maristu

Well then. I meant to post more but his week has been hellish. And it doesn't look like it'll get any better until, I don't know, January? So...

Anyway, here's my second vid announcement! I made this for premieres at VVC. This was the first VVC I went to (it was also the last VVC, which makes me sad), and I had no idea what was expected for premieres. People told me to make a happy vid, something fun, because most of the vids are serious. So I tried. I started off with a Tony Stark/Peter Parker vid which unfortunately turned into an Iron Man/Spider-Man vid which was NOT what I wanted, so that's shelved. Then I tried to vid The Cell and that gave me nightmares (and was decidedly un-happy and un-fun), and that's also shelved. So finally, I decided to give this vid idea a go (I have A LOT of vid ideas, the hard part is usually figuring out which one to actually work on).

The thing is, I have a lot of feelings about Erik Killmonger. And about T'Challa. And how they were raised. And how they saw each other. How sheltered T'Challa was. How abandoned Erik felt. How Klaue used them. There's so much to unpack in that movie, and I will eventually write a huge meta post about this, just because I can. Somehow, all those feelings ended up in this vid.

I think it took me about 3 days to finish it. I got stuck at one point because the instrumentals felt stretched and I've always been against trimming a song (I have no reason for this, it's just a Rule). But as soon as I trimmed the instrumental parts a little (seriously, less than 20s total) everything fell into place. I got good feedback from 2-3 people I showed it to, and managed to submit it a full day ahead of the deadline. Woo!

I'm still in awe at the reception it got. As of this moment, it's at 3K views on YouTube, which to me is MASSIVE. I have a vid that's been up for 10+ years that has 147 views. A lot of people came to me during VVC to tell me they loved the vid. And I have no idea how exactly it happened. It just... flowed? I don't know. I just know that I wanna do that again at some point, it's really trippy :-)



Here it is on AO3, with lyrics. Feel free to comment wherever you prefer!