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I made five vids for Festivids this year! They are:

Moby Dick adaptations: a vulture feeds upon this heart forever (dw | ao3)
Moby Dick adaptations: #teamwhale (dw | ao3)
Moby Dick adaptations: Queequeg and I (dw | ao3)
Moby Dick adaptations: Here It Goes Again (dw | ao3)
Janelle Monáe: I Like That (dw | ao3)

... so yes, bironic was totally right in the Guess the Festividder post, I did indeed make four very multisource Moby Dick vids for Festivids drawing from approximately 100 years of Moby Dick adaptations. These were all for nicosilang!

And then I made one Janelle Monáe vid for livrelibre's great request! (I said to thingswithwings "someone might guess me for this, because I've vidded Janelle Monáe before, but also they might not, because I'm not being completionist about it." Nobody did guess me.)

In the watch party for festivids, somebody said something like "wow, I wonder how long this vidder has wanted to make all these Moby Dick vids." The answer is: since October, during signups for this years' festivids. I didn't read Moby Dick until after assignments went out. I hadn't seen a single one of these Moby Dick adaptations before several months ago.

( So why'd you vid Moby Dick then? )

( Then I read Moby Dick. )

( a vulture feeds upon that heart forever )

( #teamwhale )

( Queequeg and I )

( Here It Goes Again )

I could have made an Ahab/Starbuck vid, because I had incepted myself into the fandom with the help of that section in "a vulture etc" and the Moby Dick webcomic, but I restrained myself to ONLY four Moby Dick vids and jumped into a treat I'd wanted to make!

( I Like That )

Title: Here It Goes Again
Fandom: Moby Dick adaptations
Song: Here It Goes Again - Ok Go
Summary: Every day it's that same moby schtick.
Content Notes: Lightning: isolated lightning throughout plus a section with more lightning at 2:00 - 2:08. Video with quality issues, including pixelization, old-film-footage flickering, and frame blending.


Download: Here It Goes Again on mediafire
Subtitles: Here It Goes Again (lyrics) subtitles on mediafire and Here It Goes Again (source) subtitles on mediafire

( Streaming Version )

Title: #teamwhale
Fandom: Moby Dick adaptations
Song: Baby Beluga - Raffi
Summary: "Watch Star Trek IV or ask your teachers—whales are kind and loving creatures" - Yakko, Wakko, and Dot
Contains: whaling, parental death, physical triggers (frame blending, old video with pixelation issues)

Download: #teamwhale on mediafire
Subtitles: #teamwhale subtitles on mediafire

( Streaming Version )

Thank you for making me a vid!

I have a couple things that I put outside the cut tag, because I have two visual triggers:

1) Super fast flashes of lights or colors that have high contrast. Almost all vids are fine for me, but some that intercut scenes for two or three frames at a time can trigger this. It depends on the amount of contrast between the two scenes – stutter cuts are fine between two similar scenes, but not between one dark green and one bright red lit scene, or between a nighttime and daytime scene. Strobe lights, strobe effects, full-screen glitch effects or lighting effects, or fast lightning flashes can also trigger this. These have to be very fast to bother me – think three lightning strikes in a second (dark, light, dark, light, dark, light, dark in one second).

2) Frame rate fuckery - when a show or a vid plays 24 fps footage in 30 fps or vice versa. So, like, when a film puts footage at the wrong frame rate to make it feel awkward or tense, which is super common in action films these days. (For example, the Bucky/Steve knife fight on the street in Winter Solider or like the entirety of Mad Max Fury Road.) It can also happen by accident, if footage at one frame rate is put into a project with a different frame rate, or sometimes when a show needs to stretch or compress footage and they do it by duplicating every third frame. (You might not be able to see this – many people see this as smooth motion, because our brains are already interpreting stills as motion.)

I'll call these out in the source notes below for any fandom where they're relevant.

Please also feel free to run a sample by thingswithwings. She can explain them with examples if that would be helpful.

The rest of this post is additional details if you're interested!

( General Preferences )

I asked for: Home Movie: The Princess Bride (2020) [SAFETY], Slash/Back (2022) [SAFETY], The Great Canadian Baking Show (TV), Rhymes for Young Ghouls (2013) [SAFETY], They Cloned Tyrone (2023) [SAFETY], Mythbusters (TV 2003), Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire [SAFETY], amauryguichon (the chocolate guy) (Tiktok Youtube Instagram), and blumineck (tumblr youtube tiktok)

( Info about my requests )

Title: Tightrope
Fandom: 1995-1996 USA Basketball Women's Team
Song: Tightrope by Janelle Monáe
Summary: you gotta tip on the tightrope (tip, tip on it)

Download: tightrope on mediafire (large) or tightrope on mediafire (smaller)
Subtitles: tightrope subtitles on mediafire

( Streaming Version )

( Lyrics )