incredible planning to use an april fools joke as a soft launch for this

So excited that people liked my Given AMV! Thank you #SakuraCon!! Ever since I was in high school I loved watching the Sakura Con AMV contest; this was my first year submitting and my inner high schooler is delighted. (If interested you can watch it here: archiveofourown.org/works/71456431)

One of my least favorite things around AI in video games is when these LLM idiots try to say that "AI has been in video games for decades," as if the routines that tell ghosts to chase Pac-Man are exactly the same as the chat bot claiming there are nine Rs in strawberry.

BREAKING: A push to name one of Chicago’s snowplows “Abolish ICE,” clearly linking the humorous pun to efforts to oppose President Donald Trump’s mass deportation effort, won the city’s annual snowplow naming contest, officials announced. @wttw.bsky.social

You want me to log into Threads? The stuff that terrorizes the people of Pern??

I urge you to stop what you're doing and watch Alysa Liu's free skate from yesterday. I have never seen anything like this. I understand why sports writers are born now. I have never seen anyone as free from the burdens of this world as this pierced Oakland girl spinning to Donna Summers.

Kinda Fucked Up that in our lifetimes we've gone from "never share personal info on the internet" to "hand over your identity to the most incompetent corporations imaginable".

AHHHH I DID THE FTH THING?! Maybe it's hubris but after managing five Festivids this year I'm like... I probably won't fail horribly and be ostracized from fandom forever for attempting this? BTW today is the last day to sign up so now is the time to do the thing! fandomtrumpshate.dreamwidth.org

VID: Hades the game for @feedingonwind.bsky.social! Hades has been a game of my heart for years for its compelling characters and thoughtful game design, and thanks to their request I tried to capture both. If you don't succeed, die, die again! on AO3: archiveofourown.org/works/77714356

I also made a #Festivids treat for @eruthros.bsky.social! Christian Cooper likes birds, and so do I, and people seem to have really liked this vid. Yay birding and birds! archiveofourown.org/works/78140926

This is such a great song for Hikaru! #thesummerhikarudied

This one too! So good! #RuriRocks is delightful and this is a perfect vid for it!

This vid is so delightful and I'm so glad it exists!

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

I hope to get a signed version up at some point, but in the meantime, I made a festivid! Firewood, The Pitt. ‘Everyone knows you're going to live / So you might as well start trying’ Sorry not sorry about all the feelings! archiveofourown.org/works/78614536

JD Vance Booed for Sleep (10 Hours, No Ads)

“Renee was not the first person killed, and she was not the last,” Becca Good said. “You know my wife’s name and you know Alex’s name, but there are many others in this city being harmed that you don’t know — their families are hurting just like mine, even if they don’t look like mine.”

For this year's #Festivids I made five (5!) vids for four fandoms - two of which I picked up from great request letters. Gonna thread them here! Quick overview: 유령 | Phantom - 2x F/F 负负得正 | Land of Broken Hearts - M/F メタモルフォーゼの縁側 | BL Metamorphosis - Gen 흑백요리사: 요리 계급 전쟁 | Culinary Class Wars - Gen

I made a vid for #Festivids! dirty_diana asked for Emmanouil Karalis (cute Greek pole vaulter) RPF & I made a vid about his very good face, friendship between competitors, and most of all about striving to be your own best though someone else will always be better archiveofourown.org/works/77983396

VID BY ME: That Escalated Quickly, #GameChanger, ridiculousness descending into chaos (this one was really fun to make but also listening to this music 500 times did make me want to flip a table myself): archiveofourown.org/works/77339951

today is REVEALS DAY at #Festivids! Lots of amazing fanvids - tell everyone you know who likes vids or tv or watching stuff that's dope as hell. I made four vids this year, and am pretty proud of them all:

Every girl's crazy 'bout a sharp dressed (wo)man! #Jeongnyeon is great & you should watch it! So many great costumes & theater feelings! Fanvid by me & @rhea314.bsky.social, #Festivids2025 Details: archiveofourown.org/works/78635771

From @acyn.bsky.social (posted on X) "Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal? Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail… Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you. Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."

I made a Secret Garden fanvid for #Festivids2025! It's about grief, friendship, and family. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzmu... Details: archiveofourown.org/works/77250031

The Festivids collection has been revealed! 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!

god I love librarians. absolutely the best people. want the rock-solid principles of a leftist community organizer with the compassion and thoughtfulness of a great teacher, but also the systems-organizational mind of the best project manager? Try librarians! They're also really nice and like books

I need to watch this movie! This is such a compelling vid.

New vid, premiere for CONfabulation 2025: Chasing Cars (fandom Given, Mafuyu/Yuki, Mafuyu/Ritsuka (cw: suicide)), grief, music, and moving on www.youtube.com/watch?v=28hR..., archiveofourown.org/works/71456431

This was hilarious!

Got asked for Kdrama vid recs, so gonna make a short little thread! These will all be recs for vids where I've seen the source, and is not in any way meant to be a comprehensive collection of my favorites. (I may also forget to add CWs for stuff, so please check out AO3 for vidder's notes on those.)

Slightly diminish a band: Good Big Sea

I'm sorry Big Freedia but in 2025 you can't sing "you are my alpha and my omega" and mean beginning and end. I don't make the language rules, you just can't.

In The Morning (Hyperventilation, Han Seonho/Lee Myeongyi) archiveofourown.org/works/67049938

Dreams Today (Multifandom - aesthetic tribute to the animation of Bboong Bbang Kkyu) www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPGj..., archiveofourown.org/works/67049419

Reborn Rich is brilliant and this vid is utter perfection!!

New vids, premieres for DC Slash Con 2025: King of Anything (Stars Align, content warning for child abuse) www.youtube.com/watch?v=njAo..., archiveofourown.org/works/67425157

WATCH THIS AND THEN WATCH JEONGNYEON

I premiered a #Jeongnyeon vid at #DCSlashCon2025 focused on the middle-aged disaster theater lesbian breakup! If that sounds fun, check out the vid! (And the show!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWXj... archiveofourown.org/works/68223966

watching jeongnyeon one episode per week is a great pace because in the intervening days it's like the group chat forgets how incredibly gay it is, and so we get pleasantly blindsided each time any of the characters interact

I had two #KDrama vids premiere in themed shows at @vidukon.bsky.social for #VidUKon2025 Salute, for @rhea314.bsky.social 's Fuck the Patriarchy show, about the wonderful women of Jeongnyeon: The Star Is Born AO3: archiveofourown.org/works/64496689 YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbXi...

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

My VidUKon premiere: a Seth Milchick character study youtu.be/NoN_jb4x9ik?... archiveofourown.org/works/65911423

I love this part of #warriornun!

Forgot to tag this as #warriornun!

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

Premiere for VidUKon! 정년이ㅣJeong Nyeon: The Star is Born, Queer Theater Feelings: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfel...

VidUKon premiere for GPOY vidshow, multifandom grief, ghosts, reincarnation, and love beyond & inclusive of death: www.youtube.com/watch

I did a technical presentation at VidUKon 2025 about various techniques from color correction to changing what's shown on a TV and how they can help solve problems in your vids. Slides: docs.google.com/presentation... Dreamwidth post: sandalwoodbox.dreamwidth.org/2943.html