Blinded by the light
Having been annoyed by how badly Thor: Love and Thunder combined music with images and action, I watched a fan-made video (of MCU content) for free on YouTube that showed god-tier editing. The beats! The movement!
Madxthing makes a lot of really good fan videos in general, worth checking out.
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For some reason I've gotten seven different feedback comments on AO3 from four people in two different fandoms and I don't know why it's happening but I am so happy about it. Especially since prior to this I hadn't gotten any comments in ages.
The fact that it's happening in the summer makes it even stranger to me because, in my experience, it's not a great time for fandom engagement.
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It's been so hot here lately--about 90°F/33°C--that I can barely breathe sometimes, my chest hurts, my joints hurt, and my body has been useless and sick-feeling. It was my week to clean the bathroom, and even doing it with a fan directly on me the whole time my body was saturated and dripping with sweat afterward. Since electricity for air conditioning is so expensive, I'm trying to survive while using it as little as possible, mostly at night when I need to sleep and then using a fan when I can get away with it, but damn.
My appetite has gone weird in the summer as usual, and it was interesting going back to summer 2001 via an LJ e-mail and seeing that it was already a problem years before I got my Chiari diagnosis, something I hadn't remembered. It was 20 years ago after all. Oy.
It's not the only thing where I forgot how long-term it was, as per this entry of mine from July 13, 2001:
How badly are my hands bothering me? So badly that my typos in Instant Mail are worse than usual. I described one slash pairing to Te as "ducked-up." She laughed and laughed....
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My hair color is still darker than I wanted but getting lighter, and I am loving how shiny it makes my hair look. Prior to the dye job, my long, grown-in, smooth, dark roots got too oily quickly, while the dyed hair had been dry and damaged and often looked more strawberry-blondish than red, leaving me with a mess that was difficult to care for and could very easily look crappy. Having hair that's shades of one color and looks like it all belongs together is much better. Looks like I'll be dyeing my hair for the rest of my life.
Click to viewMadxthing makes a lot of really good fan videos in general, worth checking out.
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For some reason I've gotten seven different feedback comments on AO3 from four people in two different fandoms and I don't know why it's happening but I am so happy about it. Especially since prior to this I hadn't gotten any comments in ages.
The fact that it's happening in the summer makes it even stranger to me because, in my experience, it's not a great time for fandom engagement.
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It's been so hot here lately--about 90°F/33°C--that I can barely breathe sometimes, my chest hurts, my joints hurt, and my body has been useless and sick-feeling. It was my week to clean the bathroom, and even doing it with a fan directly on me the whole time my body was saturated and dripping with sweat afterward. Since electricity for air conditioning is so expensive, I'm trying to survive while using it as little as possible, mostly at night when I need to sleep and then using a fan when I can get away with it, but damn.
My appetite has gone weird in the summer as usual, and it was interesting going back to summer 2001 via an LJ e-mail and seeing that it was already a problem years before I got my Chiari diagnosis, something I hadn't remembered. It was 20 years ago after all. Oy.
It's not the only thing where I forgot how long-term it was, as per this entry of mine from July 13, 2001:
How badly are my hands bothering me? So badly that my typos in Instant Mail are worse than usual. I described one slash pairing to Te as "ducked-up." She laughed and laughed....
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My hair color is still darker than I wanted but getting lighter, and I am loving how shiny it makes my hair look. Prior to the dye job, my long, grown-in, smooth, dark roots got too oily quickly, while the dyed hair had been dry and damaged and often looked more strawberry-blondish than red, leaving me with a mess that was difficult to care for and could very easily look crappy. Having hair that's shades of one color and looks like it all belongs together is much better. Looks like I'll be dyeing my hair for the rest of my life.