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Title: All I want for festivids is...
Fandom: The Christmas Setup
Summary: Christmas fluff.
Characters: Patrick Ryan/Hugo Spencer
Additional Notes: Made for elipie for festivids 2021/2022

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Title: A different Kind of Love song
Fandom: Fighting with my family (2019)
Summary: Sing it out loud and proud.
Character: Saraya Britani "Paige" Knight
Music: Singing Machine by Kimya Dawson
Warnings: Physical triggers (flashing lights/quick cuts)
Additional Notes: Made for elipie for festivids 2021/2022
 
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Title: Hungarian Folktales - dearer to me then salt
Fandom: Hungarian Folktales - cartoon (season 1-3)
Music: Dar Williams - southern California wants to be western New York
Summary: Food, home and family - a celebration of fairytale tropes and animation
Warnings: brief cartoon nudity
 
Stream here / AO3
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Title: Hellboy - Trevor Bruttholm - or better yet/what gds believe in you
Fandom: Hellboy (2004)
Characters/Ships: Trevor Bruttholm, John Myers, Hellboy, Liz Sherman, Abe Sapient
Trevor Bruttholm & Hellboy, Trevor Bruttholm & John Myers, Trevor Bruttholm&Liz Sherman, Trevor Bruttholm & Abe Sapient, Hellboy & Liz Sherman, Hellboy & Abe Sapient, Liz Sherman & Abe Sapient, Hellboy & John Myers
Music: jeremy messersmith - 7:02
Summary: “Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story.”- Richard Siken, War of the Foxes
Warning: christan religious imagery, character death, some light non consensual touching
 
for the vid bingo prompt innocent

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T'Chaka: (speaking in isi-Xhosa) Yintoni engalunganga, nyana wam? (translation: "What's wrong, my son?")
T'Challa: (also speaking in isi-Xhosa) Andikulungele, Baba. (translation: "I'm not ready, Baba.")
T'Chaka: Ngaba awuzange ulungele ukuba ngukosi wakho ubomi bonke? Ngaba awuzange uqeqeshe kwaye ufunde, ube ngecala lam?
(translation: "Are you not ready to be your master all the life? Did you not train and learn, to blame me?")
T'Challa: (switching to English) That is not what I am talking about. I am not ready to be without you.
T'Chaka: (also switching to English) A man who has not prepared his children for his own death has failed as a father. Have I ever failed you?
T'Challa: Never.
-Marvel: Black Panther
 
Title from Andrea Gibson:
see, i wanna know if you believe in any gd
or if you believe in many gds
or better yet/what gds believe in you

--
I lost almost all my data on my PC and had a real bad time mental and physical health wise, so the video did not end up quite like I wanted it to but I am trying to be okay with it.

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Music: The Vaccines - Wolf Pack
Fandom: The Legend of Sarilla
Character/Pairing: Markussi/Putulik/Apik 
Summary: OT3 feels. 
Finished Date: 2017
 
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X men - storm - open your eyes
Fandom: Xmen movies: xmen (2000), x 2 (2003), last stand (2006)
Music: Joshua James - Coal War (cut)
Summary: "Till we all walk free"
Warnings: physical triggers (light flashes), fantasy racism

I wanted to make a x men video, I ended up making 3 (given one of them is just 2 minutes), but I wanted to make this one first, because I couldn´t find any fanvids for Storm, and that seemed like a shame. Related: if you know any (good) Storm fanvids, rec them please!
Its pretty short, and while I had more footage I couldnt get it in with a flow, so it stays like this a bit under 2 minutes but hopefully I will make another one some day, a bit longer then.
 
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X men - pyro/iceman/rogue - ocean avenue
Fandom: Xmen movies: xmen (2000), x 2 (2003), last stand (2006)
Music: Yellowcard - Ocean Avenue (2003)
Summary: 3 teenagers get cockblocked by mutant opression/politics. or absolute self-indulgent : ot3 feelings. "if i could find you now things would get better" only not.
 
Hey, its me using clips out of context for real for once, the handshake thing are in canon Bobbs and Logans hand, but Pyro and Bobby do not touch enough in canon, so let´s just pretend okay?
 

X men - Bi Bi Bi
Fandom: X men movies: X2, X Men: last stand
Music: Nysnc - Bye bye bye 
Characters/Pairing: Rogue/John Allerdyce/Bobby Drake, 

the working title for this was 3 teenagers get cockblocked by complicated feelings and not politics this time, 
I really liked this video "meme" where people vid their bisexual headcanons to this song, I wanted to do that too. Then I rememberd I did not know how to do key elements of that format and instead played the song kind of straight (pun!). 
Making this meant I could look at the faces they give eachother for 2 minutes, bad sides its mostly looking betrayed and heartbroken by eachother. 
 
