Comments | isiscolo: Vid: The Most Lamentable Comedy of Richard Smith-Jones

isiscolo

Vid: The Most Lamentable Comedy of Richard Smith-Jones

Apr 19, 2009 18:42

The Most Lamentable Comedy of Richard Smith-Jones [at AO3, embedded]
PG13, 20MB, 2:46
Source: Slings & Arrows (all 3 seasons, no major spoilers)
Music: Allstar by Smashmouth
Enormous huge megathanks to sdwolfpup and gnatkip who are (all)star quality betas!

( Lyrics )

vid, s&a

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isiscolo April 20 2009, 14:23:36 UTC

Thank you very much!

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isiscolo April 20 2009, 17:29:10 UTC

*dances*

I SO could not RESIST that double entendre. BACKSTREETS = BUTTSEX. I am delighted you noticed and called it out!

Richard is kinda speshul, isn't he. Thank you so much - I'm so happy you liked it!

starfishchick April 20 2009, 16:05:37 UTC

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!

isiscolo April 20 2009, 17:29:33 UTC

I think I could hear that from here. :-)

starfishchick April 24 2009, 16:56:00 UTC

You probably could. Ahem.

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!

oltha_heri April 20 2009, 16:29:01 UTC

Oh so brilliant. I kind of love Richard, in the way you love a puppy who can't do anything but look pathetic and beg for scraps. This was really well put together, and you used Allstar, which I haven't heard in ages, but was oh so appropriate.

isiscolo April 20 2009, 17:30:28 UTC

Thank you so much! And hee, your icon, I love that line. Richard is a puppy, yes! Who isn't housebroken and might have fleas but, PUPPY! *pets him*

catwalksalone April 20 2009, 17:02:49 UTC

Oh! See, this was SO worth the wait! *twirls you ( ... )

isiscolo April 20 2009, 18:03:14 UTC

Okay, you get the AWESOME VID WATCHER AWARD. Because - you get it! Yay!

I love how it opens with him all despondent in bed and takes you through his hapless, bumbling life until he's risen to the top at the end. And I kind of love that the way you have it, we go from standing O to the cast clapping him to him clapping himself. It's kind of, oh, Richard, don't look down.EXACTLY EXACTLY. I was worried about the subtlety of the implication of him clapping himself, but YAY YOU GET IT! YOU GET IT! I am just so, so delighted that you mentioned this, because as you describe the arc is exactly how I intended it, his rise on his own hot air, as it were ( ... )