katej - This is one of the most powerful, evocative pieces of art I've seen. The composition is gorgeous with images bleeding into each other. The colouring is powerful, strong and extreme. And the effects, the fractures in Chris' face, the imperfection of the images, is striking and tells a million stories.
cmk418 - Really nice use of Humpty Dumpty and Chris cynical self-loathing. I like that he compares himself to Toby, reveals that bit if humanity beating below the skin, yet is ultimately resigned to his fate.
hth - Wow. I feel like there are no words to adequately convey how much I adore this story, from start to finish and everything in between. It's an uncompromising look into Chris' psyche and you pull no punches, make no attempts to "pretty up" the reality of who he is, what he's done, how he feels.
Chris' thoughts and feelings come across as very honest and straightforward. There's a resigned quality to to him, like he's all too aware of who he is and how the real world operates. He can take stock of what Vern has meant to him, done for him, become for him. He sees the man Toby was, is, has evolved into. And Chris is at the middle moving along his life towards death because that's the one guarantee they all have.
Illusions have no place here. Vern is an asshole but he meant something to Chris. Toby is an ordinary man, but at some point in this whole twisted mess of disappointment (begat of lies and earnest falseness) he became real, honest in the roughness and broken dreams, and maybe one of the most real things Chris has ever known.
cmk418 - Really nice use of Humpty Dumpty and Chris cynical self-loathing. I like that he compares himself to Toby, reveals that bit if humanity beating below the skin, yet is ultimately resigned to his fate.
hth - Wow. I feel like there are no words to adequately convey how much I adore this story, from start to finish and everything in between. It's an uncompromising look into Chris' psyche and you pull no punches, make no attempts to "pretty up" the reality of who he is, what he's done, how he feels.
Chris' thoughts and feelings come across as very honest and straightforward. There's a resigned quality to to him, like he's all too aware of who he is and how the real world operates. He can take stock of what Vern has meant to him, done for him, become for him. He sees the man Toby was, is, has evolved into. And Chris is at the middle moving along his life towards death because that's the one guarantee they all have.
Illusions have no place here. Vern is an asshole but he meant something to Chris. Toby is an ordinary man, but at some point in this whole twisted mess of disappointment (begat of lies and earnest falseness) he became real, honest in the roughness and broken dreams, and maybe one of the most real things Chris has ever known.
A round of applause for this fic.
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