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[tailwind]

"Don't fall in love with people who need money because they'll fuck you."

-- review of Common Criminals: LA Crime Stories by Larry Fondation. Issue 46, Flaunt.

Comments

[vignette00]

*only has a minute as presently but will like SQUEE over your fic later*

In the meantime, it is like the gods' own ambrosia from what I have skimmed. *kisses*

[karabou]

Oh man, Connor would do this stuff.. work himself to the bone for his family, and take cold showers so he doesn't wake his mother up. And that scene with Murphy, and everything being blue like their eyes.. so good. I love it.

[vignette00]

SO. Hereforth I will spam your journals continually because GODDAMN, this is not only one of the best fanfics I have read, in any fandom, it is also one of the best short stories I have read anywhere, because instead of trying to smack you over the head with characterization, you just creep everything in, and the smacks over the head you do give are actually driving home points I have never seen a story make. The whole fixating on this girl who is driving, but how he can't get rid of Murphy and his own blue eyes at the same time, JUST. *dies* And like karabou mentioned, how he doesn't take warm showers so that he doesn't wake up his mother, incredible, the amount of detail you can cram in without making it overly long and lugubrious (like I know I have the fault of doing).

and all Murphy says in return is that they're just going to have to make this quick, then.

That has to top my list of best lines ever.

*fangirls you endlessly*

[spacebrat]

"And I go to Mass, but I don't exactly wear my rosary around all the time. Is it something that guys from Ireland do? Because my mom would so love you."

EXCUSE ME MY MOM WOULD LOVE YOU TOO WHY DON'T YOU COME OVER TO MY HOUSE FOR A WHILE?!

I love this, and I love you. Good god, woman. <3

[tailwind]

Dude, I can only imagine what the girls of the local high school's reaction would have been to Connor and Murphy moving there, as I'm pretty convinced that they did. Like. End of the eighties. Guys are all into their all white Miami bling, and then here are these boys with wicked Irish accents and rosaries and multiple languages? Excuse me while I write a COMPLETELY MARY SUE fic about Connor and Murphy visiting MY high school.

[ceruleanoctober]

Wow. That's really about all I can say. I read through everyone else's comments and pretty much agree with everything they said...This little ficcy is amazing. Well written, perfectly subtle yet effective detail. So very Connor...And the repetition about the blue sky is o powerful it blows me away...Great stuff...Wow.

[tailwind]

Glad you liked it, but speaking of Connor characterization -- have you read vignette00's BDS fanfiction? Her Connor (and her Murphy, too, really) are absolutely fantastic.