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[festivids]

Festivids Vid Exchange!

Current Festivids stage: The Festivids submission deadline is approaching: January 14 at 11:59 PM UTC.

If you're not sure about participating or are new to Festivids, here are the basics.

What is Festivids?

Festivids is an annual vidding exchange for small, rare, and completely nonexistant vidding fandoms. Vidders sign up by requesting vids in 5-10 small fandoms, and offering to vid 4-20 small fandoms. (Treats are also allowed - you don't need to sign up to participate!)

Festivids runs on the AO3's exchange platform; if you'd like to participate but you don't have an AO3 account, direct message us and we'll send you an invitation so you can make an account immediately without having to wait in the usual AO3 invitation queue.

What is a rare vidding fandom?

For Festivids this year, "rare vidding fandom" means a fandom that has less than 150 one-minute-or-longer vids made in the last ten years. Festivids volunteers go through the nominations and evaluate rarity of each fandom nominated! If you're not sure if your fandom is rare, you can check our guidelines to evaluating rarity.

What kinds of things can I nominate?

If you can vid it, you can nominate it. Participants have nominated and vidded commercials, tv shows, movies, graphic novels, web comics, books, paintings, podcasts, music videos, celebrities, social media accounts, live performances, and just about anything else you can be fannish about. Festivids nominations rules help us to understand exactly what you're trying to nominate.

Because many Festividders write letters to describe their fandoms, and many Festividders watch every vid in the collection, this is also a great way to introduce your tiny fandom to a bunch of new people!

Want to see some of these vids? Check out last years' Festivids collection or every Festivids collection that's on the AO3.

What is the Festivids schedule?

Wed 27 Sept - Sun 8 Oct: Fandom nominations!

Sat 14 Oct - Sunday 22 Oct: Signup for the exchange!

Fri 8 Dec - Mon 18 Dec: Check in with the mods to confirm that you're still planning to participate in the exchange.

Tues 2 Jan: Deadline to default on your assignment without a penalty. (The penalty is an earlier deadline the following year. See below for details.)

Sun 14 Jan: Deadline to turn in your gift vid!

Sat 3 Feb: The collection goes live with a gift vid for everyone! There are also usually many treat vids made between the submissions deadline and go live, as well as some pinch hits.

Sat 10 Feb: Vidders' names are revealed!

I defaulted after the deadline in a previous year - can I still participate this year?

Yes, you can still participate. If you defaulted after the deadline in a previous year, the mods will reach out to you after you sign up to discuss an earlier deadline for your vid this year. (That is, you may need to turn in a complete draft by January 2nd instead of January 14th.) If you turn your draft in on time this year, your record will be wiped clean and you'll be back to the regular schedule next year.

I want to sign up, but I think I'll need some support to help me as I make my vid.

Festivids also has an optional Festivids Buddies system. You can sign up for Festivids Buddies and be assigned a fellow participant in the exchange to cheerlead your vid, make music recs, beta your vid, help you find source, or provide technical help. You can ask for exactly what you want in the Festivids Buddies signup and we'll do our best to assign you a Festivids Buddy who knows your software system, shares your fannish interests, or is really excited to offer the kind of help that you want. (If you're new to the exchange, this is also a great way to meet people and find a beta who will keep your secret vid secret!)

More questions? Check out our complete guide to Festivids 2023.

[periru3]

Festivids Rec List, But Make It Horny (Part 1)

So this year I am the extremely lucky recipient of three wonderful Festivids, and I could not be happier! They all understood exactly what I love about the sources I request, they have excellent music choices and are beautifully made, and, to my delight, they are all horny as hell! And in wildly different ways, no less! So when I was thinking about making a vid rec list I kept thinking about my amazing, sexy gifts, and somehow what I ended up making instead was a list of this year’s horniest festivids, ranked from normal vanilla horniness to kinky/bizarre/fucked up as hell horniness. So uuuh… if anyone reads this, enjoy I guess?

