Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Boulevard of Broken Songs, Buffy character study with Buffy/Faith and Buffy/Kendra. Vid by shati, mash-up by Party Ben; the songs sampled for the mash-up are by Green Day, Oasis, Travis, and Aerosmith.

This is one of my favorite mash-ups, despite the fact that I'm not nuts about any of the individual songs. If you told me that Buffy's journey fit perfectly to an overvidded Green Day song, or that Faith's feelings about Buffy were expressed by Wonderwall, I would probably have skoffed at you.* But really, this mash-up is a perfect song choice for the story the vidder is trying to tell. Because in the end, it's all about Buffy: Buffy moving from walking alone, fighting her lonely battle all by herself, to fighting alongside a whole world of other slayers. But Kendra and Faith and the First Slayer are all intertwined with that, and the vidder uses the way the song is set up (with Boulevard being the main song, and Wonderwall and Writing to Reach You chiming in for small sections) to talk about Buffy's relationships with Faith and Kendra (the PoV changes to Faith's almost every time Wonderwall chimes in--and there are Buffy/Faith sections within the main song, but mostly those are still about *Buffy*) without losing that main idea, that this vid is about *Buffy* and she is *walking alone* and OMG THE EMO--except wait... by the end, she doesn't have to walk alone anymore, and isn't that nice?

Some more specific things that I liked ( that I will talk about behind a cut to avoid spoiling the vid any more than I have )

I will stop geeking out about this vid now and give you the download link already. Get it here.





*This is a lie. I would probably pretend to be Too Cool for Wonderwall, but in my 'shippy heart of hearts I'd be going 'Buffy is Faith's wonderwall! OMG!'

Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Perfect Day, Willow character study. Vid by aycheb, music by Lou Reed.

Holy crap this is awesome. I was going to be good and finish up my VVC recs before moving on to other vids, but I pretty much have to make everyone I know see this vid now now now.

The song choice is really perfect. The lyrics start out nice and wistful, longing and sweet, yet as the song progresses the song gest darker and creepier--just like Willow does! And the vidder uses the song so *well*--I'm especially in love with the instrumental bridge. The way aycheb intercuts those painful, emotional scenes is freakishly brilliant.

I also love this vid because the vidder really *gets* Willow--and gets that Willow has been creepy as fuck pretty much since day one. The turn to darkness in season six didn't just come out of the blue.

I'm going to stop rambling now before I start rambling about *imagery* and *repeated clips* and *intercutting* and other things that this vid does amazingly well. Download it here.


Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Polaroid Millenium, Buffy character vid with a nice side of Giles. Mmm, Giles. Vid by gwyn_r, music by Superior.

It took me a while to 'get' this vid. The music is subtle compared to a lot of vid songs, and likewise, the vid doesn't hit you over the head with its themes. It's a mood piece first and foremost (and it does a *great* job at setting the mood), but the story is there as well. It's a very clever vid, and I love this view of Buffy and her relationships with others, especially Giles.

I really love the effects Gwyn uses in this vid, both the effects from the source that she takes advantage of, and effects she puts in herself (the snapshots--so perfect!). It's also great to see a Buffy vid that uses all of the seasons and does it well, without coming off at all jumbled or confused. Not an easy feat, considering the vastness of the series.

*sigh* Buffy, man. She's such a woobie. Download it here. You'll have to email Gwyneth for a password, but it's okay, she doesn't bite.

Supernatural
Ghost Song, Sam character study. Vid by greensilver, music by Patrick Wolf.

I tend to be very picky about music choice in Supernatural vids, mostly because there's particular music I associate with the show and it pretty much never gets used in vids for the show. (Yes, yes, I know that almost no one else loves AC/DC unironically. I have come to accept this; doesn't mean I have to like it.) This song is not the kind of music I normally associate with Supernatural, yet it works so well and it's so *creepy* that I keep forgetting it's not actually in the episode Nightmare.

The music here is just used incredibly well. It's a weird song, with creepy sound effects and strange lyrics and strange instrumentation; it's not a particularly pretty song. Greensilver uses that, uses the creepy sound effects to showcase creepy moments in the show. With some SPN vids you don't even know that you're watching a show about horror; this vid reminds me that, oh yeah, Sam's universe is one where a man's head gets decapitated by a window, and there's that whole thing with the knife and the woman's head and ack moving on now.

