Oh hey it’s been ten years today since this absolute icon was released youtu.be/WDZJPJV__bQ?...

We need to get back to proper TV seasons: 92 x 45 minute episodes, like season 2 of A Country Practice. If cast, crew and writers aren’t all desperately sick and being hospitalised with exhaustion by the final stretch, I don’t want to know.

Festivids is live! We have 128 vids in 85 fandoms! archiveofourown.org/collections/...

The best cloud formations are almost always seen from space, and I love a good classic marine cold air outbreak. Here is a storm from late December last year; they are pretty much ubiquitous in the winter in both hemispheres so I only had to scroll back a bit to find a really nice-looking one.

to be in: generic tropical rainfall. I love how warm humid air feels on my skin, I love the cooling effect the rain and clouds have, and I love that it's dramatic without (usually) being dangerous.

OK I will do the meme, and start with 1/3 of answer for free -- one of the ways to win my heart is to ask me question 29

🤌🤌 now it better win 'em

Stopped by NPR and found myself a perfectly sized desk.

I'm watching a video of a live performance from 2004 and there are multiple comments on how good the video looks for something "so old"

I am once again pointing out that Holly Hunter is the same height as me, a normal sized person, and this is how normal people sit. It’s taller people who are weird.

remembering I can do hard things (stop watching my WIP vid on repeat and go to fucking bed)

New favourite example of scalar implicature

We're looking for a pinch hitter! Fandoms: Being Human (UK) Campion (TV 1989) Pauline Ferrand-Prévot RPF Jet Lag: The Game Dimension 20: The Seven Matilda (1996) [SAFETY] North and South (2004) Elementary (TV) The Residence (US TV 2025) Sister Act (Movies) This pinch hit is due January 28th.

We are rewatching Hacks and I have thoughts! 1. Deborah is the closest I currently have to an active blorbo, but I have no vid ideas. The idea of vidding a half-hour comedy is massively intimidating even though this show is gorgeous and has some heavily stylised cinematography and performances.

This is a fund for families in south Minneapolis who can't work due to ICE. My cousin who lives in south Minneapolis and is active in the community sent it to me; it is legit. Please donate if you can! givebutter.com/H6lQkA

Film noir goddess. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

cinematographers, won't you think of the vidders with your ridiculously shallow depths of field

We're looking for a pinch hitter! Fandoms: 飞狐外传 | Side Story of Fox Volant (TV 2022) Short films directed by 流云蕊 | Liu Yun Rui [UMBRELLA] [SAFETY] 双镜 | Couple of Mirrors (TV) 云泽传 | Legend of Yunze (TV) [SAFETY] 华山论剑：东邪西毒 | Duel On Mount Hua: Eastern Heretic and Western Venom (TV 2025)

If you see someone wearing a band t-shirt, ask them a question about the band. If they can’t answer correctly, you get to keep the t-shirt until someone asks you a question about the band that you can’t answer. The person with the most band t-shirts when the earth is destroyed is the winner.

We're looking for a pinch hitter! Fandoms: ชาย | Shine (TV 2025) Challengers (Movie 2024) [SAFETY] 紫陌红尘 | Kill to Love (TV) Elementary (TV) Killjoys (TV) Bodies Bodies Bodies [SAFETY] Conclave (2024) [SAFETY] I Saw the TV Glow (2024) [SAFETY] Disco Elysium (Video Game) The Exorcist (TV)

I realised it’s been months since I read fiction. I’d be a writer/historian with a photographic memory and occasional power of prophecy

I’m reading reading Free by Lea Ypi and it is as excellent as I’d expected based on an interview I watched with her earlier this year. It’s a personal memoir/family history—she is Albanian. Cw for cat harm though ☹️

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

Love to watch an Apple TV sci-fi show in 2025 and say "oh no, I'm worried about the goat"

Spoilers for Pluribus- - - - - I shouted, “she’s thinking about how to write her character changing gender!!”

billions of dollars and everlasting fame to whoever figures out how to stop webpages from loading new elements just as you’re about to click on something

As an FYI to people thinking about going to VidUKon: I’ve booked my hotel and the rates are much less than the official quote given to concom. Refundable rates for one room with two adults with breakfast were £99-£126 per night for Fri-Mon.

#MusicAdvent day 25 - y is for Yusuf / Cat Stevens I love the rhythmic chant-singing on the chorus and the heartfelt verses youtu.be/qRC8lqtBXCA?...

#MusicAdvent day 24 - x is for Xiu Xiu A group I fell away from years ago, but when it occured to me to use them for X, I discovered that they did a Twin Peaks album! A show I only watched for the first time this year! Here is Xiu Xiu - Falling youtu.be/yWQnZsph4AY?...

