mission report by lim (mission report challenge)

[lim.livejournal.com]

Title: Mission Report
Characters: Teyla, Pegasus
Length: 141 words / 1 minute 49 seconds
Rating: G
Notes: Thanks to Ces for everything.
Er. I figured Teyla has an oral culture.

Mission Report [ 2.5mb mp3 ] Zipped.


I can sing this high mind rhyme
The day was long
The sky was fine
We spread our hands and our smiles wide
Our jewels reflected in their eyes

Ragged and thin they took us in
And washed our bodies from their water skins
We took their comfort and gave them toys
We kissed their girls
And beat their boys

Oh, ho, how can we go?
How can we travel with our cloak of woe?
How can we meddle in these hungry lives?
Bellies so full and our clear blue skies

Oh the hearth is cold and the wraith are blue
Ring of the ancestors sky is too

What's done is done
That war is won
And guilt is the indulgence of the favoured son
The day was long
The sky was fine
We spread our hands and our smiles wide


And I made a sort of vid to go with it:

video [ 16mb divX , 10mb .m4v , 57mb .mov ] Zipped.

Many thanks to Oxoniensis for hosting.

Comments

[thediane.livejournal.com]

Wow. I mean, this is all seriously amazing. Firstly, you have a lovely singing voice. And second, the vid was just gorgeous. The imagery and storytelling is so rich and vivid and so very Teyla. Absolutely fabulous :D

[lim.livejournal.com]

:) Thanks. That's very kind of you to say.

[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

Oh, that sounds fantastic. Thank you!

[lim.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. :)

[zing_och.livejournal.com]

*joins in the choir of wow*

seriously, this is too cool for words.

[lim.livejournal.com]

Thanks a lot. Glad you like it. :)

[wemblee.livejournal.com]

Holy crap. Wow! That's so impressive.

[lim.livejournal.com]

Hey there, you! *g*

Thanks for your comments.

[lim.livejournal.com]

Voodoo Ray.

[sanj.livejournal.com]

This is unbelievably cool. I'm just... staggered by the sheer amount of awesome. Thank you for sharing!!

[lim.livejournal.com]

You're very welcome. Thanks for commenting.

[wychwood]

Very cool! And original, too; I really like what you've done. Also, Teyla = cool. Very cool. < /repeats self>

[lim.livejournal.com]

Heee. Cool.

[daraq.livejournal.com]

The song and vid are beautiful and you are amazingly talented! Thank you for posting.

[lim.livejournal.com]

You're very welcome. Thanks for your lovely words.

[neocatholic3000.livejournal.com]

Dear God... You HAVE to be/have been a music major? This was just incredible...

Filk at its absolute finest (and multimedia to boot!)

Thank you so much for sharing!!

[lim.livejournal.com]

Hah! No. High school dropout, I'm afraid. But I am doing a maths degree as a mature student if that's any good to you. That's patterns and...stuff. *g*

And you're welcome.

*throws sparkles*

[mecurtin.livejournal.com]

This seriously makes the whole kerfuffle over the challenge worthwhile. SRSLY. Kerfuffles happen every week, but *this* -- what an amazing, unique achievement.

Things that struck me especially:

a) the way at first it seemed like the Genii were the shark, but by the end both words & images made it seem like the team (esp. Sheppard) is the shark.

b) Sora!! (I am a total Teyla/Sora shipper)

c) the music reminds me of the music that came along with the first edition of Ursula LeGuin's Always Coming Home (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0520227352/), which would be a wonderfully ironic/appropriate title for this, too.

d) This is the fan work Rachel Luttrell would most like/deserve to see, IMHO.

Re: *throws sparkles*

[lim.livejournal.com]

a) Yes. I think Teyla must feel kind of, well, there are pros and cons to joining with the Milky Way-ers. She traded peacefully with the Genii, frex, for ages before SGA-1 came along and stirred everything up. Well, they woke up the WRAITH as well; well done there, Shep. The team kind of strike me as westerners dropped into a third world economy...They're trying to help and all but they can just hop home in the end, but she IS home. There are power issues there to think about. (I sort of flirted with the idea of doing a vid to Common People (http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/pulp/commonpeople.html) but it was...it didn't quite come together)

b) :)

c) I haven't heard this (that I know of; I probably HAVE heard it somewhere because I adore U K LeGuin and try to pay as much attention as I can to her) but you're the second person to mention it so there must be something there!

d) Oh, God. I hate to think of the showside people seeing ANY fandom stuff (I don't engage with the actors) , but I understand you meant this as a compliment and I thank you for the sentiment. :)

[heylittleriver.livejournal.com]

Oh, god, this just makes me happy.

