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Jul. 14th, 2008 01:23 am- I have been working on a vid since the end of May and I'm not even half-done.
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kroki_refur made her first vid between today and Thursday. I hate her. (It's kind of adorable. If you like Supernatural, go look.) - Is Premiere the crashiest program on the planet, or does it just hate me?
- Two of the incredibly dumb things I was sure were bugs instead of my error are indeed bugs and not my error, and they have already been fixed for updates, which the trial version will not let me download.
- Vidding does indeed have periods of terrible slogging boredom in which you just have to make yourself do the first goddamn draft no matter how shitty it might be, just like writing. I am sad. I wanted a longer honeymoon!
- You would not think you need good knees to use a computer, but you would be wrong. Having injured your knee so that blood does not flow properly to your feet means you have to keep your knee and foot elevated at a ninety-degree angle, which is awkward in most office environments.
- To prevent this from being an unrelenting stream of complaints, I will recommend things:
- danegen's Souljacker is a study of Faith (BtVS/AtS) and Dean (Supernatural). I loved a lot about this, but what hit me most is Dean the still point, the camera rotating around him, while Faith's in frenetic movement, and they're both, still and moving, breaking down. Also, her For the Wicked is like ten pounds of angst stuffed into those tiny boxes that hold a pair of earrings each.
- xandra_ptv and astartexx's Babyskin Tattoo is a multifandom study of opposed pairs of men, sometimes enemies, sometimes friends, sometimes (maybe) lovers. It uses a lot of non-obvious pairings as well as obvious ones.
- smilla02's Ten in One is a gen novella (Supernatural) about Sam and Dean's first case after Sam rescues Dean from hell. It is severe and spare and compelling, full of the weight of things unspoken, unspeakable, and half-spoken, and sensitive to weather: to cold, snow, wind, all the pressures on the body and skin. Its reliance on the unsaid and its unsentimental characterization remind me of veefic's stories.
- cormallen's Now We Are Come to the Kingdom (Sam/Dean) is an AWESOME, brilliantly plotted story about Sam's increasing desperation as Dean's deal comes due: terrific Sam, terrific Dean, terrific Ruby. And a killer cliffhanger, so be warned.