I loved you head over handles
like my first bicycle accident—
before the mouthful of gravel and blood,
I swore we were flying.
-Sierra DeMulder
 
Both of this videos were not the vids I planned making but after watching all the movies and falling head over heels into them, this kids wouldnt go out of my head.
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Bandidas - "You haven't met me, I am the only son"
Fandom: Bandidas
Music: Mumford and Son - Dust bowl dance 
Summary: "where else could my heart be" - Sara and Maria pick up the fight.
warning: blood, guns coruption, minor character death, some creepy men
“All witches are selfish, the Queen had said. But Tiffany’s Third Thoughts said: Then turn selfishness into a weapon! Make all things yours! Make other lives and dreams and hopes yours! Protect them! Save them! Bring them into the sheepfold! Walk the gale for them! Keep away the wolf! My dreams! My brother! My family! My land! My world! How dare you try to take these things, because they are mine!
I have a duty!” 
- Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men 

finished date: 15.6.2018


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X men - work our fingers down to dust 
Fandom: Xmen movies: xmen (2000), x 2 (2003), last stand (2006), apocalypse (2016)
Music: The Gaslight Anthem - Mae
Summary: absolute self-indulgent : "I want to wrap all of the kids in the xmen verse up and keep them safe"-feels.
Notes:
This video made me feel so much better which is like weird, but I just had lots of fun making it (not that I did not have fun making my other vids).
Sometimes I am just hit hard by need/wants for specific stories/fandoms/etc and fall head first into obessions for a while that can be a week or a month sometimes its long time, I guess its strange, it feels strange to me, sometimes it tiring to feel so hard for something (my mind is not my friend and it can be very hard to make it stop/redirect it when it gets hung on some through)
so thats how last week I watched all the x men movies I could get my hands on repeatly including Wolverine: Orgins, X men Last stand, and the Rogue cut for Days of the future past which I had not seen before (this has no value of information in relation to this video, just saying it because i have emotions about xmen and this emotions now includ this movies too)
I vid this "blind" just patching part to part, it is not a very lyrical tangled vid, more a little mood piece. 
 
My fav scene in X2 is when Logan says, "Go! I can do this alone!" something along the line when he meets Stryker who attacked the school and Rogue says "But we can´t" and thats why I made this video.
There are many scenes that are not in the video that i wanted to include, (i own the first class movie but my pc did not want to rip it I found some scenes on yt (same for the last stand deleted scene) - (for example the one after Shawn came and took Angle and killed Darwin, the way Charles runs to hug Raven, and how he wanted to send the "kids" home, but they and Erik protested).
 
Xmen: Rogue: "why don´t we get any?" Bobby: Yeah where are ours? - Wolverine: "oh they are orderd and should arrive in a few years"
 
alternative ending scene for last stand: Bobby to Storm *laughing*: "Looks like we need a few more suits"
 
Apocalypse: -Mystique: "You got a warjet, now lets go to war"
-Jean: "Were you scared?" - Mystique: "No," Pause "but on my first mission I was scared, I was in a jet like this one with my friends, around your age, we called ourself the X-Men [...]" - Nightcrawler: "what happend to the other kids? the x men?" - Mystique:"Hank and me are the only one left, I couldn´t save the other ones." (i love so much about this, how she starts this story, sounding happy, remembering her friends, how she puts the blame/failure on herself, its definitly one of my better liked scenes in apocalypse (which maybe my least favorite x men movie so far)
-Mystique: "You are not kids anymore, you are not students, you are Xmen!"

finish date: 14.6.2018
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Uploading the Firefly fanvid i talked about, I finshed it on the 18.11. but i wanted to write some notes to make at least a bit sense of it for anyone watching but my brain did not want to do that, as always you can ask about scene selection etc. 

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Title: No power in the verse
Fandom: Firefly
Music: Lana Del Rey - I can fly
Character/Pairing: Kylee, River, Kylee/River, Serenity, Serenity/River, Serenity/Kylee, 
to a lesser extend Mal, Simone, Simone/Kylee, Simone&River, Mal&River, Mal&Kylee, Mal/Serenity
Summary: safia elhillo - vocabulary: where the wind stops her ships, we stop ours / where love stops her ships, we stop ours
Warning: beside show/movie typical violence (not much), incest-ly implications? Simone&River are just this way.
 
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whatever souls are made of his and mine are the same-Emily Brontë 
 
about the title: 
Mal: I don't believe there's a power in the 'Verse can stop Kaylee from being cheerful. 
Kylee/River: There is no power in the verse that can stop me now.
Love being something unstopable. Love make people unstoppable forces to protect it.
 
