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Post by Michael Blackwood-Hardt on Oct 10, 2008 20:48:49 GMT -5
Michael ran his hand over Dare's back and nodded, "What do you want to do?" He could talk about his connection to Grey, but he didn't know if Dare wanted to talk about something different, or actually do something to get his mind off of the letter. He just wanted Dare to be happy again, and so he tried to search his mind for things to do which, of course, meant that he came up blank and sighing at himself because of it.
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Post by Dare Blackwood-Hardt on Oct 10, 2008 20:55:06 GMT -5
"I don't care," Dare said, "just something. I want to think about something else." Dare grabbed his letter without more than the briefest glance, then started to fold it. "I could show you some of my sketchbooks," he offered absently. Art sounded like a good way to calm down, even if it was old art. He just needed to do something. Folding completed, Dare lifted the paper airplane and sent it soaring across the room, not giving a single thought to what he could have done with his wand.
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Post by Michael Blackwood-Hardt on Oct 10, 2008 21:01:11 GMT -5
Michael watched the folded paper flying into a corner of the room as he nodded, then looked up at Dare, "That would be fine with me." He didn't care either, all he cared about was seeing Dare happy again, it was the single most important thing on his mind. Art seemed to always work for Dare, and so Michael would gladly sit through ten books if it would help him.
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Post by Dare Blackwood-Hardt on Oct 10, 2008 21:20:36 GMT -5
Dare let out a breath of relief. "Good," he said, then pressed a light kiss to Michael's lips before standing. He took half a step forward before realizing he didn't know where anything was. It made sense it'd be in the bedroom, though. Michael had put his other bag in there, right? Dare headed for the bedroom. He had to dig, but eventually he brought out a stack of three. Rather than stand there and decide, he took all of them back to the living room, then sat beside Michael again.
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Post by Michael Blackwood-Hardt on Oct 10, 2008 21:26:17 GMT -5
Michael slid closer to Dare and put his arm behind him and down around his waist. "So are these anything specific, or are they just random?" he asked, tilting his head at the three books and then looking up at Dare. He hoped they were good memories, at the very least. It didn't matter if they were random or if each had a specific purpose, Michael was glad to just be seeing them.
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Post by Dare Blackwood-Hardt on Oct 10, 2008 22:01:30 GMT -5
"They're just... from the last few years," Dare said. "We don't have to look through all of them, but the option's there." Dare looked down at the sketchbooks. He wanted to distract himself, and so he'd share something with Michael, try to repay him for the confidence Michael had put in him when he'd let him look through that creme book.
"I have a lot of sketchbooks," Dare said. "I don't look through the old ones much once I get a new one. So we'll see." At the top of the stack was a sketchbook with a cardboard backing and paper cover. It was missing several pages, but a few had been stuck back in, slightly off-angle. This one was safe, definitely. The cover had been drawn on, with a heavy-duty marker from the look of it, but the designs were round and abstract.
Dare flipped the cover back on itself, letting it hang down over his knees. "Ah, this is SWIM," he said. It was a detailed drawing of a view of the school, not a castle, but a mission-esque building in Southwest style. The drawing was perfect to every detail, but lacking in emotion, a simple capture of what he'd seen. Dare wrinkled his nose. "I think this is after the drawing classes I had summer after third year," he said. "I was trying way too hard."
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Post by Michael Blackwood-Hardt on Oct 11, 2008 9:27:22 GMT -5
Michael glanced up at Dare and then back at the drawing. It was still an amazing drawing, even if it seemed a little flat when it came to emotions. "So Hogwarts was a big change," he said, examining the odd architecture of the school. He hadn't really thought about schools elsewhere not being in castles, the majority of the ones in Europe were, at least that he knew of. Seeing that drawing, though, he couldn't imagine going from it to a castle.
