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I took notes for a vid show report, of course, but it'll be a while before I type it up. In the meantime, however, I just HAVE to squee about the vid that moved into my heart and took up residence.

Here's a link to the vid: Eternal Holmes by Diana Williams

Here's what I said about it on the AO3 page:

"This vid reminds me of the opening two lines of Vincent Starrett's famous poem 221B:

Here dwell together still two men of note

Who never lived and so can never die

The first time I watched this vid, I saw the "eternal flame" of love between Holmes and Watson. The second or third time, I also thought of the "eternal flame" of love that fandom has long held for those two--the first fanfic I ever read was a collection of Holmesian "pastiches"--and how beautifully you depict so many different variations on the beloved Canon, as fandom continues its love across centuries and continents. ♥ ♥ ♥

There were many fine vids in the DC Slash 2021 vid show, but this one stood out as my very favorite. Thank you so much for all the time and talent you put into it for us to enjoy!"

ConneXions 2019 – VID SHOW

ETA Most of the vids can be found at this link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbI8SLoxNxpYEvlQvrYGluD8ZAi6PV5rU

Introductory comments:

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PART ONE:

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PART TWO
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Kudos to all the vidders for sharing their talent and vision, and to Kerguelen and Aaronantium for tracking them down and inviting them to participate in the show.

Sunday at 9 a.m.: The slash vid discussion panel
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Once I got done with soothing reading, I wanted something fun!

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I learned from ride_4_ever that today is More Joy Day, a day for spreading fannish joy. (You can read about it on Fanlore.org for more details.)

Today began with a wonderful surprise: two lovely paragraph-long comments on AO3--one on an old Emergency! fic I wrote back in the day, and the other on a recent Friends ficlet. They made me so happy that I decided that's what I would do for More Joy day: leave comments on fics I have enjoyed. Squee!

ETA: I think I managed eight: two HP, one dS, one Yuri on Ice, two Star Trek (TOS/AOS), one Sherlock, one Tin Man.
ETA again: Links:
"Annabel" by Mierke (HP)
"Always but Not Necessarily Forever" by gingertart50 (HP)
"Step One" by Ride_Forever (dS)
"Four times Yuri hates love on the ice (and one time he sort of doesn't)" by rinsled05 (Yuri on Ice)
"if they're purring" by weekend _conspiracy_theorist (ST)
"Five Times Leonard McCoy Kissed Spock and One Time Spock Kissed Him" by TAFKAB (ST)
"Blind Justice" by dimity_blue (Sherlock)
"A Bagful of Berries, a Skyful of Blue" by lionille (Tin Man)

Here's my write-up of the vid show at ConneXions 2017--25 vids' worth of slashy goodness! It's not friendslocked--feel free to share within fandom.

Some initial comments! I will happily sit and watch music videos in fandoms I don't follow, but I can't really review them. For this report, I'll try to say at least something about the vids where I have some limited knowledge of the source material, but this show had a lot of vids in fandoms I didn't even recognize and can't say anything meaningful about. I'd like to issue a challenge to the viewers who ARE familiar with those shows to step up and reward the vidders' efforts with comments!

Here's a link to where you can find most of the vids: ConneXions 2017 Vid Show Playlist.
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$amedia: Fractal arc in gold, green, and pink (preppy fractal)$

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I took notes during this year's vid contest so I could write up a report. ( Here it is, while it's fresh in my mind! )

Story title: Savant
Author: Amedia
Rating: G
Fandoms: Tin Man, Sherlock
Characters: Mycroft Holmes, Glitch, Anthea
Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by Imagiquest, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and the BBC. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.
Summary: Glitch has an occasional visitor. Mycroft has a consultant.
Word Count: 638
Author's note: Prompt response ficlet.

ladynyks requested Tin Man with the prompt, "something mixing Mycroft Holmes and Ambrose (and/or Glitch)."

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I'm so relieved to be out from under that project! I want to WRITE! At least drabbles. :-)

So give me a prompt and a fandom. I'm in the mood for fluff; gen or slash is fine. Night Vale, Sherlock, Tin Man, Rat Patrol, Barney Miller, any other fandom in which you know I've written. If you're not sure, feel free to ask.

