My second Festivid was the same kind of immensely fun experience as the first one! Not only did I really enjoy my assignment, but I watched (and loved!) some new movies, and ended up creating a whole four treats for fellow Festividders. That kind of creativity is pure dopamine!
My vids this year span the spectrum of F/F love and grief, action ladies, Zhu Yilong in blue hair (+ aliens??), intergenerational bonding over BL manga and fanworks, and one of my favorite shows of the past couple of years: the utterly engrossing Korean cooking competition Culinary Class Wars.
The shortest vid I made is 1:30, and the longest is 4:27 (my longest vid ever!). I used sources from China, Japan and South Korea, and music by artists from Denmark, Iceland, Japan and South Korea. (And in the process I learned how to upload two sets of subtitles to YouTube - the lyrics both translated into English, and in the original language.)
A quick list of the fandoms & ratings:
유령 | Phantom (2023) - 2x F/F
负负得正 | Land of Broken Hearts (2024) - M/F
メタモルフォーゼの縁側 | BL Metamorphosis (2021) - Gen
흑백요리사: 요리 계급 전쟁 | Culinary Class Wars (TV) - Gen
All vids are available on YouTube, Proton Drive, and MEGA!
( Details for all five vids on AO3 )
My vids this year span the spectrum of F/F love and grief, action ladies, Zhu Yilong in blue hair (+ aliens??), intergenerational bonding over BL manga and fanworks, and one of my favorite shows of the past couple of years: the utterly engrossing Korean cooking competition Culinary Class Wars.
The shortest vid I made is 1:30, and the longest is 4:27 (my longest vid ever!). I used sources from China, Japan and South Korea, and music by artists from Denmark, Iceland, Japan and South Korea. (And in the process I learned how to upload two sets of subtitles to YouTube - the lyrics both translated into English, and in the original language.)
A quick list of the fandoms & ratings:
유령 | Phantom (2023) - 2x F/F
负负得正 | Land of Broken Hearts (2024) - M/F
メタモルフォーゼの縁側 | BL Metamorphosis (2021) - Gen
흑백요리사: 요리 계급 전쟁 | Culinary Class Wars (TV) - Gen
All vids are available on YouTube, Proton Drive, and MEGA!
( Details for all five vids on AO3 )
Me, after last post: I'll make a post with my vids when I have a little more time! :)
My house: *floods*
Me: :(
...okay it wasn't quite that dramatic. Only almost. Including waking to insistent beeping at 3:30am to find no lights working, the fridge (which was the insistently beeping thing) blinking a warning that it was losing electricity, and a plant light flickering like a haunted thing.
Now, we have had to check the fuses before, but not in the middle of a freezing night with a foot of snow outside. (The electrical main is on the outside of the house.) So that was an experience! But we did find a main fuse had flipped off, so flipped it back on.
And then, just as I was settling in for my half day at work (I am also on sick leave 50% because of a very bad... seven months) I got a text from my husband with pictures of our basement flooded with sewer water, and our heating pump freaking out.
Oh, and it was his birthday.
Hahah. Ha.
We've been homeowners for three years, and this was the biggest "fuck fuck what do we do agh fuck" moment so far! Fortunately our home insurance company knew who to call to start un-flooding the basement, and it is literally just a little storage room with its own door, not a furnished basement or even connected to the upstairs in any way. (We had some bad smell in the bathroom above it, but nothing that spread further after I covered the drain and put a plate of vinegar out.) So we didn't lose anything important!
We did start freaking out a bit about the heating pump, for obvious reasons of a heating system being something you don't want breaking in the middle of winter, but our electrician literally sold us the house, and he was able to come around within a few hours of getting my call.
So by 2pm, our basement was scrubbed clean and was being dried by an industrial fan, and all of the secret fuses we had not remembered existed had been replaced/switched back on. Heat worked! Electricity worked! Just the way we and the kitties like it.
The root cause for all of this was a randomly blocked sewer pipe that we had to pay to have unclogged by a vacuum truck, but discovering an emergency during office hours is great for getting a good rate on that sort of thing!
