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The following videos were received in Round 37.

Submission 1

Name: Holdt
Video: Our Time
Song/Artist: Time is Running Out by Muse
Fandom: True Blood
Site Name: Go to Your Happy Place
Categories: Best Ensemble, Best Music Use, Best Overview
Summary: First True Blood fandom vid. NSFW 18+ for excessive brutality, violence, sensuality. Multiple pairings/Everyone. Life and death in Bon Temps.

Submission 2

Name: Jaidanwolf
Video: The Wonders I've Seen
Song/Artist: Adiemus by Karl Jenkins
Fandom: Farscape
Site Name: The Right Side
Categories: Best Ensemble, Best Music Use, Best Overview
Summary: A visually driven overview of the series, looking at the universe of Farscape as seen through the eyes of John Crichton, highlighting the more beautiful and breathtaking things that he's witnessed over the course of his incredible journey. Inspired by the season 4 intro voiceover, "look upward...and share the wonders I've seen."

Submission 3

Name: Karen B.
Video: Letting Go
Song/Artist: Come Back To Me by David Cook
Fandom: Supernatural
Site Name: N/A
Categories: Best Angst, Best POV, Best Relationship
Summary: Sam is afraid of becoming something else -- something evil. He leaves to go find himself. Dean sets him free...but he is never far away... he won' let go.

Submission 4

Name: Tami Brandt
Video: 2 Out of 3 Ain't Bad
Song/Artist: 2 Out of 3 Ain't Bad by Meat Loaf
Fandom: Buffy/Angel
Site Name: Sunnydale Stories
Categories: Best Drama, Best Music Use, Best POV
Summary: It's painful when the one who loves you can't be loved in return. Not when your heart belongs to someone else. Rated PG.

Submission 5

Name: Sheree-Lynn
Video: Forever - Mick and Beth
Song/Artist: Forever by Live
Fandom: Moonlight
Site Name: Colours Moving and Still
Categories: Best Music Use, Best POV, Best Relationship
Summary: "forever and ever the darker the night the brighter the dawn...I'll stay here with you til the end of the storm"

Submission 6

Name: Asmothesly
Video: Dead Wrong
Song/Artist: Dead Wrong by The Fray
Fandom: Supernatural
Site Name: LJ
Categories: Best Angst, Best Character, Best Music Use
Summary: A video about Sam's addiction to demon blood.

Submission 7

Name: Gaia89
Video: Coming Undone
Song/Artist: Coming Undone by Korn
Fandom: Dollhouse
Site Name: N/A
Categories: Best Action, Best Character, Best POV
Summary: An action-based character study of Alpha.

Submission 8

Name: Camelia1986
Video: Lost Soul
Song/Artist: Elegant Friction by X-Ray Dog
Fandom: Dollhouse
Site Name: Myths and Demons Awards
Categories: Best Drama, Best Ensemble, Best Overview
Summary: Dollhouse season two overview.

Submission 9

Name: Mazza
Video: Love Bites - For Angel and Spike
Song/Artist: Love Bites by Def Leppard
Fandom: Buffy/Angel
Site Name: Buffy and Angel Music Videos
Categories: Best Angst, Best Music Use, Best POV
Summary: Two vampires - one slayer. A look from both Angel and Spike's POV on how they see their relationship with Buffy and how they think she feels.

Submission 10

Name: Valika
Video: Awakening
Song/Artist: Awakening / Hungarian folk song - singer: Bea Palya
Fandom: SG1
Site Name: My Stargate Music Videos
Categories: Best Angst, Best Storyteller, Best Vidlet
Summary: A very short vidlet, made for a Hungarian folk song, based on the story that happened with Sam in the episodes New Order I and II. The lyrics correspond with the story of the vid.

Submission 11

Name: Loki
Video: Roads
Song/Artist: Roads by Portishead
Fandom: Supernatural
Site Name: Graphic In Motion
Categories: Best Alternative, Best Drama, Best Relationship
Summary: "We've got a war to fight, Never found our way, Regardless of what they say."

Submission 12

Name: Andrea
Video: Slayer
Song/Artist: Instrumental Trailer theme (unknown Artist)
Fandom: Buffy
Site Name: Buffy and Angel Art
Categories: Best Action, Most Original, Best Vidlet
Summary: Is this how a slayer dreams? Slayers past and present.

