#festivids 2021

[mmhm-vids]

Fandom: Vampires vs. the Bronx

Vidder: eruthros

Music: Working Poor by Fantastic Negrito (edited)

Summary: “Gentrification is the consumption of the working class”

Warnings: canon typical violence, gun violence, depiction of police

[beatrice-otter]

Festivids is live!

As usual, there are a LOT of really good vids, go check them out!

Here are some ones I liked:

The Only Way to See Fandom: Amaury Guichon - Fandom Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Additional Tags: Fanvids, Baking, Chocolate, Pastries, The Artistic Process Summary:

What you feel like, planning a sky.

A fanvid of Amaury Guichon (the chocolate guy).

Lonely Day Fandom: Andor (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Characters: Cassian Andor, Maarva Andor, Bix Caleen, Mon Mothma, Vel Sartha, Luthen Rael, Kino Loy, Cinta Kaz, Dedra Meero, Arvel Skeen, Karis Nemik, Brasso the Ferrixian (Star Wars), Syril Karn, Kleya Marki Additional Tags: Fanvids, Angst, Rebellion, Depictions of Police, Family, authoritarianism, Comrades in Arms, Embedded Video, Physical Triggers, brief shot of auditory torture, ends hopefully Summary:

From the loneliest day, new growth springs. Oppression sows the seeds of its own destruction. Featuring the whole Andor cast of characters but mainly focused on Cassian.

Come Forth Now Fandom: Andor (TV) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Cassian Andor, Luthen Rael, Bix Caleen, Maarva Andor, Brasso the Ferrixian (Star Wars), Vel Sartha, Cinta Kaz, Arvel Skeen, Kleya Marki, Mon Mothma, Kino Loy, Karis Nemik, Taramyn Barcona, Clem Andor, Syril Karn, Ruescott Melshi Additional Tags: Rebellion, Hope, some explosions, Police images, Family, Friendship, Fanvids, Embedded Video Summary:

And this is all we need And this is where we start This is the day we greet This is the day, no other

Boys Keep Swinging Fandom: As You Like It - Shakespeare Rating: Not Rated Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Rosalind | Ganymede (As You Like It) Additional Tags: Fanvids, Embedded Video, Crossdressing, Genderbending, Queer Themes Summary:

When you're a boy Other boys check you out You get a girl These are your favorite things When you're a boy

Drink You Sober Fandom: Bound (1996) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Corky/Violet (Bound) Summary:

'I want to feel you'

We Can Be Anything Fandom: Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Characters: Evelyn Wang, Joy Wang | Jobu Tupaki, Waymond Wang

How to make a perfect Hanukkah movie… Fandom: Hallmark Movies - Fandom, Hitched for the Holidays (2012), Double Holiday (2019), Mistletoe & Menorahs (2019), Love Lights Hanukkah! (2020), Eight Gifts of Hanukkah (2021), Hanukkah on Rye (2022) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Additional Tags: Fanvids, Hanukkah Summary:

…(according to the Hallmark Channel)

Oh No Not Now [Fanvid] Fandom: Philadelphia Story (1940) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Macaulay Connor/C.K. Dexter Haven/Tracy Lord, Macaulay Connor/C.K. Dexter Haven, Macaulay Connor/Tracy Lord, Macaulay Connor/Elizabeth Imbrie, C.K. Dexter Haven/Tracy Lord, C.K. Dexter Haven/Elizabeth Imbrie Summary:

What do I do with this?

The Hunted Fandom: Prey (2022) Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death Characters: Naru (Prey 2022), Sarii (Prey 2022), Feral Predator (Prey 2022), Bear (Prey 2022) Additional Tags: Action, Hunters & Hunting, Animal Death, Animal Attack Summary:

The hunter becomes the hunted.

[vid] out with a bang Fandom: Robin and Marian (1976), Robin Hood - All Media Types Rating: Mature Warnings: Major Character Death Relationships: Maid Marian/Robin Hood, Little John/Maid Marian/Robin Hood Characters: Maid Marian, Robin Hood, Little John, Sheriff of Nottingham Additional Tags: Fanvids, Embedded Video, Character Study, Canonical Character Death, Canon-Typical Violence, Implied/Referenced Self-Harm, Implied/Referenced Suicide, Suicide Summary:

I'm way to young to lie here forever, I'm way too old to try, so whatever...

A Marian character study.

magnetic [VID] Fandom: Romeo+Juliet (1996) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Mercutio (Romeo and Juliet) Additional Tags: gender feelings, Fighting Feelings, your crush keeps falling in love with girls feelings, honestly vidding this made me want enemies to lovers fic for mercutio and tybalt, let's skip the sad ending and just be angry together, Fanvids Summary:

Mercutio's been magnetic since he was a baby.

