rm | [fic] art for Red and Fourth

laurab1 made me this awesome art for Red and Fourth.

Click on image for full-size.

And since we're here, I actually want to talk about it, because I went through a couple of thoughts about it, and I'm still sorta in a place with that story.

In the first draft of the story I had this long scene at a party where Jack and Martin first meet. And Jack's an asshole and Martin's all "whatever" and disinterested. And I think this really speaks to that. Of course, the other thing it speaks to, which I didn't include in the story is Jack's public life with Martin. While always a D/s relationship, at a given point Jack is also very much the boyfriend and also very much a part of the business (probably in a few ways, their deal is not about monogamy), so I realized looking at this there's actually this whole circle of identity for Jack there, as Martin shoots him down for acting like an asshole playboy (which is Jack covering for how fucked up he is anyway) but at a given point Jack's also playing that character in public as part of adding to the image of Martin's business.

Anyway, yeah. The story may be sparse, but I know tons and tons about the space of it.