#vid rec

[educatedinyellow]

WE DIDN'T START THE FIRE (Sung by 257 Movies!)

#oh my god what did my eyes just behold #literally can't imagine how long this took to make #hilarity #we didn't start the fire #Youtube #vid rec

[the-cimmerians]

the editing omg

#Our Flag Means Death #OFMD #vid rec #The Greatest Show #this delights me

[letteredlettered]

Vid Rec: I've Got A Theory

Back when I was reccing vids I was saving the best for last and then lost steam. Just know that this vid is just as funny yet also as poignant as the original song from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Even if you know nothing about Buffy the Vampire Slayer, it's a great vid. And even if you know nothing about The Untamed--well, I feel a little sad you don't get to have that in your life but I guess it's not for some? Seems fake but okay

#vid rec

[isagrimorie]

The History of Farscape: From the Henson Company's Vision to Cult Classic

This is such a great show, a cult classic that deserves to be more popular.

#farscape #vid rec #video essay #Youtube

[ageless-aislynn]

If you enjoy, be sure to leave the vidder some love at Youtube! 💖

#star wars #star wars: the clone wars #sw tcw #ahsoka tano #captain rex #rexsoka #vid rec #sabi14 #vidder: sabi14 #ageless aislynn #Youtube

[twwings]

Big Festivids Recs Post!

Last weekend was the big Festivids GoLive, which meant the release into the wild of 160 brand new small fandom vids (aka fanvids, edits, etc.) Right now the collection's anonymous, but tomorrow is vidder reveals, so I wanted to write up a recs post for some of my absolute favourites from this year's collection. If you know Yuletide, well, Festivids is like Yuletide, celebrating small/weird/underappreciated fandoms! It's an exchange fest, so people ask for the small fandom vids of their heart and, then, receive one.

Honestly the collection this year is SO high quality, you should really go and browse the works yourself in their entirety; there are so many vids that I absolutely loved that I didn't put on this recs list, because I was trying not to get carried away (and also trying to get it done). But just to get you started, here are a smattering of my favourites. I tried to represent a bunch of vid genres and source types here, but ultimately it's just my taste.

RECS RECS RECS!

Andor: Level Up

AHHHH this is a vid about Andor and fascism and collective action and One Way Out and it's so gorgeously done. Perfect song choice, perfect vid, makes me cry and I will rewatch it many times.

Andor: be ready and be brave

Focusing on Ferrix, its history, its people, and its revolution. Absolute chills. Also I'm SO happy whenever I get to watch a vid to a Mountain Goats song.

Mosquita y Mari: como siempre soñé

Such a sweet, soft, slow romance vid. I ACHED for these two. Like reading a 300k slowburn but in three and a half minutes.

Dropout TV: Nothing in my Head

The Dropout TV vid of my DREAAAAAMS! (largely Game Changer but with lots of stuff in there!)

Taskmaster UK: Blood in the Cut

UHHHH. IT'S AMAZING??? It's hot and raw and kinky and hardcore. the vidder has the delicate, precise touch of a bloody scalpel. Yes, this is a vid for Taskmaster, the UK show where comedians do silly tasks. Because yeah, it's that show, but it's also this show.

Slash/Back: Uja

This vidder KNOWS how to vid horror. The way this vid cuts the most terrible images to make them barely-there, more horrifying for being rough slaps against my consciousness . . . yikes. Amazing vidding, super cool and scary, while also maintaining the uplifting, kickass, hopeful tone you want from a collective-action horror movie.

Janelle Monae: I Like That

Glorious, joyful, sexy celebration of being a free-ass motherfucker.

Star Trek: Lower Decks: Hard Times

Boimler vid about how he's essentially a redshirt who is just slightly too sweet to actually die. Absolutely adorable and hilarious.

Woman King: Upside Down

Absolute BANGER of a vid, great cuts, great movement, great character arc and great Dahomey women being amazing.

Romeo + Juliet: Magnetic

We all agree Harold Perrineau is the best Mercutio, SO, with that in mind, here is a flawless celebration of the best Mercutio.

Knives Out/Glass Onion: 'Til You Hit a Nerve

Brilliant comparison vid putting Marta from the first film together with Helen and Andi from the second one, drawing out the similarities and dissimilarities in a visual feast and with a badass powerwalk. Nothing not to love!

David Cronenberg's Films: body

This one is phenomenal. It takes David Cronenberg's entire filmography and condenses it into a vid about all the sexualized body horror. It is deeply horny and deeply disturbing and deeply fascinated by every single finger going into a hole in a body that shouldn't be there. It's soft and tentative and it's very graphic and violent, all at once.

The Wheel of Time: Velodrome

Tower politics and circularity and being bound to one another in every good way and every bad way; what a beautiful vid. I love how this is about a place, and about how that place draws these people together over and over in their shared experience and love and trauma.

