A Fan's Playground

lirazel expressed interest in a rec list of some of my favourite vids and I am very suggestible when it comes to rec lists so here you go! :D Unfortunately a few of the older vids that I remember fondly are no longer available online for me to share with you (the batman vid set to johnny cash's cover of hurt! the highlander vid about methos/lord byron! and more!), but there are still plenty of excellent vids up and about, and new ones worth watching keep being made!

Yes this rec list is 22 vids long, shush, I couldn't cut any of these out. I just got so emotional in the process of making this rec list at how wonderful an artform the fanvid is! It can do so many different things! It can be so powerful in such a brief space of time!

I've ordered the list below alphabetically by fandom. I go through a lot of different fandoms here!

And it was so fun too to work on practicing my skills at describing a vid and explaining what's good about it; I have many years of practice at talking about written narratives, but interpreting and talking about visual media is still a skillset that I'm not instinctively good at and don't have as much experience with. But I think I did pretty good with these vids. I hope you enjoy them!

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I don't know how this never occurred to me before, but I really need a crossover between Highlander and Elisabeth. Specifically, one on the topic of Hungarian Sparkledeath creeping on one's faves, because you know who he really needs to creep on? METHOS. That or mutual creeping-on between Sparkledeath and Methos.

Seriously, dude has an interesting relationship with death. What with being an Immortal, and so he's probably died rather a lot over the last 5000 years; and what with the whole Horsemen thing in his past; and what with his thing about having a sword at his neck; and also his thing about willingly putting himself into danger for the sake of his friends while protesting his enlightened self-interest.... YEAH.

Now I wish there was fanfic or fanart of this. *sighs longingly*

Just saw X2! And I was sure I'd never ever seen this one before, but scenes kept on looking ever so slightly familiar, which means that somehow Essie must have managed to get me to watch it when it first came out too, despite the failure she experienced with the first X-Men movie. APPARENTLY SHE'S VERY CONVINCING.

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SOOOOO my poor old laptop Bunbury finally gave up the ghost. It's been on its last legs in a variety of ways for a while, but last night it decided that it no longer wanted to recognize the existence of its power cord. (I tried a different power cord, to see if it was the cord that was the problem, and NOPE.) No matter what I did, it simply refused to admit that it was PLUGGED IN, DAMNIT.

So now Bunbury's pretty useless.

Thankfully I have an old castoff laptop available to me (my sister's old laptop, which before that was previously my dad's old laptop). It has its own idiosyncrasies, but it WORKS.

BUT.

It doesn't have any of my FILES on it! Or my programs! I already had to download VLC, and I just realized I don't have Audacity, and oh, I don't even REMEMBER some of the useful programs I downloaded for things like ripping audio out of videos and other shiny stuff! Drat!

And I do have all my files stored on an online backup service, but it will be a pain to have to download them all.

And, I mean, I'm only going to be using this laptop for a month or so (my parents are giving me a new computer as a graduation gift) so it feels like kind of a waste of time to do all the necessary things to this computer to make it MINE (with all the files and programs and everything) because I'm just going to have to do it AGAIN in a month's time!

*sigh*


IN OTHER NEWS, I just started writing a fic about what happens when Immortals lose teeth, say, in an accident. Does the mouth just heal with spaces left? Or do they get new teeth growing back? How thorough is the Immortal healing ability? For the purposes of my story I was going to say that yes, teeth do grow back, they just take a little while.

And then I started speculating back to the first time Methos would have been in a fight or something that caused him to lose a tooth, and how it would have worried him, not knowing if he'd be missing that tooth for the whole rest of his (hopefully extremely long) life.

But THEN I started thinking, hang on, back in those days they did NOT have particularly good dental hygiene! If we assume Methos at the time of his first death was about the same age that Peter Wingfield was when he started playing Methos (since that's the age of the body Methos is portrayed with) that means he was over 30. He would most likely have had tooth problems by then, and dentistry at the time was a matter of pulling out any teeth that ailed ya. And yet Methos has a perfect mouthful of teeth. So WHAT HAPPENED?

It already seems to be established that scars that are acquired pre-death remain on an Immortal, so presumably other injuries, including tooth-loss, would be included in that category. So those teeth can't have just grown back, although any he lost after becoming Immortal would have. (I cannot imagine that a person can live for 5000 years of violence and NOT lose a few teeth. I mean, really.)

And he COULD have maybe had the miracles of modern dentistry fix any problems, except we've seen him in flashbacks, and his teeth were just the same.

So now I'm left here trying to fanwank a plausible Watsonian explanation for this, instead of the Doylist "protagonists on tv are not allowed to have missing teeth. This is also not permitted in actors." And I can't come up with one. Any suggestions?

Today I was reading a WIP of mine I'd kind of forgotten about. I actually didn't even remember how far I'd gotten in the story. So I was reading along, happily fascinated by what I'd accomplished thus far, and then I unceremoniously reached the end of the completed stuff. And now I feel all bitter, like I would if I'd read an abandoned WIP by someone else on the internet. I mean, I know equally as much about what would happen next.... C'mon, author! Finish the damn fic already! Except the damn author is me, and I haven't a clue what to write.

I think my problem is that I really like my premise, and I've got some plotty stuff, but I don't know what the climax of the fic is. And without knowing that, I have nothing that I'm building towards, it's just "and then stuff happened", and I'm all out of stuff that I know happens.

(this would, in case you're curious, be The Who Wants To Live Forever Affair that I talked about back in this post.)

In other news, OMG TORCHWOOD. By which I mean, they've released the name and premise of the upcoming series of Torchwood, and it looks FASCINATING and exciting and I am all shivery in anticipation. Also, now I really want to read Highlander fic based on this premise. I know, I know, I have a weakness. Highlander crossovers well with EVERYTHING!

Speaking of which. Highlander/Dresden Files crossovers? SHOULD EXIST. Just saying.

Um. It is entirely possible that I have listened to these songs a few too many times now, because they are UTTERLY BRILLIANT. I do not know if I have mentioned this before, but I am a total nerd for folk songs. And these hit me RIGHT in THAT NERDY LOVE, and also RIGHT IN THE NERDY LOVE for Doctor Who, so basically it is NERDY LOVE SQUARED. You should go listen to them if you do not already know them.

Also, they have reminded me of how awesome Rory is, and now I want all the Rory fic. ( And the rest of this post is spoilery for Season Five of Doctor Who. I presume most people who care have seen it, but just to be safe. )