Submission 13

Name: Galadriel
Video: The Cougar
Song/Artist: Animal Planet
Fandom: SGA
Site Name: N/A
Categories: Best Character, Most Humorous, Best Vidlet
Summary: Little funny Ronon vid. Enjoy!

Submission 14

Name: kat-byrd
Video: Starsky's Song
Song/Artist: Annie's Song by John Denver
Fandom: Starsky & Hutch
Site Name: N/A
Categories: Best Music Use, Best POV, Best Relationship
Summary: A simple little vid to show the love Hutch has for Starsky.

Submission 15

Name: Aruna7
Video: Tired Of Looking The Other Way
Song/Artist: Diary Of Jane by Breaking Benjamin
Fandom: Farscape
Site Name: None
Categories: Best Angst, Best Relationship, Best Storyteller
Summary: This video covers both characters' point of view, kind of switching from one to the other during the vid, sometimes suiting both of them. John and Aeryn have both made mistakes, for others, for themselves, and a few times towards each other. It is about how they learnt from all of this, learning how to mingle their different universes, getting to know each other better through the good and the bad, and above all, developping their very deep and strong bond that can't be broken despite the trials.

Submission 16

Name: Jesuit
Video: Tear You Apart
Song/Artist: Tear You Apart by She Wants Revenge
Fandom: Heroes
Site Name: Jesuit24's Veedyos
Categories: Best Music Use, Most Original, Best Relationship
Summary: A look at the gloriously twisted and sadistic heart at the core of the Sylar/Elle relationship; one of the third series' saving graces.

Submission 17

Name: rhoboat
Video: Your Decision
Song/Artist: Your Decision by Alice In Chains
Fandom: Supernatural
Site Name: Swirly Things
Categories: Best Angst, Best Drama, Best Music Use
Summary: No one plans to take the path that brings you lower.

Submission 18

Name: SpuffyProductions
Video: Untouchable
Song/Artist: My Skin by Natalie Merchant
Fandom: Buffy
Site Name: SpuffyProductions Awards
Categories: Best Angst, Best Relationship, Best Vidlet
Summary: Season six Spuffy. Buffy is addicted to Spike because he's the only one who can save her. And he does. Every night.

Submission 19

Name: Jayce
Video: Brian & Justin - I Know Him So Well
Song/Artist: I Know Him So Well by John Barrowman and Danny Boys
Fandom: Queer as Folk
Site Name: N/A
Categories: Best Angst, Best Music Use, Best Relationship
Summary: Sometimes the truth hurts...

Submission 20

Name: Diar
Video: Fear
Song/Artist: Fear by One Republic
Fandom: Battlestar Galactica
Site Name: LJ
Categories: Best Angst, Best Character, Best POV
Summary: Laura Roslin, facing her new life and not exactly welcomed destiny. Season 1, 2 and the mini-series.

Submission 21

Name: Sammy
Video: The Story of Bonnie & Clyde
Song/Artist: Bonnie and Clyde by Belinda Carlisle
Fandom: Jericho
Site Name: Duckie's Cave
Categories: Best Alternative, Most Original, Best Storyteller
Summary: This is the story of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow.

Submission 22

Name: Brokenmnemonic
Video: Just Like You Imagined
Song/Artist: Just Like You Imagined by Nine Inch Nails
Fandom: Battlestar Galactica
Site Name: Brokenmnemonic's Videos
Categories: Best Action, Best Overview, Best Storyteller
Summary: A Battlastar Galactica video focusing on humanity's journey, big space battles and Cylons looking scary again.

Submission 23

Name: chaila
Video: Suicide Future (Rewind)
Song/Artist: Crack Pipes by Sage Francis
Fandom: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Site Name: underline everything
Categories: Best Character, Best Drama, Best POV
Summary: Extreme fluctuations and temperature changes have been known to crack pipes. Derek character study.

Submission 24

Name: Ash48 and Maichan
Video: Channel Surfing
Song/Artist: Various
Fandom: Supernatural
Site Name: LJ
Categories: Most Humorous, Best Music Use, Most Original
Summary: TV Mash up, crossover and crack! The Boys watch more TV.

