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Live Through This: A Supernatural Vid Album bysisabet and sweetestdrain feat luminosity (who has her own big bang project here that you really should go check out).
Album by Hole
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summary: "fuck you, make me real"
12 vids about the women of Supernatural starting with 2007's Women's Work (Violet) with new material following.
Content Notes are listed at the bottom of the AO3 post -- please ask if there is something you have a question about. Be aware that there is graphic violence in every single vid but some are just... more than others.
Beta credit at the AO3 post but want to again stress the helpfulness ofluminosity who listened and encouraged and scoffed at me when I asked for permission to include Women's Work (IT ISN'T SOLELY MY VID, LUM!) and cherry who gave us a line by line beta reading that we honestly haven't experienced in over a decade and I might still be sorta high off of it. She insisted we were not finished and she was right and she stayed up way late last week and let me babble at her about Mary Winchester until it suddenly made sense and I knew how to get the thing I was thinking but not really able to describe to be unsubtle in the vid. Which is great because sweetestdrain and I have been working on this since May 2018 (thank god the Vid Big Bang challenge was exactly the kick we needed to put it together and finish).
Origins: back in the aughts, me and Lum made a vid for the Premiere show at Vividcon and Lum named it "Women's Work" and it was based on how women were introduced, framed, and fated during the first 2 seasons of Supernatural. The song was Violet from Hole's 1994 album "Live Through This" which is my personal favorite from the 90s. I would like to go on and on about the meaningfulness of having a mainstream album (it was on the radio!) that was unapologetically and graphically female and angry back then. I had no idea why I was so angry but I was and Live Through This was a relief. I could scream and curse and just...breathe.
Flash forward 25 years and now I know why I was and am angry -- and the album is still intensely cathartic. I'm still not sure thatsweetestdrain knew what she was unleashing back in May, or if she did it completely deliberately (it was probably a little of both). We suddenly had an idea that not only felt overdue (every year I get at least 3 comments that Women's Work needs a followup -- way more when Charlie died in season 10 - but at least 3 a year) but also was laid out so clearly that we had to make it. So we did.
Imagine I just go into a rage spiral here discussing how Wayward Sisters was NOT picked up and rather than subject you to reading that I can now just shove this 38 and half minute long vid at you and point and say "SEE!" This is really a time saver, is what I am saying.
I have a lot of thoughts about long form vidding and how we can use it to really dig into ideas (and honestly we have a 14 year old fandom here -- there are things to say), but I think I'll save them for a potential panel/separate post.
All thoughts, comments and criticism is welcome.
Live Through This: A Supernatural Vid Album by
sisabet and sweetestdrain feat luminosity (who has her own big bang project here that you really should go check out).Album by Hole
made for
vidbigbang summary: "fuck you, make me real"
12 vids about the women of Supernatural starting with 2007's Women's Work (Violet) with new material following.
Please use AO3 post for all links/reblogs
Tracks:
- Women's Work (Violet) "go on take everything"
- Miss World "I am the girl you know"
- Plump "I'm eating you"
- Asking for It "did she ask you twice"
- Jennifer's Body "my better half has bitten me"
- Doll Parts "I want to be the girl with the most cake"
- Credit in the Straight World "look a dealer in the eye"
- Softer, Softest "you have all the power"
- She Walks Over Me "geeks do not have pedigrees"
- I Think that I Would Die "it's not yours"
- Gutless "come on, try to shut me up"
- Rock Star (Olympia) "do it for the kids"
Content Notes are listed at the bottom of the AO3 post -- please ask if there is something you have a question about. Be aware that there is graphic violence in every single vid but some are just... more than others.
Beta credit at the AO3 post but want to again stress the helpfulness of
luminosity who listened and encouraged and scoffed at me when I asked for permission to include Women's Work (IT ISN'T SOLELY MY VID, LUM!) and cherry who gave us a line by line beta reading that we honestly haven't experienced in over a decade and I might still be sorta high off of it. She insisted we were not finished and she was right and she stayed up way late last week and let me babble at her about Mary Winchester until it suddenly made sense and I knew how to get the thing I was thinking but not really able to describe to be unsubtle in the vid. Which is great because sweetestdrain and I have been working on this since May 2018 (thank god the Vid Big Bang challenge was exactly the kick we needed to put it together and finish). Origins: back in the aughts, me and Lum made a vid for the Premiere show at Vividcon and Lum named it "Women's Work" and it was based on how women were introduced, framed, and fated during the first 2 seasons of Supernatural. The song was Violet from Hole's 1994 album "Live Through This" which is my personal favorite from the 90s. I would like to go on and on about the meaningfulness of having a mainstream album (it was on the radio!) that was unapologetically and graphically female and angry back then. I had no idea why I was so angry but I was and Live Through This was a relief. I could scream and curse and just...breathe.
Flash forward 25 years and now I know why I was and am angry -- and the album is still intensely cathartic. I'm still not sure that
sweetestdrain knew what she was unleashing back in May, or if she did it completely deliberately (it was probably a little of both). We suddenly had an idea that not only felt overdue (every year I get at least 3 comments that Women's Work needs a followup -- way more when Charlie died in season 10 - but at least 3 a year) but also was laid out so clearly that we had to make it. So we did. Imagine I just go into a rage spiral here discussing how Wayward Sisters was NOT picked up and rather than subject you to reading that I can now just shove this 38 and half minute long vid at you and point and say "SEE!" This is really a time saver, is what I am saying.
I have a lot of thoughts about long form vidding and how we can use it to really dig into ideas (and honestly we have a 14 year old fandom here -- there are things to say), but I think I'll save them for a potential panel/separate post.
All thoughts, comments and criticism is welcome.
