because Joe's keeping up, dragging out a note a little longer where Nick falters
THIS. JUST. I'M FLAILING. That's them, isn't it? Joe covering, Joe being there when Nick fucks up and blames himself for fucking up. Did you see their live interview where something is clearly up with Nick's blood sugar, and Joe just tries to cover but keeps glanging over to Nick? Even if you didn't, that bit captures them SO PERFECTLY. I've said it before but you just have this way of making an image that is so revealing, an image that opens up their relationship so easily. You can create these scenes that mean so much in so little...
Oh God. I would quote that entire scene but that's kind of redundant. The kiss (or, rather, the almost kiss) was just. I mean, I don't cry when I read things but I heard tears in the corners of my eyes. God, you made is so visceral, so gut-turning, the exhaustion and Nick's need to just be himself, to feel something that isn't calculated five hundred times before it's created, the need to have something. And Nick realizing that fracture of a second that things are going to change after it, and how he goes along with it anyway. God, you can feel his desperation, not his misery but his need to cling to something. Fuck, that HURTS. Not in a tear-jerker way but in a real way, something that cuts you right to the heart. I'm not gonna shut up about it, you pretty much are totally amazing.
You still kick, dude
God, what a line. If this were an essay I'd pick apart your use of "still" - that still is like, it holds SO much in it. So much about them, about where they came from, about what they are. One word and you manage to break my heart AGAIN. Jesus...
ready to make this stupid decision
Oh man, I love how much that says about Nick. How he was never willing to go outside the boundaries, never able to exercise his will outside of the confines put around him, but here, with Joe, he's ready to make decisions that will fuck everything up. It's so beautiful and painful and. Just. Ow.
he thinks about the fact that right now he can do whatever he wants
Oh man, the sheer power of that sentence. Coming through the fic and seeing that is just. Maaaan. Everything clicks, everything falls into a place that makes sense, Nick's needs and hurts just click into a place where Joe is natural, where what they did is natural, an extension of the hurt and stress placed on them. You made what should be a pretty uncomfortable moment seem real, and right, and, at risk of overusing it, completely natural.
OKAY GOD HOW CAN I SUM UP MY FEELINGS ABOUT THIS STORY. I can't really. Seriously, this was amazing. Like, not just inflating your ego here in hopes of more stories (THOUGH I'D TOTALLY DO THAT IF IT MEANT MORE STORIES) but this is just. Gah. You really tapped in to something here, an emotional reality that I haven't really seen explored. You looked at them, their music, their choices in a way I've considered but never really seen handled in stories. I know how people say some fics feel like snippets that could have happened, but this really felt like something that did happen, something that is rooted in things we know, we feel. HOW YOU DID THIS I DO NOT KNOW BUT I AM FAIRLY SURE YOU ARE A WIZARD??
Seriously amazing. I'm kind of. Flailing and ow and I'm going back to read it again.
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PART TWO BECAUSE I TALK WAY TOO MUCH WHEN I LIKE SOMETHING
Date: 2009-04-16 03:12 am (UTC)THIS. JUST. I'M FLAILING. That's them, isn't it? Joe covering, Joe being there when Nick fucks up and blames himself for fucking up. Did you see their live interview where something is clearly up with Nick's blood sugar, and Joe just tries to cover but keeps glanging over to Nick? Even if you didn't, that bit captures them SO PERFECTLY. I've said it before but you just have this way of making an image that is so revealing, an image that opens up their relationship so easily. You can create these scenes that mean so much in so little...
Oh God. I would quote that entire scene but that's kind of redundant. The kiss (or, rather, the almost kiss) was just. I mean, I don't cry when I read things but I heard tears in the corners of my eyes. God, you made is so visceral, so gut-turning, the exhaustion and Nick's need to just be himself, to feel something that isn't calculated five hundred times before it's created, the need to have something. And Nick realizing that fracture of a second that things are going to change after it, and how he goes along with it anyway. God, you can feel his desperation, not his misery but his need to cling to something. Fuck, that HURTS. Not in a tear-jerker way but in a real way, something that cuts you right to the heart. I'm not gonna shut up about it, you pretty much are totally amazing.
You still kick, dude
God, what a line. If this were an essay I'd pick apart your use of "still" - that still is like, it holds SO much in it. So much about them, about where they came from, about what they are. One word and you manage to break my heart AGAIN. Jesus...
ready to make this stupid decision
Oh man, I love how much that says about Nick. How he was never willing to go outside the boundaries, never able to exercise his will outside of the confines put around him, but here, with Joe, he's ready to make decisions that will fuck everything up. It's so beautiful and painful and. Just. Ow.
he thinks about the fact that right now he can do whatever he wants
Oh man, the sheer power of that sentence. Coming through the fic and seeing that is just. Maaaan. Everything clicks, everything falls into a place that makes sense, Nick's needs and hurts just click into a place where Joe is natural, where what they did is natural, an extension of the hurt and stress placed on them. You made what should be a pretty uncomfortable moment seem real, and right, and, at risk of overusing it, completely natural.
OKAY GOD HOW CAN I SUM UP MY FEELINGS ABOUT THIS STORY. I can't really. Seriously, this was amazing. Like, not just inflating your ego here in hopes of more stories (THOUGH I'D TOTALLY DO THAT IF IT MEANT MORE STORIES) but this is just. Gah. You really tapped in to something here, an emotional reality that I haven't really seen explored. You looked at them, their music, their choices in a way I've considered but never really seen handled in stories. I know how people say some fics feel like snippets that could have happened, but this really felt like something that did happen, something that is rooted in things we know, we feel. HOW YOU DID THIS I DO NOT KNOW BUT I AM FAIRLY SURE YOU ARE A WIZARD??
Seriously amazing. I'm kind of. Flailing and ow and I'm going back to read it again.
HI YOU ARE AMAZING.