I did my best, it wasn't much

[purplefringe]

guys, I...I made another Good Omens vid? A third one? I don't know what has happened, I don't understand anything any more, apparently Good Omens is my whole life now. (Which is good, I guess, because I have well and truly noped out of engaging with the Real World in quite a serious way, so it's nice to have something else to think about.)

This one has...Feelings in it. Many Feelings, which I absolutely did not know I had. But there we are. It's also to a piece of music about which I (along with approx. half the world) have Many Feelings, although I did know about those, because I once wrote a 2,000 word email-essay containing some of them. (it's NOT Queen, I promise)

I think I had a lot more to say, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind. Er. Have a vid, I guess.

Thank you to the wonderful soupytwist, such_heights & raven, who are lovely and thoughtful (and patient, and long-suffering) betas. If you haven't already, you should watch the Good Omens vids such_heights and raven have made recently, which are both breathtaking in very different ways.

Hallelujah
edited by purplefringe
fandom: Good Omens
music: Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen, covered by Pentatonix
summary: there's a blaze of light in every word / it doesn't matter which you heard / the holy or the broken hallelujah. On faith, and falling, and freedom.
content notes: a shot of a snake at 00:18; a brief shot of a nail being driven into someone's wrist at 2:08. (I also have a version without the snake, if anyone would like that one)

ETA: I strongly recommend you go and read elisi's extraordinary Good Omens meta - the first section is a wonderful commentary on Aziraphale's journey as presented through this glorious vid by promethia-tenk, and the second section (about two thirds down the page) is about Crowley, and ties into this vid! YAY, INTER-TEXTUAL FANWORKS \o/


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"Good Omens | Hallelujah" (Watch on YouTube)

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Comments

[laurashapiro]

Heh, I can't take credit for "azirafeels" -- my partner P. came up with that one (he says I owe him a nickel every time someone else uses it, so you might wanna start banking your spare change).

aaaargh I love it when people are able so so clearly and eloquently articulate what I can only say by flailing my arms around and mashing some clips together \o/

I have been vidding for twenty years, in part because I stopped being able to write fic, so believe me when I say I FEEL YA.

It's about *God's* love, and the incomprehensible violence with which she shows it (the ark, the crucifixion), and the violence that her followers commit in her name (the other angels).

I was JUST gonna come back and capslock over how you handle the ark and the crucifixion in Crowley's point of view and how fucking devastating that is. Crowley's argument fully illustrated and revealed: Heaven is a lie. God is a lie. Believe in me.

::shatters into a million pieces::