WISHLISTS: Teaching My Heart to Dance (Barnabas/Luna)

[reynardo]

Author: reynardo
Recipient: too_dle_oo
Title: Teaching My Heart to Dance
Pairing: Barnabas/Luna
Request/Prompt Used: reeeeeally rare: a Hogwarts portrait pining for a living person CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!
Rating: PG for cleavage
Word Count/Art Medium: 1431
Summary: The Tapestry is looking ... dull. And no-one knows why.
Notes: The restorationist mentioned is based on a

Comments

[too_dle_oo]

Ahhhhh! I LOVE THIS SO MUCH!!!! Let me count the ways...

1. THIS IMAGE: Neville gently ran his hand down the old woven panels, watching as the trolls attempted demi-plies and battementes. Instead of his usual position in the centre, directing the trolls as they practised on the barre, Barnabas sat at the side of the picture with his head in his hands. The very angle of his shoulders indicated despair more convincingly than the final dance of the Prince in Swan Lake as Odette dies.

It's just perfect, comical and sweet all at once. And then plucking the petals off a flower, with the not-so-subtle metaphorical trampling of said petals. Just grand!

2. Excellent art restoration DOES seem to be magical, doesn't it? I mean, we know what happens when the Muggles get ahold of art restoration projects:

[reynardo]

So glad you liked it! I've been binge-watching the Baumgartner Restoration videos lately - that man must have Wizarding blood in him! That, and the tapestry has been a favourite of mine for so long. Add in ballet and of course it had to happen. My lovely husband and beta lederhosen was concerned that Swan Lake was something Wizards wouldn't know about, but seriously - an evil wizard with swan transformations and a muggle prince finding out? There must be a wizarding-side version ... oh GO AWAY PLOT BUNNIES!!!!!

[too_dle_oo]

I find art restoration and art recreation both absolutely fascinating. I was just at the Cloisters in NYC this week, where the famous unicorn tapestries are held; last year I was visiting Stirling Castle in Scotland where they had just finished a decade's long recreation of those 7 enormous silk/wool/precious metals-threaded masterpieces. So interesting to compare notes on them and chat with the art historians.

And... now I'm off to find some Baumgartner restoration videos!

I firmly believe that Mad King Ludwig of Bavaria was a Squib, and maybe Richard Wagner as well... bitter and crazy, they pushed the Swan Agenda to new heights. There's a whole Swan Conspiracy, methinks.

[mollywheezy]

So original and creative! Absolutely loved it! :D

[articcat621]

This was super creative!! Well done!