linzeestyle

One of the things I miss the most about "old school" fandom is meta: long posts about content, or craft, dissecting primary or secondary materials. The 'old school' vidding fandom loved meta, and one of the tragedies of LJ being somewhere in Russia now is the sheer number of posts we've lost in which the artist themselves talks about their work: pieces that were in some cases so well-sourced and thought out as to have genuinely enriched the videos themselves.

But I also think about what I learned as a baby vidder, through those essays. Small details, things that don't quite make it to "how-tos," or "must-knows:" hitting a beat by cutting right before it, for instance, or the dos and don'ts of "talky-face." I knew about deinterlacing a decade before Tom Cruise sent out a very important message. And I still can't articulate to you why certain colors fit or clash with moods and tempos, but thanks to years of watching luminosity 's videos and reading about her process via in-depth posts, I can sure as hell feel it.  Most of what I've learned, really learned in fandom has come out of its intimate moments: the blog-posts and navel-gazing and conversations that aren't written for mass consumption in the way, say, a How To guide or Fanlore entry might be.  I think a lot of that has been lost in the transfer over to Tumblr, but also, in fandom's gradual shift in focus from creating an insular community (often as a way to guard against 'tptb') to building one based on interaction with TPTB.

That isn't my point though.  I was going to post a video.

Anyway, eventually my goal is to post everything I have made in 2018: a LinZine, if you will (you have no choice, so you will).  I'm starting off with a Dean/Castiel music video I premiered at Vividcon in August (was it August?  It was August, right?  How long is this year?).  


This video is a sort-of remix to a video I made while I was in grad school and thus Out Of Fandom, Gold Trans-Am, which I am proud of but desperately needs a revision.  Like GTA, Boots came out of my continued interest in how Dean's sexuality is coded -- here, in regards to Castiel specifically, as I challenged myself to use a song I thought "unviddable" for the source material.

I gotta say, I was really surprised how easily this worked.  I shouldn't have been: my key fear was that the song is sexy, and that the material needed to be sexy, but despite Dean and Castiel wearing five layers of clothing each at any given time, a surprising number of scenes between them are...intimate.  Even more so, possessive . Supernatural is good at nothing if not photogenically throwing around Jensen Ackles while Castiel looks Upset.  One of my favorite things about vidding is that it's beyond argument: I'm not telling you to feel anything; I'm just showing you what's behind the camera.

Like many vids I am going to post, this was made in irritation.  I've long said spite drives 30% of fandom, and that's possibly true only for me, but between this and NLYTM (forthcoming) I had some issues to work out somewhere around season 12-13 and while I don't think it "shows" in a straightforward sense, it certainly informs the material I was working with.

As you'll see, I vidded Rob Thomas.  I broke a rule, y'all.

amayse paid five dollars for 500 words of Lambliff from Tommy's POV (which is what I always write in anyway, so that worked out nicely!), and gave me a bunch of wonderful prompts. From those I chose:

body modification and leggy.

I am going through a...phase...with Adam bottoming. I don't know why. I think I'm going to post this and Hey Pretty to teamlambliff and atom_fic later as a Lambliff Double Feature -- alternately, I'll wait until the third and final of my Lambliff drabbles are done.

In the meantime, have some porn!

Little Rock and Roll
(Adam/Tommy)(NC-17)(1283)

( Fifteen hours before bus call, Adam decides he wants a fucking tattoo. )

kradamite donated for a 5 dollar Kradam story. The promp was "migraine (h/c)." Established relationship, schmoop. Because I can.

Untitled Drabble 1
(Kris/Adam)(954 words)(h/c, schmoop)

( Every light in the house is off when Kris gets home )

At twenty-five thousand words, I am posting this before I lose my mind. I have been calling it the "Kradam House Lights," which is appropriate, I suppose, because this one story is the same length as all three of my bandom House Lights stories. Consider this my obligatory entry into the Futurefic Genre. Now I have sex pollen to write.

The summary was originally a joke, but I have since become so fond of it that it is staying. If you wish to have a soundtrack, I think you should download this song:

Rob Thomas - Years From Now

As it is important.

Title: And Play a Favorite Song
Author: linzeestyle
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Adam Lambert/Kris Allen
Word Count: ~25,000

Summary: Nobody wants to write that song, the break-up song. It's more about knowing what you want after that. In which Kris Allen is Rob Thomas and Adam Lambert is plagued by men.

Disclaimer: This story lies.

Extra: katekat1010 made this gorgeous cover for the story. ♥

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I don't want to be a faded memory
I don't want to be the ghost that you can't shake;
I want to be the real thing.

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( Adam gets a copy of Girls in Movies a week before its street date )

continued in part two

I have nothing to say for myself. Sometimes you are just blindsighted by a new fandom -- and by "new fandom," I mean "sparkly alien from planet Fierce." And then you write 14,000 words of American Idol fic.

/o\ Thanks, tasyfa, for assauging my worry that I'd just be transposing Pete into Adam's skin. And revid, I am going to hold off on harassing you to beta until I get the Kradam House Lights written (this is not what it will actually be). I'll post this to communities tomorrow (where does one post these things?) but for now...done.

And now I have to pack so I can go to Disneyland for my birthday this weekend! :)

Title: like gasoline
Author: Linzee (linzeestyle)
Pairing: Kris Allen/Adam Lambert
Rating: Hard R
Word Count: ~14,000
Disclaimer: This story lies.

Warnings: Infidelity, mentions of drug use. If you googled yourself, your siblings, your spouses or your friends to get here, you know where the back button is.

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Guess you've got it all worked out so far;
you adjust your reason until you see the light from where you are.
(Rob Thomas, "Gasoline")

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( They're five days away from the first date of the tour when It leaks )

continued in part two

rain_dances posted this picture on her friendslist:



Because my brain does not function like a normal person's, this was the end thought of a series of thoughts that the picture set off:

If I wrote a drabble tonight where Ryan Ross masturbated while fantasizing about John McCain, do you think I'd have any friends when I woke up tomorrow morning?

...it's probably better I don't find out the answer to that.

ETA:

I am so, so sorry.

( I HAD TO DO IT. )

Linzee