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Hi! This is my first festivids and I am very excited!

Music-wise, I like things with female vocalists that have both a melody and a (danceable) beat, especially

• dance pop (Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Britney Spears...)
• symphonic metal (Oryad, Pythia, Xandria...)
• power metal (Unleash the Archers, Battle Beast, Rexoria...)
• whatever Madder Mortem and Charlotte Wessels are doing currently (no idea how to subgenre categorize either of them)
• also instrumentals in general

Music in languages other than English is welcome! I like knowing what they're singing about, so unless it's in English or Finnish, I'd like translated subtitles.

I generally don't vibe with folk, ballads, or rap.

In vids, I like women, women doing things, motion and motion matching, "thematic" vids/vids focusing on a theme, lyric matches, "danceability", humor/comedy, and weird/odd stuff. In general, if you're thinking "is this too bonkers for ExtraPenguin?" the answer is no.

I'm not too keen on diegetic audio, especially if it's on top of the lyrics.


Short films directed by 流云蕊 | Liu Yun Rui [UMBRELLA] [SAFETY]
Intro post by douqi, list of asian wlw short films (Ctrl+F for 流云蕊), bilibili, Douqi's YouTube for engsubbed versions (search for Liu Yun Rui).

*tosses spaghetti at wall* There's a lot potential here for a high concept frame story! Maybe it's, like, one of those rapid transmigration stories and the couple/protagonist (there are a bunch starring Sheng Wei and Ai Ye, and also Qi Xiaxia) has to solve the riddles three before acquiring a happy ending? Or they're somehow all in the same universe? Or simply a showcase of women overcoming obstacles and earning their happy endings together!

云泽传 | Legend of Yunze (TV) [SAFETY]
Carrd with links. Here I really love Jiang Zhaoyun and A-Ze's relationship! Also how Zhaoyun is a demon who's being good, even when everyone thinks demons are bound to be evil, and just that conflict/contrast going on.

双镜 | Couple of Mirrors (TV)
10×45 min, assassin lady trying to be a regular photographer × author lady in an abusive marriage. Yan Wei is my absolute blorbo and I'd love anything with her, whether her relationship with Xu Youyi or something thematic about how she's tried to escape her past but oops she still needs to pull out a gun, or her dealings with the justice system.

Oh and at some point I hallucinated a Yan Wei & Detective Jiang vid that had a song going "she's the one that got away / but maybe that's okay" and recontextualized it into a detective & criminal cat and mouse thing, so if that floats your boat, that as well!

华山论剑：东邪西毒 | Duel On Mount Hua: Eastern Heretic and Western Venom (TV 2025)
8×45 min. An adaptation of a standalone part of Legend of the Condor Heroes by Jin Yong. I really like the action/fight scenes and would greatly enjoy just rolling around in them for the length of a vid. I really like Feng Heng, and also I think Ouyang Feng would make for a good comedy vid, with how he keeps getting into situations.

飞狐外传 | Side Story of Fox Volant (TV 2022)
40×45 min. An adaptation of Legend of the Flying Fox, one of Jin Yong's lesser known novels. Again, I really like how the action/fight scenes are choreographed! They're all unique and work in the environment very well. I would love something featuring/showcasing them. While the men's hairstyles are dire (Qing dynasty), the officials' hats are peak, so some sort of hat spotlight vid? Or something foregrounding the ever-present corruption. Or, like, a horse POV vid, since there are lots of horses present!

My blorbo here is Yuan Ziyi! I love how devoutly Buddhist she is. I also like Miao Renfeng. And all of the fight scenes.

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