Vid: Home, Killjoys

[eruthros]

Title: Home
Fandom: Killjoys
Song: Home by Phillip Phillips
Summary: Just know you're not alone.

Made for aurumcalendula for Festivids!

Download: Home on mediafire, 287 mb
Subtitles: Home subtitles on mediafire

Streaming Version:

Lyrics:
hold on to me as we go
as we roll down this unfamiliar road
and although this wave (wave) is stringing us along
just know you're not alone
cause I'm gonna make this place your home

settle down, it'll all be clear
don't pay no mind to the demons, they fill you with fear
the trouble, it might drag you down
if you get lost, you can always be found
just know you're not alone
cause I'm gonna make this place your home

settle down, it'll all be clear
don't pay no mind to the demons, they fill you with fear
the trouble, it might drag you down
if you get lost, you can always be found
just know you're not alone
cause I'm gonna make this place your home

Comments

[aurumcalendula]

This is such a lovely vid! (and the song's so perfect for Pree!)

[jesse_the_k]

I love Pree’s range of home-making. From kindness to fierceness, from low-key to over the top. This vid made me smile a lot and want to rewatch Killjoys!

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks for this video! There's sadly so little video examples of Pree on Youtube, so this compilation (and thingswithwings' accompanying "Queens" video about the show's lesbian sociopaths in love) is very welcome for when I'm trying to recommend Killjoys to queer people and need to reassure them that it really will get MUCH better than the Delle Seyah / Dutch foe-yay queerbaiting and Pree's role as vaguely queer comic relief character in season 1.

And also for when I'm trying to explain to the Critical Role fandom that I picture one beloved recurring character (Gilmore) in that no-visuals-other-than-fanart streaming show as "basically Pree from Killjoys, if he was living in a medieval-ish fantasy setting and had magic powers, only minus the elaborate make-up and plus an elaborate beard". Hell, when the character shows up in the pre-stream part of the storyline they're publishing as an ongoing comic series right now, which is probably supposed to lead into the early episodes they're planning to turn into an animated series for Amazon, I would even wish for Pree's actor to do the voice acting, since he's so perfect for the role. Sadly, there's no way the L.A.-based Critical Role production team would ever use Canadian actors. [Matt Mercer, creator of the story and Man of a Thousand Voices, is really, really great at doing Gilmore's dialogue - especially considering it's almost all improvised on the fly - and he clearly loves this particular brainchild of his to bits. But there is the issue of having a queer PoC character played by a straight white guy, when he doesn't have to be anymore, once it's a proper TV series instead of an informal RPG set-up where all the non-player characters are voiced by Matt. At least Liam, who played the bisexual main character Vax in that storyline and as such almost certainly will reprise the role for the animated show, is bi-curious enough to be able to base his character's tentative forays into dating a guy on his own experiments in college. Sadly, the only really self-identified queer actor in the regular cast was playing a probably-straight character in that storyline. Much like with Killjoys, the entire show got more and more queer as the years went by, with the players slowly gaining confidence with their portrayals of queer characters (not all that easy if you're middle-aged, straight and there is no prepared script, only dialogue improvised on the spot), everyone becoming more comfortable with romantic scenes in general (queer or straight - all the players are professional actors, but mostly voice actors doing anime dubbing and video games, so serious adult romance scenes don't come up much in their day jobs) and recognizing that they had attracted an unusually heavily female and/or queer fan community (for something based on a supposed classic "sexist nerdboy" hobby like D&D) who will welcome explicitly queer characters with open arms. So the second storyline that's currently running has half the main characters being openly queer from the start. But I doubt they'll ever get to this second storyline with the comic or animated series, even if it's a same-setting sequel.]

Sorry, I'm getting too far off-topic... I should go to sleep.

[Though I do think it's worth pointing out Critical Role to fans of Killjoys and vice versa. The shows have different genres, obviously, but a similar vibe in terms of flawed/damaged characters, lots of humor, high emotion, cheerful violence, complete lack of sexism, queer-friendliness, and a wholesome emphasis on close, supportive friendships between men and women who theoretically could be attracted to each other, but who really are just friends who are not ashamed to hug a lot. In the case of Critical Role, this applies to the players even more than to the characters. The companion show Talks Machina, where they do Q&As and such, even runs under the motto "Don't forget to love each other" and most of the male players, when out-of-character, seem like they're actively trying to use this platform to show the boys and young men in the audience how much more fullfilling their social life can be if they throw off the shackles of toxic masculinity expectations. It's wholesomeness taken to a whole new level.]


Anyway, I can't "like" your video on Youtube (I don't do social media accounts, for data privacy reasons), but I wanted to let you know that I've watched it over a dozen times in the last few weeks (the song makes me happy) and I will recommend it to other people.

- Vivi