Spinning on that dizzy edge

Title: Blow
Source: Farscape
Music: "Blow", Ke$ha
Vid Download Link: Sendspace, 226.30MB

AO3 link.

Summary: This place's about to blow.

Notes: A Club Vivid entry for Vividcon 2018.

For the last Vividcon, I went back to my vidding roots and made a Farscape vid, for My Show, the show of my heart. As I said when I first started babbling about making this: Has this song been used in a bajillion vids? Yes, even a older Farscape one on Youtube! Are there any other danceable songs about being crazy + explosions + underpants? Not that I could find!

heresluck is the master of the sandwich critique - how are you so awesome? :)

( Vid here! )

( Lyrics )

Right off the bat, I should tell you that Farscape is The Show of My Heart: my favorite, my baby, the one that I will always tell people to watch (with caveats, yes, but everyone should give Farscape a try), and even enticed several people into getting sucked in by showing up at their house with DVDs. So brace yourself for rambles and tangents about my entanglement with this show.

Farscape premiered on the Sci-Fi channel in the US 19 years and a day ago, on March 19, 1999. ( Fahrbot fangirling )

Basically, I've been thinking a lot about Farscape lately (the anniversary was completely a coincidence), stoked by listening to the thoughtful offerings from Farscape Friday Podcast (also a DW comm). When that crossed streams with the looming awareness of the last Vividcon, and wanting to make a Club Vivid entry, it dawned on me that DUH, I should make a Farscape vid. My very first vid was for Farscape, after all (oh, bb!grammarwoman, how far you've come!). I want to make the prettiest version I can, so I dug into some research for the quality of the DVDs versus the Blu-rays, which resulted in a definite *shrug*. I wound up buying my third copy of the series to get it on Blu-ray (when in doubt, I vote with my money to show my support, even if the chances of any revivals are pretty much dead), then realized that my new laptop doesn't actually have a Blu-ray drive. Oops! So I cashed in some survey points for gift cards and picked up an external drive for a reasonable sum.

I'm already a couple of episodes into the second season (and loving the subtitles and extras on the Blu-rays - yay, post-purchase vindication!) and appreciating the show for the umpteenth time. But I'm also struggling with watching bad things happen to my people all over again, and it's HARD. I want them to be safe and happy, which makes it difficult to properly welcome the stellar villains and antagonists as they appear. (I have complicated feelings about Scorpius, let me tell you!) Plus there's the usual pressure of translating the awesome vid in my head to clips on the timeline, compounded with the nagging doubts of my music choice. (Has this song been used in a bajillion vids? Yes, even a older Farscape one on Youtube! Are there any other danceable songs about being crazy + explosions + underpants? Not that I could find!) (Seriously, if you know of multiple songs in the center of that Venn diagram, PLEASE let me know.) Plus plus, clipping Blu-rays of a TV series is A PAIN IN MY POSTERIOR. Guh. Is there a Blu-ray ripping program that is as easy to use as DVD Shrink? Because I may just give up and go back to the DVDs for the negligible quality gains.

In conclusion: Farscape!

I would usually celebrate by taking the day off work, but I'm already burning through my vacation days with the Vancouver trip. Instead, I bought my general admission and Dog's Breakfast tickets for the con, plus I finally got the confirmation letter that they received my vid entry. \o/ There's still the niggling detail, though, where I'll be staying. Anyone have space for me in their hotel room? Please?

In other linky news:

sabaceanbabe posted a delightful, sensual, and porny Veronica Mars fic for me, because she is awesome both at remembering and basically as a person. *GRIN* It's definitely tipping me towards working on a VM vid for Club Vivid.

I can't tell if the creators of this Can I Get a Hell Yeah! T-shirt are Farscape fans, or if it's just that common a saying. I'd totally get it, if I thought the Emperor would refrain from yelling that every time I wore it.

Cate Blanchett is beautiful, full-stop. But it's so refreshing to see a gorgeous woman who has bags under her eyes. We age and we get tired. No amount of expensive creams and lotions are going to fix that. (Note to self: you should still get more sleep.)

