VID: Helsing

[promethia_tenk]

Title: Helsing
Fandom: Dracula (2020, BBC/Netflix)
Music: 'Celebrity Skin' by Hole
Length: 2:57
Warnings: Blood, violence, hard-core gore, including that damn fingernail thing (sorry), partial nudity. Everything the show has, basically.
Spoilers: For the whole show. I strongly recommend finishing it all before watching.
Summary: “You don’t seem like a nun.” "It has been said."

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A/N: SISTER AGATHA VAN HELSING. ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTES.

You know when you start a new show, rapidly mainline it four times in a row, and in less than two weeks you suddenly have a whole damn vid you barely remember making?

No, of course not, that would be INSANE.

Anyway, here we are.

This vid is heavily indebted to this Tumblr post which digs into Lucy as an Agatha mirror and the symbolism of the show in general, and to this post, which points out that Jonathan, Lucy, and Agatha are all Dracula's brides. Next thing I know I’m auditioning angry lady rocker music to properly express Sister Agatha and her imperfectly suppressed shadow.

For better and worse this thing is wholly my creation. My thanks to elisi, owlboy, and purplefringe for all volunteering to beta before I smashed the entire thing out in a few days with no time for feedback. Their support is still deeply appreciated.

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Oh, make me over
I'm all I wanna be
A walking study
In demonology

Hey, so glad you could make it
Yeah, now you really made it
Hey, so glad you could make it now

Oh, look at my face
My name is might have been
My name is never was
My name's forgotten

Hey, so glad you could make it
Yeah, now you really made it
Hey, there's only us left now

When I wake up in my makeup
It's too early for that dress
Wilted and faded somewhere in
Hollywood
I'm glad I came here
With your pound of flesh
No second billing 'cause you're a star now
Oh, Cinderella
They aren't sluts like you
Beautiful garbage beautiful dresses
Can you stand up or will you
Just fall down

You better watch out
What you wish for
It better be worth it
So much to die for

Hey, so glad you could make it
Yeah, now you really made it
Hey, there's only us left now

When I wake up in my makeup
Have you ever felt so used up as this?
It's all so sugarless
Hooker, waitress, model, actress
Oh, just go nameless
Honeysuckle, she's full of poison
She obliterated everything she kissed
Now she's fading
Somewhere in Hollywood
I'm glad I came here
With your pound of flesh

You want a part of me
Well, I'm not selling cheap
No, I'm not selling cheap

Comments

[elisi]

I came home a little while ago, and was totally thinking 'Oh I should send Proton a message saying Happy editing!'

... And then this appeared.

IT IS GORGEOUS AND BEAUTIFUL.

[promethia_tenk]

THANK YOU <3 <3 <3

Everything is beautiful and . . . ok, not everything hurts, but quite a few things hurt. I mean that in a literal sense. Remind me not to do this again.

[elisi]

I'll try. But only if you promise to listen...

[promethia_tenk]

We both know that would be a lie.

[sea_thoughts]

Amazing! Accept no substitutes indeed, I could happily watch them play chess for another hour at least.

I like how you compare the hunger for fame/celebrity in the song to the hunger for fresh blood/fresh ideas in this adaptation.

Using my Eliot icon for reasons:

Let me be no nearer
In death's dream kingdom
Let me also wear
Such deliberate disguises
Rat's coat, crowskin, crossed staves
In a field
Behaving as the wind behaves
No nearer -

Not that final meeting
In the twilight kingdom

[promethia_tenk]

Thank you! <3

I could happily watch them play chess for another hour at least.
UGH, I knnnnoooooooowwwwww. Just their . . . *HANDS* With the . . . stuff, and their . . . EVERYTHING.



I like how you compare the hunger for fame/celebrity in the song to the hunger for fresh blood/fresh ideas in this adaptation.
I did have the slightest moment of pause when choosing the song because . . . that's not what the show is about at all? And yet. And yet . . .

Using my Eliot icon for reasons:
You KNOW Eliot is always the appropriate response! I had not thought of the connection, thank you : )

[mengu]

Does Lucy's ending make sense to you? I just really feel like "in love with death" and "when you're beautiful you never see the world without a big fat smile on its face" should add up to being thrilled that she's dead and hideous (and then after some philosophical tug-of-war with Dracula and the humans swan off to the Harker Foundation still [un]alive.)