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Jack Wilson is now thirteen years old.

O_O

Love you, sweetheart.

"Celebrating the birthday of a fictional character is cringe!"

Yeah. So?

I sat down to work on a Fandom Trumps Hate commitment, and what came out was the opening to a Neil Lives AU DPS fic. What? Yeah. Anyway.

What would a remarkable (first time in a generation) NYT Best Sellers list accomplishment be for a book of poetry? Hitting #1 at all? Hitting #1 for a certain number of weeks? I Googled but couldn't figure it out.

If it matters, the accomplishment happens in the mid 2010s.

I am watching the new season of Law & Order (original style) because Hugh Dancy is on it.

I hate his hair. It makes him look ugly.
His character is named Nolan. Nolan's junior attorney Samantha is going to slug him some day. She is quite obviously smarter and more engaged in life than he is.
Sam Waterson doesn't seem well? Or maybe the "always dropping in on the way to somewhere else" segments are not his forte, but I'm actually worried for the actor.
I had forgotten Camryn Manheim existed, but I like her in this role, even though she looks more like an attorney than a cop.
Detective Frank Cosgrove should go suck a lemon. Some more, I mean. He hasn't earned being that cranky.
The "someone killed the famous person who raped 30 women" episode is very wish fulfillment but ok.
They should bring RSL's character from SVU, Kenneth O'Dwyer, into this series so RSL can hang with his idol Mr. Waterman.
Also, Kenneth and Nolan should be banging. Just 'cause.

Adam in Good Omens to Handlebars by Flobots

For Mycroft

This Weight
Midlake

I'm not fooling anyone but me
I don't love anyone but me
Though many obey only
I will go no further, oh I'll leave
Start at 1:37
While it all comes closing in slowly
My mind fears what's to come or be
For years now this weight carried
I don't love anyone
Though many give all to be nothing
I will go no further, oh I'll leave
And when this weight falls on me
I will go no further, oh I'll leave

AND: Entrapta vid to Hardware Store

OFMD Ed/Stede vid to Bruises by Chairlift (Ed is the main singer, Stede is the frozen strawberries guy)

https://genius.com/7178012 Wait So Long by Trampled by Turtles (House and Wilson)
Ain't No Use in Tryin' by Trampled by Turtles (House)

I dreamed last night about Festivids Reveal Day. It actually started at the kickoff of Festivids, when a number of us were in one large room starting the process of thinking up our vids. Except for at least me, the assignment was a video game instead of a fanvid. The room itself reminded me of a kindergarten classroom but sized for adults: thick, cheery rug; cozy oval tables seating three to five people each; simple, encouraging signs tacked up on the walls.

I was intensely jealous of someone else in the room, who had a great idea about a mentor helping a kid plan out activities to organize their life and achieve their goal, which was a better relationship with their dad (I was also jealous of this fictional kid because they had so much to look forward to), while I had no idea what I was going to do.

Then the dream jumped to Festivids Reveal Day, as they do, and I finally had the Festivids Reveal book in my hands! A printed and bound book, organized by vidder, that had a review of the vid or vids (or video games) that person created. These were looong reviews, with some background on the vidder and some discussion of their process before the main discussion on the vid(eo game). I was admiring different people's write-ups but not finding mine, and then got upset that I had been left out, but no! There I was! The review written about me started with a recap of how slow a start I'd gotten that first day (by someone else who'd been in the room -- the "teacher"? -- and had heard me talk about it) but that my video game was well worth it.

It was a remix/update of Defender, but your ship moved a little bit slower, not so dart-y, and the graphics were better (OBVIOUSLY), and the enemies you shot were ovals with words in them, for some reason.

The review was quite positive and I was quite happy, and then I woke up, the end.

Happy Festivids Reveal Day!

Awesome vids have been posted for Festivids 2021! Including four vids of the 1993 Much Ado film that features Robert Sean Leonard at his Disney Prince-est.

HIGHLY RECOMMEND both the vids gifted to me:

Rise Up (8 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Quantum Leap
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Sam Beckett
Additional Tags: Fanvids, Visual Triggers
Summary:

Sam Beckett always rises up to help those around him, or those he Leaped into, in order to put right what once went wrong. And he'll do it a thousand times, or more.

[VID] Losing Gravity (78 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Threesome (1994), Undisclosed Fandom
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Eddie/Alex, Eddie/Stuart, Alex/Stuart, Eddie/Alex/Stuart
Characters: Eddie, Alex, Stuart
Additional Tags: Sexual Confusion, Sexual Tension, Sexual Content, Threesome - F/M/M, College, Dubious Consent, Consent Issues, the shaving cream is a metaphor, Nudity, Fanvids
Summary:

"Okay, look. You have the hots for me, I have the hots for him, and sooner or later, he's going to have the hots for you."

A different vid, of Ghosts (UK version), leads me to ask: Does anyone have a link to Law & Order: The Musical!?

A final goodbye to 2021. You were not as bad as 2020. There, I said something nice.

