Exceptional B/J stories

[el-wing.livejournal.com]

I'm new to this fandom and would like some people to point the way to some exceptional fics with Brian and Justin as centrals in the following areas. I'm sure I'm not the only one who would love personal top lists of fics. What I'm looking for is great plot, sex, characterization. All around top-notch writing.

Could people suggest one fic that's a stand alone and one longer work that sticks close to original characters?

Next would be AU.

Thanks,
el

Thanks so much. I've gotten loads of recs on this. It will take me months to read them all (but believe me, I'm going to read each one).

Thanks again,
el

Comments

[suzvoy.livejournal.com]

I'd suggest xie_xie_xie's work. Her most famous series, Only Time, is set after the show ends, so you might not want to read yet if you haven't finished the entire show.

Pulse Point is also an extremely good AU :)

http://xie-xie-xie.insanejournal.com/51270.html

[el-wing.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I watched the entire series, so I'm off to read her work. So far most of the good fics I've read are set after the last season.

[vlredreign.livejournal.com]

Pretty much the best fic in fandom is archived here (http://www.queereyes.net/) at Queer Eyes. The best authors, best stories. All the classics.

There's only one of vamphile's stories linked there, so here (http://vamphile.livejournal.com/138214.html) is the link to her fic master list.

Happy reading!

[suzvoy.livejournal.com]

Oh, you're so smart! :D

[vlredreign.livejournal.com]

Hope you rec'd your stuff!! Things I Cannot Change is still one of my favorite stories!!

[suzvoy.livejournal.com]

Nah; but if she wants it, it's on Paddies site anyway :)

Thank you so much!!!

[el-wing.livejournal.com]

I read "Things I cannot Change" and loved it. So glad it was rec'ded.

[suzvoy.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow, thank you so much! :D :D

[el-wing.livejournal.com]

Thanks! ~ This looks like it will give me days and days and days of reading fun.

[vlredreign.livejournal.com]

Also, check out the tags list for rec posts. There are others posted there in several entries. Some are classic, some are...tread carefully. lol

[el-wing.livejournal.com]

Thanks. The "tread carefully" part was what prompted me to post here. I've been nosing around and found some places that no one should ever go...

[vlredreign.livejournal.com]

Oh, honey, when you see the mpreg manips, RUN!!!!!!!

rotfl

[el-wing.livejournal.com]

I did. I'm a fast sprinter ;)

[teatotaller.livejournal.com]

There is so much out there that sometimes it seems hard to wade through it all.

I like to recommend wren_kt7oz. All of her stuff is great but I'd recommend Experiment which veers off at the end of Season 3. Brian decides to try monogomy. http://wren-kt7oz.livejournal.com/60938.html

allie_quixotic is an author that I wish was still writing in this fandom. Every time I read one of her stories I always end up describing it as beautiful (even as tears run down my face!) Here is her list of fics (scroll down for qaf) http://allie-quixotic.livejournal.com/80871.html I'd recommend After the Smoke Clears (multi- chaptered: Justin not Michael is hurt in the Babylon bombing) and Lead Me Home (short fic: Post Season 2 A different reunification for Brian & Justin.)

[el-wing.livejournal.com]

Wow, I just look over this and these are really well written. Thanks. I've got a lot to read so I'm putting this post in my memories.

[cinnytje.livejournal.com]

I'm reading Myrna's If you needed me now. It's on the Queer Eyes-site.

It's really really really really really really really really good. Did I say it's REALLY good already?

At the same time I'm reading Rizabeau's stuff (http://chiaki-chie.weebly.com/rizabeau.html) and even though there are a few 'baby's from Brian it's still good.

I'm totally in love with the Karma-universe (oooww, can't remember the author, she is SO good!) and especially the story where Gus meet Aedan. I really really really love that storyline. The passion and confusion described is so real, I've read it over and over again.

Xie's work of course, bdeviled's work, the Kondo-series bij Rosyato and InnerJustin, Chering and Fansee ... pffff, there is SO much out there that is really good!

I'm almost done reading the truely truely good stuff (took me 4 months ;-) ) and now I'm finding myself reading and plowing through loads and loads of crappy stories desperately looking for 'the one true gem I've seem to have missed so far'. :-)

[michira-70.livejournal.com]

Karma universe by mickiebg on MW, BJfic and her journal.

