A really interesting Landoscar moment that I think a lot of people didn't notice is, in the sim video, when they're trying to distract each other while driving and Oscar asks "what's my middle name?" And Lando answers "Jeffrey".
Man, Lando, really? You're not fooling anyone, you know his middle name is Jack. I really think that if he didn't know, he would answer something that is nowhere similar to Jack. Always trying to be cheeky and get a reaction, this is the kind of behaviour one has near their crush, I can't with these two.
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NO I KNOWWWWW Lando is so horrific at lying he doesn't even try a different first letter
and considering how much we know Lando does not keep room in his brain for facts even about his closest friends it's a landmark achievement that he's ever heard Oscar's middle name let alone retained it lgfjlahfsl
within the span of a month last year all for the first time i. watched and read shoass takagin unconscionable violence fight. and then. rakuyo. and then. took a break for live action benizakura. and so you understand why every car commercial was about takagin when i watched the second live action!!! which actually was zero about takagin except for. inexplicably. the end credits song?? i mean. well i think it speaks for itself but also i may be insane 👍
also. the song fucks. so i wanted to sing it. so i looked up all the translations i could find (linked in description) and worked on it myself to get something scannable and hopefully somewhat as insanity-evoking as i felt jumpscared reading rough subs on first listen. lyrics text under cut:
Both of us aren’t perfect and we could never try
And I never could fall in love with prototypes
Miserable and awkward cheap-looking faces we wear
Just hide away what we really are
Bite away and tear until we see what’s underneath
True selves we were looking for all this time, right?
But I won’t have any of what you don’t have in yourself
So go ahead and dance how you want
What is it you’re trying to rebuild now?
While you’re standing on top of
What you destroyed yourself
The same desire, it was always there
The same time, but that’s all Lady Luck would
Let us share
When fate’s a thing that we can see, that means it’s a rotten one
There are two sides to words,
So with faces it goes
Even the patience of a saint
Is three strikes and out
But you can dance through the heavens against every odd
With one beautiful step
Both of us aren’t perfect and we could never try
And I never could fall in love with prototypes
Miserable and awkward cheap-looking faces we wear
Just hide away what we really are
Bite away and tear until we see what’s underneath
True selves we were looking for all this time, right?
But I won’t have any of what you don’t have in yourself
So go ahead and dance how you want
Who is it you’re trying to become now?
When until the end you never doubt anyone that you had to be
Back to back through the hail
Spears pierce through our sail
Compatriots
On leaky ships still land every blow
When I said “even out to the edges of Hell,”
I didn’t mean for you
To drag me down
Both of us aren’t perfect and we could never try
And I never could fall in love with prototypes
Miserable and awkward cheap-looking faces we wear
Just hide away what we really are
Bite away and tear until we see what’s underneath
True selves we were looking for all this time, right?
But I won’t have any of what you don’t have in yourself
So go ahead and dance how you want
And I won’t burn out just ‘cause you get hot and bothered
Go on, call this whatever you want!
Every time I "finish" an AMV, I create a comparison like this.
The left side is the "effectless" draft—minimal transitions, zero coloring, limited text animation—while the right side is the "final" version I post online. It's a way to assess my work; where did the added effort elevate the edit, and where do my eyes find themselves drawn more to the draft because the "final" version is too busy, too overwhelming, too much?
I'm new to video editing. There aren't even 20 AMVs to my name, and I only seriously started a little over a year ago. My process involves a lot of struggling with what a "good" AMV is, a lot of wondering if I'm doing it all wrong—anxieties that were only exacerbated by a popular post that crossed my dash many months ago. It decried AMVs that don't edit with the full song as worthless, bad, garbage. The kids don't know how to do it right.
Not a kid, but maybe they've got a point!
Still, it was a disheartening sentiment to read. And while I might not know much, I think I am confident in knowing this: there are many AMV styles out there, and the shorter ones may certainly not be everyone's cup of tea, but that doesn't mean that they're devoid of love, time, effort, or passion. The video at the top of this post is hardly 30 seconds long, and it still took over 60 hours of spilling out ideas and cutting clips and learning new skills and scrapping new skills and tweaking transitions and coloring and recoloring and shaking my head and giving up and trying again.
Fan vidders, no matter the style they employ, are devoting their free time and energy to create. It'd be ludicrous to suggest that a movie is inherently inferior to a TV series, or a short story automatically meaningless compared to a novel.
ppl blame the rate in which I talk on my adhd, but in reality it’s caused by rehearsing entire fnaf raps sped up as a kid from memory after listening to it like 5 times. which reminds me of how good I am at memorizing songs
How have I been in fandom for - going on 8 years (?) and not gotten into fanvids before?? All the association I could have been making.... All the memories.... All the composition and clever editing....