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snarrymod (snarrymod) wrote in snarry_games,
@ 2008-10-25 21:24:00

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TEAM DRAGON ENTRY: "What I Did on my Summer Vacation" By LittleBlackBow
Title: What I did on my Summer Vacation
Artist: littleblackbow/Chibitoaster (Rana)
Team: Dragon
Email: sblackdog (a) gmail
Genre(s): Post-War
Prompt(s): Message in a bottle, Vacation
Rating/Warnings/Kinks: PG; None
Artist's Notes/Thank you's:Dedicated to Ven, Djinnj, and Ria who have shown me more support than I ever thought I deserved. Thank you so much!
Media used: pencil, paper, music (see credits), animation
Archiving/Usage permission, including the Tribute Video (only after the polls have closed and medals have been awarded): with credit, absolutely!!

What I did on my Summer Vacation, by Littleblackbow

"What I did on my Summer Vacation"

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Or, watch it on Youtube:

MOD NOTE: POLL IS NOW CLOSED. THANK YOU FOR PARTICIPATING IN THE SNARRY GAMES.

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	gin_tonic 2008-10-26 04:36 am UTC (link)
	Aah, God, now I have tears in my eyes! This was wonderful! <3 (Reply to this) (Thread)

littleblackbow, 2008-10-26 07:12 pm UTC

	meri_oddities 2008-10-26 05:08 am UTC (link)
	OMG, that was amazing. I really liked it a lot. (Reply to this) (Thread)

littleblackbow, 2008-10-26 07:24 pm UTC

meri_oddities, 2008-10-26 07:28 pm UTC

	amanuensis1 2008-10-26 06:37 am UTC (link)
	is typingr while cryohng dammit dammit damingt oh god I heed a tissue (Reply to this) (Thread)

littleblackbow, 2008-10-26 07:28 pm UTC

	svartalfur 2008-10-26 06:43 am UTC (link)
	Lovely and very romantic. I especially like Snape and his daughter. (Reply to this) (Thread)

littleblackbow, 2008-10-26 07:44 pm UTC

	firefly124 2008-10-26 06:59 am UTC (link)
	Oh my Gods, that was absolutely amazing! I just keep watching it and keep finding more details that just blow me away. Wonderful! (Reply to this) (Thread)

littleblackbow, 2008-10-26 08:16 pm UTC

	the_minx_17 2008-10-26 07:20 am UTC (link)
	Perfection, darling! goes to hit play again (Reply to this) (Thread)

littleblackbow, 2008-10-26 08:18 pm UTC

femmequixotic
2008-10-26 07:40 am UTC (link)

You are absolutely and entirely brilliant. I was charmed from the beginning and then when Snape appeared I got this huge lump in my throat and oh my God. This is what he should have had. This is the life. Yes.

And I love Snape as a father. I love it. In ways that I can't even begin to articulate, but it's my favorite twist in fic and the way you incorporated it here in this, oh Rana. I adore you so much. Seriously. You are amazing.

I can't stop watching this. The art, the music, the story, everything about it is perfect.

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littleblackbow, 2008-10-26 08:40 pm UTC

	belleamante 2008-10-26 07:46 am UTC (link)
	Aww! That was wonderful! Snape with glasses may be my new favorite. I loved the animation, the story, and the music was very appropriate. Wonderful job! (Reply to this) (Thread)

belleamante, 2008-10-26 07:57 am UTC

littleblackbow, 2008-10-26 08:42 pm UTC

	bethbethbeth 2008-10-26 08:11 am UTC (link)
	This is utterly, utterly brilliant. Beautiful drawings (and god, the look of their older selves is just perfect...yay for facial hair!), the children are perfectly conceived (hah, pun!), the story is fantastic, and the song is great (must look for...a download). A+ (or as we say in HP land: O!) (Reply to this) (Thread)

littleblackbow, 2008-10-26 08:48 pm UTC

	sweetmelodykiss 2008-10-26 08:14 am UTC (link)
	Aw, just lovely and sweet! (Reply to this) (Thread)

littleblackbow, 2008-10-26 08:55 pm UTC

torino10154
2008-10-26 08:27 am UTC (link)

Oh my god, Rana! This is so, so gorgeous. I'm trying to type with tears streaming down my face. So don't expect coherence. The kids were so incredibly adorable-I loved Jimmy's smiling face. And yes, I did not realize Alstromeria was a girl. *facepalm* I loved both Severus's and Harry's reactions at seeing the other child. And both of them older, scruffy, Snape's glasses!!! And the song, the video, the very, very end. Amazing! Excellent work, my dear.

