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A weekend of vids
Jan. 23rd, 2011 10:55 amFestiviiiiiiiids went live yesterday, hooray. Some of the vids are full of Julian Bashir and some are transcendent and some are creepy and some are toe-tappin' and some are eerie and some are action-packed and some are brain-bending and some are thoroughly satisfying (warning, warning, graphic sexual violence) and some are instrumental -- and that's just the ones I've watched from the fandoms I know. There are 100 more I haven't even tried yet. At some point there will be a proper recs post.
My Mystery Vidder made me a sweet, sentimental, happy-teary Star Trek: The Next Generation vid, Lullabye. One of my requests was for 'something about the kids' on the show -- and this delivers everything about the kids on the show: the ones the crew encounters on missions (especially Data's little buddies, *sigh*), the ones they take in temporarily, the ones they raise as biological parents (Wesley! Molly O'Brien!), the ones they raise in alternate realities, the ones their brothers and sisters raise (René!), the ones they build (Lal!), the ones who built them (Data's mom!), the ones they become (de-aged Ro and Guinan!); even their own parents make appearances (the Roshenkos! Riker in his ridiculous gladiator gear!), sometimes caring for one another's kids (Lwaxana and baby Alexander!), and I can't quite express the emotions stirred up to see these grown-ups suddenly become adult children. I think the vid does a great job of encompassing all the facets of childhood and parenthood and family and tension and fear and comfort explored on the show, and personally, I am basking in the nostalgia, remembering what it was like to experience all of this as a kid when the show first aired, wishing I could be one of the cared-for on the Enterprise. And all set to Vienna Teng. Like I said in my comment, I love Trek for plenty of perverse reasons, but it's so nice to go back to this innocence and love.
In other news, I am loving this anonymous-posting thing. Have only done it for Remix before, and that isn't a high-volume commenting community. Whereas here, comments have been coming in in a steady trickle. So when friends leave praise on a vid, I know it's genuine, and when big-name vidders drop in to say something, I can do a little private dance of joy.
I think one of my two vids is so obviously mine that I'm hesitant to do that thing where you invite friends to guess which one you made. But then, lots of people say that when it's not true. So -- want to guess? I'm curious what you think. If you guess the second one, I'll be super-impressed. Here: I'll screen comments until reveals on Feb. 5; if a comment doesn't have a guess, I'll unscreen.
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And soon, Porn Battle XI!
My Mystery Vidder made me a sweet, sentimental, happy-teary Star Trek: The Next Generation vid, Lullabye. One of my requests was for 'something about the kids' on the show -- and this delivers everything about the kids on the show: the ones the crew encounters on missions (especially Data's little buddies, *sigh*), the ones they take in temporarily, the ones they raise as biological parents (Wesley! Molly O'Brien!), the ones they raise in alternate realities, the ones their brothers and sisters raise (René!), the ones they build (Lal!), the ones who built them (Data's mom!), the ones they become (de-aged Ro and Guinan!); even their own parents make appearances (the Roshenkos! Riker in his ridiculous gladiator gear!), sometimes caring for one another's kids (Lwaxana and baby Alexander!), and I can't quite express the emotions stirred up to see these grown-ups suddenly become adult children. I think the vid does a great job of encompassing all the facets of childhood and parenthood and family and tension and fear and comfort explored on the show, and personally, I am basking in the nostalgia, remembering what it was like to experience all of this as a kid when the show first aired, wishing I could be one of the cared-for on the Enterprise. And all set to Vienna Teng. Like I said in my comment, I love Trek for plenty of perverse reasons, but it's so nice to go back to this innocence and love.
In other news, I am loving this anonymous-posting thing. Have only done it for Remix before, and that isn't a high-volume commenting community. Whereas here, comments have been coming in in a steady trickle. So when friends leave praise on a vid, I know it's genuine, and when big-name vidders drop in to say something, I can do a little private dance of joy.
I think one of my two vids is so obviously mine that I'm hesitant to do that thing where you invite friends to guess which one you made. But then, lots of people say that when it's not true. So -- want to guess? I'm curious what you think. If you guess the second one, I'll be super-impressed. Here: I'll screen comments until reveals on Feb. 5; if a comment doesn't have a guess, I'll unscreen.
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And soon, Porn Battle XI!
