annavere | This week's happiness (Reply)

Having acquired a vid downloader, I have been working my way through all my favorite vids and I can apparently save all but the ones requiring a password to view.

I'm ecstatic at my good fortune (likewise a big fan of the download option on AO3). Results of intermittent internet access through my life, copyright strikes and the time a YouTube vidder announced that they were dissatisfied with a particular work they'd made (saying so in response to multiple positive comments) and deleted it. The vid in question was my favorite in its fandom and the concept of a creator summarily erasing their own work because all they can see are the flaws has haunted me ever since. I realize they own it and it is their right, but it hurts.

I discover a lot of music through fanvids. I find that the way vidders recombine images comes the closest to the feeling of watching the show in question for the first time. Or they'll take a show or film I wasn't even that fond of and perfect it into three or four minutes of its best attributes. Or convince me of the chemistry in a pairing I had never considered. Or be unexpectedly hilarious. They are things of beauty.

So yes, main source of this week's happiness.