#qaf fanfic

[wellcomeoneileen]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Queer as Folk (US TV 2000) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Brian Kinney/Justin Taylor (Queer as Folk) Characters: Brian Kinney (Queer as Folk), Justin Taylor (Queer as Folk) Additional Tags: Post-Canon, POV Justin Taylor (Queer as Folk), Bottom Brian Kinney (Queer As Folk), Top Brian Kinney (Queer as Folk), Bottom Justin Taylor (Queer as Folk), Top Justin Taylor (Queer as Folk), Rough Sex, Gentle Sex, Internalized Toxic Masculinity, Just shy of slice of life, Porn with Feelings, Some Plot, Kinney Operating Manuel, impending 2008 recession Summary:

Justin has flown to Pittsburg for a surprise visit, but finds a taciturn and moody Brian. Through tried-and-true methods as well as some new ones, the boys get through some growing pains in communicating what's going on.

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Started as a short bit of smut, but thought too much about Brian's feelings.

[winderlylandchime]

May I ask what are your favorite Britin fics? 🥺

Hello dear sweet anon!

I am always happy to share my QAF/Britin fic recs. I keep a collection going of my bookmarks at AO3 and try to keep them pretty well tagged. You can find that here but I’ll pull out a few that I find particularly enjoyable:

Pulse Point - a complete AU with trauma surgeon!Brian and EMT!Justin. By Xie

Unfold Me - a S5 canon divergent fic which honestly solves a lot of my issues with S5. By mornmeril

Monogamy - another S5 canon divergent fic which takes an entirely different approach and is full of the feels. By frayach

The Love Song of Brian A. Kinney - a post canon classic, one shot. By ipoiledi.

Counting Dollars - a gapfiller for between S3 and S4, one shot. Also by ipoiledi.

Catalepsis - lovely S3 canon divergent fic, lots of delicious hurt/comfort. By @lostcol

Forward - post canon one shot focusing on Brian. By @kinnenvy

Glowing Rooms - canon divergent at 122 - Brian moves to NYC and doesn’t go to prom, Justin is bashed anyway. One shot. Amazing. By ohmyjetsabel

Only Time - post canon series, honestly could be S6, absolutely brilliant. Also by Xie

Homecoming - honestly, you cannot go wrong with this writer but her main series (The One Where Justin Loses His Hearing) can be intimidating. These are two parts of that series that can be read as a standalone fic (two chapters). By LaVieEnRose

If you want some fantastic PWP, I highly recommend devil_on_your_shoulder27384

Also all of ivysunna’s fics are incredible but I love their canon fics such as we’d still worship this love (S2, canon compliant, outsider POV which is always fun for Britin) and their newest the heat of your electric touch (S4/cancer arc gapfiller, canon compliant).

Wait - set during S3, Justin has an HIV scare (open ending). By @thissugarcane

Also, if you are new to fic in QAF, I would be absolutely remiss if I didn’t direct you toward Myrna’s four part fic that is canon divergent after the end of S2 and is delicious hurt/comfort and alternating POV. It is partway down this archive page. Look for If You Needed Me (If You Needed Me / I Would Come to You / I’d Swim the Seas / For To Ease Your Pain). I encourage you to save it as PDFs because it is hard to track down.

Overall, I tend to bookmark fics where the premise is interesting (bonus points for hurt/comfort), the characters and their growth are central, and the characters must be in character (any changes to their character must be explained by growth or AU circumstances but honestly I love these characters and I want to read about them), and the writing is good. I don’t enjoy fics that are anti-character. I know those are popular in this fandom and I’m not going to yuck anyone’s yum, but I generally find every character on this show has something redeeming about them and they are all flawed. It’s far more interesting to me to explore that rather than have an outright villain. More than any other fandom, I tend to enjoy canon-based fics rather than complete AUs (I say as I’m partway through writing a complete AU).

Happy reading! If you read anything that you enjoy, come back and let me know your thoughts (from this list or anything else).

[ficwriterhub]

(and I'd do it again)

by @winderlylandchime

Summary: “It’s…Justin,” Emmet’s southern drawl hides behind his efforts to keep his voice calm.

“No shit, Honeycutt,” Brian pushes on the guy’s shoulder, pushing him out of the loft, throwing his clothes after him. “I didn’t think you called me up at midnight to chit chat about place settings for your next soiree.”

Canon divergence after Brian and Justin break up in Season Five. I thought maybe something other than a bomb could bring them back together.

Read it on Ao3!

[summer-blonde]

I hear the door unlock and know he’s home. I’m at his place. It took a lot of decision making, but I figured it would be better if we had this conversation here. In his apartment. That way he can throw me out, and slam the door in my face, and hopefully that will ease the pain a little. Cause I know there is going to be plenty of that. And it is the least I can do for him.

