Sympathetic to Brian

[colormecrazy-9.livejournal.com]

***RECS*** pretty please with Strawberries on top (Cherry's make me gag)

I want some good stories (preferably longer ones) that are more sympathetic to Brian. I don't want Justin bashing, and fully understand that Brian could be pretty crappy to him. But the majority of the stories I read blame Brian for everything, like he is just a huge a**hole who doesn't care what happens to those around him, and then when reading a story and the author makes Brian do something jerky (and lets face it, it's kind of a requirement for a QaF story) all the comments are all "Oh poor Justin, such a saint for putting up with that A**hole!) I some how always want to smack them and say "HEY! What about Brian, they're are generally good reasons for the A**holishness."

Oh, and I'm all for stories that have Justin defending Brian, or understanding why he does what he does (because he's "on to him")

Thanks a bunches

Comments

[deviant-queen.livejournal.com]

Haha, seems like more people are interested in telling you you're not right about the stories you have read than offering any recs. To get those out of the way, try stories by blissink and ryosato, two amazing writers that I'm very into right now. Just check out the tags on their journals. My favorites are One Love and Love Remains by blissink and All's Fair (WIP) by ryosato, but all of their stories are great and they're very Brian friendly. :)

I completely agree that the fandom is generally verrrrrry Justin-friendly over Brian (no to mention anti-Michael, which is annoying in itself), even if they don't realize it. Even die-hard Brian fans write things that make him out to be more of an asshole than he actually was. At first I thought they were just overemphasizing his snarky attitude and general negativity on the show in order to be "cannon", but the solution I've come to is that even the series was a little anti-Brian. Yes, he was the favorite character of many a fan, but it was mostly in spite of his asshole moves. People were able to see another side of him that even the other characters on the show didn't, and that's what attracted some people.

Brian was always put forth as the asshole and sometimes treated kind of shitty by the other characters despite everything he's done for all of them...but in return, he treated them kind of shitty too (especially Michael) because of his own deeper issues, which I think should have been addressed a little more. But ANYWAYS, I do understand what you mean, and it's nice to read stories that don't label him as an all-around dick, which he wasn't. :)

[colormecrazy-9.livejournal.com]

First of all, thank you very much for the recs and I will go check them out.

And the whole thing about the viewers were able to see the good things in Brian that the other characters, that's is the advantage of an omniscient viewer, we get to see everything and therefore have all the facts. But I fully agree with everything you said. This is a very Justin friendly fandom not that their is anything wrong with Justin or anything, I love him just as much as Brian.