Gift for lunesque by Anoel (Luther)

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Title of vid: Can't Pretend
Recipient: lunesque
Vidder: Anoel
Fandom: Luther (2010)
Music: Can't Pretend by Tom Odell
Summary: Our souls, they blend.
Content notes:
Signed length: 03:34
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Link to signed vid

Lyrics
Love, I have wounds,

Only you can mend,

You can mend.

I guess that's love,

I can't pretend,

I can't pretend.



Feel, my skin is rough,

But it can be cleansed,

It can be cleansed.

And my arms are tough,

But they can be bent,

They can be bent.



And I wanna fight,

But I can't contend.

I guess that's love,

I can't pretend,

I can't pretend.



Oh, feel our bodies grow,

And our souls they blend.

Yeah love I hope you know,

How much my heart depends.



But I guess that's love

I can't pretend,

I can't pretend.

I guess that's love

I can't pretend,

I can't pretend.



Oh feel our bodies grow,

And our souls they blend.

Yeah love I hope you know,

How much my heart depends.



I guess that's love

I can't pretend,

I can't pretend.

I guess that's love

I can't pretend,

I can't pretend.

Comments

[trelkez]

Ooh, this is very tense and fraught, nicely done!

[runawaynun]

I like how the music and the edit capture how BIG and SWEEPING this show could get while not losing some of the small moments of the show.

[vonniek]

What a gorgeous build. Got me quite breathless, it did.

[lunesque]

Okay, okay, I'm just super excited about this. The music was so good and there was Luther! And Alice! And I had daydreams about them forever being on the run as a serial killing couple. I cannot tell you how much I love this. It made my chest ache in the best way. Thank you so much!

[cupidsbow]

Gorgeously constructed and beautifully tense.

[(Anonymous)]

I absolutely loved this. It was perfectly done.

[metatxt]

GAHHHH. You capture their tension so, so beautifully! The way they circle each other and how Alice brings John closer to understanding himself by growing closer to her. The constant provocations! I kept holding my breath throughout.

[goodbyebird]

oh the smile on my face right now. This was fabulous!

[purplefringe]

Wow, this has a wonderful build up - it really packs an emotional punch.

[minim_calibre]

This was beautifully tense.

[bingeling]

I'm in love with this vid. It's so beautiful and intense and great use of visual metaphors with the hole and just YES!

[chaila]

Ugh yes, I love this! Such a great build, both in pacing and the story of their relationship. I love how you first have them observing/investigating each other, and then circling and intertwining more and more tightly, even as John fights it, until they're partners and it's irrevocable. I love how you've constructed John's downward spiral as a trajectory towards Alice and her view of the world and her view of him, until he accepts it.

[gabbysilang]

Jesus fucking christ, this is fantastic. The PACE of it, the DRIVING NERVE-TINGLE of it, oh, it's gorgeous.

[ghost_lingering]

Wow, this is intense! I like it!

[echan]

Oh jeez all their similarities, no you really can't pretend they're all that different in the end, this was glorious.

[sanguinity]

Between you and chaila -- whoever you are! -- I'm gonna have to watch this show, aren't I?

This was beautiful, and your pacing perfection, such highly charged stillness giving away to such frenzy of action before resettling into a new, but no less charged, stillness. And your use of the cinematography -- sometimes close, sometimes large open, your mirroring of visuals and shapes, the way glass sometimes reflects but more often obscures before it breaks and shatters... Just gorgeous.

[franzeska]

Gorgeous! This really stood out for me, even after watching a lot of others. It has a strong sense of progression, and I could follow you despite not having seen the source. Great choice of music for the vocal qualities in particular.

[gwyn]

This is really great. The buildup and the tension between the different sources in his life…lovely.