fic rec.
As Kita says, her new fic, Moving Pictures: Measure of a Man, is, "original fic disguised as RPS, disguised as AU." I love that description, but not as much as I love the fic it's describing.
When Jimmy was a boy, before Vince, before Mary Sue, he kept a box of treasures underneath his bed. Shiny rocks and shed snake skins, pictures from magazines of places he was never gonna see, and tests he’d gotten A’s on. He wasn’t sure where any of that stuff had gone to. Wasn’t sure when his life stopped seeming to him like this collection of snapshots, half color moments of ice pick joy and pain he could take out and touch when he was alone.
He’d woken up one day and suddenly everything around him, everything inside him, was rolling on by faster and faster, a movie reel on skip start speed.
Just. Amazing. Go and read.
When Jimmy was a boy, before Vince, before Mary Sue, he kept a box of treasures underneath his bed. Shiny rocks and shed snake skins, pictures from magazines of places he was never gonna see, and tests he’d gotten A’s on. He wasn’t sure where any of that stuff had gone to. Wasn’t sure when his life stopped seeming to him like this collection of snapshots, half color moments of ice pick joy and pain he could take out and touch when he was alone.
He’d woken up one day and suddenly everything around him, everything inside him, was rolling on by faster and faster, a movie reel on skip start speed.
Just. Amazing. Go and read.