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torino10154, 2008-10-26 10:20 am UTC

venturous, 2008-10-26 12:36 pm UTC

femmequixotic, 2008-10-26 01:44 pm UTC

littleblackbow, 2008-10-26 02:39 pm UTC

femmequixotic, 2008-10-26 02:53 pm UTC

	klynie1 2008-10-26 08:54 am UTC (link)
	Absolutely stunning. I can't stop watching. I can't stop crying. Oh, fuck. hugs you hard (Reply to this) (Thread)

littleblackbow, 2008-10-26 09:09 pm UTC

klynie1, 2008-10-27 06:50 am UTC

	(Anonymous) 2008-10-26 09:16 am UTC (link)
	How beautiful! And adorable! And sad! And ... (Reply to this) (Thread)

littleblackbow, 2008-10-26 09:12 pm UTC

	entrenous88 2008-10-26 09:47 am UTC (link)
	Wow, this is simply incredible! I'm going to have to come back and watch it over and over when I have more time. Excellent work. (Reply to this) (Thread)

littleblackbow, 2008-10-26 09:17 pm UTC

	red_day_dawning 2008-10-26 10:12 am UTC (link)
	That was so very beautiful - sweet & moving. Wonderful. (Reply to this) (Thread)

littleblackbow, 2008-10-26 09:18 pm UTC

accioslash
2008-10-26 10:16 am UTC (link)

I knew from the first time I watched it that I loved it, but I confess that I really had a difficult time understanding what was happening. So I just kept watching it. I love all the emotion here and you couldn't have found a more perfect song. The marriage of the art and the music was absolutely brilliant. I thought the children were adorable, but nothing could have prepared me for the loveliness of older Harry and Snape. The facial hair and Snape's glasses were such beautiful touches. And the image of the final drawings will be seared in my brain forever. Wonderful. Just...amazing.

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littleblackbow, 2008-10-26 09:22 pm UTC

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vimeslady
2008-10-26 11:30 am UTC (link)

I am crying so hard I can barely type. I just can't stop.

The art, the kids, the older versions of Harry and Snape, are all gorgeous, but adding the music is brilliant genius. This is amazing.

Unfortunately, even after watching it three times and reading all the comments, I am not at all sure about exactly what happens. The first time I watched it, I thought that Snape had died. I am so confused and I will very possibly die in misery unless someone tells me exactly what happens. PLEASE??! I THINK that Snape and Harry have had children independent of each other, and are sick with longing for each other, and the kids (re?)unite them, and then in the epilogue the kids are in love. Am I even close?

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zephre, 2008-10-26 11:50 am UTC

djinnj, 2008-10-26 02:10 pm UTC

littleblackbow, 2008-10-26 02:46 pm UTC

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littleblackbow, 2008-10-26 09:25 pm UTC

	ariss_tenoh 2008-10-26 11:46 am UTC (link)
	A truly awesome and creative idea! My only complaint is that sometimes the images/sketches went white and were difficult to see. (Reply to this) (Thread)

littleblackbow, 2008-10-26 09:32 pm UTC

zephre
2008-10-26 11:54 am UTC (link)

Rana, this is fabulous! the final cut is amazing, I really love the images you chose, and the story is so moving.
I love the characters, and the life it brings to the story just with a few camera movements over still drawings.
And, of course, my love for the New Pornographers knows no bounds, but this has extended them a bit. It really is the perfect song for the story.

and I must repeat, I found the return to the bottle from the first frame entirely moving - that now the viewer knows that Ali has been worried this entire time - how many of those has she thrown to the uncaring sea, I wonder, before Jimmy arrives and brings with him the way to the cure?

congratulations. :)

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littleblackbow, 2008-10-26 09:40 pm UTC

	the_con_cept 2008-10-26 12:11 pm UTC (link)
	Wow, gorgeous! (Reply to this) (Thread)

littleblackbow, 2008-10-26 09:41 pm UTC

	loupgarou1750 2008-10-26 12:21 pm UTC (link)
	This is amazing! Wonderful story, fabulous illustrations, perfect song pick. I like that I had to watch it a couple of times to fully get the story. Your representations of each character were terrific, but oh! Older Snape and Harry, just perfectly realized. Nines all the way down the line. I wish I could give tens. (Reply to this) (Thread)

littleblackbow, 2008-10-26 09:45 pm UTC

veridian_dair
2008-10-26 12:32 pm UTC (link)

I KNEW you hit a homerun with this! You already know I have adored this from the moment you let the team see the very beginnings of it, and I'm amazed I didn't wear it out I've watched it so many times.

If I could hug this, I would. Your versions of older Harry and Snape are going to stick with me for a long, long time. (And how can I not love that last image??)

You are the awesome-est!

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littleblackbow, 2008-10-26 09:48 pm UTC

venturous
2008-10-26 12:34 pm UTC (link)

I love love love love love this so very much. You are my hero when it comes to Character expressed in a few lines... your beach-dwelling Severus with his half-glasses really does me in. I WANT him, arg! scruffy!Harry is just scrumptious. and the kids, they are adorable, and so believable. And such wonderful agents of fate.

I know you worried alot about this, but believe me, even as pencil sketches, the story, the characters, and the FEELING, are all perfect.

loves you, (even if you are a Dragon)

Ven

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littleblackbow, 2008-10-26 09:50 pm UTC

	odogoddess 2008-10-26 12:44 pm UTC (link)
	Sweet and powerful. I love the way you draw older Harry and the way you capture the weariness & pain in Severus, and the playful, love-of-life nature of the kids. It's just beautiful. Brava! (Reply to this) (Thread)

littleblackbow, 2008-10-26 09:53 pm UTC

odogoddess, 2008-10-26 09:54 pm UTC

	eeyore9990 2008-10-26 01:36 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, WOW! What a wonderfully "told" story! This is fabulous! (Reply to this) (Thread)

littleblackbow, 2008-10-26 09:54 pm UTC

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