180: Sweet Charity: How Long It Is

[thefourthvine]

Not last time but the time before (although I am still totally on my deadline, so there), I signed up for Sweet Charity. The person who won me was adbaculum. Probably everyone who sells herself for charity has a moment of terror when she gets the request, but adbaculum's was actually pretty cool. Basically, she wanted me to rec some vids that might show her why

Comments

[lynnmonster]

First off, let me say that this was a wonderful post, especially since I have been very much in a vid-place lately (am downloading from AMV as I type!). I look forward to checking out some of your examples that I'm unfamiliar with.

Second:

There's a difference between Ulysses and Harry Potter (yes, I know that there are several differences, actually - like, I really don't think Leopold Bloom casts expelliarmus even once)

Crying. Laughing.

I woke up my husband and just had to hand-wave helplessly when asked for explanation.

[thefourthvine]

am downloading from AMV as I type!

*bounce bounce bounce*

Would you like to exchange favorite AMV tips? I have great and possibly insane love for AMVs!

I woke up my husband and just had to hand-wave helplessly when asked for explanation.

Um, my apologies to your husband? (Although, really, we all suffer together; I've been trying to imagine a Ulysses x Harry Potter crossover ever since I wrote that - because, really, Leopold Bloom deserves the chance to cast a few spells, don't you think? - and it is making my brain hurt.)

[lynnmonster]

Here! Have a total rip-off! Erm, Wizard Bloom goes shopping for porn? (So sue me, of course I remember best the bits of Ulysses about book shopping and smut.)

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Wz Bloom lazily unfurled the top edge of the scroll with the tip of his finger. Simpson's Ars Magica: Index Animalium, edge badly foxed. Glimpsed a corner of the first illumination, snakes writhing together to form a capital ess. Mating knot. Nagini strangling a child. Them Slytherins never change their scales, I tell you, man.

Released the parchment to restore its protective curl.

He moved further down the shelf and lingered a moment: Survival as a Way of Life by that hooker who became famous

[thefourthvine]

OH MY GOD I LOVE YOU MORE THAN WORDS CAN EXPRESS OR COMMUNICATE. Seriously, there would need to be, at minimum, a lolcat here for you to understand how I feel. Possibly a series of lolcats.

This is just - it's magic, and I mean that in a totally non-ironic, non-punny way. And you made him a furry. Oh my god, so very perfect. (For some reason, I am now thinking about how much Wz Bloom would love Crimson Spell. Stop, brain! Crossovers can HURT!)

*falls over dead from joy*

You are so right about Crimson Spell. Heh.

[lynnmonster]

YAY! I'm so glad you liked it, but please don't be too impressed because when I called it a rip-off, I totally wasn't kidding. (The only time I ever came near following an original source so closely was the one time I did Remix, and that only wins because I sometimes used the same actual words.)

Also, yes! I'd love to see more from you on AMVs! Sometimes I find the multifandom, dance, and action categories -- which seem to me to be the most popular genres -- a bit frustrating because I'm used to seeing live media vids done by fangirls who like tight POV and, like, narrative and stuff.

On the other hand, sometimes the really brilliant constructed reality AU ones leave me a little cold. But impressed. Just -- it's rare that one of them would be one that I rewatch for anything other than whatever visual techniques the vidder used. Which is REALLY ODD, because I can name a few of the same sort of AU vids done with live media source that blew my socks off completely.

[minnow1212]

Fabulous!

[concinnity]

O.M.G.

>goes back to Ulysses paper