Festivid Reveal 1
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seekingferretI first watched Broad City while making Warning: Might Lead to Mixed Dancing, and I instantly loved the show's humor and the girls' BDE and also just how visibly, proudly Jewish the show was. I watched most of the first and second seasons, plus the pre-HBO stuff, and... the end result was all of two seconds in the vid. Like many things in that vid, I made a note that I wanted to revisit the show fannishly in more detail later. metatxt's Festivid request gave me the opportunity.
It was first of all an opportunity to just enjoy the rest of the show that I hadn't seen before, and there is some amazing stuff I hadn't seen. Like St. Mark's Place, the Season 2 finale, is a gorgeous piece of meandering storytelling, made all the more special because it takes place entirely on a single block where I lived for a year and a half and one of my favorite places in the world. I could watch that episode a million times. The chase scene through that shitty St. Mark's Market!!! The wig store!!!! Or the episode with Ilana's mom dickering with Canal Street purse merchants to grieve her mother's death had me literally rolling on the floor. The stuff the show does with Hilary Clinton and Trump and its engagement with our ambivalent and frustrated politics is so powerful and centering. And the stuff Season 4 does across multiple episodes with looking back at the beginning of Abbi and Ilana's friendship is thoughtful about the nature of friendship while still retaining the show's humor.
I wanted to make a vid that engaged with the over-the-topness of the show (the fact that, aselipie said to me, "Everything Ilana does is a meme"), and I wanted a shippy Abbi/Ilana vid, which conveniently is also what metatxt wanted. My first go-to for songs was the episode of LL Cool J's Lip Synch Battle where Abbi and Ilana (the real people, not the characters) competed. "And I Am Telling You" was one of Abbi's performances on that show, and it's an incredible performance the way she splits the middle between taking the song seriously and being just a little too into it. It is a dance with LKBVishness. It's a song from the musical Dreamgirls and it is... an epic emotional journey. I hope I have done it justice in this vid.
Thanks toelipie for beta!
Third on the Playlist (9 words) by seekingferret
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Broad City (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Abbi Abrams/Ilana Wexler
Additional Tags: Fanvid, so extra
Summary:
Edit Drat, blocked on youtube. I may file a counternotice, I will eventually find alternate hosting, but in the meantime:
Posted to Critical Commons here
metatxt's Festivid request gave me the opportunity.It was first of all an opportunity to just enjoy the rest of the show that I hadn't seen before, and there is some amazing stuff I hadn't seen. Like St. Mark's Place, the Season 2 finale, is a gorgeous piece of meandering storytelling, made all the more special because it takes place entirely on a single block where I lived for a year and a half and one of my favorite places in the world. I could watch that episode a million times. The chase scene through that shitty St. Mark's Market!!! The wig store!!!! Or the episode with Ilana's mom dickering with Canal Street purse merchants to grieve her mother's death had me literally rolling on the floor. The stuff the show does with Hilary Clinton and Trump and its engagement with our ambivalent and frustrated politics is so powerful and centering. And the stuff Season 4 does across multiple episodes with looking back at the beginning of Abbi and Ilana's friendship is thoughtful about the nature of friendship while still retaining the show's humor.
I wanted to make a vid that engaged with the over-the-topness of the show (the fact that, as
elipie said to me, "Everything Ilana does is a meme"), and I wanted a shippy Abbi/Ilana vid, which conveniently is also what metatxt wanted. My first go-to for songs was the episode of LL Cool J's Lip Synch Battle where Abbi and Ilana (the real people, not the characters) competed. "And I Am Telling You" was one of Abbi's performances on that show, and it's an incredible performance the way she splits the middle between taking the song seriously and being just a little too into it. It is a dance with LKBVishness. It's a song from the musical Dreamgirls and it is... an epic emotional journey. I hope I have done it justice in this vid.Thanks to
elipie for beta!Third on the Playlist (9 words) by seekingferret
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Broad City (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Abbi Abrams/Ilana Wexler
Additional Tags: Fanvid, so extra
Summary:
Abbi/Ilana 5ever. No, 6ever.
Edit Drat, blocked on youtube. I may file a counternotice, I will eventually find alternate hosting, but in the meantime:
Posted to Critical Commons here