Glorious

Vid
Title:	Glorious
Creator:	such_heights
Date:	February 1, 2009
Format:	.avi and .mp4
Length:	3:06 minutes
Music:	Glorious by Muse
Genre:
Fandom:	Multiple Fandoms
Footage:	Bones; Torchwood; Harry Potter; Heroes; Stargate: Atlantis; Firefly; Merlin; Sarah Jane Adventures; Narnia; The X-Files; Doctor Who; His Dark Materials; Star Trek: Voyager; Pushing Daisies; Lord of the Rings; Fantastic Four; The Sarah Connor Chronicles; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Buffy the Vampire Slayer; Star Trek: Deep Space Nine; Supernatural; Battlestar Galactica; Star Wars; Farscape
URL:	announcement
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Glorious is an Multiple Fandoms vid by such_heights. It was reviewed by mresundance at the Vid Commentary LJ community on October 19, 2009. Made for the LJ community halfamoon, a two-week celebration of female characters.

The vidder also offered extended editing commentary here in her journal: "It's a story you've heard before. There's a woman, or a young girl, and she goes on a journey. She finds something amazing about the world, about herself, she learns so much and sees such wondrous new things. So often, too often, this doesn't end well. She can't handle it, you see, it's too much and she's not equipped. That, or her story is a tragedy, a lesson about the dangers of the big wide world, and she dies as an object lesson so that men might weep. She sacrifices herself for the good of the true heroes of the tale, and sometimes, she just fades away, never to be seen again."

Reactions/Reviews

• "What a fantastic celebration and meta commentary on the women we love in fandom. "I wanted more" not just crazy women and mothers and victims. Breaking free of those real as well as metaphorical constraints to be soldiers and scientists to save the world and change the world and to kick some butt and be utterly glorious indeed."
• "This is marvelous! I wish I had had such a multitude of role models when I was growing up."
• "Such a marvellous celebration of strength and joy and more than one kind of power -- I love seeing girls with computers and science and Willow with her magic and Kaylee with her engines and Rose with her love and hope being just as awesome as the warrior girls, because that gives us girls with just pens and hope and love (and clumsiness ^-^) a little something all our own to look up to."
• "All my heroes, all trodden down, all breaking free, all finding each other, all rising up. I really like how you use Claire-from-Heroes' powers as a way to heal the other female characters, as a transition, and I love that you chose to end on Teyla doing one of the coolest things she's ever done. Wonderful."
• "AMAZING! FLAIL-INDUCING!!! BRILLIANT!!!! I NEED MOAR ENGLISH WORDZ TO TELL YOU HOW AWESOME THIS IS!!!!!!!!1 *looks it up on thesaurus.com* awesome, fascinating, incredible, marvelous, prodigious, shocking, stunning, surprising, unbelievable, wonderful, ablaze, bright, coruscating, dazzling, effulgent, flashy, fulgent, gleaming, glittering, glossy, incandescent, intense, lambent, lucent, luminous, lustrous, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, scintillating, showy, sparkling, vivid LADIES ROCK THE CASBAH!!!!!!!!!!!"
• "I almost cried. Seriously. This video made me proud to be female"
• "This vid makes me feel happy on an extremely primal level. How you've taken all the disparate sources and made them into one story, for all of us, and it's beautiful. Thank you."
• "I love to see so many women on journeys of discovery and finding their power. The building intensity of the music works well. I feel inspired!"
• "As a feminist, a person of fluid gender history and a person who has been loved and nurtured by strong women all his life, this vid strikes essential and even primal chords in me. I definitely think I am not alone in this. This vid fulfills a deep and aching need in its message about women and empowerment and re-writing narrative with the intent of taking back and discovering hope. I think it’s a message that can benefit anyone, regardless of their gender or sex, which is not to disregard the fact that the focus of the vid is all about women and their triumphs over adversity."