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An incredible animatic was made for the 2023 Murderbot Diaries New Year Gift Exchange:

They Don't Care About Us [ANIMATIC] (0 words) by avg
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Characters: "Human One" Refugee (Murderbot Diaries), Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries), Various other refugees
Additional Tags: Fanvids, Multimedia, Book 6: Fugitive Telemetry, Spoilers for Book 6: Fugitive Telemetry
Summary:

The story of a refugee.

In addition, festivids is live! There are some really amazing vids, so go check them out! Here are my favorites:

Choir
Fandom: Sister Act (Movies)
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Additional Tags: Fanvids
Summary: Singing together in harmony.

[Vid] Dance Into The Sun
Fandom: Pride (2014)
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Additional Tags: Subtitles Available
Summary: Rise and share your power.


Fun, Fun, Fun
Fandom: Star Trek: Lower Decks (Cartoon)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Carol Freeman & Beckett Mariner, Beckett Mariner & Starfleet
Characters: Beckett Mariner
Additional Tags: Fanvids, Physical Triggers, Subtitles Available
Summary: Beckett Mariner VS Responsibility

Tom Paine's Bones [vid]
Fandom: The Talk of the Town (1942)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Leopold Dilg/Michael Lightcap/Nora Shelley
Characters: Leopold Dilg, Michael Lightcap, Nora Shelley
Additional Tags: Fanvids, Subtitles Available
Summary: Dilg, Nora, and the Professor talk about freedom and justice for everyone


[vid] 2 Be Loved (Am I Ready)
Fandom: Lizzo's Watch Out for the Big Grrrls (TV), Unspecified Fandom, Pop Music RPF, Lizzo (Musician) RPF
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Lizzo (Musician), Jayla Sullivan, Arianna Davis, Asia Banks, Ashley Williams (Dancer), Sydney Bell, Charity Holloway, Moesha Perez, Isabel Jones, Jasmine Morrison, Crystal Williams, Kiara Mooring
Additional Tags: Fanvids, Video Format: Streaming, Video, Embedded Video, Physical Triggers, strobe lights, bright lights, Subtitles Available, Stuttery cuts
Summary: Lizzo's big grrrls are ready.


Vid: Tightrope
Fandom: 1995 - 1996 Women's USA Basketball Team, Women's Basketball RPF
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Jennifer Azzi, Ruthie Bolton, Teresa Edwards, Lisa Leslie, Rebecca Lobo, Katrina McClain, Nikki McCray, Carla McGhee, Dawn Staley, Katy Steding, Sheryl Swoopes, Venus Lacey, Tara VanDerveer
Additional Tags: women's basketball, Teamwork, social pressure, Sucking Up Bullshit To Make Things Happen, Physical Triggers, (1990s TV or VHS Footage), (Camera Flashes), (White Text on Black Backgrounds), Misogyny, Racism, Homophobia, details in end notes, contains brief shots of David Letterman and Bill Clinton
Summary: you gotta tip on the tightrope (tip, tip on it)


Beverly Hills
Fandom: Columbo
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Lieutenant Columbo (Columbo), Dog the Dog (Columbo), Columbo's Car
Additional Tags: Los Angeles, Wealth, Murder, Fanvids, Gift Work, Festivids 2022, Song: Beverly Hills (Weezer), Quote: Just one more thing... (Columbo)
Summary: Beverly Hills: that's where I want to be.


[Vid] Carol Of The Bells
Fandom: Die Hard (Movies)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Characters: John McClane, Hans Gruber (Die Hard), Holly Gennaro, Ensemble
Additional Tags: vid, Fanvids, Action, Blood and Injury, Blood, Police, Physical Triggers, Christmas
Summary:

Christmas is here
bringing good cheer

~
[Die Hard (1988)]


Weapon of Choice
Fandom: Busby Berkeley Movies [UMBRELLA], Unspecified Fandom
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Additional Tags: Fanvids, Embedded Video, Busby Berkeley, Weapon of Choice
Summary: Just Busby Berkeley Vibes


