i can't get out of love by eskimo_jo (r)

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Fandom: SKINS
Pairing: Naomi/Michelle (gen 1 + 2)
Length: 43,000 words
Author on lj: eskimo_jo
Author website: rabbithearts (author's fic journal)
Why this must be read: This is the most epic fic I have read in this fandom, hands down. Not only is Naomi and Michelle's relationship beautiful and complicated, it's also believable - which is quite a feat, considering the two characters have never met. There's excellent characterization all around - as it contains a cast of various characters from both gens 1 and 2 - but Effy's voice is particular spot on, which is a hard thing to do. It's a wild ride, and it will probably make you cry, but it is so worth the read.


The party is shit.

And not just the normal sort of shit that bad parties tend to be, like with a few too many girls wailing over whatever prick they've been sucking off lately, some idiot smashing a valuable piece of art and someone else chundering all over the floor in the only working bathroom. No. This is on another level. This is the kind of party that makes you question if humanity even has a hope in hell of surviving past Tuesday. This is the sort where you sit in the corner and tick off all the various ways in which you would murder every last person in the place if only you had the materials, means and guts – plus a nice side of psychopathic rage. It's precisely the sort that you loathsomely arrive at against your better judgement, is packed full of people from college that you would have rather never have seen ever again, and during which you have to drink cheap lager from a dirty cup alone whilst watching the love of your life being fondled by a minging, ridiculous blonde ape of a girl. All in the name of “having a good night out.”


i can't get out of love