This video touches a few ideas/things, so here are the main themes and just fav bits:
-the ditchonomy with Kylee being pushed out of harms way to her and the kid, and Rivers dance like fighting style (which has its own ditchonomy) 
-i love the fade in, movement of 0.47 "you had me cadged up" way to much, i just like it.
-the connection between death-flying-freedom is an old hat but it is still a nice thing, also the word "Serenity" always has death connections for me.
 in the funeral scene, and River fixing a little rocket there.
"she is torn up plently but she will still fly true"
in the opening the burning up serenity fading into a shot of her flying unharmed
while death is freeing, grief can be cadging, the building something as a better coping mechanism - the sparks of Zoe fixing Serenity.
-in my zoe video there is the line "innocence (lost)"with River (in context of the eating room and the ditchonomy between family live/meals and guns) 
(see also 1.15 "bathing in sunlight" River and Kylee chase eachother through the ship, and are actual refered to as kids, by Mal - this is where River gets the phrase "no power in the verse can stop me" from that she later quotes back at Kylee (which off topic is a very relatable way to communicate) 
here it comes back as "i was not crazy /i was devine" 
-i like Mal & Kylee laying hurt on the ground of Serenity and River opening her eyes, at the turning point from that, but with a visual connection that implies this as the beforehand/past
-i really like the hand holding from Mal to Kylee "i know that you are a liar" callback/built up on the way i used "fucked hard" in my Zoe vid: flying with Mal can be very dangerous, an Mal is here coupled/samed with Serenity. River in the movie being asked if she wants to stay when Mal throws them of by Simone, and saying it is to dangerous (for them)
"Go to him, stay with him if you can. But be prepared to bleed"-Case Of You by Joni Mitchell
 ->later the "fighting with my art" and Kylee cutting wires and the blood dripping.
does this make sense to anyone or just me?
"ships like this stay with you forever" "because they are a death trap"- falling in love is always handing someone your heart (the power to hurt you) (and trusting they won´t destroy it)
-I had the dream that i was fine/I wasnt crazy" I love River sitting like that, pulling her knees in hugging them. it emphasize the young "broken girl/kid"-thing which is something i have problems with in the way it is used but which is also something i am interested in.
also i really made myself ship this two, is there anywhere were i can find fanwork with them? (i looked up their ages because of this, and found out Rivers actress is 2 years older)
-i like the shot/framing in 3.06 on Simone standing over them looking down/to him and river looking down at the crew ->to the simelar camera position over Kylee and Simone: think of the Tear you apart fanvideo.
the visual parallel of River looking up and Simone looking up (leaning on the ship contols!) River "feeling"/being the ship.
the first thing i ever saw of firefly was a screencap set with the "my sister is a ship we had a difficult childhood" that never actually happens buit stayed in my head
if i watch simone/kylees interaction with Simone&River in the back of the head i am gonna think of Kylee/River with Simone&River too.
(or today i am kind of in love with the way Kylee says goodbye to Simone and River and how both siblings watch after her)
River as the ship makes her a part of all the scenes (she is not really a "mind reader" but she has acess to the general feelings of anyone on the ship) vs the way she (and Simone) are outsiders of many crew scenes first, she even more, seen through Simones lense of pity, confusion, etc (and love too of cause). 
(the way this, brings me back to bad coping mechanism, the idea of "fixing" people, instead of finding ways of learning to live with eachother)
-the cows
-the light shining on Kylees face as the engine starts again/the song rises up again 
-the idea of soulmates are weird trope for me, on the one hand i love stories about stories, about possibilities and chances and how my otp falls in love in tentousand different ways, 
now we come back to the cows, 
but on the other hand this always has to be seperated from the: only love can make you happy/complete, and that love has to be only one person, if you lose them thats the end, and anyone but that one doesnt matter, etc 
people touch people, change them too but thats always born from themself, 
River: They weren't cows inside. They were waiting to be, but they forgot.
 
-I should probably cut a few secs at the end, and i have the feeling that i hold scenes for to long here, i am not a quick cutter and maybe this is the "worst" of my vids on that so far, I still like it through.
 
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Fandom: Bend it like Beckham
Music: Au Revoir Simone - Crazy
Character/Pairing: Jess/Jules, Jess/Girls, Jules/Girls 
Summary: "Oh you girls drive me crazy"

Notes: I first uploaded this back in march now i fixed some gosthframes and tried to work on a few transitions.
For some reason i am very in love with how "some people think they know, sometimes i think they know" worked out. 

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finish date: 3.3.2017 (updated: 19.11.2017)
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Fandom: Primeval (Season 3-5)
Music: Florence & The Machine - My Boy Builds Coffins 
Character: Hilary Becker
Warning: blood, character death, guns, animal death, 
#Nobody wants to be the last one standing
 
Another reupload from febuary, again with fixed away Gostframes.
This video always got pixel-y when i load it up and after recutting everything 3 times i just gave up: so while it looks a bit weird and it is a very clichee theme - it is still very dear to my heart, Becker is one of the character i overidentify with so he has to battle my inner demons for me (for example i bet the writers did not think of him as anything but cis but for me he is everything but that). Loyality has always been one of my fav character traits and ficitional characters whos arcs are built around wanting to serve an idea or certain people always easily lead to be my favorite characters. 

