L I S T E N: Let Her Go - Passenger || Gotta Good Reason - Evan DuPell || Burn - Malibu '92 || Awake - Smoke Fairies || Warrior - Laura Marling || Working for the Knife - Mitski || A Mistake - Fiona Apple || You Swan Go On - Mount Eerie || Two Headed Boy - Neutral Milk Hotel || Waterloo - ABBA || Until I Know - Pachinko || Metal Heart - Cat Power || As I Lay My Head Down - Other Lives || All I Know So Far - Pink || Trauma - NF || Meticulous Bird - Tha || The Soundtrack - Nep || Salt In The Wound - boygenius || I'm Not Calling You A Liar - Florence + The Machine || To Be Alone - Hozier || The Big Gloom - Have A Nice Life || Burial Society - Have A Nice Life || Corporeal - Broadcast
L I S T E N: G.I.N.A.S.F.S. - Fall Out Boy || Freedom Hangs Like Heaven - Iron and Wine || Crack Baby - Mitski || Shoulders - Big Thief || Faded - Alan Walker || w.a.m.s. - Fall Out Boy || Baby You're a Haunted House - Gerard Way || Motherless Children Have a Hard Time - Blind Willie Johnson || Salt Candy - Half Waif || Ruins - First Aid Kit || Bird Song - Juniper Vale || The Silence - Bastille || Dani California - Red Hot Chili Peppers || Pay Us No Mind - The Staves || Memory Gongs - Cocteau Twins || Distant Mother - Autumn's Grey Solace || Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead
VidRecs.com is the name of a web site that sounds like what it is. However, it's much more than that and I hope that doesn't get lost like tears in rain. It will make it simple for anyone to be archive. Please Rec this post to those you think may be interested.
VIDS - Vids Inevitably Disappear Sometime
Vidding is an art that can take hours but can disappear in seconds. This loss is not based on merit. I have helped rescue 18k fanvids from from vidders who were content let them be deleted. I have run 4 virtual machines with archiving software in 2023 to rescue thousands of unlisted fanvids You Tube was going to make private forever. I created an app that has archived over 6k journals. I've seen vids you wouldn't believe unless you saw them yourself. All these projects may not be as important as the one I will be introducing here.
Is Democracy Dead?
A finished vid is a miracle in a way. The gestation period. The potential miscarriage of initial inspiration. The possibility that even if it makes it into the world, it may not find a home. Even if it does find a home there is no guarantee it will stay there for long. There is a gap between the viewer and the archivist. This is the gap I am attempting to bridge. Democracy is in the hands and eyes of the person reading these very words. What do I mean? One, two, or a few archivists cannot be the sole arbiters of what should be archived. That choice is best made fans of a fandom who can better appreciate the value of the art in relation to its subject.
VidRecs.com - The Bridge. The In(tear)ception
I can't believe you've read this far. This next part coming up is the best part. Every Archivist can be a Viewer but not every Viewer can be an Archivist until now. VidRecs.com allows you through your power to rec to exercise your democracy when it comes to what should be archived. You do the reccing and we do the archiving. Your choices are vital. Our promise. Our goal is to archive what you rec. The peace of mind that comes from knowing that when you rec you also archive gives your rec more power along with everyone else who recs collaboratively. You can watch the vid right away and you are creating your own criterion letterboxed page of recs. You don't have to wonder if you'll ever see your favorite vid again. No one else is doing this in this way. No one.
VidRecs.com - How does it work? Time to try
You can join by email or Discord. The only thing you need to Rec is
Vid URL - a single YT or Vimeo url
Rec Comment - a brief description of what you love about the vid
Vid Category - Fandom Category or Catchall Category
Optional - A03 Works ID - which will allow others who discover it to share their appreciation directly with the original artist. Again, this is optional.
You can even Rec directly from You Tube or Vimeo without even leaving their site. The video below walks you through the process. It literally takes seconds, but the potential of preservation lasts much longer than it ever would.
