FNL Fic: Faded From Winter, We Will Stretch Our Wings (Landry, Tim)

[romancandles]

Friday Night Lights
Faded from the Winter, We Will Stretch Our Wings
Landry, Tim. E for Everyone.
“You know it’s illegal to pick bluebonnets in Texas?”

Comments

[shelbecat]

This is incredible. The dialog is absolutely perfect and the little touches of descriptive detail, and the imagery!, are so fitting and...real. God! I feel like I don't have the words to give fb properly!

Landry twists his mouth in disgust. “You are… so typical.” And then he laughs because Tim Riggins is a lot of things-annoying as hell among them, but he’s probably not that typical. “You are going to be amazed.”

“Is it going to blow my mind, Landry?”

“Yes. You’ll be a whole new person.”

“You’re just always making me better.”

Just one of the parts that made me smile because I could hear Tim and Landry saying the lines, see the tiny smirk on Tim's face. Amazing.

[romancandles]

Thanks ! It's always nice when people point out parts that they particularly liked. Thanks so much for taking the time to give feedback!

[madmaxmaddison]

When you write them, I can hear them. I love the way you write these characters and this show, and I love the way this show writes Texas. I know my state flower too, and it's neither maroon nor orange. Silly football schools. (I suppose I have to give the ag departments some credit, though.)

[romancandles]

I love all the images that the show has of Texas--the big skies and the fields. Those are the things that I miss most so I try to capture them in my writing. I'm happy that you think I captured them well! That's always the highest compliment. Thanks for taking the time to comment.

Oh UT and A&M. They're totally insane.

[rebellious_dead]

This was wonderfully awesome. :)

When Landry was younger, his family used to come out and pick wildflowers off the highway and on the long ride home, Landry’s mother would make long garlands out of wilting Indian paintbrushes, black-eyed susans, and bluebonnets. His parents would shield the bounty of flowers every time they passed a car and it was Landry’s job to make sure that no one spotted the illegally picked flowers. By the time they got home, the flowers would be wet and dark, browning under in the face of the sun.

I can't tell you how much I love this part. It takes me back to when I was a kid and we'd do the same thing.

[romancandles]

Thank you so much. I used to pick bluebonnets as a kid too and I got all nostalgic writing this, so I'm glad that this brought memories back for you as well!

[callmesandy]

Aww, I really enjoyed this! :)