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GUYS how great was that show! SO GREAT! I have stayed up too late chatting and am wiped, but I am still buzzing and happy with how awesome the whole show was. There was not a single real dud for me, and I think it's because as I said after, even though not every vid was a vid of MY heart, it felt to me clearly that every vid came from SOMEONE'S heart.

My own heart-favorites were (unsurprisingly) sisabet's Clark/Lex vid in which they HAVE A BABY TOGETHER (it's not like that's straight from my id or anything cough), as well as the fantastic vid Satisfied for Underground by serrico, which was just a solid, straight-to-the-gut punch of a vid. Brilliant. I also really liked hollywoodgrrl's Aphrodisiac which spoke to my own headcanon of the Force as something vaguely scary you can turn on but you can't necessarily turn off, and also gwyn and cesperanza's Hallo Spaceboy Captain America vid, and milly's awesome The Martian vid to Pompeii.

But honestly, this year it's like picking from an embarrassment of riches. I can't wait to discuss ALL the vids tomorrow and I am full of glee. \o/ So much awesome Star Wars, all different! Jessica Jones! Scooby Doo! Dragon Age! haha I literally wept with laughter at the Sims vid. Such a terrific variety of types of vids also.

And here is MY vid, which will shock ALL OF YOU A LOT by being a Harry Potter vid (Draco POV, and Harry/Draco in my own head anyway).



Download link on the AO3, and tumblr post! Heaps of thanks to Ces for betaing, and as always all fb loved. :)

And now I am going to fall into bed! YAY

Yay, Vividcon premieres show! You will all be SHOCKED TO LEARN that I made a Fast & Furious vid and even MORE shocked that it contains BRIAN and DOM and also SOME CARS.



My Vividcon 2015 premiere! Download and streaming on the AO3, all comments loved there or here. ♥

[VID] The Miracle (9 words) by astolat
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Fast and the Furious Series
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Brian O'Conner/Dominic Toretto
Characters: Brian O'Conner, Dominic Toretto
Summary:

A Brian/Dom vid set to The Miracle (of Joey Ramone) by U2.

Wot I wrote, the full list: ( 20 stories (124K words), 3 vids, in Sherlock, POI, Captain America/MCU, Dragon Age, and Rome )

And then there was also Blood of Tyrants, which was 150K words and kicked my ass. Yes, I fell into the classic blunder and got involved in a land war in Asia. *hangs head*

Looking it over, it's interesting (and sad) to see how thoroughly Carter's death killed POI for me. I was writing like a fiend in that fandom, and then boom. I kept watching through to the end of that season, but all the words just went away. There have been things like that for me before -- with Supernatural, Sam not saving Dean in S4 killed the show for me too. I wonder what it is -- I don't even really care about canon very much and I don't have a lot of confidence in television consistency given all the massive constraints on the medium, but a feeling of, they have fundamentally broken the show for me?

Anyway, I haven't posted anything in a bit because Dragon Age, and also I am laboring away on Temeraire #9 and promo for Uprooted, and also two separate DA:I stories that are insisting on turning huge, but hopefully I'll knock one of those off soon. I am almost done with my Dorian-romancing, dragon-slaying rogue archer Trevelyan playthrough. It's been fun, but I've had a tough time with the RP. I wanted him to be a sincere Andrastian but with a sense of humor, and it turns out, that's kind of hard! A lot of the "believer" choices feel inconsistent with the cracking-a-joke choices, and tbh, I really don't like the "noble" male voice at all.

OK and now I am off to play Minecraft with my little one for a bit -- our new game! I hope it does not eat me like DA, haha.

My and cesperanza's premiering vid from the Escapade 2014 vid show! :D Bigger streaming and HQ download versions posted to the AO3!

[Vid] Big Spender (17 words) by astolat, Speranza
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Person of Interest (TV)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Harold Finch/John Reese
Characters: Harold Finch, John Reese
Additional Tags: vid, Constructed Reality, Alternate Universe, Hooker AU ETA: But Not Really AU, Canon In John's Heart
Summary:

The minute you walked in the joint…

My vid from the premieres show at Vividcon 2013! 

[Vid] When I Ruled The World (423 words) by astolat
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Person of Interest (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Harold Finch/John Reese
Characters: Harold Finch, John Reese, Nathan Ingram, Kara Stanton, Jessica Arndt
Additional Tags: Video, Fanvids, Artist: Coldplay, Viva La Vida
Summary:

Be my mirror, my sword and shield.

Am home! Baby is asleep! And I have just posted the detailed annotations and related works for the vid, which has links to all the very happymaking stuff you see, with a few more tossed in for good measure. \o/

I alas don't have a con report in me these days, but I just wanted to say, I am so happy I made it to Vividcon again, and so happy I got to see and hug many of you out there, and see more of your amazing work and hear your amazing thoughts.

It was such the renewal for me of happiness and love in this community. I'm pretty continuously tired these days (in a happy way! just tired), and so I post even less than I ever did and am even more idle in chat, so I don't get to "talk" to many of you, and I miss you all and fandom as a whole, so it was really joyful to be able to immerse myself again.

There's a lot of fannish stuff that I've committed to that feels like work and is often stressful and hard, and sometimes, you know, you kind of feel like "why am I doing this?" and the answer is you guys and how awesome you all are and all the fantastic things you do that just fill me with love.

♥

DreamHost (not Dreamwidth!) which is where I've had my fanfic/vid site intimations.org hosted has been having some serious issues both with downtime and security, so as soon as they come up from this latest outage, I'm going to do a big push and move the rest of my stories over to AO3, and then move the site itself to a new provider and probably revamp the whole thing in the process.

So, er, if you're subscribed to me on AO3, sorry for the approaching spam! I'll probably do it over the course of a few days.

(Also if you have a provider you really like, hit me with a referral link in comments! :)