First fanfic I read: Star Wars, Han/Leia, post-ROTJ, some now-defunct forum site, maybe 10 or 11? The fic was primarily about how many pillows you needed to make the Millennium Falcon comfortable for Leia. I think Threepio had strong opinions about it.

#MusicAdvent So I did spend my morning chairdancing to Janelle Monáe at work trying to pick a song. They're all good! But I was in the middle of a terrible spreadsheet when Q.U.E.E.N. came on and it instantly improved my mood so that's today's pick. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEdd...

#MusicAdvent I've been in a Girlyman mood lately! One of my faves is Somewhere Different Now, a song about being in the middle of change that's hopeful and also a little melancholy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ean_...

#MusicAdvent All of Cat Burns's music is great, but "All This Love" is such a sweet, hopeful song about living with grief and loss that it's really striking. www.youtube.com/watch?v=96Mu...

I'm going to try #MusicAdvent this year because I'm getting lots of cool music from other people's recommendations!

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a) this is amazing b) delighted that they mentioned pasteurizing it

someone on bsky: is there a good Moby Dick movie? me, sitting on my hands: how much information is too much information about Moby Dick movies. (Ten skeets? Five? Look Natalya Orlova's Russian paint on glass animated short film is just really interesting.)

Finally posted my @vidukon.bsky.social premiere vid! Colors - A vid about Oliver Wolf, Zachary Quinto’s character on the medical drama Brilliant Minds, and the relationships he forms with the people around him. Even in the dark, there are colours. archiveofourown.org/works/66252313

My themed premiere: Summer Renaissance, a multifandom vid about my favourite tv and film spectacle www.youtube.com/watch?v=afJ2... archiveofourown.org/works/66103843

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'd marry you with paper rings." A multifandom femslash vid. Premiered at VidUKon 2025. AO3 link: archiveofourown.org/works/64165435

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

My VidUKon Premiere! The mouintain Jirisan is a beautiful place to be. For some, it's also the only place to be. A 2:37 minute long fanvid. CW: Flickering scenes, quick cuts, blood. archiveofourown.org/works/66070117

My VidUKon premiere! Star Trek: DS9, Sisko, and a transcendental cha cha cha. Nonlinear time is hard. youtu.be/BmswHvfqNfg archiveofourown.org/works/66044569

My #Andor fanvid that premiered at VidUKon this morning/evening: (VID) The Seed by nu_breed_vids (nu_breed) - Andor (TV) archiveofourown.org/works/64334590

NEW VID BY ME: I made a VidUKon premiere! It's about Star Trek Voyager and how much the show loves b-movie scifi and it's goofy and full of my emotions. A Bride of Chaotica! vid! archiveofourown.org/collections/...

If John spends the rest of his life shitting on Lucasfilm for how they treat PoC characters, I’d be completely fine with it. I’m in my fourth decade as a Star Wars fan. He can cook until he can’t no more.

Hi pals! I'm running a vid show for my birthday in about 3 hours (2:30 Eastern Time), on watch2gether and discord. If you want to come let me know and I'll DM the links!

My partner got laid off due to DOGE’s ‘funding cuts’. She’s an experienced Ruby engineer and data architect. If anyone has any leads for remote work I would appreciate a heads up! Here’s her LinkedIn post about her qualifications: www.linkedin.com/posts/angels...

Very belatedly posting my Festivids! I made three this year. I started with two Batman Wayne Family Adventures vids for @katlings.net who had some delightful requests. I planned to make one supportive-family-good-times vid, and I thought this would be pretty quick bc I've vidded comics before.

Today's moment of star trek puzzlement is this image, from season 7 of ds9, purporting to show San Francisco. (Arrow is mine.) What the heck is this? It goes by super fast and I had to go back and stare at it.

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

This birb is clearly dressed for a video-on zoom meeting

Trying to go to sleep but, because it's #festivids nomination season, I have Mr Kitty - After Dark stuck in my head

I got to "Tsunkatse" in my Voyager rewatch last night, and honestly, "What if our beloved entertainment is built on the exploitation and suffering of performers" turns out to be a bit on the nose for both the WWE and Berman-era Star Trek.

To my EXTREME annoyance: a) although bsky posted about this before it was enabled, the setting to turn off autoplay was not available until after I saw gifs b) for some reason the first gif I saw here autoplayed even though I have image animation turned off in firefox config

I looked at my youtube home page for the first time in a while - I usually skip it because I use duckduckgo's bang search - and yiiiikes. It's always such a reminder of how the algorithm steers attention.

I always find questions like this so weird because I see nothing; I have no visualization of words or ideas or places. It's an insight into a totally different brain space, like, someone sees a font? WILD.

My coworkers are all "omg super bowl" and I was like "I guess I should figure out who is playing in order to talk to people tomorrow" and to find out who was playing I legit searched wikipedia for "2024 superb owl"

I wrote up some festivids vidding process notes here: eruthros.dreamwidth.org/tag/festivids And some notes on Moby Dick adaptations here: eruthros.dreamwidth.org/354823.html But also I just need to share this screencap, from The Sea Beast (1926), because it is HILARIOUS.

Happy Festivids Reveals weekend! I made five vids this year: 1) a vulture feeds upon that heart forever Moby Dick & Adaptations, for @nicasio.bsky.social For God’s sake, be economical with your lamps and candles! not a gallon you burn, but at least one drop of man’s blood was spilled for it.

Every time something changes on bluesky I see a bunch of "please add private accounts next." I too would love a private account! But the bluesky road map doesn't include them and everything they post about the service says they don't want to do them.

Vidder friends! Have any of you using FCPX ever experienced a “the storage location for one or more libraries is no longer available” error that prevents you from interacting with your vid in any way?? The storage location is my HD is still there!

I watched the trailer for the Lil Nas X documentary like "I would have put THAT clip in the vid" and "oooh that's a good shot" and basically you never stop re-vidding your vids in your head

Look I like making fun of billionaires and this plan is ridiculous, but fifty miles from San Francisco is between Vacaville and Vallejo. People are talking like this is a town built in the middle of nowhere but the whole point of the article is that people already live (and commute from) there.

Our check-in post is up! Please confirm you're still participating by commenting on dw or emailing us by the 18th. festivids.dreamwidth.org/145401.html Also the AO3 collection is now open.

I posted my Festivids letter! Gosh does writing a letter take a long time when you request a bunch of stuff. eruthros.dreamwidth.org/tag/festivid...

Every time people complain about living the gifless lifestyle here I am like ????? because I have gifs turned off so I keep forgetting bluesky doesn't have them. Like I'm seeing everything everyone is posting! There's no hidden meaning in a looping image! WEIRD.

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I'm trying this out (with an app password) and one nifty note is that it seems to show replies more like twitter does (that is, if you reply to yourself, it shows me that reply even if it's below a liked threshhold)