My Power (33 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dora Milaje Appearances (Non-Live Action Media), Black Panther (BET 2010), Black Panther (Comics), War for Wakanda, Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2, Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, Avengers Assemble (Cartoon), Marvel's What If ...?, World of Wakanda
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Aneka/Ayo (Marvel)
Characters: Aneka of the Dora Milaje (Marvel), Ayo (Marvel), Okoye (Marvel), Queen Divine Justice
Additional Tags: Dora Milaje - Freeform, Revolution, Wakanda forever, Depictions of Police (Minimal and Queen Divine Justice punches them), Mention of Rape (Happens Offscreen), Imprisonment, Subtitles Available
Summary: they'll never take my power, my power, my power


Evolution
Fandom: Dirty Computer - Janelle Monáe (Music Video)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jane/Zen (Dirty Computer), Ché/Jane (Dirty Computer), Ché/Jane/Zen (Dirty Computer)
Characters: Jane (Dirty Computer), Zen (Dirty Computer), Ché (Dirty Computer)
Additional Tags: Dystopia, memory manipulation, anti-queer totalitarian regime, Police Violence, nonconsensual medical treatment, nonconsensual institutionalization, Resistance, queer joy, Black Girl Magic
Summary: I'm just the shadow behind the girl with the fire in her eyes.


Higher Love
Fandom: Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Evelyn Wang/Waymond Wang, Becky Sregor/Joy Wang | Jobu Tupaki, Evelyn Wang & Joy Wang | Jobu Tupaki & Waymond Wang, Evelyn Wang & Gong Gong, Deirdre Beaubeirdre/Evelyn Wang
Characters: Evelyn Wang, Waymond Wang, Joy Wang | Jobu Tupaki, Gong Gong (Everything Everywhere All at Once), Deirdre Beaubeirdre, Becky Sregor
Additional Tags: physical triggers: fast cutting, Physical triggers: flickering lights, Captions Available, Subtitles Available, Fanvids, Possible NSFW imagery, Depictions of Police
Summary: If there are infinite parallel universes, then every universe that can exist does exist.


VID: Ramalama (Bang Bang)
Fandom: Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Evelyn Wang/Waymond Wang, Evelyn Wang & Joy Wang | Jobu Tupaki
Characters: Evelyn Wang
Additional Tags: Fanvids, Physical Triggers, flashing lights, quick cuts
Summary: "Please, Be Kind."


Her Ex-Lover is Dead
Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Andor (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Mon Mothma
Additional Tags: Fanvids, Embedded Video, Rebellion, Explosions, Fire, Sacrifice, Galactic Senate (Star Wars), Galactic Empire (Star Wars), Planet Coruscant (Star Wars), Complicated Relationships
Summary: When there's nothing left to burn, you have to set yourself on fire.


Life During Wartime
Fandom: Andor (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Cinta Kaz/Vel Sartha
Characters: Cassian Andor, Mon Mothma, Luthen Rael, Vel Sartha, Cinta Kaz
Additional Tags: Canon-Typical Violence, Fanvids, Embedded Video
Summary: I might not ever get home


Black Tie
Fandom: A League of Their Own (TV 2022)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Maxine "Max" Chapman, Carson Shaw
Additional Tags: Fanvids, queer community
Summary: You will find the clothes that fit.

Grrrls (1 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: A League of Their Own (TV 2022)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Maxine "Max" Chapman & Clance Morgan
Characters: Clance Morgan, Maxine "Max" Chapman
Additional Tags: Friendship, Fanvids, Captions Available, Subtitles Available, Swearing in Song Lyrics, Female Friendship
Summary:

A lighthearted vid about Clance and Max's friendship. I believe this vid does not have any physical or emotional triggers. Captions available. A downloadable version will be available after reveals.
Song: Grrrls by Lizzo (edited)
length: 01:24

I bought a vid at the Vividcon Auction, from the lovely and talented grammarwoman! My music tastes are eclectic and nonstandard (basically, everything BUT modern popular pop/rock and modern country--it's not that I don't like them, it's that it all tends to blend together and sound the same), and I don't vid, which means there are a lot of songs that I think would make AWESOME fanvids that I know nobody will ever make, sigh.  (Okay, some of them might get made.  I'm actually surprised that nobody's done a Spock vid to The Logical Song by Supertramp, or a Goa'uld vid to Jeepers Creepers by Louis Armstrong.  Others ... I might think a werewolf vid to the old Big Band classic "Moonlight Becomes You So" would be hilarious, but I doubt anybody else would think it was funny enough to spend the time and effort to make, particularly given that it's a slow song and most vids are done to upbeat/fast songs.)

Anyway, I have a number vid ideas that will never get made if I don't pay someone else to do it, and so I'm always on the lookout for vid auctions featuring vidders offering those sources that I think would do a creditable job with the idea.  Which is how I bidded on (and ended up winning) grammarwoman's services to make a Star Wars fanvid to that old American Civil War hit, "That's What's the Matter."  And she did a really great job, and the vid is SO FUNNY.  You have to go see.

Title: That's What's the Matter
Source: Star Wars movies (Rogue One, Episodes IV-VII)
Music: "That's What's the Matter", Stephen Foster
Vid Download Link: 183 MB m4v file at Sendspace (If you'd like it in a different format, let me know.)

AO3 link.
DW link.

Summary: The Empire would have gotten away with it, too, if it hadn't been for those meddling Rebels and incompetent Imperial officers.

This is an AMAZING Carrie Fisher vid that was made for Festivids.  You have to watch it, and then go watch the rest of them.

This is an AWESOME metacommentary on the MCU, set to Regina Spektor' Us.  Go watch it, now!

Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Music: Us by Regina Spektor
Length: 04:53
Content notes: blood, medical equipment

Spoilers for: Captain America: The Winter Soldier; Agent Carter; Agents of SHIELD (Season one)

Summary: Steve Rogers has a complicated relationship with the legacy of Captain America
Alternative Summary: It is Supersoldiers all the way down.

Okay, It's been a while since I've done a vid rec post.  I'm just finishing up driving the DW van on crack_van and trying to pick what vid to rec and it's really hard because there have been some awesome Doctor Who vids posted recently.  I've settled on Movin' Right Along, an awesome and fun multi-Doctor vid set to a Muppets song (it's awesome).  I would have recced What About Everything or Handlebars, being (IMO) the two best Doctor Who vids ever, but they've already been recced.

But what about all the other awesome vids out there?  Here are some of my faves.

Recent vids:

Brand New Day by humansrsuperior.  New Doctor, new TARDIS, new sonic screwdriver, new companion... A fresh start, the dawn of a new day, and of a new era.  The first four episodes of season 4 set to music.  It's fun, the clips are synched to the music, and it really captures the feel of the Doctor and Amy romping through the universe.

You'll Be Bright by diarmi.  Rose, Martha, Donna, Amy. With guest appearance by Nine, Ten and Eleven.
  They're reaching for adventure, for stars, for him... And they're glorious.  One of the most perfect choices of song for subject matter that you're going to find, and well made.

Starry Night by azarsuerte. Okay, granted, the choice of song was kind of a gimme.  What else would you use to vid an episode about Vincent Van Gogh but a song about Vincent Van Gogh?  Still, it's a nice song, it was a great episode, and the two are beautifully put together.

Pure Imagination by chasarumba.  Again, a perfect match between song and subject.  This takes the song from the original Willy Wonka, and sets it to clips of Amy and the Doctor (first two episodes).  If you want to view paradise, Simply look around and view it, Anything you want to, do it, Wanna change the world? There's nothing To it.  I love the editing and the way the clips were chosen.

Anything the Doctor can Do by Sammy and rhoboat.  This is really funny, playing up on the similarities and competition between the Doctor and the Master (Ten and Simm, respectively).  Bonus, the song (Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better) is sung by Jon Barrowman.

Older vids:

Measuring Cups by airie_fairy.  Four and Sarah Jane.  Lots of fun.

Swinging On A Star by crayford. Seasons 1-3 of new who, lots of fun.

And, true to recent history, the vid that really caught my eye today on one of my periodic vid hunts was a Doctor Who vid. A little gem by rhoboat called History Repeating. Sung by Shirley Bassey, it's about how no matter what happens, the Doctor's life stays pretty much the same: running, companions, and sonic screwdrivers.

For the Stargate fans out there, here's Who Knew? by scifi_tv_addict (song by Pink), Vala and Tomin's relationship from his point of view.

It's All Right With Me. Doctor Who, song sung by John Barrowman. Jack does not quite find the Doctor as he left him, Jack/Nine/Ten/Rose/Martha, G. Link goes to the vidder's post.