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God's Gonna Cut You Down.

Iron Man on a Johnny Cash mission. Rick Rubin produces.
XVid, 25MB.

shoiryu pointed me to this version of the song back in the day for Papa Winchester, but ever since that DOOMTHREAD-PRIME conversation about how post-movie Tony still sees the world as black and white, with-me-or-against-me in essentially the same way as he did at the beginning of the movie, though with the lines of good and bad redrawn a bit, this has been obsessively in my head as the song for post-Afghanistan Tony.

So yeah, a vid about Tony Stark's little proto-soul and, uh, not much more nuanced worldview. More than any of the other vids, it baaaadly needs recutting once the DVD is out, but OMG IT IS DONE NOW IT IS DONE.

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I NEED NEW WORDS FOR HOW MUCH I LOVE YOU. AND THIS. AND YOU. IT'S ALL THE SAME REALLY. OH MY GOD.

Okay, one, I love that version of the song so much, his VOICE, yeah.

Two, this makes me want to write EVEN MORE STORIES because YES I can even still see that Tony now, oh so much now, in comics-world, I can see movie!Tony clinging to that mindset even as a sinking man, it killing him all the more knowing the world is full of villains and if he doesn't do his duty and take them out, then who will? God, he's so RIGHTEOUS in his mind, utterly, naively righteous. Dangerously.

Uh, third, YOU ROCK MY WORLD. MEET ME FOR MAKEOUTS BEHIND THE BLEACHERS AFTER SCHOOL OKAY? OKAY.

I hate you. Okay, I hate for having my friendslist be my homepage on my laptop and getting me into this mess in the first place, but I mostly hate you for producing this in the midst of the craziness of last night and OH. TONY, thinking your big shiny suit is going to fix things, and stopping Obie is going to abolish you of your sins; because being blithely ignorant of what your company does, doesn't make you innocent, and you're just figuring that out now, aren't you?

I love the progression in this, watching him build the suit throughout the vid, and then the end, when he's managed to make something that might make him be a little less human, a little more than what he was before, thinking he can actually change things. Gah. Gah.

Oh wow. I have to watch this again, to absorb it, but the song is so haunting and perfect.

OH I DID THE LAST MINUTE ALL TODAY. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN ALL YOU NON-EAST COASTERS ARE DOING OTHER THINGS AND ARE NOT AROUND TO ENTERTAIN ME.

<3 The experience with Obediah taught Tony that talking does nothin'. You want change, you gotta go and build yourself a SMITING SUIT.

Just. Gah. What everybody else said. Except that I have to add: OMG at the timing you've got on that slow driving beat is phenomenal, with the foot stomp and the knee extension and the hammer strikes and Rhodey's little smile and the FLASH BULBS and with Obadiah's hand clapping on Tony's back and at the last with the suit's eyes lighting up. And of course with the clips, in time, too. Just exquisite.

Also, HAHAHA, I sat up and made a noise in the middle of this because I had no idea that Pepper appeared in the shot where Obadiah and Tony are walking into the Stark Industry lobby. My copy doesn't show her at all because that is just how bad it sucks. GOD DAMMIT.

Oh, that's terrific, it's got the dark underside to Tony's crusade (that it could become a crusade) as well as the heroism, and great choice of song.

Ooo. That is very nice. Did you add the jitter, or was that inherent in your clips?

And, yes, that's Tony's view -- himself as the Hand of God.

And it would *still* make a great Papa Winchester vid, if you ever get the urge. Him and Tony are men convinced of their own righteousness.

GODDAMNIT.

I LOVE THE WORLD SO MUCH RIGHT NOW.

OH MY GOD I WAS GOING TO YELL AT YOU FOR BEING ON THE INTERNETS BUT OH MY GODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD *SCREAMS*

GIVE HER FEEDBACK FOR ME SO I DON'T START READING IT AGAIN.

MINE WOULD PROBABLY BE LONGER THAN WHAT I HAVE OF MY SCRIPT.

