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I finally set up an account at YouTube for my vids. There's not much there right now, just the first few I've put up including my Festivid for Miracles. I'm kind of nervous about it because of all the takedowns I've seen people go through, but I'm going to just do whatever other people have done if I get one and go from there. I'm trying to tag things in an unobtrusive way, too, so that I won't have too much attention to them. Boy, they look a lot better than on Viddler, that's for sure, but whoa are they dark. I still make vids with an eye toward the TV screen, so I really have to reframe that because these days, no one cares about viewing vids on a TV/DVD sitch, and that really affects how things look, I think. And I still, even after asking and getting some input, can't find a way to make decent web copies that aren't a hundred megabytes. I just seem completely unable to do it.

ETA: The fuckers at Universal are already creating a limit on one of the vids I uploaded. Can anyone point me to language I can use to dispute it? I need something I can paste into the little box that says I have a right to fair use...

Obvy after Escapade I'll have a new vid for the channel, though. I haven't even figured out how to pack yet. I want to try to pack light this time as practice for traveling to Boston/England/Wales in May, but packing light has never been my strong suit. It's too complicated!

I haven't been able to start on the story that was writing itself in my mind the other night. Haven't been able to do more than lay in a few clips for my Club Vivid vid. But at least I found a fantastic freaking song for a vid to take to Vidukon, for the series Awake. It's so perfect I could die.

I read a wonderful, wonderful story the other night. Though it's a Steve Rogers/Phil Coulson story, it's also a love letter to fandom and being a fan, and what it's like to be the object of fan adoration and to be a fan and meet the object of your affections, what it's like to be friends with them. I just...seriously, people who know me know how vanishingly rare it is for me to come over all flaily about a story, because I'm usually so stuck on the minor issues and spelling mistakes and things like that that I can never fully rec things. But this was easy for me to handwave any issues -- it's just lovely, and swoony, and you should go read it right now, I don't care if you don't want that pairing. It's got friendship with everyone as well, and it's just lovely.

Ask Galatea (7251 words) by thingswithwings
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Avengers (2012)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Phil Coulson/Steve Rogers, Bruce Banner & Steve Rogers, Steve Rogers & Natasha Romanov, Steve Rogers & Thor, Nick Fury & Steve Rogers
Characters: Steve Rogers, Phil Coulson, Bruce Banner, Natasha Romanov, Thor (Marvel), Nick Fury
Additional Tags: Fannishness, Fans, Soldiers, Patriotism, Service, Service Submission, Steve Feels
Summary:

The trading cards and the costume redesign are Steve's first clues, but he doesn't recognize them at the time; he's too new to the world, too angry at it, too busy fighting a war.

I had a rough weekend emotionally. One of the last things to do with my dad's estate left me really sad and shaky on Friday (honestly, why are people so shitty to someone when they know they've lost their entire family and have nothing and no one left, someone who was deferent and polite to them? What makes a person behave like that?), and then being around mean people on Saturday was just kind of the icing on the shit cake. But at least I got to spend many hours with Buffy, my previous foster dog and the happiest dog on the planet. She is doing so well! All her fur has grown back on the nakey spots she had while she was here, and she hasn't lost any of her joie de vivre. And of course she was loving being loved all night.

Keeping fingers and toes crossed for full sunshine at Escapade. I really need it.

Three excellent questions. Yuletide nominations are on and I haven't had any time at all to even think about them let alone go through my stuff and figure out what I want to do/get. Gah. I hate being this busy.

I went and spent a boatload of money getting the other Avengers lead-up movies in anticipation of the street date tomorrow for the dvd, on iTunes so that I could use the method of vidding that killabeez discovered through a program called Tune4mac that removes DRM crap. One thing I hadn't considered but that is giving me heartbreak is that I can't convert the deleted scenes. Not only does the iTunes versions of the films not seem to have more than two deleted scenes per movie, (like, does the Iron Man 2 dvd include the alternate opening, where Tony's ralphing in the suit and Pepper kisses his helmet and throws it out the plane door? Because that was my favorite scene in the trailiers and then I went to the movie and spent the whole fucking time going, "Where is that scene? It's my favorite scene!" and now the version I bought on iTunes doesn't fucking have it) but the Tune4mac program only converts the movie, not any of the supplemental materials. (Also, apparently the Marvel One-Shots are not on the iTunes dvds. Bastards.)

So, being tech-incompetent, I opted for this method because I was daunted by buying all the movies on Blu-Ray and also having to buy a BR drive, another terrabyte drive for storage, and everything else. But if I can't get the deleted scenes for the Thor Lord King Bad Vid I want to make, I lose something really important to what I want to do.

(I guess I could also ask: Does anyone actually already have the deleted scene between Thor and Loki before the coronation, in HD, in a viddable format and could hook a vidding sister up?)

WHY is vidding so difficult? WHY do I do this freaking frustrating hobby? ::Bangs head against desk.::