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A Post of Love for LolaWaldorf – My FAVORITE FanVidder EVER #florence+themachine #sherlock #glee #borgias #supernatural

December 16, 2014 by Leta

I’m a fangirl. Anyone who has known me long must know this fact about me. I love my favorite media quite violently. As it turns out, I’m also a fangirl of fellow fangirls. LolaWaldorf makes my all-time favorite fanvideos because:

a) They are never common.

b) They are always intelligent and are saying something much bigger than just the surface.

c) They are surprising, beautifully edited, and always, always, always hers. You can detect a Lola vid just by her vidding style alone.

d) They take me out of the words in my head and just fill me with feeling. I can’t even really talk about the vids. They just stand entirely on their own.

My top five favorite vids of hers.

1) Glee: Kurt – My love’s too big for you my love.

2) This multifandom piece of brilliance that makes me just flail. Incorporating pieces of other fanvids made to the same song, it’s Florence as the fangirl/boy being devastated by media.

3) Borgias: I walked because you walked

4) Supernatural: Vesuvius – My ALL-TIME favorite video. No one but Lola would’ve made something this brilliant.

5) Sherlock: Rococo – They seem wild but they are so deep.

 

Filed Under: Fandom, TV Tagged With: arcade fire, fandom, fangirl, fanvid, fanvids, florence + the machine, florence as fan, Glee, Kurt, lolawaldorf, multifandom vid, rococo, sherlock, supernatural

Problems Of A Recovering Fangirl #pennydreadful #unf

June 13, 2014 by Leta

Danger, Will Robinson!!! Seriously, I really should not start watching this show because LOOK AT HIM. I mean, ugh, it seems like a short tumble down an endless fandom obsession well that I just can’t afford. BUT LOOK AT HIM. *swoons*

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Filed Under: TV, Video Tagged With: boys kissing, dorian gray, fandom, fangirl, penny dreadful, problems of a recovering fangirl, television, tv, unf

Ten Takes On Tori Amos, Through The Years And On Her New Album, ‘Unrepentant Geraldines’ : The Record : NPR

May 28, 2014 by Leta

Tori Amos’s catalog, for me, has always been about how safe I feel listening to it. Her albums function equally well as works of art and as practical field guides, sending GPS data every few years from new coordinates in the thicket of self-actualization that she and her listeners have been navigating together for two decades. Tori is our flame-haired, first-name-basis, mezzo-soprano GUIDANCE counselor. “When you gonna love you as much as I do?” she asked as a 28-year-old, ten minutes into her first album. She arrived beckoning toward self-discovery and love. Little Earthquakes was a debut, but there is nothing half-baked or under-developed about it. She sailed to shore on a seashell, fully-formed, and offered a vision of identity that demanded acceptance. Her music was strange, her voice was strange, and her message was clear: “There is room for what I’m doing in the world, even if I’m the only one doing it.” We heard that, we pupils, and took it to mean that there’s room for what we’re all doing in the world. Her unflinching career has paved the way for innumerous other unflinching, glorious marchers to their own beat. —Katie Presley

via Ten Takes On Tori Amos, Through The Years And On Her New Album, ‘Unrepentant Geraldines’ : The Record : NPR.

It has been a dream of mine forever to share my love of Tori with a daughter, and I am lucky enough to say that my little girl loves Tori. We spend time listening to her albums together, talking over lyrics, and just being unusually quiet together appreciating the sounds.

This August my daughter is going to her first Tori Amos concert with me, so we’ve been listening to back catalog stuff so that she’ll be familiar with what might be peformed and not just the newer stuff. The other day in the car we were listening to “Crucify” after a discussion of what it is about (how hard we are on ourselves–something my daughter can relate too all too well, unfortunately) and I looked into the rearview and saw that she was crying. I asked, “Why are you crying, honey?” She said, “I don’t know. The music. The song.”

That’s why Tori Amos connects. My life is enriched by her always and ever.

For the record, my daughter’s favorite song on the new album so far is “Selkie” because it is a retelling of one of my daughter’s all-time favorite fairy tales–The Selkie Bride.

 

More quotes from the NPR piece:

Tori Amos still loves you. She isn’t fucking around. —T. Cole Rachel

More than 20 years after Little Earthquakes, Amos’s guidance has been disseminated and focused. It’s still Tori singing strength to Tori, and Tori singing strength to the women whose stories she’s telling, and to the wider listening public, but there is another, more specific life she is now shepherding: Her daughter’s. Strange Little Girls was for Natashya, about re-imagining the rock canon so that a girl might grow up and feel a part of it. Night of Hunters featured Tash as the supporting character Annabelle in several songs. And Unrepentant Geraldinesshowcases her as a musical peer; as fully half of the conversation, from her own point of view. Good guidance, particularly of the MATERNAL variety, is subtle enough that it’s not immediately apparent when one has graduated to guiding oneself, and Natashya’s development from inspiration to concept to self-fulfilling musician is the precedent and promise of Tori’s earlier albums made manifest. Every Tori Amos record is about breaking free of the stories we’re told and telling our own, but Unrepentant Geraldines is the first with physical proof of the journey. —Katie Presley

Filed Under: Music Tagged With: fandom, fans, music, tori amos, unrepentant geraldines, why i love tori amos

Fanwork Friday: Back to the Beginning – Deniz & Roman, Alles was zählt #awz #fandom #video

February 22, 2014 by Leta

Wow. Why do the Germans make me cry with their gay soap couples? Okay, fine, why do all soaps make me cry about their gay couples, regardless of nationality? Oh, Roman. My heart.

