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Past Forward - Vidshow Playlist

2025-08-13T08:06:53Z

A showcase of fanvids, tributes, and edits that fuse past and present to create fresh perspectives on familiar sources. Presented at VidUKon 2025

The idea for this vidshow - a curated selection of fan created videos- came after watching a songvid for a 50 year old TV show. With great skill, eye, and ear, the vidder transformed this very familiar footage into visuals that were fresh and exciting. My goal was to find more vids like that!

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VidUKon 2025: Past Forward Vidshow Recs Wanted

2025-03-04T05:15:46Z

I'm VJing "Past Forward", a VidUKon 2025 vidshow showcasing fanvids that use older media (1980 and earlier) cut with modern music and editing styles. I would love your recs for fanvids that fuse the past and present and give a fresh perspective on familiar sources.

Click here for my Google Form for recs!

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BistoCon 2024 Pros Con Report

2024-08-11T06:02:04Z

BistoCon is a slash convention for fans of 1977 British crime drama, the Professionals. Traditionally held every two years in Romulus, Michigan, Virtual BistoCon was created in 2020 in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Virtual BistoCon uses a mix of common community collaboration platforms to bring Pros fans from all over the world together for two glorious days of panel discussions, vid shows, games, and fun.

Here's a quick con report on what happened this year - August 9 and 10, 2024.
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Festivids Gifts

2022-02-01T05:16:19Z

Festivids is LIVE! I received two AMAZING vids for HBO’s Chernobyl - Thank you, mystery vidders!!

the country's new behaviour

Summary: The speeding ticket you got, leading that last lamb to slaughter. Examination of truth vs power.

The Piano Is Not Firewood Yet

Summary: Everyone knows it's going to hurt But at least we'll get hurt trying

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New Vid: Espionage | Year Of The Rabbit

2021-06-28T01:12:55Z

CON.TXT 2021 - Premiere 6/26/2021
Fandom: Year of the Rabbit Music:
Espionage by Green Day
Description: Turn of the century London is full of dastardly villains and rotten cops.
Warnings: Visual Triggers, Sexual content, Graphic violence, Alcohol use, blood or gore, police / law enforcement

AO3: archiveofourown.org/works/32228653

YouTube: https://youtu.be/bHk39ytUXVA

A quick, fun recruiter vid for Year of the Rabbit (Channel 4, IFC). I discovered the series through a screencap last year. Period piece, comedy, Black characters, I was interested.

Rec (anti-rec?): The show was a fun watch! Set in 1887 London, the 6 part series follows the crimefighting adventures of a trio of misfit cops. The characters are fantastic as are the costumes and locations. The plot was a bit convoluted and wonderfully bizarre - there was a villain called Brick Man...um, like a man-made of bricks who stabbed people. I was delighted by all of the "new" technology (electricity, phones, bicycles) and how they were played for laughs.

The anti-rec is that parts of the show were viscerally repellant for me. I'm not overly squeamish, I don't think, but Merrick (The Elephant Man) - FANTASTIC make-up- I squinted through many of his scenes. Murky John who lives in the sewer and makes his living from... things in the sewers...THINGS IN THE SEWER! Inspector Tanner has an unfortunate meeting with a bomb that leaves him in a face mask - like those US Civil War or WW1 era crude masks meant to cover bits that are missing. It creeped me out. Some of the dialogue is...really foul. Not curse words, just, extremely descriptive lines about deeply unappealing things and ideas. Finally, some of the characters just seemed really dirty and stinky. Sometimes the show is a bit too earthy/vulgar for my taste. (And yes, I am fully aware that I have "outraged old lady" morals about some things while being positively enthusiastic about others, like swamp slick omegas in heat.)

So, while I very much *did* enjoy the show, it was a difficult watch.

But - I was on a tight deadline for a CON.TXT vid (because I squeezed a 3rd video into my 2 vid edit window) and knew I could do a fun WTF!? style vid for Rabbit quickly.

