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Dear Festividder 2025-6

2025-10-02T21:11:25Z

Dear Festividder and anyone who might like to make a treat! Info at festivids.

( Wildlike (2014 movie) )

( Nosferatu (2024) )

ANIMAL SHOWS UMBRELLA REQUEST:

So I would love a vid that uses any or all of the animal shows below to wallow in the good feelings that come from loving and bonding with and caring for pets. If you want to expand to include a favorite show of your own, that’d be cool. I also have enjoyed Festivids-eligible things like Animal Cribs (TV/Disney+), Dog: Impossible (TV/Disney+), Dogs (TV/Netflix), Dr. K's Exotic Animal ER (TV/Hulu), Fur Babies (TV/NatGeo/Disney+), and Cat Daddies (movie/Kanopy) if you want to mix in any. Animal feelinnngggs.

( The Dog House UK )

( The Wizard of Paws )

( Cesar Millan: Better Human Better Dog )

( Critter Fixers: Country Vets )

LOL. "Cute, cute, cute, sweet, cute, VAMPIRE TRAUMA."

Music-wise, my favorite genres are folk from pretty much any country, rock, classical, instrumental, bluegrass, movie scores, Celtic, choral, country where it intersects with folk and rock, some pop, some dance, some hip hop, indie... If you mix dialogue with music, please make the dialogue very clear/easily audible.

Thank you!!

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Uterus: yeeted

2025-06-22T14:32:39Z

( Discussion of menstruation, reproductive organs, surgery recovery )

I took off work ’til the end of the month. My mom came for a week, my sister for almost a week, and now it’s “vacation” with daily-ish friend visits. I’m hoping my brain will permit playing around with a vid for some of the time. I have ideas for a show and a movie, neither of which I had any plans to vid until compelling songs presented themselves.

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Auckland-ish recs for sister?

2025-01-19T02:37:15Z

Hey, NZ friends. My sister and her new husband will be honeymooning in Aotearoa/New Zealand for a couple of weeks, starting in about a week. They'll be based in Auckland. They have some basics planned, like the Hobbiton and glow worm cave day trip, but are welcoming recommendations on what else they should see or where to eat. Any personal favorites that are reachable by public transit or tour? Things they like include: nature, animals, nerd stuff, vegan food, whiskey, things that aren't found in the U.S. northeast.

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TV watched, 2023-4

2025-01-04T15:47:19Z

( ~47 seasons/shows + 27 standup specials, 2023 )

( ~36 seasons/shows + 29 standup specials, 2024 )

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Movies watched, 2023-4

2025-01-04T15:42:56Z

( 92 movies in 2023 )

( 89 movies in 2024 )

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Books read, 2023-4

2025-01-04T15:34:49Z

Catching up on year-end roundups. Let's see if I have the oomph to reply to comments or post mini-reviews of any of these.

( 34 books in 2023 )

( 39 books in 2024 )

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[VID] Eye of the Tiger (Human vs. Hamster)

2024-12-08T01:02:17Z

Because this show is cute and I needed a warmup before Festividding.

On AO3 or below.

Music: "Eye of the Tiger" by Survivor (shortened)
Content notes: reality/competition TV, hamsters, humor, people falling off obstacle courses
Visual notes: action TV-typical camera movement

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Dear Festividder 2024

2024-09-28T14:47:24Z

Dear Festividder and anyone who might like to make a treat! Info at festivids.

( Hundreds of Beavers (2022 movie) )

( Wildlike (2014 movie) )

( Dog and animal shows (The Dog House UK, The Wizard of Paws, Cesar Millan: Better Human Better Dog, Critter Fixers: Country Vets) )

( The English (2022 TV show) )

( Atlanta (TV) )

( Sarah & Duck (TV) )

Music-wise, my favorite genres are folk from pretty much any country, rock, classical, instrumental, bluegrass, movie scores, Celtic, choral, country where it intersects with folk and rock, some pop, some dance, some hip hop, indie... If you mix dialogue with music, please make the dialogue very clear/easily audible.

Thank you!!

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Ketchup

2024-08-17T17:41:02Z

Hello! I’ve been here, keeping up with people’s posts; I just haven’t been posting myself. Let’s fix that.

Travels

I went on vacation last month for the first time in 5 years, to visit my friend A. and her husband V. and two kids for a few days in Finland, where they’re from, and another few days in Stockholm, where they live now, finished off with a few days on my own on the Swedish island of Gotland. I’d never been to either country, and it was so nice to see new landscapes and architecture and wildlife and try new foods. The weather offered welcome relief: around 21C/70F and breezy compared to this summer’s record-breaking number of humid 90F+ days at home. Two weeks after midsummer, it never got fully dark.

