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| Photos from "Wednesday," "Legacies," and "Codename: Kids Next Door." |
If you frequent places like Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube, you've most likely seen a fan edit in some form. Long or short, scenes from shows and movies are set to music as a way of highlighting a narrative.
Sometimes, that narrative didn't even happen in the show or movie the clips are from, and scenes might even be taken from multiple shows or movies to make a certain narrative work. That's basically just musical fanfiction.
#wednesdaynetflix enid sinclair wednesday addams wenclair edit fancam fc #wenclair death by a thousand cuts taylor swift wlw sapphic lesbian pic.twitter.com/syv4Duxeq9
— @shaunacore (@maikotaras) November 24, 2022
This fan edit that sets scenes from the popular Netflix series "Wednesday" to the tune of Taylor Swift's "Death by a Thousand Cuts" is a prime example of Wenclair fanfiction. That is, fanfiction that highlights the friendship and potential romance of Wednesday Addams (Jenna Ortega) and her roommate Enid Sinclair (Emma Myers).
Even beyond the caption, the edit features specific scenes that showcase the two characters' chemistry and forms a narrative that isn't directly seen in the context of the show—though the cast does ship it and the showrunners said they're open to exploring the relationship in a future season.
Another interesting example is the style of fan edit that frequently tends to be found on Instagram. The way these are edited tends to feel almost like an acid trip with the way the visuals and instrumental are cut together to showcase the feeling the editor wants to invoke.
The video above is an edit of Hope Mikaelson (Danielle Rose Russell) and Lizzie Saltzman (Jenny Boyd) from "The Vampire Diaries" spinoff series "Legacies," set to an unspecified song.
While the scenes are all from "Legacies," some of the context may be skewed, namely the fact that the scene with Lizzie saying she loves Hope might also be interpreted as sisterly for those who have watched the whole series.
Likewise, the line stating, "A vampire only bonds to her sire when she has feelings for her, before she turns. Human feelings! Vampirism only heightens those emotions," is actually an edited version of a quote said in "The Vampire Diaries."
The original quote is, "A vampire only bonds to her sire when she has feelings for her sire before she turns. Vampirism only heightens those emotions."
The quote is said in reference to Damon Salvatore (Ian Somerhalder) and Elena Gilbert (Nina Dobrev). Sire bonds also form automatically with hybrids and heretics regardless of romantic feelings, and Lizzie is a heretic.
Sometimes fans will even make an entire music video on YouTube. For instance, I explicitly remember that when I first started watching YouTube, I stumbled upon heaps of fan made music videos for the Cartoon Network show "Codename: Kids Next Door."
There was one music video set to Lou Bega's "Mambo No. 5" that paired Numbuh 1 (Benjamin Diskin) with every female character under the sun. Another was set to t.A.T.u.'s "Loves Me Not" and paired Numbuh 362 (Rachael MacFarlane) with Numbuh 86 (Jennifer Hale). Unfortunately, I couldn't find either of those.
I did find the above example that makes the odd choice of using Martina McBride's "Concrete Angel" to represent Numbuh 5's (Cree Summer) quote about how "We work hard every year but no matter what we're going to turn into a teenager."
For reference, the show is centered around children's conflict with adults and teenagers, with the Kids Next Door's goal being to fight "adult tyranny."
Regardless, it feels a bit odd to pair that with a song about child abuse, but sometimes the logic of these fan edits centers more around how a song feels than what it's actually about.
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