Nutty, there's a regular vid rec on the last Friday of the month on Crack_Van, but I kinda distrust those because the quality depends so highly on the reccer.

I'd suggest hitting the Vividcon lists: vids from the Premieres show, in particular, tend to be excellent. I can't say enough good things about, for instance, Lierdumoa's Gia vid, or Laura Shapiro's West Wing vid "Circles". Shalott and memfault made a Dead Zone vid to "A Day in the Life", and it's jawdropping. Also, Luminosity's Farscape vid, Killa's Alias vid "This Girl is Taking Bets"... All of those premiered at Vividcon -- Killa's Alias vid was in the Club Vivid show. That's just off the top of my head, from fairly recent viewing, and without getting off the couch to go get my dvds.

The dvd sets from Vividcon tend to be a great source for quality vids, and if you know someone with a dvd burner they may be talked or bribed into making you a copy...

And you can pretty much bet on vids by:

• shalott
• Seah and Margie
• Laura
• Killa
• Melina
• Luminosity
• sisabet

Shalott and memfault

Francesca.

There is the Video Elite Resource site [link]

It's a collection of links to vid sites divided by fandom. It's rather large and you have to kind of slog through it to get to the good stuff. There are some really good vid sites on there (head tilt is on there) but also some really bad stuff.

It's funny that this should come up-- I was just watching some of my tiny collection of saved vids yesterday, and wondering where I should look for recs for some more. I'm not a great vid-viewer, but I enjoy the way good ones can make me fall in love with a canon all over again.

Or make you want to watch a new canon. Killa's new Alias vid makes me want to watch Alias season 1-2.

What's the deal with incredibly detailed "challenges" which are actually, "I had this great idea for a story, with this totally witty exchange and these characters who do this, now somebody else do the work of actually writing it." It always seems to me the height of arrogance -- I mean, you can ask if someone will write a story for you, but giving that level of detail and calling it a "challenge" as though people would be all "Ooh, me! Me!" bugs me.

Just felt the need to rant.

What Emily said.

A challenge should open a door rather than herd you down a chute.

Challenge: food Too lazy to write my story: Xander says something witty, almost chokes on lo mein and has to count on someone he's pissed at to save him.

I'm afraid I would be overwhelmingly tempted to take that challenge and write a story about Xander peeing on someone. I wouldn't, because it would be gross, but I'd be tempted.

For a second, I wasn't sure where you got that, but I said "pissed"