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Augh, so tired. Work crisis, but it's on its way out? I think? I think mid-April I will be able to vid again. No CVV for me, but my premiere should be safe. Still need to look at flights and rooms. Um, people who have actually been to VVC ever, is it probably safer to reserve a room and then ask for roommates rather than procrastinate and hope that someone else posts asking for roommates?

The last three or four months I spent a lot of time getting serially sick, and a lot of that time being woozy but also bored since one roommate was spending all her time with a new boyfriend and the other had a new job on top of grad school (I don't think she's slept since January). So basically I spent like three months watching anime, eating lentils, and coughing and whining. I feel like I should post reviews, but instead of writing words I keep trying to devise colorful pictorial systems denoting how many homicidal lesbians and mutant fetuses each show contains.

I have classy taste.

Oh also, be honest, rlist. Is "Teardrop" by Massive Attack overdone? Is it justified by serene fetuses? (It's not Railgun. That fetus is tonally inappropriate for life.)

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I have so many things to post about, and also a shit ton of work to do, but instead I am posting just to say:

2012 ANIME FANDOM SHOWDOWN

UTENA VS. RIZA HAWKEYE. (Specific poll here.) I know I am taking a risk here by linking this. I know some of you may believe that you should vote for Riza, because Riza is pretty excellent, no one can deny. But is that how you really feel? It's possible that it is how you really feel, but I wanted to quote Princess Tutu in case that sways you more toward the magical girl side of things. A vote for Utena is a vote for:

pink hair

THE REVOLUTION OF THE WORLD

atrocious production values

neon pink lesbian racecars

the recognition that shoujo was deconstructing itself well before Madoka Magica tyvm

LIVING OUR LIVES HEROICALLY AND WITH STYLE

it's even a vote for horses (I don't ... actually know what the fuck)

If we do not vote for Utena, the chick will die without ever being born!

Yeah I think the cold medicine has not left my system yet completely. \o/

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Title: Sucker Punch (of Adolescence)
Fandom: Revolutionary Girl Utena/Adolescence of Utena
Audio: Sucker Punch trailer

"What you're imagining right now -- you control this world."

Thank you to skygiants for beta-ing, and also for pointing out that Nanami's role in the movie is completely explained if one chooses to interpret the movie as a product of Anthy's imagination. Even though, to my sorrow, there is no Nanamicow in this.

Download here


Sucker Punch of Adolescence from shati on Vimeo.

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Any of you going to Vividcon and have a spot in your hypothetical future room? This is of course assuming that I can get the time off and don't panic about how I don't know anybody and how all my vid ideas lately are magical girl anime instead of live action.

Unrelated to the above, but related to my icon: I finished Mawaru Penguin Drum last week and pretty much every day since I will be reminded of some plot point or another, sit straight up, and yell, "THAT WAS NEVER EXPLAINED." I don't mean, like, a deep and thorough explanation that removes all ambiguity, I mean basic things like a hint as to why those children were even in that box and how they got out. Somewhere, Ikuhara is laughing.

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I'm home sick. :( I'm also very slowly making my way through this post, because there's no meme like a meme where it's socially acceptable to spam people with horrible Photoshop.

Happy Galentine's Day
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Holy shit, all FIVE of my festivids gifts were by rhea314. That is superhuman, I was convinced an army of tireless clones had decided to shower me with treats. Possibly one did but they were clones of rhea314? Hm, I will need to think.

My vidpost here. I made a Maru vid to U2's "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For," which ended up being one of two Maru festivids this year. I still haven't finished my recs post because I suck, but absolutedestiny's Papa's Got a Brand New Bag is right here, I'm just sayin'.

As always: best festivids ever.

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Title: Outside the Box
Song: "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For," U2
Fandom: Maru the Cat
Length: 4:30 unsigned, 5:00 signed

For giandujakiss, because I was assigned to her, but also (in my heart) because she tirelessly mods of one of the best fandom exchange ever. \o/

Maru/boxes OTP.

Download link (signed copy)

I wrote this post at like 3 am last night, so it is a work in constant progress.

( Streaming embed )

( Notes, etc. )

I am grateful to pretty much everyone who was involved in contributing to Maru being a festivids fandom, but also especially to agonistes and skygiants, who superhumanly gave me serious and constructive feedback on a five minute video about a cat.

One of several awesome things about vidding a fandom like Maru for a rare fandom exchange is a lot of people are willing to watch videos about Maru, because (a) the internet is for cats, (b) Maru is internet famous, and (c) Maru is fucking adorable. So I also need to say that I was incredibly entertained by all the hilarious comments people left on both Maru vids -- many of them were also fucking adorable. Oh internet.

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This morning afternoon I woke up, croaked, and fell out of bed and into the realization that I probably have a cold. Then I checked my flist and saw a mention of festivids. "Festivids," I thought sadly, "when will you go live? I cannot wait mu -- oh. That's right, today is actually the day that comes after after yesterday."

So when I saw five vids listed for me, I thought that (a) I was dreaming, (b) I was hallucinating, or (c) my evil twin also signed up. All of these things are still possible, but I think all five vids are real nonethless? Even though three of them are UTENA THE MUSICAL, which is three more vids for the musical than I thought I would ever get to see, and two of them were Kamikaze Girls vids that are probably pretty much exactly what I would hallucinate if I was going to hallucinate vids.

Also I need to sincerely apologize to everyone whose vid I have commented on so far, because I am completely incapable of putting words together today. Seriously, my comments have been awful. Please trust that I love you even if my comment says "this is pretty cool." Soon I'll just be typing PIZZA and clicking Post Comment.

Hero (Kamikaze Girls): Like a concentrated shot of Kamikaze Girls goodness. The world through Momoko's and Ichigo's eyes is the best world. It has way more bikes and animation and Rococo textbook illustrations than the world through my eyes.
Power Of Two (Kamikaze Girls): Nothing is more adorable and romantic than baseball bat rampages and cabbages. <333 NOTHING. I clutch my heart.
Electric Utena (Utena the Musical): This does a princely job of vidding footage that is like two parts removed from the original performance. (That is REAL matroshka footage!) Seriously, I was not expecting this vid -- like I loved it without a trace of irony, how did this happen? Witch!!
Found (Utena the Musical): I wasn't expecting this either! I didn't think it was actually possible to make a sweet and touching vid from the musical, as much as I love its face. And there I was, sniffling. So basically festivids was all about proving me wrong.
Just Dance (Utena the Musical): THE DANCING. FOREVER LOLS, THE DANCING. Also? Lady Gaga would love the Ohtori uniforms.

*rolls around in vids*

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One of the liquor stores I passed on my way home from the airport has a large sign out front that reads only:

NOW OCTOPUS FREE

(I found someone else's picture of it!)

I'm ... just documenting this so that when I have more than four hours of sleep I don't look back and think it was a dream.

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festivids flipped some kind of switch in my brain. All of a sudden I want to vid all the time again, which is going to be a little difficult when I leave for Denver tomorrow. (Oops?) But this is so exciting! I'm actually laying down clips instead of bemoaning the loss of my will to vid! Even clipping is a joy to me. Clipping multiple sources at different framerates and frame sizes! What is this madness.

Also, that meme that's been going around, because I have a dazzlingly sophisticated sense of humor and everything is funnier when you make it about sex:

Pick up the nearest book to you.
Turn to page 45.
The first sentence describes your sex life in 2012.

"The universe which he explored like a blind man would, by touch alone, contained primarily clean socks, a few household objects, and a desiccated head or two (he promised to explain the heads later as well)."

I just don't know how to take this.


P. S. Is festivids live yet?

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