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Notes: I love the start at a ending point, Becker (almost) dying, it is also a great contrast because through all that happens Becker does not die and then he feels bad about that, I admit I am weak for this sad eyes and guilt, the failure to see his own life as as valuable as the one of others - I like the scene selection at the beginning all from the same episode, the building up of things he drowns in (not dying, and the conflicting feeling of not wanting to die because he got a job to do, duty vs just wanting to close the eyes and stop).
I always loved how Becker kills that Predator its an execution its slow, intentional and probably very cathartic for him.
"He can't carve a whistle" The idea that he is only good for this, the exclusion from the people cheering - while he helped make this possible he did it by ducking his head and quietly spying which is not the style of the rest of the team who first believed he betrayed them "cause he just don´t care" it is a obivious lie, like saying "I am fine" - the supernatural fandom has the phrase "too much heart was always [his] problem" which is symptomatic for a lot of bad shit that goes down in the show, but also here, seeing his own emotions as a weakness, not because he devalues emotions themself but because for his emotional wellbeing it is so important that the other people are safe and the idea that he is faulty if they are not - specialy if it was because he was emotional distracted. Like the old Star Trek mnemotechnic verse about Data not being pogrammed to have emotions but seeking them out and Spock being very emotional but shunning them/as Harry brust out in the 5 book after Sirius dead, having emotions is fucking exhausting. 
"The rich and the poor" I once saw a fanvideo using this scene with "someone to kill at my command" and thats the kind of dark humor i am in for, they are ragged and coming back from one year in dino time but for him they represent the good, innocent in his work.
"Beggars and Liars" Phillip almost brought the end of the world; Abby: Helen manipulated your humannity that´s what she does. that´s what she is good at. - Phillip: No i think she used my ego." He tried to repair his mistake but it was to late and he died, something none of them wanted to happen.
I once read the line: Phillip offerd Becker the arc Christine had offerd him before but this time he took it gratefuly. 
Christine is another villian manipulated by Helene. Like Phillip she revamps the ARC as a more controlled military organisation, this time Becker accept that in the hope that if he won´t get attached he can´t get hurt.
Becker really wanted to shot Christine there but i always through that he blamed himself even more.
"They all come to him 'cause he's so eager to please" Despite all that he let the job call him back after he lost everything, not for hope but to suffer for his sins. 
Becker shoting the Cleaner is one of my fav scenes, because its a human, there are not a lot of scenes like this, and that emphasizes the weight of it, look at his face.
But it's not just for work and it isn't for play" The first time Abby and Con (and the rest of the team) meet Becker, is this: the solidiers are dressed in black and they arrive like punky school kids late for class  - it is a nice contrast.
As said alternative title is Becker doesnt die and feels bad for it (because everyone else does) - he can just stand there and try to hold together the pieces.
"for better or worse/Some say its a blessing, some say its a curse"The first shots come back here, Jess tries to tell him that what he did was good/enough but he cant hear her/the transition to her bloody and scared. and he cant save her or comfort her. ("He can't carve a whistle")
I love! the continuity of movement here: Nick Cutters death, is a turning point of the show, he was the main character and his death in the middle of the season really has this high stakes everyone can die-feel,  and it is Conner who carried him out, and this are Abbys hands on his dead body - both had the "kid" status in the theme (the scene before this he carries Jess who is the new youngest/most untouched/inncoent one). 
The difference in scene of Abbys hand on Nicks body and Becker approching Henrys one carefully - Henry was Emilys husband and he was really not a good one, but like with Phillip no one wanted him to die, like how the reaction i read a lot in fandom (years later and silently as i am shy) about Helene Carters death suprised me, people said they were cheering on it, while Beckers guilt/grief over everyones death even this one is not what all express and i am sure there is still anger and hurt and a bit of relief that there are things that are no longer problems that will arise again i always had the feeling that the show did relativly well in making clear that the dead of a villian is not: the prefered solution, or even worse the most heroic solution; something that stands outside the feeling of everyone can die.
He crafts everyone with love and with care" Becker: I am sorry Abby" but he cant listen to her begging, he will set up the bomb, sacreficing Conner and Matt for the live of many others. This is not what he wanted but it is like the final where Matt intented to sacrefic himself, its kind of this hero privilege the "no one gets left behind"-(no matter the cost) like in season 3 Becker is angry at Danny when he decides to keep on searching for Abbys brother. Becker would probably rather do Matts job and be blown up doing it then being here. (Matt knows this very well in this episode and in the first of season 4 he holds Abby physical back from running after Conner who is in danger, and he knows that he has to live to the final to save the world, but just like Becker he became attached) -"Then it's thrown in the ground, it just isn't fair"- see the next scene where he intent to sacrefic himself to give them time to save Abbys brother, 
I love the standing over position/framing parallel with the "catched every red light" scene and the one where he picks them for Christine (I just love the scene, the hand on the hip? how all of them are more "dissapointed not mad"/annoyed then scared or anything?) 
As said i overidentify with Becker and him serving/using his body as a tool with few regards for its well being is very relatable for me. 
The animal jumps to kill Becker, and Con,Matt and Abs raise their guns without hesitation but afterwards Matt says to Abby softly "We cant bring them all back" - think back of to 3.1 or 3.7 where Abby wanted to save the animals but Beckers first priortiy were the lives of the team.

finish date: 7.2 2017 (updated 11.11.2017)
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Fandom: Bend it like Beckham
Music: Jeannie C. Riley - Most people get married
Character/Pairing: Jess/Jules
Summary: "when kisses last so long that you run out of breath /.../ most people get married"
The story we all deserved but didn´t get.

Notes: I first uploaded this back in febuary (femslash febuary) and two (2!) people actually reblogged it, i was very proud of myself, the song may be a bit weird choice as Jeannie C. Riley is a country singer but this one is very pop sounding and it fills me with so much (unexplained) happiness and makes me want to dance.
I fixed away some Gosthframes and tried to better the flow, i also changed up the first shots because i used the same ones for my Bend it like Beckham video "You Drive me Crazy" before and that brothered me: now its shoes both in the football and the wedding variation and that sums this video up nicely i think.
 
ao3 / archive

-i love them jogging/training together for "only wanna walk together" 
-"only want to touch - too much!" with their first meeting is my kind of humour
-the fade in for 1.46 to 1.50 was the base idea of the vid, like the first scene that popped in my head, and what i wanted to definitly have in it. so i went to look for songs about weddings. and tada! here it is!
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mirror mirror - lamb or knife

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Fandom: Mirror Mirror (2012)
Music: Audra Mae - The Happiest Lamb
Summary: Snow White takes her fathers dagger, her legacy and responsibilty and rescues the kingdom. 