This is a vid about Sam, showcasing the character by focusing on his weird visions and dreams. There's a lot of clips from Nightmare, but I wouldn't call it an episodic vid; to me, it encompasses all of Sam. Sam isn't the most popular brother of the show and hearing people whine about him has made me rather defensive of the character, and I feel like I've been given a vid that I can shove people at and say, "See this? *This* is why I love him. Watch and learn." I probably won't do that to Sam haters because I don't want to be that crazy person, but it's nice to know that this vid exists if I *wanted* to.

Sam, you crazy kid. Download it here.


Supernatural
Evening On The Ground, Sam/Dean. (Note: The vidder says it isn't a slash vid. However, I'm of the school that authorial intent matters not and *I* see it as slash. It could go either way, though, so *shrug*) Vid by halcyon_shift, music by Iron & Wine.

This vid doesn't just capture the show well, although it does that. It's more like it explains *why* I love Supernatural so much. It shows Dean's woobieness and his edge, it shows the fucked-up universe they live in, it shows the way they're all doomed in the end. (Um, major spoilers for the end of season one in this vid, I might add. Although if you care about that sort of thing, you've probably learned to not download SPN vids at all until you've seen the episodes in question.)

This vid has a lot of effects, but it uses them well, highlighting the music and highlighting the themes of the vid. I'm particularly in love with what Lithium does with the ghost-Jess clips--it's a scene you see in a lot of vids, but she makes it her own.

Sadly, I believe Lithium's vids are down for now due to bandwidth issues. If I were a better person I would have waited until they were up again to go on at length about how awesome this vid is, but I just couldn't wait. But her vids are coming back in September, and when they do you can find Evening On The Ground here.

March of the Penguins
Walk The Line. Vid by tv_elf, music by Johnny Cash.

Because penguins, that's why. Well, specifically because after all the angst of Sam and Dean, everyone needs some penguins. Well--I need some penguins.

This is another contender for the ultimate feelgood vid to come out of this year's VividCon. Because--penguins. *Baby* penguins. To Johnny Cash! I am just not seeing any bad there, are you? Not to mention that the penguins march to the beat, and that is just cool.

Go, watch, die of the adorable. Download it here.

So the lovely thefourthvine made this post, and I remembered that it would be nice if I actually used this journal once in a while. Novel idea, I know.

Tackling VividCon vids for now because, well, there are a lot of them. Watch this space for hopefully more than dismally sporadic updating!

Angel
Have You Heard, ensemble. Vid by yhlee, music by Thea Gilmore.

This vid is a remix of sisabet's vid, Two Words, and if you haven't seen that vid, kindly step out from under the rock you must live in and download it here; Have You Heard works on its own, but I recommend watching Two Words first. The vids complement each other well, and also Two Words is fucking amazing and if you haven't seen it yet what the hell are you waiting for?

Anyway. I obviously have a great and semi-crazy love for Two Words, and I was amazed that someone had the balls to remix it when I saw Have You Heard on the VividCon schedule. And then I saw that the remix was to Thea Gilmore and my skepticism grew. I only mention this because my skepticism was completely and utterly mistaken, because yhlee pulls Thea Gilmore and the remix off and then some.

She calls it a homage to Two Words in her titles, and it is, among other things. Many of the same images and clips from Two Words are used in Have You Heard, and it also captures the fury of Two Words, despite the fact that the music styles of each vid are so different. Two Words is about fury, about a group of people (and specifically, Angel) who have been screwed over and over and over again, yet keep getting up and fighting every time, and Have You Heard keeps that fury and adds the sorrow, the mourning. It's a more quiet, subdued anger, a wonderful counterpoint to the roar of voices in Two Words.

The vidder also walks a fine line between sticking too close to the original vid and losing the homage. You can't cram Kanye West and Mos Def perfectly into Thea Gilmore, and she doesn't try; she lets her song dictate the structure and the feel of the vid. While Two Words moves pretty strictly chronologically through seasons one through four in the first section of the song, Have You Heard flows between seasons one through four, going back and forth before it focuses on season five and the last few episodes of the series in the last half of the vid. Have You Heard draws inspiration and themes from Two Words, but it's definitely its own vid.

Also it came very, very close to making me cry in the Challenge Show at VVC, so I might as well stop pretending to be objective. Download it here.


Multifandom (specifically: Alias, Buffy, Veronica Mars, Battlestar Galactica and Firefly.)
I Enjoy Being A Girl. Vid by absolutedestiny, music by Sandra Allen.

