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

Entry tags:

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

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	aeryun 2008-10-25 11:47 pm UTC (link)
	That was wonderful. (Reply to this) (Thread)

littleblackbow, 2008-10-26 03:31 pm UTC

aeryun, 2008-10-26 04:03 pm UTC

	snarry_fan7 2008-10-25 11:48 pm UTC (link)
	Amazing work. Very sweet, lovely, and just grand. Well done!~Sophia (Reply to this) (Thread)

littleblackbow, 2008-10-26 03:32 pm UTC

	alisanne 2008-10-25 11:56 pm UTC (link)
	Wow! I'm speechless. What a lovely story you told. Simply amazing. loves (Reply to this) (Thread)

littleblackbow, 2008-10-26 03:33 pm UTC

alisanne, 2008-10-26 05:47 pm UTC

	littleroo27 2008-10-26 12:06 am UTC (link)
	some of the images were kinda hard to see; they seemed whited out a bit, but this was still so emotional! I watched it twice and almost cried! (Reply to this) (Thread)

littleblackbow, 2008-10-26 03:34 pm UTC

littleroo27, 2008-10-26 06:05 pm UTC

	emmessann 2008-10-26 12:08 am UTC (link)
	Oh, I adored this. The drawings are so sweet and expressive. The movie style was great, too -- it slowed down the pace so I really took in each drawing. And the little chibi versions made me smile, especially wee Snape with a daisy (?) on his shirt. (Reply to this) (Thread)

littleblackbow, 2008-10-26 03:47 pm UTC

emmessann, 2008-10-27 01:20 am UTC

littleblackbow, 2008-10-27 04:53 am UTC

joanwilder
2008-10-26 12:08 am UTC (link)

It took me a while to 'get' it, but once I did...I'm not going to tell you how many times I've watched it. The kids were so cute, and Harry and Snape so broken down and them hugging at the end there, I had tears. I've no idea what all goes into doing something like this, but you did a fine job with it, and I'll probably wear it out! What a wonderful entry! You nailed your genre and prompts ded!

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littleblackbow, 2008-10-26 03:59 pm UTC

AHHHHHH!!!

ntjnke
2008-10-26 12:24 am UTC (link)

How will I ever settle for still Fan Art again?!

That was lovely. I liked how I didn't immediately know the story and I was taken through it frame by frame. Cartoon style Fan art often gives too much away at a time. And I loved how the animation forced me to really looked at each drawing.

Question: Was Severus sick/hurting only because he was missing his memories? Either way,

THIS IS FABULOUS!!

Thank you so much for posting.

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littleblackbow, 2008-10-26 04:02 pm UTC

igtow
2008-10-26 12:35 am UTC (link)

I can't begin to tell you how many times I sat in the shadows and watched this as you put it together, but even now, knowing what is to come, I still find myself unable to stop watching this wonderful, wonderful story. There's so much love and hope and absolution in it, from the children to their parents, from the past to the future, it always brings tears. And the song! A new favourite I have a hard time chasing out of my head. It's perfect. It's all perfect.

So *very* well done!

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littleblackbow, 2008-10-26 04:04 pm UTC

igtow, 2008-11-01 09:16 pm UTC

	roma_fics 2008-10-26 12:39 am UTC (link)
	sniffle That was wonderful. I adored the kids, and Snape was stunning, but your depiction of grown up Harry was incredible. (Reply to this) (Thread)

littleblackbow, 2008-10-26 04:07 pm UTC

	estioe 2008-10-26 12:46 am UTC (link)
	Gotta admit, it took me some time to get it and I still am not sure I have it right, but anyway. I love this! The music, the pace, the drawings! I had tears in my eyes at the end there. Really emotional in the space of a few drawings. Am I correct to guess that the newly wedded couple (?) in the last drawing is Alstromeria and Jimmy? (Reply to this) (Thread)

littleblackbow, 2008-10-26 04:12 pm UTC

iulia_linnea, 2008-10-31 06:33 pm UTC

	maymak 2008-10-26 12:48 am UTC (link)
	Drawn so well, choice of music is perfect, the atmosphere is just what one could expect... Amazing! (Reply to this) (Thread)

