Birthday Vid Rec! :D [Luther]

[beccatoria]

HEY YOU GUYS, IT WAS MY BIRTHDAY AND I TURNED OLD AND chaila MADE ME THE MOST AMAZING BUILT-DAY VID:

Prelude - it's a Luther finale vidlet and it's beautiful.

Run, children, run to watch it. ♥

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[chaila]

♥ ♥ ♥

[merlose]

Just saw this. Happy (late) birthday! ♥

[goodbyebird]

Awww I'm totally late to the party, but happy belated birthday! How are things?

[beccatoria]

Well, I've been totally incommunicado for a while too cus I was away on vacation, and only just got back, but 1) thanks! and 2) mostly jetlagged! :D Seriously, though, not a lot going on. Still working on Mass Effect clipping projects, still finding job bland but acceptable and less awful than last job, still uncertain about long-term plans! But I did get a bunch of comics signed today at the local Comic Con which was pretty neat.

How're you doing? :D

[goodbyebird]

Jetlagged even, sounds like a good trip! I've never been to a comic con, so you're lucky to have one near by. Any new series you're reading, or was it old stuff you got signed? Yay for bing gainfully employed and all that. So long as you get a salary and don't have an awful time, you can make your own fun off-duty ;)

I'm good. Back at sea, but I have the next trip off so that's not bad at all :) Might try for a trip when I get home actually. I haven't been all too good getting back in my online reading habits since my vacation ended so I've been reading more instead. Trying to flip it back around atm, running some stuff at comicbook_icons and smallbatchicons. Also still struggling with making my first vid, but that's not exactly news hehe.

[beccatoria]

Yeah, it was pretty neat. I've never been to an official Comic Con before either! But to be honest it was just a big hall full of geeky stalls of stuff and then some people to various sides signing stuff. There were also talks and suchlike, though I didn't go to any.

I got old stuff signed - all my Secret Six graphic novels signed by Gail Simone! Pretty awesome. Although it confirms that my secret fear of meeting famous people I admire is well-founded as I spent the rest of the day worrying I sounded like an idiot. ;)

I haven't started reading any new comics lately, except Red Sonja, which was pretty neat (I also got her to sign my #1) though I am SUPER glad Saga has returned. Though to be honest I keep trying and failing at getting back into reading habits, so...swap? :D?

You know I am ALWAYS happy to help with vidding-related stuff. And WOO ICONS. Now that I've been err, tempted, over to paying for DW I need to set aside some time to upload all my beautimous icons that I've been collecting.

[goodbyebird]

A big hall full of geeky stuff and fellow enthusiastic geeks sounds more than awesome enough for me. And you met Gail Simone! And she wrote on your stuff! Very cool. Plus, having met you, I doubt you could sound like an idiot. I spent two days around you while you were as stressed as can be, and heard no sign of it.

RED SONJA. Oh man, I grew up on that stuff. My brother had all the Conan comics, so when I came across a kickass chick who's storyline is basically under a Will Not Be Anyone's Girlfriend Ever clause, I read all her stuff. *adds it on comixology*

Oh I'm half-way through Sif's JIM stuff. Very very cool. Enjoying it muchly. Expect icons. Like, every other panel I wanna icon. It's ridiculous. I would just like to chuck her wedges into the pits of hell, but that's life :p

Also reading Hawkeye. Kate Bishop keeps having to save Clint's ass while I watch and clap my hands in glee.

I know I know :D I'm just so bad at doing stuff, new stuff. And then the moment I get stuck I hide hehe. But I shall have at least one completed vid by the end of the year. Also, cover version of Daft Punk's "Get Lucky", effing perfect for Mass Effect or what? Refrain not so much, but eh, what can ya do.

Oh yay paid time now you have to stay for ever and never leave, true story. And if you need comic icon recs you know where to go. Actually, running an icon request fest at comicbook_icons right now, if you have specific characters or panels you fancy.

