kiki_miserychic

Excellent Character Studies
16 Tons (Alien Series, Ripley)
Connection (Contact (1997), Ellie)

Happy Found Families Being Happy
Friends (Stargate: Atlantis)

Super Cool Book Vid
Miles to Go (Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold)

Star Wars
One Girl Revolution (Star Wars, Padmé & Leia)
You and Me (and Him) (Star Wars, Leia/Luke/Han)

Will Scar You for Life in a Good Way
Under My Skin (multifandom)

I haven't watched Rogue One: A Star Wars Story or Star Trek Beyond yet, so I haven't watched those vids yet. And I totally need to watch Deep Space Nine.

jetpack_monkey's Vividcon 2013 Premieres Intro vid (Multi) - SO CUTE.

bananainpyjamas's I'm No Superman (Lego Batman 2: DC Superheroes) - I love the balance of humor and sincerity that this vid strikes. The musicality hits the perfect chord of adorableness with the movements and narrative structure.

kass' In the Hole (Ripper Street) - Well, I started watching Ripper Street (Old Timey CSI) when I started this recs post and I've already finished it before posting this. I was drawn in by the vid's sound matching with the video, like the kid throwing the rock, then the sound of glass breaking.

jetpack_monkey's Slippery Slope (The Wickerman) - Fuck me sideways. I can't really explain my love for this vid because it's so wrapped in a strange feeling of despair and dread. The use of the movie is so well done, like the slight movements within the clips. The most well known images are edited perfectly in the vid too. The reveal, MY GOD, that man's stupidity... Yes, I know people see the movie differently, but I see that man as stupid in his morality.

anoel's Past the Feeling (Once Upon a Time) - The FEELS of my heart. I don't need to watch Once Upon a Time, I just need to watch anoel's vids. The imagery is gorgeously used and the music is seamlessly woven with them. Regina's story and how her tendrils reach out into the other characters and family. The vid is almost 5 minutes long, but I wanted it to keep going and I didn't want Regina's story to end. I'm bias because I will never be over Swan Queen. I love the segmented nature of the vid and I feel like that's the only way a Regina vid could work. She's a very compartmentalized character and she's written in such bizarre ways. I'm amazed at how the vid draws things together in such a way that it makes a beautiful fairytale... At one point I remember thinking over and over "SOMEONE GIVE REGINA A HUG."

shati's Hope on Fire (Queen Seondeok) - I've watched and heard about Queen Seondeok from beccatoria so much that I feel like I've watched the show. I feel like every Queen Seondeok vid has great clip choice because of the sheer amount of source that it has, yet none of the vids I watch seem stale or repetitious. Your use of the camera motion is lovely and the balance of close up shots with larger scale scenes.

astolat's When I Ruled the World (Person of Interest) - I liked the narrative structure and the use of lyrics in relation to the characters and story lines. The use and creation of the machine sections was especially lovely.

sweetestdrain's Graceless (Spartacus) - There were two vids made with the same concept and source. I love them both differently, but for the same reasons. The progression of the narrative was beautiful and compelling. I love the tender, yet fierce love that comes through in the editing. There's an obvious beginning, middle, and end, which was so brilliantly satisfying while still breaking my heart.

echan's Omega (Fight Club) - CAN WE TALK ABOUT HOW MUCH I WANT TO HAVE HATE SEX WITH THIS VID, PLEASE? Like, I would let it do the most unfathomable things to me. The use of, not only the audio, but the SOUNDS. It's music to my eyeballs. I have such a thing for the use of spoken word in vidding.

butterfly's Firework (Supernatural) - I watched a different vid than most of the people I talked to after Premieres. I saw it as Charlie being fabulous and amazing and Dean loving her like a sister (because she's not a love interest threat because she's identified as queer). Through Dean loving Charlie, he accepts his own queerness and love of Cas. Dean embraces his own self by hugging those close to him, showing his emotions, and "rejects" his previous hetero-normative characterization. I said that and everyone on my side of the hotel room looked at me like I'd grown three heads. This is how I choose to perceive this vid and it's beautiful, even if it's not the vidder's intention.

lolachrome's We're All Missing Mama (Peter Pan) - I had a doofy grin on my face during this vid and I know it, even the when it was sad.

killabeez's Dyin' Day (The Hunger Games) - The desolation, my god, the desolation.

