit in on that."
"Do you also play the piano?"
"Not even a little bit," says Wei Ying cheerfully. "But I'm sure you'd have a lot of thoughts on musicality that would be relevant regardless."
"Oh," says Lan Zhan. He seems to be searching for something else to say. "I believe it is oversubscribed," he says finally.
"As it should be," says Wei Ying, and does not tell him that he has all of Lan Zhan's albums downloaded onto his phone, listened to over and over when he's on a train, a plane, waiting for a taxi, has followed his career since he overheard half a Mendelssohn when they were fifteen.
     + They fall in love, over years and continents and shared spaces. Delicate in places.