TITLE: Live Forever - a MERLIN ad

SONG: Live Forever by Oasis

Rating: PG

Type: Gen-ish. Merlin/Arthur subtext.

Note: I've wanted to do a set of ads for Merlin set to various OASIS songs for months but haven't had the time to do so. Finally, with only one day left before the show airs in the US, I've managed to finish it!

Spoilers for: Episodes 1 - 5

Coming soon: Ad #2 set to Champagne Supernova and ad #3 set to Don't Look Back in Anger.

Watch it on YouTube (unless they pull the audio again) or download it from MegaUpload

( + Follow the fake cut to my LJ )

Title: Empty Room
Performed By: Every Avenue
RatingPG
Ship Jared/Jensen AU
Summary: AU. In the year 2025, Jared Padalecki gathers his daughter and son to tell them the story of how he met their father. Rewind back twenty years to the past, Jensen and Jared are best friends making a living in Hollywood. Through their tight knit group of friends and some difficult stumbling blocks on the way, Jared and Jensen learn to laugh at life, themselves and most importantly Chad. Everything seems perfect on the surface until feelings get involved. Inspired by finn21's "This Temporary Life", which was written for the 2009 spn_j2_bigbang.
Warnings: Chad-free. Sorry! Warnings for drinking, poker, puppies and implied Olsen twins. Sort of.

( Vid behind the cut! )

Thanks so much to finn21 for creating this adorable story! I'd never heard of the band before, and now I can't stop playing them, which is a fantastic side effect for projects like this. Fic will be up soon - just had to post this so it was available when she needed it to link to.

To celebrate the births of mctabby's cats, she hosts an annual drabble-a-thon, and this year, I decided to participate, because last year I was busy recouperating from a post-birth headache and thus was quite miserable. This year, I plotted it out on the beach while watching my daughter play in the sand, so what was supposed to be 100 words turned into about 1100 words - meep, that's what happens when you don't write at all in over a year! - so I've posted it here ( behind the cut )

Oh, and sharp_tongue wrote a wonderful ficlet for me! Thanks so much for it!

Just for remix purposes, my HP fics that aren't on LiveJournal are here on FictionAlley. They are:

Titanic Days (Draco-centric)
Homages (Hermione/Draco, set to/incorporating content from Pride & Prejudice)
The Kidnapping (Ron & a Death Eater, crack)

Title: Tall Cool One

Song by: Robert Plant

Rating: PG-13

Ships: Sam/Various Women, subtextual Sam/Dean

Spoilers through 4.22

Summary: Sammy Winchester strolls. He jumps. He's hot and he's a tease. He's a tall cool one, and he's built to please.

Created for yourlibrarian as part of livelongnmarry.

How to Watch: Imeem isn't embedding anymore, and YouTube hates my audio track, but you can watch it here or download it from megaupload in high res or low-res versions.

So this morning, roguebitch did a one-line review of SPN 4.21 that was basically a request/inspiration for a vid, and I had a few hours to spare (I didn't really need to go to the gym, did I?) so I sat down and made the vid, which I hope means good things for my vidding mojo as I have six different, sensational, fun vid commitments between now and the end of June!

The vid has SPOILERS through SPN 4.21. You have been warned.

Title: No, no, no (Rehab)
Song by: Amy Winehouse
Rating: PG-13.
Spoilers through 4.21. Seriously, do not watch this until you've seen 4.21
Summary: Would be spoilery for 4.21. But if you've seen 4.21, you probably don't need a summary.
( Watch it behind the cut! )

Download it!
Low-res on megaupload
Medium-res on megaupload

Title: Always Keep an Edge on Your Knife
Song by: The Corb Lund Band
Rating: PG-13. Gen.
Spoilers for all episodes of Supernatural through 4.14. Yes, there is actually at least one clip from every single episode of SPN in this vid.
Summary: A few words of advice from the Winchesters - and the Corb Lund Band. Basically, a good sharp edge is a man's best hedge against the vague uncertainties of life.
Created for la_perkins & friends as part of Sweet Charity (Fall, 2008).


