MarieDepardon
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Hello, just cannot help dropping a message, I am reading ‘You only need me’ and having a blast with your characters. I really like how you made them both an explosive combo of strong and vulnerable. Very unique.
I just wanted to make one comment, please change the word ‘tool’. A tool is basically an asshole, someone worthless and dumb just good enough to be used: a tool. And it is jarring that Shane thinks of Emmet as a tool when they are at their most intimate. You simply cannot love someone if you think they’re a tool.
Also knackered means exhausted. Knackers are travelling people, gypsies and live in pretty filthy conditions due to poverty, but they also have a reputation for being at best shady. As an extension of the slang, poor, shady and ‘dirty’ people are sometimes called knackers as an insult as in Shane’s family of knackers = Shane’s family of good for nothing assholes.
And Craic is ‘the fun’, or sometimes the tea, but about fun things. What’s the craic means what’s up? In a ‘what is the plan to go out and get wasted and have fun’ (wasted optional but common lol) type of way or sometimes as in ‘do you have anything fun and entertaining to tell’
I left Dublin a few years ago now, very nice to have a story there.
Thank you for sharing your work. I am really enjoying it. Hope I did not offend with my comment.