hollywoodgrrl's Run Boy Run (Game of Thrones) - One of my favorites that I can't textually render my thoughts without cracking my head open like an e.e. cummings poem. The clips are all so important and all the character's fates are so similar. For me it was all love of the narrative, editing, song use, and the characters coming through without getting lost in it all.

joyo and absolutedestiny's Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want (Infomercials) - I love this on a fannish level, of course, but also in a personal "real life" way, which added to my enjoyment. A group of friends and I play a game where if one of us yells out "person in an infomercial" that person has to finish whatever their doing in an epically and overly dramatic fashion. I've ruin so many things playing this horrible game.

findthesea's No Direction Home (Lost) - I never knew I wanted to see a Sawyer character study until I saw this vid. Having just did a rewatch of Lost (the chronological edit), I had an instant connection to it because the source was still on my mind and in my conversations. It's a rich vid with an interesting structure that I dug. First time vidders that make such great vids make me so jealous.

bradcpu and milly's The Polka Slayer (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) - There's wild and wide humor. It ranges and whips around, which makes it a great ride. I thought it was going to get sad for a moment, but then the funny came back and that's my favorite part.

vid title: Spit the Devil music: Olivia Ruiz source: V (the series) duration: 2:30

notes: Made for vidukon in 2011.

summary: Erica/Anna: firedogs

download: 30mb avi


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VID RECS:
kuwdora's Outer Space (Stargate Ark of Truth)- The movements are flowing and beautiful with the fading and the feel of the music.
kuwdora's Under My Skin (Heroes)- LOL, I have no clue what is actually going on, but it looks like a hilarious romp, like a mind control Weekend at Bernie's. OMGINSANITY!
kuwdora's Hot Mess (Heroes)- That's hot.
kuwdora's If You Stayed Over (Sleeper Cell)- My heart is broken after watching. It looks so beautiful with all the tragedy and sadness, then those brief moments of hope that are dashed to pieces.
kuwdora's Suddenly I See (Castle)- Sweet and adorable with a lovely concept.

chaila43's Lucky (Rubicon)- Very interesting editing. The vid really made me miss the show. I can't believe it was cancelled. It was so flipping good, I don't understand it. The music choice was excellent, like a lovely kind of weirdness with the jumpcutting structure.
chaila43's Pokerface (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles)- Hell yeah, love the editing and style choices with the interesting religion themes, the use of hands, the turning, and how the men twirl around her until she twists them up.

hollywoodgrrl amd ohvienna's Seven (David Lynch Films)- The narrative of the vid very much echoes the construct of a Lynch film. The editing is meticulously calculated and pay mind to recurring compositions and logics. I love how she played with the fractured identities to the point of them all, mainly female characters, being one solid character because they are all from Lynch's mind. They split and crack and form one monster. The vid begins as a typical vid might with set up and an evolving narrative, then it tumbles down the rabbit hole into a wonderland of audiovisual nightmarish delight. I've watched many of his recent documentaries and there is something of the man himself captured in the vid. It's a nearly unexplainable quality that the vid has manipulated his life's work to create a deconstruction draped over a man.

hollywoodgrrl's Deeper and Deeper (Legend of the Seeker)- I have a thing for violent sex fights, therefore, I love this vid.
hollywoodgrrl's Vertigo (Twin Peaks)- I need to take a shower after that horrid and disturbing vid. I loved it. The dancing and kissing and twirling and the hits and the back and forth between Leland and BOB.
hollywoodgrrl's Boom Boom Pow (Fringe)- MY FAVORITE PART WAS EVERYTHING

I wrote a fic, Angel the Series, Lilah, Business of Misery, pg, part 1 and part 2, for Awesome Ladies Ficathon:



I also have the first part of my FIC RECS arranged by fandom: ( ANGEL, BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, BONES, BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, CHUCK, COMMUNITY, DOCTOR WHO, DOLLHOUSE, ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND, FIGHT CLUB, FIREFLY, FRINGE, HARRY POTTER, HOUSE, THE L WORD, LEGEND OF THE SEEKER, LIFE, LOST, LUTHER, MAD MEN, THE MILLENNIUM TRILOGY, THE OFFICE, PARKS AND RECREATION, PUSHING DAISIES, THE PRETENDER, THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS, SHAKESPEARE, STARGATE: ATLANTIS, SUPERNATURAL, TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES, TORCHWOOD, TRUE BLOOD, WEEDS, and WIZARD OF OZ )

nightchik and I complied the Understanding Meta Vids (I C WHUT U DID THAR) vidshow (she ran the panel at VVC) for 2009 vividcon.