( Yes, a good sharp edge is a man's best hedge against the vague uncertainties of life! )

Watch it on YouTube (I reommend selecting the HD version and letting the vid load before watching, so it doesn't lag)

Download an iPod-friendly version

Download or watch a medium-resolution version


Note: This video was ridiculously fun to edit. From the first time I heard the song, courtesy of la_perkins, I knew it would be adorably Winchestery, but it wasn't until I started working on it that I knew that it had to have clips from every single episode of SPN to date. But culling about 60 hours of Show into a three minute video was a bizarre and fascinating challenge, because it meant that sometimes I could pull the essence of a moment of Show, and other times the moment I was taking from a certain episode was almost at random - there's just over one second of Impala from S1 around the two-minute marker and I think I want to give a prize to the person who's the first to figure out which episode it comes from.

Hmmmm....

I have a spare copy of the S2 Companion book - and I'll get it signed by the person of the winner's choice at Eyecon this month. So yeah - first person to figure out which S1 episode the one-second clip of the Impala comes from wins it. :D I am crossposting this, so only posts on my pear_vodka livejournal count.

Thanks so much to roguebitch, deirdre_c, sabaceanbabe and la_perkins herself for insightful beta comments and squee!

Title: Titanic Days (aka My Heart Will Go On: The Re-Soundtracking)
Song by: Screaming Jets (covering Celine Dion's My Heart Will Go On)
Rating: PG-15
Pairing: Dean/Anna
Spoilers for 4.09 and 4.10
Summary: Anna's existence is about to change forever, but she'll keep her memories of Dean Winchester in her heart as long as she can.

Download it here on Megaupload

Watch it: here on YouTube or ( behind the cut )

Title is from a song by Kirstie MacColl - it just felt right.

ETA: Speaking of things that feel right badwrong, thanks to stormcloude for finding ( this )

( Inspired by these images... )
ze_pink_lady posted them, and I had never seen them before! But they remind me of something Jared said a few years ago, that when they told him that he'd be working with Jensen Ackles in SPN he said he'd had Jensen's poster on his wall - I bet ( : slips into RPS mode) ....


When Jared said he had posters of Jensen before they met for Supernatural, he was referring to these those Christmas photos with Kristen, because Jensen Plus Candy/Sweets had been impossible for Jared to resist. When they moved in together this summer, Jensen finally found the photos where Jared had folded them and tucked them into a random cookbook in the kitchen, so for the last few months, Jensen's been planning a way to re-create the photos for Jared and with Jared for their first Christmas where they're completely together.

Ordering a massive gingerbread house that's detailed with Twizzlers of all flavors and sizes, whipped cream frosting around the windows and rainbow-candy-belt curtains, especially on the sly, wasn't an impossible challenge - it's a terrific perk of having on-set caterers and a day of filming while Jared is in LA (with Jeff, the cheat) but getting it into his nominal bedroom on Christmas Eve is a complicated task.

Keeping the dogs from eating it when they get home from a run with Jared is, unfortunately, impossible, but they only get a few bites off it before Jared manhandles them out of the room and shuts the door. He's sweaty cold and there are snowflakes melting on his eyebrows, eyelashes and bangs but Jensen doesn't mind as Jared pushes his ass against the roof and pulls his black turtleneck off, then smashes their mouths together as he says, "Yum."

Title: Dirty Creature
Song by: Neil & Tim Finn (Split Enz)
Rating: PG
Pairing: Dean/Shapeshifter UST. Sort of.
Spoilers through: 4.05 (Monster Movie)
Summary: Sam and Dean deal with a dirty creature - but is he chasing Jamie the Bar Wench, or Dean Winchester? There's action, flirtiness and some meta in a four-minute package.
Download it on Megaupload or watch it here on YouTube or ( behind the cut )

Dedicated to everyone who's home this weekend and not enjoying the fun at Winchestercon, especially everyone at win_non_con!