Submission 25

Name: Kahesha
Video: This used to be a Funhouse
Song/Artist: Funhouse by Pink
Fandom: Farscape
Site Name: LJ
Categories: Best Action, Best Character, Best Overview
Summary: This vid is focused on John Crichton, and the "evil clowns" are all sort of critter, but basically everyone who gave him a hell of a time, all the time.

Submission 26

Name: Starrylizard
Video: A Little More Action
Song/Artist: A Little Less Conversation [JXL Radio Edit Remix] by Elvis
Fandom: Chuck
Site Name: N/A
Categories: Best Action, Most Humorous, Best Music Use
Summary: A little less conversation, a little more action... Chuck *flashes* into action using his new-found skills. A season 3 vid.

Submission 27

Name: Aislynn
Video: Only Hope
Song/Artist: Only Hope by Switchfoot
Fandom: Lost
Site Name: ageless_aislynn's Livejournal
Categories: Best Music Use, Best Relationship
Summary: I lift my hands and pray to be only yours... I know now you're my only hope. A Desmond/Penny vid based around the episode "The Constant."

Submission 28

Name: Blitzed451
Video: Heartbreak Hotel
Song/Artist: I'm Checking Out by Meryl Streep
Fandom: Farscape
Site Name: LJ
Categories: Best Character, Best Drama, Best POV
Summary: Aeryn Sun on a mystical planet, stalked by her insane mother, and haunted by the memory of the dead Crichton, steels herself to move forward.

Submission 29

Name: Destiny
Video: Good Night, Folks
Song/Artist: The Funeral by Band of Horses
Fandom: Angel
Site Name: White Lace & Strange
Categories: Best Angst, Best Ensemble, Best Storyteller
Summary: There is no escaping tragedy at Wolfram & Hart. The group prepares for the final battle as they take on members of The Black Thorn. It's hard to be a hero when you've forgotten who you are.

Submission 30

Name: Kara D
Video: I'm Dying
Song/Artist: I'm Dying by VAST
Fandom: Supernatural
Site Name: LJ
Categories: Best Angst, Best Drama, Best Overview
Summary: It's about Sam and Deans live, with everything that happened they still believe.....believe they can change things, that they don't have to live a predetermined live.

Submission 31

Name: Firefly_Ca
Video: Confessions
Song/Artist: Confessions by The Trews
Fandom: Dollhouse
Site Name: Fanvideos by Firefly_Ca
Categories: Best Character, Most Original, Best Storyteller
Summary: A character study of Topher Brink (or how Joss Whedon creates a martyr): Take a character with no moral compass, give him the tools to create one, and then throw him into the deep end by putting him in a world where there is no right or wrong, only shades of grey.

Submission 32

Name: ADF Productions/Lolilie
Video: The Battle Has Begun
Song/Artist: Promethius Rising by Immediate Music
Fandom: Legend of the Seeker
Site Name: ADF Productions
Categories: Best Action, Best Drama, Best Overview
Summary: Overview of season one with heavy focus on the battles Richard and Kahlan overcome in their mission to destroy Darken Rahl.

Submission 33

Name: strawberrybisque
Video: Womanizer
Song/Artist: Womanizer by Britney Spears
Fandom: True Blood
Site Name: strawberrybisque's fanvids
Categories: Best Character, Most Humorous, Best Music Use
Summary: Jason Stackhouse: womanizer! This is based on Jason from season one where he was one major womanizer and it got him in to lots of trouble with the woman and with Detective Andy Bellefleur. Andy was constantly questioning Jason and dragging him in to the station. LOL

Submission 34

Name: Marie
Video: Cut
Song/Artist: Cut by Plumb
Fandom: Angel/Buffy
Site Name: Bloodqueen
Categories: Best Alternative, Best Angst, Best Storyteller
Summary: AU. After witnessing the murder of her girlfriend, Willow finds a way to help her deal with the loss. And after Faith accidentally kills an innocent man, she is overwhelmed by guilt, and does the one thing she can to help her cope with what she has done. *WARNING:* This video contains drug use, cutting, and death. Viewer discretion is advised.

Submission 35

Name: T.M.
Video: Hard To Handle
Song/Artist: Hard to Handle by The Black Crowes
Fandom: Starsky & Hutch
Site Name: The Comfort Zone
Categories: Best Character, Best Music Use, Best POV
Summary: Starsky's a playboy.