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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L I S T E N: Whateverrrr - Spacey Jane || Blackberry Stone (Live from Brooklyn) - Laura Marling || Oh Father - Madonna || Werewolf - Fiona Apple || 500 Miles - Peter, Paul and Mary || I Only Pray at Night - John Fullbright || Cold-Blooded Man - The Magnetic Fields || He Did - Anaïs Mitchell || Wolf - First Aid Kit || Bright Stars Burning - Hey Marseilles || Digging in the Dirt - Peter Gabriel || Tears of Rage - Bob Dylan || Special Death - Mirah || Broken Crown - Mumford and Sons ||
L I S T E N: No Choir - Florence + the Machine || Child of Mine - Laura Marling || As it Was - Harry Styles || Miley Cyrus - Used to be Young || Survivor - Destiny's Child || The Night We Met - Lord Huron || All These Things That I’ve Done - The Killers || Hurt - Johnny Cash || I Love You Too - Ezra Bell || Ghost Waltz - Jolie Holland || Time Has Made a Change - Sam Amidon || Dried Roses - Big Thief || To Build a Home - The Cinematic Orchestra || Movie Screens - Meese || You Will be Loved Again - Cowboy Junkies || The Weight of Living part II - Bastille || Laughter Lines - Bastille || Fortunate Son - Lyle Workman & The Forest Rangers || Landslide - Smashing Pumpkins || Broken - Jonah Kagen || Father and Son - Cat Stevens || Living with Ghosts - Smoke Fairies
Shatner had just turned 34 years old when this episode was filmed in 1965. It was the second pilot for Star Trek. The first filmed regular episode was “The Corbomite Maneuver” in May 1966.
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A collaborative playlist project for Sam's Birthday 2026
18th April - 2nd May 2026
Waaay back in 2015 I had an idea for Sam's birthday: playlists/fanmixes are a really great way of celebrating a character and so I thought why not put together one for Sam’s birthday. Here’s the difference, I didn't choose all the songs, you guys did!
This year I thought I'd bring this project back!
I want to make this a collaborative project between as many people who love Sam as possible and get as many different songs and ways of thinking about Sam as possible.
Here’s how it should (hopefully) work:
There are going to be a total of 7 different playlists created (which will also then be put into a master playlist) - 7 different themes, 7 days, over 2 weeks.
Each day you will have the opportunity to submit up to two songs to fit the theme (PLEASE ONLY SUBMIT TO THE THEME OF THE DAY - this will make my life MUCH simpler!)
Each set of songs will be collected into a playlist on Spotify and a graphic will be made to act as cover art for each mix. A link to the playlist, the cover art and a list of all the songs on it will be posted on Tumblr the following day. (If a song is not available on Spotify it will still be listed on the master post for the playlist)
On May 2nd a master post will be created with links to all 7 playlists on Spotify. (plus a complete playlist with all songs)
Please submit all songs as an ask to sambirthdayplaylist .
Put the day number followed by the name and artist of your songs, If you know the song isn’t availble on Spotify place and * next to it.
THANK YOU and hopefully we should end up with a really nice, diverse set of songs celebrating (and crying about) Sam Winchester.
Days/Themes (with submission dates for each) under the cut:
Day 1 (18th April): A Motel isn’t Part of Anywhere (Sam and liminality)
Day 2 (20th April): I Wanted to Believe (Sam and faith)
Day 3 (22nd April): Devil’s Resting Place (Sam and Lucifer/The Cage)
Day 4 (24th April): No Choir (Post-Series Sam)
Day 5 (26th April): Spent it on Ammo (Sam and John)
Day 6 (28th April): The Biggest Blank (Sam and Mary)
Day 7 (30th April): Same Circumstances (Sam and autonomy)
One thing I've noticed recently is that people treat RSVPing for a party or event as a suggestion and not a commitment.
I had a little party today and literally half the people who had RSVPed yes just no-showed without saying anything.
It ended up being a delightful event with some of my favorite people and I had a really good time, but I can't help but feel a bit hurt by my friends who said they would come and just...didn't.
Even beyond my feelings, I had put a LOT of work into preparation, so there was way too much food.
If you say you're going to an event, especially a smaller one, at least tell the host if plans change. Like, no one is forcing you at gunpoint to go to a party, but it's super rude to just ghost your friends and usually significant work has gone into putting together the event.
Also like, part of the reason you RSVP is so the host knows how many people to accommodate for something (i.e how much food to get). By no-showing in advance you are making them waste money, cause they'll be spending it on thing that will go to waste b/c the person they were allotted to didn't show up.
Which is rude as hell.
And the reverse is also why you SHOULD say if you're coming and not show up randomly without warning, if they haven't planned for your attendance there won't be enough stuff for you(like food.
The wanting to know who's coming isn't just, because the want to know. They want to know so they can accommodate the right amount of people.
Incidentally.
I would normally have a volunteer function today. But I got sick this week, and I'm still fatigued.
So guess what I did on Thursday: I emailed the coordinator, apologized for having to miss, told her I was sick, and that I'd return to volunteering next month (it's a once-a-month thing).
Her response?
"Thanks for letting me know, feel better soon!"
That's it.
No crying, screaming, wailing about betrayal, nothing. I wasn't able to make it, I let her know ahead of time, and that was it.
Don't say yes if it's a maybe. Don't say no if it's a yes. Don't say yes if it's a no. And if you say yes intending it to be yes but it has to become a no, SAY SO.
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