There's a cartoon of a garishly line-drawn figure standing under a piece of mistletoe with an equally unattractive curly haired figure, lips puckered. The caption reads, fuck off, I'm Jewish.
Best way to show you don't celebrate Christmas I'd say.
I also laughed so hard about the Dr. Seuss reference because I'm wearing my One Fish Two Fish shirt right now. XD
Go Eduardo for being all up in Mark's grill about the masthead. -fist pump-
There was nothing I didn't like about this. Everything rings perfectly true to me. From Mark's day-by-day calendar (because of course he needs to be reminded of the date all the time; he gets lost in his work and issues) to Eduardo's attempt at something to get back to normal. It just all works for me. There's nothing repetitive about this to me at all. It feels fresh. There's no happy ending. Nothing at all is overdone.
Plus, I love angst.
And this line - At least he hopes not, because otherwise he'll probably be victim to it too. And if he ages then they might stop ID-ing him at the liquor store down the road from his office and then they might stop noticing his name and then when they see his flip-flops and sweatshirt at 12am on a Tuesday in December the soft pity in their eyes will never turn to respect.
- along with a lot of others, made this fantastic. I can't stop gushing.
Gush away! j/k. I'm so glad you enjoyed it. I feel like I keep wanting to write fic where they get together and it always ends up this way instead. But it's a long road for these stubborn bitches.
The little things in this fic really got to me, especially Mark saving the calender despite firing his assistant. And wanting to be ID'd so random clerks will respect him. So interesting!
I'm glad! I really like focusing on the little things and I often worry that the message of the story gets lost when I do that but I feel like people, especially people like Mark, are ultimately made up of their neuroses, of the things they can't stop doing no matter how aware they are of them.
Erm, anyway, I'm glad you read it and thanks for the comment.
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There's a cartoon of a garishly line-drawn figure standing under a piece of mistletoe with an equally unattractive curly haired figure, lips puckered. The caption reads, fuck off, I'm Jewish.
Best way to show you don't celebrate Christmas I'd say.
I also laughed so hard about the Dr. Seuss reference because I'm wearing my One Fish Two Fish shirt right now. XD
Go Eduardo for being all up in Mark's grill about the masthead. -fist pump-
Fantastic story. Not repetative at all.
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Thank you so much for the sweet words.
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You're welcome. :3
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THIS THIS THIS. Absolutely incredible.
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thanks. ♥
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Plus, I love angst.
And this line -
At least he hopes not, because otherwise he'll probably be victim to it too. And if he ages then they might stop ID-ing him at the liquor store down the road from his office and then they might stop noticing his name and then when they see his flip-flops and sweatshirt at 12am on a Tuesday in December the soft pity in their eyes will never turn to respect.
- along with a lot of others, made this fantastic. I can't stop gushing.
Fantastic job, darling!
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Thanks so, so much for the lovely comment.
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Erm, anyway, I'm glad you read it and thanks for the comment.
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