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There have been a few times when a particular fanwork (usually a fanmix or vid) has permanently changed my associations with a song, and it fits so well that I can only think of it as being about a particular character/pairing/canon. For example:

• Total Eclipse of the Heart (literal version): Revolutionary Girl Utena thanks to the vid Total Eclipse of the Heartsword
  
• Girl With One Eye: Vriska from Homestuck via the fanmix Just As Horrible as Me (it's a Terezi/Vriska mix but I think of it as more of an Aradia/Vriska song)
  
• Hide and Seek: Battlestar Gallactica via Meant Well: The Occupation despite TEN MILLION "mmm whatcha say" videos on tumblr
  
• Cosmic Love: Puella Magi Madoka Magica (and Homura/Madoka in particular) from the vid Mahou Shoujo Requiem
  
• Handlebars The Doctor, though I've seen it fit well for a number of characters.
  
• Seamstress: Nikita&Alex from Nikita from the vid Seamstress
  

Does anyone else have any examples? Preferably where the lyrics really do fit surprisingly well. Or just songs which are remarkable fits where you thought of the connection independently.

If you don't do fanworks, I guess songs from movies/tv where it fit the scene PERFECTLY and you no longer hear it as being about the original subject. But songs written for the soundtrack don't count :)

EDIT: Hee, and here's a vid which matches an association I got from just hearing the song: Take me To Church to Lucrecia and Cesare from The Borgias. I haven't even watched the show but I have a friend who goes on about it a lot, and the song really is perfect.

lilysea asked me for links, and I thought other people might be interested. Note that I have seen a total of one episode of Merlin, since from all accounts the way the female characters are treated in canon would just annoy me.

• Antebellum by such_heights
  
• Devil Said by kiki_miserychic
  
• Waking World by Di
  
• Bad Romance by such_heights
  

Also, totally unrelated, but if you're into making fanworks and feel able to, you should sign up for Kaleidoscope, which is low on participants.

A continuation of naraht's post, itself a response to thingwithwings' post.

First the vids, then some meta.
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So, I finally finished Season 4 of Supernatural (well, the episodes Cam said were worth watching) and now I'm curious to read some fic and maybe see other fanworks. But most of it isn't what I'm after.

Basically, I felt the show brought up a lot of interesting stuff to do with theology and the nature of free will etc and then didn't address it very well, so I'd like fic (or art or vids) that does. Bonus points for lots of female characters, humanism, and feminism, double negative points for only caring about Sam And Dean's Unique Manpain, seeing women primarily as sex objects, or having a black and white "Just trust in God" morality.
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A while ago I made a dvd of fanvids for lilysea. She thanked me but said she found the format (uneducational names like Bvid_26_large.avi organised in folders by how much I like them) meant it was like a packet of Berties Botts every flavour beans(*): a vid could be from any fandom, and turn out to be a humourous parody or a dark violent AU with incest manips or anything in between.

Yesterday I was making dvds of some stuff for tevriel and had a bunch of extra room so decided to fill it with vids (as is my wont) I decided she is probably not the sort to appreciate sudden unexpected depressing violence in her light entertainment, and that it was a good opportunity to make a folder of happy vids for future such occasions (when I just want to fill some space and the person hasn't asked for ALL my good vids).

I started chucking it together based on the feeling I got when I thought about the vid but decided I should double check the ones I couldn't remember clearly.

And, as lilysea would I'm sure agree, my lord I do like a lot of dark stuff. Even the "happy" vids I like tend to be "death and despair set to an ironically cheery tune" or "celebration of how awesome a character is through adversity *insert images of adversity*".

So tevriel, I did my best, but if some darkness got through I apologise but be aware that comparatively speaking it's still sweetness and light :) (Except the Supernatural vids folder, which is solid delicious angst)

See also the fact that my favourite genre of music is "break up songs".

(*)My metaphor not hers :)

via Hoyden about town, a real life Mary Sue Draco in leather pants AU music video (nominally het, but you could read it as Draco/Dr Doom if you had enough imagination)

Seriously, it's amazingly fantastically terrible, if you have any interest at all in watching a skinny blonde guy with a bad moustache fight dragons while playing pop music on a sparkling green guitar :D