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the best story summary I have ever read. (NSFW, Sam/Dean)

Happy More Joy Day! (if you follow that link, you'll see people post in the comments throughout the day with links to their joy-making things. But don't click if you're afraid of muppets. I ... am afraid of muppets. And I am actually not kidding.)

Also, this wasn't done for More Joy Day, but it is well timed - Starsky & Hutch Secret Santa Gifts are up.

No, you know, what? I can't even really care.

I was going to laugh and laugh at this article about Sarah Palin's appearance on Glenn Beck, but ... I can't even take them seriously enough to bother.

You, however, may find it amusing.

New Vid: "Cemeteries of London" (Forever Knight)

This vid was made for abby82 as part of the festivids vid exchange and was originally posted here.

Song: Cemeteries of London by Coldplay
Fandom: Forever Knight

Summary: 'Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished.

Sizes: 47 MB (560 x 420 .wmv), 14.8 MB (400 x 300 .wmv)
Length: 2:48

Notes: Tonight, the city of London will be played by Toronto.

Download: Monsters from the Vids

( Streaming link and embed under the cut )

Thanks so much to counteragent and halcyon_shift for beta-ing, and to yhlee for organizing festivids in the first place.

Comments welcome.

(Cross-posted to LJ)

New Vid: "AEIOU" (The Vampire Diaries)

This vid was made for greensilver as part of the festivids vid exchange and was originally posted here.

Song: AEIOU by Charlotte Sometimes
Fandom: The Vampire Diaries

Summary: A surfeit of H2O.

Pairing: Stefan/Elena. In a way.

Spoilers: Through "The Turning Point"

Sizes: 16 MB (540 x 360 .avi), 11 MB (420 x 280 .wmv)
Length: 2:17

Download: Monsters from the Vids

( Streaming link and embed under the cut )

Thanks so much to lcsbanana for the beta, and to yhlee for taking all this on in the first place.

Comments welcome.

(Cross-posted to LJ)

I am just as impatient as y'all are.

You have no idea. Trying to concentrate on work, and it's not happening.

If you need to see a vid right now, though, check out thedothatgirl's If it gives you joy, made for More Joy Day. Whedonverse multi, and it's just adorable.

FESTIVIDS IS LIVE!!

*runs around in circles*

*collapses*

Go here to see all the shiny. Recs forthcoming but I can tell you right now, watch them all!

Festivids recs!

Okay, so by now I've seen most - though not all - of the Festivids, because I was lucky enough to get a head start :-) (yes, I know who made them, okay? I KNOW). And I am not kidding when I say you should watch each and every one of them. I'm really quite amazed at how consistently good they all are (although in wildly different ways). And the source! I mean, there are vids with this gorgeous source you've never seen before, and then ugly-as-hell source but dear God, remember when television looked like that? And then there're all the vids to sources you always thought would make an amazing vid, and now you know - or source where you think my god, why didn't I realize how amazing that would be to vid, or source where, you'd have sworn it was unviddable, but you would be wrong, and just plain source where there are a few existing vids but you knew there needed to be more and hey! Now there are.

But this isn't like Yuletide, where there are something like 500 million stories, so that you can do a rec list of 100 and it's still not obvious which one's yours. If I went through and rec'd everything I loved, I'd essentially be outing myself. So I can't do that (unless I was wily and rec'd myself, which ... I am not going to do). So I'm saving a bunch of recs until after the reveal.

For now, though, I can't help but jump up and down and squee about just a teeny taste of what's good. And I can't emphasize this enough: it doesn't matter if you don't know the source. Hell, I don't know the source for many of these - you still should watch them.

I have to start with the vid that was made just for me: Sleepwalker (Profit). I love this show, which is about how pretty Adrian Pasdar is how a man who was literally raised by television as a child turned into a soulless monster who schemes his way through the corporate world. This vid is perfectly Profit - it's creepy and spooky and weird and in a million years I would never have paired Adam Lambert with this show but wow, that totally works. Like, not even in a cracky way - it works for real.

Other vids you should totally watch while you're, you know, watching everything:

( Recs below the cut )

The Dreamwidth troll thing

This makes me so furious that I feel like I have to spend money to get a paid account.

That and, still no LJ notifications.