Sat through a marathon run of Nanoha 'A's  and the scenes with Fate in the dream world that the Book of Darkness conjured for her just tug on the heartstrings, you know...  And then I started thinking to myself, what would a believabe method of restoring Fate's sister to life involve... in the DSKS universe, that is...

Since search never works, I don't know if you've talked about these before, but here are several of my current favorites (though they're probably all considered "old").  All available from animemusicvideos.org.
"Ad Caelum" from Honou Productions - music = the opening from the HBO series "From Earth to the Moon". This video is a valentine to flight.
"AMV Night in Canada" from Eh-MV Studios. This opens with a parody of Hockey Night in Canada, and jumps to all sorts of goofy amv clips that were created especially for this video (I wish some of them were their own full AMV).  Comedy, definitely.
"Classical Flight" from Vlad G Pohnert - music = "Classical Gas" by Mason Williams. Multiple Miyazaki/Ghibli anime.  Action.
"In Memory of Soldier A" from NeoMikey.  Comedy tribute to the so-essential anime character, "soldier A".
"Live at Budokan" from Honou Productions - music = "Rock of Ages" by Def Leppard.  Every anime band/character who sings seems to be in this thing.  A real music video.
"The Look" from Vlad G Pohnert - music =   "The Look" by Roxette.  A tribute to some kick-butt-and-take-names ladies of anime, circa 2001.
"Moondance" from Premonition Studios - it's an instrumental using music of the same name. Featured anime = Sailor Moon (of course). SM spoilers for anything past the R-movie (including the S-series and beyond). Action.
"A New Kind of Art" from Darkmag - music = "99 Red Balloons" (in English).  Multiple anime. Action.
"Sappy Self-Indulgence" from Kuroyaro - music = the elephant love song montage in Moulin Rouge, sung by Nicole Kidman and Ewan MacGregor. Comic/romantic/sappy.
Self-Titled from Kuroyaro - music = "Golden Slumbers," "Carry the Weight," "The End" by The Beatles. Action.
"A View to a Kill" from Vlad G Pohnert - music = "A View to a Kill" by Duran Duran.  Profile (City Hunter)
"We Want You" from Vlad G Pohnert - music = "In the Navy". Multiple anime. Parody/Comedy.
"We Need You" - the follow-up.  music = "It's a Good Day to Die" by that singing SkyMarshal from Starship Troopers 3.  Multiple anime.  Parody/Comedy.
(ok, just about anime AMV that Vlad G Pohnert has done)

Jeanne Hedge
www.jhedge.com

"Believe me, if I have to go the rest of my life without companionship, knowing myself won't be a problem."
-- Gabrielle of Potadeia

Valles' birthday was Monday. This is somewhat belated.
It's a pretty crappy colouring job, but I got lazy. There's also a ton of bleed in the colour and a few stray lines. I'm pretty happy with the base lineart, though, so I might go back and recolour this later.
This is Sachie Hanagawa - whom you all should know by now. If you don't, then, uh, I got nothin'.

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Valles, I have an even larger version of this image if you want to print it - the actual size I drew at. Let me know when you're back home so I can mail it.
-- Acyl

"Sometimes one, sometimes five; the white shadow that moves unseen..."


Ken the Eagle


Joe the Condor


Jun the Swan


Jinpei the Swallow

Ryu the Horned Owl


Just some fun I had designing costumes. What do you think? ^_^

Spoilers 

I've tried to keep liking this story.  I really have.  But with Chapter 30, it's about time I threw in the towel.  I was ok with Zuko being Captain SuperGreat! and getting all kinds of Marty Stu power ups, I could tolerate Katara being a five star biatch to everyone but Aang, and I could live with but dislike the apologism for the Fire Nation that was written into the background.  Now?  Now Katara is so axe crazy she's genocidal, and due to the magic plot power that was given to Water and Fire benders, everyone around her becomes genocidal too!  I just had to throw up my hands.  Despite it being very well written, it's descended into the kind of character assassination that I haven't seen since the Fiance Wars back in the old days of the internet.  Vathara, you had me, then you lost me.
---
Jon
"And that must have caused my dad's brain to break in half, replaced by a purely mechanical engine of revenge!"

So, Sofaspud actually got this commission as a gift for me...some time ago. I just completely forgot to post about it here. Picture by Dave Reynolds, who does, among other things, the webcomic Shadowgirls.
This is Battery Acid, my main villain, an Elec/Will Brute.

 
Or view it on DeviantArt
(Thanks, Sofa! =)
-- Acyl

Gamer.Blorge: http://gamer.blorge.com/2010/04/16/game ... your-soul/]Gamestation may own your soul

Luckily, they're giving all the souls back. All 7500 of them. (The 12% of people who actually read the T&Cs and opted out of giving away their souls are getting £5 gift certificates instead.)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

An interesting article about the apparent exaggeration of what constitutes the sexual abuse of children, driven by a mix of obsessed crusaders and an industry that's grown up around "treating" alleged victims.  Doesn't minimize the enormity of actual abuse, but it does raise questions about what actually constitutes abuse, and how many people have actually been abused.  Worth reading even if you don't agree with the writer's conclusions.

Quote:And here is where the excesses of the crusade against child abuse
become not just over-zealous and silly, but irresponsible, even
abusive. Most of us didn’t have to grow under the shadow of imminent,
omnipresent paedophilia - the dirty man at the pool was little more
than a creepy amusement to be avoided. Today, he and others of his ilk
are being used to bulk up statistics on serious child sexual abuse, our
children now convinced there is no escape, that their doom is awaiting
them in the shadows of their own homes. It’s despicable. No child
should have to be frightened of that.

From a "cyber-nightclub".
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Chapter 4 is about two-thirds done and I've been making good progress lately.  Chapter 5 will feature the showdown we've all been waiting for.  But in the mean time, here's this little tidbit.