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Title: A Kind of Brother
Fandom: Critical Role
Music: "Blood Brothers" by The Tyde
Summary: Recipe for lifelong friendship: 1 part screaming, 1 part crying, 1 part stupid jokes, 3 parts revolution. An Empire Kids vid.
Warnings: None!
Notes: Thanks to Jetpack Monkey for encouraging and reviewing.

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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

I meant to post this before the new year, but my concussion was acting up, and I couldn't really deal with screens, so here we are, in a bright new 2020, and I'm doing it now.

I Think I'm | Star Trek (TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, DIS)
Find Some Daylight | Schitt's Creek
Star Trek Enterprise credits but they're all the best character | Star Trek ENT
Nothing Else Compares | The Magicians
Mostly Tame | Star Trek DS9
Talk to Me Now | Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
Human Winner | Star Trek DS9

This was kind of a big year for me, in terms of vidding—I'd vidded before this year, but this was the first time I ever really did multiple vids in one year, and the first time I really got into vidding. It was the first time I ever participated in an exchange. (I produced "Talk to Me Now" for Equinox, and received the excellent DJ Got Us Fallin In Love). Unfortunately, because of medical issues, I had to default on Festivids, which I was incredibly excited for, and I didn't produce anything at all in the second half of the year. (I posted both "Talk to Me Now" and "Human Winner" in the fall, but they were both made long before I put them online.)

I made a very popular Schitt's Creek vid, a Magicians vid that is my least-watched work ever and also probably the best vid I'll ever make, and many Star Trek vids, including several that haven't been posted anywhere yet. I learned a lot.

Also, I proposed to my girlfriend using an Enterprise fanvid.