hydrazoite | F A L L I N G. [1000+] No.6 / Shion/Nezumi @hydrazoite | Uploaded October 2012 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
❝ i have fallen. ❞

Okay, so where do I even begin on this. It's been a while guys! Two weeks... two weeks of long and hard work. This video is just. everything important to me. I really put a lot of thought into it, and I hadn't realized just how much emotion I had edited into it until I finished it. I don't think I've ever been this /nervous/ about uploading something.

NOTE: All the photos [backgrounds] are original, either mine or my family's. Just the personal touch I wanted for 1000 subs. [Art is not mine]

So, well, first I'll talk about my subs. I want to thank each and every one of you, and everyone in the future who clicks this video, watches, sends me feedback. It makes my day. Completely. I am so incredibly happy that what I do brings other people enjoyment from watching it! For me the most important thing is doing what I love, because I love it. Subscriptions at the end of the day, are just a number. What really makes the difference is the people who write feedback, each and every one of you who takes the time to comment, or take time out of their day to write me a message, it just means so much to me [even though I may be a slow replier at times!]

And so I shall talk about this video, why it's special, why it's important, and my take on the lyrics.

One of the great ideas about art, music, and well, quite frankly, the arts in general, is that it's open to interpretation. You can take it where you want to, play with ideas, overanalyze, under-analyze, and yet, it's still not wrong, just perhaps at times less correct. And this is where it begins.

I had found this song, and it immediately struck a chord with me. It was immediately a song I knew I wanted to edit. But what to edit it with? I picked No.6 purely because of the fanart. It's simply stunning. And as I was listening to the song, and contemplating recent differences in opinion reguarding homosexuality, I mused over the lyrics. I found it rather amusing that quite a few of the lyrics could be read into to represent this difference.

❝ 'cuz you can fall if you want to. ❞
Falling. Falling from what? A state of perfection? A state of grace? Ideals? The interpretation of falling is vast and I was reminded of Nezumi's line in the anime quoted at the top.

❝ why can't we speak another language, one we all agree on. ❞
I took this as finding a universal language, and yet, a spoken language is too limiting, there are too many to simply agree on one. Universal languages. Math? Maybe, but what's more than that. Love. Everyone in all cultures, all ethnicities, all religions, every species. Love transcends them all. For me, love should be genderless. It's no one business who loves who, and why. It's love. It's all the same. Why are we putting rules and boundaries on who can love who. Isn't that archaic? Homosexuality is hardly wrong. It's no different than a man and a women being together. Well, except the fact that they can't have biological offspring. But hey, our planet is overpopulated anyway /shot I put the Japanese kanji for love in this scene instead of the kanji for language. This not only represents the change of spoken/written word, but the notion of that love is universal.

❝ why do i always draw triangles instead of words this paper so deserves. ❞
And this for me, is the most interesting off them all. I was talking to one of my irl friends about the song, and my musings [above] and she, having a vast wealth of random knowledge, posed the idea that during WW2 in the concentration camps, homosexual men were marked with a [pink] triangle to separate them from the rest. Upon further investigation into this, I discovered that this symbol has now evolved into a triangle with a circle around it as a sign marking a stance against homophobia and is now a universal symbol of support. I knew I wanted to include this in my video, as it was terribly fitting, and I was unsure how to do it, and I played with a BUNCH of ideas, and in the end I went with a super simple approach to emphasize the message and the symbol. Tying in with this theme of the concentration camps, the lines about "the crafty smoke that make us choke" I found was an interesting tie in, and needless to say, I really broke my feels while making that scene.

So in the end, my goal for this was to convey my ideals into the video. On a more technical level, I was working on my animations and relaxing about beat hitting while still retaining interest and precision. I really poured my heart and soul into this, and I've spent like half an hour typing this description, so in the end, all I can say is that I hope you enjoy it. Also, if you are offended by what I've said in my description, please just leave. Unsubscribe. I really have no interest in discussing it.