Seems we haven't seen the last of snow around here as it's snowing as I type this, so I thought I'd share some of the photos I took when we had our last big snow in January. I love the snow, it's wonderland magic can make everything feel so serene...so in the early morning quiet, while every tree branch was still coated, I took some pictures. The snow, while there was a lot of it, was light and fluffy and in only a matter of hours, the sun and wind made my photos look as if they'd almost been a dream.

( snowy scenes...and a bit of hockey too )

Pick 10 people and give them the "you make my day" award. If you're picked, you are charged with picking 10 of your own.

I was picked by leviathan101 ♥!


( such lovely people )

One Word meme, snagged from leviathan101
Thought I'd surpise her by being the most unlikely one on her flist to put this up. :)

(And many many good vibes coming your way to please feel better dear Lev. xo)

1. Where is your cell phone? purse
2. Your significant other? working
3. Your hair? long
4. Your mother? loving
5. Your father? strange
6. Your favorite thing? acknowledgement
7. Your dream last night? gone
8. Your favorite drink? coke
9. Your dream? contentment
10. The room you're in? family
11. Your fear? suffocation
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? healthy
13. Where were you last night? restaurant
14. What you're not? fulfilled
15. Muffins? apple
16. One of your wish list items? TV
17. Where you grew up? Philadelphia
18. The last thing you did? hugged
19. What are you wearing? pjs
20. Your TV? old
21. Your pet? dead
22. Your computer? constant
23. Your life? unorganized
24. Your mood? worried
25. Missing someone? Mom
26. Your car? annoying
27. Something you're not wearing? shoes
28. Favorite Store? Target
29. Your summer? England
30. Your favorite color? green
31. When is the last time you laughed? today
32. Last time you cried? Saturday
33. Who will/would re-post this? rhoboat

Title: Anything But Love
Music: SOS: Anything But Love by Apocalyptica with vocals by Cristina Scabbia
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Characters: Spike/Buffy
Formats: wmv; zipped or streamed
Betas: leviathan101, rhoboat, humansrsuperior
Description: Spike and Buffy's dark...and beautiful story through Spike's eyes.

Special thanks to rhoboat for gifting me with this beyond perfect song. xoxo



Download Link: WMV version (64MB zipped)
Streaming Link: Neural Cluster

( Notes and Lyrics )

I felt I wanted to say something about yesterday's news concerning David Tennant leaving Doctor Who. I just wasn't sure what to say....so I thought I might start by sending some more hugs out to my dear friend humansrsuperior. I know how sad she is feeling and today all I keep thinking about is how beautifully she celebrated her doctor with her beyond magnificent videos ....and amazing fan fiction. Since my LJ username, raspberry-splat, was actually born out of a scene from an early fic of hers, Raspberry Rose (it mentions raspberry ice cream and....how some went 'splat'), it got me thinking and remembering...and I thought what could be better than to honor this doctor....and HRS's writing by putting a wee spotlight on her beautiful body of work, for her writing is one of the ways she pulled me closer to finally watching and falling into Doctor Who...and her stories have brought joy to so many. I remember a good many 'fic chats' we had and I am honored to have witnessed some of her creative writing process. So even though Ten will be leaving the TARDIS after the Specials, there will be many ways to revisit his time there .... including the glorious Ten (she even wrote some incredible Nine fic for me) stories HRS has shared with us HERE. Perhaps you will choose one or two..or a few...to read for the first time..or favorites to enjoy again.

Many many hugs to you, {{{{HRS}}}}...your doctor continues to travel in the TARDIS through your amazing work....a pricelss gift for everyone! xoxoxoxox

Snagged from leviathan101

When you see this, post in your own journal with your favorite quote from The Princess Bride. Preferably not "As you wish" or the Inigo Montoya speech.


