Originally posted 13th April 2009: Day One: Fanvids

[8daysofhappy]

I didn't get tagged for eight days of happy, so I think I can make up any rules I like. For each of the next eight days, I'm going to pick a thing that makes me happy and post eight examples of it. These examples are not necessarily the best or my favourite -- etc, etc, disclaim, disclaim -- just the first eight I think of to share with you.

Day One: Fanvids

Oh, oh, fanvids! Pretty, pretty fanvids! In no particular order:

-- Stress by Sandy 'n Rache -- Stargate Atlantis: A deep, sensitive and nuanced character study of Rodney McKay.
-- You Can Call Me by sdwolfpup -- Due South: This song fits Fraser and his two Rays so, so perfectly. (See this crit by minnow1212 for extra joy.)
-- I'm Your Man by charmax -- Multifandom: For those of us who love women who love women. (It was so hard for me to pick just one of her vids.)
-- Bad Day by mamoru22 -- Die Hard 4.0: Because yes. Explosions and men looking at each other but not touching. (Talking of people who made it hard for me to pick just one vid.)
-- Wonderboy by Mexx -- Doctor Who: This is the Who I hold in my soul.
-- Circles by laurashapiro -- The West Wing: But how can you vid The West Wing, Katy? Isn't it all about the snappy, snappy dialogue? How could any song capture the way the show sounds? But how?
-- One Night Fandoms by thingswithwings and eruthros -- Yuletide: I've tried to stick to vids that are accessible to non-fannish eyes, but this is my one nod in the direction of that whole other genre of viddish happy: love-letters to fandom.
-- Kryptonite by jmtorres -- Andromeda: Eight is far too few for all the vids I love, but I couldn't go without mentioning the first vid I ever saw. It still just plain thrills me every time I watch it. *hugs it*

(Grah! So many others I wanted to mention... On the plus side, if I can't think of another seven things that make me happy, I can definitely manage at least one more post of eight vids, probably two.)