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 )

1. Despite my inability to post here in my own space (and the lesser frequency of commenting in other people's), I do in fact continue to exist.

( Kid, health, cancer, body issues, and VVC )

G'night, all!

Title: I Ship It
Sources/Pairings: Darcy Lewis/Clint Barton (MCU), Alex Russo/Justin Russo (Wizards of Waverly Place), Kara "Starbuck" Thrace/Karl "Helo" Agathon (BSG), Steve Rogers/James "Bucky" Barnes (MCU), Jake Jensen/Carlos "Cougar" Alvarez (The Losers), Arthur/Eames (Inception), Stiles Stilinski/Derek Hale (Teen Wolf), Timothy McGee/Tony DiNozzo (NCIS), Rodney McKay/John Sheppard (SGA), Nick Gant/Cassie Holmes (Push), Elizabeth Burke/Peter Burke/Neal Caffrey (White Collar)
Music: "I Ship It", not literally
Vid Download Link: 57 MB file at Sendspace

AO3 link.

Summary: A multifandom manifesto of shipping.

WARNING: Suggests incest, adult-underage attraction, and non-canonical pairings, plus really fuzzy clips from YouTube.

Notes: This vid is direct from my id. I would apologize for that and the contents of the warnings, but as the lyrics say, "I don’t care, I ship it." And lo, a Club Vivid entry was born. (I am addicted to the Doppler effect of "Woo!"s rippling through the Club Vivid crowd, as people recognize and cheer for their favorites.) If you can't air out your dirty laundry for fans to dance their butts off to, then what good is fandom?

Fandom, bless them, is also good for doing your homework for you and helpfully listing episode lists of, say, two siblings hugging, or a pair of Very Special Agents standing super close together.

heresluck, thank you for laughing at me and my continued insistence on building multi-source vids and my unsubtle affection for Chris Evans; the encouragement is appreciated, too. :) My gratitude also goes out to all the fan writers who tempted me down dark paths; bless you and your ranges of pairings, from the all-but-canonical to utter crack.

( Vid here! )


( I Ship It lyrics )

I squeezed in just about every darned thing I had on my to-do list (party prep, Vividcon, party prep -> party, Club Vivid, Vividcon, VVC clean-up, post-party packup at the parents'), and now I am home for the first time since Tuesday. No matricide, lots of gratitude, I got out of the party and back in time for my Club Vivid entry, so that was awesome. It was an amazing whirlwind of a week. I may do a write-up later, but right now I am beyond exhausted and well into glazed like a donut. I may poke at the internet for a bit for as long as words make sense. Braining is hard, yo.

I made three Festivids!

The Pirates of Penzance:
Rock This Town, PG. DW, LJ, AO3. The Pirates of Penzance are gonna rock this town.

RPF - Chris Hadfield:
Satellite, G. DW, LJ, AO3. These are the voyages of Col. Chris Hadfield, Canadian astronaut, science educator, and generally cool dude.

Spy:
Level Up, NSFW. DW, LJ, AO3. Susan Cooper: Analyst. Secret agent. BADASS.

I am very happy with how they were received. I am super relieved that they're finished. Well, all except replying to the comments, which at this point is a crapshoot at being done.

I thought about signing up for equinox_exchange, but I was just a little burned out at that point. I think, though, my vidding well is sufficiently full again to make nefarious plans about that glorious time of year - VIVIDCON! For starters, I have a couple of ideas for Club Vivid that I need to mull over and get approved.

However! This year, I am also seriously pondering offering my services for the Auction, because every little bit helps. Buuuuuut, my anxieties about my abilities are rearing their ugly little weasel heads, so I'm flopping back and forth, and could really use some reassurance. Someone out there would pay twenty bucks for a vid from me, right? Right? And someone else out there would perhaps cheerlead or beta my efforts, yes?

UGH, brain, why you gotta be so mean?

I'm not officially off work until tomorrow, but UGH I am fighting off slipping into vacation mode right now, and losing. I've got 10 tabs open of recipes I want to bake for the VVC con suite (self, you have less than 2 days to do it all, STOP IT), and my mind is flitting all over the place with details.

Competing for brain space are:

1) The long-awaited sewer line replacement is FINALLY happening. I don't have a lot of faith in this company, considering they've been stringing me along for months, and couldn't even dig in the right spot yesterday (a foot or so off), but I just want it done already. I had big plans for getting stuff checked off my todo list this weekend, until I got an email from the company saying we were responsible for opening up access to the backyard. I had to spend most of Sunday clearing the side beds, then helping the husband fight with the fence to swing it out of the way to let them bring in their equipment. Hopefully they can wrap everything up today. If they interfere with my baking plans tomorrow, I will get angry.

