Gift for Milly by Jetpack Monkey (A League of Their Own)

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Title of vid: Back to Avalon
Recipient: Milly
Vidder: Jetpack Monkey
Fandom: A League of Their Own (1992)
Music: Back to Avalon by Heart
Summary: I know I'm going home.
Content notes: No standardized notes apply
Signed length: 02:21

Link to signed vid post.

Lyrics
Forgive me I can't stay here anymore
I'm leaving with the tide
This evening another breeze blew 'round my door
Stirred me up inside
I'm breaking out of this tired old spell
I played it out long and so well

And the phoenix flies straight and high
Back to Avalon
Now I'm on my way back where I belong
Gonna go down with the sun
Back to Avalon

And the phoenix flies straight and high
Back to Avalon
Now I'm on my way back where I belong
Gonna go down with the sun

Back to Avalon
Nobody knows
What's inside my head or down this road
All I want
I know I'm going home

And the phoenix flies straight and high
Back to Avalon
Now I'm on my way back where I belong
Gonna go down with the sun

Comments

[zulu]

What a joyful vid! And when Kit and Dottie hugged at the end, I got all choked up. Great song. :D

[jetpack_monkey]

Aw, thank you! I love making people get choked up!

[laurashapiro]

So well done! Great storytelling, great musicality, perfect song choice.

[jetpack_monkey]

Thank you! I don't even remember how I came to pick this song. Maybe I always had the song. Maybe I am the song...

[archersangel]

very good.

[jetpack_monkey]

Thanks!

[kouredios]

I enjoyed this very much. Great song choice.

[lannamichaels]

This is wonderful. :D

[aris_tgd]

This is lovely!

[lithiumdoll]

So much love!

[thingswithwings]

I thought this was lovely - melancholy, full of hope, beautiful. It's always wonderful to see a vid about a movie that isn't about the plot of the movie; I love how this is about theme instead of plot.

[metonymy]

Excellent excellent excellent.

[sakana17]

Great storytelling, great song choice. This makes me want to see the movie again. Great work!

[colls]

This is a fabulous vid! I adore the song choice and the elements you chose to pull out were really great. So happy making. :)

[frayadjacent]

This vid made me smile so hard! What a great tribute to a wonderful movie.

[incidental_fire]

Marvelous!

Back to Avalon

[yourlibrarian]

I love the nostalgic feel of this, very nice.

[franzeska]

The hands rising at 1:51 are awesome.

[fan_eunice]

EEEEEEEEEEEEE. I <3 this vid. I <3 you festividder.

[skygiants]

This made me tear up a bit with nostalgia-happiness for all these women. Really, really well done!

[recrudescence]

This vid and the two others are responsible for me watching this movie for the first time yesterday. Thank you!

[par_avion]

Nice! I especially liked the slide into base at 1:45 and drum emphasis at 2:09.

[livrelibre]

This was great!

[arduinna]

This vid makes me so happy -- it's so joyous and celebratory.

I love the pacing of your narrative, from the hope and excitement of wanting to leave the safety of the known and go try something new, to the exhilaration of making it to that new place and finding the dream is real, there's an entire field full of women playing ball (that reveal, on the rising music & lyrics, is just gorgeous), and suddenly not only are they able to take their shot but they've won, they did it, they achieved their dream (and fireworks! because go them!), then the gentle slide down into the workaday realization that this is their life now; they've actually done what they set out to do, and now they travel around on a bus, and share quarters, and go dancing together, and sing together, and support each other, with their hands rising in the air together as a team (another truly gorgeous moment, those hands on that strum as they settle into this new life of theirs).

And that new life leads to their older selves, still in love with baseball, still tapping that plate (so perfectly on the beat <3); it's not just memories as the opening implies, it's who they became. Even after all those years, the baseball diamond is still their home.

Really, I love this a lot. ♥

[livrelibre]

Aww, lovely!