[jaymalea]

I’ve been feeling a bit nostalgic lately. Mid-2000’s and QAF fic..

OMG I’m so sad. With the demise of qaf-fic.com, Rizabeau’s works are gone into the ether.

No more Elf! Justin in Jingle All the Way. No weep fest over the twin babies in Signed, Sealed and Delivered.

I thought for sure that archive was picked up by AO3 but it seems NOT.

[uthers-bald-head]

The 12 Drabbles of Shipmas - Day Three! 🎅

Fandom: Queer as Folk (US 2000)

Word Count: 1191

It's Hunter's first Christmas as a Novotny-Bruckner. Michael wants it to be special.

[phygoth]

does anyone have recommendations of britin time travel fics??

[thissugarcane]

me when I finally open up the swimming with sharks sequel: let’s see if I can write something! *writes 1000 words!*

me: wait, that’s a scene about two paintings of justin’s that probably fits into season five, not four, self what are you--

also me: *keeps looking up painting and art that fits 150k+ away from the stuff I SHOULD BE WRITING*

I suppose I’ll call it progress that I’m writing anything for this damn thing at all? At least it’s something. Maybe I can work season 4/5 together into one fic.

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Brian audibly inhaled. Unconsciously, Justin thought, he raised a hand, pressed his fingertips to his lips for a long moment. Justin watched his eyes rove over the canvasses again. After another long moment, Brian asked quietly, "Has anyone else seen these?"

Justin replied, "Not finished. Not even close to finished. Lindsay saw that one," and he waved his hand helplessly at the one on the left, "in progress."

"Don't sell it," Brian implored softly. "You'll get offers. Just. Don't."

Justin blinked. "Which one?"

Brian looked at him, and Justin loved him madly because Brian hadn't taken his eyes off the painting on the right, the moody, sad undertones, the jagged lines, lit softly with light. He nodded. "I promise."

As if he couldn't help himself, he turned back to the paintings. This time, he turned fully to the one on the right, his shoulders shuffling just a little away from the other one. "What are you calling them?"

Justin hoped he wasn't too angry. He pointed to the one on the left, the curved shapes of soothing blue turned stomach-churning. "That's 'Marriage'," he said. "And that's 'Half-Life'."

He wanted to take Brian's hand, wanted to reassure him somehow. Brian reached over and turned off the projector, looked back at 'Half-Life'. Justin started to say, "It's not half my life. It's the reach and reach and striving to always be closer to--"

"I see it," Brian replied. Then he said, "I want it."

"You'd have to set up a projection screen for--"

"Even without the digital," Brian told him softly. "I want it."

[xie-xie-xie]

Fanfic authors: All I want to point out is that unless your characters have an upper respiratory infection, they can breathe through their noses while kissing and do not need to break a kiss because of oxygen deprivation. That is all.

[slayerchick303]

My mantra today is, "You will finish writing chapter six of your Britin fan-fiction." I'm determined to get six done today and at least start chapter seven.

Who knows, I may finish and finally publish the story sometime this year!

[winderlylandchime]

uhhh Fic Friday...?

I was tagged for WIP Wednesday by @lostcol @madsworld15 and @eusuntgratie but I injured my hand pretty badly on Monday so typing has been difficult. But I wanted to try to add a little something to my fic now that I can move my fingers a bit more easily. Notably, this is coming before I do anything to catch up on work.

here's a little from Untitled Drag Queen AU under the cut (and a reminder to tip your local drag artists!) (and a request):

On tall stilettos she drops down into a squat, kicking out first one foot and then the other.  “Yessss!” Emmett screams, waving a handful of dollar bills in the queen’s direction.  Son Shine jumps up from the squat and into a split and a gasp catches in Brian’s throat while the club erupts in cheers behind him.  As the song continues, the queen makes her way from the stage into the crowd, plucking cash from the hands pushing it in her direction, slipping some into her bra straps and handing some to a young person following along behind her with a bucket. 

Y'all figuring out how to describe a duck walk was a time and a half. You know the trope about making the face you're describing or drawing...? Like that except I cannot fucking duck walk. So here's the request - if you're unfamiliar with what a duck walk looks like, can you read that description, try to imagine in, and then DM me so I can send you a video and see if the description feels accurate? Because I also don't want to devote a paragraph of text to describing it. TYSM!

[classic-maya]

Shameless self promotion: go read my QaF pwp

[letterstothefutureme]

Advice from Ira Glass:

Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, and I really wish somebody had told this to me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste.

But it’s like there is this gap. For the first couple years that you’re making stuff, what you’re making isn’t so good. It’s not that great. It’s trying to be good, it has ambition to be good, but it’s not that good.

