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Me: looks frantically for software to rip decent, editable footage from DVDs

Handbrake: Rips and encodes DVDs in one go, but only in MPEG or MKV formats

Me: No I need lossless AVI or something as high quality and widely supported

AnyDVD: Rips the raw VOBs but doesn’t do much else with them

Me: Now I need an encoder for all these VOBs

Open DVD Ripper: Rips and encodes DVDs in one go, including into AVI

Me: Looks very nice, but you only compress in distribution formats and I don’t want to take a second quality hit compressing after editing. You know, why don’t I read a seven-year-old guide, front to back 3-4 times because I don’t get it, that requires a bunch of software that stopped development 10 years ago? Which also requires that I create an index file, run that index through a separate scripting program using a specific plugin, correct for aspect ratios, and encode the result into AVI using yet a third program? That makes sense, right?

Husband: …what are you doing on my computer all weekend

#his computer is a newer desktop #and a windows machine which i need #and that's just getting the footage #i haven't even started editing yet #the things i go through to give you the best #vidding feels #fannish problems #this is all your fault renkenobi

I have read and re-read fanfic that are 10k+ words of my blorbos having completely plotless sex and been perfectly content, but when I take longer than 1k words to set up an entire canon-divergent AU, I'm like, "what the fuck, Jess, do you know what 'brevity' is? No one is gonna slog through this."

#personal problems #creative problems #fannish problems

the urge....

to rewatch season 3 and chew more on my feelings about what i liked and didn't like.

to finish one of my fic wips.

to start a new witcher vid.

to catch up on all my exciting fics in my to-read tabs.

to keep cruisin' through my reread of baptism of fire.

why can't i do it all at the same time? omg not to mention I don't think I ever finished Blood and Wine DLC (just a continuation of 'me having a hard time finishing things'...) i love it all. but. aaaaaaahhhh.

#fannish problems #also probably some neurodivergence issues here with my brain half-melted from shitty exhausting life stuff #also i have thronebreaker sitting on my phone and haven't managed to start despite my desires to do so #but right now i have to go do chores so i guess it's baptism of fire until further notice #audiobooks for the win ty peter kenney ilu and your narration #then i'll probably get on my phil fanvid bandwagon instead of finishing my fic chapter #bwaahh #the witcher netflix #twn

Torn between the desire to indulge in the fandom’s beautiful creations and the desire to not be spoiled because I haven’t finished the series yet.

If I learned anything from Jane Austen, it’s not where you’re going, it’s how you get there. And I want to feel every jolt and swish of that ride.

#frustrated #fannish problems #love between fairy and devil #I know it will end tragically #it’s Chinese classic romance after all #with comedy #but the gif sets are so pretty #and the analysis is right there #must resist #agghhh

Apparently, I can’t not write fanfic in the first person, even when it’s not Sherlock Holmes. It’s a sickness, I tell you. Bilbo Baggins is not, in point of fact, John Watson. One of these days, I’m going to have to write casefic in the style of the opening chapter of The Hobbit, just because.

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Sometimes I Take it Too Far

I’m pretty sure y’all don’t understand the level of Escus trash that I am. I legit took this Art History course JUST for the section on ancient Roman art and architecture to make sure a scene in my fic was as close to historically accurate as possible. I was genuinely unsatisfied by the info I was finding online, and the lack of availability of scholarly journals without paying money that I don’t have so... I took a fucking course instead. The state of MA is currently funding my fannishness. I mean it satisfies graduation requirements and stuff, I’m not a total moron, but the chapter we’re currently working on is the ONLY ONE I really care about. Excepting the small sections on ancient Celtic art, which are FASCINATING, y’all. I learned all about torcs! And it really put Esca’s storyline into perspective for me, in a “prince of his people to Roman slave” sense that I didn’t fully grasp from the movie, which is way more focused on Marcus, LBR.

We’re talking about a canon that is not in and of itself particularly historically accurate. Like... the basis of the whole thing is totally flawed. The Ninth Legion wasn’t lost in ancient Britain, and most likely wasn’t lost even in a physical sense, but in a records-keeping one. If it was lost in a physical sense it would have been much, much further north. Like, Scandinavia.

So considering that the canon I’m working from basically throws historical accuracy out the window from the first, the fact that I care enough to take a course to learn about ancient Roman building techniques for a fic in a fandom that died two years ago is basically insanity.

You guys I’m probably never even going to finish the fic. It’s like 8,000 words and maybe halfway finished on paper, 3/4 finished in my head, and it’s gonna take probably 3 or 4 great writing nights with a bottle of good Sauv Blanc apiece for me to get it all out into a document.

IN THE MEAN TIME I ACTUALLY HAVE TO FINISH THE FUCKING ART HISTORY COURSE. Bullshitting stuff about the Byzantine Empire like I GAF.