sandalwoodbox

Hello Festividder! Thank you so much for your gift! :-) I have enclosed some notes about my preferences, such as they are, and I hope that they are useful to you and align with your interests!

Vid tastes: I particularly enjoy ensemble vids and vids that are focused on non-primary characters or relationships, or vids about the backdrop / aesthetic / broad arc of the show. I also enjoy vids that have a wide variety of types of shots - face close-ups, wide scenery shots, detail shots, etc. I generally prefer not to have lip syncing or intercut dialogue.

Music tastes: I enjoy a wide variety of types of music, and being introduced to great new songs & artists I've never heard before. I speak English and German fluently, but I’m also fine with songs in languages I don’t understand (as long as there are subtitles!) Some of my favorite genres & musicians include (in no particular order):

Heavy metal & Punk (System of a Down, REM, Nirvana…)
Rap / Hip-hop (Lil Nas X, Todrick Hall, Cardi B, Dessa...)
Irish / Scottish Folk (Malinky, Kate Rusby, John Doyle, Great Big Sea, Halali...)
Appalachian folk / bluegrass (Lady Maisery, Wailin’ Jennys, Carolina Chocolate Drops...)
Indie folk (Grace Petrie, Indigo Girls, Dar Williams...)
Thoughtful country (Dolly Parton, Dixie Chicks, Kacey Musgraves...)
Blues / “Fusion” dance music (Emilíana Torrini, Keb Mo, Tracy Chapman...)
Pop music (Chappell Roan, Dua Lipa, Taylor Swift, Demi Lovato, Little Mix...)
Musicals

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Below are some notes about the specific fandoms I'm requesting. For each fandom I've tried to give some ideas of vids I might be particularly interested in - but if there's something else you're excited to make, go for it!

Dear Missy: One of my favorite series at the moment. It’s just really well put together in terms of the writing, pacing, costume and set design, just all great! It’s a story about two women who are very close friends who reconnect and run a design magazine together. It’s also a story about a friends group who stick together through thick and thin - even if they date and break up. It’s also a story about unrealistically attractive people with unrealistically nice apartments in a super expensive city. It would be really cool to receive a Guan Yue character study - she’s great & deserves it! An art / design / architecture feelings / aesthetic vid would also be a lot of fun. Or a vid for the gaggle of Nouveau employees just trying to get through the day. And I can never get enough of SSY being a bisexual disaster and learning to be a better person. Lu Ke / Shen Si Yi is of course a delightful ship, and I would be totally down for a vid for them, either just them or poly or including some of the Dudes Along The Way. DNW: Lu Ke / Cheng Nan without the breakup. Focus on police plotlines.

Vida (2018): Two estranged sisters reconnect after their mother’s death - with each other, with their mother’s wife (they didn’t know about), and with the community they had left behind. I wish this show had gotten another season but I’m so glad that we got as much as we did! A queer joy vid for this source would be so good; I’d also love a focus on either Lyn or Emma (or both of them together!) and the special ways they’re fucked up disasters and/or how they grow over the series. Alternately I’d love character studies for any of the other main / side characters (except Nelson Herrera).

Soulmate Adventure: A classic hero’s coming of age story, very Shonen vibes, except both main characters (and many side characters!) are women. This is generally considered to be an F/F (baihe) story. A vid about that dynamic between Feng Ling Er and Bai Yu Xiu would be so great to see in the world! I’d also enjoy a character study of either of them showing off their badassery or personality or growth. An aesthetic vid or vid about the wider Jianghu upheaval would also be fun. But really extra down for anything here!

Couple of Mirrors: An assassin and an author fall in love and run away together. I just love Yan Wei / Xu You Yi so much! Sure there’s a little murder now and then, but they’ve got each other’s backs so hard. I’d really enjoy a ship vid for them, or a domestic slice of life vid, or a “they’re really good at their jobs” vid, or a character study for either of them… Also totally down for a vid about the toxic Xu You Yi / Zhang Wan dynamic. Or an aesthetic vid! DNW: Zhou Heng character study, Zhou Heng / Xu You Yi framed as healthy.

ダンジョン飯 | Dungeon Meshi | Delicious in Dungeon (Anime 2024): I cannot get enough of how Marcille’s feelings for Falin are definitely Completely Platonic and everything is Very Chill. I would love to have a cute ship vid or a “powerful sorceress tears apart reality for her girlfriend” vid or really anything for them! I would also really enjoy just a Marcille character study about her path studying magic and her fear of friends and family dying before her. Alternatively, ensemble cooking or dungeon hijinks, for any of the groups or for the overall ensemble!

风声丨The Message (TV): This is a Republican-era (1942?) spy cdrama with lots of competence, spy shenanigans, and unreliable narration. Oh My God Gu Xiaomeng and Li Ningyu are so fucking in love it’s ridiculous. And I love how much competence they get to display in this show! I would love to receive a vid about their rivals-to-lovers-to-avenging-widow story! Or about their spy teamwork! I would also enjoy character studies of either of them, for example an examination of Gu Xiaomeng’s whole “I killed a lion and I can kill you too” vibe or Li Ningyu’s “you saw me do it but you’ll never be able to prove it, even to yourself” plotting. I think a vid examining Wu Zhiguo’s devotion / life debt towards Li Ningyu could also be interesting. I also really enjoyed the unreliable narrative structure of the show - a vid exploring that could be super fun! DNW: Wu Zhiguo / Li Ningyu (though one-sided pining from Wu Zhiguo -> Li Ningyu would be fine).

The Court Jester: Very silly movie relying on a lot of physical comedy. Every time I watch it I’m amazed at how well it’s held up! It would be great to have a vid for it - a summary or recruiter vid, or something just capturing the physical comedy and general madcap vibe. I’d be fine with something using diagetic audio here, since the way the script is written is so important to the comedy of the movie (and so different than what we get today!)

Oxygen Not Included: This is a video game about coordinating clones (who do exactly what you said but not necessarily exactly what you want) to set up shop on an asteroid (which is actually maybe a postapocalyptic remnant of Earth?) It would be super fun to have a vid for this! I’m really down for whatever you can pull off. Duplicants deal with bad things happening and die in comedic ways? Sure! “Plot” summary? Yeah! Celebration of Science? Woohoo! It turns out that in addition to gameplay there’s also a series of

animated shorts for this source!

Lagaan: This was one of the first Bollywood movies I ever saw and remains my favorite. I would love to have a vid for it! A recruiter vid would be amazing (since getting folks to watch a 3:40 movie can be a bit tricky!) but I’d also love a ship vid for Bhuvan / Gauri (or an OT3 with Elizabeth Russell - I feel like you could make the case for a triangle!) or a vid celebrating the Sports Anime of it all! DNW: Bhuvan / Elizabeth Russell (unless in the context of an OT3)

Thank you!!!