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last updated 2/17/09

( COMPLETE (ish) LIST OF VIDS BY SWEETESTDRAIN )

DONE. At last. Now we can all forget this ever happened. (Until I make some deathly earnest and godawful depressing vid to the next movie, which... I cannot say won't possibly happen.)

Song: "Fever" by Neko Case
Source: Twilight (2008)

Oh Bella honey, no.

Download: right-click and save. [3:01, ~30mb, xvid codec]
OR watch ( the embedded version )
Notes: Thank you to renenet for being kind enough to look this vid over. But it's not her fault! All blame can be directed to sisabet for encouraging this madness. I, of course, had nothing to do with it.

( lyrics )

( implied spoilers for Children of Earth episode five )

Don't forget, sign-ups for strangefandom end tomorrow! There are some really interesting fandoms represented this round, and I'm excited to see what crazy (and yet, often entirely appropriate) synopses people come up with this time. If you like vids and/or guesswork and wild imaginings, you should totally check it out. See the comm's profile if you're not familiar with the project!

Oh, my youth. See icon. I loved those damn elves so much. I discovered tonight that all of the Elfquest comics are up online, and if I did not already have most of everything in graphic novel form, I would be going crazy right now. Talk about formative fannish experiences. At the tender young age of, what, nine? I was busily reading about wolves and trolls and magic and orgies and threesomes and gay elven soul-bonds. (P.S. Skywise still needs to be my boyfriend.) Does anyone else remember those comics?

I have had so much coffee today. I am so caffeinated that I can't move and keep forgetting to blink. This could be bad.

And while I am here, I just wanted to say, HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the lovely pipsqueaky! I meant to flash you some cleavage (...not mine, of course. um.) for this very special day, but I realized I have lost my camera cord. Oh well. *hugs you tight* I hope you had a splendid day!

Question A) Why must Edward Cullen have a perpetual jizzed-in-his-pants expression in every single clip I have of him?

Question B) Why am I vidding Twilight?

Question C) I am probably going to be putting a DVD of vids together for Vividcon this year. Would anyone be interested? They'll probably be a couple or five bucks each, depending on costs, and will contain somewhere around twenty vids (of which at least nineteen will not be Twilight). Pls indicate thoughts below.

Poll #1425976
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

Would you be interested in buying a collection of my vids at VVC this year?

Question D) ( Who will write this awesome Morgana/Gwen AU for me? )

It is WEDNESDAY, y'all. The deadline is FRIDAY NIGHT. Who else is in the full throes of freak-out?

Poll #1420803
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

Have you submitted your Vividcon premiering vid(s) yet?

Worst poll ever, y/y?

Now, off to hunt up some more caffeine. AND CYANIDE.

Insomnia.
Exhaustion.
Anxiety.
Paranoia.
Blurry vision.
Muscle aches.
Shortness of breath.
Hunger.
Thirst.
Hearing loss.

Vidding... in the words of Edward Cullen... it's like my own...personal brand of heroin...

Anyone else suffering any side effects?

Okay, I am approx. four years late to this party, and I have heard the second one is better. Regardless, I thought it was cute and I have a very urgent query:

Where is all the Lucy/Tumnus fic?

Don't look at me like that. I know she's like, five. I want to read the fic where Queen Lucy turns eighteen and discovers that the faun is still in love with her. I mean, Aslan Jesus Christ, look at them -- if she were, you know, not a tiny child, she would totally hit that.

...I'll just slink away now, shall I?

Just finished filling the timeline and am exporting first draft. Vividcon vids: three down, one to go! (Because apparently I am crazy, and submitting two vids to Premieres this year? I blame my team of enablers. It will be left to the VJs to decide which vid is more embarrassing deserving of being shown.)

So, that's going well at the moment. My Merlin big bang fic, on the other hand... ugh. Let's just say I need to listen to "Comin' Up From Behind" on repeat until it's actually true.

Speaking of VVC, the schedule went up last week! I am so excited about my vidshow, you guys. It is full of awesome (and loads of creepy), and I think all the vids will look great on the big screen. Aside from that, I have a rough idea of what panels and vidshows I'll be tackling -- Recruiter Vids, Timing is Everything, and All in the Family, for sure -- but mostly I think I'll be playing it by ear this year. What about y'all?