Gratitudes for my life today:

1. Still like my job! Both the work itself and that I never work more than 40 hours per week and that I get to take days off guilt-free.

2. Have read a nonzero number of books over the past two months.

3. Still writing! One WIP I am posting as I go, and many other ideas.

4. Got to see

bironic in person in 2021 for longer than a lunch!!

5. I am reasonably consistently using my bullet journal to write down important things.

Extra: Hardly ever think of douchecanoe. Helps SO MUCH that he's banned from Twitter.

( Would like to do in 2022 )

My Festivids vid is in! I don't know why I thought it wouldn't take that long to vid a non-safety fandom. ... Anyway, I may do a treat as well. Since I have to wait TWO WEEKS to see the vids. AAAAAA, it's so far away!

I fully understand the mods need the time. Just dying to see the Quantum Leap vid that's been submitted. All the others as well -- just, Quantum Leap was on my request list.

Thank you to the mods for assigning a buddy this year. Mine provided excellent feedback and positive support. <3

Festivids!

Woman in a bathrobe, man in a towel slung very low across his hips

Just saw And Then There Were None from 2015. Have to say I approve of this artistic choice: in a mutually sexually charged het scene, have the man be mostly naked and the woman be mostly covered. YES. Even under that bathrobe, she’s wearing a one-piece bathing suit and when the camera focuses in, it’s on her suit, not her skin.

I want to emphasize that word mutually. I’ve certainly seen men use their nakedness to intimidate or harass women. That is 100% not the case here. Two people who very clearly want each other, and it’s the man whose body is bared, on display, subject to critique, while the woman gets to maintain cover.

UNF

PS. Completely rec the series! Also the book!

Also the author of the book, Agatha Christie, who was completely one of us down to the self-insert character.

Dear Festividder,

Excited to get a vid from you!

Threesome (1994) [SAFETY] - Eddy POV, please. Alex and Stuart are both great, but Eddy's the one I identify with. I like the physical touching in the movie, and the goofing around. Intercut that with the serious inner turmoil Eddy goes through, and you might just have a winner.

Overboard (1987) [SAFETY] - Does this movie make you squeal with delight? YOU, ME, AND REESE WITHERSPOON! (Did you see her shout-out to the movie at the Oscars? Awesome!) This movie is cute and sweet and funny and adorable! And, it's got major, disturbing consent issues AND it acknowledges that. A straight-up Dean/Annie romance vid would not work for me, nor would an "excusing Dean" vid. But there are still so many possibilities for chosen-family or who-am-I stories to tell.

Ode to Joy (2019) [SAFETY] - Cute romcom! Really open to anything. I'm very curious what happened after the movie ended, so if you want to crossover with other Martin Freeman works (Breeders?) and Morena Baccarin works (Deadpool?) to show that, I would be forever in your debt.

Watson and Holmes (Comics) - In awe of anyone who can vid comics, so your idea will be better than mine!

Quantum Leap - At one point, I had recorded almost all of the episodes on VHS tape, back when you had to do such things manually; that's how much I loved this show. (Until the last episode, of which we will never speak.) It would be great to see a vid focused on Sam's leaps into women and what he learned about gender as a result. Other themes and ideas are great too, although I am definitely less interested in Al and the other staff, and more interested in Sam (during leaps and out of them), or the people whose lives he interacted with during leaps.

Archer (Cartoon) - Wack-a-doodle comedy, in a mind-blowingly coherent way. The characters are ludicrous, but quite competent in what they do, whether that's their actual spy-related job or running a railroad or racing drift cars. Later seasons are AUs of the first seasons - set on mysterious islands or in Hollywood or in space. You could make a fabulous Lord King Bad vid to this source.

You're The Worst (TV) - So many things you could do with this, with Jimmy, Gretchen, Lindsay, and Edgar. I just have a few Do Not Wants: single character vid; focus on the "Jimmy in the trailer park" episode; vid with only people having sex (I mean, that's like half the show so some is fine but not the whole vid). Also, although I love the characters other than the main four, please don't include Paul or Vernon; they're funny and worthy, I just don't like looking at them. :)

Wild Target (2010) [SAFETY] - Found family! <3 <3 <3 Anything on that theme would be amazing. (Normally I'm a Martin Freeman fan but he's very peripheral to the best things about this movie. Also, those teeth, sheesh.)

Music: I personally enjoy geek rock (They Might Be Giants, Dead Milkmen, Weezer, BNL, Devo, Paul and Storm, Jonathan Coulton) but am definitely open to other genres. I like vids that tell a story (or make a point, or tell a joke, or some combination thereof), and songs that tell a story lend themselves pretty well to that.

I think when Sherlock needed help paying the rent for Baker Street, he literally needed help with the action of paying the rent. No matter how he phrased it to John or Stamford, it wasn't money he needed; it was assistance with instrumental activities of daily living, including finances. Executive functioning impairments are a real thing that even vastly intelligent people can have.

I think I shouldn't have had that wine cooler before finishing packing for my vacation.

I think Far From the Tree is a good documentary with a super sus summary. It's not actually about the parents; it's about those who are different from their parents, and asks us to think about what's a problem to be solved and what's a difference to be celebrated.

