imeem friday fours, the get-the-kleenex-box edition

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In ascending order from "a little sniffly" to "still wakes me up in the middle of the night".


Hello, SGA, by merryish. (SGA) This is more angsty and beautiful than sad, and very compelling. I'd consider this the basic primer to angsty!doomed!Sheppard circa season 1. And frankly, that's still my favorite Sheppard.

Out Here by heresluck. (Due South) When I first watched this, I'd just seen Call of the Wild for the first time, and I left the world's sniffliest comment on heresluck's livejournal. And she replied "But it ends happily! See? They're in love!". And then I went their love is so beautiful and got more kleenex.

On a technical level, consider that Due South is essentially seventy hours of talky-face, and then observe how much emotion heresluck has wrung out of those scenes. Some day I want to be able to do things like that.

Cold Cold Water by sdwolfpup. (Battlestar Galactica) I am only partially versed in the BSG canon, but I felt like this vid just turned me inside out. Lovely stuff.


This is How it Works by Lim. (SGA)

I had to go get that link with the sound off. And my hand over the screen.
You've got to read the story by synecdochic first (I figure everyone's read the story, but there might be some stragglers). This is the one that honest-to-god woke me up at three a.m. I was shaky and cold in the middle for days after reading / watching this, and that, I call art.

ETA: Got one set of vidders confused. That is embarrassing.
ETA2: And a broken link is now fixed. I lose at HTML today!