I wish I was a mermaid and was friends with all the fish

PEOPLE ON MY FLIST WHO LOVE YOUNG JUSTICE (I KNOW THERE ARE A LOT OF YOU): If you like vids at all, you absolutely have to watch beccatoria's new vid Marchin' On, it is the whole team and FEELINGS OMG, basically I have to watch it a million more times and you should too!

In other news, I still have not read pretty much any yuletide fic other than my gifts, mostly because I (finally) recently watched Thor and Captain America and now I've been sucked into Avengers fic (Darcy is the best<3). No regrets.

I have not watched ALL the vids, because that would be insane (there are 174 vids!), but I did watch a lot, and they are all awesome. Since (unfortunately) I can't rec every single vid, here are a few of my very favourites:

( 25 recs in 22 fandoms )

Vid playlists are back! It's been a while since I've done one of these, but it turns out, watching vids is an excellent break from doing assignments. These are some of my favourite Sarah Connor Chronicles vids - I should stress, though, that it is by no means a comprehensive rec list. There are a lot of amazing vids not on here, mostly because I wanted to structure them as a somewhat coherent playlist. I will say this, though: If you're looking for a good Sarah Connor Chronicles vid, download one at random. Chances are, it'll be excellent.

(Also, unlike my previous vid playlists, there are no individual commentaries on this one, mostly because I'm tired and should get back to studying. Suffice it to say, I recommend them all wholeheartedly.)

( Vid recs: This is how the world ends )

1) My paid account expired, oh noes! I might have to think about renewing it as a birthday present to myself - I know I can't really afford it, but I really don't want to lose my icons :(

2) My birthday is in less than a week! I think I'm officially having one of those "what the hell am I doing with my life?" moments, because, yeesh. Why can't I magically know what I want to do when I grow up? (And why can't that day be very far in the future?)

3) More fic:

You And Me, We're A Front Page Story (Smallville - Clark/Lois - PG-13 - 4300 words) Top secret research. Undercover investigations. Close encounters of the physical kind. Just another day at the office. Spoilers up to episode 8:5 - Committed.

Written for svgurl for the 12days_of_clois exchange, for the prompt "Clark and Lois previously avoiding their feelings and are forced to confront it; maybe they're trapped in a small space or something?" Which I basically used as an excuse to unload a bunch of cliches, because, hey, it's Smallville. And, okay, I may have stolen the 'posing as a temp' thing from an episode of Prison Break, but it makes me happy, and Lisa Lawson was a minor recurring character on Greek, which, again. It's Smallville, it can be crack if I say it is.

4) Progress is being made on the Sweet Charity fic. Which is due on my birthday, so I really want to get it finished early so I can relax and get wasted do nothing.

5) I have another new show! You guys, if you like fantasy shows at all, you should totally go watch Legend of the Seeker. It's not quite as crack-tastic as Merlin (well, not yet - it's produced by Sam Raimi, so it's really only a matter of time), but it's pretty and awesome and kind of epic in a cheesy sort of way. It's based on Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth novels, which I've never read, but it's perfect stock fantasy fare, and I really love Richard already. And it's got shippiness, and Bruce Spence, and Jay Laga'aia (who has serious thoughts on Play School, and is made of awesome), and if you ever watched Xena or Hercules, you should definitely check it out, because it's a lot of fun.

Oh, and if you need more convincing (or even if you don't), you should definitely watch ladymajavader's vid I Love Rockin' Rahl, which is what convinced me to have a look at the show in the first place. Seriously shiny!

Mayday! by cherryice: Boomer! My Boomer, and oh, I love this vid so very much. Go watch it, now (it's under a minute, so you really have no excuse).

dayln03 asked for BSG and/or Sharon recs, which I'm all too happy to provide. I wish I had even more, but in the meantime, here's a glimpse into what BSG looks like from my (Sharon-centric) perspective.

( Vid recs: Sharon + ensemble )

superduperkc said she'd like vid recs, but not tailored to her interests - as she said, "because vidding is one of my interests, I will watch almost anything in almost any fandom." And that struck a chord with me, because increasingly, so will I. When I first started watching vids, I stuck to fandoms I loved, and then to fandoms I was familiar with, and have got to the point now where I love watching vids even - sometimes especially - in fandoms I know nothing about. (And I'm sure I'm not the only person who has discovered, or rediscovered, love for a fandom via watching vids.) So, with that in my mind, I decided to put together a themed rec list - vids from shows I had never seen, or had watched a bit of but wasn't really fannish about. And somewhere along the line, this morphed into a fantasy playlist of vids for fandoms I'm not in (or wasn't, at the time of first viewing).

For superduperkc: I hope there are vids here you haven't seen, and that you enjoy your recs as much as I enjoyed putting them together.

( Vid recs: Unfamiliar fandoms )

Want your own vid recs? Just ask me.

Technically it's no longer International Day of Femslash over here, but it probably is somewhere in the world, so I figure I can still do all the things I meant to post yesterday.

First up, vid recs! ( Under the cut )

Naturally, these are only some of the many excellent femslash vids out there. If you have some favourites I haven't included, by all means, drop me a link - I'm always looking for more good femslash.