What has happened to my brain

[purplefringe]

So it has been exactly four (4) weeks since Good Omens graced our screens, and I, um, have made TWO vids for it already??

Obviously, I am usually lovingly obsessed with *something*. That's part of being a fan. It's what we *do*. And I usually have some sort of emotional hangover after consuming media I love, and it has prompted me to make over 40 vids by this point. But this kind of really sustained inability to think about anything outside of That One Thing, for weeks and weeks on end, is really...something. The last time I really lost my fucking mind like this was over Hamilton, back in October 2015. It's also happened over Doctor Who at various points (most especially during the Ponds and Clara eras), over SGA back in the days I was first getting into Fandom, over Robin Hobb's Farseer series (about which I have written emails amounting to...over 40k words of feels /o\) and Scott Lynch's Gentleman Bastards series (about which I have written a LITERAL ESSAY purely for my own amusement). And Harry Potter, of course. Buffy, for a while. DS9.

But I was NOT EXPECTING Good Omens. I was NOT EXPECTING to spend a MONTH listening to fucking QUEEN on repeat. I was NOT. And yet. And yet HERE WE ARE, friends, and I have made TWO VIDS in a MONTH and I don't know what to do any more.

And you know what?? I have more vid ideas! More! SO MANY OF THEM ARE TO QUEEN. (Many of them are also NOT to Queen, and some of those not-Queen ideas are to songs that have already been vidded very successfully by people on YouTube, so I am sorting out my feelings about that and figuring out whether to make them anyway). But, I just, the only other shows I have vidded more than twice are Doctor Who and Star Trek - both huge, multi-series epics with hundreds of episodes spanning literal decades. This is a 5.5 hour miniseries, and I have barely scratched the surface of the vids I want to make. What the fuck guys, why is this happening.

(I love it)

ANYWAY, shut up Phoebe. Here's a vid about Anathema Device, Agnes Nutter and The Book. It came to me in a flash as I crossed the road listening to Queen, the day before the show actually aired, and I started laughing a bit hysterically to myself in the street. If you are thinking, 'Phoebe, did you make a WHOLE VID just because of one (1) absurdly ridiculous lyric match?' you would be...entirely correct. I never thought I would love the show enough to actually make this. But apparently I do. I also have a newfound appreciation for Adria Arjona's meticulous acting choices, and also for her face.

Thank you to all the lovely people who have said nice and helpful things to me about this and/or reassured me that it is not terrible - elisi, soupytwist, such_heights, cosmic_llin & raven. I promise this vid is not a Trap.

Killer Queen
edited by purplefringe
fandom: Good Omens
music: Killer Queen by...Queen. Yes, really this time.
summary: Extraordinarily nice. (Nice: /naɪs/ [adjective] scrupulously exact)
content notes: some fast cutting throughout the vid.

download: 113MB @ mediafire

stream:

"Good Omens | Killer Queen" (Watch on YouTube)

Lyrics

Comments

[aurumcalendula]

I LOVE this!

[purplefringe]

:D thank you!

[frith_in_thorns]

I will watch this when I'm on a device with speakers, but I just wanted to sympathise/empathise with you over But this kind of really sustained inability to think about anything outside of That One Thing, for weeks and weeks on end, is really...something. because oh god yes, it's amazing and wonderful but also exhausting as fuck and I just spent a bit over a week too strung out on Guardian feelings to even sleep properly so... solidarity! It's much better once it passes into "I'm obsessed with this thing but I can at least BREATHE".

[purplefringe]

IT IS SO MUCH /o\ I have not gone to sleep at a sensible hour in a month. I know you empathise! I am sending you love and solidarity with your Guardian feels - I will absolutely watch it at some point, but I can only really deal with one obsession at a time so I am going to ride this one out first.

[skygiants]

GUARANTEED TO BLOW YOUR MIND \o/ truly, the Nutter family is dynamite

[purplefringe]

:D Truly THEY ARE \o/

[kass]

I LOVE THEM SO MUCH YAY KEEP VIDDING THEM PLS TY

[purplefringe]

THANK YOU FRIEND I SHALL DO MY BEST :D :D :D

[hopelesse]

Ohhhh yes yes yes!! Making a whole vid to fit around one perfect line seems perfectly reasonable t b h. I loved every moment with Agnes in the series & I"m so glad there was enough there to make a vidddd :D

[purplefringe]

hehehe, I am glad you think so! I have a history of vidding Incredibly Obvious Songs but this one lyric match might be my most ridiculous yet.