( Process Notes )

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New Vid: Get out Of My House | WandaVision

2021-06-22T01:16:09Z

I'm not (was not) a big MCU viewer. I'd seen Iron Man 1 for the novelty of it, then Iron Man 2 because I enjoyed the first and for Mickey Rourke (fresh off The Wrestler). I'd also seen Thor 1 because Ray Stevenson. Volstagg was mostly in the visually dark Act 1, disappointing.

I figured out most of the following films through social media and as a confirmed contrarian, found it all overwhelming and off-putting. Cross country airplane travel proved to be a good way to catch up on the films which is where I saw Age of Ultron. Not terrible, not great, watching on an airplane didn't help. Still, I like Artificial Sentient Intelligence characters bunches so that was one relatable-to-me hook into the MCU. Despite that germ of interest, I lived a relatively MCU-free life for many, many years - until WandaVision.

( Blah, blah, and Process (with early drafts) under the cut )

Get Out Of My House

WandaVision (TV)
Content warning for cut cuts, bright light flashes, grief.
VidUKon Premiere 2021

YouTube: https://youtu.be/XwjPuHDrte0
AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/31907746

Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/s/qpxm079iux1ejg0/Premiere_JinkyO_GetOutOfMyHouse.mp4?dl=0

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New Vid: Come On Feet || Pumzi

2021-05-15T05:08:30Z

Pumzi is a Kenyan science-fiction short film that is available on YouTube. It's a great watch! This fanvid premiered at Visioning WisCon on May 30, 2021.

Description: Something has to keep us moving forward.

Content Warning: Flashing lights at :48 - :54

Music: Come on Feet by Quasimoto

AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/31662875

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New Video - Glitter & Gold | Person of Interest

2021-03-29T18:35:43Z

Person Of Interest | Glitter & Gold
100th YouTube subscription celebration vid!
Song: Glitter & Gold by Barns Courtney
Warning: Guns, explosions, slight blood
AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/30228528
YouTube: https://youtu.be/VxBZYa1AAU0

I ended last year with 56 YouTube subscribers, a bit short of my goal of 100, but decent enough growth from my start of 37. The real impetus behind growing the YouTube is to build in an audience for my vids. Because I tend to vid one-off fandoms for exchanges, or POI and Pros content, the natural audience pool is small. I can deal with small, but I'd like to reach as many viewers as I can. Also, I'm enjoying all the YouTube algorithm tinkering bits, so the quest for 100 was a fun side project.

( Process )

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New Vid: This Is Not A Love Song | The Professionals

2021-02-22T01:33:41Z

The Professionals
Escapade 31 Premiere

Warnings: Guns, blood
Music: "This Is Not A Love Song" audio edit, Public Image Ltd.

AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/29351235
DropBox: https://www.dropbox.com/s/cpg67adczoqiyei/1_jinkyo_thisisnotalovesongFINAL2.mp4?dl=0

I've been in love with this video since last fall and under the cut I'll type at length why.

( Process and early drafts... )

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Festivids! Toxic | The Planets (TV - 2019)

2021-02-13T04:33:12Z

I finished my first treat, Vintage Clothes, a few days early so I had a few days to futz around with it before the initial deadline. The plan was to submit that vid then start work on my Escapade vid, which would be due in about two weeks. But then! Escapade extended the deadline by a week which meant I had time to cut one more treat!

Last year was my first Festivids and it was a great experience for me. One of my recipients was such a joy to create for in that they wrote a great prompt, I had tremendous fun editing their vid, they seemed happy with the vid and left quick and enthusiastic feedback. Yes! I wanted another hit of that!

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[Fanvid] Toxic
No Warnings Apply

AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/29019369

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Festivids! Vintage Clothes | Black Girl in a Big Dress

2021-02-12T22:36:57Z

This year there were nearly 10 prompts that appealed to me, which was great because my fannish interests tend to be niche. Of them, Black Girl in a Big Dress, sounded amazing. It's a cute YouTube series about a Black girl who loves historical dress but lives in the present day - with all the travails of work, love, and saving the estate. Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsfdAYPzeQ7kPLZ9-pz2I2Q

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[Fanvid] Vintage Clothes
No Warnings Apply
AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/28787661

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[Fanvid] On My Radio | A Love Letter to Ska

2021-02-06T17:02:04Z

AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/28524111

Warnings: Police, Racism

I love, love, love this vid! It was created for the Fandomtrees exchange and the prompt was music recs for various genre's including ska. Oh, someone in the world wants to talk ska music, you say?