15. Ruin My Life (Rebecca Ferguson RPF) This vid is a short and sweet bit of pure Rebecca Ferguson thirst, and I’m here for it. Nothing too out there, just some classic lusting after a hot celebrity. Definitely the low extreme of the overt-kink-o-meter, but no less horny for it.   14. I Just Want Your Extra Time (Our Flag Means Death RPF) Another RPF entry, this one isn’t quite as thirsty as the previous entry, but it’s set to Kiss which is an incredibly sexy song, and it features the super-hot cast of OFMD. Also, whether you are in favor of the practice or not, shipping two real people is definitely straying a little further from pure vanilla than just being horny for one celeb.   13. Satisfaction (The Quick and the Dead) I’d say that horniness isn’t the main point of this delightful vid (that would be revenge), but it is all about Sharon Stone’s character, and she’s a total smoke show in this movie. Oh and there’s also the part where she fucks a preacher (Russel Crowe) in handcuffs and this vid is kind enough to give us a close up on him picking her up with his handcuff-clad hands by her leather-clad ass at 2:10 so that’s just an objectively good thing. (Also a quick shout out to Raising Hell – it didn’t seem horny enough to include, and I know nothing about the fandom, but a nun does certainly seem to have sex in it. Possibly several times) 12. Drink You Sober, Sucker, With You a Girl Could Get Bolder, & Believe in You (Bound) I could not be happier with the fact that there are four gorgeous Bound vids this year, but I’ve lumped them together lest they completely overwhelm my list. Drink You Sober (a beautiful, sexy, amazing gift for me!!!) and Sucker are the hornier of the four, but that’s mostly to say the other two have more varied content. Honestly they’re all hot as hell and feature lesbian sex very, very prominently. While there’s nothing overtly kinky shown, they get a lot of points for how wild and transgressive it was for two (trans women to make a movie with explicit lesbian sex where the lesbians get to be happy in the 90s. Also Violet is an unapologetically horny femme top and we love to see it. 11. Magnetic (Romeo+Juliet) & Boys Keep Swinging (As You Like It) I’ve also decided to lump these two together because they’re both a ton of fun, they’re both Shakespeare, and they both have the MOST gender imaginable and I love it. Also I couldn’t decide which to put above which. Magnetic features Harold Perrineau’s Mercutio while Boys Keep Swinging showcases a whole bunch of Rosalinds and everyone in both vids is just throwing the gender binary right the fuck out the window and if I may say so, that is very hot of them. Magnetic is definitely the hornier of the two, but on sheer gender-fuckery points alone they deserve to share this slot. 10. I Like That & I’m That Queer (Janelle Monáe RPF) Another two I couldn’t separate: the two wonderful vids all about the gorgeous, talented, non-binary, bisexual icon, Janelle Monáe! These are both excellent tributes to Janelle and her queerness and her artistry……. Aaaand they’re both super hot. They rank this high on the kink-o-meter because a truly ridiculous number of Janelle Monáe’s music videos feature either explicit or heavily implied orgies or threesomes and also I Like That is I believe the only vid of the year to have sex toys in it. 9. The Shape of You (The Pirate) Speaking of bizarre! I have not seen this movie, so I figure the tags on this one can do a better job explaining its place on the list than I can: hypnotism, pirate dubcon roleplay, sword spanking, elaborate sexual fantasies about Gene Kelly in a skimpy little outfit, and a wild trick with a cigarette. And BOY does it deliver on all those fronts. Whatever weird-ass kink is going on in this movie and this vid, I am living for it. Other things I’m living for include Gene Kelly’s butt and also the aforementioned cigarette trick.

(Part 2)

[vidukon]

VidUKon Draft Schedule Announced!