( deets )

Next time maybe there will be a chance to visit isagel and/or naye. I’d also love to see Lapland in wintertime and the northern lights.

COVID

I’d put off traveling anywhere besides visiting family since 2020 because I knew as well as anyone that it raises risk of contracting COVID, and I’d avoided COVID so far. But fumbled policies have left us with COVID being basically endemic, and I wanted to go abroad, so I took extra precautions before and during, bought travel insurance, and crossed my fingers.

Friends, I came down with COVID less than 24 hours into the trip. Which, if the CDC’s statistics on incubation period remain reliable, means I 100% caught it before departing. Sigh. One of many no-longer-"novid" victims of the summer surge. ( deets )

I got home and slept a lot for a couple of weeks. Would say it took one month from first to last symptoms. TBD on any lingering effects.

Health

Like, for example, how my current period has lasted three weeks and counting? More likely it’s perimenopause and/or the fibroids or endometrial hyperplasia an ultrasound found last week, after more than a year of increasingly disagreeable symptoms. The medical investigation is only just getting underway. "Hooray."

Family

My little sister is getting married this fall! Guess it’s time to accept that she’s 40 and not 12. Her boyf is a good guy. Our parents are over the moon that one of their offspring has at last found a life partner, even if there are no grandchildren on the horizon. Insert complicated feelings here about suspecting I am ace and aro + wanting parents to feel like the family line isn’t dying out + general mortality anxiety. The wedding will be fun and the right amount of quirky. It’s at the science museum on the grounds of the 1964 World’s Fair, where our families used to visit when we were kids and my dad took slides and reel-to-reel tape when he was young. I’m dress shopping. Some relatives I haven’t seen in a while will be there.

My grandfather turned 103 in June. He’s as cognitively sharp as you could hope. A lady with a therapy cat comes to visit him in the assisted living facility every other weekend. Amazing. I wish I could look forward to same, but since he’s my dad’s stepfather, the genes don’t belong to us. Best hope comes from my grandma (dad’s mom), who made it to a week short of 99. The rest died young or youngish, alas.

Pets

Pepper is still here, still cute, still feisty. She’s my condo companion and stress reliever and provider of amusement and affection. If rescue records are to be believed, she turns 5 this month. The average guinea pig lifespan is 6, but there’s a pretty big spread around that number. We’ll see. My sister’s guinea pig—adopted to be a friend for Pepper but whom Pepper categorically rejected—lived until almost 5. If memory serves, our childhood guinea pig made it to something like 8.

Work

I accepted another promotion. Been having mixed feelings about it. Good: money, learning useful new skills, a change after 10 years in the same office. Ambivalent: little time for creative work. What does it mean to focus on management and strategy after 25 years of identifying as a writer and video editor? Am I drifting further away from the ideal artist life I dreamed of, or making a smart/pragmatic decision since various factors have made writing harder as the years pass? Am I gravitating toward something I’m actually better at? What’s the plan? What’s the meaning of life?

THE END

Hello to you all. Please don’t feel like you need to respond to everything if there is one part you’d like to engage with. <3

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Dear Festividder 2023-2024

2023-10-16T21:54:47Z

Dear Festividder and anyone who might like to make a treat! Info at festivids.

( Wildlike (2014 movie) )

( Dog and animal shows (The Dog House UK, The Wizard of Paws, Cesar Millan: Better Human Better Dog, Critter Fixers: Country Vets) )

( The English (2022 TV show) )

( Atlanta (TV) )

( The Golem and the Jinni (book) )

( Save Yourselves! (2020 movie) )

( TÁR (2022 movie) )

Music-wise, my favorite genres are folk from pretty much any country, rock, classical, instrumental, bluegrass, movie scores, Celtic, choral, country where it intersects with folk and rock, some pop, some dance, some hip hop, indie... If you mix dialogue with music, please make the dialogue very clear/easily audible.

Thank you!!

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Festivid #3: "Hack the Binary"

2023-02-04T21:16:20Z

I'd wanted to see the Afrofuturist cyberpunk musical movie Neptune Frost since hearing about it last year, and eruthros requesting it for Festivids provided extra motivation.

The film was sometimes confusing but definitely memorable. So much interesting stuff happened visually and thematically that I really wanted to turn it into a treat for eruthros, yet the prospect was also intimidating. And there was only a week or so until go-live. So the first draft was pretty much the final draft. Does it make any sense? Who knows! But hey, the vid exists now.

It didn't turn out as organic as I'd envisioned. The first sequence, of the miners, wanted to be cut to the beat, one action per drum strike. But that did suggest an editing style in which the beginning of the vid, about oppression in a police state and capitalism and feeling trapped within prescribed gender identities, holds to its own rigid structure, and then as the main character transforms into her ideal self and the people around her break free and wake up and resist, the cuts begin to fall outside that rhythm. Neptune's own clips, you may notice, don't hold to the drumbeat from the start.

