AMV | As long as you love me

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Happy Birthday Lara!
I really couldnt wait for this day, I love showering you with gifts and your birthday is a perfect excuse to do that. Though, I have to admit that I was almost out of time, working on the video. Why are your and Mafs birthdays so close together?? I'm still so so glad I was able to make it on time!
I only used characters or pairs in this video that reminded me of you, or us. When I heard this cover for the first time I KNEW it would be perfect for a video dedicated to you...because it just perfectly expresses how I feel about you. I've said it in the past and I'll say it again, I want ALL of you, your good and your bad. There's nothing you could ever do or say that would make me turn away from you.

So yeah, this video turned out very personal and emotional for me. And I know I really kept it on the simple side here editing wise...if I would have had more time I might have put more effort into the effects. But I think thats secondary, I still very happy with the result and I think it brings across the message the way I wanted it to. Every single scene has its meaning, and if you want to know the details I'd be happy to explain the reason behind every single one of them!

I hope you'll have a wonderful day, and that even if something bad happens...something good can make up for it again. You deserve happiness, today of all days.
I love you. ♥

[zuckarr]

I knew you were making something for me… and it’s the most endearing certainty! Knowing a friend so much you can even predict that they would totally make a gift like this is just such a sweet feeling of family and of home. And you know how much I need that. You’ve always given me this familial warmth that fills me and fuels at the same time. I also guessed you were going to use Yoichi scenes (because of someone’s mistake heheh) but it was a lovely coincidence how yesterday I jokingly told you about how you always use Sleeping At Last songs and here I am, getting a WONDERFUL birthday video with another gorgeous song by them!! I really can’t believe how every little thing that I thought contributed to the emotional crescendo that I went through for this day, and how it all bursted into a quickened heartbeat and teary eyes after I watched this. I know I said this already and you pffted me away (heheh) but I really don’t deserve this and you shouldn’t have put this much effort… I feel so flattered, and important, and good, and of course, happy… most of all, I feel loved for who I am, because you know who I am, you’ve seen so much of me, so much bad as well, yet you’re still here, still close to me and not wanting to give up on me! And you have no idea how much it means to me, or maybe you do, because it’s the same for you. I feel like this song really speaks to us. It starts with mentioning loneliness and then suddenly, here comes some company that you didn’t expect, followed by affection and then genuinely settled with a special need for eachother that even us don’t fully understand, but we don’t even have to, in the end! This video is strongly personal to you, and it shows, and it involves me so much I also feel personally invested, maybe overwhelmed even – but in the best way! Just like you shower me with gifts, you’ve also showered me with “us”! Your media choice blew me away, I love it… I was expecting Yuru Camp and a few others, but not Tsurune or Irozuku! It’s amazing to think that you specifically downloaded certain things for me only, it’s proof of how strictly personal you wanted this to be and how much you cared about the vid making me happy with the things that I love, which sometimes don’t match your taste yet you’re here editing stuff that you don’t like, just for me… I’m overjoyed!! Speaking of the clips, as always you’ve done a flawless job with picking them, they never fail to seem like “the right clips” with your videos! But this time I don’t mind the editing aspect as much as how close what you’ve shown in the video feels to me. When the lyrics say “I don’t care who you are, where you’re from, what you did” I can see all of the drive and importance you’re giving me, by showing characters such as Yoichi or Asagi and putting full focus on them. It’s actually the first time in my life that I see Yoichi clips only in a vid! With Owari no Seraph it’s a bit difficult to not show other characters but this unique trait simply makes it all much better and it’s so… me, you know? I can almost touch it, the spotlight you put me (and us) under, and it’s an embracing, captivating feeling! The Tsurune clips were astoundingly emotional, maybe the most emotional, and I think they tell a lot, it’s as if they’re all that you could never put into words with me. Seeing them was wholesome on a level that I’m not sure I can describe, and now I want to know what that ship means to you and we are going to talk about them because maybe we’ve had the ship we were looking for right in front of our eyes and we’ve never noticed?? (or I never noticed because I’m stupid) Don’t get me wrong, the girls from Yuru Camp will forever be one of the greatest examples we’ve found to represent us, but we need MORE! Back to the video, I love how all of the scenes tell me something about us, both as individuals and as a pair. The feelings of sorrow and longing, the feelings of enjoying each other’s company and being a comfort for one another, the feelings of need and of happiness and all of the regular moments like the talks and the dreams and search for closeness… it’s almost as if you gifted me what we’ve been through and what shines between us and how the latter brightens the present, and I couldn’t ask for anything better than this. Seeing all of it in the form of video editing (which is exactly what made our paths cross) strenghtens me and highlights the wonders that this bond has brought us. I know it won’t end. There are some bonds that you just sense will stay intact. You’re one of them and I never want to let go of you, and please slap me close to you again if I ever happen to get lost in my stupidly intricate troubles. I think this stability between us is blatant in the vid… Thank you so much for this, thank you so much for the other gifts that you gave me, and of course, thank you immensely for being you, because I wouldn’t want any “less you”, you’re so special to me Mona. I love you too!!! ♥ ♥