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Submissions are open for Vidder's Choice!

Vidder's choice is open for submissions for 2024! Submit your vid by the end of the day on April 1st, 2024.

VidUKon has grown a lot in the last few years, and since 2020, Vidders Choice -- a show where anyone registered for the con can submit one vid from their back catalogue -- has grown massively into our biggest show, from roughly an hour-long show prior to 2020 to 3-4 hours long. We adore this, but it does present a bit of a challenge for the in-person portion of the con, where the seats aren't quite as comfy as at home.

We're trying out a new approach this year. When you submit a vid to Vidder's Choice, you will now have the option to submit to either a fully virtual show on Thursday night (around 9 or 10 PM British Summer Time), or you can select the usual hybrid show which will be on Friday evening, likely around 7 PM UK time. You can also indicate no preference if either is fine with you. We can't promise that everyone's preference will be accomodated, but we will do our best! If there are more people who choose the hybrid show than we have time for, then we will prioritise in-person attendees and people who don't have vids showing in other shows in the con. We don't have strict time limits on the fully virtual show, so the reverse is unlikely to be true.

Additionally, please only submit vids under 4 minutes long.

When you submit your vid in Conline, you will indicate your preference using the "Priority" field:

1: No preference 2: Fully virtual Thursday night show 3: Hybrid Friday evening show

The priority field was designed for a different purpose, so please ignore the "1 is most important" text, and leave the "conditionals" box blank.

Full Instructions under the cut!

First, register for VidUKon 2024 and ensure you are logged into Conline. Go to your VidUKon Conline Dashboard and click on "Registration", then click on the "Submit Videos" tab.

Submit the vid details in Conline by clicking on "Add Video" next to Vidder's Choice: DETAILS: Type the name of the vid in "Video". If the vid has been shown before in a con that uses Conline, it will appear as an option. If not, you will need to click to add it to the database and follow the instructions there. Write a short description that will appear in the con programme. Premieres are not allowed in Vidder's Choice, so don't tick that box! WARNINGS: Please warn for the following: Animal Harm; Auditory Triggers; Blackface/Brownface/Redface/Yellowface; Blood/Gore [significant amounts]; Depictions of Colonialism/Imperialism; Depictions of Police; Genocide, Holocaust and/or Nazi Imagery; Fast cuts (more frequent than about 8 frames); Flashing/Flickering/Strobing lights; Incest; Queerphobia; Racism; Physical Triggers [anything that doesn't fall under fast cuts or flashing lights, additional descriptions are welcome!], Self-harm; Sexual violence; Suicide; Transphobia. Please warn for depictions of things even if the vid is critical of them, e.g. a vid that is critical of racism and includes depictions of racist violence should warn for racism. You may add additional warnings not noted here. Please try to keep the text brief if possible. PRIORITY: use the numerical field to indicate your preference for: (1) no preference; (2) the fully virtual Thursday night show; (3) the hybrid Friday evening show. Ignore the "1 is most important" text -- this field was created for a different purpose than we are using it for. Leave "Conditionals" blank.

STREAMING: We will create our own streaming links from the vid file you upload; however the submission form requires that one of these be entered, so please enter a link to any youtube video in the first field. Concom will later replace this with the correct link. Upload subtitles if you have them.

UPLOAD: follow the link to the mega upload form and upload your vid file. Make sure your file name includes vidder name, vid title, show you're submitting to (Vidders Choice), and the date of upload. Leave the "upload link" field blank.

#vidukon #vidding #fanvids

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I think about Captain Flint daily. This man SPECIFICALLY haunts my waking thoughts

#black sails #captain flint #james flint #toby stephens

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Hot fandom discourse take but framing dark content as only being acceptable if its a vehicle for exploring personal trauma is just giving ground to the puritan segments of fandom.

Simply liking dark content for its own sake is perfectly fine.

#fandom

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it's 5am and i'm avoiding going to bed because i have to wake up finish a bang fic, and i can't fucking stop laughing cause i was reminded tha chaz vane thinks it's gay to live in a house

#black sails

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#black sails

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I present to you a drama, comedy, horror. This story killed me three times.

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In the spirit of encouraging people to comment on fanfics while also making it easier to do so, I feel obliged to share a browser extension for ao3 that has quite literally revolutionized the comment game for me.

I present to you: the floating ao3 comment box!

From what I've seen, a big problem for many people is that once you reach the comments at the bottom of a fic, your memory of it miraculously disappears. Anything you wanted to say is stuck ten paragraphs ago, and you barely remember what you thought while reading. This fixes that!

I'll give a little explanation on the features and how it works, but if you want to skip all that, here's the link.

The extension is visible as a small blue box in the upper left corner.

(Side note: The green colouring is not from the extension, that's me.)

If you click on it, you open a comment box window at the bottom of your screen but not at the bottom of the fic. I opened my own fic for demonstrative purposes.

The website also gives explanations on how exactly it functions, but I'll summarize regardless.

insert selection -> if you highlight a sentence in the fic it will be added in italics to the comment box

add to comment box -> once you're done writing your comment, you click this button and the entire thing will automatically copied to the ao3 comment box

delete -> self explanatory

on mulitchapter fics, you will be given the option to either add the comment to just the current chapter or the entire fic

The best part? You can simply close the window the same way you opened it and your progress will automatically be saved. So you can open it, comment on a paragraph, and then close it and keep reading without having the box in your face.

Comments are what keep writers going, and as both a writer and a reader, I think it's such an easy way of showing support and enthusiasm.

#ao3 #archive of our own #fandom #fanfic

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VIII | XIX | XXI | XXII | XXVI | XXVII | XXIX | XXXV

#blacksailsedit #black sails #charles vane #jack rackham

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#fandom #poll

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I am the one they come to here when they need things, want things, fear things. In another time and another place, they would call me a queen. I built this from nothing. And none of it is real.

JESSICA PARKER KENNEDY as MAX BLACK SAILS SEASON 3

#black sails

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I'm a Buddhist Inverse Solipsist. I believe that I am the only guy still in samsara, and all of reality is a truman-show-like act by billions of bodhisattvas who are just humoring me.

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on loving your siblings

I don't love anyone, Belle and Sebastian//The Reynolds Pamphlet, Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda//The Other Boleyn Girl(2008)//Fleabag, 2x06//@earth-to-mothership //Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, Jewish Literacy//Antigone, Jean Anouilh//Maurice Sendak//Little Miss Sunshine (2006)//The Elektra Complex, @filmnoirsbian //NA

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update: fuck this shit i'm going back to my other tumblr for my other fandom where everyone is fucking 17 cause the takes are less rancid

thanks for the giftsets

for fuck's sake the ofmd finale dropped less than 24 hours ago and a bunch of the top posts are reactions to fucking discourse WHY MUST PEOPLE BE LIKE THIS

#ofmd

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for fuck's sake the ofmd finale dropped less than 24 hours ago and a bunch of the top posts are reactions to fucking discourse WHY MUST PEOPLE BE LIKE THIS

#ofmd

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sir that is my beloved mutual with whom i have not shared a fandom since 2013

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✨💜🩷 Uhura 🩷💜✨ got a few prints of this added to my shop 💫

#uhura #star trek