On the one hand, nekkid French vampire ladies - on the other, Sherlock Holmes! I thought I knew which one I'd like better--but I was wrong!( Read more... )

I was poking around on archive.org looking for some more old radio detective shows, when I stumbled across this set of free audio mysteries: http://archive.org/details/BbcThrillingStoriesOfTheRailway05Eps

I was going to go ahead and download them based on the description, which I'll copy below, and then I read the comments and learned that they are read by Benedict Cumberbatch! Who, according to the comment, does a splendid job. I clicked on the first one and by golly, that's who reads them. So now I'm *definitely* grabbing them!

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This is desperately sad, but written with quiet brilliance, and ultimately . . . it reaffirms the best in human nature. The Great War and the influenza epidemic do not leave Holmes and Watson untouched: After, Ever After by

rabidsamfan.

So I was cruising the Person of Interest fic on AO3 and I ran into something unbelievable that made me . . . I think the word is sporfle . . . hysterically.

Let's just say . . . Mycroft Holmes and Harold Finch are related. As that woman in Help! kept saying to Paul, I can say no more. Mycroft's mother/Finch's aunt is one of my favorite fan-created characters evar. I can say no more. They are mildly pre-slashy, but if you don't like slash I don't think there's enough to bother you. I can say no more.

There are two short pieces published in the series so far. My favorite is the second. So far. Meet the Family.

There were only sixteen songvids at REVELcon this year, but there were a lot of really good ones!
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The fourth and, as of this writing, the last of Roberta Rogow's Charles Dodgson-Arthur Conan Doyle mysteries. I hope she writes more! I didn't love this one quite as much as the others, even though it was set at Oxford and involved Dodgson's photography as an important plot element. I'm not sure why, but some of it had that "must squeeze in all the research" flavor and wound up coming across as forced. It still had enough delightful bits to keep me going through it, and one of the very best opening lines I've seen in a mystery novel in a very long time:

Murder was not a part of the curriculum at any of the individual colleges that made up the University of Oxford.

(crossposted to

commonplacebook)

The Sherlock Holmes Society of London has made a number of audio productions available for free on their website, here: http://www.sherlock-holmes.org.uk/world/radio.php

TODS and I listened to several of them on a recent long trip in the car and they were very enjoyable!

TODS has added a keyword search for "Sherlock" to the TiVo to catch any Holmes-related shows that may pop up. For several weeks in a row it kept bringing up an episode of Phineas and Ferb, which we ignored because we were unfamiliar with the series.

Then one day

metherion asks whether we have ever watched this great show called Phineas and Ferb, so we watched an episode with him and learned that it is basically a show about

metherion at six years old, if there had been two of him and they had had access to power tools. It really is very amusing. So we went ahead and recorded the Sherlock Holmes episode, in which the boys' older sister Candace uses Holmes' methods to try to find out what her pesky siblings are up to.

There's a very nice tribute to the Sacred Canon, as Candace and her best friend, visiting Candace's British grandparents, are bored because there's nothing to do. The grandmother invites them to read Sherlock Holmes books, which they initially pooh-pooh ("Aren't books what people did before they invented fun?") but reluctantly try ... and stay up all night enthusiastically reading the entire collection!

And now there is an icon.

I was a bit concerned when we got The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother in the mail from Netflix last December. I loved it to itty bitty pieces when it came out, at which point I was 13 or 14 years old. At the same time, I also adored a short-lived television series entitled Fantastic Journey, which died a sadly-deserved death after just a few episodes. I watched it again as an adult (back when SciFi was doing reruns of short-run shows) and was horrified by how really really, atrociously bad it was. I was afraid the same would be the case of my beloved movie.

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If you have had a bad day and need a good laugh, or if you have had a great day and would like to be even happier - AND you don't mind slash AND you know who Sherlock Holmes and John Watson are -

Go here: http://sherlockbbc-fic.livejournal.com/5564.html?thread=18914492#t18914492.