AU-Angst Fic Search

[princess2000204.livejournal.com]

Heya everyone,

I'm pretty new to the QAF fandom, and I've recently become addicted to the whole Angst fics in general and I was wondering if anyone could please rec me any kind of good AU-Angsty B/J fics, but theirs still a happy ending.

*begs and offers cookes*

--Princess

ETA - Thanks for all the help ^_^

Comments

[court1429.livejournal.com]

Have you read Myrna's "If You Needed Me?" Definitely one of the fandom workhorses in the HC/Angst column. http://www.toolunaticsnwon.com There're lots more. Lemme think a minute.

[kayebee-12.livejournal.com]

I would have to definitely agree. :0) "If You Needed Me" is in the pedestal of the angsty fics ever written. :)

[flamencanyc.livejournal.com]

Here's a link to the first chapter of Try (http://www.xhaleslowly.com/qaf/fanfic/try_1.html) by (http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=xhaleslowly)Ethan (http://www.livejournal.com/users/xhaleslowly/), an amazing alt S3, angsty, hot, and romantic fic. One of my all-time favorites. It's not very AU, like being in an alternate time or anything, but it departs from canon after S2.

[flamencanyc.livejournal.com]

I didn't mean to imply you shouldn't read the whole thing -- you absolutely should! Each chapter links to the next.

[mirror-mirror.livejournal.com]

Seperis (http://seperis.illuminatedtext.com/qafindex.html) writes good angst. Also, check out her recs page.

[seanmegansean.livejournal.com]

bloodyrose82 writes the best angst, IMO

[erraticonstilts.livejournal.com]

a way to fall (http://burnitbackwards.livejournal.com/96734.html) is one of my favorite fics. it's high school au and pretty angsty at times.

basements (http://qafvault.com/basementsprologue.htm) is another favorite. it's a college au.

[seanmegansean.livejournal.com]

I've just started "Basements" - Please tell me it's not too angsty. I mean, not angstier (word?) than the beginning ...meep. please, it's not angsty right, right? *crosses fingers and toes*

[erraticonstilts.livejournal.com]

it's not too angsty (not nearly as angsty as bloodyrose82's post-513 fic, that about killed me). it gets really non-angsty for a while, then towards the end the angst returns, but it ends well :D i don't think i'd love it as much if it didn't. let me know how you like it when you're done! and now i might have to read it again.

[seanmegansean.livejournal.com]

Yeah, bloodyrose and angst. I meant what I said about her. It only took a little reading to find that out. And then I stopped. She's just too good to doubt what I'm reading. So her fic is basically a no go for me. Haven't read the post-513 one, nor the follow-up one :( There are a few shorts I know. But she just about kills me with the bits I did read :(

Thanks for the basement info. I'll get back to you when I'm finished. :))

[erraticonstilts.livejournal.com]

i read the whole thing. i'm obviously somewhat masochistic. it was extremely angsty, but then she pulled it out in the end. i don't think the follow-up is finished yet. but i started crying towards the end, like actually crying. this was the same day i decided to finally watch the end of 513. with this fic and then that, i was a mess :( it ends well, i was just so frustrated with justin the whole time. but anyway.

yay!

[seanmegansean.livejournal.com]

Actually, I do a lot of actual crying reading fics. I remember finding her post 513 fic and I had to cry just reading the damn comments to it! Isn't that pathetic. And I'm usually not that sappy or easily moved either. At least I didn't use to be. But Brian kinda changed that. And despite my occasional angst-freaking (see above) angst is less likely to make me cry than happy!Brian. I was crying one and half pages before Brian did in BYBR LOL. But it's probably also due to the fact that the really angsty fic are left out of my reading schedule.

Btw, I've started with A Way to fall. So far so good (2/13). When it gets too angsty, I'll leave it and go back to Basements ;)

[erraticonstilts.livejournal.com]

i do tear up during some fics, but i think this was the first that i was for real crying in. i'm not either; only with brian. i've never read bybr, but i always hear lots of good things about it, so maybe i will.

i love that one! it doesn't get angsty for a while, i think, and never as much as that post 513 fic. but, it probably seems angstier if you don't know how it ends.

[seanmegansean.livejournal.com]

BYBR is fairly angsty - strangely enough, I'm even more angsted out now than when I first read it. And it's not even that they are in a bad place rigt now (chapter 21 or thereabouts?) but that seeing them so happy makes the time they were apart all the more terrible somehow. Well, I neither want nor could give away everything, but you really should read it. It's the best there is. I have not laughed as hard as I did during one chapter, nor cried as much (apart from 513 , but that deserves a category of its own anyway, esp. when seeing it for the first time:(((

Yes, it's probably angstier if I didn't know the ending (but then, see BYBR above, maybe not LOL)

[cabtastic.livejournal.com]

Hey, just a quick note! Now that you've gotten some responses, as per the comm rules, could you edit your post to say what you've found?

Thanks!
-Cate