If you're coming to this year's VidUKon, or you're thinking about it, here's what's in store for 2019:

Friday 14 June, 2019

13:00 Registration (registration will continue to be open between sessions after this) 14:00 Informal vid-watching/Social time 15:00 Coffee/tea break 15:30 VIDSHOW: 2009 Retrospective 16:30 Break 18:00 Quiz 19:30 VIDSHOW: Vidder's Choice 21:00 VIDSHOW: Be Gay, Do Crimes 22:00 Lithy & Doccy's "Tea" Party

Saturday 15 June, 2019

09:45 VIDSHOW: Festivids 10:45 VIDSHOW: Behind the Scenes 11:45 Coffee/tea break 12:00 PANEL: Group Vidding Workshop 13:30 Lunch (hallway buffet to allow the group vidding to continue into lunch if necessary) 15:00 VIDSHOW: A Brief History of Found Footage Film 16:00 Break 16:15 VIDSHOW: Monsters 17:15 PANEL: Anatomy of a Vid 18:15 Dinner (Thomas Restaurant) 20:15 VIDSHOW: Eurovision 21:15 VIDSHOW: Premieres

Sunday 16 June, 2019

10:00 Vid Show: Best of CreaSpace 11:00 VIDSHOW: But What About Teh Menz? 12:00 PANEL: New Exciting Tech Developments 13:00 Lunch 14:00 PANEL: Year In Review 15:00  VIDSHOW: Storytelling 16:00 Feedback

This schedule may be subject to small changes closer to the con, but this is the rough shape of the weekend! Since there's only one programming track, attendees who wish to can attend every session, but the breakout room is always available if you want to skip a session to chat, relax or vid!

Registration for the con is open until Sunday 12 May (bear in mind that rooms in the reserved convention block are no longer available.) Supporting membership is available until Friday 31 May if you'd like real-time access to the virtual con. If you'd like to submit a premiere or a Vidder's Choice vid, the deadline is Monday 13 May.

[femslashex]

Femslash Exchange 2018: Dates, FAQ and Rules

Posted by: withinadream Welcome to our sixth annual femslash exchange! This year we will be allowing up to 10 fandoms per sign-up, and also reducing the minimum number of requests/offers from 4 down to 3. We hope this reduction will help participants who primarily create in the mega fandoms which are combined in the tagset, and encourage anyone offering the minimum or who may be concerned that their offers are matchable to keep an eye on requests (which will be visible again this year) during sign-up. We have also removed the request that treats below the minimum word count for assignments only be posted close to reveals, and have added vids as an allowed medium for matching. Other than these changes, the rules are very similar to past years. Please give them a quick read even if you've signed up before. Dates All times are 6pm EDT 25 July-8 August: Nomination Period 11 August: Signups open 25 August: Assignments will be sent out by this date 6 October: Fanworks due 12 October: Archive goes live (or as soon as everyone has a gift) 20 October: Creators revealed Associated sites: LiveJournal Feed & Tumblr & AO3 Collection & Tag Set. Fest FAQs: ( Nominations )

( Sign Ups )

( Requests )

( Offers )

( Pinch Hitting )

( Assignments )

( Posting )

( Fest Rules )

Please do not hesitate to leave a comment here or contact us at femslashexmod@gmail.com, if you have any questions/comments/concerns. Rules compiled from rarepairfest and femslash12. Vid rules influenced by festivids and equinox_exchange comments from Femslash Exchange https://ift.tt/2maRmQD via IFTTT

[garrideb]

Tagged

I got tagged by @somesundry. Thank you for thinking of me!  

Name: Monica

Nicknames: Well, my internet handles are garrideb (AO3, LJ and DW) and almondmocha. My family calls me “Wolfie”

Starsign: Virgo/Libra cusp, 

Height: 5′11″ 

Favorite color: purples, blues, and greens.

Favorite animal: Cats, wolves, bats, owls.

Cat or Dog: cats

Last thing I googled: A technical question about Premiere Pro CC.

Favorite music artist: No all-time favorites, but I’ve been loving Frank Turner especially after an amazing concert in October.

Song stuck in my head: “Give Me What You’ve Got” by The Shondes

Last movie I watched: I saw Sully at the second-run theater over Christmas. I liked it. Oh! I saw a Batman/Superman animated movie more recently, I think. That was good too.

Last tv show I watched: An episode of Star Trek: TNG. My friend Trevor and I are slowly making our way through the series. We get together most Thursday evenings to talk and watch TV. We’ve been doing this for about a decade. We’ve gotten though a lot of TV this way.

What are you wearing right now: Jeans, a blue shirt and a plaid button-up.

Do you have any other blogs: carolwanda on tumblr, garrideb on DW. Neither are very active.