MW: http://www.midnightwhispers.ca/viewuser.php?uid=20

[el-wing.livejournal.com]

I love your icon. We used to have a running argument using "Are you a Bitch or are you a bitch!" and the response was "I'm a bitch!" which we'd repeat back and forth to infinity and beyond.

Your recs look really really really really really really really really good. Thanks :)

[shopinchickcas.livejournal.com]

Hey! I used to read your stuff over in bbm... Love your writing... I hope you one day write some qaf stuff too ;)

After the End (http://qafvault.com/514.htm) by [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] is one of my favorite fics in the fandom. It's a really angsty, but totally in character future fic where Justin comes home a few years in the future for a visit.

[el-wing.livejournal.com]

Hey, nice to see you here too. I'm putting this whole post on my memories so that I can keep reading.

On my writing in this fandom, that's partly why I'm reading so much-- because I want to read what's out there and how writer approach their characterizations. I'm seeing a lot of first person POV switching here, which is unusual. I've already read a couple mentioned here, but most I haven't. Thanks for another great rec.

I started my first QaF fic. It's post here and it's called Ain't No Sunshine:
http://elwings-things.livejournal.com/40489.html

hot, hot, hot

[netlagd.livejournal.com]

triciaqaf has some of the absolute mouth watering, drooling, mind melting uh, hot fics.

http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=triciaqaf

Re: hot, hot, hot

[shopinchickcas.livejournal.com]

I second this rec!!!
And you should totally self-rec yourself too! You have some great AU's. I love Educating Justin. Just reread it yest and today, actually :)

Re: hot, hot, hot

[el-wing.livejournal.com]

Well, I like hotness, too. Thanks!

[darla-isabelle.livejournal.com]

I recommend everything by Severina: http://severina2001.livejournal.com/218359.html

Try More Than Words or Of Comfort and Joy for one offs and Coming Home for series. And then go on and read the rest.

[el-wing.livejournal.com]

Thanks! My reading list keeps getting longer and longer (which is good and says a lot for this fandom).

[selenebj.livejournal.com]

Oh... No one has mentioned plumsuede's fics. They are the absolute best in my opinion. Embark, Framed and Beyond the Yellow Brick Road.
Embark (http://community.livejournal.com/bjfic/369081.html#cutid1) is the prequel to Framed (http://community.livejournal.com/bjfic/132191.html) which is in itself is a sequel to Beyond the Yellow Brick Road (http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=plumsuede&keyword=Beyond+the+Yellow+Brick+Road&filter=all). BTYBR it's a WIP though.

[vlredreign.livejournal.com]

OMG, kick my ass really hard for not mentioning Plum!!!!

Oh, and Everything At Once...one of the best fics ever. It was the first one I ever read by her.

[csmars.livejournal.com]

I'm going to second the rec of "The Things I Cannot Change" by Suzvoy. It's S1 AU so pretty early on but the characterization is perfect.

Another Suzvoy fic is "Inescapable" a S5 AU where brian and justin meet for the first time at the babylon bombing. I recently re-read both fics (for I think the 9th time).

From those mentioned above, I really love these: Allie_quixotic's "After the Smoke Clears," Xie's "Only Time" series, plumsuede's "Framed" (I don't like beyond the yellow brick road as much).

One that hasn't been mentioned yet is "Choices" by England13, a 510-AU story that has on-spot characterizations.

Other authors who you MUST check out:
Jans (Painting lessons, many many AUs),
Arlad (The Space Between, many many one-shots),
Julad (Like Having Sex, Love of His Life),
and R.C.McLachlan

I'm constantly amazed by the depth of QAF fic writers, so I've saved all the stories worth re-reading (and re-re-reading) on my delicious site: http://delicious.com/csmars/favorite

You'll find everything I mentioned there. Feel free to wander.

[vlredreign.livejournal.com]

BTW, can you please update your post to state that you've gotten several recs? Thank you!! And happy reading!

[michira-70.livejournal.com]

I just checked this again and will give you some more.

Ethan's fics: http://www.xhaleslowly.com/qaf/fanfic.html

Rhiannonhero's fics: http://www.rhiannonhero.net/rhi/QaFMain.htm