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[purplefringe]

Puncture Repair
edited by purplefringe
fandom: Elementary
characters: Sherlock Holmes and Joan Watson
music: Puncture Repair - Elbow
summary: I leaned on you today (and I have promises to keep)
content notes: Spoilers for the whole first series
notes: Made from scratch in a 48-hour burst of sleep-deprived creativity, in order to be finished in time for such_heights's birthday yesterday. ♥ Thank you for getting me to overcome my initial scepticism and finally watch this stupid show about stupid people with stupid faces and their stupid (beautiful, complex) relationship. I may have some Thoughts about them at some point, but right now everything I have to say is in the vid.


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Lyrics

I leaned on you today
I regularly hurt but never say
I nearly wore the window through
Where was air sea rescue?
The cavalry with tea and sympathy
You were there
Puncture repair

I leaned on you today
I regularly hurt but never say
You patched me up and sent me on my way
I leaned on you today

Comments

[happydork]

This is beautiful and amazing and exactly right. I love it so hard.

[calvinahobbes]

MY EMOTIONSSSSS ;____________;

I was clutching my chest the minute they started handing each other things. URGH! And then your sequence of distressed!Sherlocks sort of ramping up in frustration until car crash and thrashing things. SHERLOCK JUST HAS A LOT OF FEELINGS OKAY! And the parellels between the Manhattan constellation and Irene's freckles ;___; And the one between the heroin syringe and the tattoo needle OMG!

The handcuff clip made me think about how ~SYMOBOLIC this is of Sherlock's condition, how he is so obsessed with being able to 'break free' on his own, don't need no stinkin cavalry don't need no help no sir he quits his own damn drugs/handcuffs.

But then Joaannnnnn and "puncture repair" brb dying. OKAY I CAN'T TALK ABOUT THIS ANYMORE BYE D: D: D:

[silverhare]

Actually started crying. *thumbs up* Superb vid.

[frayadjacent]

Gahhhh this is as lovely and wonderful as I expected when I saw you'd made an Elementary vid! I love love love your use of inanimate objects to convey meaning, set mood, and as symbols. Wonderful vid! And 48 hours -- I'm so impressed!!

[sol_se]

Love this!

[maidmarian158]

I'm going to have to actually watch this show now, aren't I?

[scintilla10]

Ahhhhh this is lovely.

[sophinisba]

Oh gosh I started tearing up about 15 seconds in. So awesome! I love all the small movements and how they go with the music and their hands and their FACES AHHHHH.

[klb]

This is beautiful, emotional, and did my favorite thing that a vid can do: helped me conceptualize parts of canon in a different way. The juxtoposition of the tattoo needle and the heroin needle, and the way you used the escaping from handcuffs in the midst of Sherlock's various struggles, are moments that I suspect will stick with me for a long time. Probably other moments, too, as I see more and more in it—I've watched the vid three times so far and I only discovered it about 10 minutes ago!

[ladymercury_10]

This is really sweet and very fitting.

[laliandra]

Oh, this was just gorgeous, it absolutely brought a lump to my throat. It absolutely got me right from the opening sequence of them moving closer and closer together and by the end I was bound right up, from my heart to my stomach like when someone is telling you something terribly important. I usually get that when someone confesses love in media and in a way that felt to me like what this vid was expressing, the way that they love each other, and come to that love through gradual work and trusting and really, Sherlock could never express love any other or more profound way than saying that he is better with another person. Anyway, this was so sparse and so intimate and so perfect, thank you so much for making it!

[brownbetty]

I really like the way you used the motion in the clips to tie them all together.

[zahrawithaz]

So lovely and so smart in its parallels.

Also, a great celebration of a great person's birthday!

[kaberett]

FEELINGS. TEARS. FFFFFFFFF.

THEIR FACES.

I just - handing each other things. The handing each other things. <333

[echan]

The FRIENDS feels were so strong in this, these two folks are definitely in it together.

[revolutionaryjo]

How did I miss the memo on this until just now?! This is absolutely gorgeous and beautiful and everything I love about these two.

[subluxate]

I'm not an Elementary fan, but the vid is lovely. The music choice is perfect, and you used exactly the right clips to evoke the mood. Thank you for sharing it.

[frith_in_thorns]

This is really sweet! I loved it :)