Ooh, love both of those!

Um, does anybody know if or where there's a dl link for the intro vid, The Hunger Games? I find it streaming all over, but no dl link. Which...may be deliberate, after all. Just asking, in case.

Here we go, Beverly: [link]

The vidder's Greensilver, who also did the Neville vid linked upthread. (I lost count on how many new vids she had during this years Vividcon. Probably 5-6, if not more.) I don't think she has anything against people downloading her vids.

Thank you! I have a fondness for multi-fandom vids. Oh, who'm I kidding. I just love vids, especially by vidders the caliber of Greensilver.

I'm just in awe at the vidders who can be that prolific in such a short period of time, and produce consistent quality work.

MOAR VIDS from VVC I liked:

Rhoboat had a couple of fantastic Fringe vids, one serious, one adorable:

Lateralus, which is all about how Walter broke all the worlds and himself. Dense, rich, and gorgeous, with spoilers all the way to the S4 finale: [link]

That's Not My Name, an Astrid vid set to a "I can't believe no one has vidded Astrid to this yet" song (beware the usual Fringe-y grossness!): [link]

I haven't seen Avatar or Korra but those who did really seemed to love this vid: [link]

Affecting character study about Arya Stark (Game of Thrones): [link]

Beautiful triptych of epic platonic (or not) friendships with historical resonance, Nicky's The Lightning Strike: [link]

Couple of intense and pointy vids about Colonialism:

Masters of War (SGA): [link]

Shake It Out (The New World): [link]

Uh, that should keep everybody busy for a while...

I'd seen the Astrid and Arya vids and Masters of War. I'll check the others out--thanks!

ita and Consuela, your DVDs are now in the mail.

::does the shrift rocks shimmy::

I don't know if anyone here is a Sir fan enough to care, who isn't in the Supernatural thread, but I've been getting increasingly irritated with the treatment/representation of John in fics recently (not canon--I'm delighted with that), and a complaint about same in the show thread tipped me over the edge.

I don't know how long my good intentions will last, but I'm collecting good representations of John here:http://johnwinchesterisahero.tumblr.com/ (I mean, in terms of tone, not quality--not trying to puff up my self-submission or anything).

I think John is a great character. He's one of my favourites in terms of how messed up he is. I do think he made huge mistakes raising the kids, but he raised sons I love watching week after week, season after season (J2 say they'll do season 10 if CW lets them). I think he had all the best intentions, but was rabidly monomaniacal in a very Batmanish way--he just didn't have to outsource orphans. He grew his own.

So while I think he wasn't as demonstrative as is healthy, and he put more on Dean's shoulders than any five year old should bear, never mind his unrealistic demands of Sam's entire life, he did think he was doing it for them, and for his wife. He never didn't think that.

All these stories where he's blind drunk and neglecting and savagely beating his kids and wrapping his car around poles--fuck that noise. That guy have never been onscreen. Why are so many writers defaulting to him on paper? It feels like even more of a trend than a year ago, and I don't like it. I want a little happy place, so I'm going to try and make it.

Stories with Awesome!John, GIFsets, screencaps, art, whatever celebrations of John (either incarnation) are eagerly welcomed.

And if you know people who'd either contribute or consume, please spread the word. I don't know how that works.

Good idea.

Vaguely relatedly, those commercials for JDM's new movie totally read to me like some kind of genderswap fic brought to life film.

It does seem that, in any fandom where there's canonical abuse and abandonment, there's a subset of fandom determined to make it worse, not that I know these particular characters...