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first uploaded on the 17.02.2017.fixed some gosthframes and added a fade in: 19.9.2017

I tell them: don’t depend on a woodsman in the third act. I tell them: look for sets of three, or seven. I tell them: there’s always a way to survive. I tell them: you don’t have to lie still and wait for someone to tell you how to live. I tell them: it’s all right to push her into the oven. She was going to hurt you. I tell them: mirrors lie. I tell them: you can wear those boots, if you want them. You can lift that sword. It was always your sword. I tell them: the apple has two sides. I tell them: just because he woke you up doesn’t mean you owe him anything. I tell them: his name is Rumplestiltskin - Catherynne M. Valente, The Consultant
 
I love to edit out unessary male love interests. so i end with her reunion with her father.
The song is orginaly probably intented about a romantic relationship - but i like twisting a bit and here it is a (abusiv) family relationship. I think the first scene is very strong "One wave of his hickory staff/And I'd follow him 'round the land" She sits to her feet, like a child (still believing her lies) but in the next scene she is hold before her (for fighting for speaking out on the injustice). "I wont sell my wool to buy no shack" with the cut in scene of her bowing to the queen like everyone.
I love stories about (girls) pleading themself to a cause/mission, a responsibilie, this are her people the "mother mary" the dwarves, the town people and her father. 
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Fast & Furious - Mia/Letty - The Best Place

DISCLAIMER: This is a fan video. I do not own the rights to any of the clips or music. For nonprofit entertainment purposes only.
 
Fandom: The Fast and Furious (1 - 6)
Music: Best Coast - The only place
Character/Pairing: Mia, Mia/Letty, 
Summary: Mia/Agency for live. Mia/home-family
During the time span passing within the movies Mia and Letty have seen a lot of places. But home is where the heart is. So Mia starts her engine and drives for what is important. 
I first uploaded this on the 21.2.2017, the audio mixing is not perfect but  i am not really skilled to fix it.I however fixed some gosthframes: 19.9.2017.
I think the sound of an engine starting makes a nice start - as a straight forward methapor - but in this video it also becomes kind of Mias personal "theme" - when she makes a decision it turns up. 
 
"We've got the ocean, got the babes/Got the sun, we've got the waves" the second best thing in the world is cars and what we see first.
Family/love - the best thing in the world, the reason why she starts her engine and runs no matter law or logic. Before the engine starts again and she chose her family over Brian (how could she not? he loves her for this action, of cause (he loves all of them for this)) there is the shot with the parking lot and the sunset overhead - it is a nice transition, something coming to an end but its also the scene where she and Brian went on a date, where he made her feel like she came first for once, but she gives up on that.
We've got the ocean, got the babes/Got the sun, we've got the waves" Woman dancing (Brasil-Letty), and car racing (L.A. Mia) (i tried to edit the movment together. only semi succesfull) this is all nice but it is not the real deal.
mountains,birds,ocean,trees,babes,waves = cars. and eachother. both things you can take everywhere with you.
The intercutting of the kids arriving with their candy coloured cars vs Lettys funeral. I think a lot about this time in their life. They were so young. And even at this point they still are. "If I was Letty I would ask you, no I would beg you to let it go Dom" but when he doesnt listen to her, she let him, for the same reason she begged, her first priority is to keep her family save (and/or together - the battle between this two and to what she gives in dominates her life). So she starts her engine and goes on from nothing,
"Why would you live anywhere else?" This time there are mountains,waves, trees and birds as they "travel"(flee) but its not the planning around extraditions treaties that make this a glum look on her face. The intercutting, conected by the light composition, of Mia (and Brian) seeing Dom and Vince again in Brasil, with the sunlight shinning behind them - and them shining as bright because its all worth it as long as they have this, and Letty who unknown to the others is alive but with amnesia, coming into a dark meet up (and the way she gets out of the car, repeating the visual from earlier in the video)
So leave your cold behind/We're gonna make it to the beach on time"Mia has settled down it was not 1327 but home is where the heart is, and this is why the leave it behind for the slim of a chance that Letty is alive. "We are stronger together" 

While it is not perfect (obivious) it gives me alot of feels, there is lots of envoirment/scenery in this video specialy at the beginning - part of why they are there is because i always liked to think about the ways their envorment shaped characters, and i love characters who find strenght in the world around them, not only their close loved ones, but a general love for people around them, activities and culture. (->See my Konno video - which brings me to the point that now i kinda want to make a Teen for Gd video with Mia)

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Anne of Green Gables - Anne/Diana - you don´t get forever but you wanted to
 
DISCLAIMER: This is a fan video. I do not own the rights to any of the clips or music. For nonprofit entertainment purposes only.

Fandom: Anne of Green Gables (1985) and (2016)
Music:  Hello Saferide - Anna (lyrics) (edited)
Characters/Pairing: Diana Barrys Pov: Anne Shirley/Diana Barry
Warning: a short flash of physical punishment of a child (child abuse)
What ifs…second chances and subtext.

