A Nothing Trail of Silences

Title: Convenient Parking
Fandom: Dexter/Criminal Minds
Music: Convenient Parking - Sun Kil Moon
Summary: The Behavioral Analysis Unit goes hunting for the Bay Harbor Butcher.

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Title: Dark Room
Fandom: Merlin
Music: Dark Room - Sarah Slean
Summary: Things fall apart; the center cannot hold. VVC '09 Premiere.

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Notes: Many thanks to elynross for beta.

I am afraid I have been somewhat missing. Again. Here is a brief overview of what I have been up to:

• Convocation! Yay! I may now legally call myself B.Sc., B.Eng. I won't, because sticking undergrad letters behind your name has a tendency to look a little silly, but I could.


• Work. ~50-60 hours a week. Shhh, don't tell the labour board.


• Finished ~0:30 of a Batman: TDK vid.


• Dragon boat practice! Dragon boat festivals, for those whose cities do not have them, involve 22 people attempting to race in a 1500 lb boat to raise money for charity. It is always a most awesome time.


• Re-finished same ~0:30 of TDK vid.


• I have been officially accepted into my graduate studies program. With funding, yay!


• Took grad photos for family of a friend. Am considering putting together a portfolio of portraits.


• Re-re-finished ~0:30 of TDK vid. Contemplated casting project files into the fires of Isengard.


• Acquired a lung infection. Forced to take two days off of work, missing two experiments, and not allowed to compete in dragon boat races. Contemplated casting lungs into the fires of Isengard.


• Accepted that when it comes to keeping up with the internet, I am sometimes a horrible person.


• Did further research. Decided the fires of Isengard are not concrete enough to cast my lungs into, nor are they metatextual enough to engulf my project files.


• Realized that OH MY GOODNESS, I am going to Chicago in t=2.5 weeks. VVC, YAY.

So: Anyone still looking for a roommate for VividCon?

Oh my goodness, I was offered a scholarship to VVC. This is absolutely, fantastically amazing -- not to mention entirely unexpected and completely confounding. I'm so tickled that I think my purple prose is about to go ultraviolet.

This is a) exciting, b) exciting, because vidding and meeting people and c) frightening (because these are Real Vidders we are talking about here). It might be a situation where my natural extroversion has to battle it out with my neurotic insecurities. It'll be a caged death match, and hopefully my gregariousness will wipe my insecurities' smug little faces all over the floor. I could sell tickets.

In all seriousness though: thank you to whomever nominated me. You're amazing.

If anyone knows someone who might still be looking for a roommate, I'd greatly appreciate a heads-up. Right now, I'm looking at coming in on the Friday (EDIT: Thursday), and leaving on the Monday. The Monday bit is negotiable, though. If I leave on Sunday, I'd have to take off before the shows were over to make it through the international terminal. That, and this way I can go to a museum on Monday!

It would be such a shame to be in Chicago for the first time (and my second time in the states) and not spend a bit of time out and about. I mean -- the Shedd Aquarium! The Field Museum of Natural History! Tell me I'm not the only one interested? We don't have these things hereabouts.

Oh my goodness: VVC YAY.

Also: Anyone want to meet up with me at some point, if they're not all ready booked up? Or do people run on a more zen sort of philosophy?

Title: What We Had
Fandom: Doctor Who
Music: What We Had - Handsome Furs
Summary: Martha, Jack, Mickey. It's all just empty space. For the VividCon 08 "Fuck You" Challenges vidshow.

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Title: Ghosts (4)
Fandom: House
Music: Nine Inch Nails
Characters: House, Wilson, Amber
Spoilers: Season Four Finale
Summary: House, Wilson, Amber, and things that break.

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Notes: My VVC 2008 premiere. Many thanks to elynross for beta.

Title: Only
Fandom: Battlestar: Galactica (2003)
Music: Nine Inch Nails
Rating: 14A -- Violence, language
Character: Final Four, Boomer
Spoilers: Season Three
Summary: What does it take before you're considered a person?

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Notes: Many thanks to elynross and laurashapiro for beta. The second of two vids made for VividCon. This one was for the 'Faith' blind challenge, and was, as such, extremely secret. I felt like I was some sort of superhero, only with a secret project instead of, you know, a secret identity.

My other VVC vids were Dying (Torchwood, premiere, Newbies Rock), and Don't Panic (Heroes, April, Death and Dying).

Title: Dying
Fandom: Torchwood
Music: Hole
Rating: 14A
Character: Team
Spoilers: Season One
Summary: It gets under your skin.

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Notes: This is the first of two vids I made for this year's VividCon -- the second should be up tomorrow. This was for the fabulous laurashapiro's Newbies Rock vid show.

There is no way that I can provide enough thanks for elynross for this one, as she went far, far above and beyond the call of duty for any beta. Without her, it would have been a much different vid.

Title: Don't Panic
Fandom: Heroes
Music: Coldplay
Rating: PG-13
Character: Claire-centric.
Spoilers: Through 1x17.
Summary: We're all just sinking like stones.

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Notes: Many thanks to the wonderful laurashapiro for beta, and to nute, elvenjen4, and rawles for audiencing.