fannishly
It's been lovely here in Colorado, sunny and warm. Meanwhile I'm seeing photos of snow and reading post after post of how cold and miserable all my friends are. Um, sorry!
I've made my first pass through Festivids! Here's a short list of recs for vids that really stood out for me. I think most of them are enjoyable and understandable even without source knowledge.
Apollo 13: Ready for the Storm - perfect space = sea metaphor.
Bend it Like Beckham: Do My Thing - Jess's strong sense of self and personal conviction as she's caught between her traditional culture and her love of her sport.
Brideshead Revisited (1981): Let Me Go - melancholy, graceful, beautiful.
Chariots of Fire: Keep Breathing - the joy and exhilaration of running; but also, the focus and devotion needed to get to the top.
The Tudors: No Church in the Wild - religion and royalty, faith and family. Technically superb.
I'm also deep into an epic (well over 200K) fanfic that someone on my flist recced (I can't recall who it was!), Sansûkh by
determamfidd - it's a WIP, and it's not really my fandom (The Hobbit/LotR), and inasmuch as it's sort of my fandom it's (primarily) not my pairing (Thorin/Bilbo - though it promises secondarily Legolas/Gimli, which YES PLEASE), and the tags make me cringe, and so normally I wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole. But! It is well-written, engaging, and it hits one of my bulletproof tropes - afterlife fic[*] - very hard. The premise is that after his death, Thorin Oakenshield wakes in the Halls of his Ancestors, and from there he is able to observe (and occasionally subtly influence) those still living, during the time period from his death to and through the events of Lord of the Rings. It's very carefully set within canonical events, and though the characters are clearly movie-canon there is a whole lot of supporting book-canon used throughout. Possibly one of my favorite aspects is that the female Dwarves finally get some attention!
As far as my own fannish output, vidding or writing, HAHAHAHAHA. I wish. Maybe someday!
[*] which is why I loved due South and Slings & Arrows. I cannot get enough of meddling ghosts!
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I've made my first pass through Festivids! Here's a short list of recs for vids that really stood out for me. I think most of them are enjoyable and understandable even without source knowledge.
Apollo 13: Ready for the Storm - perfect space = sea metaphor.
Bend it Like Beckham: Do My Thing - Jess's strong sense of self and personal conviction as she's caught between her traditional culture and her love of her sport.
Brideshead Revisited (1981): Let Me Go - melancholy, graceful, beautiful.
Chariots of Fire: Keep Breathing - the joy and exhilaration of running; but also, the focus and devotion needed to get to the top.
The Tudors: No Church in the Wild - religion and royalty, faith and family. Technically superb.
I'm also deep into an epic (well over 200K) fanfic that someone on my flist recced (I can't recall who it was!), Sansûkh by
determamfidd - it's a WIP, and it's not really my fandom (The Hobbit/LotR), and inasmuch as it's sort of my fandom it's (primarily) not my pairing (Thorin/Bilbo - though it promises secondarily Legolas/Gimli, which YES PLEASE), and the tags make me cringe, and so normally I wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole. But! It is well-written, engaging, and it hits one of my bulletproof tropes - afterlife fic[*] - very hard. The premise is that after his death, Thorin Oakenshield wakes in the Halls of his Ancestors, and from there he is able to observe (and occasionally subtly influence) those still living, during the time period from his death to and through the events of Lord of the Rings. It's very carefully set within canonical events, and though the characters are clearly movie-canon there is a whole lot of supporting book-canon used throughout. Possibly one of my favorite aspects is that the female Dwarves finally get some attention!
As far as my own fannish output, vidding or writing, HAHAHAHAHA. I wish. Maybe someday!
[*] which is why I loved due South and Slings & Arrows. I cannot get enough of meddling ghosts!
Also posted on Dreamwidth where there are
comments.