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Tuesday, January 11th, 2011 01:16 pm
vidrec: how to save a life, fullmetal alchemist
My lack of shame about this is telling; I seriously love vids made on super popular music. Yes, I know that leads to five billion My Heart Will Go On's, but the thing is, even at the cheesiest level, if they work, I'm so there. Then there's shame, but that's after you're finished crying about the love that never dies.
However, then there are the ones that do really, really, really well. Gakked from fail_fandomanon that always brings the most interesting recs to the yard, because my weakness is vids made to the Fray, and also, Fullmetal Alchemist, which always breaks my heart and never bothers to fix it after.
How to Save a Life, Fullmetal Alchemist
The entire reason I started watching--and perhaps buying the manga--was a fourteen second bit before a commercial on cartoon network or something; no idea now. This is one of the things I'm super fannish about and never want to talk about, because I will cut you if you are negative about one little thing. The first step to not becoming scary is self-awareness; I could be scary for this show. Like, sockpuppet army of righteous defense scary. And I'd also be really bad at it, but you know, I'd try.
(This is one of the many useful things about having a son. No one even blinks if you utilize him at Barnes and Noble to explain why you're carrying a small fortune in anime and give the cashier rueful looks like, what can you do? Yeah, he's getting tired of that. I may need another plan.)
Anyway, the vid isn't everything that ever broke my heart. But it's really, really close. Good timing, good scene choice, fantastic escalation, and more than that, brilliant use of the song as it is and as it could be.
If you don't cry by the second section, you have no soul, okay? Just, I will judge, oh, and how.
However, then there are the ones that do really, really, really well. Gakked from fail_fandomanon that always brings the most interesting recs to the yard, because my weakness is vids made to the Fray, and also, Fullmetal Alchemist, which always breaks my heart and never bothers to fix it after.
How to Save a Life, Fullmetal Alchemist
The entire reason I started watching--and perhaps buying the manga--was a fourteen second bit before a commercial on cartoon network or something; no idea now. This is one of the things I'm super fannish about and never want to talk about, because I will cut you if you are negative about one little thing. The first step to not becoming scary is self-awareness; I could be scary for this show. Like, sockpuppet army of righteous defense scary. And I'd also be really bad at it, but you know, I'd try.
(This is one of the many useful things about having a son. No one even blinks if you utilize him at Barnes and Noble to explain why you're carrying a small fortune in anime and give the cashier rueful looks like, what can you do? Yeah, he's getting tired of that. I may need another plan.)
Anyway, the vid isn't everything that ever broke my heart. But it's really, really close. Good timing, good scene choice, fantastic escalation, and more than that, brilliant use of the song as it is and as it could be.
If you don't cry by the second section, you have no soul, okay? Just, I will judge, oh, and how.
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From:When I get nothing accomplished for the rest of the week because I'm rewatched FMA, and reading Ed/Roy fics, I'm blaming you. Just saying.
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From:I... will probably get back into FMA someday. It's such a gorgeous show. ♥ It's so cool to see that people are still into it.
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Mmm, anime. We should have watched some of Gravitation when you were in Seattle. Just, BECAUSE.
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From:I don't think there's such a thing as a happy FMA vid. A FMA vid that I ran across recently that I liked was Die Another Day
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From:I'm always fascinated by people's reaction to the three formats (season 1 anime, season 2 anime, and the manga.)
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From:The manga I think I'm at--eight?
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From:Something that I didn't get from the manga but got from the anime is the complete BAWLING my eyes out at STUFF, OK! A friend and I finally finished watching Brotherhood (last 10 eps yesterday, and there was MUCH TEARS, LAUGHTER, MORE TEARS, and just OMFG! I LOVES YOU). This is strange, because I did have the same reaction to this when I read the manga. What I did get from the manga - the truly creepy/horrifying aspect of human transmutation from a visual point view. There is just something about the black and white artwork that is a like a punch in the gut.
I'm pretty much in full FMA love at the moment, and is in the process of rewatching the whole. LOVES!
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From:Okay.
Also, I totes use the EOiT as an excuse to buy children's books. When he gets older, I'll probably use him as a reason to buy manga and anime. :D
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From:Have you been watching Brotherhood?
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From:(give me some recs before I end up at that mpreg again, desperate. RECS.)
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From:Rainjoy:
http://rainjoyswriting.livejournal.com
Truth in Lies:
http://truths-in-lies.livejournal.com
SkyDark - most particularly the Sex Ed series"
http://sky-dark.livejournal.com
Sleeps With Coyotes had some of the BEST stuff out there, but unfortunately her page is down. I've emailed her, in hopes of finding out what happened, but it may be tragically lost to the internet. Her site was here: http://ciceqi.slashcity.com/
These are the people I keep up with, and they've all written epic amounts in the fandom. If you come across anything else essential please share the rec!
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From:Happy More Joy Day! (http://sdwolfpup.livejournal.com/575426.html)
This unicorn may be obnoxiously joyful, but has the redeeming quality of being, er, redeemable for 2 illustrations for the story/stories of your choice, as named in a reply to this comment.
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From:That's actually the reason I read fanfic rather than use youtube... when I first started out on the internets, the speed was so slow that I could load and read 5 fanfics in the time it took to try to get a single image to load...
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