Title: Here Comes the Night
Fandom: Batman (Comics)
Music: "Here Comes the Night Part II" by Arcade Fire
Summary: You hurt yourself again, along with all your friends. A Bruce Wayne character study.
Warnings: Graphic violence; parental death; child abuse.

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Title: seven
Fandom: Psych
Music: "seven" by Taylor Swift
Summary: Shawn, Gus, and the enduring power of childhood friendship.
Notes: Thanks to absternr for the beta!
Warnings: None, I think!

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I'm participating in the Woman's Place vid auction, if anyone wants to bid on me or any of the other awesome vidders. Proceeds go to the National Network of Abortion Funds.

Title: Blame It on the Stardust

Fandom: Star Trek (all series)

Music: Rainbow by Kesha

Summary: Sorry if you're starstruck, blame it on the stardust.

Notes: This vid album is three years in the making. Over that time, a lot has changed in the Star Trek landscape (I think anyone looking at "Boogie Fleet" or "Let 'Em Talk" or "Mm Yeah" would be able to tell that the first drafts of those vids were made in 2019.) But Star Trek remains its beautiful, optimistic, strange, humanistic, flawed self, and I hope that I've captured that. Some of the vids in this album are silly, some are serious, some are celebratory, some are critical. Rainbow is a beautiful and eclectic album, and Star Trek is a beautiful and eclectic franchise, which is why (I hope) they go so well together.

Blame It on the Stardust would not exist, or would exist in a deeply inferior form, without the support and commentary of aceofwands, thirdblindmouse, LittleRaven, dirty_diana, and my wife and sister. Thank you so much to everyone who helped in the creation of this project.

Warnings: See warnings for individual vids below.

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Plus, a Vulcan bonus track! (Password is "loseit.")

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Track Listing and Links to Individual Vids:

1. Boogie Fleet: Join Starfleet! It's a non-stop dance party!


2. Let 'Em Talk: Don't listen to those Starfleet drones! Dance your own way!


3. Mostly Tame: Julian and Garak are in love! What can possibly go wrong?


4. Everything Stops: The single-episode love stories of Star Trek.


5. Can't Hold a Candle: Starfleet captains in love with their ships.


6. Finding You: Kirk/Spock in every universe.


7. Rainbow: A Sylvia Tilly character study.


8. Praying: Some things only God can forgive. (Kira and Dukat)


9. Learn to Let Go: A Ro Laren character study.


10. Hunt You Down: Starfleet really, really, really wants the Maquis to stay.


11. They're Coming Back for Me: Fuck the Prime Directive.


12. Don't Let the Bastards Get You Down: A vid for the underserved and screwed-over characters of Star Trek.


13. Mm Yeah: Fifty years of women in, and despite, Star Trek.


14. Blame It on the Stardust: This is a hymn for the hymnless.

Content Notes:

Boogie Fleet - quick cuts
Let 'Em Talk - quick cuts
Mostly Tame - violence, torture, domestic violence
Everything Stops - minor character death
Can't Hold a Candle - none, I think!
Finding You - quick cuts, major (temporary) character death
Rainbow - flashing lights
Praying - character death, implied sexual assault, violence, flashing lights
Learn to Let Go - character death, torture, violence
Hunt You Down - minor character death, violence, mild gore, flashing lights
They're Coming Back for Me - death, violence
Don't Let the Bastards Get You Down - major character death
Mm Yeah - major character death, violence, sexual assault, flashing lights
Blame It on the Stardust - quick cuts, violence
Emotional - death, violence, alien blood, quick cuts

Title: Waiting
Fandom: Batman (Comics)
Music: "We Don't Deserve Love" by Arcade Fire
Summary: The men that you love always leave you alone. An Alfred Pennyworth character study.
Notes: Thank you/I hate you to thirdblindmouse for encouraging this.
Warnings: Blood, death.

Overview: I'm pretty open musically! There's music that I've never been able to get into at all (very scream-y music, stuff without a strong melody) but as long as the song fits the vid, that's the priority. In terms of vids, I hate dialogue in vids, and I get migraines, so strobing/very quick flashing lights are maybe something to be avoided, but other than that, there are no strong dislikes. I do tend to prefer serious vids over humorous ones, but my definition of "serious" is pretty broad, and I've definitely seen humorous vids I've liked, so again, whatever works for the vid. Mostly, what I want out of a vid is to feel something, or to see canon in a new light.

Bright Summer Night: First of all, if you actually matched on this, way to go. I love the atmosphere of this series, and I love its humor, and I love love love its character work. I'd really love a vid that captures the feeling of watching BSN.

Elementary: This is maybe a really boring vanilla prompt in some ways, but Watson and Sherlock's relationship is both incredibly lovely and heartfelt, and in some ways a kind of strange ferris wheel of power dynamics and emotional turmoil, and I would be interested to see a vid that captures that.

Higher Ground: Lean into the late 90s angst of it all. Shelby/Daisy/Scott are the characters that amuse me most, but you do you. Also, that slash there is intentional; if you want to make an OT3 vid, I can handle it.

The Brothers Bloom: There are really only four characters in this movie, and I love them all, so I'm not going to ask for a specific character's arc—although I would be happy with a vid focused on any of them, or all of them, or the relationship between any two or three of them. Mostly, I love the aesthetic of this movie, and—to quote Bloom in one of the deleted scenes—"I love a good tonal shift." I love the way it hops between funny and sentimental and menacing and wry on the turn of a dime, and you're never quite sure what's next. I would love a vid that reflected that feeling.

The Baby-Sitters Club: Just give me good old-fashioned friendship feels, and we'll be good.

Into the Woods: I may have aimed too high with requesting this one; Into the Woods is my favorite story in any medium. I don't really know what to ask for. Pick a theme from the show and make a vid about it. Or follow one of the characters. (Maybe not the men? although I dunno, there are interesting parallels you could make between the Baker's story and the Witch's...) Or break down the Act I/Act II dichotomy. Celebrate all the children of the show. Or all the parents. Make a vid about metanarratives. Or about grief, or wishes, or bargains. I DON'T KNOW, don't talk to me, I have to go cry about Into the Woods now.