But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is good enough that you can tell that what you’re making is kind of a disappointment to you. A lot of people never get past that phase. They quit.

Everybody I know who does interesting, creative work they went through years where they had really good taste and they could tell that what they were making wasn’t as good as they wanted it to be. They knew it fell short. Everybody goes through that.

And if you are just starting out or if you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Do a huge volume of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week or every month you know you’re going to finish one story.

It is only by going through a volume of work that you’re going to catch up and close that gap. And the work you’re making will be as good as your ambitions.

I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It takes awhile. It’s gonna take you a while. It’s normal to take a while. You just have to fight your way through that.

Don't you sometimes get an absolutely extrodinary, mind blowing, such an awesome idea for a story, but you just don't have enough skill level to pull it off?

[mariunnnn]

you left your mark on me (12240 words) by turnedtoglitter Chapters: 7/7 Fandom: Queer as Folk (US TV 2000) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Brian Kinney/Justin Taylor (Queer as Folk), Ethan Gold/Justin Taylor (Queer as Folk) Characters: Brian Kinney (Queer as Folk), Justin Taylor (Queer as Folk), Ethan Gold (Queer as Folk), Daphne Chanders, Cynthia (Queer as Folk) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Soulmates, Boss/Employee Relationship, Explicit Sexual Content, Angst with a Happy Ending Summary:

Justin's soulmark flares gold the first time he meets Brian.

Brian never mentions what happened with his, and insists it doesn't matter anyway.

[olderthannetfic]

On the strict top/bottom dynamics of east asian media: one of the (relatively) recent BLs from Taiwan (Kiseki) completely broke many fans because it subverted that. It had Zerui, the eldest of the main ship who is involved with the mafia, bottom when he was with Zongyi, who's only a wimpy HS student, when they're together for the first time. Tbh Zerui jumping on Zongyi's lap will live in my mind rent-free for a long time. But it was exactly because it's so rare it was magical and broke everyone

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Ooh.

And yeah, any trope that's common enough is going to get people wanting to poke it with a stick.

I think some Western fans kind of miss that Asia has plenty of gay media and, you know, gay culture, and depending on the era and country and what all is going on, there's going to be cross-pollination between that and BL/danmei. You'll get makers of BLy stuff wanting a little more Real Queer Culture™ in their art. True, plenty of real people like to do the same thing in the bedroom all the time, but the minute you get art that wants to mess around with more real world shit and less pure romance novel trope stuff, you'll see people changing things up.

The more mainstream and accessible actual queer culture gets in a given country, the more people will casually drop various things into their art, like QaF having a big effect on parts of Western slash fandom. Same-sex marriage is legal in Taiwan. Thailand isn't the paradise some people imagine, but it has some pretty visible home-grown queer community. This isn't some situation where all BL is by a virgin living in a basement who barely knows queer people exist offline.

There's not some kind of law that decrees Asian artists can't change things up. Fixed roles are just what's most popular in BLy media on average. That's no different than, say, English language "m/m romance" and even most fanfic being... like... monogamous 2-person ships and not poly.

[brian-kinney-apologist]

who is Brian kinny and what has he done wrong

well hello there (i swear i knew someone from iwtv fandom would ask this question soon lol)

short answer: brian kinney is my ultimate blorbo for 10 (ten!!!!) years now from the show called queer as folk (us version 2000-2005) and in my opinion as you can guess he did nothing wrong in his life lol

long answer: speaking in iwtv terms brian is a lestat type of character. brian (btw my pfp is the actor who played him) is a very interesting character that some people may not like because of his facade (sarcastic, straightforward, does what he wants + promiscuous (like no character in the history of tv (and i mean it) has never fucked THAT many people on screen)), though if you watch the show with your eyes open you'll see that he has the biggest heart (as it was said in the show itself!!). he rejects heteronomormotive norms of society and that's also hard for some watchers AND characters in the show to comprehend (he's upfront about that too btw!!!). I can talk about qaf forever so i tried to be brief (lol) and vague in case anyone decides to check the show out. i personally have a deep bond with this character (girl we know) and the show so thus why the username (btw that's my ao3 name as well and i have 2 britin fanfics there if someone doesn't know that already and wants to check it out)

ALSO qaf us (and the original uk version by russell t davies) paved the way to less stereotypical representation of queer characters on tv (AND they basicly invented intimacy coordinators on set). important to mention though (if someone decides to watch it after this ask) that qaf is NOT for everyone due to its nature but at the same time if you like iwtv for what it is (messiness, multidimensional characters with flaws, triggering themes + s1 sex scenes but x1000000000), you will probably enjoy it. (btw even in iwtv there were qaf coded moments too!!! (one day @sophsun1 will return from war and will make a second gif set of qaf/iwtv parallels lol))