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This is such a good, good, good, good video.

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Training Season can be purchased at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, ARe, and Smashwords. And also on iBooks.
Unquestionably talented figure skater Matty Marcus is willing to sacrifice everything for his Olympic dream, but his lack of discipline cost him the gold once before. Now the pressure’s on. He needs a coach who can keep him in line, but top coaches don’t come cheap, and Matty can’t afford to stay in the game no matter how badly he wants to win.
When a lucrative house-sitting gig brings him to rural Montana, Matty does his best to maintain his training regimen. Local residents turn out to be surprisingly tolerant of his flamboyant style, especially handsome young rancher Rob Lovely, who proves to be much more than a cowboy stereotype. Just as Matty requires a firm hand to perform his best on the ice, Rob shows him how strong he can be when he relinquishes control in the bedroom. With new-found self-assurance, he drives himself harder to go straight to the top.
But competition has a timetable, and to achieve his Olympic dream, Matty will have to join his new coach in New York City, leaving Rob behind. Now he must face the ultimate test. Has he truly learned how to win—on and off the ice—during his training season?

Filed Under: Fandom, Fanwork Friday, Gay Tagged With: Alles was zählt, awz, deniz, fandom, fanvid, fanvideo, fanwork, roman, video

Fanworks Friday: Three Pipe Problem #sherlock

August 2, 2013 by Leta

By Karadin on Printfection.

You can buy this print on a t-shirt over here at Printfection. The art is by Karadin, who also has some great Supernatural art, too.

Filed Under: Art, Fandom, Fanwork Friday, Fashion Tagged With: fandom, fans, fanwork friday, fanworks, karadin, printfection, sherlock, three pipe problem

Fanwork Friday: Still

July 19, 2013 by Leta

I haven’t been doing Fanfic Friday for awhile because I’ve been on a Tumblr fast for some time now. But a friend of mine sent me this gorgeous video and I had to share. It’s just so dang pretty.

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Filed Under: Fandom, Fanwork Friday, Video Tagged With: blake, daughter, derek, fandom, fanwork friday, hale, jennifer, still, teen wolf, teenwolf, tv, werewolf, werewolves

Fanworks Friday: Recreating a Spaceship (Thanks, Digitalwave!)

April 19, 2013 by Leta

How one man recreated the first spaceship ever to appear in movies!

Filed Under: Fandom, Fanwork Friday Tagged With: fandom, fanwork, movies, spaceship

Fanworks Friday: White Blank Page

April 5, 2013 by Leta


by Suzvoy

Originally found here. It’s pretty great. Oh, ATWT, you were such an asshole to your loyal fans in the end.

Filed Under: Fandom, Fanwork Friday Tagged With: As The World Turns, blank white page, fandom, fanvid, fanworks, fanworks friday, Luke Snyder, mumford and sons, Noah Mayer, Reid Oliver, suzvoy, video

Fanwork Friday: Cosmic Love = Fandom Love

February 1, 2013 by Leta

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Festivids is an annual fanvidding festival which always delivers a variety of fun, thought provoking, entertaining, intense, emotional vids. Today I’d like to highlight my favorite one of the year. This multifandom feat by Anonymous. (Names are revealed later in the process after everyone has the chance to view the vids without preconceived notions based on past associations with the vidders.)

This particular vid is multifandom and, more importantly, meta–which are always my favorite kind of vids. In this case, Florence is a representational stand-in for fans, and that is used to great effect to show the power that good storytelling via movies and television can drive fans into frenzies of emotion.

I think it is absolutely work the small difficulties of having to click through to the link–here have it again–and type in the password to view. It’s absolutely lovely and features a wide variety of shows and movies.

Filed Under: Fandom, Fanwork Friday, Music, Video Tagged With: cosmic love, fandom, fandom love, fanwork friday, fanworks friday, festivids, florence + the machine, florence as fan, meta, multifandom

Fanworks Friday: Les Mis Nails

January 25, 2013 by Leta

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Ten Blank Canvases is obviously a fan of Les Mis! Beautiful work on her nails, capturing the spirit of the characters and the show as a whole on ten, tiny canvases. Lovely!

Filed Under: Fandom, Fanwork Friday Tagged With: 10 blank canvases, fanart, fandom, fanwork friday, fingernail fanart, fingernails, les mis, les miserables, make-up, nail art, nail polish, nails

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