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"

Because the overly-specific challenges? They make me pedantic.

Those sorts of challenges are definitely of the "I'm too lazy/have insufficient talent" school. They make Katie pedantic, but they make me cranky and resentful.

Not a soda machine, here!

Pffft.