Last year I joined the Green Party and I’ve been keeping busy with the local elections campaign. It’s been good to get out in the city and in contact with a lot of different people. I took these photos walking home after campaign activities a week or so ago

I'm still looking for recs for this year's Eurovision vidshow at VidUKon. Especially keen for some sports vids ft European athletes. Would also love to include GMVs (eg Assassins Creed) or AMVs (think Gankutsuou). Self recs welcome! More info at DW: condnsdmlk.dreamwidth.org/19328.html

An article posted on the Pluribus subreddit claims that writing in Season 2 is dragging because they don't know where to take the story. Some people in the sub are worried, and others are saying it's fine because Vince Gilligan likes to put his writer's room in tight spots and figure out

I was pleased to see my most kudosed vid was one of my favourites, Higher Love archiveofourown.org/works/43833622 I even wrote about this vid for @llincathryn.bsky.social 's first issue of "Let's Talk about Vids": drive.google.com/file/d/1jMcH...

sadly points starfleet academy fans toward vidukon's themed premieres theme vidukon-cardiff.dreamwidth.org/70519.html

We should all strive to be the person with bad taste, whose enjoyment is wide, honest and kind. This is the most moral way to listen to music.

Everyone can enjoy good music. A person with good taste won’t enjoy bad music. An ironic person will enjoy bad music because they feel superior to it. A cynic will enjoy bad music because they wanted it to disappoint them. A person with bad taste will enjoy bad music in a way that is pure.

Charisma Carpenter continues to be a class act (not sarcastic). I appreciated her tribute to Nicholas Brendan www.instagram.com/p/DWJ0iGtjaO...

Today I saw Everyone to Kenmure Street and I highly recommend it. It's about the community response to an immigration raid in Glasgow in 2021. youtu.be/JOY5T03hHbk?...

I like the barrel-leg jeans/trousers/pants that are trendy right now. For me it's the perfect meeting point of striking silhouette, something I feel good wearing (both physically and socially), and is widely accessible to me because it's so trendy.

Registration is now open for VidUKon 2026! Join us 5-7 June in Birmingham and online for vidshows, panels and socialising. Find out more here: vidukon-cardiff.dreamwidth.org/70826.html Register here: vidukon.org

my beloved grandpa was a logger -- here is a photo of him with my mom on his truck

I didn't realize everyone who won for the ensemble cast got one and briefly thought they gave him two for winning Best Actor as a bit

There are THREE bumblebees on our winter-flowering shrub 😍 (Is there any member of the arthropod phylum as cute as a bumblebee?)

It's time! Nominations are now open for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which will be given to a work of imaginative fiction, published in 2025, that reflects the concepts and ideas that were central to Ursula’s own work.

In my utopian vision of the future, instead of offloading all the pointless, annoying work tasks (like reports that none one will read and needlessly opaque forms) to robots, we restructure work and society so that the pointless tasks don't happen at all.

Friends, your “first fic I read” posts are delightful

Eliminating the Impossible xkcd.com/3210/

Tag yourself I’m Little Guy

The theme for this year's Themed Premieres vidshow is Unfinished Business! The submission deadline is Sunday, 19 April. Find out more here: vidukon-cardiff.dreamwidth.org/70519.html

I’m trying to clean my damn house and I keep switching between music and podcasts and nothing is giving me the motivation I need to finish this annoying task

“Your last saved picture of a celebrity is your therapist “ in other words I finally found an excuse to post this photo of Renee O’Conner aka Gabrielle

My phone reminded me that this picture exists (from 2022)

Today is Rhea’s Xiao Xuan NiF vid “It’s My Party (And I’ll Cry If I Want To)” except it’s Andrew Mittenbottom Windsor

This is a CAT checkpoint. Show me the most recent cat image on your phone.

I woke up this morning in February living at 54 degrees north and thought, “summer is just around the corner!” Which would have been mildly delusional in my youth but in my 40s is an accurate reflection of how I experience the passage of time.

Novara Media are reporting on a Parliamentary by-election in greater Manchester and start with , “ red brick terrace houses and rain, it must be Manchester!” Then proceed to show a bunch of streets that could easily be in Leeds. Do they not have red bricks in the south?

DRAW A HORSE! gradient.horse

Step into the wild world of the Queen of Informercials, Cathy Mitchell! Created for Festivids 2025 for videobaths. YouTube: youtu.be/vYAlXUKgIIo AO3: archiveofourown.org/works/78612471 Content Warnings: Quick cuts, bright lights, handheld and stuttery shots.

I just saw an ad for a Gentleman Jack ballet here in Leeds and maybe it’s time to try out (watching) ballet again

I mean they cancel school and shutdown the airports for these kinds of conditions but the olympians are just out there not even fazed.

A #Festivids rec: This vid by marah_sarie is a perfect recruiter vid for Knight Flower, which was one of my best TV experiences last year. Cho Yeowha is a widow constrained by society’s rules by day, a masked, sword fighting hero of the downtrodden by night: archiveofourown.org/collections/...

Exploration. Discovery. Danger. A Steerswoman goes where she must. The Steerswoman book series doesn't have a TV show or movies (yet?) so I put this together from other sources! Highly recommend the books - they're a lot of fun! Details: archiveofourown.org/works/78622921 Happy #Festivids2025!

I can't believe I forgot to rec the wonderful vids I received for festivids this year!! First off, the incredible Dynamite, a Heroic Trio vid. An absolute blast (see what I did there) of a vid that gives all three characters their due: archiveofourown.org/works/77510641

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.