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'mutual assent' by falseeeyelashes. (PG-13)
Fandom: HIPSTER RPF
Pairing: Rose Byrne/Matthew Goode, Rose Byrne/Hugh Dancy, Claire Danes/Hugh Dancy, Diane Kruger/Michael Fassbender.
Length: 3250 words
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
falseeeyelashes
Author Website: masterlist on lj
Why this must be read: I had trouble choosing whichfalseeeyelashes story to rec this month. She writes the most intricate, bittersweet and terribly poetic things. In this she writes about friends and disaffected lovers who never quite say the right thing or manage to have the right timing. One of the people who reviewed this said "they're friends but not really friends and not only do you write them this way, you take it a step further and there's this underlying understanding that they need each other whether they want to or not..." and that encapsulates why this is a must read.
“I’ve been trying so hard,” was what Rose told Diane over the phone earlier. The other woman had not asked her what that meant, because like the saying goes: that’s what friends are for. They’re there to be an even uglier reflection of yourself when the time calls for self-loathing and an honest sounding board when the time calls from advice, needed and heeded or not.
Diane had been trying too, but that’s a different story. Diane is better at keeping her mouth shut than Rose is – she is better at dulling the sharp emotions behind her eyes and when she says, “I’m fine, it’s fine,” you are almost apt to believe her.
That night at the party Rose isn’t trying anymore.
Hugh is a married man now and someone thought it would be a good idea to invite her to the party.
(And by someone, she thinks she means Claire and not Hugh; Hugh is smart and too clever but never intentionally cruel, at least not to her. She does not think the same can be said of his new wife).
(What she does not know and what she will finally piece together by the end of the night – after Diane leaves and after the bartender raises an eyebrow and she slurs, “another,” after the coat check, because where they live it is a celluloid world and the things the normal person would only expect on the screen she encounters on a daily basis – is that it was Hugh who invited her, that Hugh really can be just that cruel).
mutual assent
Pairing: Rose Byrne/Matthew Goode, Rose Byrne/Hugh Dancy, Claire Danes/Hugh Dancy, Diane Kruger/Michael Fassbender.
Length: 3250 words
Author on LJ:
falseeeyelashesAuthor Website: masterlist on lj
Why this must be read: I had trouble choosing which
falseeeyelashes story to rec this month. She writes the most intricate, bittersweet and terribly poetic things. In this she writes about friends and disaffected lovers who never quite say the right thing or manage to have the right timing. One of the people who reviewed this said "they're friends but not really friends and not only do you write them this way, you take it a step further and there's this underlying understanding that they need each other whether they want to or not..." and that encapsulates why this is a must read. “I’ve been trying so hard,” was what Rose told Diane over the phone earlier. The other woman had not asked her what that meant, because like the saying goes: that’s what friends are for. They’re there to be an even uglier reflection of yourself when the time calls for self-loathing and an honest sounding board when the time calls from advice, needed and heeded or not.
Diane had been trying too, but that’s a different story. Diane is better at keeping her mouth shut than Rose is – she is better at dulling the sharp emotions behind her eyes and when she says, “I’m fine, it’s fine,” you are almost apt to believe her.
That night at the party Rose isn’t trying anymore.
Hugh is a married man now and someone thought it would be a good idea to invite her to the party.
(And by someone, she thinks she means Claire and not Hugh; Hugh is smart and too clever but never intentionally cruel, at least not to her. She does not think the same can be said of his new wife).
(What she does not know and what she will finally piece together by the end of the night – after Diane leaves and after the bartender raises an eyebrow and she slurs, “another,” after the coat check, because where they live it is a celluloid world and the things the normal person would only expect on the screen she encounters on a daily basis – is that it was Hugh who invited her, that Hugh really can be just that cruel).
mutual assent