littleblackbow, 2008-10-26 04:13 pm UTC

	tripperfunster 2008-10-26 12:50 am UTC (link)
	Loved, loved, loved it! It totally sucked me in, and I was just dying to see what happened next. Beautiful song choice too. I'd never heard it before, but it was so perfect! Absolutely stunning dear! hearts you (Reply to this) (Thread)

littleblackbow, 2008-10-26 04:14 pm UTC

	lotrwariorgodss 2008-10-26 01:20 am UTC (link)
	Well I had to sneak out of my lurker hole to tell you that I cried. Twice. This was so beautiful - a painful but sweet story, and you told it so well! And really, who can resist an ending as happy as that? Lovely lovely work. (Reply to this) (Thread)

littleblackbow, 2008-10-26 04:31 pm UTC

	maraudersaffair 2008-10-26 01:21 am UTC (link)
	I love how you drew both Harry and Snape. Love the facial hair and glasses. Tis was so adorable! (Reply to this) (Thread)

littleblackbow, 2008-10-26 04:32 pm UTC

djinnj
2008-10-26 01:23 am UTC (link)

Oh My God, this is beyond wonderful. The deftness of the narrative, the expressiveness of the drawings, the music, all put together and paced just right. And the zooming and panning to forward the emotional shifts and transitions. Really, really beautifully done. And then the little coda. :D

Also, how much do I love Alstromeria and ickle James, and how you drew Snape and Harry. OMG, grown up Harry! And that bit where Snape can't believe his eyes with Jimmy and pushes back his fringe looking for the scar. I'm totally blown away.

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littleblackbow, 2008-10-26 04:35 pm UTC

	mooshglomp 2008-10-26 01:36 am UTC (link)
	I adore Snape's daughter, I like that you didn't make her pretty but she seems so sweet. And Harry is very handsome in his middle age :) Beautiful work! (Reply to this) (Thread)

littleblackbow, 2008-10-26 04:41 pm UTC

	ravenna_c_tan 2008-10-26 02:04 am UTC (link)
	Oh that was totally wonderful. I love the way you draw grownup!harry, and the embrace just... wow. (Reply to this) (Thread)

littleblackbow, 2008-10-26 05:06 pm UTC

ravenna_c_tan, 2008-10-26 05:28 pm UTC

	bluestocking 2008-10-26 02:15 am UTC (link)
	Stunning, especially the grown-ups (oh, and the kids too, actually). But still. Grown-up Harry is... wow! I'm impressed by the work you put in this. (Reply to this) (Thread)

littleblackbow, 2008-10-26 05:15 pm UTC

	majmunka 2008-10-26 02:25 am UTC (link)
	Made me weep again sniffle Beautiful. I love every little pieces. Left me quite speechless. (Reply to this) (Thread)

littleblackbow, 2008-10-26 05:22 pm UTC

perverse_idyll
2008-10-26 02:50 am UTC (link)

God. This just made my stomach go all quivery. It's so incredibly inventive and sweet-natured and there's something about it that's just - well, beautiful. Heartbreaking, but in a way that makes everything right. (And by "everything" I mean Snape's death and the utter desolation and loneliness of it and That Stupid Epilogue.) The drawings - I'm not even sure I can describe how they make me feel. The kids are wonderful extrapolations from their fathers, but it's the way you draw Snape and Harry that really gets to me. Your ability to imagine them older and show them to us, recognizably themselves and so vulnerable to the past, is breathtaking. The emotion you manage to distill in a few sweeps of the pencil, gah! *hand flail* You've got a devastating gift for expression that shoots right past my defenses. I love the use of the shocked, staring eyes as a glimpse into each man's sudden comprehension, how the sight of each child jars the other's parent into aching for what he's lost .