Humperdinck: (draws sword) To the death.
Westley: No! To the pain.
Humperdinck: I don't think I'm quite familiar with that phrase.
Westley: I'll explain. And I'll use small words so that you'll be sure to understand, you warthog-faced buffoon.
Humperdinck: That may be the first time in my life a man has dared insult me.
Westley: It won't be the last. To the pain means the first thing you will lose will be your feet below the ankles. Then your hands at the wrists, next your nose.
Humperdinck: And then my tongue, I suppose. I killed you too quickly the last time, a mistake I don't mean to duplicate tonight.
Westley: I wasn't finished. The next thing you lose will be your left eye, followed by your right.
Humperdinck: And then my ears, I understand, let's get on with it.
Westley: Wrong! Your ears you keep, and I'll tell you why. So that every shriek of every child at seeing your hideousness will be yours to cherish. Every babe that weeps at your approach, every woman who cries out "Dear God, what is that thing?" will echo in your perfect ears. That is what "to the pain" means. It means I leave you in anguish, wallowing in freakish misery forever.
Humperdinck: I think you're bluffing.
Westley: It's possible, pig. I might be bluffing. It's conceivable, you miserable vomitous mass, I'm only lying here because I lack the strength to stand. Then again, perhaps I have the strength after all. (stands and extends the sword in front of him) Drop... your... sword.


I love this movie to bits and pieces, it is such a family favorite in our house. There are sooooo many fantastic scenes and I have many favorites..but this one came to my mind immediately. I just adore the priceless delivery by Cary Elwes. My husband just came downstairs to show me the movie was actually on TV as I type this up! We couldn't get over such a coincidence!

Tagged by leviathan101...I apologze to her as I am very late getting this up. Got stuck on my episode list and then it took me ages to get back to sorting it!
(Lev, now that you're racing through Bones, I really feel behind now in putting this up!)



Best Characters in order

1. Angel/Angelus
2. Spike
3. Wesley
4. Cordelia (pre Connor of course)
5. Fred

Best Villians in order

1. Angelus
2. Darla
3. W&H
4. Lindsey

Best pairings or character chemistry
in order (not necessarily romantic)

1. Angel/Spike
2. Wesley/Fred
3. Angelus/Darla
4. Angel/Cordy
5. Doyle/Cordy

Best episodes in no order

I Will Remember You
Five by Five
Orpheus
Are You Now or Have You Ever Been
In the Dark
Destiny
Darla
Sleep Tight
Epiphany
Salvage
You're Welcome
Hole in the World
Awakening
Release
Forgiving
Smile Time
Not Fade Away


....Now onto my BtVS quote meme :)

I know many have seen some of these vids already, but I just wanted to embrace the vidders once more by making a call out to them here. (And if you haven't seen some of these yet, go go go...and leave them some happy words.)

Thrown Away by leviathan101. Music by Vast. Fandom: BtVS
This is one insanely incredible vid for Spike. Editing flawless, effects and transitions leave me in complete awe. It has my Spike love reeling within me, this is full of action, wonderful angst ...and just plain vidding perfection. Lev knows her characters' hearts and paints them for us like no one else. (Hugs to her too for introducing me to Spike and Buffyverse)

Won't Stop by humansrsuperior. Music by One Republic. Fandom: Doctor Who
Gorgeous upon gorgeous editing is her trademark...and never more than here. I get lost in the vid's beyond exquisite flow, it is awash in vibrant color that simply bursts with the beauty of the Doctor and Rose ...and this music. Starting with Nine and beautifully flowing into Ten...this vid has you sailing on all that is the Doctor and Rose, filling the eye and heart to the brim.

I Think I'm a Clone Now by rhoboat. Music by Weird Al Yankovic. Multifandom.
This is one clever, fun and fabulously edited vid. I had the pleasure of seeing bits of it as it came alive and I am such huge admirer of rhoboat's talents! It's such fun seeing all these fandoms bound together by this ingenius idea. Such awesome lyric matching, I'm still reeling! The wonderful effects and fantastic editing have you wanting to ride this clever vid again and again.