Note: This vid is part of the FinnProject, in which I am doing a vid for each episode set to a different Finn-penned song. I'm still working on the vids from 4.02, 4.03 and 4.04....

Title: Part of Me, Part of You
Song by: Neil & Tim Finn (Crowded House, Split Enz)
Rating: PG, Gen
Spoilers through: 4.01
Summary: "Always in my blood, forever in my eyes..." That's Sam and Dean Winchester, especially now.
Download it on Megaupload or watch it here or ( behind the cut... )


Note: This vid is part of the Finn-chesters Project that I'm hoping to do this season re Supernatural - I want to make a vid for each episode set to a different Finn-penned song. This is the first entry in that project.

Title: The Zombie Meme Moment
Author: pinkfinity
Recipient: lisabird
Rating: PG
Summary: The Official Winchester Zombie Plan. Sort of.
( Posted October 15, 2005, 20:45:08 PST. )

Title: SPiNa Colada

Song: "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)" by Rupert Holmes

Summary: "If you like pina coladas and getting caught in the rain..." Sam/Dean crack

Spoilers: for seasons 1 - 3

Download: * .mov version on Megaupload
* .mpg version on Megaupload

Watch it ( on YouTube behind the cut )

Long distance dedication: Happy (early) birthday, deirdre_c! And also to Jared P.

D, you're a terrific friend, a wonderful beta, a vidding mentor and a partner in squee! This vid's for you! And next month, I'll treat you to a RL pina colada, too!

Title: Nine Get Over Excited

Song: "Five Get Over Excited" by The Housemartins

Summary: Fun! Fun! Fun! That's life, the universe and everything (with a nod to Doug Adams) for the Doctor and his companions in the new Doctor Who series. Sort of.

Spoilers: for seasons 1 - 4.

Download: .mov version on Megaupload

Watch it ( on YouTube behind the cut )

Notes: I've been waiting all season to do this vid; after the end of S4 it took me a few days to recuperate but then in re-watching S4, and selected episodes from 1-3, I re-embraced the "fun" of the companions, and others who move in and out of the Doctor's orbit - even when the fun doesn't seem very fun at all.

Wheeee! I finally made a Chuck vid! And it is part of the Schoolhouse Rock series - but for the first time, I've moved away from Grammar Rock. I mean, it's Chuck - who better to tell you 'bout the Constitution?


Title: The Preamble (as told by Chuck & Friends)
Song originally from: Schoolhouse Rock
Fandom: Chuck
Rating: PG
Summary: We the People, in order to form a more perfect Intersect Union... In other words, "learn about the USA" with Chuck!
Genre: Parody

Download it from Megaupload or watch it ( behind the cut on YouTube )

I am wondering if it's too subversive to metaphorically equate the Framers with a Sandworm from Dune. What do you think?

See the rest of my Schoolhouse Rock series here (featuring Harry Potter, Supernatural and Heroes, so far - more to come)!

Title: I Can't Do It Alone

Song performed by: Catherine Zeta-Jones

Song: I Cannot Do It Alone from Chicago (Kander/Ebb)

Rating: PG-13 for violence and sexual content

Characters: JessNiki, Jessica, Niki, D.L., Micah, Linderman, Matt, various Petrellis of the snogging variety

Spoilers: Heroes S1 and S2

Summary: Without Jessica, Niki simply cannot do it alone...

Download it: Megaupload

Notes: This is my entry in the current round of heroes_lvms - you can watch the other entry and vote here. The challenge was to vid to any song from a musical, and I considered "There, Right There" from Legally Blonde, "Unworthy of Your Love" from Assassins and "What Do You Do with a B.A. in English?" from Avenue Q before playing the Chicago soundtrack and getting caught up by the line, "My sister is now unfortunately deceased..." as sung by Velma Kelly - of course, it reminded me of Niki.

Thanks to wendywoowho for sitting with me through the song-selection process!

( Watch the vid behind the cut! )

Audio is finally working. I think. Let me know if there are still any issues with how it plays for you.