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Tear Apart The Sky - Fast Color

2020-10-27T02:30:14Z

FanWorks Convention 2020 Premiere
Content Warning: Seizures, Physical Triggers

The story of the film is about relationships between a family of mothers and daughters. Also, they all have elemental superpowers and the government wants to find them and do experiments, for the good of all mankind. Black lady leads and a climate change bleak future setting were pretty much all I needed to whet my appetite.

As a bonus, one of the characters is a former young punk - well, fuck, I couldn't back away from vidding about a Black girl listening to X-Ray Spex to X-Ray Spex! I was sold on "The Day The World Turned Day-Glo" pretty early in the project, but waffled for a day or so if I should switch it out to "Identity". Neither song is a good lyrical match but in the end, I wanted the sax solos and the word "day-glo". I was able to create lyrical matches in my head as I cut the thing which made the process easier.

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[Fanvid] A Certain Kind Of Dirty | Claws

2020-07-28T02:03:24Z

Desna and her girls (and the Dixie Mafia…. and the Russians.)

CON.TXT 2020 Premiere
Notes: Quick cuts, blood, violence
Music: Hollaback Girl - Gwen Stefani
YouTube | AO3 | DW

Creator Notes: I started watching Claws years ago as a summer lark. I was initially impressed by the real life diversity of the cast, not the usual 'stick a brown best friend in and call it a day' but a reflection of the real world and real people that I live with. Well, not the drug running, money laundering, mafia parts, I don't know anything about that, but the rest was all familiar. And as it happened, the show was good! It's streaming on Hulu in the USA so if you want something fun for a bit of an escape, I highly recommend it.

This vid started out as a dance show video. The whole idea is based on the line "This shit is bananas". Yes, there are some other great story lines in the show, particularly Desna and her autistic brother, Dean and Quiet Ann's courting her policewoman love, but the show is such a technicolor Florida swamp mess that BANANAS is the only way to describe it.

The first hurdle was this: Hollaback Girl is a banger, but it's very repetitious. The lyrics aren't all that inspired and musically, it's a one-hook wonder. Editing the music turned out to be as much fun as cutting the vid. I went through a few versions of including lyrics before deciding to just go with the parts of the song everyone knows. This made for a shorter vid. The title screen is a bit wonky; with a bit more time I probably could have come up with a different solution, but in the end I embraced the bananas theme and left it as is, and on the whole, love this crazy little vid!

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This is Fine - VidUKon 2020 Premiere (aka Sad Harold)

2020-06-13T22:57:35Z

Fandom: Person of Interest (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Harold Finch & Nathan Ingram, Harold Finch & The Machine, Nathan Ingram & The Machine

Nathan's dead and he's abandoned Grace - this is fine.
VidUKon 2020 Premiere

AO3 | YouTube

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What's Up Danger Fandom: The Professionals (TV 1977)

2020-05-14T19:58:56Z

Title: What's Up Danger Fandom: The Professionals (TV 1977)
Music: "What's Up Danger" (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse)
Summary: CI5 is an elite squad of crime-fighting operatives trained to do what must be done, by any means necessary. It's not always clear who is the danger.
Warnings: Guns
YouTube | AO3 | DW

Notes: Premiered in Discovered in Thirty Days and Thirty Nights

Creator Notes: Pros!!! So, this year I fell in love with a very old fandom and had been itching to vid it! The show is super slashy and the lead actors super hot but what I love most is the action so that's what ended up on screen. Unfortunately, I had a serious DaVinci Resolve meltdown mid edit and was working toward a deadline. There are quite a few edits I'd love to make on this but, honestly, I want to re-edit everything I make so this is no surprise.

The song is a banger; I have a strong affinity for beat-heavy songs for vidding. Old canon with modern music worked well here and the idea came out of some aborted Vexercises I did earlier this year.