I orginaly posted this video on the 9.02.2017 on youtube. It was one of my first vids.I tried to do something with the audio (i needed to make the song longer and change the structure a bit) and i did not succes fully, 
19.9.2017: i edited out some gosthframes, but i am to lazy/bad at it - to fix the audio.Still I think the video is okay to watch even if a bit wonky at times.

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I like the idea/concept of using a reboot - the song is a sad song its a missed change, something still remembered wishful but past, but this video is hopeful (I am just a hopeful person despite being a depressed mess) i hope one day we get the Anne of Green Gables reboot that finally gives us canon wlw (relationship(s)).

Look at this face and tell me this is not the face of a gal mentally writing the name of her future children on the binder of her mind.

"bought us a cottage near the countryside" found family is obvious one of my fav tropes.

Di wants her to have this home she wished for so long.

"And her granddad could have shown her the way to the bar" When you marry someone you marry a family, and family is complicated. Marilla jumps over her shadow and tells Anne that they want to keep her, the scene with Dianas family is a great contrast here, from the tackle hug to stiff straight backs and handshakes, Dianas family has money and a certain want to conform that gets the kids in trouble, but when this line comes back its with the scene where Dianas father carries Anne after she hurt her feet in the forest.


"Could have supported us when we retired, bought us a cottage near the countryside"Anne and Diana near water in their ridiculous dresses, holding hands - is my retirement goal aesthetic. they would make amazing "spinsters" together.


"You could have taught her to play hockey/I could have taught her the guitar " &"With our collected brain resources she would have an IQ of a 155" a thing that bothered me when i was a kid is how Diana sometimes get a bad rep, she is less rule breaking/out of the box thinking/often called less "creative/and does worse in school. She frets when Anne does stuff like climbing the roof, but she is so proud of herself when she wins the race with Anne. She likes to read too and dream and tell stories.


Anne holds on to Di for support when the test results are been read out loud ans Di is very proud of her. (Di is so proud of her when the sing, when Anne performs a play at the christmas mass in the 2016 movie - heck "we would have made the neighbors jealous/We could have barbecues at nights" the way she looks at her eating her first serving of ice cream ever is pure love - something to cherries and people should be jealous of).

And she would never had to know what it's like when your heart breaks" The wish that no one has to endure the pain (again) and also their dramatic feelings when Dis mom forbids them to see each other again (i will forever love how Anne rush/runs to her hands!)

This is the second chance, their first meeting again, eyes held and flustered courtesy. I also like the structure this time it is Anne who pass down the "sweetheart but with punk rock manners"-ways.

"I am real sorry Anna you never got to be/Cause your daddy moved on and he left me"Diana feeling like she is 2 steps behind, running to catch up (literally too) - but its Gilbert who is left standing

Could have supported us when we retired, bought us a cottage near the countryside"white dresses, sunsets, at the sea, talking about how they have everything they need right here and now? - love. It also has a very final shot way of being
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Firefly - Zoe Washburne - It is always heavier than you thought

DISCLAIMER: This is a fan video. I do not own the rights to any of the clips or music. For nonprofit entertainment purposes only.
 
Fandom: Firefly
Music: Lana Del Rey - Gods and Monsters

Zoe Washburne after - (she is torn up plently but she will still fly true) the war always in the back of her mind like a numbing noise.