One of the most fun and uplifting vids to come out of this year's VividCon (it's tied with I Put You There). What can I possibly say about this vid? It's hilarious. It reclaims the song from that awful commercial with whatsherface, Sarah Jessica Parker. It puts Buffy and Veronica in a vid together, and I have been just waiting for someone to do that. It has lots of explosions. Did I mention the hilarity?

I'm going to hopefully sidestep my temptation to write a feminist discourse on this vid and keep this rec short (well, ish). It's enough to say that this vid doesn't feel like just a gift for par_avion, it feels like a gift for all of us.

....and now that I've become corny to the point of embarrassment, download the vid here.

Due South
Goody Two Shoes. Vid by laurashapiro and pipsqueaky, music by Adam Ant.

There are lots of angsty vids about Fraser out there. Which is all well and good; Fraser is an angst muffin, after all. But Goody Two Shoes exposes a less vidded truth about him: that he's cute as a button, and also he drives people crazy. Specifically, the Rays.

This vid is just insanely clever. I mean, obviously it's funny, obviously it's fun to dance to, but there's not really anything in the lyrics to suggest that this vid should be about Fraser driving Ray and Ray nuts. Laura and Pipsqueaky could have just made a vid about how cute and weird Fraser is, and it would have been a fine vid, but this vid... oh, this vid makes me kick my feet in glee. (And also chairdance, but that's beside the point.) Because as the vid goes on, the Rays get progressively more and more frustrated and exasperated with Fraser (although *we* know they love him), until that last clip where Fraser claps their backs *on the beat*--which is impressive enough, but of course, that particular clip is just the ultimate example of Fraser being cheerful and oblivious and making his Rays seethe in aggravation.

Oh, Fraser. Oh, Ray and Ray. Heart. Download it here.

Supernatural
The Breakup Song, Sam/Dean. Vid by sinden, music by Cowboy Mouth.

This vid is just how I imagine Sam and Dean: fast-paced, edgy, harsh and confrontational. It takes about twenty seconds for the vid to really find its rhythm, I think, but then it picks you up and you just can't look away from the fucked-up relationship playing out between Sam and Dean.

The vidder does a really good job of slamming you with one fast clip after another until you feel dizzy, then she gives you a slightly longer clip to rest your eyes, and then attacking you again with the fast-paced clips. I also love the way she uses the music, especially the 'oh-oh-oh's. I think the vid lost its focus towards the end--the strength of the vid lies in the fact that its about *Sam* and *Dean* and their little fucked-up world, and I thought suddenly expanding that focus to include random other people they interacted with was a mistake. But I love that last shot of the car driving away.

Download here, and don't forget to give feedback.

Supernatural
Sweetest Perfection, Winchester family. Vid by angstslashhope, music by Fourplay.

Note: This vid is spoilery for the Supernatural season one finale.

And now for a completely different kind of Supernatural vid. I had to watch this vid roughly ten times or so before I figured out just what I wanted to say about it--it's just so *full.* This vid tackles all of season one of Supernatural and makes you take a closer look at every single part, even the plots you thought were kind of dumb and the monsters you thought looked totally fake at the time. This vid scares me and creeps me out way more than the show ever did.

I just love the way Hope uses movement in this vid. Both internal movement in each of her clips, and the movement of the music (this vid has *separate distinct acts* and it is embarrassing how much I am geeking out over that), and the chronological movement of the show. At first the vid just seems like it's re-telling the season in cool new ways, moving mostly linearly from episode to episode, and then we have those wonderful shots of Sam waking up, and the vid becomes so much *more.* Hope cuts this show wide open and shows us how it *works.*

I still haven't figured out everything this vid is saying. I think I need to watch it ten more times. Download here and tell Hope how awesome she is.

Veronica Mars
Part of the Queue, Logan character study. Vid by Rowena (river_boat), music by Oasis.

I'm a great fan of Logan, but I tend to not seek out many vids or stories about the character, because so many people just don't seem to get him--or at least, not the way I see him. It's easy to look at Logan and whitewash him as a Generic Woobie, and that interpretation of the character makes me flail and tear my hair out and then sulk a lot.

This vid certainly doesn't whitewash him. This vid makes me want to simultaneously hug Logan and slap him, which is as it should be. It highlights all of his flaws and all the shitty things that have happened to him; it doesn't make excuses for the character, it just tells us *why* he is the way he is. It gives us Logan and Aaron, and how that relationship colors everything that happens to Logan and everything he does--from his relationship with Veronica, to Weevil, to all his actions in season two. The vid tells us that it's all inevitable, and it's all going to end in pain and more pain, and did I mention the pain?