OH MY GODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD IT IS PEPPER/COULSON AND IT'S OKAY. I"LL JUST PRETEND THAT SHIELD PAYS REALLY WELL. REALLY, REALLY WELL.

PS THANKS FOR THE REC. I ENJOYED THE STORY.

Awesome vid -- you've done a good job of showing how Tony's transformation has only gone so far.

I love on the last verse how his voice goes a little hoarse. JOHNNY CASH, MOTHERFUCKERS. JOHNNY. CASH.

And yeah, I love that righteousness about him. I think that's an element a lot of fic hasn't quite picked up -- just how deeply Tony gets fixated on doing what he now thinks is the right thing. I mean, yeah, we can argue that he's working through PTSD when he doesn't go annnnnnnnnnnywhere and just holes up in the basement, and he seems to be a bit close to being back on his game at the end of the movie, but man.

Totally randomly, but because I now forever associate you with porn: I want fic with just retarded amounts of Tony/Rhodey sex. I'm talking, full-blown, NC-17 "let's count how many fingers Rhodey just put up Tony's ass," Jarvis has activated sound suppression systems in the house because Tony is much louder getting fucked than when he's doing the fucking.

Sigh.

because I now forever associate you with porn

I am sincerely honored. Is that sad? But for real.

just how deeply Tony gets fixated on doing what he now thinks is the right thing.

Oh yeah. Ooooh yeah. I really want to read and/or write something that connects the dots between Tony post-movie and the Tony in comics right now, who's made himself the most important person in the world, and has this total conviction that means that people, smart, heroic people, would follow him and believe him when he says that THIS IS THE RIGHT THING TO DO. (and of course have people be so shit scared of him doing this and the decisions he makes with that power) Because can you imagine him trying that now? Not so much.

ull-blown, NC-17 "let's count how many fingers Rhodey just put up Tony's ass,"

THIS IS AN EXCELLENT THING TO WANT. Oh man. Uh, basically I want any kind of fic that is hardcore everyone doing it. Yeah. I would be so excited by, say, Yinsen bumming Rhodey. Or Tony and Yinsen and then Tony remembering that while doing Rhodey and it getting SO FREAKING INTENSE.

You remember that fic somebody suggested last night (or some other night) about Pepper watching Tony do it with, like, ALL MATHEMATICAL KINDS of people? Tony with women. Tony by himself. Tony with Obediah. Tony with Rhodey.

GUESS WHAT I'M WRITING.

....I SUGGESTED THAT AND OH MY GOD PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE YES PLEASE

AND THEN LATER HE WATCHES TAPES OF HER WATCHING HIM.

AND THEY DON'T EVEN SAY ANYTHING.

AND SHE GOES IN HIS ROOM WHEN HE'S NOT THERE AND JUST TOUCHES THINGS.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS. SECONDED SECONDED SECONDED.

SORRY THAT IS TOO MUCH PLOT. PORN PLZ

Which is to s ay that this is so unrepentantly and unremittingly filthy so far that kd;lgk;alkdjf;liwer;lkf. GAH. Will you still love me when I write Obediah/Tony?

THAT IS THE ONLY THING THAT COULD MAKE ME LOVE YOU MORE.

oh my god please make him do those little gestures he does in the scene after the press conference the arm slinging and just the creepy fatherly stuff, putting his hand on the back of Tony's neck and LEADING him. oh my god oh my god.

I don't even care about Pepper's motivations about watching this anymore. If you could watch Tony Stark having all kinds and manners of sex, would you really need a reason to? No. No.

With the arm slinging and the hand on the back of the neck and the stepping close and Tony having his tie loose and Obediah taking it the rest of the way off and whadfkgjdlkfj. Man.