#MusicAdvent day 23 - w is for Whitney Houston I love when women with big powerful voices do airy, delicate vocals, and her tone in this one is ear candy to me. I also enjoy the jazzy r&b-ness of this song. youtu.be/DdF0dL3zgNY?...

looking for a last minute gift at williams sonoma

#MusicAdvent - for v I am choosing Christmas music, because this guy is responsible for about 90% of the Christmas/holiday music that I like. Vince Guraraldi - Linus and Lucy youtu.be/x6zypc_LhnM?...

#MusicAdvent - I discovered a music act whose name starts with u that has a song I like! Maybe more, but here this is the one I've heard thanks to the ACFM podcast. Underground Resistance - The Theory youtu.be/QvEGTEY0pRI?...

#MusicAdvent day 20 - t is for Team Dresch Personal Best is a classic album and the opening track, Fagetarian and Dyke, is objectively perfect. But Captain My Captain is also excellent and here is 107, my favourite song from it, and it’s much less shouty than F&D youtu.be/6p9uCqMf404?...

#MusicAdvent the day I’ve been waiting for since we passed b: s is for Stevie Wonder It’s hard to narrow down 4 absolute knockout albums plus half a dozen great ones to one song, but here is Visions. Someday I will make a slow ponderous vid for only me to this song youtu.be/fy4fMlLj_B8?...

I’m listening to Innervisions in anticipation of tomorrow’s #MusicAdvent and my god, what a masterpiece

Cw: pet injury, it’ll be ok Last week two dogs (on leashes) attacked a cat in our neighbourhood. A bystander pulled the dogs off and the cat disappeared and didn’t show up again. Until today! She just arrived home and seems OK!! I have never seen so much joy in our neighbourhood whatsapp group.

#MusicAdvent day 18 - r is for Raphael Saadiq. Why does everything he touches have this infectious bounciness? Why yes, my choice for R is an artist who also appeared on my choice for Q. Never Give You Up by Raphael Saadiq feat CJ and Stevie Wonder youtu.be/md3AptDrmcY?...

The call for programming for VidUKon 2026 has just gone out! Find out more and read about changes for 2026 here: vidukon-cardiff.dreamwidth.org/69644.html As with previous years we welcome programming ideas from first-time VJs and panellists as well as veterans and are happy to help!

I’m pleased to say I might have found a music act I like whose name starts with U. Thank you ACFM podcast #MusicAdvent

#MusicAdvent day 17 - Q is for Q-Tip, except I'm slightly cheating in that he is a feature on this song. But in my defense it is outrageously catchy. Get Involved by Raphael Saadiq and Q-Tip youtu.be/qQhe8Vehi40?...

The next VidUKon will be held in Birmingham 5-7 June 2026. Find out more about the con hotel and the city over at Dreamwidth: vidukon-cardiff.dreamwidth.org/69403.html

#MusicAdvent day 16 - p is for Phil Ochs, my favourite 60s protest singer. I love his anger, sadness, and ascerbic sense of humor. The Broadside Tapes were a staple of my 20s. Love Me, I'm a Liberal remains incredibly relevant. Here is When I'm Gone. youtu.be/yB-BBVQLnxI?...

I just realised I could make a playlist of my #MusicAdvent songs. And so could other people! And if they shared the playlists I could listen to them

#MusicAdvent Day 15 - O is for Odyssey, Our Lives Are Shaped By What We Love. A perennial favourite since David put it on a mixed CD when we started dating 18 years ago. I listen to it a lot in the spring especially, and someday I will find a source to vid to it. youtu.be/vGbac0bJDM8?...

I still haven’t watched the Mussolini show but finally started Pluribus yesterday and it is excellent as expected. I love the way it’s dealing with the collective vs the individual, approaching it in a way I haven’t seen tv/film sci fi do very much

#MusicAdvent day 14 - N is for Nina Simone I spent the morning cycling between like 8 songs including Sinnerman, Pirate Jenny, and See-line Woman, but I Wish I Knew How it Would Feel to be Free really called to me today. youtu.be/-sEP0-8VAow?...

I hate how much I enjoyed this BIG NERD DESIGN ENERGY 🫦

#MusicAdvent day 13 - M is for Mulatu Astatke Before I had a music streaming service, his Éthiopiques compliation was my go-to when I needed to focus on coding. In 2019 I went to Addis Ababa for an African climate conference and got to hear a band perform Yèkèrmo Sèw live youtu.be/jwdBRqIsVUY?...