I have watched this vid so many times to study how it does what it does. The way Rowena uses motion and jump-cutting to draw the similarities between Aaron and Logan blows me away, and I love the visual threads running through the movie. Even when violence isn't actually happening in the vid (which isn't that often), you can feel how close it is to the surface, how much it's shaped Logan. And that lost shot, and the way it points back to the beginning of the vid is stunning and such a perfect ending.

Go watch, wibble, and send feedback. Download here.

Harry Potter
The Boy Was a Puppet, Harry character study. Vid by wistful_fever, music by Rob Thomas.

I never really got into the Harry Potter movies. I hated the first two, and while I liked the third and fourth movies all right, I still didn't really associate them with the HP universe I was fannish about. Harry Potter vids are a hard sell for me, because the characters don't look like the characters in my head and the universe onscreen is just so far away from the one I found in the books.

This vid is a big huge exception. It made me love Harry all over again; it made me remember why I loved these stories in the first place. One thing about the movies that I do appreciate is that they remind you that, wow, the characters really *are* that young--that Harry was catapulted into this at age *eleven.* And he tries so hard, and practically the whole damn world is against him, even the people that are supposedly on his side, and it all comes *this close* to breaking him. I love this vid's portrait of Harry as fragile but strong, a grim little warrior who is not at all prepared for everything the universe is going to throw at him.

Also I *loved* what this vid did with mood. Some of the color stuff (especially at the very beginning) didn't work for me, but other than that all the effects were used perfectly, to give the viewer an idea of how creepy and dangerous and otherworldly all this magic stuff is--especially for Harry.

Download here.

Scrubs
Anodyne, JD. Vid by sdwolfpup, music by Tarkio.

A Scrubs vid! By Wolfpup! EEE!

Ahem. Now that that's out of the way.

Scrubs is one of those shows that I compleely forget I am in love with most of the time. And then something will come along and remind me and I will get all giddy with love again, and wrap the show around me like a big warm, fuzzy, funny, slashy blanket. This vid did that for me, but you'll appreciate it even if you have no idea who these characters are or what Scrubs is about. That's because this vid could be about anyone, not just JD: it's about getting through the day, relying on your friends, doing stupid shit and silly shit and growing up. It's the ultimate feelgood vid for me, guaranteed to bring me back from a bad mood or protect me from a rainy day. It's like a hug in vid form.

Download here.

Firefly
Word Up, ensemble gen (okay, there's some canon het, but... I'm calling it gen). Vid by obsessive24, music by Korn.

This vid is just *fun.* Sometimes you need a vid to cheer you up and make the sun shine a little bit more, and this is that vid for me. I *can't* help but bop my head along to it, and have stopped resisting the urge to chair dance to it.

Firefly seems to fit in naturally with country, folk, bluegrass etc. music, and therefore a lot (I want to say most, but I'm very possibly wrong there and way too lazy to actually come up with any kind of statistics) of the Firefly vids I've seen have used that kind of music. Which I love, but after a while I start craving a different kind of dish. I always love it when vidders take a song that seems antithetical to their source and then make that music *work.*

This vid is pretty much everything I loved about Firefly. It's fun, it's badass, it's funny and it's sexy. There are so many little things I love, like the bits with the headtilts in the beginning, and the DJ sequence (hee).

I *dare* you to watch it and not be cheered. Download here.


Angel
The More You Ruv Someone, Spike/Angel. Vid by nicole_anelll, music from Avenue Q.

This is, quite possibly, my favorite Spike/Angel vid ever. This is their relationship in a nutshell; this is the Spike and Angel that I *always* see whenever I watch any episode featuring them. I'm not sure what else I can possibly say about it; I think the vid speaks for itself. Heh. Heh heh.

Download here.


Stargate: Atlantis
Stress, Rodney McKay gen. Vid by wickedwords and sherrold, music by Jim's Big Ego.

For any of you folks that have been eyeing SGA fandom askance and wondering why the hell everyone is going crazy for that McKay guy (do those folks even exist anymore? I think they might have all been assimilated.)--watch this vid. You'll understand.

...or, well, if you *don't* understand and join in with the crazy amounts of Rodney love, I can't help you. Because, god, seriously, Rodney, this vid, I--

You see what happens when I try to talk about this vid? I stutter and flail and use too many commas. This vid overwhelms me and makes me clap my hands in glee like a five-year-old. Oh Rodney, I had forgotten lately how much I love you; my Rodney love had become clouded by my Dean love and my Ronon love and my Faith love, but this vid has brought my Rodney love right back to the forefront.

