lim

Name:	lim
Alias(es):	sublim, blimvisible
Type:	fan
Fandoms:	millions! specifically: Buffy, SGA, Gossip Girl, House, Firefly, 30 Rock, ST:TOS, Farscape, Babylon 5
Communities:	metafandom
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URL:	http://www.kekkai.org/lim/
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1 Summary
2 Notable Works
3 Outside Critical Reception
4 References

Summary

Lim is a fan artist, vidder, writer, podfic producer, musician, webpage and software designer. She was the founder of metafandom, though she resigned as a mod in May, 2007 after designing an autoposting set up for the community. She has done most of the front-end coding on the Archive of Our Own. Lim came to fandom through Buffy in 2004, and joined SGA fandom in May, 2006, though she is multifannish.

Notable Works

This Is How It Works: lim's breakthrough work was the July, 2006 SGA vid "This Is How It Works", which was based on Synecdochic's SGA story Freedom's Just Another Word For Nothing Left To Lose. The vid was unusual in many ways (for being based on a story; for its highly worked visual style; for its effects,which include interpolated text as well as a percussive ongoing animation of pulsing numbers) and was very popular, often recced alongside "Freedom". Fans enthusiastically pimped it and offered to host it for download, as lim did not at that time have a site. ^[1]

Mission Report: This August, 2006 vid was made for the sga_flashfic "Mission Report" challenge, which it responds to by having Teyla give a mission report in the collaborative, oral form of a song sung in the round; moreover, the song itself, which lim wrote, performed, sang, and recorded, is also subtly critical of the SGA team's militaristic attitudes: e.g. the chorus: "Oh, ho, how can we go?/How can we travel with our cloak of woe?/How can we meddle in these hungry lives?/Bellies so full and our clear blue skies". ^[2]

Wallpaper: October, 2006. A rare vid about the minor characters of SGA, made for sgart_exchange '06. The title is a pun, as these characters are wallpaper in the sense that they are ignored, but the vid also visually evokes fannish wallpaper, i.e. the artistic desktop backgrounds made by fans.^[3]

Us: Us^[4] was released in March, 2007 ^[5] to great acclaim and some controversy. It continues to be lim's most popular vid, widely discussed both within and beyond fandom.

In Exchange For Your Tomorrows: This Harry Potter vid is a character study of Severus Snape that uses footage from the first five movies to recreate Snape's memories. Among the notable effects are lim's recreation of the Marauder's Map and the Daily Prophet.

Sandman - an SGA vid made comic-book style. Notable for its visual style and use of internal motion; the camera swooping over, around, and through the single page comic.

Podfic, Written by the Victors: lim produced what may be the most complicated podfic ever recorded: that of Speranza's Written by the Victors. This podfic is almost five and a half hours long and integrates contributions by 36 separate speakers from several countries. Lim did the (highly complicated) editing, sound engineering, and produced the soundtrack/incidental music.^[6]

Fan Website Kit: lim designed and coded a clean, customizable set of templates for fannish websites, which she hosts at her site, free to anyone who wants them; many fans have built websites from this kit.