Searching for an author and two fics
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getithereHi friends,
I was a huge, huge QAF fan back in the day when the show was airing and recently decided to rewatch the series. It set me on a huge nostalgia trip to find a bunch of stories I used to love when the fandom was first starting out.
I have two stories I would like to find and one author whose work seems to have totally vanished from online.
The author is burnitbackwards and they used to be active on LJ, but their account has been purged. I loved their work and would love to revisit it if anyone can direct me to their writing.
The first story was written very early in the QAF before the show had its finale. It was a story in about Justin leaving Pittsburgh to live in Europe. I believe he worked in a cafe in Italy and eventually Brian ends up there looking for him. I think other characters end up in Europe as well, but I can’t remember.
The other story was also written around the same time and is an AU story about Brian’s early life. In this story, Brian was a teen hustler who had a relationship with an older man in the film industry. When Brian becomes an adult he ends up working as an actor because of this older man. He leaves Pittsburgh and goes to Hollywood reluctantly to shoot a film. The story blended this AU background with some of the canon events of the show. I think there is a love triangle between Brian, Justin, and this older OC. I think there was also kind of an abusive background to Brian’s relationship with the older OC.
Both stories were posted in the early years of the fandom before the end of the series. They were both multi-chapter and at the time were WIPs.
I hope these ring a bell! I would love to reread them and am especially interested in finding burnitbackwards’ catalog ❤️
My email is coripixie@gmail.com
I was a huge, huge QAF fan back in the day when the show was airing and recently decided to rewatch the series. It set me on a huge nostalgia trip to find a bunch of stories I used to love when the fandom was first starting out.
I have two stories I would like to find and one author whose work seems to have totally vanished from online.
The author is burnitbackwards and they used to be active on LJ, but their account has been purged. I loved their work and would love to revisit it if anyone can direct me to their writing.
The first story was written very early in the QAF before the show had its finale. It was a story in about Justin leaving Pittsburgh to live in Europe. I believe he worked in a cafe in Italy and eventually Brian ends up there looking for him. I think other characters end up in Europe as well, but I can’t remember.
The other story was also written around the same time and is an AU story about Brian’s early life. In this story, Brian was a teen hustler who had a relationship with an older man in the film industry. When Brian becomes an adult he ends up working as an actor because of this older man. He leaves Pittsburgh and goes to Hollywood reluctantly to shoot a film. The story blended this AU background with some of the canon events of the show. I think there is a love triangle between Brian, Justin, and this older OC. I think there was also kind of an abusive background to Brian’s relationship with the older OC.
Both stories were posted in the early years of the fandom before the end of the series. They were both multi-chapter and at the time were WIPs.
I hope these ring a bell! I would love to reread them and am especially interested in finding burnitbackwards’ catalog ❤️
My email is coripixie@gmail.com
