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Middle-aged polymath who enjoys fanfic, fanvids, & other fanworks. Disabled, ace, AuDHD, depressed, lacking in executive function. I don’t drink, but I enjoy fun brightly colored barware. She/her. Minnesotan. https://linktr.ee/swizzlespoon
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First show coming up in a few minutes . . . (Feel free to duck in and out or whatever. Also playing later. If no one else shows, I'll still play the vids while I do other stuff. But if folks do show, I'll post info about each vid on the Discord as usual.)

Replaying this vid show today at 1pm and 7pm central time. First show (timezone conversion): www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f... 2nd show (timezone conversion): www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...

Made a new pinned post/thread since the old one said I was married and now I'm a widow. 😭💔 I hate this. If you have a partner or partners, appreciate the hell of that while you have it. Appreciate the hell out of each other. Take pictures & screenshots & video. (Talk about death & tough stuff too.)

Middle-aged fan who reads a ton of fanfic & watches a ton of fanvids. Loves putting together themed fanvid playlists/shows (& hosting watch parties for them). Has an enormous WIP that is a guide to using FanFicFare with calibre. Recently became a widow, in desperate need of distraction. 🧵

up late writing Bruce Wayne/Jim Gordon porn. As one does. (LOL it's not actually porn, i'm incapable of that. They're just being smitten with each other WTF am I doing.)

Gonna use working on posting recs in collections on AO3 as an excuse to reread some old faves. Been a while since I started this project & I forgot what I was doing with it. Welp! Back at it. (So far most recent recs are in the DC collection, FWIW.) archiveofourown.org/collections/...

Submissions open for Issue 2 of Let's Talk About Vids! Let's Talk About Vids is a zine for talking about vids - otherwise known as fanvids, AMVs, edits, etc. www.tumblr.com/letstalkabou... #fanvids #vidding #amv #fanedit

I wrote about fandom dynamics around Captain America: Brave New World, casting back to the Peak Stucky Era to see what's changed. There are specifics—eg longtime racism towards Sam—but broader franchise fatigue is real, as brilliantly articulated by @jsalowe.com here: www.wired.com/story/captai...

no the fuck we are NOT making “LGBQ+” a thing and if I see any of you motherfuckers using that acronym it’s on sight Marsha P. Johnson did not smash in the windshield of a police car for this

That's just one page, I had to scroll and scroll as I moved them into my fanvid-specific calibre library. I've been slacking at downloading vids to keep in recent years (sigh).

Laughing at today's automatic download of new fanworks from AO3 from folks I subscribe to because uh, that's a lot of Festivids! (calibre/FanFicFare doesn't download the vids, I'll have to do that myself, just downloads info from AO3.)

I have entirely failed to leave kudos and comments on Festivids yet. Ah well. Every single vid I saw deserved Kudos, I swear. (I may not have quite seen all the vids yet. Dangit.) I'll get on it at some point.

I blame Festivids for pushing me to finally watch Challengers. (Alright, where's the good fic at . . . )

How are all the Festivids so good? <-- me, again this year.

Yay! (I've registered to attend again online.)

I can't believe someone made a vid to "The White Tent The Raft" by Jane Siberry (all nine+ minutes of it). And the source is Canadian, of course. (Films from The National Film Board of Canada.) Amazing. 😍 archiveofourown.org/works/62519260

For my #NirvanaInFire #NiF adjacent peeps, follow Kate, who will inform you of layers to my already top 5 tv shows ever with absolute gems like this thread

Begun the trade wars have

That vid show/playlist I'm so proud of (it's on AO3: archiveofourown.org/works/57130747) is being shown today at a watch party. So many good vids (none with Endgame content). Of course it's the vids (& the vidders who made them) who make this great. (More details in that thread.) ❤️

That vid show/playlist I'm so proud of (it's on AO3: archiveofourown.org/works/57130747) is being shown today at a watch party. So many good vids (none with Endgame content). Of course it's the vids (& the vidders who made them) who make this great. (More details in that thread.) ❤️

This chapter of "Operation: Gros Michel" by SquadOfCats stands alone well & made me cry but I needed to read it again. Steve telling the truth & realizing some hard truths, making a turn to activism. Bucky punching Nazis with a Star of David on his metal arm. Both unapologetically queer AF.

Starting with my two More Joy Day playlists and then moving on to others. Though I may just get random. We'll see. Or let them play.

Never thought I'd live to see the day I'd be annoyed with incomplete WIPs . . . that I wrote. Come on, fic writer, finish the fic! (ugh, no.)

New fanvid playlist/show WIP: All-Star Tubthumping (just vids to two songs; name should be a giveaway.) Hmmm, should I get back to my all "Rasputin" playlist? There are too many vids to pick from dear god.

Did my heart good to have people rave about the vid show I put together for #MoreJoyDay and I hope folks go forth and leave Likes and Kudos and comments on the vids because I just pulled the vids together to show them off-- true talent lies with the folks making the vids (& the source material). ❤️