Nobody would need an excuse for watching that. Tony's crazy nympho mom would not need an excuse and I AM SORRY FOR GOING THERE BUT THIS IS WHAT YOU DO TO ME OKAY. she would just be, like. getting tips. for sluttery.

his TIE. YES. unbuttoning like he owns the shirt on Tony's back, taking the time to take off his cufflinks. ruffling his hair like a kid while Tony sucks him off OH JESUS

YOU KNOW ITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT. BIG, HOLLOWED-OUT CHEEKS ON TONY. YOU KNOW IT. AND PEPPER BEING KIND OF FREAKED OUT BECAUSE THEY'VE CLEARLY DONE THIS BEFORE, AND HOW LONG HAS IT BEEN GOING ON, AND HOW DID SHE NOT KNOW THAT THEY WERE DOING THIS.

God, I know people are like OH EW OLD PERSON when they think about Obediah doing Tony, but honestly, unngggh. That power dynamic won't be denied.

AND THEN SHE FLASHES ON EVERY TIME SHE'S SEEN THEM TOGETHER EVER AND HOW OBI IS HANDSY BUT NEVER WITH HER, SHE JUST GOT THE IMPRESSION BECAUSE HIS HANDS ARE ALWAYS ON TONY'S NECK. ON HIS NECK.

Oh, whatever, everyone, Bridges' performance was MADE to inspire this.

Jesus, I desperately want fic breathplay porn between them now. UNGGGGGH. And Tony, freaking out post-movie, because all those times, Obie could have killed him. All those times. Big hands.

Let us not discuss, by the way, the retard need I have for Obie fucking nineteen year old Tony three months before Mom and Pops die. WHY THE FUCK YOU THINK TONY CRACKS JOKES ABOUT BUYING OBIE GODDAMN PAJAMAS?

I'm still hung up on how that beard might feel against Tony's inner thigh.

...

Goddamnit, I was this close to something akin to productivity.

OH MY GODDDDDDDDDD you are freaking me out with all your hot, good ideas. where do they all come from? what is this disease we have and is obie's MASSIVE COCK the only cure?

because you know it's huge. it's a man-splitter.

i want the world where 19 yr old tony and obie start at it to be the same world where obie and maria are still fucking every now and then. i want these thins to happen ON THE SAME NIGHT

So: DEAR GOD YES.

First, this song is kind of one of the most fabulous Johnny Cash songs ever and your editing is just GUHAMAZING. Not only in the timing right there all the time but your choice of clips is kind of completely fabulous. I've seen some hella good vids, but the ones you've been putting out these past couple of days have the quality of reading like a book with the circular way you swing out of a sequence and then wind back.

But also: YESSS. The 'heads or tails' world view, with-me-or-against-me (Us? America?) and the level of 'There's only the next mission' obsession. And Tony, reinventing and rebuilding over and over - Ouroboros - to fit, to be the better man even if that definition of better is flying higher or longer or shooting the most missiles from his arm.

YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT PRODUCTIVITY. CHRIST. I CAN'T. MY BRAIN HAS BEEN HIJACKED BY NAKED TONY STARK. AND UGS:LDKJF:LKDJF. MOVING BECAUSE HE ACTUALLY LIKES THE WAY THAT FEELS AND UNGGGGGGGGH.

WHY DO YOU THINK HE GREW HIS OWN?

REVENGE.

ALSO TO SEE HOW IT FELT, LEAVING MARKS AS RED AS THE ONES OBIE LEAVES HIM.

DAFNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP WRITE YOUR FUCKING SCRIPT SO THEN YOU CAN WRITE OBEDIAH/TONY FOR ME. PLEASE.

I have three pages done! And the rest plotted out! And who needs sleep anyway when

OBIE BOUGHT TONY HIS FIRST BEER, HIS FIRST CIGAR, SHOWED HIM HOW TO WRAP HIS LIPS AGAINST THE CUBAN AND SUCK UNTIL THE EMBERS BURNED BRIGHT, AND THEN BLOW, LETTING THE SMOKE TRAPPED BETWEEN TONY'S LIPS AND THE WRAPPED TOBACCO OUT IN A CONTROLLED, STEADY STREAM.

TAUGHT TONY MANY THINGS THAT NIGHT, WHEN HOWARD WAS IN WASHINGTON SECURING FUNDING INSTEAD OF COMING TO TONY'S BIRTHDAY DINNER LIKE HE HAD PROMISED.

