It's here! My first Fannish Fifty post! And, I have decided on a theme: Fifty Fanvid Recs! I intended to make a graphic to help visually tie the posts together, but that has not happened. Perhaps in the future.

And the first rec is:



Done by ImaginarySanity
Star Trek: TOS/Movies | Kirk/Spock | 3:21 | PG
Music: I'm Done by The Pussycat Dolls

For my first rec I wanted to start with one of the first fanvids I fell in love with. Backstory: In December 2009, I was wrapping up a college quarter and needed to write a term paper I had procrastinated on starting that was now due the next day. Somehow, and I genuinely do not remember how, I discovered the existence of Kirk/Spock and, instead of writing the term paper, spent the night reading Kirk/Spock fanfic. I was obsessed. This was especially unusual as at this time I had never seen a TOS episode or film. It seems my forever OTP was calling out to me before I even knew to think of it! In the end, I spent the night reading fanfiction and had to write the term paper in an anxious rush between my statistics final at 8 AM and when the paper was due at 1 PM. Then I went home after my last final of the quarter and blissfully spent the entire night absorbed in Kirk/Spock media. And then another wonderful thing happened: I discovered fanvids! I had been reading fanfic off and on since I was in middle school, but fanvids were brand new to me, and I was absolutely beside myself. I spent the night in a rabbit hole on YouTube and went to bed at 7 AM the next day. (Thirteen years later, I realize this story reeks of undiagnosed ADHD. I laugh to myself about it, but that's not what this post is about.)

This is one of the fanvids I found that night, and it remains one of my favorite Kirk/Spock fanvids. The music is beautiful and the lyrics fit Spock so perfectly. I also love the manip at the end! (The YouTube information credits erikos for this.) I am also so pleased that the image quality holds up after fourteen years. Fourteen years! This vid is fourteen years old! It's amazing, and I love it, and I am so excited to show off one of the videos that got me into watching fanvids all those years ago.



My goal is to try to post a rec once a week and throw in two random posts somewhere throughout the year to complete the Fannish Fifty challenge. I even have a posting schedule drafted! I'm trying to mix it up a bit so there is a greater mix of fandoms and characters than the three to four ships most of my vid watching falls under, but honestly, there will probably be a lot from the same fandoms/ships. (Sorry, not sorry.) I am super excited for this though! Fingers crossed I manage to stay consistent, lol.