I feel I should say smart things about the way these vidders use the beat, and the way most of these clips were totally literal and yet... not, and also how this has the best use of the Big Gay Kiss *ever,* but--every time I re-watch the vid I just flail too much.

It made my heart expand three sizes. Download here.

So, wow. Heh. Been almost a month since my first post! I don't really have an excuse aside from my own laziness, so, sorry. There probably won't be such huge gaps between rec posts from now on.

Anyway. Vids!

Due South
Out Here, Fraser/RayK. Vid by heresluck, music by Peter Mulvey.

Okay, gah, this vid was really *really* hard to write about for some reason. Possibly because my biggest reaction to it at first was to get incredibly homesick for Salt Lake City (yeah, I don't know either, but I think it has something to do with mountains and stuff), which... anyway. No one wants to hear about that.

I can't imagine there are too many people that haven't seen this vid yet, but on the off chance that maybe *someone* hasn't yet I'm reccing it, because this vid--it manages to make me all mushy and happy inside, and simultaneously makes me ache for Fraser and his fucked-up relationship with pretty much everything. Fraser is isolated and homesick and emotionally stunted and *wants* to reach out to Ray, but has a hard time doing so. This vid really brought home what it means for Fraser to be all alone in this huge, anonymous city; it made me feel like Fraser actually *was* in Chicago, which was a kind of hit-or-miss thing in the show.

And, god, I want to write an essay on the way heresluck uses music and her fantastic clip choice. Those glorious jump cuts that are sometimes syncopated, sometimes right on the beat, sometimes *just* barely off the beat--I want to have an affair with those jump cuts and bear their children. And the clip choices: this vid is not about the big epic moments and problems in Fraser's life. This is about the quiet moments, Fraser reading a book, waiting for a traffic light to change, catching his hat when Ray tosses it to him, etc. She doesn't use many clips that often appear in Fraser/RayK vids, instead focusing on clips that might go unnoticed if we were watching the actual show. And it works, it *so* works, because this is *Fraser* and he notices everything and I totally believe this is how he fell in love with Ray: through the little moments, because Ray tosses him his hat and helps him up and slams doors.

And then there's the other clips she uses, the way she manages to evoke the dual wildernesses of the Yukon and Chicago with relatively few clips, and I want to write a freaking thesis on that, but I think I've babbled enough about this vid. (...for now.)

Download it here.

Stargate: Atlantis
Welcome Home, Elizabeth. Vid by permetaform, music written by Mychael and Jeff Danna.

Elizabeth is not exactly the most adored character in SGA fandom. With valid reason; TPTB have mostly done a crappy job of showing that she is at all competent. (Although this could be said of most of the cast, so I'm not sure why Elizabeth gets picked on the most, but whatever.)

Personally, I adore Elizabeth. I adore the Elizabeth in my head, and I realize that she bears very little resemblance to the rather weak Elizabeth that actually appears onscreen, and I'm okay with that.

With this vid, I feel like Permetaform took the Elizabeth in my head and made her real. This is who Elizabeth is, who she *should* be, this is everything I love about her and her city and my show. It does so much more with the alternate reality of Before I Sleep, and what that means for Elizabeth, than the show did.

And it's not just about her--it's also about John, Rodney, Ford, Teyla, the entire city and what it really means to go through a portal to another galaxy. Permetaform really works all the gorgeous shots of Atlantis we see in the show, and turns the city into a whole other character.

Download it here.



Veronica Mars
Deja Vu, Veronica/Lilly. Vid by f1renze, music by Something for Kate.

While I love the show, I've never participated in Veronica Mars fandom much (aside from desperately trying to pimp more slashers into it so that they would write me Logan/Weevil fic). While there was good fic being written in the fandom, I was never able to find fic that really *felt* like the show, that resonated with me in the same way. I couldn't find fic that made me ache for Veronica and Lilly and Logan and everyone the way the show did; I couldn't find fic that extrapolated what *I* extrapolated from the show. Most of it seemed to be 'shipper fic, focusing on one or two narrow relationships in the show, while I wanted fic that focused on every fucked up relationship and showed how you couldn't have this without that happening or that without this getting in the way, etc etc.

