fv_poster: (Default)
[personal profile] fv_poster
Title of vid: I Will Not Be Afraid
Recipient: E-transitions
Vidder: Rhea314
Fandom: To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (1995)
Music: As Cool As I Am by Dar Williams
Summary: Women come in different types. A vid about drag queens, female friendship, and leaving bad relationships.
Content notes: brief scenes with implications of domestic violence
Signed length: 03:36

Streaming video here.

Lyrics
Yeah, there was a time I didn't like the love, I liked the climbers,
I was no sister then, I was running out of time and one liners,
And I was afraid, like you are when you're too young to know the time, and
So I watched the way you take your fear and hoard the horizon,
You point, you have a word for every woman you can lay your eyes on,
Like you own them just because you bought the time,
And you turn to me, you say you hope I'm not threatened,

Oh -- I'm not that petty, as cool as I am, I thought you'd know this already,
I will not be afraid of women, I will not be afraid of women.
So now were at a club, you watch the woman dancing, she is drunk,
She is smiling and she's falling in a slow, descending funk,
And the whole bar is loud and proud and everybodys trying, yeah.
You play the artist, saying, 'is it how she moves, or how she looks? '
I say, it's loneliness suspended to our own like grappling hooks,
And as long as she's got noise, she's fine.
But I could teach her how I learned to dance when the musics ended,

Oh -- and that's not petty, as cool as I am, I thought you'd know this already,
I will not be afraid of women, I will not be afraid of women.

You tried to make me doubt, to make me guess, tried to make me feel like a little less,
Oh, I liked you when your soul was bared, I thought you knew how to be scared,
And now it's amazing what you did to make me stay,
But truth is just like time, it catches up and it just keeps going,

And so I'm leaving, you can find out how much better things can get,
And if it helps, I'd say I feel a little worse than I did when we met,
So when you find someone else, you can try again, it might work next time,
You look out of the kitchen window and you shake your head and say low,
'if I could believe that stuff, I'd say that woman has a halo,'
And I look out and say, 'yeah, she's really blond,'
And then I go outside and join the others, I am the others,

Oh -- and that's not easy, I don't know what you saw, I want somebody who sees me,
I will not be afraid of women, I will not be afraid of women.

Date: 2013-01-19 10:02 pm (UTC)
zulu: Carson Shaw looking up at Greta Gill (Default)
From: [personal profile] zulu
Aww, it's been forever since I've seen this movie. I enjoyed this, anonyvidder! Good song choice! The whole town dancing together in red, and Wesley Snipes dancing sedately with the older woman, were my favourite shots in this.

Date: 2013-01-19 10:19 pm (UTC)
isis: (twice the woman)
From: [personal profile] isis
Oh, what an interesting song choice! It really gets a whole new dimension when applied to this movie. Great use of the dancing scenes, too. Well done, I enjoyed it!

Date: 2013-01-20 02:10 am (UTC)
thingswithwings: dear teevee: I want to crawl inside you (a dude crawls inside a tv) (Default)
From: [personal profile] thingswithwings
Aw, beautiful! I love the focus on female friendship and communities of women, and how coming together is powerful, and how femme is powerful. <3

Date: 2013-01-20 05:03 pm (UTC)
lithiumdoll: (Default)
From: [personal profile] lithiumdoll
So wonderful and yay and ALL THE LOVE! <3

Date: 2013-01-20 09:31 pm (UTC)
no_detective: default lydia icon with "End OTW Racism" bar added (tp girls bathroom - by mullally)
From: [personal profile] no_detective
Wow, this is really moving. Great use of the song!

Date: 2013-01-22 03:04 am (UTC)
franzeska: (Default)
From: [personal profile] franzeska
This is incredibly sweet!

Date: 2013-01-26 04:48 pm (UTC)
frayadjacent: peach to blue gradient with the silouette of a conifer tree (Default)
From: [personal profile] frayadjacent
Aw, I got a little tear in my eye -- and I haven't even seen the source! Great work.

Date: 2013-01-26 05:21 pm (UTC)
fan_eunice: (Default)
From: [personal profile] fan_eunice
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

Date: 2013-01-27 01:47 am (UTC)
echan: rainbow arch supernova remnant (Default)
From: [personal profile] echan
FRIENDS, awwwww, very awesome!

Date: 2013-01-29 08:52 pm (UTC)
china_shop: text icon that says "age shall not weary her, nor custom stale her infinite squee" (age shall not weary her)
From: [personal profile] china_shop
This is so lovely! \o/

Date: 2013-02-01 04:16 am (UTC)
livrelibre: DW barcode (Default)
From: [personal profile] livrelibre
This was wonderful festividder!

Profile

fv_poster: (Default)
fv_poster

January 2017

S M T W T F S
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
222324252627 28
293031    

Tags

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated Jun. 10th, 2025 08:15 am
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios