Beyond the Roundels

I was going to make a proper post with more things in, but guess what?

festivids is live! (festivids is basically the vidding equivalent of yuletide and it is amazing. If you like vids at all, go forth and rifle through it and enjoy.)

BUT ALSO, I looked at the fandoms listed this morning when impatient for reveals to happen and THERE WAS SAPPHIRE & STEEL!! Readers, readers, when it went live, the vid itself did not disappoint - it captures the sheer weirdness of the show and its central duo so well.

I am now off to see what else the collection has to offer, but a brilliant S&S vid in a world that sadly has far too few S&S vids must obviously eclipse all else for me.

Just a flaily drive-by post because here is a cheerful thing - festivids is live!!

I have watched about 3 or 4 vids so far, but there are plenty of things to appeal to people in these parts. There is another beautiful Ghosts vid (which inevitably made me tear up a bit halfway through, from which you can tell the tone is perfect <3) but the reason why I am posting now is first and foremost:

There is an Assassination Bureau vid! So now I can point to it and go: look! see! this is why you must watch this film! it is a film with all the things. <- /points

I mean, as if "Diana Rigg is a journalist who hires Oliver Reed to get his own assassination bureau to assassinate him and then they have a giant assassination chase across pre-WWI Europe while she tries to report on it. shenanigans go down." was not enough on its own, pfft.

anyway, that is one nice thing. festivids!

I'm still feeling rotten, but here's something to brighten up anyone's day - festivids has gone live! All the vids are here.

I've only just started, but I squeaked to find one for Malory Towers, Emma Peel, and Ghosts (and the two of those I've watched as yet were A++) - and much more! Plus, I can spy plenty of things I know you lot are into.


(festivids is basically yuletide for vids and always a complete joy to pretty much anyone who ever enjoys a good fanvid.)

festivids is live!

If you don't know, festivids is basically yuletide for vids and it is always amazing, so if you like vids at all, go check the collection out.

festivids 2018 has gone live!

(festivids is pretty much like Yuletide for vidders, being a vidding exchange for small fandoms that takes place at a similar time of the year. I have never taken part, but I appreciate the resulting vids hugely! It's always a complete delight to dip in and discover vids for things you'd never even dreamed of vids for.)

You can find all the vids here, and if you enjoy vids at all, I recommend taking a look!

Here are some excellent vids that I have very much enjoyed so far, but there are many more, for many more fandoms over there:

Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Not Gonna Take It
Whole film: oh, we're not gonna take it anymore

Dead Like Me
So Sad, So Lonely
Mason: "I don't want nobody/ Nobody don't want me/ I'm so sad, so lonely/ And I'm always landing on my feet"

Meet Mason: a degenerate, pathetic, and overall, hot mess, of a grim reaper. (And we can't help but love him for it!)

Eureka
I Am A Scientist
Whole show (like, more whole show than any other vid I have ever seen): The madcap scientists of the town called Eureka...this is their story.

The Librarians
Team
Ensemble: They're on each other's team

Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
Much Ado About Nothing
Whole film: A fun look at the characters of Much Ado About Nothing (1993 version)

Pollyanna (2003)
This Stray Italian Greyhound
Pollyanna & Aunt Polly: "What do I do with a love that won't sit still?"

Sense & Sensibility (1995)
All This and Heaven Too
Marianne & Elinor: "The heart is hard to translate."

Three Men & a Baby/Three Men and a Little Lady
Don't Stop Me Now
Mary & her three daddies: Accidental baby (child) acquisition: it's nothing but fun, fun, fun!



(But, people, there is a FRAGGLE VID, why is there a FRAGGLE VID?? 0_o*)


* Look, Fraggle Rock was TERRIFYING, okay, why don't people understand that?

These are pretty much all of what I've watched, generally just trying the fandoms I know. (The vids are all still anonymous at this stage). You'll find any warnings/ratings on the vid posts.

( Recs )

The full Masterlist is here if you want to check out what teeny tiny fandoms now have extremely shiny vids made for them. :-)

So festivids went live yesterday and if you like fanvids at all, you might want to take a look at the Masterlist, because there are over 190 vids in tiny fandoms there and marvellous they all are, too. If you don't already know, it's like the Yuletide for vids.

This year, I went, looked, thought I didn't know almost any of the sources, and then of course, kept finding all these things I did and it's wonderful, and, as ever, I'm in awe of all the vidders. So here are a handful of recs from my scratched bit of the surface:

Somewhere A Clock Is Ticking (The Hollow Crown) Just amazing, really. If you only watch one (but why? why would you only watch one???), make it this one.

Beauty in the Breakdown (Amelie) So pretty and right.

Step Into Your Place (Blackadder Goes Forth) Really well done anyway, but it's the clever use of contemporary posters etc. that make it something special.

Just A Girl (Hogfather) I've still never seen this, this vid makes me think I really should. (Michelle Dockery, anyway.)

Glad You Came (Downton Abbey) Joyful DA and sort of all the reasons I keep happily watching, no matter what's happened.

Devils (BBC Gormenghast) Beautifully creepy and fitting.

And in the category of me flailing because I can't believe somebody vidded X, I give you Do What You Feel for Desperately Seeking Susan. (When we were teenagers, my sister and I had this recorded off the TV and watched it at least twenty times. Don't judge me, it was a thing. :lol:)

And lots, lots more.