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/


download: 169MB @ mediafire

Also on tumblr and the AO3

stream:

"Good Omens | Hallelujah" (Watch on YouTube)

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Comments

[maia]

- Aziraphale with the dove is just heartbreaking. And that's all you & the music, cause it's fine on the show. (Although 'Baffled king' is perfect.)

- 'You saw her bathing on the roof' - again, exquisite clip matches, and Azira carrying his heart in his hands.

- But then: 'She tied you to the kitchen chair/She broke your throne and she cut your hair/And from your lips, she drew the Hallelujah' And fuck me that's amazing. (This comment will be mostly flailing.) The uncomfortable notes of The Arrangement all laid out, and (something that is often overlooked) but Crowley is very good at his job. (The way he talks Aziraphale into influencing the Antichrist is masterful.)

Yes.


This is goddamn genius and I have ALL the feelings about Crowley and his relationship with God and re-creating his own Garden and treating the plants the way he was himself (I presume that's the Tumblr meta that inspired it?)

Is there a Tumblr meta about this? Do you have the link?

[elisi]

Is there a Tumblr meta about this? Do you have the link?
There is, and... I will try to find it.

ETA: This isn't the one I was thinking about, but it'll do for now:

https://fuckyeahisawthat.tumblr.com/post/185693423010/the-goddamn-plant-scene

ETA2: And this one:

https://ariaste.tumblr.com/post/185477637284/ariaste-thebibliosphere-zetablarian

[maia]

Thank you, elisi!!!

[purplefringe]

Thank you for linking, Elisi! Yes, that is indeed the meta that inspired that bit of the vid :)