I did my best, it wasn't much
Jul. 22nd, 2019 06:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
purplefringeguys, 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 wonderfulsoupytwist, 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
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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 readelisi'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/
download: 169MB @ mediafire
Also on tumblr and the AO3
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Lyrics
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
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purplefringefandom: 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/download: 169MB @ mediafire
Also on tumblr and the AO3
stream:
Lyrics
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Date: 2019-07-22 08:23 pm (UTC)1) AAAHHHHHH, SHE POSTED IT YAY!!!
2) That song? . . . oooooofffff. Risky, risky. But I gotta respect that.
3) You make a vid apparently about struggling with faith and you make it about Aziraphale? Not, not the character I would have chosen, gotta say. But hey, I'm open to it, we're good . . .
4) OH MY GOD IT'S A DIALOGUE. *hyperventillates* WHAT ARE THESE FEELINGS.
5) WHAT DID I EVER DO TO YOU?!?!? ihateyoudon'tgo
(ETA: I loved it, if that wasn't clear!)
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Date: 2019-07-25 10:18 pm (UTC)I am *fascinated* that you would not have picked Aziraphale for a vid about struggling with faith...for me, that's what his whole journey is about? He spends 6000 years trying to reconcile the warring parts of himself, which love God, and love Heaven, and love Earth, and love Crowley, and how they can't all fit together. He spends 6000 years fretting and trotting out the party line (the sheer NUMBER OF TIMES he says 'I'm an angel' or 'you're a demon', as if that explains everything??? which, if you're eg. Gabriel, I guess it does) and his whole journey is realising that giving away the sword was RIGHT, and that Heaven Doesn't Care and that God is probably Not Listening or at least Not Intervening and that he had faith in entirely the wrong things. Is that not what you see?
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Date: 2019-07-26 12:14 am (UTC)I DID I ENJOYED IT SO MUCH. THIS SONG HAS NOW REPLACED MY VID SONGS ON ENDLESS LOOP IN MY LIFE. (Don't really know if I should thank you for that one, but it's sure a change of pace, so that's nice.)
I am sorry for all the FEELINGS!
GOOD, YOU SHOULD BE.
<3
I need to comment on your DELIGHTFUL second vid too (why is this happening??? we are making SO MANY THINGS???)
*stares at the endless accumulation of tabs of things I need to reply to* *laughs weakly* Don't worry about it.
How's your mania doing? I think I finally managed to crack the fever a bit. Not enough to, you know, be a productive human being. But I have gotten a decent night's sleep once or twice this week.
I am *fascinated* that you would not have picked Aziraphale for a vid about struggling with faith...for me, that's what his whole journey is about? . . . Is that not what you see?
*ponders* You're not wrong. Obviously, you made a whole vid of it. I think the thing is that Aziraphale, being the one with, you know, an actual arc, there are many potential lenses through which one might look at his journey and find fruitful things to say. Such as, just to pick a random example, kinky sexual power dynamics. Now Crowley, on the other hand, doesn't really have an arc, per se. He's actually in a fairly stable configuration. So all there is to work with, with him, is 1) his devotion to Aziraphale and 2) his festering cesspool of God issues. Now, his devotion to Aziraphale, while truly epic and terribly sweet, is also terribly, terribly straightforward. (There's a reason that vid got made first.) Which means, if you really want to dig into Crowley, it's got to be the festering cesspool of God issues. I am reasonably certain I'm done with vidding this show *knocks on an infinite amount of wood* But if I were to make another go at it, it would almost certainly be to try to tackle Crowley and his festering cesspool of God issues in proper depth (in connection to the deeply humanist message of the show, natch.)
But, hey, now if I never make that, I have the middle verses of your vid! And magnificent verses they are. (Also all the rest of it, but when you brought Crowley in, that's when it slammed me in the gut. And I was telling elisi, I don't feel like I've seen nearly enough meta/discourse/works about the fact that Crowley has been through this particular wringer already, essentially, and is there to see Aziraphale through it. And you show that, as I said, dialogue, just so achingly beautifully.)
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Date: 2019-07-27 08:25 pm (UTC)Ahahaha, I know that feeling! If it's any consolation, I've listened to Read My Mind more in the past few weeks than in the last few years combined, so it's entirely mutual.
How's your mania doing? I think I finally managed to crack the fever a bit. Not enough to, you know, be a productive human being. But I have gotten a decent night's sleep once or twice this week
Same! THANK GOD. Sleep is happening, and every now and then I am able to think about other things! \o/ Though it's actually weird to...NOT be working on a GO vid right now?? I'm not sure what to do with my time. ALTHOUGH I still do have the thing where literally everything reminds me in some way of GO. I've moved from 'every Queen song is about GO' (which was the first three or four weeks of my post-GO life) to 'every Leonard Cohen song is about GO', so that's FUN.
Which means, if you really want to dig into Crowley, it's got to be the festering cesspool of God issues
(a) Good point! Which is interesting, because I feel like in the book it's really Crowley who gets more of a focus than Aziraphale. and (b) 'festering cesspool of God issues' is an amazing phrase, which I now have stuck in my head. If you do make that vid sometime, it will be wonderful! Apologies for nicking a really great song.
I don't feel like I've seen nearly enough meta/discourse/works about the fact that Crowley has been through this particular wringer already, essentially, and is there to see Aziraphale through it
True! I haven't seen much of that either. But also I feel like there's SO MUCH meta on tumblr that I can't really keep track of it all. Speaking of meta, am now off to re-read elisi's masterpiece and hopefully find some coherent words to flail with.