#parf 2024

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Donate to Aid for Robin, Al, and Cole After Apartment Fire, organized by Julie Schrader

I have created this GoFundme for my dear friends, Robin, Al, and Cole.… Julie Schrader needs your support for Aid for Robin, Al, and Cole Af

For folk who keep less of a mental encyclopedia of Faire actors than I, this is at minimum the soul behind Lady Evelyn Gillian Thornbridge (c.2026), Contessa Faustina Nardone (c.2024), Norah Dasher Deere (c.2023), Astra Cripslocke (c.2023), Minerva Hopgrove (c.2022), and sundry Theatre in the Mansion characters, Robin Fertitta. Everybody made it out safely, but they now have to start over from complete scratch. To quote the description, this GoFundMe is intended to “...cover the first month of rent in their new apartment, which still needs to be found, as well as any hidden costs that might come with starting over completely (i.e. Application fees, renters insurance, new clothing, new tools, etc.)”. This is an unimaginably awful situation to be in, but we can make it significantly less terrible if we work together on it now.

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Snippets in order of occurrence

Chronology is more than a suggestion here (when I remember to update it).

At long last, I've redone all the highlight videos that my previously out-of-date editing software had messed up. Here they are.

Contents:

We All Lift (2023) performed by the Celtic Revels

Hej Sokoły (2023) led by Oliwir Kwiatkowski

Orville's Mom (2023) led by Willow deWorde

Hot To Go (2024) led by Mallory Livewell

My Mother Told Me / Valhalla Calling (2024) performed by the Rakish Rogues

Gaedhilge Briste (2024) led by Cornelius Corningstone

Caledonia Rock (2024) performed by the Rakish Rogues feat. electric guitar

Time-Travelers' Finale reprisals, Saturday 2024

Time-Travelers' Finale reprisals, Sunday 2024

Rainbow Connection (2024) led by Sir Francis Drake via Scramble

Welcome Thee To the Black Parade (10-19-2024) performed by the Rotten Rudesbys feat. Her Majesty

Welcome Thee To the Black Parade (10-26-2024) performed by the Rotten Rudesbys feat. Her Majesty

The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything (2025) performed by Mt. Hope's local airheads (affectionate) [Sat]

The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything (2025) performed by Mt. Hope's local airheads (affectionate) [Sun]

The Workers' Song (2025) performed by the Crafts Guild and friends

500 Shires (2025) led by James VI, King of Scots

Oops! all Jacques

Monty and James at Final Finale (2025); closeup, partial clip, lesser audio

Monty and James at Final Finale (2025); closeup, partial clip, better audio

Monty and James at Final Finale (2025); closeup, full clip, lesser audio

Monty and James at Final Finale (2025); closeup, full clip, better audio

Monty and James at Final Finale (2025); wide shot, partial clip, better audio

Monty and James at Final Finale (2025); wide shot, full clip, better audio

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2024 raw footage: Off The Cuff (main season)

Saturday September 21st – Celtic Weekend

Raw footage 25/119

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And that's a wrap for the 2024 season! For my part, I enjoyed the hell out of the season and did not end it with closure (through no fault of my own, for once). The only reason I'm not in a rotten headspace about the lack of closure is reflected in my choice of phrasing for the opening of this post: the sheer amount of footage I captured this year and the anticipation of finally getting to sink my teeth into it, putting together that cinematic edit I've been dreaming about since 2017.

Final count: One-hundred and nineteen (119) shows. Three-hundred and twenty-three (323) gigabytes. Seventy-one hours, twenty-five minutes, and thirty-nine seconds (71:25:39) of footage.

As part of reviewing all this footage to begin work on those cinematic edits, I'll get started right away on posting the raw footage to the PARF-fan Facebook. This will not, I fear, be a swift process. It took me twenty-one days to get through the twenty-six videos from 2022, which I cared about significantly less than these.

As a compromise, I've begun posting individual one-off numbers from Finales in Song to the PARF-fan Highlights youtube channel. If there are any particular moments you would like access to sooner, message me and I'll toss 'em up there. I recorded every single Finale from the Saturday of Viking Weekend through the end of the season, with the exception of both days of Wizarding Weekend (as I was ill at the time, no I will not stop being salty about that). I also have the Saturday Finale of Pyrates' Invasion; as well as Off The Cuff on 9/21, 9/29, 10/6, 10/12, 10/19, 10/20, and 10/27; and Whose Jest from 9/21 and 10/13. (For that matter, I have the 2023 Finales from 9/30, 10/1, 10/14, and 10/22; and 2023 Off The Cuff from 10/1 and 10/22; and 2023 Boarshead Brawl with its multiple endings from 9/16, 9/24, 10/1, 10/8, 10/14, 10/15, 10/21, 10/22, 10/28, and 10/29; and I'd have more if I'd realized sooner that the ending changed daily rather than weekly, and also if it hadn't rained so blessed much.)

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Who needs character-driven plot or even dynamic/complex characters if you've got supernatural stuff going on, I guess.

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2024 Boarshead Brawl main season raw footage

PARF 2024: Boarshead Brawl (main season) Saturday August 24th – Pyrate Invasion

Not strictly speaking a logistical edit, because I managed to get a sufficiently “average” version of this show in one take; it also happens to be the first show I filmed this season. It therefore constitutes both the second part of my logistical edits and the first part of my raw footage.

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The proud tradition of completely wrecking my voice at Time-Travelers' Finale continues.

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Another PARF Fic Update

Chapter four of “The Boarshead Cryptid” has been posted to AO3. I know I have an audience of approximately five people for this fic, but I’ll still post about it, just in case.

Summary: The good people of Mount Hope gather information.

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