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An American Primer | James Baldwin RPF

2020-02-01T18:26:38Z

Title: An American Primer

Footage: Found archival footage

Music: Snowden's Jig (Genuine Negro Jig) (Traditional), performed by the Carolina Chocolate Drops

Length: 3:46

Character: James Baldwin

Summary: James Baldwin on being Black in America.

Content Notes: For seinmit - Festivids 2019

Creator Notes: So, I switched from Premiere to Da Vinci Resolve and updated my GPU last winter. After clearing out some IRL work, was interested in taking my new setup out for fanvid making. I poked around and found a fan exchange then spent days searching for anything with which I was remotely familiar. I eventually finally found a series of prompts that were well within my scope.

Much like, Wolf at the Door, this is a video that I ultimately created for myself. My motivation being, the world and fandom is different for Black folk and I relished the opportunity to play with that theme. And I got to vid so many beautiful faces.

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What a Shame | Person of Interest

2018-06-17T22:53:16Z

Title: What a Shame

Footage: Person of Interest s1-s5

Music: What a Shame by Shinedown

Length: 4:20

Character: John Reese

Summary: John Reese is a talented killer - and saver of lives.

Content Notes: TV level violence. Created for MnemonicMadness, during Exchange of Interest 2018

Creator Notes: MnemonicMadness provided the song and subject - and it just so happened both of the prompts fell well within my wheelhouse. Reese is a beautiful subject to vid!

From the creation side of things, this is the fastest cut I've ever assembled. Exchange deadlines plus May/June is one of my busiest seasons IRL. I have a STRONG desire to do one more pass on this because there are a few shots that aren't exactly perfect and the color grading is all over the place. I'd also love to tweak the pacing more. The song has a strong beat and I don't think I took full advantage of that. But, I know me and vidding, and I could easily spend the next month tweaking this -and I don't have a month so.

Overall, I'm happy with the end product. I think the song fits the character very well and there are a few edits that I absolutely love: Joan, the Kara kill, black hood Mark to black hood John, young John to smiling John.

YouTube
AO3
DW
File Download

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FANDOM SNOWFLAKE CHALLENGE DAY 2

2018-01-03T08:30:05Z

In your own space, share a favorite memory about fandom: the first time you got into fandom, the last time a fanwork touched your heart, crazy times with fellow fans (whether on-line or off-line), a lovely comment you’ve received or have left for someone. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I was in my early twenties when I discovered online fandom. Wow!
This was the late 90s. Professional wrestling was my jam, and Scott Hall was my dude!

Pro wrestling fandom was, and probably still is, a dual fandom of sorts. I started out on usenet and quickly found rec.sport.prowrestling, RSPW.
EVERYBODY was on RSPW back then, fans, smart fans, dirtsheet writers, promoters, agents, writers, wrestlers. and BAH GAWD, even Jim Ross!

It had everything from the backstage gossip, to fans making great lists and writing e-fed storylines, to, in hindsight, straight up trolling training grounds. It was the wild west to me and most of what I know about the internet I learned in my first month at RSPW. So anyway, while I'm immersed in this super male-centric, rough fandom, I'm also very interested in looking at photos of hot wrestlers and bit by bit I found the female fans.

There were websites, and photo galleries, and message boards with threaded conversations so you could meet and talk to other lady fans! Then I found the fan fic and that lead to a whole other level of websites and mailing lists and archives and a different set of fans who would become friends. I learned how to code HTML and javascript, how to make Flash games, how to edit video, how to sell on ebay - I learned a shit ton of stuff during this period. I was in college on a business degree, but looking back some 20 odd years later, I'm making a living off the things I learned through fandom. My real life job is digital content producer, and that's all fandom.

Anyway, this is getting long. Eventually most of the wrestlers I enjoyed left the business or died :/ I fell out of active fandom and was out for a loooooong time until, in 2013ish, I found my new thing, Person of Interest.

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FANDOM SNOWFLAKE CHALLENGE 2016 - DAY 06

2016-01-11T01:23:32Z

In your own space, create your own challenge. What’s something you want to see more people doing in fandom? Is there something you’ve tried that you think other people would enjoy if they gave it a go? Dare your friends to try it out, and have fun with it. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Placeholder post. I'm working on a project that will satisfy this challenge, but said project won't go live until February.

