LINKDING

summary: <blockquote>Hua Cheng only wants to have Xie Lian's full and complete attention.</blockquote> ➤ hualian fanvid of the TGCF donghua set to Vienna Teng's "Never Look Away" ➤ ahhhhh it's just very feelings!!!! ➤ audio is song-only ➤ youtube video includes lyric captions ➤ 3:16 in length

Summary: <blockquote>When you're a boy Other boys check you out You get a girl These are your favorite things When you're a boy</blockquote> ➤ a vid about Rosalind in many different productions of Shakespeare's As You Like It ➤ a vid that is just having SO much fun leaning into being as queer about gender as it can manage ➤ and I had just as much fun watching it! ➤ 2:00 in length. Music only, no added sounds/dialogue. No subtitles.

Summary: <blockquote>"The game you taught me how to play, I won it." Marta, Helen, and Andi hold their own.</blockquote> ➤ about the heroines of Knives out and Glass Onion ➤ idk that I have anything insightful or interesting to say about this one but it's a good vid! I liked it! ➤ 2:27 in length. Music only, no added sounds/dialogue. No subtitles.

Summary: <blockquote>Mercutio's been magnetic since he was a baby.</blockquote> ➤ another Romeo + Juliet vid, this one focusing on Mercutio ➤ it's about how magnetic a character and a person Mercutio is and like. YUP. AGREED. ➤ 0:58 in length. Music only, no added sounds/dialogue. Subtitles are available.

Summary: <blockquote>Every day it's that same moby schtick.</blockquote> ➤ Moby Dick vid featuring as many different adaptations and inspired-bys that the vidder could fit in ➤ here it goes again! the story keeps repeating itself! you can't escape it! ➤ so much fun and so impressive ➤ 3:01 in length. Music only, no added sounds/dialogue. Subtitles are available.

Summary: <blockquote>Adventuring party? Check. Disaster? Absolutely.</blockquote> ➤ so I have not actually seen the dungeons and dragons movie yet but this vid about the adventuring party was just so fun and charming to watch ➤ upbeat and loving look at the characters and their various misfortunes as they make mistakes and keep going ➤ 3:12 in length. music only, no added sounds/dialogue. no subtitles.

Summary: <blockquote>“Ladies, it seems, seldom have strong feelings and, if they do, never never let them show. God’s thumbs! I always have strong feelings and they are quite painful until I let them out, like a cow who needs to give milk and bellows with the pain in her.” ― Karen Cushman, Catherine, Called Birdy</blockquote> ➤ vid for the movie Catherine Called Birdy, about Birdy and her relationship with her parents ➤ I haven't actually seen the movie but I have loved the book for many years! ➤ and this vid felt like it exactly captured the feel and the mood of the story. It's lovely. ➤ 3:24 in length. music only, no added sounds/dialogue. no subtitles.

Summary: <blockquote>Gotta move, gotta choose / You've got a difference to make / Don't let it happen again Judas makes an agonizing decision, again and again and again.</blockquote> ➤ a Jesus Christ Superstar vid which draws on many different productions of the musical, both stage and film, to look at Judas's relationship with Jesus ➤ I love how it gets across how intense and agonising a relationship it is, and the use of many different sources helps hammer home the inevitability of its tragedy too ➤ 3:45 in length. music only, no added sounds/dialogue. subtitles are available.

Summary: <blockquote>It'd be safest if you ran.</blockquote> ➤ Taskmaster UK vid focusing on Alex and the uhhhh dynamics in the show that he created ➤ I love the way the editing turns so many of the weird visuals into something that the camera has an erotic focus on. it's so effective! and the song really amplifies it. ➤ 3:13 in length. music only, not added sounds/dialogue. no subtitles available.

Summary: <blockquote>Juliet met an awesome guy at a big party her parents threw and fell instantly in love! With a meet-cute like that, what could go wrong? (Turns out: literally everything.)</blockquote> ➤ for the film Romeo+Juliet, and focuses on the Romeo/Juliet relationship ➤ set to the song "Parachute" which I previously knew from an extremely cute Leverage vid, so it was fascinating to see how this vid pulled out very different themes from the song and made a much darker, more painful vid, though cut through with moments of cuteness and levity, as the tension ramped upwards towards Romeo and Juliet's inevitable end ➤ it was so good! ➤ 2:52 in length. Music only, no added sounds/dialogue. No subtitles.