Now to research whether or not it's worth getting some kind of check valve or something installed in that particular basement floor drain.
...and at some point I will also have the time and energy to post the vids I made. But for now, that's what's happening over here! Hope everyone else is having a much less exciting week.
My house: *floods*
Me: :(
...okay it wasn't quite that dramatic. Only almost. Including waking to insistent beeping at 3:30am to find no lights working, the fridge (which was the insistently beeping thing) blinking a warning that it was losing electricity, and a plant light flickering like a haunted thing.
Now, we have had to check the fuses before, but not in the middle of a freezing night with a foot of snow outside. (The electrical main is on the outside of the house.) So that was an experience! But we did find a main fuse had flipped off, so flipped it back on.
And then, just as I was settling in for my half day at work (I am also on sick leave 50% because of a very bad... seven months) I got a text from my husband with pictures of our basement flooded with sewer water, and our heating pump freaking out.
Oh, and it was his birthday.
Hahah. Ha.
We've been homeowners for three years, and this was the biggest "fuck fuck what do we do agh fuck" moment so far! Fortunately our home insurance company knew who to call to start un-flooding the basement, and it is literally just a little storage room with its own door, not a furnished basement or even connected to the upstairs in any way. (We had some bad smell in the bathroom above it, but nothing that spread further after I covered the drain and put a plate of vinegar out.) So we didn't lose anything important!
We did start freaking out a bit about the heating pump, for obvious reasons of a heating system being something you don't want breaking in the middle of winter, but our electrician literally sold us the house, and he was able to come around within a few hours of getting my call.
So by 2pm, our basement was scrubbed clean and was being dried by an industrial fan, and all of the secret fuses we had not remembered existed had been replaced/switched back on. Heat worked! Electricity worked! Just the way we and the kitties like it.
The root cause for all of this was a randomly blocked sewer pipe that we had to pay to have unclogged by a vacuum truck, but discovering an emergency during office hours is great for getting a good rate on that sort of thing!
Now to research whether or not it's worth getting some kind of check valve or something installed in that particular basement floor drain.
...and at some point I will also have the time and energy to post the vids I made. But for now, that's what's happening over here! Hope everyone else is having a much less exciting week.
Back in August of 2025, we announced a temporary block on account creation for users under the age of 18 from the state of Tennessee, due to the court in Netchoice's challenge to the law (which we're a part of!) refusing to prevent the law from being enforced while the lawsuit plays out. Today, I am sad to announce that we've had to add South Carolina to that list. When creating an account, you will now be asked if you're a resident of Tennessee or South Carolina. If you are, and your birthdate shows you're under 18, you won't be able to create an account.
We're very sorry to have to do this, and especially on such short notice. The reason for it: on Friday, South Carolina governor Henry McMaster signed the South Carolina Age-Appropriate Design Code Act into law, with an effective date of immediately. The law is so incredibly poorly written it took us several days to even figure out what the hell South Carolina wants us to do and whether or not we're covered by it. We're still not entirely 100% sure about the former, but in regards to the latter, we're pretty sure the fact we use Google Analytics on some site pages (for OS/platform/browser capability analysis) means we will be covered by the law. Thankfully, the law does not mandate a specific form of age verification, unlike many of the other state laws we're fighting, so we're likewise pretty sure that just stopping people under 18 from creating an account will be enough to comply without performing intrusive and privacy-invasive third-party age verification. We think. Maybe. (It's a really, really badly written law. I don't know whether they intended to write it in a way that means officers of the company can potentially be sentenced to jail time for violating it, but that's certainly one possible way to read it.)
