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

[rydra_wong]

I mean, ok, yes 90% of it is about the crushing loss of A's faith in Heaven, his dawning realisation that really, truly, nobody is listening…but it is also 10% about HIS FACE. (Specifically, it was me vidding this twitter thread: https://twitter.com/CharCubed/status/1141531169839886337?s=20)

You made me think of that exact Twitter thread, so, you know, vidding accomplished.

(And I'm guessing you saw Sheen's reply? https://twitter.com/michaelsheen/status/1142584925234839552 )

He and Crowley have chosen *knowledge*, and freedom

"Time to leave the garden".

Also! It's an extension of what Aziraphale's already figured out with "Demons can" and hopping back to Earth to possess people -- that Heaven and Hell and angels and demons are arbitrary sides and categories not the polar opposites being claimed (as well as not lining up with actual good and evil), that there's no fundamental abyss between them.

Having realized that:

a) Of course he and Crowley can bodyswap (no "probably explode"), because they're not matter and anti-matter, they're the same supernatural stuff, and
b) Of course Heaven and Hell, invested in the existence of that fundamental abyss, won't suspect that because, invested in the existence of that abyss, they can't imagine it as possible.

(For various reasons, I am very much of the opinion that Aziraphale's the one who came up with the bodyswap idea.)