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

[triskellita.livejournal.com]

wow, this was awesome, both the song and the vid. you're brilliant.

[miss-pryss.livejournal.com]

Oooh, *pretty*.

[yin-again.livejournal.com]

Astonishing - the lyrics, the song, the arangement, the vid. Take a bow, you deserve it.

All of it was lovely.

[zoniduck.livejournal.com]

Oh! This is amazing work. Thank you so much for sharing it with us!

[das-kabinett.livejournal.com]

This is incredible; I absolutely adored this.

[radiophonic.livejournal.com]

Really amazing. I'm amusing you used GarageBand? (I recognized the audio loop. Yes, I live a sad life.) I envy your ability to make something this wonderful in that program. &hearts

[denyce.livejournal.com]

Wow, & Wow... stunned by the beauty, time & work you put into this. Thank you SO much for sharing; now I'm off to rec :-)

[viciouswishes.livejournal.com]

I love the layering in the vid.

[fairestcat]

*is stunned and amazed*

You, my dear, rock.

This is wonderful and so incredibly perfect for Teyla.

[romanyg.livejournal.com]

You are a genius. A genius with a beautiful voice.

*bows before your genuisity*

[faith-girl222.livejournal.com]

this is very very cool (long live the utility of iLife applications!).

[no-detective.livejournal.com]

This is phenomenal!

[mollya.livejournal.com]

Totally original and beautiful.

[4amcoffee.livejournal.com]

Anything that develops Teyla's character and culture is good in my eyes, but this was truly beautiful. If only TPTB saw Teyla like this...

[buddleia.livejournal.com]

That is beautiful. I love what you've done, I really do.

[justabi.livejournal.com]

That was entirely awesome!

multimedia brilliance!

[kormantic.livejournal.com]

This was really incredibly cool.

[marcolette.livejournal.com]

This is gorgeous, impressively creative work. Thank you for sharing!

[amezri.livejournal.com]

So... having watched this 3 times, I still am not exactly sure what is going on, but I think the song is really awesome and you have a great voice and the editing of the video is very cool. :D

(I downloaded from oxoniensis' server, btw)

[sachenka.livejournal.com]

very creative. nice.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Wow -- I love the song. It evokes much more than it says. (It also sounds very professional; I'm going to leave it on my playlist for a while, because I'm betting it will be perfectly at home with the other music there.)

I never have anything intelligent to say about vids -- I don't get them on some basic level -- but I watched it and it was pretty, which is the best I can ever say. It's the song that really impresses me.

[loligo.livejournal.com]

Love the ambivalence of the shark/dolphin/puddlejumper imagery -- I wish the show would let Teyla and Ronon show cultural differences & ambivalence about the Earth people more often.

[dossier.livejournal.com]

I'm still downloading the vid, but I had to jump in and give you *huge* props for the song; it's truly amazing, your spread of talent!

[livrelibre.livejournal.com]

Oh this is quite amazing, all of it. Just lovely. And each piece just brought more meaning--the lyrics like poetry just hinted, then the song brought essence, and the vid imagery just fleshed it out and made me say "Oh!" /incoherent praise. I'll be rewatching this again and again. Thanks for the gift and for making me see Teyla (and fandom) in a new light. This is what it's all about.

[etben.livejournal.com]

...oh, wow.

You're amazing, and this is amazing, and Teyla is amazing, and I'm...well, I'm amazed.

*loves on this like none other*