Netchoice filed their lawsuit against SC over the law as I was working on making this change and writing this news post -- so recently it's not even showing up in RECAP yet for me to link y'all to! -- but here's the complaint as filed in the lawsuit, Netchoice v Wilson. Please note that I didn't even have to write the declaration yet (although I will be): we are cited in the complaint itself with a link to our August news post as evidence of why these laws burden small websites and create legal uncertainty that causes a chilling effect on speech. \o/
In fact, that's the victory: in December, the judge ruled in favor of Netchoice in Netchoice v Murrill, the lawsuit over Louisiana's age-verification law Act 456, finding (once again) that requiring age verification to access social media is unconstitutional. Judge deGravelles' ruling was not simply a preliminary injunction: this was a final, dispositive ruling stating clearly and unambiguously "Louisiana Revised Statutes §§51:1751–1754 violate the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, as incorporated by the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution", as well as awarding Netchoice their costs and attorney's fees for bringing the lawsuit. We didn't provide a declaration in that one, because Act 456, may it rot in hell, had a total registered user threshold we don't meet. That didn't stop Netchoice's lawyers from pointing out that we were forced to block service to Mississippi and restrict registration in Tennessee (pointing, again, to that news post), and Judge deGravelles found our example so compelling that we are cited twice in his ruling, thus marking the first time we've helped to get one of these laws enjoined or overturned just by existing. I think that's a new career high point for me.
I need to find an afternoon to sit down and write an update for![[site community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/comm_staff.png)
dw_advocacy highlighting everything that's going on (and what stage the lawsuits are in), because folks who know there's Some Shenanigans afoot in their state keep asking us whether we're going to have to put any restrictions on their states. I'll repeat my promise to you all: we will fight every state attempt to impose mandatory age verification and deanonymization on our users as hard as we possibly can, and we will keep actions like this to the clear cases where there's no doubt that we have to take action in order to prevent liability.
In cases like SC, where the law takes immediate effect, or like TN and MS, where the district court declines to issue a temporary injunction or the district court issues a temporary injunction and the appellate court overturns it, we may need to take some steps to limit our potential liability: when that happens, we'll tell you what we're doing as fast as we possibly can. (Sometimes it takes a little while for us to figure out the exact implications of a newly passed law or run the risk assessment on a law that the courts declined to enjoin. Netchoice's lawyers are excellent, but they're Netchoice's lawyers, not ours: we have to figure out our obligations ourselves. I am so very thankful that even though we are poor in money, we are very rich in friends, and we have a wide range of people we can go to for help.)
In cases where Netchoice filed the lawsuit before the law's effective date, there's a pending motion for a preliminary injunction, the court hasn't ruled on the motion yet, and we're specifically named in the motion for preliminary injunction as a Netchoice member the law would apply to, we generally evaluate that the risk is low enough we can wait and see what the judge decides. (Right now, for instance, that's Netchoice v Jones, formerly Netchoice v Miyares, mentioned in our December news post: the judge has not yet ruled on the motion for preliminary injunction.) If the judge grants the injunction, we won't need to do anything, because the state will be prevented from enforcing the law. If the judge doesn't grant the injunction, we'll figure out what we need to do then, and we'll let you know as soon as we know.
I know it's frustrating for people to not know what's going to happen! Believe me, it's just as frustrating for us: you would not believe how much of my time is taken up by tracking all of this. I keep trying to find time to updatedw_advocacy so people know the status of all the various lawsuits (and what actions we've taken in response), but every time I think I might have a second, something else happens like this SC law and I have to scramble to figure out what we need to do. We will continue to update dw_news whenever we do have to take an action that restricts any of our users, though, as soon as something happens that may make us have to take an action, and we will give you as much warning as we possibly can. It is absolutely ridiculous that we still have to have this fight, but we're going to keep fighting it for as long as we have to and as hard as we need to.
I look forward to the day we can lift the restrictions on Mississippi, Tennessee, and now South Carolina, and I apologize again to our users (and to the people who temporarily aren't able to become our users) from those states.
