Horses are good company -- The Witcher

I received a gorgeous, emotional, wonderful vid for "God's Own Country", called Hounds of Love, by CroissantKatie! I am so pleased with this, it captures a lot of what I love about the film. It is perfect.

Ao3 link, https://archiveofourown.org/works/44246569

I made a vid for colls, about the show Andor, which is my obsession at the moment. My vid is called "Why We Fight" and you can find it here:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/44277415

Part of making this vid was allowing it to be imperfect. I had a lot of pain and anxiety in December and January, and I thought seriously about defaulting, but I did not want to, and so I ended up finishing this by the due date. To do so involved cutting down the song because the original is close to 5 minutes long. Thank you to thingswithwings for help and encouragement through that process; I've never done a vid with an edited song before, but now that I have, I am going to do it all the time and finish some of my other drafts.

Art is open to interpretation, so you can think what you like of this vid, but here is what I thought about when making it!

I listened to anti-fascist play lists on spotify to try and find a song, but many of them felt too specific. I knew I wanted to vid the prison escape and the more action-y parts of the show and this song felt right, it was more about feelings. It felt even more right as I continued to make the vid.

I did not include Luthen or Mon Mothma, because I needed to narrow the scope of the vid, and they don't have as many action scenes. It also feels like Mon hasn't stepped fully into her power yet. Her and Luthen's style of fighting is different.

At first I thought "come hell" was the horrors of war, but as I made the vid, I realized that Cassian is hell. Cassian and the other fighters featured here are hell in the sense of "give 'em hell" and righteous fury. The archers are your ranged fighters; and the infantry, they are your melee fighters.

So, we are going to give the fascists hell, and we are going to die on our own terms, with our arms unbound.

Why do we fight? It's probably different for everyone, they each have a personal reason. But connections with others is one of the reasons. The peace to be a space lesbian feeding the sheep is one of the reasons. It's the freedom to live your own life the way you want to.

Thank you to colls for the prompt, and to the Festivids mods for organizing.

New Vid by me!

Mighty Soul;
BPM (Beats per minute);
direct action is a love language.

Ao3 page

YouTube

Summary: Direct Action is a love language.

Content notes: Needles, fake blood, people in the hospital. Police Violence against protestors.

Thank you to sophinisba for looking this over for me.

Subtitles are available.