marahsarie

White Rabbit Source: Labyrinth Music: 'White Rabbit' by Jefferson Airplane Vid by: Jayne L. | @serricoj AO3: here Streaming: YouTube Download with subtitles: forthcoming!

Sarah in Wonderland.

Breakaway

A Siaja vid made for @festivids 2025.

Symphony a Glass Heart fanvid I made for @marahsarie as part of Festivids 2025. I checked out this show because of marahsarie's festivids request letter and it was a delight! It was fun to get to put together a vid for this polycule band. AO3 post here

Programming suggestions for VidUKon 2026 are now open! We will be accepting submissions until Monday January 19 2026 at the end of the day everywhere.

Please submit your content suggestions, whether for shows, panels, or something else, in this google form. Most fields are not mandatory, so if you only have a vid show idea but not a panel or vice versa, that’s fine. Multiple ideas, if you have them, are welcome, but please submit them separately, just to make our lives a bit easier.

If you have an idea for something new that’s not quite a vidshow or panel, we’d love to hear that too.

As ever, we welcome programming ideas from first-time VJs and panellists as well as from veterans - if you’d like to give it a try but you’re not sure where to start, please get in touch! We’re happy to chat it through with you. You’re also very welcome to VJ as a pair or a group.

As the con has grown, so has the number of programming submissions. In the likely event that we have too many programme items to choose from, we will emphasise items that form a coherent and complementary programme, as well as trying to give new VJs and panellists a chance to shine. Last year we had to turn down many excellent suggestions, so if you're still keen on your submission from last year please feel free to resubmit, or submit a new one if you prefer.

Part of the reason we have had to turn down so many great programming submissions is because our standing programming, e.g. Vidder's Choice, Premieres, etc, now run much longer and take up more of the con time than they used to. For this reason, we have decided not to run one of our usual standing vidshows, Festivids, this year. This will free up time for one more curated vidshow or panel than we were able to do last year.

Just a quick update to share next year's con dates! VidUKon 2026 will be held Friday 5 June to Sunday 7 June 2026.

"Well, Mike... looks like I'm a magical girl. Yup, this is the real me!"

"Wow, Crow. Nice, uh... orb."

"Yeah, I've contemplated it. Probably gonna go suffer some ironic fate now."

"Have fun!"

--

I think I'm going to call this series "Mahou Shoujo Theater 3000"

Thank you so much to everyone who contributed, and thank you so much too to the vidders for creating such incredible vids for us all to write about!

Before you nominate, check out: The list of fandoms already disqualified from Festivids: 2025 Fandom Disqualifications. This document will be updated as we evaluate fandoms this year.

The guide to nominating fandoms: How to Nominate Your Fandom. Contains the rules for Umbrellas, Safeties, fandom scope, titles, and rarity. Also contains a list of how to nominate specific types of sources, including the updates we made for this year.

The guide to evaluating rarity using youtube: Evaluating Rarity. Contains the explanation of how Festivids finds and counts vids to evaluate whether a fandom is rare. This is also where to find a list of extensions and userscripts that Festividders might find helpful.

Then nominate your rare fandoms for Festivids 2025 at the Festivids 2025 Nominations Page.

Some early results from prescreening fandoms: These fandoms were borderline last year and are now ineligible: Blue Eye Samurai (Cartoon), Megamind (2010), Severance (Apple TV), Subnautica (Video Games), Totally Spies, What We Do in the Shadows (TV), ダンジョン飯 | Dungeon Meshi | Delicious in Dungeon (Anime 2024)

These fandoms were ineligible last year but are now eligible: Avatar the Last Airbender (Live Action 2024), Constantine (TV 2014), Fables: The Wolf Among Us (Video Game), Once Upon a Time in Wonderland, 대박부동산 | Sell Your Haunted House (TV)

We've added two new communication channels this year! If you use Discord, you can join us on the Festivids Discord, which has social spaces in addition to reminders and updates. Thanks so much to the Discord volunteers for getting this going so quickly this year!

It is my honor and privilege to be the one who brings this video into existence.