vid: disappear [Star Trek: TNG and DS9]

[raven]

Thank you everyone who helped and cheerled with this. I'm also pleased to have finished this exactly a month after Vidukon, where I seem to remember publicly promising to make it.

[vid] Disappear [Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]
by Raven
With a word, with a line, you only disappear. Identity and violence.

music: "You Only Disappear", Tom McRae, from Just Like Blood
content notes: Star Trek-typical violence; one bright flash of red light
password to stream: wakeup / download from mediafire, 80MB

disappear from Raven on Vimeo.

lyrics:

Close my eyes, I'm moving still
Magazines and dollar bills
And you wake up to a fall of snow
Your telephone, your radio

Baby I'll call up a storm and keep you safe from harm
But you only, you only disappear

I can live with my regrets
Still raise a smile, still raise my head
And a stranger God can be so cruel
And a holy fool is still a fool

But this is all I can say, I have lost my way
But you only, you only disappear

With a word, with a line
With a smile that says goodbye

It's raining now on your street
And I'd walk to you if I could trust my feet

(note: part of the original idea for this vid came from the "mind control" square on my trope_bingo card.)

Comments

[purplefringe]

Ohhhhhhh.

So much of this vid is context-dependent, and I don't yet have that context, but it still makes my heart ache. Those flashes of overlays, all those parallel movements across time and space, all those questioning looks and defiant gestures and the feeling of trying to cling onto some sort of control that's slipping away…the emotion comes across, even without the context. As usual, your sense of pacing and movement is just lovely and the vid flows perfectly.

(And now I'm worried for Julian. <333)

[raven]

Oh, thank you, my dear! I'm really happy to hear that the emotion came through regardless - I have SO MANY FEELINGS about these characters and this subject, it's possible they can be seen from space, and it's so nice to hear they've been expressed the way I wanted them to.

(Oh JULIAN. I initially wondered about saying to you, don't watch this, Julian spoilers! But then I thought, Julian's arc is so rich and complex, it'd be hard for concrete spoilers to come through in a vid, and then I just started thinking about Julian OH JULIAN YOU BRAVE LITTLE TOASTER and then that line of thought derailed abruptly. :))