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Me @ AO3. Haven't played around with it much yet.

Dear Festividder,

Thank you for making me a vid for my tiny fandom! I am so excited to see what you end up doing.

I don't have any more prompts to add, but I do want to repeat that I realize the prompts are optional, and included them just in case you wanted an idea of what I'd like. I figure the best things to do here are to include the song file I mentioned for the Ginger Snaps prompt, and to give you a brief overview of the sources, in case you decide not to go for the fandom we matched on. All of the movies are available via Netflix and all of them except Omkara are currently in print in the U.S. I don't know about their distribution in other countries, sorry. I can make any of the short sources available via fv_shh.

( Cat People - 1942/The Curse of the Cat People - 1944 (Movie); The )

( Chuck (TV) )

( Fringe (TV) )

( Ginger Snaps trilogy (Movie) )

( Middleman (TV); The )

( Omkara (Movie) )

( Sleep Dealer (Movie) )

I updated my Yuletide letter with my request details, because I like reading other people's. I know you care.

Dear Yuletide writer,

Thank you for writing me a present! I'm sure I will love it.

I think the prompts in the details field should be enough, but it's probably worth mentioning that Janelle Monae's The Metropolis Suite (album) is a great fallback if you were assigned for one of the other fandoms but just don't think our tastes in it will be compatible, or none of the prompts suggested strike you as fun. Basically, all you need to do to get enough background for the Monae prompt is watch this seven-minute video (which I obviously think is TOTALLY AWESOME). For additional background, you can always find the other songs on the album. It's an EP, not a full-length album, so if you decide to buy it, it only costs US$7 and takes about 20 to 30 minutes to listen to.

This is not because I don't want the other prompts, though! I just want all of them, so I will be happy with any. I would be equally as excited to see a story for Fringe, Phantom Dream, or The Hazards of Love. Please don't feel like now you HAVE to write for The Metropolis Suite, no matter what you signed up for; that's not what I intended, and it would make me really sad to think of you forced into an obligation you didn't intend to enter.

Oh, one more thing -- I'm not a Christian, so I would rather not receive a Christmas-themed story.

Thank you for writing for me! I hope you have fun doing it.

Best wishes,

thuvia

ETA: Since I'm reminded I like to see full requests when I read other people's letters:

( Janelle Monae - Metropolis: the Chase Suite (album) )

( The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love (album) )

( Fringe )

( Phantom Dream )

Pick a paragraph (or any passage less than 500 words) from any fanfic I've written, and comment to this post with that selection [Note: Please include the title/fandom]. I will then give you a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what's going on in the character's heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the rest of the fic, lots of awful puns, and anything else that you'd expect to find on a DVD commentary track.

There probably won't be puns. Just warning you.

Just so this entry isn't a complete waste of space: dhobikikutti put together dark_agenda to serve as a resource for improving racial and ethnic diversity in yuletide fandoms. Right now there are lists of fandoms created by people of color and people from non-Western countries, a post for beta/culture-picking betas, and discussions of some of the common pitfalls in writing about people of color and non-Western people/cultures (I was going to say for white people, but I think these are issues for all people writing about cultures that aren't their own, particularly when most of the information they get is from mass media/biased sources).

Amazon is having a sale on science fiction DVDs, including a lot of shows and movies nominated for festivids and the worst movie in the world, Zardoz.

Festivids is now open for signup!

I am looking over my preliminary nominations list with an eye to non-Western sources and sources prominently/predominantly featuring people of color, canon queer relationships, and people with disabilities, given some recent commentary.

Okay, here's my final list:

( Cut for length and pimping )

People are currently brainstorming for an anonymous holiday rare fandom vidathon at festivids.

These are fandoms I am thinking about:

Fringe (it is SO PRETTY, you guys! there should be vids)
Chuck
Life (I am not sure this counts)
Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles (I am not sure this counts either? I am inclined to think not, alas)
Coffee Prince
Damo
Painter of the Wind (I haven't seen this but the picspams are pretty)
Capital Scandals (I haven't seen this but the picspams are pretty)

Omkara
Bright Star (only I am not sure if it can be ahemmed and it's not out on DVD yet)
Sleep Dealer
Bound
Blade Runner
Lust, Caution
Clueless
Heathers
The Revengers Tragedy
The Lady in [from] Shanghai (I haven't seen it but I own it, so hey)
Bringing Up Baby
The Lady Eve
The Cat People/The Curse of the Cat People

ETA:
Profit
Ultraviolet (tv)
Lilo & Stitch
Bleak House
Ginger Snaps trilogy

I forgot how much I loved S3!Ruby. Oh, Katie Cassidy, I miss you.

tishaturk wants to know: What's your favorite vidding-related meta?

