Arctic Light

Soooooo Festivids revealed vidders last night and of the three MASH vids in the collection - surprise! - two of them were by me. Probably not the best choice given everything going on in my life right now, combined with the fact that I haven't made a vid since 2021 ... but I set out to treat every person who had requested it, and while I only managed two of the three, the other MASH requester got a vid by someone else, so it all worked out for a win!

As it happened, by a total "what are the odds?" coincidence, the other vidder and I vidded the same song! (Different versions, but still. Seriously, what on earth are the odds?) So if you like Josh Ritter, or MASH, or this vid, I strongly encourage you to go watch the OTHER Lantern vid by cosmic_llin. It's set to a lovely acoustic version of the song (I have both, I just happened to go with the other one for mine), it's soft and teamy and lovely, and it's just really an interesting exercise in seeing how two vidders can take the same source material, song, and theme, and end up with really different results! I adore theirs and I want to watch it over and over again forever.

Anyway, here we go - vid #1, Lantern by Josh Ritter. This is a song I've wanted to vid for ages, thought about doing it for Agent Carter but really didn't have enough footage from 2 8-episode seasons to feel like it would really work (this is a song that definitely rewards having a long canon to work with), and also felt like AC doesn't quite have the darker edge that I wanted for this song. But MASH was really perfect, it's got just the right mix of darkness and light to fit the song well, and I had a fantastic time contrasting the sad with the sweet through all of this, and putting in so many of my favorite scenes.



Song: Lantern
Artist: Josh Ritter
Length: 2:50
Lyrics can be found here.
Also posted on AO3.

I'll do downloads and subtitles and stuff like that when I'm back home.

(In other random behind-the-scenes details, it turns out that while the MASH font looks like a perfectly ordinary stencil font, it is actually REALLY HARD to match! The one I used on both of these vids is the closest I could come up with among the internet's free fonts and the ones I already had.)