Okay, I just watched it again for the fourth time, and I couldn't help it, I cried. It's as if the more I understand the story, the more poignant it is. Your Harry is gorgeous, btw - so mature-looking, intelligent and warm. And his little chin-beard! Aw, sophisticated. And your Snape - how much do I love the fact that he's wearing Dumbledore's half-moon spectacles? Or his stubble? Or the way his hair straggles in his face, making him look careworn and sharpened by grief? I admit I don't entirely understand why he suddenly falls ill, but you do a shockingly good job of making him look feverish and somewhat gruesome, as if he's dying. The teeth really nail it there. I love the panel of Al standing over him, the woebegone look on her face. And you depict the meeting between them with such outstanding narrative skill - my heart catches every time the frame pans from Harry opening the door to Snape's face - Jesus, his expression kills me. Such grief and longing. As if he's tried his damnedest to stay away. As if he's exhausted his resistance and he's here to ask Harry for forgiveness and doesn't know what kind of reception he'll get. The moment when Harry leans into his touch, followed by their fierce hug (and their children's jumpy surprise, heh) is cathartic. What a perfect build-up and consummation.

There are lots of lovely bits strewn all through - like the panel where Snape caresses the photo of Harry and through the window we see the kids walk off together. I adore how expressive all the hands are; you truly have a knack for beauty and the telling emotional detail. Also, the song! *clutches* What a stroke of genius. It has the same tender, almost child-like qualities of playfulness and poignancy that the story does. It's as if it were written expressly for it.

I can type until I'm blue in the face - or crippled in the fingers - and I still won't be able to convey how much I love this or how much it touches me. The word "beautiful" just keeps ringing in my head. This is brilliant from beginning to - God - the end. Which, I confess, took me completely by surprise. Until that moment it hadn't occurred tome that Almosteria was a girl. Which just knocked this out of the quidditch pitch for me: a wicked feint, a homage to their fathers' epic love, and a romantic epilogue all in one.

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. Pure magic, that's what this is. I'm almost dazed by how happy it makes me. Thank you so much.

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whitestar
2008-10-26 03:17 am UTC (link)

This was amazing! The music sucked me right into the video immediately. It made me all weepy but in a happy sort of way at the same time as being sad. I loved your drawing of a adult Harry. Some how this seems like the Harry I would see in my mind he's wonderfully drawn. And Snape being older and sadder, came across so well too. I'm not sure why Snape got sick all of a sudden, was it because he missed Harry and couldn't remember? Or because he missed the memories that he had given Harry at the end?

It was all absolutely fantastic! :D Thank you for making it :)

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littleblackbow, 2008-10-26 06:18 pm UTC

skygiant
2008-10-26 03:31 am UTC (link)

Oh dear. That was so. Just. It was. asdkjfsldkjfsldkj!!! Yes, I'm quite speechless but I'll attempt to find the words to express how incredible it was. I swear, I teared up when they hugged each other! XD And how cute was Snape ruffling little Jimmy's hair! That is just so adorable I couldn't stop the squeal that came out. And was that Jimmy and Alstormeria at the very end?

Amazing, amazing, amazing. Really, truly. I hereby officially offer my first born up on the altar of your brilliance because really. I loved this. :D ♥

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	jin_fenghuang 2008-10-26 03:37 am UTC (link)
	There are no words for how amazing and adorable and awww that was. Such a wonderful warm video full of memories. ~~why are you on team iguana~~ (Reply to this) (Thread)

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	ex_chrysos562 2008-10-26 04:10 am UTC (link)
	I see that I was not the only one who cried watching this. The music is a perfect accompaniment to the pictures. The children are so sweet and innocent. I love Snape's daughter. I love all of it. For me, you're a winner. 999! (Reply to this) (Thread)

littleblackbow, 2008-10-26 06:34 pm UTC

	anathema91 2008-10-26 04:22 am UTC (link)
	This is breathtakingly beautiful. Even for someone like me who isn't actually a Snarry fan. The kids were wonderful. And Snape, OMG amazing. As for grownup!Harry, I don't even know where to begin. But I must say I'm pretty sure I have a crush on him now. (Reply to this) (Thread)

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