The Decemberists, The Hazards of Love
Greer Ilene Gilman, Moonwise
L.J. Smith, Nightworld
Phantom Dream
Angel Sanctuary Janelle Monae, The Metropolis Suite
Cain Saga Sacrificed for Moonwise. Someone else will have to cover it.
Fairy Cube

Eta: Oh, dude, Janelle Monae! I forgot! But it looks like someone else has her covered. But. Hmm. Can I depend on someone else to nominate Angel Sanctuary?

Blip.TV deleted my account for "copyright violations." I am pretty sure this is because they took a look at the SCC vid when I sent them a question about uploading subtitles, so if you don't bring yourself to their attention, you're probably okay using them for streaming.

A pity; their video quality is significantly better than BAM.

Title: Riot Act
Fandom: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Music: Alina Simone, "Riot Act"
Length: 2:35
Beta: Thank you to geekturnedvamp, laurashapiro, par_avion, and rivkat for beta.
Feedback: All feedback welcome. Thank you!

Summary: Riley character study. "Sweetie, there is no out."


Download: AVI 848x480 (47MB), AVI 640x360 (33MB), Subtitles (2KB)

( How to use the subtitles )

( Stream )

( Lyrics )

A history of vid review panels

I am offering up a vid at care_faith_hope.

(Um. Does it look less egotistical if I say (a) I thought about offering fic, but I still owe someone fic from my last auction, and I also just do not feel much like writing in general; (b) I don't actually expect anyone to choose Buy It Now; (c) it's for charity! ?)

care_faith_hope is a fandom auction to benefit faithhopetricks. Bidding begins on September 28, 2009, Monday, 10 a.m. Pacific time, and closes on October 10, 2009, Saturday, 11:59 p.m. Pacific time. Please do not bid until bidding opens.

What's the cause?
This auction is to raise money for the medical expenses of [info]faithhopetricks and her husband. They have no health insurance and no savings, and her husband requires immediate heart surgery.

Her husband has a congenital condition which caused him to have a heart attack and double stents placed while he was still in his thirties. He now needs to have either multiple stents placed or a bypass operation. Which occurs will be determined by his doctors this week when he goes in for surgery. It has also not been determined how much of the costs of the operation will be covered by the hospital: it may cover most of the costs, some of the costs, or none of the costs.

Regardless of the costs of the procedure itself, he will require cardiac rehab afterward. He also has multiple and, given his heart condition, potentially life-threatening other conditions, all of which have gone untreated or poorly treated due to his lack of health insurance. faithhopetricks also has multiple and severe health conditions which have also gone untreated or poorly treated due to lack of health insurance.

This auction is to raise money for their combined medical and medical-related expenses. (Medical-related includes things like taxi fare to get her husband to his cardiac rehab appointments.)

Some details have been left out for reasons of privacy. Please do not contact faithhopetricks to inform her of government assistance programs she can apply for. We are working on that. However, if you know of job openings for an IT professional in greater Seattle, her husband will be seeking a job as soon as he recovers.

How can I help?
You can bid on fanfic, original fic, vids, cookies, memorabilia, critique/betas, and much more! Or you can offer your skills and services as a writer, vidder, baker, knitter, or whatever else you'd like.

This post has full information on bidding.

\O/ I have Sarah Connor DVDs! \O/

1. I can't believe I need another external hard drive already. Although it's not so much vidding source as vidding source plus music. Vidding source plus music plus backups.
   
   Do I want a 1TB drive or 1.5TB drive?
   
   
2. I am at the part where I hate this vid so much and just want it to be done already. Done! I can't wait to hit the euphoria of completing a draft. That part is much better.
   
   
3. I have managed to figure out what I did wrong with the video compression in my Nearly New vid, but what I did wrong with the audio still eludes me.
   
   
4. Making subtitles is really easy! I haven't figured out how to pack them into an avi and have multiple tracks work, even though it looks like it should be obvious. May need to just do a separate subtitle file.
   

Hey guys, does anybody have a copy of Trespassers William's cover of "Left of Center" they're willing to share?

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