High Art
EXO, Kris/Lay, PG, 1440 words
Art class buddies for Emma. ♥ Shamelessly based on my own liberal arts experience though I got away with an ~arts and ideas~ course, hence my lack of knowledge about how real art classes work. (
advent calendar) (Skipping ahead to accommodate a bad day, will be back in order after this!)
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'How avant-garde,' Yixing says, stifling a laugh. )
there are so many things i love about this, not least of which that turned one of my tweets into a whole gosh-darn fic aka spun shit into gold pm
i like how yixing straddles the line between 'great wit' and 'cloud-cuckoolander,' bc i know i'm not the only one whose not sure where to place him irl, and like, i lost my shit at think outside of your species boundaries, kris. blur the lines a little not to mention like, everything yixing he says in this whole fic?
but what really impressed me is how you subtly dodge fic clichés even as you evoke them in order to create something both more character-specific and more memorable? you did the same thing in your chokey-chicken-chen fic, but like, the scene where kris finds yixing's sketches-you dodge that breathless, melodramatic moment where the background music stop and the camera closes in on kris' face as he realizes that yixing is not only an incredible talent, but also that he looooves him. actually, i should rephrase that: you go for the same emotional implications, but the humor and feeling is much more muted and subtle-as it tends to be irl-and the details (kris isn't captured perfectly, but like a caricature with a tiny torso and impossibly long legs; yixing's drawings speak as much to his sense of humor as to his ~hidden feelings like, for example, the school girl outfit) are more appropriate to both the characters and to maintenance of that same tone \o/ they also speak, of course to your own creativity
as always, i'm really, really impressed! and grateful because this was ADORABLE, DUH thank you so much, bb! i'm really really happy with this if that wasn't already clear and just ugh, YOOOOOOOU ♡___♡
(ps i only have my intro and conclusion paragraphs left in the gatsby paper! i owe it all to the promise of fic.)
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