[beccatoria]

OMGS latest reply ever... I blame jetlag. And also my failures as an adult human being! :p (Awww, but you're kind; I really wish I had been less stressed at you the whole of that weekend, but you were awesome even in the fact of my panic, and hopefully next time we hang out you will see me only being manic because of excitement, not because of, err, technological tragedies!)

I have this weird thing with Marvel comics, it seems, where I adore the first arc and then get confused by the second one because it's a lot more rooted in continuity? (Although I usually still like it?) Like Captain Marvel and her time-travelly origin in the first arc was fantastic! But then I was...less into the whole weird brain tumour thing. And I was just glee incarnate reading the Sif the Barbarian JIM arc, but the second arc, I'll be spoiler free but while I liked it, it was, idk, not as awesome. Partly I think it was a break from the Asgardian stuff because they may not have known it was their last arc before cancellation and it'd work better that way, but of course, now it's gone and there shall Be No More. :( And then Fearless Defenders! Which is also awesome! But again their end-of-act-one twist was...an odd choice, and while they dealt with it WAY better than I thought they would, I don't have quite so much squee as I did...

Then again, such is the way of comics. They give and take away. Nothing you love will ever last, but neither will anything you hate. :/

Red Sonja is pretty cool! And you're only two issues behind. Although I think they're changing the No Boyfriends rule, which honestly I am okay with because it's the sorta thing that is easy to...write really weirdly. Of course so is the reverse. But I'm looking forward to drunken, lusty barbarian Sonja. It will be amusing... You know, since I trust the author!

Vidding! :D Even if it's not by the end of the year, I have faith that you will ONE DAY have a completed vid and it will be beautiful. As always, I stand ready to encourage and cheerlead!

I'm not sure which cover you mean? But yeah, that's...a really interesting and cool song choice. You should do it! I actually think that you could do some interesting shit with the chorus too. Like, it's tricky because of the way the footage works - there's not a lot of random variable footage, but you could really run with it as like...what does "getting lucky" mean. Cus for Shepard, probably mad shooting skillz, vidding it like the permanent aftermath of a party that ended with you driving down the highway until the sun rose? If...such a thing is possible. BUT I FEEL IT IS.

UGH, I actually really want this to be a thing now. Like really really. Are you gonna make this? You should.

And then if you mean the Daughter cover, then the tone shifts radically and fascinatingly, and suddenly it's...exactly the same but instead of the silent wistfulness of a surise car ride, it's the existentialist loss of that same journey.

That could make a really interesting pair of vids.

[goodbyebird]

Nono being too busy to respond to comments on the Internet is more tied to being a successful adult human being ;) Yikes, that is one harsh jetlag though. Did you go on an around the world trip and not tell us about it?

I've only read the first arch of CM and FD actually. Same for Sif's JiM stuff. With Captain Marvel, a crossover event took place? Like, did they have to get that confusing right out the gate? But I shall catch up! And I'm loving all the Asgardians stuff. Thinking I'll enjoy the next Thor movie that much more now.

I read both issues! Hehe like I could manage to wait. It's ok that they're not going the old route, it opens up for new paths she can take, and as you said it's in capable hands so I'm excited to see where it takes her.

There won't be much to be exited by at first. I am taking the road of least resistance, meaning vidding stuff I don't care about much. Trying a Hannibal vid now, might try for a movie vid or two when I get home, since that'll leave me with way less footage to comb through. But putting my foot down and demanding I finish one before the year runs out. Definitely.

D'oh such a dolt, not mentioning which cover I meant. But you figured it out! And then you put it in very brainy language where i would just make hand gestures and weird facial expressions. You make it sound so neat! What I've been playing with regarding the chorus is first Shepard, then Shepard's advisary/ies, and then Shepard!Team!Smash!wintheday...ish? But it's not quite gelling. With the rest of the song being so, um, existential? I want it to work though, because like I said the rest is too perfect. And i love the sound of the cover. But I still have my other two ME ideas that are more than solid so :D

Hah if you want two versions you could make the other one ;)

How's the whole capping project been treating you? Lithy still in the game?