Disclaimer: I suppose these are more (entirely subjective) reactions than recs as such. But words are hard and a vid has to get under your skin for any to come. There is no bad. There is much good. Links to all vids and vid shows are here.

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Long time no post but some vid recs:

Fever by sweetestdrain
When you kiss me I want to die. Twilight.

I've been to a marvelous party by charmax
Like the periodic table of party.

DLZ by bop-radarLike the show, this T:SCC vid is hard to condense down to a single phrase. It has density, it has layers. After multiple rewatches my abiding impression is of how inimical the ( Read more... )

In spite of its failings, or maybe because of them, I think the BSG ending rather lends itself to vidding. A vidder can work around all the darns and duct tape holding the original together and weave the good threads back into one small but perfect tapestry.

Follow Me into the Darkness by threezerotwoTo me, one of those small perfect things was the ( Read more... )

I haven’t had much to say about the BSG finale. For better or worse it was very like the show, that big baggy 19th century novel of a show. Brilliant in parts, bathetic in others. Never afraid to stand up and make a complete prat of itself or to risk creating seriously dodgy subtext and sometimes the risk would pay off but then sometimes it wouldn’ ( Read more... )

All of this has happened before and all of this will happen again

( The Good Wound )

( Blood oath on the scales )

( The wise child )

( Fox gotta swim, fish gotta fly )

Last night I had a BSG dream. As is the way with dreams at the time is seemed completely relevatory, like Kekulé and the snakes. But then I woke up and instead of the structure of benzene all that was left was the vague impression that HeadSix was the first cylon and Papadama the last (but I really don’t care about the final fifth ( Read more... )