Trust+Fall Fandom: Romeo+Juliet (1996), Romeo And Juliet - Shakespeare Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Major Character Death Relationships: Juliet Capulet/Romeo Montague Additional Tags: Romcom turned tragedy, Self-Harm, Suicide, Physical Triggers, Depictions of Police Summary:

Juliet met an awesome guy at a big party her parents threw and fell instantly in love! With a meet-cute like that, what could go wrong? (Turns out: literally everything.)

VID: I'm That Queer Fandom: Janelle Monáe Music Videos, Janelle Monae (Musician) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Jane (Dirty Computer), Cindi Mayweather Additional Tags: Physical Triggers, Fast cutting, flashing lights, Glitch effects, Queerphobia, Depictions of Police, Fanvids Summary:

A fanvid of some of Janelle Monáe's Music Videos, focusing on their Cindi Mayweather and Jane characters.

Physical triggers: extensive fast cutting, extensive glitch effects, flashing lights. Other warnings: authoritarian state, queerphobia, depictions of police.

[kuwdoravids]

Year in Vidding Review: 2023

Year-end round-up/meme: 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022

April What (Yennefer of Vengerberg) The Witcher Netflix Making of "What" commentary: do it for the process (and for Yennefer!) The Witcher Netflix Mr. Brightside (Jaskier/Geralt/Yennefer) The Witcher Netflix

June Skipping Stones (Fringilla Vigo) The Witcher Netflix

August In Our Wake (Vilgefortz/Geralt) The Witcher Netflix

December [Festivid Assignment] - redacted until reveals! [Festivid Treat] - redacted until reveals!

Review questions under the cut.

Random process notes:

Well, I have been kidding for *counts* 16 years now?? I guess I kind of know what I’m doing when I have a good idea of what a vid is like inside my head. Which is why most of these vids took less than a week to make and none of them were on my actual to-make list that I had written down at the beginning of the year. Flighty ADHD/anxiety brain just latching onto the feelings of the moment and zooming across the timeline until I can call it done. I think I started two non-witcher vids during the year before Festivids but the witcher hyperfixation remains too strong. Everything else falling to the WIP piles. I tried to finish my Moonhaven vid but couldn’t focus. Tried to finish my Green Knight and Blade vids but no, my brain was more interested in writing +70k of fic this year, aha.

Overall thoughts:

HEY I made Festivid stuff! I can vid-non Witcher things! I was really worried there that my brain was just forever stuck on Witcher but! I did it.

Anyway. I really love vidding The Witcher Netflix and keep building up my clip gallery for easy reference for when I can settle in for the next witcher vid. I keep fuck up my exports though because I’m doing everything too quickly and not paying enough attention. So there’s some export-related things and a few minor clips I would have changed if I weren’t caught up in a in a rush. But overall I’m very, very happy with my crop of vids this year.

Favorite Vid:

Most of the time I have upwards of 8-16 vids a year and it’s easier to pick a favorite. When I do so few… they’re all my favorite. For different reasons.

For my Yennefer vid it’s my favorite editing.

For Mr. Brightside it’s my favorite song choice and tone (this is a cover in the style of The B-52s) for Jaskier.

My Fringilla vid — it’s my favorite thing that came together from all of the season footage of her character from seasons 1 and 2 and the song just makes me so happy that it tied everything together for her.

For the Vilgefortz/Geralt vid, oh it’s my favorite because it’s my pure id, heh, and my favorite build/pacing of all my vids.

My festivids are my favorite because I have been wanting to make things them for awhile now but hadn’t had the focus. And then I did!

Hardest to make:

The only thing that was hard was me exporting shitty stuff and not realizing it until days or weeks after I uploaded and crossposted. Anyway. I took my time with my festivid exports so those should look pretty good. Most successful:

They are all successful in my heart. I love them.

My best vid:

Probably my Fringilla or Vilgefortz/Geralt vid. I’m so happy how they turned out.

Most fun vid:

Mr. Brightside. I love playing with Jaskier’s humor with the song choice and the transitions.

Things I learned in 2023:

Mmm, I am still worked up about my fic WIPs and life anxieties that I wasn’t able to do more vidding things that I wanted. As for the projects themselves, I learned that it’s very handy to have a standing clip gallery all labelled and ready for when I want to make my next Witcher Netflix vid.

In 2024:

I always want to be ambitious in the new year but always end up wandering in completely unexpected directions. In any case I would love to finish my Moonhaven vid and get my brain in order to find the last of the Black Sails source I need for a vid idea that has been eating my brain for 4 months now. I also have my Philippa Eilhart Witcher vid I want to make as well as a season 3 Witcher Netflix vid too that’s taking up space in my brain.

[eruthros]

Vid: this is how silly men perish - The Green Knight

This is a task that requires patience, calmness, and strategy.

Also available for download on the AO3.

