So love me now, hell is coming

[exsequar]

It's possible this is well-known within the fandom, but somehow I missed it and I want to make sure no one else does. It's a music video for Band of Brothers by LithiumDoll, aka one of the best vidders of all time. I was astonished to see it exists, and unsurprised but very moved to find that it is a tragic and uplifting piece of exquisite art.

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Comments

[newredshoes]

Oh my god. I remember when that was posted, and I meant to watch it, but never got around to it. Now I'm crying. Absolutely incredible vid. In some ways, I feel like I can watch the series for the first time again when it's put together in a new way, and even when I recognized a scene from the first still, it hit me so much harder than it has in a long time. Thanks for the link.

[exsequar]

That's the magic of music videos, and why they're really my favorite form of fannish art. They take the original material and really work an alchemic transformation - the same source can yield videos comic, tragic, or sweet in the hands of different vidders using different songs. So, yes - this video is one of the best examples I have seen of that, a reframing of the entire canon so that even when the source is beyond familiar, it manages to strike new, raw emotional chords.

Glad to have brought your attention to it hon. ♥

[tricksterquinn]

This one is new to me, and oh my god, it huuuuurts. It's so-- newredshoes is right, I know every scene and every shot, but it's put together into something new, something stark and stripped down and raw.

It's startling, it's unpadded, and it's utterly gorgeous. Wow.

Thank you for linking it.

[skew_whiff]

Here via newredshoesWow. I was quite cynical about this - I don't go in for fanvids much, and well, if anybody tells me something will make me cry I automatically harden. And at first I thought, oh yeah, sad song, sweeping strings, over-brightened visuals, all the tricks... and then it got me

[exsequar]

Aw, I'm glad you gave it a chance even though fanvids aren't your cuppa! They are absolutely my favorite type of fanart, and this is a particularly sterling example from a master

[vertrauen]

Wow. That is such an awesome fanvid. I... don't really know what to say.

[exsequar]

Sometimes there just aren't words. <3

[foofighter0234]

This vid made me CRY. ;_;