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shadowkatI rather enjoyed doing that last post and apparently I have time on my hands. One of the side-effects of being laid up with a broken foot - is you do have a lot of time on your hands.
An aside on vids - I can't do them myself, so I'm relying on people who have created their own and posted to You Tube, the vid usually states who it is by. Also the trick of a good vid and music match-up is to catch the essence of a character or match-up that explains to someone else what you loved or see in them. What pricked your interest.
All of the below vids have spoilers. I have them arranged by tv series/fandom:
1. Doctor Who
I've the perfect song for Doctor Who and River Song pairing..."Time After Time by Cyndie Lauper" - although I prefer a different version of the song.
10th Doctor Who - "It's My Life" - I liked this video best and the song has a nice ironic twist for this lyric: "It's my Life, it's now or never, I'm not going to live forever..."
But it has the joi de vivre of the companions that join the doctor. Or expresses why they do it.
2) Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel the Series
* Xander Harris - I don't know what the song is here, but it actually works, and this is the only vid I could find that fit him and the only song...
What I loved most about Xander was his quips. The character made me laugh. Whedon infused Xander with his quippy self-deprecating charm.
Weirdly there's more Xander/Buffy, Xander/Giles (really? okaay. I get Xander/Spike and even Xander/Angel, but Xander/Giles??), Xander/Dawn (doesn't work for me...but to each their own),
Xander/ Willow (now that one I actually shipped briefly), Xander/Anya...
I find one for Xander/Cordy that I think works better for Xander/Anya - "The Story of US"
* Darla - found the following intense vid to "Sea Lion Woman" by Fiest:
This works so well, with the words and the rhythm - it has that teasing deceptiveness that was at the heart of Darla. When I heard the song - I admittedly thought, Darla.
* Angelus - to the song "Dragula by Rob Zombie":
* And oh dear, someone actually did a Fanged Four vid to Lady Gaga's Bad Romance - that's too perfect:
* Spike and Angel to "They Can't Take That Away From Me"...and if you are like me you may well mistake the line..."we may never meet again on the bumpy road of life" to "we may never meet again on the buffy road of life."
3. Game of Thrones:
The following are vids for Jamie Lannister, which are quite good and contain spoilers through S3 of the television series. But no book spoilers.
*
The song is ironic particularly in how the vid pairs with it. Works brilliantly.
*
And finally You Won't Forget My Name
*
I'm clearly a fan of tortured characters.
Here's a Tyrion Lannister vid - and the only one I could find with a song...and it is fittingly to The Raines of Castamere.
Weirdly I think the song fits Tyrion better, due to the heightened irony.
And here's Ayra:
5) OUAT
All of these vids have major plot spoilers through S2. Nothing past S2.
* Emma/Neal - this does have spoilers for S2:
Emma
This is a good video and song pairing for Regina to Let it Rock:
Finally found a decent and not too sappy Henry+Emma video...that fits how I see their relationship to I'll Save the World
I like this vid, because it is a tad subversive gender wise.
Finally...the sexy ones:
* Hook to the song For Your Entertainment
Fitting, because he literally is there for our entertainment.
*Rumplestilskin to the song "Remedy" - the lyrics quite fit the tortured soul that is Rumple:
And two interesting takes on the Cora/Rumple relationship, the first to the song "Tragedy" and the second to the Lady Gaga Song Love Game, which is just a tad racy.
Both of these have spoilers galore for season 2.
a)
b)
Both get across their twisted and tragic relationship.
Add your own or link to your own favorites.
An aside on vids - I can't do them myself, so I'm relying on people who have created their own and posted to You Tube, the vid usually states who it is by. Also the trick of a good vid and music match-up is to catch the essence of a character or match-up that explains to someone else what you loved or see in them. What pricked your interest.
All of the below vids have spoilers. I have them arranged by tv series/fandom:
1. Doctor Who
I've the perfect song for Doctor Who and River Song pairing..."Time After Time by Cyndie Lauper" - although I prefer a different version of the song.
10th Doctor Who - "It's My Life" - I liked this video best and the song has a nice ironic twist for this lyric: "It's my Life, it's now or never, I'm not going to live forever..."
But it has the joi de vivre of the companions that join the doctor. Or expresses why they do it.
2) Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel the Series
* Xander Harris - I don't know what the song is here, but it actually works, and this is the only vid I could find that fit him and the only song...