Vids that exist on a meta level, working in more ways than one, often suggesting a basis beyond the individual fandoms of the source andmore about a larger concept and/or fandom itself. Vids that go beyond the narrative of their source, commenting on the nature of that narrative, connecting with outside meanings, or placing the story in alarger culture context.

Everytime I thought we had a good description I'd realize it was excluding some type of meta or possibility for meta. I had no idea how tediously difficult it would be a write a definition for what meta vids are. We went for a wide range of meta topics, so I hope people didn't look at it and reject the vidshow in the basis that it's not what they consider to be meta. Meta has a wide variety of possibilities and these vids are some of them:

( On to the playlist! )

Questions? Comments? Suggestions? While this was the playlist for meta vids used in the vidshow, I encourage others to drop links in the comments to other meta vids. Feel free to spark discussions as well. I'm sure they'll be notes coming from the meta panel and I'd love for online discussion as well.

Today I hit snooze for 4 hours. That is a new record for me. I'm glad that for the first time in months, I had nowhere important to be today.

Everyone should go enjoy heyiya's Battlestar Galactica flavored meta, Why I heart the Cylons: integrated meta, vid recs and notes on Sons and Daughters.

VID RECS:
Remember when I said that BSG was producing some of the greatest vids ever? Yep, it's still happening. chaila43's Cathedrals (Battlestar Galactica) - There have been many character studies of the woman of BSG, this one focuses on Three, Laura, and Caprica. There's an innocence to the editing that gives way to lovely lyric interpretations, clip choice, and an instinctual editing style. It's lush and languid in a way that allows the viewer to organically connect with the characters through their search.

sweetestdrain's Lágrimas (Supernatural) - The musicality is beautifully rendered with glitching and static noise. The whole piece is moody and sweetly creepy. It's a quiet story with well chosen scenes and shots from limited source.

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Title: Hearing Only One True Note
Author: kiki_miserychic
Recipient: sheepfairy
Fandom: Battlestar Galactica
Rating: Explicit
Characters/Pairings: Boomer/Caprica
Timeline: In the slight gap between Exodus Part 1 and 2 (3x03 and 3x04)
Summary/Prompt: The world is moving beyond our grasp.
Written for hot_toaster in the Cylons vs. Humans INTERNATIONAL FEMSLASH DAY ficathon.

( Hearing Only One True Note )

A few friends and I went out the other night not realizing that the holiday would effect bars. It was so empty and boring for the first half hour because there were 10 people in the whole place that I played I Spy with a guy down the bar. The owner felt bad, so he gave out free drinks and if it was boring after that, I didn't care or notice.

I made cupcakes today, which is a major thing for me. The first time I decided to make cupcakes I stood in the baking isle of the grocery store looking for cupcake mix for ten minutes. I ended up asking a stock boy where it was. Needless to say, he looked at me like I was made out of stupidity and said cupcakes are made from cake mix. So I've come a long way from that to making cupcake so good you'll suck dick.

VID RECS:
balistik94's Awakening (The Maxtrix Trilogy) - I love the sense of beat and editing. There's a strong stylization to the effects and use of them.
balistik94's Exterminating Son (Blade Trilogy) - I'm a little bit in viddinglove with balistik94. There's an amazing ability to get a feel for the music and the source with the pacing, editing, and just plain coolness inherent in the vid. It has some very cool musical edits.

humansrsuperior's end. (Doctor Who) - Interesting concept that ties everything together and it fits perfectly. The effects are soft and organic. A whole mood is created with the music, clip choice, visuals, and audio work.

jagwriter78 and rhoboat's Anything the Doctor Can Do... (Doctor Who) - EHehehhe, I still have a huge doofy smile on my face from watching this vid.

ladymajavader's Powrót (The Return) (Multi) - I think everyone will see something a little different when they watch this vid, but it will be beautiful.

tearful_eye's Promises, Promises (Torchwood and Doctor Who) - Excellent jumpcuts that really create a taped together atmosphere. It's like the pieces of Ianto put back together with some of them covered by Jack.

thedothatgirl's Venus in Furs (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) - A disturbingly hot vid with great song choice, concept, music matching, structure, and black and white.