Comments | cranky_zen: Target Practice

emiliglia in cranky_zen

Target Practice

May 10, 2009 12:34

I discovered the Perspective Transform tool and all the issues went away. :P This is a result of Om and myself sharing brainwaves without knowing we were.

( Wider than the layout...hence the cut. )

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caersmane May 10 2009, 16:46:39 UTC

YES

Perspective tool is MADE OF WIN. JUST LIKE THIS MANIP OMFG YOU HAVE THEM MASTURBATING DOING TARGET PRACTICE TOGETHER.

emiliglia May 10 2009, 16:59:58 UTC

I don't think I ever had to USE the perspective tool before but this was like, "Hmmm...Matt's from below but Charlie's straight on. I can fix this!"

In my head, Matt is ranting and raving about something and doesn't even know Charlie put on the iPod. LOL.

caersmane May 10 2009, 17:08:43 UTC

HAHHAHA YES CHARLIES ALL LISTENING TO ZEN, or at least one of Matt's playlists, and Matt's all "And then the HT said this and I had to say this and OF COURSE it went to hell, and now Frank won't stfu about the whole thing.."

omphale23 May 11 2009, 05:16:16 UTC

At this rate you're going to end up seeing the entire epilogue before I get it posted. Anyway.

***

They meet at the firing range in the FBI basement a few times a month. Matt's a faster shot, but Charlie's better with a firing pattern, makes his bullets count for more. They're not competing, but the crackle of it is there, the potential that reality could come down to this, that they might depend on knowing how to take a life, either for themselves or for each other.

Charlie tries not to imagine the possibilities of missing a shot. He listens to music that Matt gives him, whistles along as a distraction and a comfort and a way to center himself. And frequently he comes out of a daze of aim-exhale-fire-reload-aim-exhale-fire to find that Matt has been trying to talk, to tell him something interesting or important or neither. Matt talks to fill silences, spaces that make him hope for-Charlie doesn't know what Matt hopes. He doesn't know how to ask.

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omphale23 May 10 2009, 16:51:03 UTC

HI HI HI. YES. This is EXACTLY what I was hoping for.

I maybe sort of needed it for an illustration for the epilogue.

emiliglia May 10 2009, 17:02:31 UTC

Yay!

Once I actually read your fic (we'll have internet on Tuesday, allegedly), I will be able to READ IT and I hope to have lots of manips inspired by it. If I have appropriate bases, anyway.

mardia May 10 2009, 18:05:00 UTC

Eeee, target practice! Seriously, this is gorgeous.

emiliglia May 11 2009, 14:01:12 UTC

<33333 Thank you!

wihluta May 11 2009, 20:27:05 UTC

Oh, this is awesome!!

emiliglia May 12 2009, 17:57:46 UTC

Thanks so much!