Vid: "Rabbit Hole"

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Title: Rabbit Hole

Fandom: Homicide: Life on the Street

Music: "Rabbit Hole" by Natalia Kills

Summary: Oh my god, you raised a good one.

Content Notes: Referenced child sexual abuse/murder, gun violence, and depictions of police brutality, all canon-typical.

When I fall in love, I fall down the rabbit hole

The seed for this vid was planted back in 2017, when skazka said offhandedly, "what if someone made a Mindhunter Holden/Debbie/FBI vid set to Rabbit Hole?" Obviously I did not make that vid, but the idea percolated for awhile, and then when I started watching HLOTS, I went "oh, this fits." The thing about Tim's arc in the show - well, most of the arcs in the show tbh - is that it's a descent into lawlessness under the cover of being lawful good, and that gets laid out very early. So what I tried to do with this was parallel his relationships (I'm afraid I over-used the sex scene with Emma, but it's the only one I had to work with, since NBC would absolutely not let him fuck a man onscreen in 1998) with the seduction of the Box scenes/his relationship with Frank, and by extension his relationship with policing. (I did not actually intend to make this a Frank/Tim vid, but all Tim fanworks eventually become Frank/Tim anyway because they're just Like That. Ask me about how their final scene in the movie is the eroticism of the interrogations culminating in their natural conclusion!) He falls in love with the job, with Frank, with any number of passing flings, and falls down a rabbit hole into a Wonderland where the rules don't apply. We're the kids your momma warned you about, and that warning is "don't talk to the cops."

 

Oh, Tim. You do make me sad sometimes. Also, I did not realize until I made this how much he tends to fidget/talk with his hands - which makes sense, he's a character who is deeply uncomfortable in his own body - and it was a big help in keeping the flow and tempo of the vid steady.