The Scale of the Universe 2 is a nifty toy to zoom in and out of. Start at the smallest point of the scale and pretend you're on a massive Katamari roll!

I am having a mellow birthday; it's been really nice. I've gotten a bunch of greetings on Facebook, been useful several times at work, the Emperor called me from school on his teacher's phone to let me know he had an awesome day, and I may even indulge in some greasy carry-out for dinner. But really, I'm pushing forward to the end of the day tomorrow, when I'll be past my annual review (*fingers crossed* for a raise) and some other news.

Have a great Wednesday, all!

Guys? GUYS???!!! Why didn't you tell me there was a Stargate: SG-1 ornament out there, waiting to grace my Space Battle Tree?

Sadly, there are no stores within a reasonable driving distance that carry it. (I know, the Space Battle Tree is kinda far beyond reasonable, but I don't have a lot of spare time as we race headlong towards Christmas.) BUT! There is a store about halfway between me and my folks that is willing to hold one for me until the day after Christmas, and as we will be driving right by it...OH YES, IT WILL BE MINE.

So you all are off the hook for now.

Besides, I completely durped on telling you that Amazon had Farscape: The Complete Series on monster sale for a while there. Sorry if you didn't grab one like I did! But can I just say how happy it makes me that it's now temporarily out of stock? Hello, PTB! We would like MOAR FARSCAPE PLEEZE. Make with the webisodes already!

And hey, if anyone wants seasons 1 through 4 of the original ADV releases, I now have a superfluous set - huzzah!

Title: Situation Normal: All Frelled Up - A Farscape Love Story
Fandom/Characters: Farscape, John/Aeryn
Music: "Laid", by James
Spoilers: All the way up to Peacekeeper Wars
Vid Download Link: Sendspace, 28 MB (updated 3/20/2018)

AO3 link.

Notes: My very first vid! ( Thank yous and babblings )

I am so stupidly proud of this. Some of the clip/music pairings may only make sense in my head (mad props if you can pick out my favorites), but the fact that I've been working on this vid for over a month and I still love both it and the song must mean I did something right. I'm aiming to submit this to Creation for the upcoming con (every little bit helps with the fees for that beast). But more than that - I VIDDED!

If you could, please let me know what you think, even if it's just to say you downloaded it and it made you smile.

ETA: And now an embed!
( Vid here! )

I'm struggling here, guys.  Recent life events have felt like getting pecked to death by freaking ducks.

( If only I had the $$$ to throw at most of these problems )

It seems like a lot of other peole are feeling beat-down, too, with life really putting the 'con' in 'confluence of events'.  I prescribe huge monetary or other beneficial windfalls for us all.

I know this dungeon adventure went around last year, but after the previous two memes, I had to play it again.

Behold, the dungeon of grammarwoman!

(Really, what prompted me to post it is that while I played, I came across these two gems:

"You quaff the potion marked 'KAZBABY'. It tastes like farscape."

"You quaff the potion marked 'KARL AGATHON'. You suffer a momentary vision of helo-has-sexual-chemistry-with-anything."

I am STILL fucking laughing about those.)

Oh, and if roaming around underground is not your thing, Welcome to Moon Colony Grammarwoman!

(And with that, I promise to stop spamming you for at least an hour.)

Bopping along to the radio on the way home today, I smiled to hear one of my favorite songs, "Laid", by James. As happens all too frequently to me nowadays, about two lines in I was struck by another vid idea: Farscape's John/Aeryn. The lyrics are a ridiculous match that had me giggling: "Dress me up in women's clothes / Messed around with gender roles" with clips from "Premiere", "Scratch 'n Sniff", and "Coup by Clam" ... "My therapist says not to see you no more / You're like a disease without any cure" with the shots of Dr. Zhaan from "Won't Get Fooled Again" and afflicted Aeryn in "DNA Mad Scientist".

WANT NEW COMPUTER THAT CAN VID. *sulk*

Have a great weekend, everybody!