This vid does that. It's brutal and doesn't pull any punches while managing to simultaneously be All About The Love, Baby--just like the show. This vid is chicken soup for the Veronica/Lilly shipper's soul, showing just how much Lilly meant (and means) to Veronica. It's also about how all the shit that happened in season one leads back to Lilly and Veronica being in love with Lilly, and it makes me really, really want to give Veronica a hug. We see her looking for Lilly everywhere, trying to find some peace, and it's like f1renze compresses every hopeful and painful and sad moment in season one into a few minutes. It's not just about Veronica and Lilly, it's about Logan and Weevil and Keith and Aaron and Duncan and how they *all* lead back into Veronica and Lilly. The ending breaks my heart every time, with the flashback of Lilly's murder intercut with Veronica's confrontation with Aaron.

Download it here.

Veronica Mars
Cool Rider, Logan/Weevil. Vid by dualbunny with music from Grease 2.

If I were still trying to pimp slashers into Veronica Mars fandom, this is the vid I would use--and not just because it beautifully displays every eyefuck and grope and subtexty fistfight between Logan and Weevil. It's clever, adorable, hilarious and sharply edited, and I love it with every dirty ounce of my Logan/Weevil 'shipper heart.

While this is a humor vid, it gets to the heart of the Logan/Weevil relationship for me. Not just because of the darker undertones, though it manages that, too (how much do I love that last sequence? Mmm.), but because it's simultaneously lighthearted and cute. Because while yeah, Logan/Weevil is all about the hatesex and violence and dangerous situations, we also know that underneath all their macho posturing, Logan and Weevil really just want to flirt and cuddle. And Logan wants to ride on the back of Weevil's bike with his own hot pink helmet, and wants to take Weevil back to his house and play cards and make out and--

Ahem. Where was I? Oh, right. You can download the vid here.


The O.C.
Queer, Ryan centric with a generous side of Ryan/Seth. Vid by Fabella (wistful_fever), music by Gomez.

I do so love it when vids help me stay in my happy place of denying that The OC continued after the end of season one. Season two? What season two? And let's just not mention this season three that you're clearly hallucinating. This vid focuses on the first few episodes of the series, the episodes that made me fall head over heels in love with Ryan and focused on aspects of his character that the series later abandoned.

This vid tackles those aspects head-on. Ryan is an outsider, and not in the standard teen angst feeling-left-out sense; he is profoundly alien to the rich shiny world of the Cohens. His existence screws with everything, overthrows the natural balance of things, and it's not just because he's 'queer'. Wherever Ryan goes, there he is; he can't escape his past and he can't become a real part of the world Seth inhabits. This is Ryan and what he wants and doesn't want simultaneously and how he doesn't know *what* he wants, and oh, someone needs to give that boy lots of hugs. I have some quibbles with it--the effects sometimes became a little much--but they are minor and not really distracting unless you've obsessively watched the vid ten million times like I have.

Ryan *woobie.* Download here.


Xena
These Two Arms, Xena/Gabrielle. Vid by Killa killabeez, music by Still On The Hill.

I've never seen an episode of Xena in my life. All that I know about it I've gathered from fandom and from that one issue of Strangers in Paradise. And while I'm sure that I'd love this vid more if I were familiar with the source (it made me *want* to watch Xena, a startling desire that I've never felt before), knowing the show wasn't at all necessary for this vid to make me tear up.

Where to even start? This vid is so masterfully done. Killa does a wonderful job of matching the feel of the music to the visuals, of using color and motion to highlight a lyric or a section of the song. This vid is *lush.* And epic, and so deeply moving and sad. It made me want to give Xena and Gabrielle a happy ending, take them away from the pain and the fighting and give them peace. You could interpret the ending as doing that, or maybe not; I'll leave that to you.

And, god, have I mentioned the pretty of this vid? Because *pretty.* Download here at Killa's site, under Other Fandoms.


Smallville
Baby, Clark/various. Vid by sisabet, music by Imperial Teen.

And now for something completely different. Oh.... Clark.

sisabet is such a genius. I mean, that hardly even needs to be said, but her vids never stop impressing me. This vid in particular is so much *fun.* Naked, naked fun. Mmmm, naked Clark.

Right, vid. This made me fall in love with Clark all over again, with his big-eyed bewilderment and his screaming gayness and his fear of boobies. This vid is so *affectionate* towards Clark even as it's making fun of him. The comedic timing is so perfect, and I loved the way sisabet sneaked in some of the real pain and confusion in Clark's life along with all the naked fun-time. Baby really stands out as an interesting character vid, not just a shiny (admittedly, *very* shiny) fun ride.

Oh, *Clark.* Download here.