It's a magical world

Well, I made a vid for Inglourious Basterds, set to Queen, for seekingferret. If you want to watch Nazis getting what they so richly deserve on the beat, have I got the thing for you:



My gift vidder was rachelindeed, who made a fantastic vid for Love & Friendship, the movie of Lady Susan. You should watch it if you like Austen, because it is great.

The Fall Equinox 2019: Costume Party collection is live! I have to say that I think the quality level of this round is even higher than normal--there aren't that many vids, but they are all great and you should check them out.

I received an amazing vid for the movie Love and Friendship, which is the film adaptation of Jane Austen's novel Lady Susan, which was unpublished in her lifetime. The movie is great (it has Kate Beckinsale as the title character, and she is divine) and the vid is also very, very perfect, starting with the song choice: the two-voice Broadway cover of Taylor Swift's "Did Something Bad."

Also, a special round of thanks to my vidder, who I know stepped in when my request went to pinch hit. Thank you!

A Woman of Her Genius (0 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Love & Friendship (2016)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Susan Vernon, Ensemble
Additional Tags: Fanvids
Summary:

Lady Susan has no regrets.

May the Fourth be with you! This is not a Star Wars post; this is a post about vids.

The vidders were revealed for equinox_exchange last week! I received a Velvet Goldmine vid set to BTS from caramarie:


And I made a seaQuest DSV vid for valika. I leaned all the way in to the 90s theme and actually vidded it to one of my favorite Enya songs, "Caribbean Blue," which I'm not even going to lie, I enjoyed quite a lot.


For more commentary on my vid, check out the Dreamwidth post.

Dear Equinox-er,

The 90s. We were all so young, so naive, and some of the music was not great. (Full disclosure: I have never liked grunge.) But there were some good things! I am happy to have a vid in the full spirit of the challenge with 1990s music, I am also equally happy to see any of these sources vidded to more recent songs. Whatever. It's the end of history and everything's going to be fine.

Thank you for making me a vid! I love vids, and quite honestly I would be happy to see a vid in any of these fandoms. I have suggested music for some of them, but please don't feel bound by what I've suggested, and I have no qualms about oft-vidded songs, either. And while a lot of these fandoms are very close to my heart, I will be very happy to see vids for them regardless of anything.

Hocus Pocus (1993)
One of my favorite Halloween movies. Asking for a Halloween vid for a spring equinox vid exchange seems odd, but I embrace the spirit of combining holidays as demonstrated by The Nightmare Before Christmas. Anything would be great.

Harriet the Spy (1996)
I'm not sure how good a movie this is, really, or how good an adaptation, but I adore Harriet and I would love a vid about her.

Velvet Goldmine (1998)
We don't need a David Bowie biopic, we have this movie. I've never seen a movie that better encapsulates the salvific power of music, and of rock and roll specifically. Also, you know, it's queer af and I love it to bits. I cried when Bowie died. Whatever you do, I'll love it.

ReBoot (TV)
This show…this beautiful, strange, weird show. If you have the source, I'll pretty much love whatever you do, but I loved everything about it, from the in-jokes to the characters to, yes, the weird time-skip where everything suddenly got much more serious.

My Blue Heaven (1990)
I think only my family and kuwdora have seen this movie. Everyone else who has seen this movie has been showed it by my family. I have loved it since it came out, and I loved it even more after I moved to California and I realized how true it was about the East Coast/West Coast divide. (Fun fact: I have considered vidding this movie to Dar Williams' "Southern California Wants to Be Western New York." If you can make that work, have at it.) I have lived that divide, and whatever vid you make, I will love it.

Ronin (1998)
"Whenever there is any doubt, there is no doubt." Words to live by, and I do, out of a movie that has the best car chases since The French Connection and casts Sean Bean in a role where he doesn't die. Whatever vid you make for this movie will make me extremely happy.

source: A Wrinkle in Time
audio: Kimbra feat. Mark Foster and A-Trak (edited)
length: 3:00
download: 338MB on Dropbox
summary: I'll be your warrior, warrior

AO3 page | tumblr post

My streak of never being guessed for exchanges continues.  

I made the Narnia vid Heartlines for silly_cleo, and I made the Hogfather vid Get Behind Me, Hogfather! for mithborien. The latter is now available in the complete version, unlike the short vid that I posted for the anon period. 

And aurumcalendula made my excellent Handmaiden vid Never Look Away. 

See you at the next equinox!

source: The Chronicles of Narnia movies
audio: Florence & the Machine, "Heartlines"
length: 5:01
download: 223MB on Dropbox
summary: Your heart is the only place that I call home,/I cannot be returned.

AO3 | tumblr



I've had the idea for this vid for a long time. I…thought silly_cleo might not like it? (I always think this.) She mentioned not liking the movies as adaptations, and I have to say that I love the movies as adaptations. The compromise I came up with was hewing fairly close to movie depictions of events in the books, which got complicated in terms of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader in particular. 

A lot of people commented on the vid having Lucy as a kind of loose POV character, which…is another thing I did not anticipate. I did the intro section with Lucy dead last, so for me the vid was about stepping back to the origin of Narnia for the Pevensies, their lost Golden Age, and going backward and forward from there. 

