Rec the Thing

Vid recs for Rectember! Here's a handful of vids that I keep going back to, a few of them old classics and a few more recent finds. All recced vids are SFW.

Marvel Comics / MCU / X-Men Movieverse
Straightening Up the House by eruthros
The tag "angry vidding" in conjunction with the vidder's summary pretty much says it all: Commemorating more than ten years of queer characters (not) appearing in Marvel films. I love this vid, it's bitter and ambitious and visually engaging, it's set to the perfect music, and... well, it illustrates its point VERY EFFECTIVELY. As a long time queer comics reader it felt a lot like someone had gathered up all my frustrations and set them whimsically to music.

The Untamed / The Fatal Journey
children's work by LuckyDiceKirby
A vid about Nie Huaisang and Nie Mingjue using (mostly) footage from The Untamed's spinoff film The Fatal Journey. (Fair warning: this vid contains massive spoilers for the plot of The Untamed!) There are some genius moments in this vid that will always stick in my head the most - the upshot of Nie Huaisang bowing is one example - but every time I rewatch I spot another great little subtlety I hadn't noticed before.

RPF (or Real Person Vid?): Britney Spears
Piece of Me by obsessive24
This vid is 12 years old and I still think about it whenever I think about Britney Spears. It was a little before its time in that regard, I think (though perhaps also reflective of its time in the vidders' notes/comments). It sucks how relevant this vid continues to be more than a decade on, but I think it's an excellent vid that does a great job of making its point about how the American pop music industry chews up and spits out its young stars.

My Cat From Hell
Tail as Old as Time by eruthros & thingswithwings
I almost didn't include this vid here because I already have a vid by eruthros on this reclist and besides, what if it wasn't as good as I remembered? But then I rewatched it and great news, it's still fantastic. I hadn't seen a single episode of My Cat From Hell when I first saw this but honestly, you really don't need to have; you just need to have at least some degree of affection for cats. I'm pretty sure that I clutched my chest cartoonishly irl the first time I watched it.