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FANDOM SNOWFLAKE CHALLENGE 2016 - DAY 05

2016-01-11T01:16:42Z

Leave feedback for a fanwork. Or multiple fanworks. It can be as simple as I liked this to a detailed list of all the things you loved about the fanwork. The key is to leave some sort of feedback.

If you've already left feedback in the course of a previous challenge, it totally counts. But you're free to leave more feedback.

Afterwards, leave a comment in this post with the equivalent of "I did it!" If you feel so inclined, leave a link to the fanwork you left feedback for so others can check it out.

A recent fic that I enjoyed and left feedback for was :
The Only Thing Money Can't Buy by Coragyps (Harold Finch is a shy, sexually repressed shut-in. John is the prostitute he hires to take care of that middle part.)

It is a very well written POI AU spin on how Finch and Reese teamed up. Explicit.

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FANDOM SNOWFLAKE CHALLENGE 2016 - DAY 04

2016-01-11T00:03:36Z

In your own space, create a fanwork. Make a drabble, a ficlet, a podfic, or an icon, art or meta or a rec list. Arts and crafts. Draft a critical essay about a particular media. Put together a picspam or a fanmix. Write a review of a Broadway show, a movie, a concert, a poetry reading, a museum trip, a you-should-be-listening-to-this-band essay. Compose some limericks, haikus, free-form poetry, 5-word stories. Document a particular bit of real person canon. Take some pictures. Draw a stick-figure comic. Create something. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

( Hobo Reese ficlet under the cut )

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FANDOM SNOWFLAKE CHALLENGE 2016 - DAY 03

2016-01-03T22:53:32Z

In your own space, post a rec for at least three fanworks that you have created. It can be your favorite fanworks that you've created, or fanworks you feel no one ever saw, or fanworks you say would define you as a creator. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

[Vid] Carousel AO3. Person of Interest, Reese/Finch. It's a shiptastic, romantic vid featuring ALL the hearteyes. (Well, not all of them, but as many as I could pack into 3 minutes.)

Float AO3 Harold/Nathan. The wishlist fic that distracted me from the challenge last year. I like angsty Harold/Nathan. I tend to write a lot of it. I like this fic because I had a lot of fun writing it, I got to do Photoshop stuffs, and I think the recipient really enjoyed the fic. Win-win all around.

A Series of Complete Understandings AO3. Harold Finch, Lionel Fusco. This was my under-appreciated baby from last year. Gen fic, Harold and Lionel, I understand why it got passed over. Still, I really enjoyed writing this and I still enjoy re-reading it. I love the team dynamics in the story and playing up two characters who don't usually get a lot of screen time together.

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FANDOM SNOWFLAKE CHALLENGE 2016 - DAY 02

2016-01-02T22:57:26Z

In your own space, create a list of at least three fannish things you'd love to receive, something you've wanted but were afraid to ask for - a fannish wish-list of sorts. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your wish-list if you feel comfortable doing so. Maybe someone will grant a wish. Check out other people's posts. Maybe you will grant a wish. If any wishes are granted, we'd love it if you link them to this post.

1. I would love a knowledgeable and patient person to explain to me how fic exchanges like Yuletide and
chocolateboxcomm work. So far, I've taken part in very easy to understand type exchanges: I make a post, I list my likes/dislikes, a mod matches me with someone and I write. Tagsets, nominations....I don't know, I still don't understand how these latger exchanges work or how to participate in them.

2. Fan art for fic is always nice.

3. Podfic of fic would also be wonderful.

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FANDOM SNOWFLAKE CHALLENGE 2016 - DAY 01

2016-01-02T00:53:22Z

In your own space, talk about why you are doing the Fandom Snowflake Challenge? What drew you to it as a participant? What do you hope to accomplish by doing these challenges? Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I regret not finishing the challenge last year but I had a good reason. One of the earlier challenges last year was to post a fannish wish list. I found a inspiring project on someone else's list and work on that project took over my January 15. :) I ended up with a couple of fics that I really enjoyed out of that!

This year I'm hoping to complete the challenge and take in all the opportunities for inspiration,.

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