Vid Rec Meme #2: Made Me Cry
This one turned out to be surprisingly hard to fill for me -- perhaps because I tend to be angst-averse. But after some thought, I selected these three as being in the proper spirit: bleak, and yet also humane stories of people striving and finding solidarity in their suffering.
The password for this one is 'festivids':
[Vid] The Piano Is Not Firewood Yet (10 words) by lilly_the_kid Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Chernobyl (TV 2019) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Characters: Valery Legasov, Boris Shcherbina, Ulana Khomyuk, Ensemble Additional Tags: Fanvids, animal harm (shot of a dying bird), working together, Sacrifice, References to Illness, Implied/Referenced Suicide Summary:
Everyone knows it's going to hurt But at least we'll get hurt trying
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[vid] Don't Forget You're Precious (29 words) by bingeling Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Severance (TV) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Innies Additional Tags: Fanvids, Defiant Jazz, collective action, Captions Available, Embedded Video, Video Format: Streaming, Physical Triggers, ensemble vid, Video Format: MP4 Summary:
Don't forget you're precious. Don't forget.
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Where Is the World Going? [vid] (0 words) by Dee_Laundry Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 120 battements par minute | BPM: Beats per Minute (2017) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Sean, Nathan, Sophie, Jeremie, Marco, Max, Thibault Additional Tags: Activism, Arguing, Protests, kiss, HIV/AIDS Crisis, ACT UP, Paris (City), France (Country), Blood, Physical Triggers, Love, Police, Hearse, Overhead Projectors, Fanvids Series: Part 16 of Vids by Dee Summary:
To quote suzanne_f, "It’s about a) French people b) doing activism c) by arguing a lot with each other about d) prison reform and populism. It’s also very much a movie made about the AIDS epidemic by queer people." ACT UP Paris in the early 1990s.