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Notes:
i think this opening is really great: the attack on the valley is a great visual - the ships appearing & falling down bombs - fading in and out to the falling snowflakes.
I like all the fog/light etc messing up the vision like i am the guy who made the new Star Trek movie - because it is intentional, everything is foggy, the lines are not clear: Zoe steps into Serenity (what a wonderful heavy loaded name!) sceptic "garden of evil" while Mal shines like everything has to be alright from now on.
-their position as the the losing side, the "wrong" on in the history books of the alliance (the ones that River read in school ->the nice opening of the movie Serenity) - i always loved "Robin Hood"/petty criminal/underdog stories.
There is a lot of Mal in this video - i hope that is okay - Zoe has put a lot of her decisions in his hands, her life, its a coping mechanism, it makes a lot of things easier, but while i am super interested in that aspect of their dynamic it is just an aspect not all of it, so I also love how Mal looks to her, for support and input, I am pretty sure there are people who watched the show and were (only/mostly) focused on Mal (because statistical it would be unlikly of it not happening, and also he is the Protagonist, white male able bodied - potrayed by a cis man)
"Shining like a fiery beacon" its their buisness, its their shared history, pain and in a way home too (bring me home) - he looks at her and in my vid it almost looks like he is asking her to weight in, make the decision final/out loud. 
Screwed up, scared, doing anything that I needed"the boy lies to them because he is desperated but Zoe and Mal ran too, dealing with the war by largely not dealing with it at all, the way the (so beautiful shining yellow) scene inside Serenity the first time is cut between it, its running away, but its also living on - moving on, trying - Zoe smiles and follows Mal - "Shinning like a fiery beacon" and the action begins again: because that journey - with all the unexpected trouble - turns out to be i think important for their healing process they bring him/(themself) home. "You got that medicine I need" Zoe and Mal (and Jayne, and Wash, Book, River,Simone,Kylee,Inara) are great damn heroes, but doing this, doing the "right" thing, the thing they feel is right even if they also feel/know how dangerous/stupid they are saves them too.
Headed towards a fucked up holiday"Zoe eats her apples like this because of traumatic war time expierinces, i played with the idea to make this transition/cut more drastic but then did a simple fading in again, a) because this is just technial easier for me b) this was more in line with the rest of the video even if it would have been interesting/nice to have one of the quick/loud flashes of flashback into show that different effects depending on factors (trigger/time/general state etc) - one of the main aspects of this video is how the war is like always in the back of her mind, a background noise, lenses that colour everything she expierinces, its not the loud/flashy/violent-nervous style that i have seen (and loved!) in a few of Bucky Barnes (Captain America - Marvel) fanvideos - but more numbness, dissociation.
The apples they eat are safe, but when they celebrate Simones birthday there is an explosion. The transition from the explosion- pushing Kaylee out of harms way to the basketball game worked well (mimicing the scene before where Mal push her out of the way of an explosion)  - "Life imitates art" sometimes the horrors feel more real then the "savety"/the now.
no one is going to take my soul away" the confront Mal scene is from the first ep. she disaggrees with his choice of buisness partner because he tried to shot Mal (which Mal tries to shrug off). I feel like I should have prepared something to say about the constallation of Mal/Zoe/Wash - because i am sure there were parts of the fandom that got ugly with shipping - but - i have nothing. the way Wash symbolis/embodies "inocents" for Zoe a bit. two scenes in the medibay, Wash losing his cool when she is hurt and and the "redemptation" of the Wash/Mal/Zoe conflict with both of them smiling at Mal who wakes up in the medibay. 
I like that you didn't go with the obvious choice of clip for "looking to get fucked hard" because Mal flirting with Zoe brings the other definition of "fucked" to mind, that Zoe really could be signing her own death warrant by staying with Mal. -garrideb 
Dope, shoot it up, straight to the heart please"the dinner scene where Jayne reach over to get another piece - most of the times one/I try not to use a scene more then once, but here I did, on purpose, this dinner scene actually is not a repeat, but it evokes the scene with Simones birthday, the scene after that is a direct repeat its that explosion, so are the war flashbacks - repetation - one reason is of cause limited skill/resources but also it is the same scene, this is not a new treat but her mind being chaught in the old one (i know all this is just in my head but knowing that does not nessary make it dissapear)
"No one's gonna take my soul away" I really like the fade in/blue sparks/fog obscouration - its clichee but it is effectiv for me. 
the dichotomy between Zoe the destroyer and Zoe the builder-[Bad username or unknown identity:  ](the sparks of the repair are after Wash funeral. to ensure Serenity will still fly. fixing things as a better/healtier coping method then violence,codependency etc. that are also in this video.
I love the rows of funerals "Fuck yeah give it to me this is heaven, what I truly Want"
The fading into black - and her standing still like that before snapping into action - I like the effect here because it emphasize the dissociation. 
"When you talk it's like a movie and you're making me Crazy" When we are backed up against a wall we often use old coping methods that are not always approative. The transition between her screaming to action to the kid running to Kylee -movment workin as a connection - cut between by the explosion  not sure if that works but it was something i though could be interesting. 
"If I get a little prettier can I be your baby?" The contrast of them walking in with Book (Kylee with the kid) vs the white/blue Planet with the failed project - how she is the one who is walking/acting with such control/skill.
"I'm living like Jim Morrison" ft Mals face seeing the destruction of Brooks place/the one of the Serenity Valley. The show does not show us Zoes face to it, and their feelings are not interchangable but it is a frame of reference "Like Jim Morrision" this is a bit of snap at the canon and a snap at the work of transformative fanwork, dealing with emotions by letting (other) fictional characters deal with emotions.  I don´t know if thats just me through and if it just throws everyone out of the loop - if yes i am sorry.
We are coming back to the dinner table. Inara scolds/teases Mal about "playing with his guns" there (and there is a certain macho-playing there) - Zoe and Wash strapping guns on is death serious through they have to rescue Mal - keeping your guns in good shape is important for surrival - and it has also some sort of soothing effect to know you are prepared if something happens - and then there is Jayne (who defintily has some weird macho-playing) but while he is at it people come to the table to eat - like it is natural.
Zoe follows Mal into Serenity.
(The last scene. The war again is after the song ends. It is still there. But live goes on)
 
“Kill what you can't save
what you can't eat throw out
what you can't throw out bury
What you can't bury give away
 
what you can't give away you must carry with you,
it is always heavier than you thought.”
-Margaret Atwood, You are Happy
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Red things

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Music: The Kinks - Polly

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This is a video made out of music videos. So it´s less literal/context reference lyric matches and more general "mood". The song has a bit of "don´t have sex, you will get pregnant and die" thing in it but i turned it a bit to a more positiv thing, it´s supposed to be about exploring the world and oneself (gender, friendships,love,passions) but always having a place to come home too. 

I had a lot of problems making this video (and all of them were gosthframes, or maybe 99 % were gosthframes) but also a lot of fun. I am kind of proud of finally having finished it and even if i think i should try another video editing pogram (i did already but so far very very unsucessfull) i really want to make simelar themed vids about different colours using music videos (i love music videos! anyone want to rec me some? i would love to expand my taste!)
 
