thuvia ptarth

Hi! I did a kdrama vidshow for Vidukon 2021. All of the vids except one* were available on YouTube, so here's a YouTube playlist:



Direct link if you're having problems with the embed. If you have access to the show through Conline, I do recommend watching the show that way, for better integrated warnings and fewer ads.

Thank you to all the vidders who let me include their vids!

* The exception is ghost_lingering's Brave, which she graciously allowed me to upload for the con. It's currently in the playlist to allow for con replay, but I'll be removing it eventually.

Warnings
In addition to other triggers, many of the vids in this show incorporate source audio. This sometimes includes audio triggers that you may not be used to encountering in vids like gunshots and explosions. Please consult the show warnings list for details.

Playlist with warnings

The list also notes where you can stream the sources in the US. You may be able to find streaming information for other locations at a Mydramalist or Justwatch.

Notes
I wanted to do this vidshow mainly because there are a lot of cool kdramas and a lot of cool kdrama vids out there, and I wanted other people to appreciate them with me. I am very much a kdrama noob, and the vidshow is very much a product of what series I happen to know about and what aesthetics I happen to like, rather than a rigorous or comprehensive overview. That said, I wanted to showcase a few things:

• The breadth and huge generic diversity of kdrama
  
• The tendency of kdrama, like kpop, to creatively remix distinct styles into unique new combinations
  
• Aesthetics that seem, in my limited experience, to be common in kdrama vids/YouTube vidding, but which are rarer in my immediate vidding circles, like:
  
  • The incorporation of source audio
    
  • The incorporation of subtitles and type effects
    
  • Heavy usage of effects to accentuate beats and musical grace notes
    
  • The use of source soundtrack songs

I also prioritized vidders and vids I thought would be new to most of the congoers, or, in some cases (drawing heavily from the first few Festivids), at least vids that people at Vidukon hadn't seen recently. This ended up meaning I cut several of my favorite kdrama vids from the past 2 or 3 years, just because I assumed people would have encountered them elsewhere. I'm planning to post a list of the outtakes eventually, but it will take a while to put the warnings together. ETA: Outtakes.

vidukon non-attending registration is open.

Right now I am still so con hung-over I want to crawl under the blankets and put my arms over my head until people stop bothering me by expecting in-person human interactions and other unreasonable things. And I am still trying to convince myself that $700 plane fare plus hotel costs at the current exchange rate are a bad idea, even if I could take a week off and visit friends in the UK--I mean, it's a small country with an excellent train system, it can't be that hard to get to London and Cambridge from Milton Keynes ...

Also, I restored my old default icon because change was making me feel lost and confused.