Red Orchid

A few months back, I offered to make something pretty for blindmouse for being a completely kick-ass beta. She couldn't think of anything for herself, but mentioned that she had a friend who would love to see softlyforgotten and zarah5's high school AU In Case This Scene Gets Nasty turned into a fanvid. I love this fic and thought this was a pretty awesome idea, so dear anonymous friend of blindmouse, here is the vid. Sorry for being a very slow person and taking forever to make it. :)

Also, big thank you to softlyforgotten and zarah5 for a) writing the fic in the first place, and b) saying it was cool for me to play with it.

Does anyone know how to make video tutorials (on a pc running Win Vista), i.e. recording what happens on your screen while you create something cool? I want to make one for how to fanvid in Sony Vegas. Because that program is awesome and totally kicks Movie Maker's ass. :D

Oh, and if you know the same thing for a mac running snowleopard/OSX, please send over that info as well.

So, I signed up for the Ryden Revival festival/party/thing that ivesia19 posted about on her journal (and which you should all go check out, because RYDEN REVIVAL \o/!!! Remember how great it was when it went on at softlyforgotten's (was it? I don't remember who started it anymore) LJ a few months back? LET'S DO IT AGAIN! :-D) and promised to make a vid. Which I have now started doing.

( Pleas for porn recs and random drooling )

So, fannyt and I went for coffee one day, which somehow ended up with the two of us watching our way through my Eddie Izzard DVD box at 2 am while drinking several bottles of wine. Somewhere in the middle of this, we realised that the Sebastian-arranging-matches scene from Dressed to Kill was a perfect metaphor for Rywalk and then things went downhill pretty quickly.

So here. Bandom writing and pairing clichés--Eddie Izzard style. Complete and utter crack. No offense meant to anyone, be it writers, readers, action transvestites or pretty boys. :-)



I blame the wine. Really, I do.

It's done. lolab's epic Ryden masterpiece Back To the Place (aka PCCF), that I had the priviledge to work with him on, is completed. If you haven't read it yet, go do so. It's more than worth your time.

I've been over at the last chapter post, comment-stalking, and I just wanted to say thank you, really from-the-bottom-of-my-heart thank you to everyone showing their support and quoting their favourite passages and so on. I know it means a lot to Colin, and to me too. Every time I see one of my scenes quoted, I go all ♥___♥ and flaily. Thank you so much.

Also, crossposting the vid for this fic. I'm glad you all seem to be enjoying it. It was such a fun thing to work on. Getting Sony Vegas has made vidding into such a treat. I can't wait to get started with my next project. :-)


If the vid doesn't play (YouTube is way sneakier than me, so it's blocked for some countries), you can watch it directly in your media player or download it here.

If you have any questions/comments about the vid and/or any of the scenes I wrote for pccf, feel free. I won't be replying too much in Colin's LJ, because I feel kinda weird doing that, but anything you post in a comment over here, I'll be happy to answer. :-)

Thanks again, guys. You're the best. PCCF has been a fantastic ride for me as well. I'm so happy I got to be a part of it.

Special thanks to afterxbirth, who finds all the best porn. And to fannyt and reni_days who make me happy and always know exactly what to say to unlock my brain and make anything dark and frustrating just melt away.

And Colin. I am so completely in love with you and your genious brain. You can totally have sex my babies any time you want. ♥

Companion vid to this story. YouTube put restricted access on it because of the song I used though, so if you have a problem watching it in your country, click here. (right-click and choose "save target as" to download, left-click to watch online - ca 40 Mb)


Also, I haz title for the upcoming mirror fics! (thanks to fannyt, who I love and adore):

Nightingale (with subtitles for each version)

Peterick: path I - And Not the Lark
Ryden: path II - Berkely Square
Joncer: path III - Ode to Keats