When I said it would be good for you, [ dave begins, letting dirk take his hand without protest ] I meant that this is...I used to think of it as a kind of safe mistake. I guess I also told myself that I did 'em on purpose at first, but that wasn't true. It just took me a long fuckin' time to teach myself to do it proper and get through all the ins and outs of it. But I also learned that sometimes the mistakes made pretty cool shit, and if I'd just done it properly the first time around, I wouldn't have learned how to do those things, either. There's technically one proper way to do things, but it may not always be the way to go.
[ he's not sure if it will make sense to dirk, or if dirk will ever be able to feel like that about anything, but dave tries to stumble through the idea anyway. ]
[Dirk listens. Dirk always listens to everything Dave says, as best as he can, even the nonsense. Sometimes he doesn't follow or sometimes he disagrees, but always, Dave deserves that he'll listen.
He understands, he thinks, what Dave is saying. Dave's Bro made everything a mistake and made every mistake painful. Dave could never live up to what he was supposed to reach, he was a kid, he was never given a chance. But mistakes here were okay. They weren't just acceptable, they could be beneficial. The accidental became art.]
...Can I try it again? Takin' the picture this time.
Yeah, sure. You know how to load the film, I assume?
[ and where to grab more. ]
Just frame 'em however you want. [ he won't give the warning about advancing the film after every shot since he already gave it. (he fucked up that way too once or twice when getting into the zone of taking shots, or sometimes advanced without needing to, losing track of what he'd done.) ]
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[ he's not sure if it will make sense to dirk, or if dirk will ever be able to feel like that about anything, but dave tries to stumble through the idea anyway. ]
It's okay.
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He understands, he thinks, what Dave is saying. Dave's Bro made everything a mistake and made every mistake painful. Dave could never live up to what he was supposed to reach, he was a kid, he was never given a chance. But mistakes here were okay. They weren't just acceptable, they could be beneficial. The accidental became art.]
...Can I try it again? Takin' the picture this time.
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[ and where to grab more. ]
Just frame 'em however you want. [ he won't give the warning about advancing the film after every shot since he already gave it. (he fucked up that way too once or twice when getting into the zone of taking shots, or sometimes advanced without needing to, losing track of what he'd done.) ]