Finally, you may have noticed that there is not a ton of Aslan in this vid. That is not an accident either; I am not really a huge fan of Aslan anymore. My favorite Narnia fic of all is bedlamsbard's Dust in the Air, which should tell those of you who've read it (and who know how it was supposed to end) something about my ideal vision of Narnia. 

Dear Equinox-er,

First off, thank you for making me a vid! I love vids, and quite honestly I would be happy to see a vid in any of these fandoms. I have suggested music for some of them, but please don't feel bound by what I've suggested, and I have no qualms about oft-vidded songs, either. And while a lot of these fandoms are very close to my heart, I will be very happy to see vids for them regardless of anything.

I Capture the Castle (2003)
I just read the book, and the movie does quite a good job of it. I love the zaniness of the family (Topaz is my secret favorite), and also Cassandra of course. Any vid from this movie would be great.

The Handmaiden (2016)
What I said: "Yup, absolutely anything from this movie would be amazing." What I meant: If you can somehow correct for the extreme male gaze of the movie, that would be amazing. While I did like the movie, the less said about the sex scenes, the better.

The Golden Compass (2007)
Aesthetically, I thought the movie was all right, especially once it got out of Oxford and got into the North. I've never really cared for (or about) Roger, but I would love any vid from this source, as the books are some of my favorites of all time. My Philp Pullman tag has a few scattered public thoughts on the book(s). This is what I said about the movie when I saw it in Kyoto nine years ago:

I thought it was an entirely creditable adaptation of, on balance, a rather difficult book to turn into cinema. I had a quarrel with where they ended the movie, though I can understand why they took it only that far instead of to where the book ends, but some things were really well done--the armored bears, for instance, and I particularly liked the witches as well (Eva Green is so awesome). Of course when Ragnur's jaw got TORN OFF there was absolutely no blood, but I suppose I should be used to this happening in children's fantasy movies by now. Come to think of it, I can't really say there was that much blood in "The Lord of the Rings" movies either. I thought the production design looked a lot more organic and less strange than it seemed in the previews, and props to Derek Jacobi on general principles for being amazing.

Harriet the Spy (1996)
I'm not sure how good a movie this is, really, or how good an adaptation, but I adore Harriet and I would love a vid about her.

The vids are live in the first equinox_exchange; you can view the entire collection of 54 new vids on the Archive.

I made one vid. I think it is very obvious, but I have never yet been successfully guessed on the Festivids guessing posts. Maybe you can break the streak via the Equinox guessing post.

I have not had much time to browse the collection because I was marching for science yesterday. It was a nice day in San Francisco, not too sunny but not too cold. As well as knowing again that we weren't alone, it was nice to know that for a few hours we were exactly where we should be. Also, we ate delicious tacos at the Ferry Building.

I received two vids, both for Deep Space Nine:

I Lived (4 words) by Anonymous
Summary: Hope if everybody runs, you choose to stay.

and

Pundits and Poets (3 words) by Anonymous
Summary: xoxoxoxo

They are both extremely heart-warming. ♥

Dear Equinox-er,

First off, thank you for making me a vid! I love vids, and quite honestly I would be happy to see a vid in any of these fandoms. I have suggested music for some of them, but please don't feel bound by what I've suggested, and I have no qualms about oft-vidded songs, either. And while a lot of these fandoms are very close to my heart, I will be very happy to see vids for them regardless of anything.

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
The one with the whales is, unsurprisingly for a movie I first saw when I was ~4 years old, a movie by which I have defined my life at various points: "even in our own world, sometimes we are aliens." I also now live in the Bay Area, and this movie made a whole other level of sense to me when I moved here--though it's so much a completely vanished San Francisco that is preserved in this movie, which is another thing I think about it a lot now too. Anyway, FRIENDSHIP and everyone being GREAT, I love them all, please and thank you.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
I love this show. It is my favorite Trek and also the one that I think is best, haters to the left. Having rewatched it recently, I was struck by how the show just has a set number of themes and keeps reiterating them, except every time they go back to something they've done before it is darker and more horrible. There are so many potential through lines that could be vidded, particularly the politics and the war storylines, but I would also just love anything because I love all of the characters, even the ones I love to hate like Kai Wynn and Weyoun. Oh, Weyoun. 

Star Trek: Voyager
I have fewer strong feelings about this show, because i fell off watching it halfway through and I still think it's remarkably inconsistent, but I love the characters, particularly the women. I also strongly feel that Doctor/Seven should have been endgame and I would love a vid for them. But I would also love vids for them separately, or a Janeway vid, or an anything vid, really.

Rogue One
I loved this movie a lot; I think it's actually probably my third-favorite Star Wars movie, which is saying a lot for someone who wore out two separate sets of the original trilogy on VHS and saw TPM ten times in the theater. (I should mention: this is a prequel hate-free zone, though you're right, the writing and directing were terrible, because George Lucas.) And I liked that it was hard, and bleak, and the hope at the end is hard-won and fragile. So any kind of vid about that, and how it's the Star Wars movie for our moment now, would be great.

That's it from me. You may also find my star trek tag relevant; my star wars feels are mostly on tumblr.