I started learning continental style knitting today and ?!?!?! I feel like I’ve just unlocked the secrets of the universe after five years of just assuming I’d always find knitting slow and difficult compared to crochet! My life has been a lie!

大相撲!

Found the banzuke from the last time I saw sumo in person.

Our yokozunae on route to the Royal Albert Hall (to view the venue for the first time and witness its tranformation into a Tokyo sumo ring) when Onosato spots his likeness on a poster for the tournament! Now, Hoshoryu is on the hunt for his!

The sumo wrestlers loose in London pictures are all a delight

Festivids signups close in about ten hours! Sign up at the AO3: archiveofourown.org/collections/... Countdown: www.timeanddate.com/countdown/la...

i draw cat studies for practice sometimes, including during downtime at vidukon! i forgot about him until now but here's duncan

Guess who was the bravest boy at the Small Animal Hospital today? He is fine — It turns out he is likely fully blind, but multiple vets agreed with a diagnosis of Very Good Boy.

Trekkies: if you see this post your first experience with Star Trek. Saturday morning cartoons, awww yeah. I don't think I realised there *was* a live action version until considerably later.

Happy Tour de France Eve to those who celebrate! Ready for three weeks of bicycle racing, roadside fans, and helicopter shots of the French countryside!

Panicked to pick see 4 missed calls & voicemails from my dad, who didn’t answer when I phoned back. Checked the voicemail to find… him singing a song to his cat off in the background. “🎶 Little boy stinky cat, what a little stinky cat. 🎶” He phoned back to say he’d apparently butt dialled 8 people.

THIS IS SO GOOD

For VidUKon's GPOY (here something like "show us a vid that is very you") Premiere, I vidded a city: Kyoto. The city of my memories, and the city (real and imagined) as it has been portrayed by animators across 22 different sources from various genres. On AO3: archiveofourown.org/works/66092002

Silhouettes - my themed premiere for VidUKon, A Scavenger's Reign Vid, to "We Will Become Silhouettes" by The Postal Service. www.youtube.com/watch?v=liLO... On AO3: archiveofourown.org/works/65918692

He don't start shit, but he can tell you how it ends. Vigiliate Shit - A Nirvana in Fire vid for VidUKon. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPSu... On AO3: archiveofourown.org/works/65918434

Every year I remember too late that I’d love a Eurovision vid challenge — vids to songs that have been Eurovision entries, from any year.

ilu random wood pigeon flying down the street on google street view

VidUKon vids uploaded! 🎉 Will I be smart and do my youtube uploads and AO3 posts at the same time?

On further consideration - gpoy:

I have complete timelines on two different vids! I don't really think I could pass either off as a gpoy, so time to flip a coin to decide on my VidUKon premiere? (Then post the other one now and use it for Vidder's Choice?)

At some point I worked out that today marks the point where I will have spent exactly half my life living outside the US. I don't know what you'd call that - half-lifetime overseas anniversary? Anyways, so that's a thing.

It's #festivids reveals! I doubled my combined previous festivids output and made three vids this year! Thread with individual vid posts to follow:

This was for meeee! I'm still just so amazed and impressed by this spoken-word vid!

This Babylon 5 vid in festivids is so excellent, I love it: archiveofourown.org/collections/...

Happy Festivids day! I got two (TWO!) amazing vids for Contact, one of my all time fav movies - I love that I got two vids that are so different from each other, and both so perfect for the movie (VIDS, man! This is why vids are so great!)

I had a dream last night that the first vid in the festivids collection was an epic, 12-minute long constructed reality Babylon 5 vid. So I know what I'm requesting next year.

Happy Festivids Eve everyone! It's the day before we get OVER 100 new fanvids!! ✨ archiveofourown.org/collections/...

It was good of the UCI Track Champions League to schedule an earlier start time today so that the track cycling finished just in time to switch over to the PWHL season opener.

Ed Balls

Introduce yourself with four video games.

🌱🌿😐🌱🌿

It's #Silo Season 2 day! Here is my Silo vid from Fanworks last year: "Same As It Ever Was" archiveofourown.org/works/52141252 youtu.be/dXAIPLXRMSY

🌱🌿🍄🌱🍄🌱🌿

In case anyone needs this right now: a baby pygmy hippopotamus has been born at the Edinburgh Zoo. Her name is Haggis. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Am I really going to attempt to edit together four different versions of a song for a vid? (signs point to yes)

"We Like to Party" - a Farscape vid that I made for VidUKon 2024! Because the Vengabus is coming! archiveofourown.org/works/56997862