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

[brutti_ma_buoni]

Adored this! Should be creepy, but it's not at all - magical, heartwarming and tragi-romantic. I loved how Elmer was a counterpoint - superficially, he's a pedestrian tragedy paralleled with whatever Jensen's fleeing, but full of love and warmth all the same. Are you gonna marry that boy? <3 <3

[homo_pink]

what lovely feedback, thanks so much! i'm very pleased this didn't come across as creepy. usually i'm leaning in that direction but this time - despite the subject matter - i really wasn't trying to tell that particular story here. so glad you liked the elmer parallels, too. thanks so very much for stopping by to read and let me know ♥ ♥

[cherie_morte]

*shoves a finger in your face* YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DO IS YOU CONFUSE ME AND MY EMOTIONS I NEVER CAN PREPARE MYSELF IT'S RUDE AND YOU MUST BE STOPPED.

I used to be all "I don't read dark things like this, but I guess if homo_pink wrote it." and then I would read it and SURPRISE it's good! I'm into it!

And now you post things and I'm all, "Great, yeah, I totally know what to prepare myself for it's going to be dark and twisted and I'll think I'm not into it but then I will be." and that is what I prepare for and then you do things like this and it's just totally sweet and heart-warming instead? LIKE HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO PREPARE MYSELF FOR THIGNS HONESTLY.

Jeez. I was expecting some nice, straight-forward necrophilia and there you go bringing feelings into it and making me cry and shit like who even taught you manners. *stomps off*

[homo_pink]

i'm starting to think you actually do read dark things, you know that? as for the necro vibes - while a (not-so) secret love of mine, yes, i definitely couldn't go that route this time! but sweet? heartwarming? oh you make me smile so much. i fear neither of those things are quite my specialty so that makes me even happier that you think so this time around.

♥ ♥ ♥ you're far sweeter to me than i deserve. don't you stomp away from me

[sleepypercy]

I love how all your stories just tuck us right in, instant connection with the characters and relationships in a way that feels so intimate. This is so amazing, just how so many things are never said or stated - especially with all the things going on with Jensen, why he just stays and never goes back - and yet we still seem to understand perfectly.
Thank you for writing such beautifully crafted stories <3

[homo_pink]

that is such a relief to hear, that the things i left out were still able to paint the right picture. at least somewhat. one of my biggest concerns is overstating things, or driving the point home too hard. this sort of feedback makes me incredibly happy. thanks so very much for reading and for letting me know ♥ ♥

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[blackrabbit42]

You just have no mercy. No mercy for our hearts, no mercy for the fact that some of us are supposed to be cleaning the house, or working, or unloading groceries, or maybe all three but instead we have to drop everything right in the middle of the kitchen because H_P posted something, and that shit needs to be read like, RIGHT THE HELL NOW

[homo_pink]

you are so incredibly kind to me, i hardly know what to do with myself right now. all i can say is that, no - your writing floors me and makes me roll around, chew my fist and weep with a certain perfect joy. so you guys will be the ones writing for me. you and jc both.

i'm so incredibly happy that you mentioned the things left unexplained. i had a friend of mine look this over before i posted and she said something similar. about the gaps i didn't close and the things that were implied but not stated, or left to draw conclusion from. and you've just made me smile so much seeing that you caught these things as well.

thank you so so much, always ♥ ♥ ♥ what would i do without you?