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I finally got around to finishing Season 2 of the anime Mob Psycho 100 and it was great. The show's combination of dark humour and life affirming sweetness took a little while to get used to, and is hard to get across in a review, but I feel like this vid does a pretty good job at capturing the second: Kindness. Contains moderate anime violence.

The chorus is a pretty good encapsulation of one of the main themes of the show: "You're not a monster, just a human, and you made a few mistakes. It's alright."

Another main theme is the difficulty, but vital importance, of not seeing yourself as better than other people just because you have some advantage over them, but instead having compassion and respect for everyone. We're all just human.

I am too foggy and sore to leave my rom but not actually sleepy, so...a con report! Expect vagueness, sorry.

First, next years con: ISOBELLE CARMODY, ANNE BISHOP AND TAMORA PIERCE OMG!!!

The only one of those authors I actually like is Tamora Pierce, and even then mostly out of nostalgia. But Isobelle Carmody literally got me into science fiction (along with Anne McCaffery, who's dead, and Orson Scott Card, who I would have trouble not shouting at) and I used to be a MASSIVE fan, I ran one of the earliest Isobelle Carmody fansites back in the 90s (people used to actually email me thinking I was her). And then she NEVER FINISHED HER SERIES and I got VERY BITTER. And then there is Anne Bishop, whose books are over the top ridiculous crack (edit: which many will find MASSIVELY TRIGGERING. She likes to throw the kitchen sink at her characters for the sake of angst). All three have Issues and it's very single genre, but I can see them all being interesting and a lot of people are VERY VERY HAPPY and so I am happy for them and also amused imagining how my 14 year old self would feel.

Anyway, onto this years con!
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After a discussion with some people at the swooping_is_bad irc channel about the horrible wrongness that is the Anonymous movie I remembered that when I first saw the trailer it I'd thought "Oooh, I wonder what keeps the 'real' Shakespeare anonymous. Are they a women? Or gay? Or black?" And then they turn out to be some random noble dude, blech.

So. Here is the trailer recut to be about Queen Elizabeth, lesbian playwright.

I used footage from the Anonymous trailer and the movie Elizabeth. I'm really not an expert at video editing, and the original trailer was incoherent enough as it was, so I don't know how much sense it makes. Still, hopefully the basic gist gets across.

My first thought was to use footage from Shakespeare in Love, and maybe somehow make it be about Anonymous the modern spinoff of 4chan, using timetravel. But alas, we don't own the movie, and that would be ridiculously complicated, so no crossdressing time traveling lesbian playwrights for me. As it was I only managed to get the first 1/4 of Elizabeth imported, and iMovie kept crashing. Making vids is such a pain.

It hasn't been the 17th here for like 18 hours but meh. Anyway, to celebrate:

A warning that the "Who do I write like" meme is actually a google bomb type thing or something.

Wait, that hasn't got anything to do with femslash, crap. Um. Did I mention I'm feeling reeeally woozy today? No? Yes? (What was the question again?)

I keep seeing all these fraught dramas about Dr Who shipping and apart from feeling glad I'm not really in the fandom it makes me want to ship River/Rose/Amy (ooh, or River/Martha/Rose lol) just to mess with people. (See also Morrigan/Anora/Alistair)

*pokes femslash recs* I'm pretty sure I haven't posted this here before. I have only the vaguest idea who these women are (must give "Legend of the Seeker" a go one day), but they angst prettily :D

Lightening Field by bradcpu. Legend of the Seeker. Cara/Kahlan, with a bit of C/L and some R/K.

So I had a recs post all planned in my head and then I couldn't find the link to download it and by the time I did I'd forgotten what I was going to say. But!

Waking World-Morgana/Guinevere by Di is an awesome vid. I don't entirely understand what's happening in it (so don't ask me to explain) but have watched it like four times anyway :)

I love Morgana and Gwen centric feminist-ish Merlin vids despite having seen a total of one episode of the show. I know enough of the changes they've made to get the basic gist and enjoy them largely as commentary on the broader King Arthur mythos.

Also I have a thing for Katie McGrath :D (And Santiago Cabrera. If there's a couple I wish people would ship purely so I could watch pretty vids, it's them)

I was going to just rec Bachelorette by Obsessive24 but I decided it might be more interesting to try and think of how many other very different but equally awesome pairs (or more!) of vids to the same song I can find. In each case the vids are listed in the order I encountered them.

