Donnie Darko: [Vid] Cat Scan Hist'ry by heresluck

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Fandom: Donnie Darko (2001)
Pairings/Characters: Donnie Darko
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Length: 3:35
Creator Links: heresluck
Theme: Fanvids

Summary: The shade of a notion, the ghost of a plan. Music: The Blue Aeroplanes.

Reccer's Notes: This vid was formative for me in terms of source and song choice, and non-linear narrative. Employing internal motion to link each clip to the next, intercutting, punctuating hellscape visuals, and rising tension, Cat Scan Hist'ry looks like it sounds.

Content Notes: Disturbing imagery, quick cuts.
Fanwork Links: AO3 and DW

Doctor Who: Rayla’s TARDIS by TheBigCat

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Fandom: (“Fandom” in bold): Doctor Who
Pairings/Characters: (“Pairings/Characters” in bold): Original Time Lords, Original TARDIS
Rating: (“Rating” in bold): Teen and up audiences
Length: (“Length” in bold): 3,790 words for the not!fic, 4:40 for the not!vid
Creator Links: (“Creator Links” in bold):
Theme: (“Theme” in bold): Fanvids, Science Fiction, Time Travel, Worldbuilding, Research, Outsider POV, Old Fandoms, Unconventional Format & Style, Folklore & Fairytales, Worldbuilding & Logistical Fix-its

Summary: (“Summary” in bold): Not!fic: The Keeper has perma-locked entry Rayla's TARDIS for editing. (Reason: i've had enough of this. i thought time lords were supposed to be above fairy tales, anyway?)
Not!vid: "Rayla’s TARDIS" (also known as "Rayla and his TARDIS") is a traditional folk song and cautionary tale, catalogued as ballad 423 in the Pythian Index and number 2996 in the Mirraflex Folk Archive. More information can be found at its entry within the Matrix. Any melodic resemblance to the Earth ballad 'Johnny O'Braidesley' is, of course, entirely coincidental.

Reccer’s Notes (“Reccer’s Notes” in bold): There’s death in this. This is a recording of a Gallifreyan folk ballad that Kitty wrote, and a “Maxrixpedia” article about it. The article is extremely funny, especially the talk page, and the ballad itself is performed very well.

Fanwork links (“Fanwork links” in bold):

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Women's Basketball: Now I Can Fly by cosmic_llin

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Fandom: Women's Basketball/HBO's Women of Troy
Pairings/Characters: 1980s USC Women's Basketball Team led by Cheryl Miller
Rating: Gen/Occasional flickering and flashing warning
Length: 4:08 minutes
Creator Links: cosmic_llin
Theme: Fanvids

Summary: Rise like a phoenix, I open my wings up and now I can fly.

Reccer's Notes: I had never watched a men's or women's basketball game, and I'd never heard of the women of troy documentary or Cheryl Miller before watching this vid. Even still, this vid sucked me in and made me root for these women. This isn't just a story about sports. This is a story about overcoming adversity, constantly having to prove yourself, title IX, working as a team, and being the best at what you do. And the vid also shows how this team's legacy carried forward into the future, for so many young women who play basketball. I nearly cry every time I watch it.

Fanwork Links: On AO3

Multifandom: Metaphor, by Speranza and Seah & Margie (flummery)

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Fandom: Multi
Pairings/Characters:
Rating: Teen
Length: 2:05
Creator Links: cesperanza, flummery 
Theme: old fandoms, fanvids, fandom, meta, humor, crack

Summary: Who's up for a metaphor?

Reccer's Notes: Although the most skin that gets shown in this vid is tiny bit of male pectorals being exposed briefly, this is not a vid that is safe to watch at work. It's about metaphors. Mostly phallic metaphors, though there are a few yonic metaphors as well. Some of the metaphors were intended by the creators of the original shows; some weren't, but were taken that way by fans intent on reading slashy subtext into things. Some of the metaphors only become metaphors when you put them in a lineup of all the other metaphors. And some of the clips aren't metaphors at all, but just weird visual stuff shows did. The overall effect is very funny.

Note: this vid was premiered at Vividcon. VividCon was a convention for anyone who enjoyed fannish vids - watching them, talking about them, or making them. It ran from 2002-2018 and the con mascot/logo was a llama, which is why there are llamas in this vid--it's an in-joke. This vid was the opener for the vid show at the con that year.

Fanwork Links: Metaphor

Multifandom: If a machine, by caramarie

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Fandom: Multifandom
Pairings/Characters:
Rating: teen
Length: 4:34
Creator Links: caramarie 
Theme: fanvids, old fandoms, small fandoms, robots,

Content notes: Robot repair gore, nuclear bombs

Summary: Artificial intelligences: they are unlike us, but that doesn't mean we have to be at war.

Reccer's Notes: I'd never heard of either the song or the artist (An Old Foundry Fable, by Jordan O’Jordan) before I saw this vid, but the lyrics are perfect for an exploration of robots and AI in all their SFnal complexity, good and bad. The clip choice and editing are superb.

Fanwork Links: If a machine

The Godfather: All the Rowboats, by jetpack monkey

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Fandom: The Godfather movies
Pairings/Characters: Michael Corleone/Kay Adams, Michael & Sonny, Michael & Fredo
Rating: teen
Length: 2:31
Creator Links: jetpack_monkey 
Theme: fanvids, old fandoms, small fandoms, character development, family,

Summary: "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Reccer's Notes: This fic is a MASTER CLASS in using editing and music to explore a character. The song choice is perfect to explore the tragedy of Michael Corleone, who doesn't want to be a mobster but is so good at it and keeps choosing to be a mobster even when his choices and actions are destroying the very things he says he wants, and who is so very good at being the things he says he doesn't want. The editing is perfect.

Content notes: firearm use and blood and other violence

Fanwork Links: All the Rowboats