[hopelesse]

Okay, look, it was already on point given Queen. The lyric match is just a gift on top of what was already handed to you.

[such_heights]

I love everything about this :D

The dramatic jump cut on the cocoa mug! All the sections of Anathema getting shit done. Just delightful. Her face is so good!

[purplefringe]

i am extremely proud of the dramatic jump cut on the cocoa!! you should be happy I didn't text you about it at like 1am like that other time I was proud of a clip.

oh wait I did. well, 11:30pm. #TheDarkSideOfViddingFriendship

[elisi]

But I was NOT EXPECTING Good Omens. I was NOT EXPECTING to spend a MONTH listening to fucking QUEEN on repeat. I was NOT. And yet. And yet HERE WE ARE, friends, and I have made TWO VIDS in a MONTH andI don't know what to do any more.


;)

I love everything.

[purplefringe]

I WAS NOT EXPECTING THIS, ELISI. DID I MENTION THAT YET.

[elisi]

I DON'T KNOW! I'M STILL IN SHOCK MYSELF!

(I watched The Umbrella Academy and lo, I loved it, and it was like 'Oh thank goodness, I can still fall in love with a new show, and then THIS happened and I'm just sat here in shock. LOOK AT HIS LITTLE FACE! And the music swells and he realises he's in love and HOW EVEN IS IT REAL? Anyway, I wrote a post.)

[amnisias]

I've not read the book or seen the show (yet, I've been vaguely considering it? Because of David Tennant??). Watched the vid, though, and loved the first half of it! Even without knowing much about anything it was all perfectly clear to me, PLUS, those lyric matches rock! I cannot comment on the second half as I stopped watching because it looks too good and clearly I need to watch this and don't want to be spoilt too much (beyond the fact that she's a Killer Queen guaranteed to blow your mind with Gunpowder, gelatine and dynamite with a laser beam...obvsly)

So, thank you, I guess? ;)

[elisi]

I've not read the book or seen the show (yet, I've been vaguely considering it? Because of David Tennant??).
Just jumping in to say that this is the most perfect role I have ever seen him in. Even people I know who are generally not terribly keen on him have gone out of their way to say how great he is in this. <3

[amnisias]

There are people that are not keen on David Tennant? There is something wrong with this world - he is such an adorkable guy. ;)

[elisi]

As a performer/actor! As a person no one could possibly dislike him. ♥

[purplefringe]

:) Oh yay I'm so glad you liked this even though you haven't seen the show yet and I'm EVEN MORE GLAD you stopped watching because it made you want to watch the show!! YESSSSSSS. It really is a complete delight - there's a good reason half of fandom is currently in meltdown about it. And David Tennant, as Elisi says, is just spectacular in it. But also Michael Sheen - about whom I knew absolutely nothing before this show - is a complete GIFT. Honestly it's just 5 and a half hours of joy. I really hope you like it!

[amnisias]

...and it's not like we couldn't all do with 5 and a half hours of joy. I'm pretty sure Michael Sheen was Blair in the The Queen, and he totally nailed that.

[elisi]

But here he is... *hands* There are no words. Just love. I can't begin to describe his performance.

[colls]

This is delightful!!! ♥

I cackled out loud during a few bits. :)

[purplefringe]

:D Thank you so much! I'm glad I make other people laugh as much as I make myself laugh XD

[silverhare]

The zoom-in on the cocoa! <3

[purplefringe]

:D :D :D I was very pleased with that zoom!

[qian]

I loved this! As well as enjoying Anathema's faaaace, I liked how the vid reminded me of what a good job Agnes Nutter did of being Agnes Nutter. <3

[purplefringe]

YAAAAAAY thank you, I am so glad! Agnes Nutter was WONDERFUL and I could have done with a lot more of her. She was perf.

[starlady]

Ah, this is great. I lol'd at the cocoa, and the bits with the book were so well done! (I mean, it was all well done, but those were particularly clever.) And as much as I love Aziraphale and Crowley, I also loved Anathema and Agnes and it's good to see them get their due.

[purplefringe]

Thank you so much! I'm delighted the cocoa bit made you laugh :D I was very pleased with it!

[cupidsbow]

Awesome.

[purplefringe]

Thank you!

[niyalune]

I LOVE THIS. I'm so glad to see a vid for Anathema & Agnes, especially one so good! I particularly like the "drive you wild" lyric match, it made me laugh.

