I'm desperately seeking the 2010 Con.txt vidshow...was it distributed on DVD, and if so, does anyone out there have it?

The fanfare link to the con.txt site's 2010 playlist seems to be broken, but it had vids like:

Too Much Light in this Bar (Life on Mars)
James Bondage (Mythbusters)
Forever Fuzz (Hot Fuzz)
Hurricane (Battlestar Galactica/Farscape)
So Pure (Homicide: Life on the Street)

Basically, I neeeeeed to see So Pure again, and I had completely misremembered owning it already. D: It also screened at the 2018 Vividcon's genealogy of vidding panel, but of course those didn't end up on the con disc set.

Thanks for any leads!

Rec at least three fanworks that you didn’t create.

I thought I'd go way back and rec three fanworks from the 1990s, when I guess dinosaurs still roamed the earth? :D One vid (originally made on videotape!), and two novel-length stories (originally printed as zines!).

1) "Detachable Penis", by the Media Cannibals (and remastered by justacat). The Professionals, Bodie/Doyle. Though also about the enormous (lol) homoeroticism of rough-tough-macho-manly-gunly media in general.

Detachable Penis is a vid from 1997, made by members of the vidding collective Media Cannibals. It illustrates the story from the avant-garde King Missile song/monologue using clips from The Professionals, showing us what happens to Bodie and Doyle and their biiiig, haaaaard guns cocks guns.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYsSIDDkwNk




2) Chains of Being, by the_shoshanna. Space: Above and Beyond, Hawkes/McQueen.

Chains of Being is a slash novel from 1996, written for the cruelly short-lived science fiction TV show "Space: Above and Beyond". The novel explores the gradual maturation of Cooper Hawkes, a "tank" (clone), sentenced to serve in the (space) Marine Corps, and his growing connection to T.C. McQueen, his commanding officer, who it turns out is also a tank.

I always keep a copy of this novel on my phone, for re-reading and general morale. And I think it could just as easily be read as original science fiction--she does plenty of worldbuilding (and more than the show does, as the best fanworks do), and gets us settled into Hawkes's unusual POV--a grown man, but because of the cloning technology he's new to the world, with a lot to learn and assimilate. I love watching him figure things out, and build connections and relationships, especially of course the intimate relationship he eventually develops with McQueen.

Chains of Being (90836 words) by Shoshanna
Chapters: 8/8
Fandom: Space: Above and Beyond
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Cooper Hawkes/T. C. McQueen
Characters: Cooper Hawkes, T. C. McQueen, Shane Vansen, Vanessa Damphousse, Paul Wang, Nathan West
Summary:

Cooper Hawkes is an in-vitro in a world of natural-borns.

A Marine, because the judge sent him to the Corps instead of to jail.

Six years old, and caught up in the middle of a war.

Cooper has learned, painfully and well, that humans despise him, that human society rejects him: the nipple-neck, the wetbrain, the tank. That surrounded by his squadron he is still, and always, alone; that, whether in the crowded barracks of boot camp or the screaming fury of battle, none of them are like him, none are what he is. None of them are bound to him with chains of being.

Except one.

3) "Fumbling Towards Ecstasy", by Cherilyn & HG. The Fugitive (1993), Gerard/Kimble.

Fumbling Towards Ecstasy is a slash novel from 1997, written for the 1993 movie "The Fugitive". It follows the aftermath of the movie, with the now-exonerated Kimble receiving mysterious threats and Gerard taking him into protective custody.

It's case-plotty, but underscored all the time with the growing emotions of Kimble and Gerard, plus always fleshed out by Gerard's team. The tension between Richard and Sam builds and builds for the first half, but then having sex doesn't suddenly dissolve all the issues and make everything better--there's a good long time of them figuring out what the hell they're doing, and understanding themselves as a pair.

Fumbling Towards Ecstasy (131362 words) by Cherilyn, hgdoghouse
Chapters: 19/19
Fandom: The Fugitive (1993)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Samuel Gerard/Richard Kimble
Characters: Gerard, Kimble, Renfro, Poole, Newman, Biggs, OCs, Ritchie
Additional Tags: canon and OC characters of colour
Series: Part 1 of Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
Summary:

Kimble has suffered various attacks, which neither the police or FBI are taking seriously.

Gerard takes them very seriously, and after Kimble narrowly escapes being shot, takes him into protective custody while he and his deputies investigate.

This year's Vividcon vidder auction is now open--details at http://vividcon.dreamwidth.org/415659.html or http://vividcon.livejournal.com/394336.html .

So many sources. Soooo many. You can look at an individual vidder's offers by clicking their name on the auction page, or a whole list of all the vidders is here or here.

Seems like there's something for everyone...give it a look!

AV Club does this feature where it recruits bands to cover older songs in their little studio, and last week they did this really nice one where Ben Watt and Bernard Butler covered Wang Chung's "Dance Hall Days". I think it's an interesting approach, and really lovely.

Ben Watt is half of the group 'Everything But the Girl', who I was first introduced to by a Pros vid, of all things. The Media Cannibals made a Pros vid to the song "We Walk the Same Line," which came out on MC tape 2 (I can't look around to see if this vid has been remastered yet, because I'm at work and so many websites are blocked here...). I remember some interesting discussion on Virgule-L about the juxtaposition of such a sweet/soft song with such a rough-edged show/characters . But for all that I agree the song is sweet and quite soft in its tone and approach, which the show is not, for some reason that never bothered me. Possibly the underlying emotion and the lyrics still felt true enough to me that it didn't rub me the wrong way?

A very diverse set of vids at Vividcon this year--Person of Interest was the only fandom to have more than one vid for it in the Premieres show! (And I must say, it's nice to have my personal wishes in this regard magically catered to for a change. :D ) Plus there was a POI vid in the Auction show, so there was plenty to savor.

In the first half of Premieres was astolat's When I Ruled the World, summary: Be my mirror, my sword and shield. A warm and wistful Reese/Finch vid that made me sad for both of them, and happy that both of them managed to find each other (Plus: Bear!).

The second half of Premieres had flummery's Some Nights, summary: Team Machine. A total YAY TEEEEAM vid, propulsive and sweeping, with Fusco, Reese, Carter, and Finch all coming together to become more than the sum of their parts. (Plus: Bear!)

And then the Auction show had talitha78's Call Me Maybe (to a cover by Ben Howard), summary: I just met you, and this is crazy. A Reese/Finch vid of their paranoid, technological love story. (Pluuuus, BEAR. :D )

I didn't get much of a chance to discuss POI, what with everything else going on, but these vids definitely fed my id. Yum!

Festivids, the small fandom vid exchange, has gone live, and there are a bunch of enjoyable vids to be had this year. And thanks to klia, I saw that someone made one for Rubicon!

It's called I Follow You, made for isagel, and I really enjoyed it--it's moody and shadowy and paranoid, like the show (plus the credits are excellent), and it centers on two people: Will, the main character, and Kale, the ambiguous/mysterious/highly competent second-in-command at API (the guy I wrote my Yuletide story about).

I gave it some thought, and I think it's perfectly safe for people to watch even if they haven't seen the show. Most of the stuff isn't technically spoilery, especially given how things are sometimes taken/juxtaposed out of context, or would only be spoilery if a viewer knew the background or import of what they were seeing. So if you've been at all curious about Rubicon, feel free to check it out!