A welcome, recs, and guilt.

Welcome to Livejournal land, anduranova of the TBFC tribe and of the Scape Sisters. Anyone who followed my rec for Poison recently and liked it, go tell anduranova - she's the editor.

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I'm totally running out of time on uni stuff and still haven't made my Important Decision, so of course, I did the logical thing and spent most of today tagging all my LJ entries for 2002, and sorting through the rest of my Farscape vid backlog. Arrgh.

At least the Farscape tag in the tags list here is about as big as the Life on Mars tag now, as it should be. As I continue to tag the years between 2002 and 2006 it will probably grow even larger.

And I have 1.200 well-sorted Farscape vids, now.

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Farscape vid rec for today: back in 2001 or so, Birgit made some of the best fanvids in the entirety of young Farscape fandom. She then mostly disappeared (as a vidder) for several years before re-emerging in 2005 with some vids that I, personally, thought good but not as spectacular as the admittedly hard-to-beat Under Ice (which was the very first fanvid I watched, and which is probably the main reason I turned into the total Farscape fanvid nut that I did.) More recently she's made some rather remarkable vids, which sort of remind me of Under Ice.

J/A shippy vids make up the majority of the fandom's production, and they can kill you with kitsch, so whenever I open a vid to find it's shippy I tend to get wary (and just a tad bored in advance). Birgit's approach to shippiness and shippy angst in her recent vids is one that managed to capture my interest, though. She chooses somewhat jarring, in some cases almost dissonant songs, which somehow - IMO - fit the John/Aeryn relationship much better than your average love ballad from the top of the charts. Like the relationship, these songs have hard edges. She also eschews the 'smooth' look and editing that have been the hallmark of many of the better vids in recent years, using some very odd effects and blending images in a quick and sometimes deliberately messy succession that nevertheless somehow works. The overall impression is occasionally hectic and disjointed, but fits both the music and the relationship depicted perfectly. So hop on over to Birgit's Vids and download

- Missing (J/A shippy/angsty)
- Disarm (J/A shippy/angsty)
- Goodbye, Blue Sky (PKW, wormholes, time)
- Three Sunrises (J/A shippy)

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And, for amonitrate and bimo and other Twin Peaks fanatics (as well as anyone else who's interested in superb vidding): astolat has made a Twin Peaks vid that is so good it leaves me speechless. You can download it here. The editing is perfect, the song is perfect, and the crazy thing is that that song has been linked to Twin Peaks in my mind since I first heard it, back in the same year I watched Twin Peaks for the first (and so far only) time.

ETA: Go and leave astolat feedback here!

This vid captures the essence of Twin Peaks so well it gave me Bob nightmares yesterday.

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"I'm going to die horribly," he says to her. Trying it on for size.

(From "Möglichkeitssinn". Possibly.)

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Go away, depressing!muse. Shoo.

Myself, in retrospect

Well, today I was at work, which means I had eight hours to do stuff that would otherwise be considered procrastination, without much of a guilty conscience. So, I did some catching up, though I cheated a bit there, choosing mostly short ljs. And then I tagged about two thirds of my entries for 2003.

Results:

- The "farscape" tag is bigger than the "life on mars" tag now. It's a bit alarming, to be honest, because it's not just the "farscape" tag growing - the "life on mars" tag is actively shrinking. If I keep tagging my old entries it will soon shrink into insignificance. Clearly I must post more Life on Mars content here, and soon! *g*

- I was reminded how neurotic I used to be about my writing. I mean, I hadn't exactly forgotten about this, really - but it's still striking to see that kind of extreme doubt pop up so frequently in my lj. Incidentally, I think 2003 was also the year that those particular fears began to fade a bit. It was the year I found beccatoria, who I think has done more to raise my faith in my potential than all the recs and feedback I have received in my life. I think it was also the year I passed some actual, objective 'quality threshold'. Most of the stuff I've written since then holds up reasonably well. And, last but probably not least, I think it may have been the year a fic of mine ("Together") was recced for the very first time. Though that may have been early 2004, come to think of it - I suspect I'll find out as I continue to tag the entries that come after October 2003.

- It's amazing how my flist has changed. I happen to have captured the entirety of it as it was back then in this post here, as a linking exercise: the main thing about my flist back then, aside from the fact that it was mostly made up of BABEs, was that it was short! Amazingly short.

- It's kind of fun to look back at myself as I was five or four years ago, but I can only take a certain dose of past!me.

Just realised:

Even just selecting from my favourites folder, I could rec a Farscape vid every day for a year now. o.O

Since I recommended recent vids by Birgit yesterday, I'm going to rec a recent vid by AnnieBW (KobaTV), another of the old greats of FS vidding fandom, today:

Trigger Happy - song by Weird Al Yankovic, footage: 3:55 minutes of fun with sci-fi violence. *g* Be sure to watch the entire vid - there's one of my favourite Aeryn moments right at the end.

@ Newcomers to KobaTV who are wondering what to download apart from that one: I particularly recommend "You're a Mean One, Scorpius", "The Masochism Tango", "You Can't Get a Man With a Gun", "Kiss That Frog" and "Mambo #5". Unfortunately all of these vids suffer from being old and in Quicktime format, i.e. small and pixelated. They're still funny, though.