Reach out and touch me

Vid
Title:	Reach out and touch me
Creator:	Solanyxe
Date:	25 January 2009 (YouTube) 30 January 2009 (Livejournal)
Format:	digital vid
Length:	2:47 min
Music:	Reach out and touch me by Hilary Duff
Genre:	slash vid
Fandom:	Merlin
Footage:	S1
URL:	Reach out and touch me (YouTube) Reach out and touch me (LiveJournal)
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Reach out and touch me is a Merlin/Arthur vid by Solanyxe (2:47 min). The vid was widely recced in Merlin fandom and it has more than 52,000 views on YouTube (as of August 2010). If there is a vidding term for taking harmless material and turning it into an adult rated PWP, this vid fits it perfectly.

Warning: Metaphorical shooting of unicorns in a homoerotic context (that covers it, more or less)

Summary: Arthur is tired of feeling so 'untouched,' and now he's saying it loud and clear: "Reach out and touch me." Let's hope Merlin is smart enough to get the message.

Vidder Notes: "Many videos seem absolutely outrageous while I'm making them (deserving a solid 'R' in my mind), and by the time I've finished with the video, I don't know, they all seem almost tame... Must be the effect of watching and cutting those clips over and over. All right, this one is not so 'tame'."

Recs and Reviews

Um. Okay. Hands up. Who watched this five times convinced you saw them mid coitus? Don't be shy. I know it's there. ...do they really spend that much time writhing sweatily in their beds? Yeah. (seperis)

Sooooooo. I don't really know how to summarize this one. I mean, I could say, "Here we have Arthur setting his sights on Merlin, hunting him down like an exceptionally hot and tasty unicorn, and then fucking him into the ground." But that would be - hmmm. Accurate, actually.

And yet it all uses footage from a show that airs on regular television. Now, admittedly, it's British regular television, and probably they have mutant British-style rules. (Like, I don't know - maybe "It's totally acceptable to show two guys getting to third base in prime time if they're celebrating their country's victory in the World Cup." Could be anything, is my point. They're wild and crazy over there.) Still. I'm pretty sure that if they had actually shown footage of Merlin and Arthur having sex, someone would have told me. (And if that did happen and no one told me: really, people. I'm hurt.)

This vid, in short, is a masterpiece of taking shots that a number of people - actors, directors, editors, the guy who gets the coffee for any of the above - saw and thought were perfectly clean and PG-rated and suitable for showing to nuns and grandparents, and turning them into something you have to watch twice to be sure there's no actual penetration shown.