Halloween wasn't going to be a big deal this year, and lately it has felt like I mostly sit around doing or stressing over not doing this freelance assignment, so it's a pleasant surprise to find that actually I have been part of a sort of extended Halloween celebration.

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Last Friday, ellen_fremedon, cincodemaygirl and alpheratz accepted my invitation to Oyamel, this excellent ( Read more... )

Slow day at work today (for the first time in months, yay) meant I had time to draft replies to all the Starships! and Masters of War comments in a Word doc. When I got home I copied and pasted them all in-and now LJ thinks I'm a spammer and is making me fill out Captchas, ha ( Read more... )

This was my second time going to Vividcon-the first was summer of 2010-although I never posted about that one because the experience was so jam-packed joyful (and because, like this year, I had to go straight back to a busy office). 2010 was a special VVC for many reasons, among which were the unusual concentration of fan friends of mine whom I ( Read more... )

I was extremely lucky to catch an earlier flight home tonight, thanks to leaving the con a little sooner than planned in order to share the shuttle ride with thirdblindmouse. That meant I could actually grab a shower and will get to bed on time (zzzz)-and have a few minutes to throw some first-pass Vividcon favorites at you.

( 18 recs in different categories )

Right, I promised you a playlist of the vids we watched at the party on Saturday. Finally overcame this week's general evening laziness-here 'tis, in alphabetical order. A mix of favorites old and new, requests, vids I hadn't seen in a little while, and a sampling of some I'd never seen. By no means representative of all my favorites or of any ( Read more... )

It seems I will be hosting a vid show the weekend after next, hooray. Ergo, two questions for you.

If you have put together a vid show before: Any tips? Composition-wise, I figure I'll try to have a range of fandoms and a little bit of a range of emotions (with more funny/happy-making/action-packed vids than not, since those do well in a group ( Read more... )

(Part one is here)Okay, apparently I'm not done talking about names, because I neglected to mention down-from-NY hannahrorlove yesterday as well as some other locals I don't usually get to see, like sharkie/wolfshark, plus new and/or vaguely recalled faces or usernames who have now solidified into full-fledged people in my brain-tell me I'm not the ( Read more... )

Okay, right, let's get some festivids recs in before the reveals on Saturday. My personal favorites so far-as measured by strength of emotional response, level of impressed-ness at the editing, and number of times I've rewatched them-are:

ETA: Added vidders now that reveals are up.

( 20ish recs behind the cut, with explanations )

YESSSSSSSSSSS

It doesn't matter what else comes of Festivids this year, the community is utterly and totally awesome because someone made me a Roar vid!!!

I went to three car dealerships today. I earned this post.

Square 1: Ageplay Recs
Square 2: Food Recs
Square 3: Vehicular Recs (not wrecks)
Square 4: Subspace/Headspace Recs
Square 5: Verbal Humiliation Recs

If you'd asked me last week what I thought of "vehicular kink," I'd have gone straight to Crash. Not the racism one; the David Cronenberg ( Read more... )