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We're very sorry to have to do this, and especially on such short notice. The reason for it: on Friday, South Carolina governor Henry McMaster signed the South Carolina Age-Appropriate Design Code Act into law, with an effective date of immediately. The law is so incredibly poorly written it took us several days to even figure out what the hell South Carolina wants us to do and whether or not we're covered by it. We're still not entirely 100% sure about the former, but in regards to the latter, we're pretty sure the fact we use Google Analytics on some site pages (for OS/platform/browser capability analysis) means we will be covered by the law. Thankfully, the law does not mandate a specific form of age verification, unlike many of the other state laws we're fighting, so we're likewise pretty sure that just stopping people under 18 from creating an account will be enough to comply without performing intrusive and privacy-invasive third-party age verification. We think. Maybe. (It's a really, really badly written law. I don't know whether they intended to write it in a way that means officers of the company can potentially be sentenced to jail time for violating it, but that's certainly one possible way to read it.)
Netchoice filed their lawsuit against SC over the law as I was working on making this change and writing this news post -- so recently it's not even showing up in RECAP yet for me to link y'all to! -- but here's the complaint as filed in the lawsuit, Netchoice v Wilson. Please note that I didn't even have to write the declaration yet (although I will be): we are cited in the complaint itself with a link to our August news post as evidence of why these laws burden small websites and create legal uncertainty that causes a chilling effect on speech. \o/
In fact, that's the victory: in December, the judge ruled in favor of Netchoice in Netchoice v Murrill, the lawsuit over Louisiana's age-verification law Act 456, finding (once again) that requiring age verification to access social media is unconstitutional. Judge deGravelles' ruling was not simply a preliminary injunction: this was a final, dispositive ruling stating clearly and unambiguously "Louisiana Revised Statutes §§51:1751–1754 violate the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, as incorporated by the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution", as well as awarding Netchoice their costs and attorney's fees for bringing the lawsuit. We didn't provide a declaration in that one, because Act 456, may it rot in hell, had a total registered user threshold we don't meet. That didn't stop Netchoice's lawyers from pointing out that we were forced to block service to Mississippi and restrict registration in Tennessee (pointing, again, to that news post), and Judge deGravelles found our example so compelling that we are cited twice in his ruling, thus marking the first time we've helped to get one of these laws enjoined or overturned just by existing. I think that's a new career high point for me.
I need to find an afternoon to sit down and write an update for
dw_advocacy highlighting everything that's going on (and what stage the lawsuits are in), because folks who know there's Some Shenanigans afoot in their state keep asking us whether we're going to have to put any restrictions on their states. I'll repeat my promise to you all: we will fight every state attempt to impose mandatory age verification and deanonymization on our users as hard as we possibly can, and we will keep actions like this to the clear cases where there's no doubt that we have to take action in order to prevent liability. In cases like SC, where the law takes immediate effect, or like TN and MS, where the district court declines to issue a temporary injunction or the district court issues a temporary injunction and the appellate court overturns it, we may need to take some steps to limit our potential liability: when that happens, we'll tell you what we're doing as fast as we possibly can. (Sometimes it takes a little while for us to figure out the exact implications of a newly passed law or run the risk assessment on a law that the courts declined to enjoin. Netchoice's lawyers are excellent, but they're Netchoice's lawyers, not ours: we have to figure out our obligations ourselves. I am so very thankful that even though we are poor in money, we are very rich in friends, and we have a wide range of people we can go to for help.)
In cases where Netchoice filed the lawsuit before the law's effective date, there's a pending motion for a preliminary injunction, the court hasn't ruled on the motion yet, and we're specifically named in the motion for preliminary injunction as a Netchoice member the law would apply to, we generally evaluate that the risk is low enough we can wait and see what the judge decides. (Right now, for instance, that's Netchoice v Jones, formerly Netchoice v Miyares, mentioned in our December news post: the judge has not yet ruled on the motion for preliminary injunction.) If the judge grants the injunction, we won't need to do anything, because the state will be prevented from enforcing the law. If the judge doesn't grant the injunction, we'll figure out what we need to do then, and we'll let you know as soon as we know.