The Midnight Sky: The Laughing Heart

Absolutely gorgeous vid of the film to a spoken word + music rendition of Charles Bukowski's "The Laughing Heart" (there is a light somewhere). I have not seen this film but I found this vid deeply moving.

Moby Dick: Queequeg and I

There are four (FOUR!!!) Moby Dick vids at Festivids this year, and they are all amazing combinations of a huge smorgasboard of sources, I heartily recommend them all, but I'll specifically rec two. This one is Queequeg and Ishmael to "Wouldn't It Be Nice" and it is the sweetest queerest thing ever. Queequeg and Ishmael get a happy ending shhhhh they do shhhhh yes this is how it happened they came out of the water they're fine

Moby Dick: a vulture feeds upon the heart forever

This vid is a fucking masterpiece. It is a huge archival multisource Moby Dick vid that weaves all these incredibly different visual together to make a coherent, tragic narrative. And like. The BOOK is not a coherent narrative! This is such gorgeous and amazing fanwork. Don't miss out on it.

Women's 100m Sprinting: Didn't Come to Play

This is GORGEOUS, I don't know anything about sprinting but I know I love these beautiful joyful powerful women running really fast and hugging each other and being amazing. The editing on this is so tight; the vid never stops for a second. Like a sprint?!?!?!

The Golem and the Jinni: סיפור הגולם

This is another book vid, but since this book doesn't have any adaptations, it's using entirely archival source and probably some documentaries and films to construct the story - or, really, construct the vibe of the book, construct the metaphors of the book, and the result is beautiful and powerful and meditative. It's about survival, and making life.

Jesus Christ Superstar: Hope on Fire

This is another umbrella vid, where the vidder is taking a bunch of different productions of the play and mashing them together. This vid focuses on Judas and Jesus/Judas, and it all feels so inevitable and tragic and real and cruel. I really loved it.

Jordan Peele's Films: Goodbye, Honey, You Call That Gone

This is such a wonderful mashup of Jordan Peele's three films, exploring all the parallels and differences and just the rich tapestry of his imagery.

猎罪图鉴 | Under the Skin: Put It On Me

I don't know this source but this was just so gorgeously put together; there's a focus on art and art objects, on hands moving and creating, that's just mesmerizing.

#vids #vid rec #festivids #andor #dropout tv #taskmaster #janelle monae #star trek: lower decks #mosquita y mari #slash/back #romeo + juliet #woman king #knives out #david cronenberg #jordan peele #the wheel of time #the midnight sky #moby dick #the golem and the jinni #women athletes #jesus christ superstar #under the skin

[kuwdora]

Festivid Recs Roundup (part 1?)

Some Festivid 2023 Recs from around the fandom neighborhoods:

marina on dreamwidth has 17 recs that include her favorites from this year. Wheel of Time, Silo, sports, cats, cdramas, hallmark hanukkah movie, D&D: Honor Among Thieves, Nimona, and more.

bironic on bluesky has a thread of 4 mini-playlists that are incredibly well-themed! Native horror, Iterations, Book Adaptations (SERIOUSLY GO CHECK THIS ONE OUT), and Rebellion.

beatrice_otter on tumblr and dreamwidth has a lovely grab-bag of recs. Chocolate Guy, Andor, Shakespeare gender feelings, lesbians and more.

marina on dreamwidth has also 3 more festivid recs for All Around the World in 80 Days and recs for two different Romeo + Juliet (1996) vids.

ghost_lingering on dreamwidth has 10+ festivid recs, gushing over two RRR vids (they're epic vids woooo), as well as recs for the book vid The Goldem and the Jinni, Wingspan, a kitty vid, and more.

tafadhali on tumblr part 1 festivid recs reccing the six vids they received! Philadelphia Story, Alfred Hitchcock, Jesus Christ Superstar, D20.

cupidsbow on tumblr Festivid 2023 reeeecs features 20+ recs with hearty enthusiasm. Includes vids for the magical realism vid from the movie Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, D&DHAT, Janelle Monae vid, time-looping vid of delight, Cocaine Bear and so much more.

periru3 on tumblr also has Festivid Recs List, But Make It Horny (Part 1), featuring Rebecca Ferguson RPF vid, OFMD RPF, The Quick and the Dead. All of the Bound vids (SO SEXY), Romeo+Juliet, Janelle Monae, The Pirate.

thingswithwings on tumblr has A Big Festivids Recs Post. Knives Out, David Cronenberg, Wheel of Time, all the Dropout TV vids, Taskmaster and so much more.

tafadhali on tumblr has 25 more festivid recs. Barbie. LESBIANS, body horror (BUT MAKE IT HOT), Fire Island, Les Mes, Sports Night... and so much more!

periru3 on tumblr also has Festivid Recs List, But Make It Horny (Part 2). Doctor Sleep, Wheel of Time, Christine. Face/Off, Tar, Taskmaster RPF. And more!