Hack the Binary on AO3

I'm super pleased that eruthros responded positively and that a few others found the story compelling. Particular gratitude to thingswithwings for checking visual triggers and providing pre-go-live feedback that it did, in fact, make some sense even for someone who was only passingly familiar with the film.

Of note: There's cool stuff in the movie that doesn't appear in the vid, most notably some dream sequences involving fluorescent makeup. One of the two main characters is only glancingly featured. And the ending of the vid does not reflect the ending of the movie. It's a more streamlined (and Westernized?) version of the movie narrative.

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Festivids #1-2: Plants Behaving Badly

2023-02-04T20:34:13Z

I wasn't feeling great mentally during Festivids signups and into the vidding period, so I went easy on myself and offered only a few sources. I was glad to get matched with corbae for this two-part documentary narrated by David Attenborough, which I hadn't seen but which sounded fun.

Hall & Oates' "Maneater" suggested itself right away as a silly song for the episode about carnivorous plants. It took until the day before deadline to finish it, but by then things were on an upswing and I knocked out "Let's Talk About Sex" in 24 hours for the episode about orchids. And here we are: an irreverent pair of vids about plants.

Maneater on AO3

Favorite part: the ant freaking out because it can't get its footing on the slippery leaf. Poor ant, but also LOL.

Thank you to deelaundry for nudging me to re-edit a sequence to avoid a moment of black video that looked like a mistake.

Let's Talk About Sex on AO3

Favorite part: either the fly that looks buck-toothed because of the pollen or the orchid that nods like a gossiper.

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Fanworks roundup, 2021 [sic]

2022-12-31T23:12:19Z

Since a significant portion of my yearly vidding wraps around into January for Festivids, I’ve decided to count years as ending in February henceforth. So there!

Previous Roundups
2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006

( 8 vids )

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TV watched, 2021-2022

2022-12-31T22:32:44Z

And finally...

( ~40 shows or seasons in 2021 )

( ~65 shows or seasons in 2022 )

( Plus two dozen standup comedy specials )

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Movies watched, 2021-2022

2022-12-31T22:21:44Z

( 78 movies in 2021 )

( 72 movies in 2022 )

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Books read, 2021-2022

2022-12-31T22:09:34Z

Since I, uh, never posted last year.

( 14 books in 2021 )

( ~30 books in 2022 )

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VID: "Walk, Walk," a Haim sisters feature for seekingferret

2022-12-08T17:08:39Z

Vid #3 complete! One of seekingferret's pitches was to vid the sisters of the band Haim walking in their music videos. This being a very seekingferret concept, I was happy to develop the idea with him.

Walk, Walk
Source: HAIM music videos & Instagram posts
Music: "Walk Walk" by Yael Naim (slightly edited), which makes the unofficial title of this project "Haim & Naim"
Physical notes: Often, several clips appear at the same time depicting people walking, running, or dancing. Some shaky cam and panning.
Content notes: Jews dance in this vid.
Summary: Gonna walk 'til dawn, on and on.

On the AO3 or ( embedded )

This vid supported the International Rescue Committee.

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Dear Festividder 2022-2023

2022-10-23T17:16:01Z

Dear Festividder and anyone who might like to make a treat!

( Atlanta (TV) )

( Wildlike (movie) )

( The Lathe of Heaven (movie) )

( Critter Fixers (TV) )

( The Burial of Kojo (movie) )

( The Golem and the Jinni (book) )

( Sarah & Duck (TV) )

( Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy (TV) )

General notes, if they are helpful:

I like celebrating shows and movies that make me happy, but just as much I like queering texts, whether it's pairing characters who aren't paired in canon or inverting themes or highlighting kink or drawing attention to minor characters or changing the tone or telling a different story using the same footage. I like joyful and I like dark and I like sexy.

Music-wise, I like folk from pretty much any country, rock, classical, instrumental, bluegrass, movie scores, Celtic, choral, country where it intersects with folk and rock, some pop, some dance, some hip hop, indie... Not fond of ska (too fast) or reggae (too slow) or discordant stuff. I am possibly one of the only people in vidding fandom who doesn't like Florence + the Machine, sorry. I'm open to spoken word, but if you mix dialogue with music, please make the dialogue very clear/easily audible.

Thank you for making something for one of these newly or long-loved sources. ♥

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Vid! "Tomboy," Valkyrie (MCU/Thor movies), for yhlee

2022-09-18T20:44:49Z

Vid #2 posted! yhlee asked for Jessica Jones or Valkyrie set to this song. I hope you agree the latter made for an excellent match.