Summary: <blockquote>all I really want is some peace, man</blockquote> ➤ author's note: "doomed best friends who understand each other so deeply" ➤ an Untamed vid about Wei Wuxian & Wen Qing ➤ ahhhhhh I have SO MANY feels about them and this vid GETS them ➤ ouchy in the best way ➤ audio is solely the music ➤ no subtitles ➤ 4:41 in length ➤ thanks to lesbianwangyibo for the rec!

Summary: <blockquote>“Let the games begin.” Jin Guangyao’s glitchy final death thoughts about his boyf- sworn brothers, his daddy issues, and his manipulative schemes.</blockquote> ➤ fanvid focusing on jin guangyao, especially his relationships with lxc and nmj and qin su ➤ set to "Ready For It" by Taylor Swift ➤ this was so much FUN. the song makes it a real bop, experiencing jgy and his uhhhhhh Choices. the vid makes excellent use of his patented customer service smile also! ➤ thanks yet again to lookitmychicken for the rec!

Summary: <blockquote>"I have regrets." - Lan Wangji</blockquote> ➤ wangxian fanvid set to "Hold On, I'm Coming" by Book featuring Ndidi O ➤ damn this vidder is so good at using the motion of clips with the music to create and build intensity! ➤ I love how clear the arc is of what the vid is doing, even with almost no words in the song ➤ thanks to lookitmychicken again for reccing this one!

Summary: <blockquote>"Why would I stop loving you, a hundred years from now?"</blockquote> ➤ wangxian fanvid set to "It's Only Time" by the magnetic fields ➤ I tend to be a hard sell on vids set to slower songs but this one totally captured me ➤ a gorgeous look at the endlessness of lwj's love

Summary: <blockquote>All I want to do is bicycle- bicycle- bicycle</blockquote> ➤ multifandom vid set to Queen's "Bicycle Race" ➤ no serious deep meaning, just a whole lot of different people bicycling in a whole lot of different fandoms! ➤ charming and fun to watch

Summary: <blockquote>Alone in our secret Together we sigh For one smiling day to be free A continuation of my Screened Out series on the history of queer representation in Hollywood, focusing on desire, longing, and repression in 1950s and early 1960s dramas.</blockquote> ➤ a follow-up to the pre-code vid I just recced, this one is about queer themes in 1950's-60's hollywood ➤ very different vibes, and the contrast says a lot when you watch the two back to back ➤ this one does really good understated yearning and unspoken secrets.

Summary: <blockquote>Wei Wuxian & Jin Guangyao as narrative mirrors.</blockquote> ➤ the bit it says about how people often talk about how lwj and lxc both put all their love and trust into one man, and only one of them was right to - but actually before his resurrection wwx ALSO causes a lot of death and harm to loved ones

Summary: <blockquote>Clearly the AMV was always going to be about Victor's pre-canon depression - hearing the lyric 'well my heart is gold but my hands are cold' was what made me want to make this, because that is perfect for Victor and I need to steal it for a fic title some day. But it also ended up becoming about the intensity of media pressure on Victor. </blockquote>

<blockquote>Look what you made Helen do.</blockquote>

<blockquote>To be wise and love exceeds man’s might 😔</blockquote>

<blockquote>War is an ugly business, even when you win. Jin Guangyao, Nie Huaisang, and all the destruction left in their wake.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"I was coming home, in a yellow bus." The adventures that Ms. Frizzle and her class get up to in the Magic School Bus can be awfully hard to believe.</blockquote> ➤ to the tom chapin song "long way home"!

<blockquote>"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible." -- T.E. Lawrence</blockquote> ➤ I WAS WEAK, I watched this while only halfway through the movie, and already this vid gave me a lot of feels. I bet it'll be even more so once I have seen the whole movie. ➤ (though it's too bad there's no subtitles for this vid, because the the singer does not articulate clearly enough for me to understand more than a few words here and there. Lyrics can be found here: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/blackangels/youngmendead.html)