Vidder: me! Film: The Green Knight (2021) Made for Festivids 2021.

Contains: slapstick, more skulls than you'd expect

While I'm posting some vids from 2021, I'm also super proud of this silly Festivids treat!

[cupidsbower]

Festivids 2023 reeeecs

What a great year it's been for festivids. There are some stonkingly good vids!

Here is the Masterlist. As always, my recs below are just those I liked most, but there are a lot of other fab vids that are worth a watch as well.

I made six vids this year. A bit astonishing really. I think three of them are really obviously by me, but the rest maybe not so much. Anyway, if you can guess, the guessing post is here: Guess the Vidder.

Two fantastic vids were gifted to me:

Fireflies - Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2021) - Gen

I watched this movie on a whim one day, and it was sweet and genuine and funny and I loved it way more than I thought I would. This vid captures that perfectly. It's a delight.

Been Caught Stealing - Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023) - Gen

This has everything you could want from a D&D vid: it's action-packed, funny, and captures the chaotic energy of the movie really well.

Highly Recommended

And Do It Again - 开端 | Reset (TV 2022) - Teen

Fantastic time-loop vid, which ramps up the tension in the most delightful way.

I'm Gonna Make You Love Me - Christine (1983) - Teen

Christine is the perfect girlfriend. Such a creepy-great premise.

I'm That Queer - Janelle Monáe Music Videos - Teen

Spectacular, surreal, gorgeously edited.

Les Fleurs - Gake no Ue no Ponyo | Ponyo - Gen

This is so lush and dramatic, and sweeps you along in the best way.

a vulture feeds upon that heart forever - Moby Dick - Herman Melville - Mature

All the Moby Dick vids are great - who knew it would be the power fandom of the fest? But while they are all worth a watch, this one is my fave. The soundtrack is lush, and the visuals are over the top, and full of drama. The sources are mixed so beautifully.

Here it Goes Again - Moby Dick - Herman Melville - Teen

This is also a spectacular multi-source feast for the eyes.

Everything I Do - Cocaine Bear (2023) - Teen

LOL. This is just exactly what it sounds like, edited to absolute perfection. The joke couldn't be better executed.

Do What I Do - Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023) - Teen

Wonderful character study of Holga.

Tusk - The Silence of the Lambs (1991) - Mature

Clarice is showcased to her best here, and it's gripping.

magnetic - Romeo+Juliet (1996) - Teen

Mercutio vid and it's so much fun!

Recommended

Hard Times - Star Trek: Lower Decks (Cartoon) - Teen

Flirting & Fighting - 新龍門客棧 | Dragon Inn (1992) - Teen

The Only Way to See - Amaury Guichon - Fandom - Gen

Nothing in My Head - Dropout TV RPF - Gen

Feel Better - Silo (TV) - Teen

The Eye of the Tiger - RRR (2022) - Teen

satisfaction - The Quick and the Dead (1995) - Teen

Disaster Party - Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023) - Gen

How to make a perfect Hanukkah movie… - Hallmark Movies - Gen

Uja - Slash/Back (2022) - Teen

Didn't Come to Play - Women's sprinting - Gen

The Shape of You - The Pirate (1948) - Gen

The Adventures of Priscilla, Dancing Queen of the Desert - The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert (1994) - Teen

#teamwhale - Moby Dick - Herman Melville - Gen

Queequeg and I - Moby Dick - Herman Melville - Teen

Boys Keep Swinging - As You Like It - Shakespeare - Gen

Dream Girl Evil - Last Night in Soho (2021) - Explicit

Cat Apostle, Conqueror of Asthma, Chosen One Of The Light - 开端 | Reset (TV 2022) - Gen

Andor: Come Forth Now - Andor (TV) - Gen

Bad Reputation - For All Mankind (TV 2019) - Gen

put on a show - The Wheel of Time (TV) - Teen

Upside Down - The Woman King (2022) - Teen

Always On My Mind - Strange Way Of Life (Short Film 2023) - Teen

Trust+Fall - Romeo+Juliet (1996) - Teen

[t-eyla]

Pangxie Week Collection

It's Pangxie week, but work has been a shitshow, so I won't get around to making anything new. I've made things in the past, though, so here's my Pangxie week collection!

FIC: AS YOU WERE

First tombs fic I posted. First English language Pangxie on the AO3, which I will never not be smug about. 3k, explicit, old married men being old and married. The fic that @achray1 says convinced her to ship it.

ART: IN NEED OF SAVING STILL

A redraw of the UN hurt/comfort forehead touch scene with the LTR actors. Not, as I say in the Artist's Note, to replace the UN actors, but to suggest that this has probably happened at least twice, if not more often than that. It was a treat for @frith-in-tombs in the Sundial 2021 exchange.