List of music videos in order of first apperance:
Kumisolo - Transports en commun (cute playing with 2/3D, as requisite and people are real but the background is slide projector style)
Grimes ft. Janelle Monáe - Venus Fly (fasinating costumes, high contrast)
secret - shy boy (bright coloured 50s retro look)
Shakira ft. Rihanna - Can't Remember to Forget You (shakira and rihanna smoke cigars, roll in bed together and lean against opposite walls)
Sigala_ Ella Eyre - Came Here For Love (bright coloured walls and kites)
The Killers - Shot in the night (a girl workin in a casino gets a night with one of the guests like cinderella. beautiful coloured. sweet)
Wolf Alice - Bros (two girls hanging out.simple but sweet)
OK Go - Skyscrapers (a pair dancing through a varition of backrgounds always dressed in the same color as that)
Poision - What i like about you (yearbook photos coming to live)
Robyn ft. Snoop Dogg - U Should Know Better (a little boy as Roby a woman as Snoop Dog (warning for some real weird secual implications in  the video (beside that the video is nice through))
Missy Elliot - Work it (crazy effects and dancing)
My Chemical Romance - Na Na Na (mad max like colourful post apocalyptic teeangers in a desert)
KBG84 - Come on and Dance (age average in this girl group is 84, sweet dancing video, and the beauty of the island)
John Legend - You & I (Nobody in the World) (a diverse set of woman, from the perspective of a mirror)
Ingrid Michaelson - Girls Chase Boys (the colour pink, and red, red lips and nails, black backgrounds: contrast, gender feels)
Janelle Monáe - Q.U.E.E.N. feat. Erykah Badu ("time traveling rebels" stuck in a museum coming back to live. black and white with red  highlights)
Jane Zhang - Dust My Shoulders Off (recreating of famous art work)
Bibi Bourelly - Sally (a celebration of a lot of different people, also dancing)
Young Thug - Wyclef Jean (about the difficulities of making a music video)
Fall Out Boy - Irresistible ft. Demi Lovato
Jonas Blue - Fast Car ft. Dakota (i dont really like this version of the song but the colours in this video are nice!)
M.I.A. - Finally (washed out colours, desert)
WEDNESDAY CAMPANELLA -  Ikkyu-san (a chance meeting in a club. lots of red light beautiful costumes)

notes
the song always felt a bit negative for me but i did not want to make a negative video, i wanted something happy (and dare i to say empowering? that word has a lot of baggage). yes Polly is all of this people, all of this people are Polly.
if i had to pick one scene to show my idea of this video it would be the one with the girl with the bloody nose, first we just see that (the big city kicked her butt) but then we see her smile as she removes her hand from her face, happy and proud (and its not nessary just despite but also because, because she took it and still stands). i love the vaccuming scene.its the one scene with a bit of bitter irony but that too is part of exploring yourself and the world. also a bit of a cheat because this scene is important to me because of the in music video context it comes from "Polly made confession to her papa" is from Missy Elliot - Work it where she sings "wether you made the money working 9 to 5 or shaking your ass" T
his is not a tearful confession,
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Wadjda - warrior/worrier
 
DISCLAIMER: This is a fan video. I do not own the rights to any of the clips or music. For nonprofit entertainment purposes only.
 
Fandom: Wadjda
Music: Outlandish - warrior/worrier (lyrics) (cutted)
A small video (1:37) focusing on the relationship between Wadjda and her mom.
My fav part is the beginning (it´s a very short fanvid so maybe this is not so good? like i just got lazy and gave up on the rest? but it feels on point with what i want to say and i tried to vid to the rest but the lyrics there take a little turn that i felt don´t fit that well and what else i tried seemed to distract from the intention.)
I like how i kept in the canon/source material sound of Wadjas steps toward her mother, audio has a way of grounding things? make them feel more real?
The beginning paralleing her moms red dress (that she wants to win back her husband so he won´t marry another woman who can give him the son she can´t give him) and her bike - because the happy end is her mom giving up on it ( on her husband who refuse to take responsiblity for his decision blaming it on his family but also refusing to do anything against it) to buy her daughter the bike.   
I wanted to have her father init as he is a part of their family,relationship even if largly an absent one, so here he hugs her and is very proud of her winning but he is to busy with his new wedding to listen to her when he ask her why she is crying. 

Wadjda - keep the record on play
 
DISCLAIMER: This is a fan video. I do not own the rights to any of the clips or music. For nonprofit entertainment purposes only.
 
Fandom: Wadjda 
Music: Outlandish - Keep the record on play (lyrics) (cutted)

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Wadjda and her mom keep on playing, keep on living.
This was one of my first videos, i made it back in febuary, its short (1: 39).
The band was a big hit when i was in elementary school - so i associate them with (my) childhood that and the general sound of it fitted well to this movie, with the seemingly very basic story (girl wants a bike, enters a competion to win money for that, doesn´t get the money but finds out her mom rewards her efforts with the bike) and yes it is a simple story but the way it handles it characters and their relationship really make it worth a watch if you haven´t seen it yet.

i like the part before the lyrics start, the crackling noise and then the woosh, music loading up to be heard with her gaze fixated on the bike passing and running after it (to the woosh).
The scene where she pins her name to the family tree where only the male names are noted is a wonderful scene and i am happy with how i put it in: "But I hit back/I stopped being a slumdog long ago" "Get those twentyfour inch rims on rickshaws" with her name proudly on display.

edit: 17.7.2017 fixed a few gosthframes.

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