New Vid: Still Alive (SPN, meta)
Title: Still Alive
Vidder: counteragent
Writers, Vidders, and Artists: see bibliography below cut
Subject: Supernatural fandom
Song: Still Alive by Jonathan Coulton and GLaDOS
Time: 3:08
Download: 29.8 MB .wmv
Streaming at youtube (choose the "watch in high quality" option)
A slightly earlier version of this vid premiered at winchestercon 2008
Summary: A survey of (mostly S3) SPN fandom: Some wank, some politics, and a ton of awe-inspiring GENIUS.
Betas: Thanks to giandujakiss for her extensive beta work way beyond the call of duty, to danegen for her very helpful beta sugestions and encouragement and marinarusalka for her very responsive and very nerve-soothing beta and to rheanna27 for braving this armed with little knowledge of SPN and coming out the other side with very helpful feedback. All remaining mistakes or muddled messages are mine.
ETA 3/2010: humbled to have an entire article written about Still Alive, "I'm glad we got burned, think of all the things we learned": Fandom conflict and context in Counteragent's "Still Alive" ,by Katharina Freund in the TWC issue on SPN.
Comments are more awesome than Dean.
Vidder's Notes
THANK YOU SO MUCH to all the amazing, talented fic writers, vidders, and artists in the SPN fandom.
You never fail to amaze and inspire me.
I was seduced into SPN fandom, but not by the boys. The irresistable lure? The talent here!
Meta Notes
- This vid isn't all squee--it looks at some of the darker sides of SPN and its fandom. But it ends in a squee place, I promise.
- The only clips used in context are the ones in desaturated color. All the rest are metaphorical and meant to represent fandom/fen.
- Yes, I still insist that Sam saved Dean from hell and that there was totally gen snuggling afterward*. And all these artists agree with me! :D
- Showing "The End" on "dead" was meant to be a reference to fandom continuing after Show's cancelation.
- "I feel fantastic!" Fandom: turning boys into girls since the 1960s or so. HEE. Ahem.
*artists may or may not agree with the "gen" part of that statement
Bibliography of works used in Still Alive
1. SPN toy: White Dresses matching game by gnatkip
2. And Everything Nice by gnatkip
3. Fangrrls article
4. The Vidder article
5. Woman's Work by sisabet and sockkpuppett aka Luminosity
6. Precious Maybe by fleshflutter
7. The Syncretist by newredshoes with art by slodwick
8. Blind Spot by pdragon76 with art by kimonkey7
9. The Devil's Gate by hesychasm
10. Five Times Dean Wished He'd Never Met Faith (And One Time He Kinda Didn't) by regala_electra
11. Under Darkening Skies by rivkat
12. The Stormy Present by musesfool
13. Then You'd Better Not Stay by dotfic
14. Revelations by marinarusalka with art by ileliberte
15. crack_impala Het/Other Slash recs post featuring Manual Labor by innie_darling and Fragile by nomelon and Razor-Wire Shine by thehighwaywoman
16. Boys Gone Wild by peaches with art by dun
17. The Scars of All I'll Ever Know by dalyn03
18. The Telegram by aeroport_art with art by leyna55
19. Ratpack by stompe
20. A Very Muppet Supernatural by missyjack
21. Hunter's "case file" by erinrua
22. Super Graphs by missyjack
23. Tension, Conflict, Motivation, and Plot: Why the Story is About Dean and We Do Know Sam meta by
bowtrunckle with pic by kentawolf
24. Chick-flick Moment by kentawolf
25. And Won the Soul's Rest by concernedlily with art by glackgal and reallycorking
26. We Know Each Other as We Always Were by mickeym with art by mkitty3
27. Receiver by dotfic with art by dun
28. Angustia! vid by kroki_refur
29. Dean and the Tweety band-aid by ileliberte
30. Plushie!Dean! by evillunatic
31. Dimensions and Verticals by bellatemple
32. Paint!Winchesters: "Of Bets and Mermaids" by aislinn_tredor
33. The Hunter CRAP! I lost my citation for this I SUCK plz, ms. artist, could you comment with the correct link. SO SO SORRY.
34. Dean/Jensen portrait by beckieb
35. Sam Winchester is a puppy: further evidence by kroki_refur
36. Sam portrait (with comparison photo) by artistic_sillie
37. Everything I Know About Marine Biology I Learned from My Brother by kroki_refur
38. Moonlit Sam by lupe_lei
39. House Wins by tripoli8
40. evil!Sammy by luluxa
41. All Heaven Will Allow (wee!AntiChrist Sammy) by dreamlittleyo
42. Sam and Dean as girls by stompe
43. Runway Sammy! by joosetta (companion to balefully's story The Devil Really Does Wear Prada)
44. Before the Seelie Court by leyna55
45. Fighters by nargynargy
46. Free Bird by nargynargy
47. Bleeding Heart by nargynargy
48. Hearts live by being Wounded by leyna55
49. Sam or Jared by k_powder
50. Counting Tuesdays by forestgreen with art by desertport
51. What Remains by walkawayslowly with art by yuanhua
52. Save Me by silvihenna
53. and 54. The Pomegranate King by sanyin with art by taliosi_x
55. Fire or Fire by lemmealone with art by tripoli8
56. Enter the gates to hell by ileliberte
57. Let That Be Your Last Battlefield by ileliberte
58. Let me be your armor by oatmeal_queen
59. In the midst by amantine_ari
60. Dimensions and Verticals by bellatemple
61. Counting Tuesdays by forestgreen, art by desertport
62. War Weary by griseldajane
63. In the arms of Morpheus by griseldajane
64. Ten Expressions from the Great LiveJournal Strikethrough 2007 by kroki_refur
65. Steam by bellatemple with art by mithborien
66. I will hug it and squeeze it and call it metallicar by ldhenson
67. Impala T by kimonkey7
68. Cars!Impala by gnatkip
69. Sam and Dean by oatmeal_queen
70. Tales of the Supernatural by cunien
71. Parody by kentawolf
72. facepwns by oatmeal_queen
Please let me know if I've miscredited anyone!