If you've made me a recs post for festivids this year, please leave me a comment somewhere and I'll include it in another round-up post if I collect a few more links!

Festivids 2023 Collection on AO3

#vid rec #festivids #festvids 2023 #fanvid #fanvids #fan video #fan videos #fan edit #fanvideo #fanvideos

[cycas]

#vid rec #lego Fingolfin #Youtube

[meeedeee]

With permission, I present one of my favorite X-Files fanvids: Tainted Love by Katharine Scarritt and Pam Rose. It predates the age of digital fanvids, being made on two VCRs with videocassette tapes.

Pam passed away in March 2021 and Katharine passed away in March 2022.

#fanvid #vidding #vid rec #x-files #mulder x Krycek #I gave you all a boy could give you #Take my tears and that's not really all

[silentstep]

hey this vid is really good! Surface Pressure from Encanto, about the Untamed ensemble cast.

#vid rec #no good things for the poor sad cultivators #encanto

[deelaundry]

House Doesn't Like Wilson's Girlfriend

Does anyone know of Avril Lavigne these days?

#vid rec #hilson #house md

[natureismynature]

GUYSSS watch this animatic it's so freakin cute I'm crying ToT I MISS FOOLIGETTA SO MUCH

#qsmp #timb talks #fooligetta #vid rec #Youtube

[letteredlettered]

Vid Rec

Silent All These Years, by sisabet (Jiang Cheng-centric)

This vid focuses on JC holding it together during WWX’s absence, the sacrifice that JC made, and in some ways, the love he lost.

If, like me, you grew up with the song this vid is set to, you’re used to applying Tori Amos’s “Silent All These Years” to different situations, despite the very specific lyrics. The song is about the suffocation of holding your feelings inside and the dream that you are in fact magically stronger than that and can one day be heard (and the knowledge you also aren't because mermaids can't wear jeans). Obviously universal feelings, right? Obviously applies to everyone right? NEVER MIND!!! IT WAS NOT OBVIOUS TO ME!!! WHO KNEW THAT THIS COULD BE JC’S ANTHEM; I CERTAINLY DID NOT. Just, the way that sisabet made this song apply to JC is mind-blowing.

A lot of vids use music with a clear message to illustrate a message that is also clearly in the text. Eg, the song is “I love you” and all the images are LWJ looking at WWX. This is a fine way to vid! And a vidder in that school of vidding would probably look at “Silent All These Years” and think about how quiet LWJ is and make a vid about LWJ’s years of silent pining, then mourning. But other vidders take a text, then take a song, and say, “How do I make these media comment on one another?" That’s what this vid does. It’s a rare vid that does it successfully (without being too opaque for my brain) and this one is a treasure among them.

Note, please, who got “saved by the garbage truck” and who is the garbage truck

Note, please, who is “the girl who thinks really deep thoughts”

THEN think about what the “jeans of your with her name still on it” are and honestly you’ll be living in a Jiang Cheng Tori Amos renaissance and also you might be tempted to go find all the LWJ/JC hate!fucking and grief!fucking you can find. Though you might just sit there and cry about JC like you do every damn day.

#vid rec #jiang cheng #cql #tori amos

[isagrimorie]

Title: The Family I Love But Never Knew

Fandom: 12 Monkeys (TV)

Editor: hurleybird Music: Tessa - Steve Jablonsky (Extended Version) Summary: “You said we were family, I loved you for that”

Vidder Notes: MAJOR SPOILERS for all 4 seasons of 12 Monkeys. This in particular is a tribute to the families in the show, the ones of blood and Team Splinter. I really wanted to explore in particular how all the team members have these dynamics of either bad parents or good parents who never got a chance to actually be parents. But above all, they found each other and that love helped them all to grow and be the best versions of themselves.

#tv: 12 monkeys #12 monkeys #vid rec #james cole #jennifer cole #theodore deacon #west 7 forever #cassandra railly #katarina jones #hannah jones #jose ramse #found family #family #i love this show so much #Youtube

[kitsune018]

#remontada #youtube #hydra bucky #vid rec #hydra #winter soldier #bucky

[crackers4jenn]

Hellooo, do the spn youths of today know how good circa 2010 youtube video "Castiel the Motion Picture - Official Trailer (but not)" is BECAUSE

#it captures the s4 slash s5 angel stuff soooo well #the editing in the last half is especially stellar #i'm gonna start a grandma reading corner except instead of introducing kids to classic books i'm gonna get out classic destiel vids #gather round for circle time everybody!! #supernatural #destiel #castiel #otp: profound bond #vid rec #Youtube