Tomboy
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe | Thor movies
Rating: Teen and Up
Characters: Valkyrie, Thor, Loki, Bruce/the Hulk, Jane, the Grandmaster
Music: by 여자)아이들 (G)I-DLE
Content notes: violence, guns, drinking, nonconsensual stripping of a man in public, eating of a mouse-like animal
Physical notes: shaky cam, occasional flashing lights (e.g. ray guns firing)
Thank you to M. for high-quality source!

Summary

In which Valkyrie kicks everyone's ass.

On the AO3 or ( embedded )

This vid supported the World Health Organization.

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VID: "Sex and Violence," Guillermo/Nandor (What We Do in the Shadows), for lilysea

2022-09-09T19:52:00Z

Vid #1 posted! lilysea asked for Guillermo/Nandor set to this song, and so she did receive.

Sex and Violence
Fandom: What We Do in the Shadows (TV)
Rating: Mature
Relationships: Guillermo de la Cruz/Nandor the Relentless
Music: by The Scissor Sisters (edited)
Content notes: bloody clothes, vampire biting, stakes, swords, ashy bodies, physical fighting & shoving around, one clip of fairly explicit sex
Physical notes: constant shaky cam, including panning and zooming
Spoilers: through the end of season 3; does not contain any footage from season 4
Thank you to findmeinthealps for source help!

Summary

Who is gonna make you cry?

At the AO3 or ( embedded )

This vid supported the World Health Organization Foundation.

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And the winners are...

2022-03-14T18:06:05Z

- seekingferret
- yhlee
- lunate8
- mific
- lilysea

(I asked my sister to film the drawing to keep me honest. :) )

Participants: 18
Currencies: 3
Total donated: US$1,285 ♥

If you are named above, expect a note from me soon!

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happy-cry emoji

2022-03-10T01:05:26Z

Friends and acquaintances have responded to the vidding offer with almost $900 in charitable donations so far. I have a good feeling we will reach $1,000 by the time things wrap up on Sunday.

Thoughts at this moment: I am yet again proud to be part of this community. I am proud to have reached a point in my fannish "career" where people like my vids enough to want to participate in a drive of this kind. I feel like I'm doing something useful.

I'm looking forward to finding out who the "winners" are and what we will make together.

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Vidding for charity

2022-02-27T14:53:20Z

In an effort to help more in the world, I am auctioning up to 5 vids for charity. Here's the deal:

1. Donate $5 or more (or your local equivalent) to one of these orgs:

International Rescue Committee https://www.rescue.org

Go Give One https://gogiveone.org (COVID vaccine equity)

The Guinea Pig Sanctuary https://uncommongiving.com/np/guinea-pig-sanctuary or PayPal

2. Comment, email me, or DM on Twitter with your receipt with personal details redacted. Comments are screened.

3. I will make vids of at least 1 minute by the end of 2022 for the person (or team?) with the highest donation and for four people selected by lottery from the remaining donations. If there are five or fewer donations, then everyone gets a vid. :)

4. To keep this manageable, eligible fandoms are what Festivids would call SAFETIES -- 180 minutes or less -- or movies & TV shows I'm already familiar with. It's helpful to be flexible and/or have more than one idea. Here's a list of my vids to date to give you a taste of my styles and interests.

5. Let's say two weeks; donate through March 13, and recipients will be chosen on the 14th.

6. Feel free to share.

\o/ ?

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Fanworks roundup - 2020 [sic]

2021-12-23T14:47:08Z

Ha ha, guess who compiled an abbreviated annual roundup in January and then failed to post it.

Previous Roundups
2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006

( 11 vids )

( 4 fics )

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Dear Festividder 2021-2

2021-10-24T21:03:16Z

Dear Festividder and anyone who might like to make a treat!

( Dr. K's Exotic Animal ER (TV show) )

( Critter Fixers (TV show) )

( A related request: )

( Queen Margot (movie) )

( Wildlike (movie) )

( The Burial of Kojo (movie) )

( The Golem and the Jinni (book) )

( Reservation Dogs (TV) )

General notes, if they are helpful:

I like celebrating shows and movies that make me happy, but just as much I like queering texts, whether it's pairing characters who aren't paired in canon or inverting themes or highlighting kink or drawing attention to minor characters or changing the tone or telling a different story using the same footage. I like joyful and I like dark and I like sexy.

Music-wise, I like folk from pretty much any country, rock, classical, instrumental, bluegrass, movie scores, Celtic, choral, country where it intersects with folk and rock, some pop, some dance, some hip hop, indie... Not fond of ska (too fast) or reggae (too slow) or discordant stuff. I am possibly one of the only people in vidding fandom who doesn't like Florence + the Machine, sorry. I'm open to spoken word, but if you mix dialogue with music, please make the dialogue very clear/easily audible.

Thank you for making something for one of these newly or long-loved sources.

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