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: 2019-07-26 06:38 am (UTC)Apologies if I sounded negative about the song choice, because it's completely PERFECT for this canon and this particular story that you're telling (and the two-voiced nature of this cover makes it especially apt here).
(Some discussion going on here here about some of the resonances of the song which make it especially appropriate, which may or may not have been in your head consciously but are awesome anyway.)
But it's so over-used that the only way to get away with using it is to do so with supreme skill and confidence -- "when you shoot at a king, you better not miss". It's a very high-risk activity! And you NAIL it and it's glorious.