VID: DEAR FUTURE HUSBAND

Probably the fluffiest vid I have ever made. A Festivids gift for @condnsdmlk, who asked for Pangxie, so Pangxie I delivered. Making this vid was a delight, and I really enjoy rewatching it.

That's it for Pangxie specifically! I have much Pangzi and Wu Xie interaction in my fic, but all my other stuff is Iron Triangle OT3. Anyway, happy Pangxie week!

[januarium]

Dear Vidder (Festivids 2023)

I'm so excited to see whatever you make! I tend to most love vids with a bit of pace. I love happy, I love angry, I love funny, but really I'm into most styles of vid. Pop, rock, indie, and musicals are favourite music styles, but again I love to be surprised.

I love ensembles and friendships very much! A character study is also always a delight. Mostly I just love vids, so I'm sure I'll be happy with whatever you do.

Dropout TV [UMBRELLA] - I love these goobers so much! My favourite Dropout shows are: Game Changer, Breaking News, Dirty Laundry, Total Forgiveness, and Um, Actually! (I haven't seen a lot of D20 yet but I loooooved Mentopolis). I would so love a chaos and friendship vid for this. Or an Izzy vid. Or an Erika vid! Or so many things. A Grant and Ally vid would also be great.

The Great Pottery Throwdown (TV) - This show is such a total joy. Even moreso now I'm getting into pottery myself. I'm love anything for this, though I feel like Keith has to cry at least once or it doesn't count.

Hook (1991) [SAFETY] - RU! FI! OOOOO! I love this film so fucking much. Here for ensemble or family or pirate-centric or just Rufio being amazing, truly there are so many directions this could be taken.

Kevin Can Fuck Himself (TV 2021) - Show of my heeeeaaart! I would LOVE a Patty character study or a Patty/Alison vid so much. Or anything, but those are the things I most yearn for.

Knives Out (Movie Series) - I just love these films, here for anything.

Let's Plays - The McElroy Family (Web Series) - Ahh there are so many options here! I could go for anything here, there's so many options, but I have a particular fondness for the drift% series they've been doing this year, with Super Mario World and Donkey Kong. 

My Brother My Brother and Me (TV) [SAFETY] - I love this show very much, it's just such a joy. Shenigans, please!

Polite Society (2023) [SAFETY] - What a truly excellent movie. It's so funny and badass and heart-warming and brilliant. It's probably clear by now I love friendship and shenanigans and siblings and this has all those in spades.

Happy vidding!

[periru3]

Grace Kelly - a Catch Me if You Can Fanvid Made for @findmeinthealps for Festivids 2021 AO3 Link

[actiaslunaris]

wheels revolving - a The Fountain (2006) fanvid - gen

The nature of enlightenment is cyclical.

Song is “Karma Slave” by Splashdown. Contains: depictions of racism (not the focus of the vid), some blood and self-tattooing, stuttery cuts, flashes, and shifts of dark to light. Made for mithborien, for Festivids 2021.

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Money (Makes the World Go Around) - Muppets Treasure Island vid by kaydeefalls

That clinking, clanking sound can make the world go 'round. For Festivids 2021.

a.k.a. the Cabaret/Muppets mashup we all need in these trying times.

[ryfkah]

”Chandelier,” made for aurumcalendula, Festivids 2021

on AO3

on DW

[eruthros]

Vid: How Death Comes - The Green Knight

Never forget what happened here, upon this Christmas day.

On the AO3 with lyrics and notes.

Vidder: me! Song: How Death Comes by the Mediæval Bæbes Film: The Green Knight (2021) Made for Festivids 2021.

Contains: blood, beheading, death, fear of death, skeletons

[sweeter-than]

Shake It Out Star Trek: Picard Elnor & Soji Ashi & Agnes Jurati & Jean-Luc Picard & Raffi Musiker & Seven of Nine & Cristóbal Rios 3m45s contains: drugs, alcohol, themes of grief and trauma for colls in festivids 2021 I'm ready to hope.

link on AO3 includes download

[aurumcalendula]

I Already Like You | The Yin-Yang Master: Dream of Eternity

made for @rhea314 for Festivids 2021!

AO3 | DW

[such-heights]

We Got The World by such_heights fandom: Dimension 20 RPF content notes: none music: Icona Pop summary: They say, "You're a freak," when we're having fun, Say, "You must be high," when we're spreading love. Say hi, intrepid heroes! download: at dreamwidth notes: For growlery in Festivids 2021. Clips from Fantasy High, The Unsleeping City, Mice and Murder, Misfits and Magic, The Seven, Shriek Week, and the trailer of A Starstruck Odyssey. Most Dimension 20 content is on their paid service Dropout, but they also have a lot of free stuff up on dimension20show if you're curious! It's a very good time. Also on AO3.

[periru3]

American Coach - a Ted Lasso Fanvid made for josette-arnauld for Festivids 2021 AO3 link