Title: Always Be My Baby

Song: David Cook's version of the Mariah Carey song

Rating: PG

Characters: Winchesters and random people from their past. Virtually.

Spoilers: Supernatural Season Three through 3.16. In other words, do not watch this until you have seen the Season Three finale. Also visual spoilers for various other shows that Jared and Jensen have been in

Summary: Sam will always be Dean's baby. Mostly pre-series to SPN.

Download: higher-res version on MU
lower-res version on MU
Go to its YouTube page or ( watch the vid behind the cut )

Notes: This vid would not exist without keepaofthecheez - she did a bit of a squee about the song and it gave me such a vidding bunny, so I had to run with it. So many thanks and love to her - hope this is a good cheer-up for you! Thanks to deirdre_c and roguebitch for handholding, especially while I watched Young MacGuyver. Oh, the things I do for vidding!

Further thanks to everyone involved with AI, who were so wonderful as to bring Mr Cook to the attention of fangirls the American public the world!

Title: Nobody's Diary

Song: Nobody's Diary

Artist: YAZ (aka Yazoo)

Rating: PG

Genre: Not sure. Gen with a hint of shippiness found in the relevant episodes?

Characters: The Doctor, Donna, Professor River Song and a Little Girl

Spoilers: Doctor Who Season Four, particularly Silence in the Library and Forest of the Dead

Summary: The story remains the same, if you take a look.

( Watch the vid behind the cut )

Download it from Megaupload

Notes: I knew after watching "Silence in the Library" that I would do a vid to this song - but I didn't realise how gloriously the second episode in the set would fit to the song, too. To see the full lyrics, click here.

Title: There'll Always Be Closing Night

Song: Intermission

Artist: Scissor Sisters

Rating: PG-13 for violence

Characters: Winchesters and demons, mostly

Spoilers: Supernatural Season Three through 3.16. In other words, do not watch this until you have seen the Season Three finale.

Summary: ( goes behind a cut! )

Download the QuickTime version on MegaUpload or watch it on YouTube or ( behind the cut )
So many thanks to lostt1, deirdre_c, and cedarlibrarian for beta-wrangling and to veronamay for a bit of lovely inspiration!

Once you're done watching the vid :) check out
The Supernatural All We Need Is Love Meme!
Happy fandom joy and love!

What?
Tom Felton's man-pain, in musical form.

What?!?
Sarah Jessica Parker with, um, a hat. (Gacked from sparkly_stuff)

Whut?
Yes, I finally did the Bela-centric vid that I've wanted to do since December - it's set to "Stairway to Heaven".

No, not the Led Zep original. It's a cover by an act called BEATNIX, and when I first heard it, it occurred to me how much Dean Winchester would hate this version, and of course, there are few, if any, humans that he hates as much as he's hated Bela.

So I put the two together. And now here's the vid, which is spoilery for all of Season Three of Supernatural, including Episode 3.15 ("Time Is On My Side"). I hope you'll like it if you like Bela as a character, or if you like Lauren as an actress, or, in fact, if you hate both of them. I can't explain - just watch. :D

Title: And She's Buying

Song: Stairway to Heaven

Artist: Performed by BEATNIX

Rating: PG

Characters: Bela Talbot, Winchesters

Spoilers: Supernatural Season Three through 3.15

Summary: Sam is The May Queen. Dean is The Songbird Who Sings. And Bela's buying the stairway to heaven.

Seriously. Well, sort of seriously. Seriously in a slightly cracky way.

Download it: medium-sized version is here on MegaUpload, right-click and save here on my own server, watch it on imeem or ( + catch it on YouTube at the fake-cut ).

Notes: The CG image at the end of the vid was created by priscellie; love and thanks to cedarlibrarian, deirdre_c and lostt1 for beta comments and thoughts on where to rip the vid apart and put it back together again.

Oh, Supernatural, why do you force me to generate such crack?

I'm going to upload priscellie's art as a "dvd cover" next week when I don't have to fret as much about it being spoilery for the end of 3.15...