Dance With Me by chasarumba. Music by Debelah Morgan. Fandom: Ballroom dancing movies.
Pure Magnificence. Every step and evey sweep of this vid has me enraptured. With flawless, pristine editing...the vid is gloriously alive, it's beauteous streaks full of vibrant dance and emotions. Four dance films including my personal favorite, Strictly Ballroom, are all edited together seamlessly...like a miracle...the vid is enthralling just like dance itself. This gorgeous gorgeous vid paints the joy of dance on your soul!

All such inspiring work....(I can only hope a tiny bit of that inspiration will work it's magic and help me finish up my own vid.) :)

I was tagged by leviathan101 and so here is my list of favorites for BtVS...in celebration of our finishing the show. I just can't believe our beautiful and wild run through it is over! This was very hard to do, for I loved so much within every season and I know I'm discovering nuances I hadn't picked up on before and feeling new things all the time....but here goes:


Best Character in order

1 Spike
2 Angel/Angelus
3 Buffy
4 Tie between Willow and Xander
5 Giles

Best Villians in order

1 Angelus
2 Spike
3 Drusilla
4 Master
5 Caleb


Best Pairings in order

1 Spike/Buffy
2 Angel/Buffy
3 Spike/Drusilla
4 Willow/Tara
5 Xander/Anya


Best Episodes not in any particular order (cause, yes putting them in order is way too hard).
This was the hardest listing of all...and I went overboard number wise, too.

Fool for Love
Amends
Becoming Parts 1 & 2
Pangs
The Gift
Lies My Parents Told Me
Beneath You (the last five minutes make this a favorite for me)
Surprise/Innocence
Lovers Walk
Passion
Once More With Feeling
Hush
Helpless
Something Blue
The Body (though excruciatingly painful to watch, it's brilliant)
Crush
Intervention
Chosen

I know I'm so late to the game and practically the entire TV watching world has already seen all there is to see where Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel series are concerned..but at the urging of my dear friend leviathan101 I am about to indulge myself greatly and post a picspam from Beneath You. The last five minutes of Spike's glorious and moving scene in the church really hit me hard, so since it's difficult to put all I feel about it into words at the moment, here are some images from that gorgeous scene.
To me...emotionally...visually..,it's one of the most incredible scenes in all of BtVS.

( read more )

I know they have both spoken about this on their own LJ's but I just wanted to alert the Smallville fans on my flist to please check out some beautiful work by my two dear friends, leviathan101 and humansrsuperior. In 2007, they were asked to be part of a collaboration video with some other Smallville vidders. Unfortunately, the final vid was never finished, but their gorgeous portions are now fused together..to be much enjoyed. To fans of music videos (Smallville or non), I highly recommend watching some fabulous vidding by two vidders I admire beyond words.


Smallville Collaboration Vid

When you see this post, quote from Doctor Who on your LJ.

"Rose, there's a man alive in the world who wasn't alive before. An ordinary man. That's the most important thing in creation. The whole world's different because he's alive." ~ The Doctor, Father's Day


snurched from leviathan101

I was tagged by leviathan101 :)

I'm going to start by answering something Lev brought up in her vidding meme..and add that my editing software is the wonderful Sony Vegas. :)

1.) When did you first start vidding?
I began vidding in March 2005. It started shortly after I began watching Farscape and fell deeply in love wih the show.

2) What would you say was your inspiration or motivation to start doing it?
My inspiration definitely first came from a need to celebrate my love of Farscape....and from the incredible videos I was seeing...all due to dear friend leviathan101 who introduced me to both Farscape..and vdding. Some of the first vids I saw were her beautiful debut vid Don't Speak..and Lithiumdoll's "My Immortal" The more deeply I was moved by the show, the more the need to express it took me over. I have my dear friend Lev to blame for that, .. my but I'm so glad!!

3) What do you or have you vidded?
So far I have edited videos for Farscape, Smallville and Doctor Who.

4) Where do you draw your inspiration from for vids? Is it the song? An idea? Someone else?
My ideas definitely start with the song, and I begin to see my story inside the music and lyrics. It usually won't leave me alone and I'll play it in my car non stop, and the vid starts itself on the 'timline in my head.' I usually keep a note pad in my purse for jotting down ideas, even at a stop light if need be, so I won't forget them by the time I get back to my computer.