(Read: OMGVVCISSOONPLEASESQUEEWITHME)

David Carradine. God, that's sad. I have loved that man for ages. One of my favorite shows when I was little was Kung Fu: The Legend Continues. (Yes, I am a fetus.)

It might be in bad taste -- or at least slightly strange -- that this news made me immediately want to rewatch sisabet's Ring Them Bells, but then again, I am hard-pressed to think of any instance in which watching that particular vid would be a bad thing.

1. The trailer for the new Sherlock Holmes movie. WHAT.

2. ( My result for the Which Star Trek Character Are You? quiz. ) WHAT.

3. Adam Lambert and Kris Allen. WHAT.

4. I am graduating from college on Sunday. WHAT.

I'm embarking on a long-term multifandom vidding project -- something that won't see anyone's screen for at least a year or more, eep! -- and I'm in the gathering source stage. With this in mind, I have been noticing a conspicuous absence in the source I have found so far, and -- although I suspect that this, unfortunately, may be an issue with the genre itself -- I wanted to ask if any of y'all could help me out.

So, my question: what are some fantasy-genre live-action films (or TV shows/episodes) that feature black actors in prominent roles? Bonus if they are children (for the purposes of my vid) and/or are in a lead role.

Help! And thanks.

So, apparently the next few episodes of Kings won't air until later this summer. This is a Sign from God that I am not to make a Kings vid for VVC. Right? Considering the concept of the show... I am so amused. It is DESTINY. Like, the only thing better would be if random butterflies were to appear around my computer to distract me from clipping.

(Okay, I thought it was funny.)

I needed something to spread peanut butter with, so I was getting some dishes off my shelf. Unbeknownst to me, there was a fork sitting on the top dish; as I moved them, the fork came dislodged from its position, fell, and embedded itself in my big toe.

How is this my life?

Now, because I am really fucking hungry and not bleeding too badly, I am using the fork to spread peanut butter with.

So my roommate is watching Titanic, and I'm, um, occasionally viewing the screen over her shoulder. It just got to the scene where Jack Bristow the designer of the Titanic is telling the ship's captain that it's a "mathematical certainty" that the ship is going to sink. I asked my roommate, "Is it weird that I find these guys more interesting than the main characters?"

"No, it makes sense," she says. "You like Star Wars and Star Trek and things like that."

"What do you mean?" I ask, not following that thought process at all.

"Well. All of the main characters in those are the people driving the ship."

And, you know? She's totally right.

- Stumbled in at 2 in the morning after a night out with my ol' hometown BFFs. (We failed at being promiscuous and plastered, but won at beer, greasy pizza, and bitching about the US version of Life on Mars.)

- Slept.

- Watched the season (SEASON DAMNIT) finale of Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles. Cried once.*

- Watched the season finale of Friday Night Lights. Cried six times. (No, really. I counted.)**

- Finished a full draft of my Club Vivid vid. Next week's project: make it not suck, then upload!

ETA (I forgot!): - Received a randomly drawn Dreamwidth invite and spent some time poking around. Looks interesting! I'm not switching over for a good while (if ever) but I might cross-post if I can figure out how. If you'd like to keep track of me, I'm sweetestdrain there, too. (I figure my username is so crappy that no one would recognize me by anything else.)

- Realised I have three or four more vid ideas for VVC than I can conceivably vid ever. (Including a song for John Connor! Except it's more a song from John Connor's perspective about everyone else around him, which -- is fitting, actually.)

- Made arrangements with a friend to go apartment-hunting in Bloomington after I graduate. Curious: are there any cool fans in Bloomington, IN or thereabouts? No guarantees that we'd be able to meet up ever, as I am a notorious hermit, but I am curious.

- Searched hopelessly for a vid song for *mumblemumble*

- Did absolutely no homework. Shiiit.

- Drank some tea.

- Stared at my laptop screen.

- Posted to LJ and attempted to hide the lack of actual content in a snazzy list form.


* Not a spoiler. I am notorious for my overly emotional TV-viewing.
** Also not a spoiler. But for perspective, the average FNL episode only makes me cry approx. 3-5 times.

I just got into motherfucking GRAD SCHOOL.

So, every so often I log into my ancient OkCupid account just for the hilarity. Here are excerpts of some of the best messages I've received, for your mocking pleasure. (I used to have a lot more, but I think I got sane and deleted a bunch a while back.)

( Do you desire to serve a master? )