Gift Vid: Seamstress - for kiki_miserychic

[chaila]

Title: Seamstress
Recipient: kiki_miserychic
Vidder: chaila
Music: Dessa, "Seamstress"
Summary: They said you were past repair. Jesse/Riley
Notes: Contains depictions of suicide attempt.

Link: Link to signed vid post.

Comments

[no_detective]

I love this song, and you've used it beautifully here. Gah, what an intense, phenomenal, sick relationship, distilled perfectly in this vid. Great work.

[lorax]

Oh this was fantastic and creepy and so, so fitting.

[caramarie]

Love the use of repetition in this, and the changing meanings of the chorus lyrics. They both break my heart ;_;

[sanguinity]

This is amazing. Such a wonderful, terrible song choice for Jesse and Riley. (Terrible, as in inspiring terror.) It is so full of the "for her own good" lies that abusers so often tell, and yet there is also self-awareness creeping through: really, perfect for Jesse and her relationship with Riley.

(Early on, I was arguing with Jesse, "No, you're the cat! She was fine until you got her! You're the cat!" ...and then, suddenly, Jesse was the cat.)

And oh, Riley: so brave. Riley doesn't want to be kept in a box. Riley won't be kept in a box. Riley.

[fig_aruna]

Oh, Jesse. Cornered and haunted Jesse. Love, LOVE this vid. ♥

[beatrice_otter]

You used the song beautifully to explore Jesse's character.

[beccatoria]

This vid is brutal, uncompromising, devastating and perfect. Oh man, Jesse and Riley, this vid is completely everything about their storyline I love and breaks my heart. This vid is a sequence of unflinching lyrical associations that own my soul. Perfection.

[laurashapiro]

I cannot imagine a better Jesse vid. This is flawless.

[colls]

this is amazing

[nicole_anell]

OUCH. This is relentless and incredible.

[rivkat]

Fantastic! I love all the mirroring and distinctions between the women.

[cofax7]

Oh, that was excellent. Jesse is so complex, and you catch a lot of it here. Well done indeed.