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Post by Dare Blackwood-Hardt on Oct 11, 2008 9:39:41 GMT -5
Dare chuckled. "Yeah, it was a bit of a culture shock," he said, looking down at his drawing. "My sketchbook from Hogwarts has a ton of scenery drawings, corridors, the entrance hall, the lake, stuff like that. Then I started drawing people and got hooked." Dare turned the page in his book and shook his head at the drawing there. It was obviously something out of his own mind, a character in his best attempt at anime style. "I drew a lot of these back then," Dare said. The character was wearing a mixture of armor and leather, with hair whipping in a posture of running. Very overdone, in Dare's opinion. "I think I was taking a break from the serious stuff," he said.
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Post by Michael Blackwood-Hardt on Oct 11, 2008 9:53:24 GMT -5
Michael tilted his head at the drawing, his eyebrows coming together as he thought about it. "What style is this?" he asked, looking up. He felt like he had seen it somewhere before, but he didn't immediately recognize a name for it, it wasn't one that he was familiar with. He didn't think it was a bad drawing, but it was unusual, to say the least.
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Post by Dare Blackwood-Hardt on Oct 11, 2008 10:06:58 GMT -5
Dare looked up at Michael, but gave no sign that he was really surprised. "Anime," he said. "It's a style of Japanese animation. Like, that movie we saw? Muggles can make movies out of drawings, too. They'll also make comics and stuff. I was big into drawing anime for a couple years." The next few drawings proved his words, an androgynous warrior, a group of people on an imaginary street corner, and a scantily clad woman with absurdly long hair streaming behind her. Dare cleared his throat lightly at that one. It had been torn out and stuffed back in. "Professor Riordan would've had my head if she'd known I drew that," he said.
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Post by Michael Blackwood-Hardt on Oct 11, 2008 10:12:53 GMT -5
Michael grinned at that and looked at the picture, trying to imagine how muggles could make a movie out of drawings. He didn't even know how they made movies with real people, though, so how could he expect to figure it out? He couldn't imagine how they would get the drawings to move how they wanted them to. Surely there were spells that would do it, but they were muggles, so they couldn't just use a spell.
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Post by Dare Blackwood-Hardt on Oct 11, 2008 10:20:39 GMT -5
Dare watched Michael, but couldn't begin to guess at his thoughts. Dare's mind was still on the fact that he'd made a rather risque drawing of a professor. She'd been hot, and it had taken little exaggeration to get the effect he'd wanted, but it had been fun. Dare didn't turn the page for now, but looked at Michael, who had gone silent. Dare didn't mind, but he was curious. "Knut for your thoughts," he said.
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Post by Michael Blackwood-Hardt on Oct 11, 2008 22:07:40 GMT -5
Michael pulled his eyes away from the drawing, though they hadn't really been focused on it, and looked up to Dare. "I'm just trying to figure out how they make drawings into movies," he said, creasing his eyebrows and turning to look back at the book. "I mean, there are spells that can make a drawing move, but they're muggles..." he trailed off and turned his eyes back to Dare.
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Post by Dare Blackwood-Hardt on Oct 11, 2008 22:14:20 GMT -5
"Ah, gotcha." Dare glanced up into the room, then brought out his wand, summoning his current sketchbook from the other room. "Okay, it's like this. If you take a bunch of pictures that are almost exactly alike and flash them at someone, they look like they're moving. Watch this..." Dare flicked his wand again and a blank page tore out of his book, then tore into smallish rectangular squares. "If you draw something like this..." Dare drew a circle, then drew it in a slightly different place on each page as he explained, then gathered one side of the pages and offered it to Michael. "Hold this right here, and flip through really fast," he said.
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Post by Michael Blackwood-Hardt on Oct 11, 2008 22:26:14 GMT -5
Michael raised his eyebrow, not really believing it would work, but looked down and tried it anyway. The circle moved, but not smoothly enough to look real, so he tilted his head and tried it again, letting the pages slip by faster than the time before. It looked more real that time. "It must take a long time," he mused as he did it again, "It takes a long time to draw stuff like in that movie, and you have to draw the same picture each time?"
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