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Explosions (Skywalker Family)

PadMay Day Eighteen:

• Fanvid

Title: Explosions
Artist: Ellie Goulding
Footage: Skywalker Saga

Summary: the generational trauma of the Skywalker family lingers

Title: Smells Like Teen Spirit
Artist: Maila J
Footage:Black Widow;Star Trek: Picard

Summary:

The Zhat Vash are to the Tal Shiar what the Black Widows are to the KGB.

The Zhat Vash are a mythic cabal of Romulan spies that are:

• a separate and secret faction from the known organization of Romulan spies (the Tal Shiar)
• highly skilled and dispassionately lethal
• mainly women
• trained via mind manipulation and a version of electroshock therapy

In short, they are the Romulan Black Widow Program. I decided to make it explicit.

Narek and Narissa are so overtly flirtatious and physical that they are nicknamed the ‘Romulannisters’. I include examples of this in the vid, and therefore tagged it 'incest’. However, unlike Jamie and Cersei, their relationship can be read as on the line of incestuous but not over it. My take is they are all each other has. They are not able to have real intimacy with anyone outside the organization, and everyone inside the organization is just as mentally unstable and distrustful as they are, and I’m sure relationships are regulated. They lost their parents young and were raised in a decidedly unhealthy environment where they were purposefully traumatized and trained to lie, seduce, and kill. They cling to each other because they are the only real thing they have left, the only real thing they ever had.

Title:The Story
Artist: Brandi Carlile 
Footage:Star Trek: Picard, Star Trek: Voyager

Summary:Annika still has work to do.

made for @festivids2022

Seven of Nine is incredibly important to me. She helped me grow up and her return was exactly what I needed to move forward in the midst of *waves hands at the world*. I focused on Seven finding family, connection, and community — a collective, even! — in defiance of her trauma. Voyager freed her and brought her back to Earth, but Sirena offers her freedom and a home.

Title:Survivor
Artist: 2WEI & Edda Hayes
Footage:The Expanse (S1-6)
Characters: Chrisjen Avasarala, Bobbie Draper, Camina Drummer, Naomi Nagata, Clarissa Mao, Monica Stuart, Anna Volovodov

Summary:The women of The Expanse never give up.

made for @festivids2022

Redemption (Pawter Simms - Killjoys)

Title:Redemption
Artist:Coopex featuring Besomorph
Footage:KilljoysS1-2

Summary:

“There are two kinds of people who can take down a wall like that: those that die on it, and those that kill for it. Don’t assume you know which one you are until you face that moment.”

a tribute to Pawter Simms, the love of Johnny’s life

Pawter is my favorite character in the series and I will never, not ever, get over her end. But her character growth from the impulsive ‘beautiful disaster’ who jumps D'avin to the 'reckoning’ of her heartbreaking final choices is incredible. I hope you like my tribute to Pawter and to Johnny’s love for her, which is defiant in the face of death, like mine is.

made for @festivids2022