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snarrymod (snarrymod) wrote in snarry_games,
@ 2009-06-21 23:10:00

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free for all, opening games

OPENING GAMES FREE-FOR-ALL CHALLENGE No. 6 from Fanficforensics!
We have another drawble! We are very pleased to introduce fanficforensics to the Games:

Title: Dancing shoes
Author/Artist: fanficforensics
Thing/Place/Action: squeaky shoes, in a cemetery, reclining
Drabble/Drawble/Ficlet/Limerick?: drawble
Rating/Warnings/Kinks: none
Notes/Disclaimers/Betas: Summary under cut (Italics are bastardized quotes from Neil Gaiman's 'The Graveyard Book'. Very sorry for having unclean thoughts about your lovely book, sir.)

"Nobody Owens, er, Harry Potter, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the Light nor of the Dark..."

Harry as Bod and Snape as Silas in a scene from 'The Graveyard Book'. Harry is given his first ever pair of shoes by his guardian Snape so he can go dance together with the ghosts. But then he learns that Snape isn't allowed to dance with everyone else, because only a wizard who is either Light or Dark can join in...

"Harry shivered. He wanted to embrace his guardian, to hold him and tell him that he would never desert him, but the action was unthinkable. He could no more hug Snape than he could hold a moonbeam, not because his guardian was insubstantial, but because it would be wrong. There were people you could hug, and then there was Snape."

Dancing shoes by fanficforensics

Thank you,

fanficforensics!

Stay tuned for more Opening Games!

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	eriador117 2009-06-22 01:52 am UTC (link)
	Lovely! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	fanficforensics 2009-06-22 03:38 am UTC (link)
	Thank you! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	perverse_idyll 2009-06-22 02:01 am UTC (link)
	Oh, I do like this! Their faces are wonderful. And the way Snape kneels in front of Harry to fit the shoe over his foot - you've caught a lovely combination of vulnerability and aloofness. And the altered quotes fit him perfectly. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	fanficforensics 2009-06-22 03:41 am UTC (link)
	So glad you like it! I snuck in some extra time to add the quotes... Gawd, an hour is way too short, Snape ended up with no legs because Harry's face wasn't working. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	amanitamuscaria 2009-06-22 02:07 am UTC (link)
	Lovely style, lovely pose. And the expressions - just beautiful. You've captured the weight of responsibility and expectation on both of them. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	fanficforensics 2009-06-22 03:44 am UTC (link)
	Thank you! Yes, there was world-saving to do in that other book as well, after a fashion... (Anyone who hasn't read 'The Graveyard Book', please give it a try, it's fabulous. And knowing it helps make sense of the pic. Kind of. Silas love) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	fancypantsdylan 2009-06-22 02:33 am UTC (link)
	"There were people you could hug, and then there was Snape." LOL, This is so true, love the art and the bastardized quotes (Reply to this) (Thread)

	fanficforensics 2009-06-22 03:46 am UTC (link)
	That was the first line in the book that made me think of Snape ;) So glad you like it! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	amanuensis1 2009-06-22 06:00 am UTC (link)
	That's lovely. The angles of Snape's face in particular make him look gorgeous! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	fanficforensics 2009-06-22 09:34 am UTC (link)
	Thank you! I wish he came out remotely like that every time. Alas. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	secretsolitaire 2009-06-22 06:35 am UTC (link)
	Never read the book, but the art is just lovely! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	fanficforensics 2009-06-22 09:37 am UTC (link)
	Thank you! Go read, it's not long ;) (There's also a serious of free videos on mousecircus.com where the author reads the entire book.) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	whitecotton 2009-06-22 06:47 am UTC (link)
	The droop of Harry's sweater down his shoulder caught my eye immediately; it is a perfect symbol of his innocence and vulnerability. Lovely expression on his face as well, which casts Severus' role perfectly. The whole is a feast for imagination. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	fanficforensics 2009-06-22 09:40 am UTC (link)
	wibble Thank you so much, that's a lovely compliment. (Particularly since you have to imagine quite a bit, what with this having an, er, slightly unfinished look.) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	bk7brokemybrain 2009-06-22 10:49 am UTC (link)
	That's a drawble?! Looks fantastic to me! Harry is such a waif, with that bared shoulder. So slashy! Is the book as rife with slash and UST, I'd assume? (Reply to this) (Thread)

fanficforensics
2009-06-22 11:33 am UTC (link)

Thank you! The slashy overtones don't exactly hit you in the face, particularly since Bod is a very young child for most of the story (he's actually around ten here), but when you're looking for it... :) It didn't click for me until this scene with poor woobie Silas getting shut out of everybody's great big once-in-a-lifetime party just for what he is, and Bod wanting to get physical to comfort him. Then it was, wait, this is just like... damn, Snarry killed another children's book.

