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Aug. 29th, 2018 04:52 pmDear Equinox Vidder!
Thank you for making a vid for me.
My taste in music is almost ludicrously broad; I have vidded opera and speed metal and post-bop jazz and everything in between. Feel free to choose whatever music makes the most sense to you.
In general, I am not a demanding recipient. Be challenged and be inspired and make something that seems cool to you and I will be happy.
I was a little ambivalent about this theme: There are particular sorts of alternate realities and time travel stories I am interested in, but a lot that I am not. I would say that in general, I am interested in these stories when they are asking questions about choices made and not made, and the consequences of choices, and I am less interested in these stories when they are, as in typical portal fantasies, exploring the tension between mundane reality and exotic elsewhere. But that's just in general. I'm requesting The Wizard of Oz and I love the Wizard of Oz in spite of its portal fantasy frame, because the adventure story is so well constructed and fun.
Some notes on fandoms:
A) Fringe
Fringe is, after Star Wars, my most consistently enduring fandom. I love so many things about it, I love Olivia's toughness and commitment to the truth, I love Peter's playful energy, I love Astrid's dedication and curiosity, Walter's adorable monstrosity and enthusiasm for science, Broyle's knack for getting the best out of his people, Charlie's puppy loyalty to Olivia, Nina's determination to get shit done. And I love how committed Fringe always was to exploring the consequences of difficult choices to their limits, even when those choices were not made by the central characters. "Entrada" is one of my favorite episodes because it is suspended so beautifully on the bravery of Alt!Broyles's choice- the secondary version of a secondary character. I'm a little sour on the end of Season 4, but I'm into Season 5 as long as you don't try to trace it logically back to Season 4 or Season 3.
If you want to go AU on top of your Alternate Reality, I ship Nina Sharp and Leo McGarry from the West Wing so much and would love a vid celebrating their love.
B) Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
TSCC is such a surprisingly deep show. Built on the wreckage of a blockbuster franchise, it managed to tell some amazingly challenging stories about its heroes and their place in time and space. There are no characters I am not invested in;![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
ghost_lingering's remarkable "Losing Our Religions" testifies to just how many interesting characters there are to explore in TSCC.
I love TSCC's ridiculous false messianism, I love its questioning of the difficulty of leadership, I love its flirtations with various forms of transhumanism. My long-running safety vid request in this fandom if you can't figure out what else to vid is two minutes of Traffic Lights, that sublime scene in Vick's Chip where Cameron becomes Something More than just a robot. To Monty Python's "I Like Traffic Lights" if possible.
C) The Wizard of Oz
Dorothy's fearlessness about approaching new situations is what makes this movie tick. Not that she is not sensibly afraid when things threaten her, but that when she encounters beings and situations far outside of her norm, she moves into them without concern about the changes she pushes to effect. She reshapes Oz around her in such casual fashion, as if Oz and Munchkinland and the rest have no choice but to conform to her. Which I suppose could bear colonialist critique, but viewed within its own lense, the result is all the characters around her have beautifully legible arcs of transformation and discovery.
D) Back to the Future
I really do have a deep affection for this nonsensical movie. Its time travel doesn't make much sense, it has this weirdly constrained version of the butterfly effect where changing the timeline changes some things in substantial ways while barely changing others. No matter what happens, there will always be a skateboard chase scene. But Marty and Doc and the power of hard work and ingenuity will always save the day!
Thank you for making a vid for me.
My taste in music is almost ludicrously broad; I have vidded opera and speed metal and post-bop jazz and everything in between. Feel free to choose whatever music makes the most sense to you.
In general, I am not a demanding recipient. Be challenged and be inspired and make something that seems cool to you and I will be happy.
I was a little ambivalent about this theme: There are particular sorts of alternate realities and time travel stories I am interested in, but a lot that I am not. I would say that in general, I am interested in these stories when they are asking questions about choices made and not made, and the consequences of choices, and I am less interested in these stories when they are, as in typical portal fantasies, exploring the tension between mundane reality and exotic elsewhere. But that's just in general. I'm requesting The Wizard of Oz and I love the Wizard of Oz in spite of its portal fantasy frame, because the adventure story is so well constructed and fun.
Some notes on fandoms:
A) Fringe
Fringe is, after Star Wars, my most consistently enduring fandom. I love so many things about it, I love Olivia's toughness and commitment to the truth, I love Peter's playful energy, I love Astrid's dedication and curiosity, Walter's adorable monstrosity and enthusiasm for science, Broyle's knack for getting the best out of his people, Charlie's puppy loyalty to Olivia, Nina's determination to get shit done. And I love how committed Fringe always was to exploring the consequences of difficult choices to their limits, even when those choices were not made by the central characters. "Entrada" is one of my favorite episodes because it is suspended so beautifully on the bravery of Alt!Broyles's choice- the secondary version of a secondary character. I'm a little sour on the end of Season 4, but I'm into Season 5 as long as you don't try to trace it logically back to Season 4 or Season 3.
If you want to go AU on top of your Alternate Reality, I ship Nina Sharp and Leo McGarry from the West Wing so much and would love a vid celebrating their love.
B) Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
TSCC is such a surprisingly deep show. Built on the wreckage of a blockbuster franchise, it managed to tell some amazingly challenging stories about its heroes and their place in time and space. There are no characters I am not invested in;
ghost_lingering's remarkable "Losing Our Religions" testifies to just how many interesting characters there are to explore in TSCC.I love TSCC's ridiculous false messianism, I love its questioning of the difficulty of leadership, I love its flirtations with various forms of transhumanism. My long-running safety vid request in this fandom if you can't figure out what else to vid is two minutes of Traffic Lights, that sublime scene in Vick's Chip where Cameron becomes Something More than just a robot. To Monty Python's "I Like Traffic Lights" if possible.
C) The Wizard of Oz
Dorothy's fearlessness about approaching new situations is what makes this movie tick. Not that she is not sensibly afraid when things threaten her, but that when she encounters beings and situations far outside of her norm, she moves into them without concern about the changes she pushes to effect. She reshapes Oz around her in such casual fashion, as if Oz and Munchkinland and the rest have no choice but to conform to her. Which I suppose could bear colonialist critique, but viewed within its own lense, the result is all the characters around her have beautifully legible arcs of transformation and discovery.
D) Back to the Future
I really do have a deep affection for this nonsensical movie. Its time travel doesn't make much sense, it has this weirdly constrained version of the butterfly effect where changing the timeline changes some things in substantial ways while barely changing others. No matter what happens, there will always be a skateboard chase scene. But Marty and Doc and the power of hard work and ingenuity will always save the day!