( On to the rest of the questions... )

Title: My Skin
Artist: Natalie Merchant
Character: The Doctor
Betas: humansrsuperior  and leviathan101
Format and Size: wmv; zip, 53MB
Description: A damaged Doctor finds, but also loses, much. Sadly his path continues to be one of 
guilt ridden darkness and loneliness.

Notes: I'm not even sure where to begin with what to say about this vid. It was started back in October. 
The usual RL things delayed it, but it did progress, then at the end of January, my hard drive 
crashed and I lost it, it was about 3/4 finished. I wasn't sure I could resurrect it at all,...but thanks to the very dear humansrsuperior, who had saved some of my rendered clips, I decided to give it a try. I wouldn't have even considered it at all if she hadn't saved them. That, along with leviathan101's encouraging words: "What I might consider doing in your shoes, is to plug in those pieces and edit around it to finish," gave me hope and I began 
trying to sew it back together. I'm happy to finally be able to post this. :)

Links: Download|Stream

 

Title: Winter in My Heart
Music: Vast
Pairing: Ten/Rose
Description: Without Rose, the light and warmth in the Doctor's life fades, and he sinks into a cold world of darkness.
Edited by: raspberry_splat, humansrsuperior, leviathan101
Dedicated to: larissa_j

(Download links and info under the fake cut; please leave comments there)



Download Link: Winter in My Heart

Don't know what I did to deserve such an incredible gift!!! I am jumping for joy.....I'm in user pic heaven!!!! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU.... you dear wonderful generous lady!!!!! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox 
You've brightened my spirits no end!!!

Yayyyyyyyy! After catching up with S1 - 3 on DVD and via downloads this summer, I finally got to watch NEW WHO with my fellow Whovians...the very same day! Time Crash was soooo adorably funny....and just a joy to watch! What a treasure for new and old fans alike! Having two Doctors face to face is completely wonderful in itself....but of course for me, having one of them be Ten just amped up the enjoyment 1000 watts! David's glee at being on screen with Five was plain to see and we all benefitted from his excitment.  As soon as I get this post up (which has been a wee bit stubborn this night...grrrrr!) I'm off to watch again!

I had lots of favorite moments...


.....but there is one that was probably my absolute favorite......


( Ohh, the back of our head! )

Snurched from humansrsuperior  xoxo

Your Personality is Very Rare (INFP)

Your personality type is dreamy, romantic, elegant, and expressive. Only about 5% of all people have your personality, including 6% of all women and 4% of all men You are Introverted, Intuitive, Feeling, and Perceiving.

 

This is my first Doctor Who video. It's for the Doctor and his Rose. I admit, a very shippy vid indeed, but I can't help but share my great love for the Doctor and Rose. I ventured into vidding by way of Farscape vidding under the name RadiantAerynSun. (and of course for Smallville under Lexcelsior) Somehow I ended up with a whole other LJ idenity, but indeed RadiantAerynSun, Lexcelsior and raspberry_splat are one in the same. Me. 

I have seen so many gorgeous videos for this fandom, I continue to be awed and inspired. I hope you all will enjoy my offering here.

Music: I Will Remember You
Artist: Sarah McLachlan
Pairing: Nine-Ten/Rose
Format: zip; wmv
Betas:  humansrsuperior  and  leviathan101
Size: 56 MB 
Links: Download at Inside the Tardis , Streamed on Neural Cluster
Description:  The Doctor remembers his beautiful Rose and hopes she is remembering him too while living her life with passion and purpose.

Dedicated to: humansrsuperior for truly gifting me with the Doctor and for seeing me through this video so diligently and with such loving care. xoxoxox

Special thanks to 

jagwriter78  for giving me those discs almost a year ago for putting up with me until I watched and discovered the joy they held. 

 

 

                                      

Download Link: I Will Remember You