2) I want another dog like you wouldn't believe, but I have to wait until the sewer line mess is done. It's been a freaking year, and I still tear up about with how much I miss my sweet fuzzy girl.

3) The Emperor's school starts next week. Registration and supplies shopping is done (though he still needs new shoes), and we have school orientation Thursday during which I hope to ask a bazillion questions, starting with who his IEP support people are, because I am beyond tired of going months into the school year with no info. I am terrified about how this year is going to go; middle school is a trial by fire of executive function, and I'm anticipating that my ADHD/ASD boy is going to have a very hard time of it. This transition is exactly why I've fought so hard to keep his IEP in place, so here's hoping the school has its act together when it comes to support.

4) ( Family medical TMI grossness )

5) My minivan needs to go into the shop at some point. Since I'm driving my husband's car to VVC, I really hope the van doesn't break down on him while I'm gone. (There's also a simmering resentment that my husband moaned for months about how he had to get his oil changed, but couldn't be bothered to get it done even when he had a bonus day off work. I got it done on MY day off so it would be ready to go. ARGH.)

6) The house is a pit. I keep fighting the clutter and losing. My Saturday morning garage sale addiction isn't helping.

7) I have so much left to do for VVC prep, including making a Club Vivid outfit, doing some last-minute edits on my CVV entry and getting it ready for posting, the afore-mentioned baking, and PACKING UGH. I am bringing all the booze, and it's going to be wine o'clock as soon as my stuff makes it to the hotel room.

Wish me luck in making it to Thursday night with my sanity intact!

Hello, my fandom friends! Would any of the Star Wars peeps in the audience be willing to take a look at the first draft of my Club Vivid entry? Thanks in advance!

I tried really, really hard, but I'm just not going to make the Vividcon Premieres deadline tonight with my vid WIP, an ode to lady spyjinks. I thought a while about asking for an extension, but there's just too much ground left to cover for this beast. I'll keep picking at it, but not to the fevered extent that I've been doing. I wish I felt more confident about it; I've been living in the headspace for this for so long that I've lost any ability to judge if it's even worth continuing with. (If anyone wants to play the guinea pig and get a sneak peek at it, I'd love to send out a copy of what I have.)

Well, at least now I won't feel guilty about doing anything else with my free time. *sigh*

How are you all doing at the start of the weekend?

I completely oopsed on posting the past few days, with stuff and life and things.

So have a list of random and sundry good things!

1. Tonight's dinner was hot dogs and mac'n'cheese (one of the Emperor's favorites), with sides of canned chili and leftover fries and onion rings. I made myself a hot dog with chili, cheese, and onion rings, and it was trashily delicious.

2. At long (LONG) last, I think I've conquered this project at work that has been driving me around the bend. It involves mapping a hierarchical series of categories and items to an Excel file, with recursion to handle a variable amount of nesting. My brain is resistant to that kind of looping, so trying to get the logic to work for it has been challenging. I am so relieved to have a sample file to send off for approval.

3. I was watching a VVC streaming show the other day, and fan_eunice's Hoping Machine came on. From across the room, the Emperor asks "Are you watching that Harry Potter vid again?" It's been months since we've been through his playlist of favorites, and yet he can still ID the vid by a few bars of music. :D

4. My visit to the main company office has been scheduled for the second week of October, from Monday evening to Friday afternoon. It will be a great opportunity to get some face time with my team members and to enjoy a hotel room all by myself. I'll miss my sweetheart boys and dog, and I'm certain they'll really miss me. It will be a useful reminder to my husband of how much Emperor wrangling I do.

5. Festivids is coming! The anticipation is delightful; it's in the execution where I get unhinged.

6. I might actually get to bed at a reasonable time tonight - so, seeya!

Title: Fembots
Fandom: Multifandom (68 sources!)
Music: "Fembot" by Robyn
Vid Download Links: 3:12, 61 MB here at Sendspace

Watch here or at the AO3 link.

Summary: The intersection of women and technology on a spectrum of clones, gynoids, AIs, cyborgs, and other artificial creations.

Premiered at Club Vivid, 2014.

( Notes here! )

( Vid here! )

( Lyrics )