What I loved most about Xander was his quips. The character made me laugh. Whedon infused Xander with his quippy self-deprecating charm.
Weirdly there's more Xander/Buffy, Xander/Giles (really? okaay. I get Xander/Spike and even Xander/Angel, but Xander/Giles??), Xander/Dawn (doesn't work for me...but to each their own),
Xander/ Willow (now that one I actually shipped briefly), Xander/Anya...
I find one for Xander/Cordy that I think works better for Xander/Anya - "The Story of US"
* Darla - found the following intense vid to "Sea Lion Woman" by Fiest:
This works so well, with the words and the rhythm - it has that teasing deceptiveness that was at the heart of Darla. When I heard the song - I admittedly thought, Darla.
* Angelus - to the song "Dragula by Rob Zombie":
* And oh dear, someone actually did a Fanged Four vid to Lady Gaga's Bad Romance - that's too perfect:
* Spike and Angel to "They Can't Take That Away From Me"...and if you are like me you may well mistake the line..."we may never meet again on the bumpy road of life" to "we may never meet again on the buffy road of life."
3. Game of Thrones:
The following are vids for Jamie Lannister, which are quite good and contain spoilers through S3 of the television series. But no book spoilers.
*
The song is ironic particularly in how the vid pairs with it. Works brilliantly.
*
And finally You Won't Forget My Name
*
I'm clearly a fan of tortured characters.
Here's a Tyrion Lannister vid - and the only one I could find with a song...and it is fittingly to The Raines of Castamere.
Weirdly I think the song fits Tyrion better, due to the heightened irony.
And here's Ayra:
5) OUAT
All of these vids have major plot spoilers through S2. Nothing past S2.
* Emma/Neal - this does have spoilers for S2:
Emma
This is a good video and song pairing for Regina to Let it Rock:
Finally found a decent and not too sappy Henry+Emma video...that fits how I see their relationship to I'll Save the World
I like this vid, because it is a tad subversive gender wise.
Finally...the sexy ones:
* Hook to the song For Your Entertainment
Fitting, because he literally is there for our entertainment.
*Rumplestilskin to the song "Remedy" - the lyrics quite fit the tortured soul that is Rumple:
And two interesting takes on the Cora/Rumple relationship, the first to the song "Tragedy" and the second to the Lady Gaga Song Love Game, which is just a tad racy.
Both of these have spoilers galore for season 2.
a)
b)
Both get across their twisted and tragic relationship.
Add your own or link to your own favorites.
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Date: 2013-07-06 10:41 pm (UTC)Ah, I see. I had dial-up until the end of last year, but (unfortunately?) for me I got hooked on vids once I upgraded.
Controversial or Ships that aren't as embraced by the core of fandom seem to have less vids. I noticed that.
Hm, that's interesting about Eleven/River, since I always got the impression that it was quite popular too.
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Date: 2013-07-06 10:55 pm (UTC)Oh it is...but only in a small faction of the fandom. There's a lot of haters. I've run into quite a few on my flist who do not like the ship and find it offensive. Granted that is true to an extent with all ships.
The River/Doctor and Rose/Doctor folks don't quite see eye-to-eye, reminds me a little of the Spike/Buffy and Angel/Buffy folks fights. Actually their fights are remarkably similar. As are the Moffat vs. RT Davies fights. Rose/Doctor don't tend to like Moffat, and Doctor/River are ambivalent about RT Davies. Which is interesting. Then there's the people who don't fit either...and are sort of annoyed with both and wish everyone shipped Donna/Doctor, yet refuse to admit they are shippers (which reminds me of the confessed non-Buffy shippers in the Buffy fandom, who shipped over characters and pairings and felt marginalized).
Sigh, doesn't matter the fandom, people are the same.
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Date: 2013-07-06 11:04 pm (UTC)From what I've seen of my f'list, and my own tastes, this is true. I certainly fall into those patterns.
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Date: 2013-07-06 11:20 pm (UTC)Buffy in stark contrast? I watched from the moment it aired, got momentarily obsessive with Angel/Buffy, particularly when he turned into Angelus, and loved S2 to pieces, but didn't get into the fandom really until Spike/Buffy hit the scene in 2002. Although it admittedly wasn't just Spike/Buffy that intrigued me as the fact that the writers were throwing all six of their characters off the cliff - and tv series just didn't do that.