I know there are some people who work exclusively in those futuristic AUs.  You know the ones; they're either pre-, post-, or during the apocalypse, or are so neat and cleanly packaged that the words might as well be wrapped in steel and white plastic.  I'm not one of those people.  I don't spend a lot of time pondering the end of humanity, or what ( Read more... )

It is the rare vidder who has the ability to get inside a character's head and convince us that we believe his or her version of life in X character's brain.  This can be tougher than fic because, really, all the vidder has to work with is images that we have all already seen a million times, both in the original source and other vids.  And it can ( Read more... )