I think it's kind of funny how Kid the Elder is a tiny bit freaked out about finding out I'm bi. This is the same kid who when he first heard about trans and non-binary people said, Yeah, that makes sense, sometimes I feel kinda like a girl and sometimes like a boy.

Happy birthday

bironic!!! I wish I had a ficlet for you because you deserve it.

Just realized I never posted on DW about "Fifty/Fifty," the show that never was that the amazing

bironic created opening credits for. This is going to be like those recipe posts on lifestyle blogs in which you have to read a long story to get to the thing that is the point.

That's it; that's the end of the sentence. You have been warned.

This started in May 2007. I had been active in fandom online for about a year, almost exclusively in the House MD fandom, ( although I enjoyed seeing/understanding fannish trends and structures across fandoms. )

Even with casting done, I wondered: Could

bironic do it? Could she create opening credits for a show that did not exist, with two main actors who had not only never acted together before but probably had never been in the same room?

If you know anything about

bironic at all, then you no doubt have realized SHE CAN. Oh, they are perfect credits for my show, and I am so pleased and proud to have them next to my One-Page Pitch and Show Bible.

( PS. )

For a fanfic ask game on Twitter,

bironic selected: "Share a snippet from one of your favourite [sic]* dialogue scenes you've written and explain why you're proud of it."

I whined in reply because I LOVE writing dialogue scenes and I want to talk about them ALL. Nonetheless, below are just a few.

( First example is actually epistolary monologue rather than dialogue. Deal with it. )

*Yes, this is a sic burn on Canadians and Europeans. U-S-A!

I haven't watched The Falcon and the Winter Soldier yet, but after I do, I'm going to make a crossover vid with The Falcon and the Snowman because I keep calling the new show by that old name.

Holmestice work submitted early!

Con-Txt Premiere vid is 80% complete with beginning, middle, and subtitles. Just needs an end to count as a draft, due May 30.

A vid as Holmestice treat ... may be possible. Even though my vidding computer is in Kid the Elder's bedroom and thus getting on it means prying him away with a crowbar during the few hours our waking schedules match.

Holmestice work due on Tuesday, May 25th!

Con-Txt Premiere vid: Drafts are due Sunday, May 30th, 2021 (as long as it is May 30th anywhere in the world). For this purpose, a draft is a vid with at least an 80% completed timeline and a beginning, middle, and end.

Final vids are due Friday, June 11th (as long as it is June 11th anywhere in the world). We can work with you if you want to make tweaks after that date, though—just email us.

A friend mentioned a favorite song that she listens to on loop, so I decided to check it out.

There were so many surprises along the way.

1. The title "The Adults Are Talking" made me think, ooh, I love a good "calm down, Manbaby" tale.

2. I read the lyrics and thought ok, not what I thought it was about, but interesting!

3. I listened to the song (YouTube but while looking at another tab) and thought wow, did not expect that tempo, but this might be a good vidding song.

4. I watched the official vid and thought, as this commenter said:

while listening to the album I thought of a thousand different possibilites for a music video of this song
not a single one of them were baseball with robots
(Mateus505, 4 months ago)

( Embedded vid under cut )

Last year, Mr. L and I watched the recent Watchmen series starring Regina King, and were blown away by its magnificence.

Today Festivids opened and there is a Watchmen vid set to the song "Nothing Is Safe" by clipping. The vid reminded me how great and fearsome the series is, and reminded me how I felt watching.

Nothing is safe in America, and I need to continue to grapple with, continue to push myself to fully accept that it was my family, my culture that made it that way. Those villains I see on the screen, who were real, who actually perpetrated that evil? They were doing it for me.

I don't have to exploit the inheritance they left for me, but I do have to understand they wanted me to have it. I do have to stand next to Black people, and Indigenous people, and all other people of color, and acknowledge that they're seeing the past and the present correctly.

Until we White people can do that en masse, and shun the individuals who choose not to, nothing is safe.

Hello all! As my birthday is this month, I want to invite you all to my "Stay Home and Read a Book" party!

This is a party in which you:
- Stay home
- Read a book
- Come back to this post and tell me something about the book you read

Please comment with the title; author; one-word review of good/meh/bad; and anything else you like. In-depth critique, one sentence, bullet list, trivia, thoughts, quotes, tropes, whatever.

Dee Laundry

nutty implies a certain level of pizazz I just don't have

OMG he's a teenager

Poetry People (aka, I'd ask Nightdog if I could)

Repeating from Tumblr

Because I Need More Vid Ideas, Obviously

Dream about Festivids Reveal Day

Festivids Day

2022: Looking Forward

Festivids!

Kudos to whomever made this decision

Dear Festividder

Some things I think

Happy Birthday to the Best

Fifty/Fifty

Meme (old-school kind, not the current kind)

Crossover Vid

Am I... ahead of schedule?

Dates to Work Toward

Has This Ever Happened to You?

Vid Rec - Please read all vid tags

YOU'RE INVITED

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