So my vidshow for vidukon_cardiff this year was:

How do you love? Like a fist, like a knife.

A journey through violence and intimacy and all permutations therein - violence to connote intimacy, the ways that violence constructs intimate relationships (platonic and non-platonic) and the intimacy of inter and intra-personal violence.

If you missed it (or want to rewatch) here is the vidshow with links to AO3 where available - all poetry quotes from Richard Siken's Crush and Ada Limon's Bright Dead Things

Please let me know if any of the links don't work or if there are any other issues!

Love SOS *PREMIERE*
Vidder: nu_breed
Fandom: 나의 나라 | My Country: The New Age
Music: Love SOS by Justice
Show Notes: I said This is the Moon. This is the Sun. Let me name the stars for you. Let me take you there - Snow and Dirty Rain (Siken)
Streaming: YouTube

Hot in Herre
Vidder: findmeinthealps
Fandom: Rocky movie franchise
Music: Hot in Herre by Nelly
Show Notes And the part where I push you flush against the wall and every part of your body rubs against the bricks, shut up Iím getting to it - Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out (Siken)
Streaming YouTube

Move Your Body
Vidder: ohvienna
Fandom: Xena: Warrior Princess
Music: Move Your Body by Sia
Show Notes: Close your eyes. A lover is standing too close to focus on. Leave me blurry and fall toward me with your entire body - Snow and Dirty Rain (Siken)
Streaming: YouTube

Somethin' Hot
Vidder: JinkyO
Fandom: The Professionals
Music: Somethin' Hot by The Afghan Whigs
Show Notes: I wanted to take him home and rough him up and get my hands inside him, drive my body into his like a crash test car - Little Beast (Siken)
Streaming: YouTube

Choke
Vidder: teyla
Fandom: The Rebel
Music: Choke by I Don't Know How But They Found Me
Show Notes: But damn if there isn’t anything sexier than a slender boy with a handgun, a fast car, a bottle of pills - Little Beast (Siken)
Streaming: YouTube

Fire
Vidder: dirty_diana
Fandom: The Musketeers
Music: Fire by Gavin DeGraw
Show Notes: Let’s jump ahead to the moment of epiphany, in gold light, as the camera pans to where the action is - Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out (Siken)
Streaming: YouTube

Rain on Me
Vidder: frayadjacent
Fandom: The Old Guard
Music: Rain On Me (Purple Disco Machine remix) by Lady Gaga feat Ariana Grande
Show Notes: What I didn’t say when she asked me how I knew so much about dying was that, for me, it was work - The Riveter (Limon)
Streaming:

Blue Ridge Mountains (YouTube, not on AO3)
Vidder: trelkez
Fandom: Star Wars franchise
Music: Blue Ridge Mountains by Fleet Foxes
Show Notes: We’ve read the back of the book, we know what’s going to happen - Snow and Dirty Rain (Siken)

Can't Get You Out of My Head
Vidder: talitha78
Fandom: 陈情令 | The Untamed
Music: Can't Get You Out of My Head by Tom Snowdon
Show Notes: I made this place for you. A place for you to love me - Snow and Dirty Rain (Siken)
Streaming: YouTube

The Moth and the Flame
Vidder: luminosity
Fandom: Hannibal (NBC)
Music: The Moth and the Flame by Les Deux Love Orchestra
Show Notes: You see, I take the parts that I remember and stitch them back together to make a creature that will do what I say or love me back - Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out (Siken)
Streaming: YouTube

Heart Shaped Box
Vidder: sisabet
Fandom: Killing Eve
Music: Heart Shaped Box by Hermitude feat Jaguar Jonze
Show Notes: I want to give you something, or I want to take something from you. But I want to feel the exchange - How Far Away We Are (Limon)
Streaming: YouTube

No Maker Made Me (YouTube, not on AO3)
Vidder: hollywoodgrrl
Fandom: Star Wars Franchise
Music: No Maker Made Me by IAMX
Show Notes: Everyone could see the way his muscles worked, the way we look like animals, his skin barely keeping him inside - Little Beast (Siken)

..Baby One More Time
Vidder: findmeinthealps
Fandom: Cobra Kai & The Karate Kid Series
Music: ...Baby One More Time by Britney Spears
Show Notes: History repeats itself. Somebody says this. History throws its shadow over the beginning - Little Beast (Siken)
Streaming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7nVVmzIzsM">YouTube