OBIE ALWAYS CLEANED UP HOWARD'S MESSES. IT WAS HIS JOB.

OH GOD I was being so good I didn't comment on the doomthread or anything because I just barely met all y'all but -- seriously -- Maria needs a man who is not shriveled and old and the new protege of the company will do, and she's used to putting on the trophy wife hair-curled-under-her-ears face so much that she almost thinks she is a lot older than Obie, except for that he doesn't look at her that way. He looks at her like a predator. DOES THE CHRONOLOGY ALLOW HER TO QUOTE THE GRADUATE AT HIM

eta: um, hi, the vid was awesome. XD

Edited 2008-06-09 04:12 (UTC)

AND IN THE MORNING TONY CAN'T TELL IF HE REGRETS IT. THERE'S A BURN ON HIS BICEP AND BRUISES ON HIS BACK, HE HAS A HANGOVER AND HE SLEEPS UNTIL TEN. HE GETS UP AND GOES TO LUNCH WITH OBIE AND HIS MOTHER. THEY ALL TALK ABOUT WHAT A GREAT MAN HOWARD IS. MARIA FORGOT HIS BIRTHDAY. DIDN'T EVEN NOTICE. TONY KEEPS SHIFTING IN HIS SEAT. OBIE SLAPS HIM ON THE BACK WHERE HE KNOWS IT HURTS.

WRITE IT, BITCH. JESUS. JESUS.

*HAS FINALLY GOTTEN TO THE OBIE/TONY PORN IN HER FIC, IS GOING TO BE FUCKING DEAD AT WORK TOMORROW*, CANNOT STOP PORNING*

WHEN MARIA GETS UP TO LEAVE TONY NOTICES THE EYE SHE GIVES OBIE, REMEMBERS THE SAME SORT OF GLINT IN OBIE'S FROM THE MORNING, WHEN HE HAD DUG TONY'S TIE OUT FROM UNDER THE PILE THAT HAD BECOME HIS CLOTHES.

REMEMBERS HOW OBIE WRAPPED THE RED SLIP OF A THING AROUND HIS NECK, STANDING BEHIND TONY.

REMEMBERS THE FEEL OF OBIE AGAINST HIS BACK, HIS PALMS ON HIS SHOULDER, AND THE SANDPAPER TOUCH OF HIS BEARD ALONG HIS NECK WHERE HIS LIPS FOUND HIS EAR.

TONY RECOGNIZES THE SMILE IN HIS MOTHER, AND HE'S NOT SURE IF THE FEELING IN HIS GUT IS SHAME OR RESIGNATION.

HE BEGINS TO FEEL SORRY FOR HOWARD THEN, AND THEN HE STOPS.

IT'S SOMETHING HE GETS BETTER AT LATER, WHEN HE'S OLDER.

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK.

SO GABBY GUESS WHAT I JUST POSTED.

BEDTIME NOW.

What a great song, and what a great song for Tony. Perfect.

I think it's probably my favorite Cash song of all time, which is saying a lot.

:D I'm so glad it worked for you. I'm kind of rhythm deaf to a retarded degree in real life, and to get the beat for this, I, uh. Engaged in things that won't do anything to dispel the developing fandom notion of me as the RESIDENT CRAZY.

And totally randomly. This is the world's shittiest screencap, but I'm so badly in love with this. Obeadiah spinning madly while Tony just looks like he's ready to cut a bitch and not, you know. Obie. Who's hustling him off stage. Just at the damn bitches who doubt him.

Edited 2008-06-10 03:43 (UTC)

BRILLIANT. God, I love everything about this, the timing, the cuts, the choice of song ... ghagjgajhgdfv;;. Everything. Brillant.

ok, dude, I came back because I had this thing about wanting to watch vids today? and yeah. No one ever wrote breathplay tony/obie, did they? because that is tony/obie in. a. nutshell. god. there'd be so much fucking wrongness and foreshadowing there. Tony just baring his neck, you know? daring him? and Obie too happy to oblige.

sorry.

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