#whump video edit

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Another day another Bill Turcotte edit.

Jake commits Bill for what is supposed to be just a few days, he isn’t crazy but he wants his partner out of the way. Well he unintentionally leaves him there too long. They shock Bill and convince him that none of it was ever true. When Jake returns for him, he is not the man he left there at all.

And of course, Bill had no choice in any of it.

From the show 11-22-63

Song: Funny by Searows

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Renārs, Soviet Jeans

Song: Mountains by Message to Bears

Renārs lives in Soviet Latvia and gets committed to a psychiatric hospital because he is sewing political dissent through his interest in American blue jeans and rock music.

They know he’s not really sick but that doesn’t matter to them, particularly not to Dr. Federov.

There’s a lot more to this mini series that I didn’t include in this edit like the obsessive and cruel KGB agent who is investigating him and some other great whumpy plot points but I enjoyed editing this vid as a good jumping off point.

I especially love in the beginning treatments you can see how wide eyed and apprehensive Renārs is… but at the end, he looks like a different person- exhausted, leaner and grey- but confidently defiant, smiling even when Federov decides to give him ECT as a welcome back gift- staring him down as he is prepped… Renārs!!!!

****Also if you speak Russian and/or Latvian sorry I took great liberties with the captions to summarize the story a little.

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A sneak peak of clips from the whump edit I’m making atm, all starring Max from the show Roswell (1999).

Song is Saving Us a Riot by Phoria.

These clips are literally so good and it’s about time I use them for an edit!!!! I’m also nearly done with the whole video so I hope to post sometime in the next week.

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Okay, it seems I cannot stop making Renārs videos.

Renārs has been wrongfully imprisoned in a psychiatric hospital in Soviet Latvia because of his dissenting political views. Mostly that he just likes rock music and blue jeans. They know he isn’t mentally ill but that doesn’t stop them from treating him like he is- the treatments, meds, all of it. In addition, there’s a doctor that takes a personal dislike to him- and takes pleasure in knocking him down and exercising his control over him.

But then Renārs is offered a life line. He either looks down a lifetime institutionalized and treated as a schizophrenic… or he can be released on the terms that he becomes a Communist poster boy, attesting to that he was sick with Western Capitalist ideas and that now he is better and sees reason thanks to the hospital… interviews, radio, public speeches…

And although he is strong he agrees- otherwise he will never live outside of the hospital again and be with the girl he loves.

But then when it comes down to it- he can’t do it- they parade him out, dress him up but when he gets in front of the crowd of young people he tells them what he really thinks. He is dragged away and immediately brought back to the hospital.

He knows that was his last chance. They will never give him another try, not after he humiliated them like that. He knows that he will live the rest of his life drugged, controlled, and treated with things like electroconvulsive therapy. That was it. And Dr. Federov takes satisfaction in this, treating him to a course of ECT as soon as he gets back. They all know it isn’t necessary but that isn’t really the point is it?

So then his friends, peers, etc, are revolting but he is taken and put away far from them, getting tortured, never to be let out again. He may have contributed but what does it matter now that he is back in their clutches?