FIC: Keep My Fingernails Clean

[homo_pink]

Keep My Fingernails Clean - j2 | R | 5.8k
Jared's a teenage mortician secretly running the family's funeral home business when his ailing father can no longer do so. Jensen's a beauty pageant contestant who ends up on Jared's embalming table after he dies on stage.
Warning: underage, handwave-y techniques and aftermath
Originally written for spn_cinema and

Comments

[sagetan]

I love this! The gentle, wistful, and slightly morbid tone is wonderful. Jared's quiet devotion to his dad is absolutely lovely, as well as Jensen's warmth and kindness toward him.

[homo_pink]

i'm so happy you liked the feel of this one. thanks so very much for reading and letting me know ♥

[sandymg]

Gorgeous language. I don't know your source material but it's already obvious this interpretation is unique.

[homo_pink]

oh what a wonderful comment ♥ the movie is really lovely in an understated way. thanks so very much for stopping by to read and letting me know ♥

[paperbackwriter]

Okay...My heart started aching from the very first sentence...come the end you had me sobbing. I'm not joking. There is snot on me.
I just can't fathom how you do this...make words so fucking beautiful. There's something so delicate about this, something really fragile which given the subject matter and how it should have that meaty, dead weight...oh, god, it's just incredible.
You absolutely fuck me up and I love you for it ♥ x

[homo_pink]

i don't even know what to say to this, it's just so lovely. you're so lovely. i'm so happy you liked this one, your feedback is always so very thrilling for me. thanks so much, for always being you, and for always leaving such gorgeous replies ♥ ♥

[woostersgirl]

A new fic from you. I LOVE your stories, and I loved this one. Right at the beginning you got me, Jared's quiet little life, his love and devotion to his dad. Jensen and Jared's love, how happy Jensen was at a second chance at life, yucky step dad, how Jensen fits right in and is so kind to Elmer, how Elmer was holding on till Jared had Jensen, I cried. I haven't seen this movie but your fic is gorgeous!

[homo_pink]

and i'm so very happy that you like them. so, so happy. and yes, stepdad was very yuck. he was worse in the film actually. it's a lovely movie though, you should see it if you find the time! thanks so very much for your kind words and for stopping by to read ♥ ♥

[jezziejay]

I love this. You know I love this. You know how much I love this. But there's still room for some more love.

Firstly - your writing. Jeez, it just floors me. How you set scenes and create characters without ever overstating, letting those beautiful little details tell the story, giving the most vivid of images with just the right amount of words. And the right words, perfect words that just flow seamlessly, and I'm always at the end of your fic before I look up from the page.

Like this - It's a boy with pallid peach skin, creamy pale and lightly speckled. Smooth like silk, though Jared doesn't dare touch yet. There's a soft bump at the bridge of the nose, adding to the unique and taking nothing at all away. Lips that used to be pink, and upsettingly pretty, and look like they probably loved to smile and laugh and be kissed. The boy's got high, sharp cheekbones and a calm expression, rows of dark gold lashes settled against his cheeks. His face is serene, accepting, like he might've embraced a certain peace in death, a thing

[homo_pink]

i love you so so so much. you just don't know how much.

thank you ever so much for holding my hand, and looking this over, and telling me things i need to hear, not just the things i want to hear. you are my shining star. all of these kind words in regards to my meager little offerings, my heart's fucking soaring. because you're you. and i die a little every time you post something new because it's always everything i aspire to me.

i know i was a gushfest in your new fic comments yesterday (and in messages everyday lol) but your words are so, so special to me and have me thinking about them long after you've written them, and i'm just so happy to have you around. i really hope you know that ♥ way off topic here, but it's true. (also glad you like the new ending. i dunno what i was thinking with that other ending lol)