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ataxi pointed me towards The Coolness Index, listing the top 10 songs Last FM users are ashamed to admit they like, and I was amused by the fact that I had JUST watched two vids with songs from the top 5, and another earlier in the day. And thinking about it, catchy but uncool songs are perfect for vids which want to tell a story straight and get under your skin, and poke fun of themselves at the same time, which is one of my favourite types of vid.

So, a list of cool vids with horribly uncool music :D

• Lady Gaga Poker Face by talitha78. Star Trek XI, great Spock-centric Kirk/Spock
  
• Britney Spears, Womanizer by ImaginarySanity. Star Trek:TOS. Kirk is a womanizer. Not glorious but pretty good.
  
• Katy Perry, I kissed a girl by bop-radar. Smallville "Clark experiments with heterosexuality". Hilarious.
  
• Lady Gaga, Just Dance by Shoopdancer, multifandom. Just dancing :)
  
• Britney Spears, Circus by butterfly. Star Trek XI, Kirk's a "put on a show" kind of girl.
  
• Britney Spears, Piece of Me by obsessive24. "The life and times of Britney Spears", remarkably effective.
  
• Rihanna, Disturbia by xCraZy18gurlx. Final Fantasy XII, Balthier/Fran. Ok, this is a total cheesey guilty pleasure but enjoyable for what it is :)
  
• Lady Gaga, Paparazzi
  
• Lady Gaga, Lovegame
  

Anyone got vids recs for the other songs? EDIT: See comments for some more alternatives.

I'm pretty sure I've seen a "Womanizer" vid for a fandom I'm not in at some point. EDIT: Found it:Akanishi Jin fanvid. Don't really like it that much, though the syncing of one pop star's dances to another's song was fairly well done.

Feeling Oh So Woozy today, which is very boring because I can't concentrate on anything very long and my arms hurt too much for much typing or writing or whatever (I'm all inspired re latest Wedding is Destiny chapter too!) And Dreamwidth is all well and good but I joined the veni vidi vids comm and now I have so many recs I lack the capacity to download them all. (Ok, so that's probably not so worthy of sympathy)

I REALLY want Lim to redo I am/Lamb for Bablyon 5. It will never happen but it would be awesome.

It Depends on what you pay is a Dollhouse vid to a cheery 60s showtune about rape(*). Sums up the creepiness pretty well imo. I haven't seen much of the show but whatever you opinions on how much you think the writing subverts the paradime, the camera clearly complicit.

*looks through my delicious account* So many awesome vids! No energy to rec them all!

(*)Well, not in context but you can't tell that from the lyrics

I've been hearing people going on about Scooby Road, a series of Buffy vids to the entire Beatles album "Abby Road" by Luminosity, ever since I got into fanvids. I was always too shy to ask for a copy but eventually decided to buck up the courage, and she sent me the link. She also asked what I thought, and I decided that if I was going to review it I might as well do so here :)

So, it was great. The only problem I have with Luminosity as a vidder is that she's really good, but her taste/POV is somewhat different to mine, so a lot of her very popular vids don't quite work for me (although others totally do, she has several entries on my previous post) even though I can appreciate them on an intellectual level. That was somewhat the case here if you take each vid individually, and to begin with I thought "Oh, this is ok, but it's just like watching a random sequence of Buffy vids to Beatles songs". But about halfway through the second vid it kind of clicked for me and I started thinking of each vid as a facet of a larger picture of the show, and being the total sucker I am for long-form multiple-facet connected storytelling was hooked. It's not that it tells a single narrative (other than that of the show) in any obvious way, and it doesn't even quite follow the chronology, but somehow they all tie together and follow on from each other, and the finale was very satisfying in an "end of a novel not a short story" kind of way.

Also there's a Faith vid. With sing-a-long-lyrics! *is easily pleased*

If you want a copy her email is on her site.

So you know how I spent ages angsting about making a fan comics community, because none existed? And then made one?

Well it turns out there's been another one around since June :)

Mine: fan_comics
Theirs: fancomiccentral

They have quite restrictive posting guidelines though so I don't think I would have been happy if that was the only place to post. They also have a nice backlog of strips to read :)

In the process of thinking about what I might post there I was reminded of the very talented astridv (check out her profile for links to her stuff) and from there came across this cute vid of SGA credits in the style of House.