[purplefringe]

Awww thank you so much! :D I’m so glad you like it and it made you laugh - I am completely in love with Crowley and Aziraphale but also Anathema and Agnes needed their own vid! They are so great <3 And I had a lot of fun making this.

[grammarwoman]

Having lived through my own vidding of a fannish obsession to a Queen song based on one particularly apt lyric, I feel and see you, and am absolutely delighted by this! :D

[purplefringe]

Thank you! :D :D :D It's SO MUCH FUN! What was your Queen vid/lyric match?

[grammarwoman]

Waaaaay back when Avengers first came out, I made a vid to "One Vision", inspired by "One flash of light yeah one god one vision". I really need to get off my duff and finish remastering it with non-cam source, like I've been tinkering with for years.

[promethia_tenk]

What great fun!

Anathema! How I love her and her fantastically mannered way of talking and acting. Her fantastically focused purpose, all captured wonderfully here. She has such a good face, and you do a lovely job of timing her expressions with the music. My favorite is probably 'her perfume came naturally from Paris (naturally).' Also great love for the bridge with Aziraphale reading the book and the little cuts in on the cocoa and the prophecy on the the duh, duh!! I'm such a sucker for witty editing, and this is full of it. Also, don't know if this is intentional or just my free-association, but Newton arriving on 'drop of a hat' immediately recalled Adultery Pulsifer's flying hat.

But I was NOT EXPECTING Good Omens. I was NOT EXPECTING to spend a MONTH listening to fucking QUEEN on repeat. I was NOT. And yet. And yet HERE WE ARE, friends, and I have made TWO VIDS in a MONTH andI don't know what to do any more.
Lol, so I was talking to owlboy like, I seem to have made a vid in a long weekend, and he said back 'I wrote like 5 fics and 6 metas in a week, this show is like meth I guess.' I couldn't really argue with that. I'm working on my second vid now . . . I'm half reveling it in all and half hoping that something will help this blow over for me a bit because, so help me, I need to sleep.

This is a 5.5 hour miniseries, and I have barely scratched the surface of the vids I want to make. What the fuck guys, why is this happening.
Someone on AO3 commented that they were impressed I got a four minute vid out of this little source material, and like, they're not wrong, but . . .

If you are thinking, 'Phoebe, did you make a WHOLE VID just because of one (1) absurdly ridiculous lyric match?' you would be...entirely correct.
Well, I read the subject and basically seal clapped, so I'd say you made the right decision.

[purplefringe]

(hai again! As you can see, I am catching up on things today!)

Thank you for lovely comments!! I'm so glad you like this! I had a LOT Of fun making it :D And it really did give me a huge new appreciation for Anathema's physicality, which is just *perfect* and says a lot about who she is. Kudos to the actor.

I'm such a sucker for witty editing
ME TOO, I love a ridiculous joke in a vid. I made myself giggle with the cocoa bit, and immediately had to text such_heights about it, as I do, so I'm glad it works for other people too.

don't know if this is intentional or just my free-association, but Newton arriving on 'drop of a hat' immediately recalled Adultery Pulsifer's flying hat
O M G that is NOT intentional! I am such an idiot, that didn't even OCCUR to me! I love it! :D I would like to say that my subconscious realised it and that is why that section is as it is, but sadly for me that would not be true.

I'm working on my second vid now . . . I'm half reveling it in all and half hoping that something will help this blow over for me a bit because, so help me, I need to sleep.
IT IS LIKE METH. I...I have just finished the first draft of a THIRD VID????? WTF PROMETHIA, WHAT IS HAPPENINGGGG. I'm super excited that you are making another one too!! Can't wait to see it. I think - I think - that this third one will get most of the worst of it out of my system. I have a million other vid ideas, but none that I am burning to make, so maybe now I can just relax and continue to read All The Fic. But who knows.

anyway. THANK YOU I AM GLAD YOU LIKED. :D

[kuwdora]

aha, I found your download link!

omg this is SO GREAT!!

[purplefringe]

:D :D :D Thank you! I'm sorry it's not streaming in the US! Ugh, YouTube, why. Glad you found the link and enjoyed the vid though!

[findmeinthealps]

I adore this!! All those little zoom-ins are delightful. Also the little lip quirk from Anathema to "naturally" has me laughing every time.

[purplefringe]

:D Thank you so much! I had a lot of fun making it - and am particularly proud of that 'naturally' moment, so I'm glad you like it!

[jerusha]

LOVED the emphasis on Anathema! What a great choice of a song, too.

[purplefringe]

Thank you! :D Anathema needs more love.