This is absolutely fantastic. The song and how it's composed it; the intertwining of the counter-melodies. (And your whoop at the start just makes me smile.) I always loved the 'cultural' music we studied at school and this hits that exact spot. It works just so well as one of the Athosian's songs and tales.

And then the vid! The way the images flow with the music and the overlaying corresponding to the melodies is just perfect, as are the particular images you chose. I have particular love for the effects on the first scene of the team, and then later on with the Genii and the team and the sea.

Amazing work. (And you have one lovely voice!)

[lim.livejournal.com]

Hey, thanks a lot.

*g* I suspect the 'cultural music' you learnt at school is actually just what I would call music. *is English* It's a round so the idea is that all the lines can basically be overlaid onto any other line so you can pick it up and add to it easily. So, I guess...imagine them all sitting in a circle and the song building as it goes round? In the show they have the Athosians revering the circle/ring and...stuff! *facepalm*

[amberlc.livejournal.com]

Woah. This was a really, really cool idea and great execution. :-)

[lim.livejournal.com]

Thanks a lot. :)

[kaizoku.livejournal.com]

Wow. This is avant-garde fanart. Not to mention beautiful and very inspiring. I love "we kissed their girls and beat their boys," hehe. The fiddle makes it sound kind of Irish folky to me, which is not quite how I imagine their music would sound (I felt similarly about "Beyond the Night" - though incidentally, I find your song much more appealing, maybe because it doesn't sound as polished.) It really works with the vid though. I like the shots with the candles, and the way the fish and the ocean look like light flickering over their faces. I'm curious whether this is a "mission report" for a single mission - it almost sounds like a summation of Teyla's entire experience with the Atlantians. Thanks for sharing this!

[lim.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the feedback. :)

The fiddles are Nordic keyed fiddles mainly, also some plucked violins. It's really Norse/English rather than Celtic, I think. With a funk beat. *g*

I imagine this to be sung in the round, like a cycle? So it could be added to after every mission - a new verse, I mean.

[dancinguniverse.livejournal.com]

this is absolutely amazing. I love it all, the song itself, and the vid that goes with it. You rock, so hardcore.

[lim.livejournal.com]

Ta. That's very kind of you to say.

[raveninthewind.livejournal.com]

Lovely song, beautiful vid. I saved mp3 and vid. Thanks for sharing your work.

[lim.livejournal.com]

You're most welcome. :)

[kitestringer.livejournal.com]

Wow—everything about this is *stunning*. It made me have one of those moments when I just sit in awe of the amazing talent in this fandom. I can tell I'll be watching this again and again. Thank you for sharing!

[lim.livejournal.com]

Thanks. That's very kind of you to say. :)

[wolfshark]

That's brilliant!

I especially liked the sharks, for some reason :D

[lim.livejournal.com]

Hah. I bet you did. *admires your icon*

[slybrarian.livejournal.com]

Words can not express how astounding and impressive this was.

[lim.livejournal.com]

Ulp. Thanks. That's very kind of you to say.

[logovo.livejournal.com]

Whoa.

Thank you, this was so lovely.

[lim.livejournal.com]

Hey, you're welcome. :)

[melissaukgirl.livejournal.com]

When I watched your video based on the story Freedom's just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose I was blown away. After watching your most recent vid and hearing your beautiful singing, I have no words. Thank you so much for your love of this fandom and just your creativity.

[lim.livejournal.com]

Eek! Um. Ta, mate. It's very kind of you to say. :)

[maverick4oz.livejournal.com]

WOW! The was amazing and gloriously beautiful. I'm in awe. Thank you so much for this.

[lim.livejournal.com]

You're very welcome. Thanks for commenting. :)

[queenofalostart.livejournal.com]

This is amazing!! Seriously, it's like Dead Can Dance mixed w/ Massive Attack mixed with AWESOMECROSS!

[lim.livejournal.com]

Hah! I'm such a Massive Attack fangirl. I'm actually going to make a Teal'c vid to the Hymn of the Big Wheel, um, one of these days. *g* I have it planned out but it involves me actually sitting down and drawing at least half the keyframes so I think it will be a VERY rainy one-of-these-days.

[windmiran.livejournal.com]

Wow. This is really amazingly cool. As I have no singing talent myself, I am struck guh. I have this theory, though, that the percussion beats in the background would actually be some of Teyla's people stick-fighting the action while someone else sings...

[lim.livejournal.com]

That's not a bad catch (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS2oVc4mlvg) actually.

[foreverdirt.livejournal.com]

Stunning. Everything about this delights me.

[lim.livejournal.com]

Oh, hey, thanks a lot. :) That makes me glad.

[rustler.livejournal.com]

This is gorgeous, and one of the most genuinely creative things I've come across in fandom. Your brain must be a fun place to be. :-)

[lim.livejournal.com]

I'm really glad you like it. Thanks for the feedback. :)