What kind of stuff do you post: On here, mostly reblogs of whatever I like or feel strongly about. my carolwanda tumblr is for my femslash rarepair OTP. My DW gets more traditional diary-type posts. 

When did you create your blog: IDK.  3 years ago?

Do You Get Asks Frequently: Almost never. I like them, though.

What made you decide to make a tumblr: Fandom’s slow decline on LJ/DW.

Why did you choose your url: garrideb was taken (and is just being held GRR) as was my usual fallback of autumnburn. I love coffee and I thought almondmocha sounded nice.

Gender: I’ve been socialized as a woman.

Hogwarts house: Hufflepuff

Pokemon team: Probably instinct, but I don’t know Pokemon very well.

Average hours of sleep: 8, but because 6 on weekdays and 11 on weekends.

Lucky number: 6? 12?

Favorite characters: Gosh, do you want a War and Peace-length novel? I have too many fandoms and too many favs. Wanda Maximoff and Carol Danvers, obvs. Tony Stark.  Kippa, Maika Halfwolf, and Tuya from Monstress. Vince and Howard from Mighty Boosh. Smallville’s Lex.  Wilson from House. Everyone from White Collar but especially Peter, Neal, Elizabeth, Diana, June, and Moz. Josh from West Wing, the asshole. Donna and CJ too.

How many blankets do you sleep with: one

Dream trip: I find travel anxiety-inducing, so in a way my favorite trips are short ones to Milwaukee and Chicago. But I’m hoping to visit my lightkeeper friend on the west coast of Canada this spring at her lighthouse.

Dream job: I guess... maybe... something kinda artsy? I like the job I have, and prefer to save my passion for my hobbies, where I don’t have stressful obligations and deadlines.. usually. *kicks festivids project*

Following: 19, although only about 10 are active. I get stressed out if my dash is too active, so I eventually unfollow very prolific blogs, sorry!

I’ll tag @luninosity, @everybodyilovedies, @peacockbluey, @significantowl @risepersephone and @fairestcat, but don’t feel any pressure to do this!

[vidukon]

VidUKon Draft Schedule Announced!

If you're coming to this year's VidUKon, or you're thinking about it, here's what's in store for 2019:

Friday 14 June, 2019

13:00 Registration (registration will continue to be open between sessions after this) 14:00 Informal vid-watching/Social time 15:00 Coffee/tea break 15:30 VIDSHOW: 2009 Retrospective 16:30 Break 18:00 Quiz 19:30 VIDSHOW: Vidder's Choice 21:00 VIDSHOW: Be Gay, Do Crimes 22:00 Lithy & Doccy's "Tea" Party

Saturday 15 June, 2019

09:45 VIDSHOW: Festivids 10:45 VIDSHOW: Behind the Scenes 11:45 Coffee/tea break 12:00 PANEL: Group Vidding Workshop 13:30 Lunch (hallway buffet to allow the group vidding to continue into lunch if necessary) 15:00 VIDSHOW: A Brief History of Found Footage Film 16:00 Break 16:15 VIDSHOW: Monsters 17:15 PANEL: Anatomy of a Vid 18:15 Dinner (Thomas Restaurant) 20:15 VIDSHOW: Eurovision 21:15 VIDSHOW: Premieres

Sunday 16 June, 2019

10:00 Vid Show: Best of CreaSpace 11:00 VIDSHOW: But What About Teh Menz? 12:00 PANEL: New Exciting Tech Developments 13:00 Lunch 14:00 PANEL: Year In Review 15:00  VIDSHOW: Storytelling 16:00 Feedback

This schedule may be subject to small changes closer to the con, but this is the rough shape of the weekend! Since there's only one programming track, attendees who wish to can attend every session, but the breakout room is always available if you want to skip a session to chat, relax or vid!

Registration for the con is open until Sunday 12 May (bear in mind that rooms in the reserved convention block are no longer available.) Supporting membership is available until Friday 31 May if you'd like real-time access to the virtual con. If you'd like to submit a premiere or a Vidder's Choice vid, the deadline is Monday 13 May.