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	Severus Snape does it again.... bk7brokemybrain 2009-06-22 12:21 pm UTC (link)
	Then it was, wait, this is just like... damn, Snarry killed another children's book. LOL! As if Snarry could make anything worse instead of ten times better! Are you listening, JK? (Reply to this) (Parent)

	alisanne 2009-06-22 01:27 pm UTC (link)
	Oh! How sweet and tender and just... happy sigh Really lovely. Thanks so much for sharing this with us. :) (Reply to this) (Thread)

	fanficforensics 2009-06-22 02:07 pm UTC (link)
	Glad you liked it :) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	shyfoxling 2009-06-22 01:31 pm UTC (link)
	Awww, it's darling. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	fanficforensics 2009-06-22 02:07 pm UTC (link)
	Thank you! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	szefi 2009-06-22 01:46 pm UTC (link)
	Lovely. go Harry, hug him! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	fanficforensics 2009-06-22 02:09 pm UTC (link)
	Yes. He should. Thank you :) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	leela_cat 2009-06-22 09:12 pm UTC (link)
	That's lovely. I really like Harry's pose and the way he's looking at Snape. And the way that Snape is kneeling before him, seeming both protective and aloof. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	fanficforensics 2009-06-23 03:30 am UTC (link)
	Thank you! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	nestinghedwig 2009-06-23 05:26 pm UTC (link)
	A beautiful interpretation of "The Graveyard Book" and the prompts. If you hadn't pointed out Snape's missing legs, I never would have noticed it. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	fanficforensics 2009-06-24 04:16 pm UTC (link)
	Glad you like it :) What touching care we take with the body parts of our heroes. (I hadn't noticed either, until there was no more time to fix it) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	torino10154 2009-06-24 08:52 pm UTC (link)
	Fabulous 'quotes' and adorable pic. Fantastic work. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	fanficforensics 2009-06-25 01:44 pm UTC (link)
	Thank you! (They're quotes, I just changed a word here and there ;) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	snapessecret 2009-06-26 06:09 am UTC (link)
	Great work! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	fanficforensics 2009-06-26 03:33 pm UTC (link)
	Thank you :) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	elvirablue 2009-06-29 12:44 pm UTC (link)
	Harry looks adorable, and I like the tenderness of their expressions. I’ve not read the book, but your depiction of this scene is very touching. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	fanficforensics 2009-07-21 05:47 pm UTC (link)
	Thanks! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	unbroken_halo 2009-07-02 08:06 am UTC (link)
	Aw! This is darling. I've never read Neil Gaiman's books before but your art and the paraphrasing makes me want to find the book. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	fanficforensics 2009-07-21 05:48 pm UTC (link)
	Yes, give them a try! They're wonderful. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	anya_elizabeth 2009-07-16 05:34 pm UTC (link)
	I haven't read The Graveyard Book, but the picture is awesome and the quotes are intriguing... I might have to give it a try... :D (Reply to this) (Thread)

	fanficforensics 2009-07-21 05:51 pm UTC (link)
	Do! FYI, you can listen for free to the author reading the entire book at mousecircus.com. Will stop plugging that book now. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	centaury_squill 2009-07-28 03:31 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, this is simply beautiful! And you've made me want to read 'The Graveyard Book' now :) (Reply to this) (Thread)

	fanficforensics 2009-08-01 09:46 pm UTC (link)
	Thank you! And good ;) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	joanwilder 2009-08-01 02:32 am UTC (link)
	What an intriguing picture! And I just loved that quoted line: There were people you could hug, and then there was Snape.. You can really sense that sentiment in your Harry's face. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	fanficforensics 2009-08-01 09:48 pm UTC (link)
	Thank you! Harry never comes out right, actually. I ended up quickly re-drawing him on another sheet and then cut-and-pasting. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	indecentfantasy.livejournal.com 2009-08-01 03:03 am UTC (link)
	this is awesome, because when I was reading the Graveyard Book, I absolutely adored Silas and kept involuntarily picturing snape as him in my head...glad to know i'm not the only one :) (Reply to this) (Thread)

	fanficforensics 2009-08-01 09:48 pm UTC (link)
	sobs Thank god I'm not the only one. So glad you liked it :) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	keyairreem 2009-08-04 04:58 am UTC (link)
	Beautiful yet so sad! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	fanficforensics 2009-08-08 01:01 pm UTC (link)
	Thank you! (Reply to this) (Parent)