I know it's frustrating for people to not know what's going to happen! Believe me, it's just as frustrating for us: you would not believe how much of my time is taken up by tracking all of this. I keep trying to find time to update
dw_advocacy so people know the status of all the various lawsuits (and what actions we've taken in response), but every time I think I might have a second, something else happens like this SC law and I have to scramble to figure out what we need to do. We will continue to update dw_news whenever we do have to take an action that restricts any of our users, though, as soon as something happens that may make us have to take an action, and we will give you as much warning as we possibly can. It is absolutely ridiculous that we still have to have this fight, but we're going to keep fighting it for as long as we have to and as hard as we need to. I look forward to the day we can lift the restrictions on Mississippi, Tennessee, and now South Carolina, and I apologize again to our users (and to the people who temporarily aren't able to become our users) from those states.
My last post here was my Dear Vidder letter for Festivids, and I am so thrilled to report that I got two gifts this Festivids! And one was for my much-beloved Odoru Daisousasen - a Japanese drama from 1997, which I first watched in the early 2000s. So it has been in my heart for very long, and at first I was just utterly delighted to have a gift for it at all. And then I watched it and it was perfect?!
Eraku nare! by BlueshiftOfDeath, videobaths
Fandom: 踊る大捜査線 | Bayside Shakedown (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Aoshima Shunsaku/Muroi Shinji
Characters: Aoshima Shunsaku, Muroi Shinji
Summary:
rather be [fanvid] by marquisguyun_art
Fandom: 極主夫道 | Gokushufudou | The Way of the House Husband (Live Action TV), Unspecified Fandom
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Miku/Tatsu (Gokushufudou), Miku & Tatsu & Kuroda Himawari (Gokushufudou)
Characters: Tatsu (Gokushufudou), Miku (Gokushufudou), Kuroda Himawari
Additional Tags: Fanvids, Family, Romance
Summary:
I also ended up making five vids myself, but I'll probably make a separate posts for them! For now, just know that I had so much fun I ended up signing up for![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
fandomtrumpshate literally on deadline day (today!). I'm offering a vid for a song up to 4 minutes, and I'm willing to vid any new source up to 180 minutes (so one 3h movie, or a couple of Kdrama eps, or a bunch of anime eps). If it's a fandom I've vidded before and know enough not to have to rewatch I'd be more than happy to use the whole source, of course! But this way anyone who's wanted a vid for something in particular can get it without having to limit themselves to what I've watched.
In short: yay vids! I had so much fun with both my first and second (this) Festivids that I'm already looking forward to the 2026 edition.
Eraku nare! by BlueshiftOfDeath, videobaths
Fandom: 踊る大捜査線 | Bayside Shakedown (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Aoshima Shunsaku/Muroi Shinji
Characters: Aoshima Shunsaku, Muroi Shinji
Summary:
“Are you really alright with this?”
“…I’ll do my best. Because there’s someone at the top who feels the same as I do.
Muroi-san. Everyone in the field is pinning their hopes on you.”
Like. Wow. My immediate reaction was to write an entire essay about everything I loved about it. ♥
My second (!) gift was an utterly adorable vid for an utterly adorable show:
rather be [fanvid] by marquisguyun_art
Fandom: 極主夫道 | Gokushufudou | The Way of the House Husband (Live Action TV), Unspecified Fandom
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Miku/Tatsu (Gokushufudou), Miku & Tatsu & Kuroda Himawari (Gokushufudou)
Characters: Tatsu (Gokushufudou), Miku (Gokushufudou), Kuroda Himawari
Additional Tags: Fanvids, Family, Romance
Summary:
A fanvid set to Rather Be by Clean Bandit ft. Jesse Glynne.
I also ended up making five vids myself, but I'll probably make a separate posts for them! For now, just know that I had so much fun I ended up signing up for
fandomtrumpshate literally on deadline day (today!). I'm offering a vid for a song up to 4 minutes, and I'm willing to vid any new source up to 180 minutes (so one 3h movie, or a couple of Kdrama eps, or a bunch of anime eps). If it's a fandom I've vidded before and know enough not to have to rewatch I'd be more than happy to use the whole source, of course! But this way anyone who's wanted a vid for something in particular can get it without having to limit themselves to what I've watched.In short: yay vids! I had so much fun with both my first and second (this) Festivids that I'm already looking forward to the 2026 edition.
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