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myrna1_2_3

TOWJWAGABI, The REAL Part 6

Apr 25, 2004 20:10

Oh my GOD, I'm an idiot! I neglected to include a whole final part to this entry!

The additional part starts after Brian strolls out of the coffee shop.

DOH!

( The One Where Justin's With Another Guy, and Brian Interferes, Part 6 )

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canadensis April 25 2004, 19:03:25 UTC

I can't remember when's the last time I commented on this story, but I've been reading it all along -- and this has to be one of my favourite chapters.

Your Brian-voice is one of the best in the fandom. It boggles my mind.
Christ, all hail the conquering hero. He operates on some 12-ton whale, but he can't kiss his lover in a coffee shop. Hah!

I love how relentless he is with Justin, even when he fucks up. Brian can totally be Obsessive Stalker Boy when he sets his mind to it.

And I want to like Dan. I really do. But it's getting harder and harder to do so when I love your Brian so much. It seems like Justin feels a lot more alive when he's with Brian, and that right there is enough reason for me to be rooting for Brian.

myrna1_2_3 April 26 2004, 11:47:35 UTC

Brian can totally be Obsessive Stalker Boy when he sets his mind to it.

I'd love to see this on the show!

Thanks for the feedback!

noshootingstars April 25 2004, 19:44:03 UTC

I finished reading through the earlier parts of this story yesterday and was really excited to see this new section appear today. I'm crazy about stories in which Brian and Justin are separated and come back to each other to start a relationship and this one is definitely fulfilling that kink ( ... )

myrna1_2_3 April 27 2004, 05:09:07 UTC

At the beginning I was really worried about that Brian's interference would crush Dan.

Dan's such a rational person that Brian's irrational interference doesn't really phase him!

I do think Justin has sort of allowed himself to calm down and not care as much as he used to care.

True. The life that Justin and Dan are living is very ordinary. There is very little self-created drama. Justin's mom dying was tragic, but it was an accident--there was nothing self-inflicted about it.

I'm really enjoying this story and looking forward to more.

Thanks so much!

just_for_kicks April 25 2004, 20:18:45 UTC

So happy for this update, because I love this story =0) Though Dan may be a super guy, I still don't like him. In a lot of ways, he reminds me of Ethan (his appeal to Justin, the safety, the romance, his speaking for Justin), which may be why I don't like him. What I think is going to be his/their fundamental problem is that, as Dan said, he is used to being the ONE for Justin, and now that things are changing, now that Justin is changing (or really going back to who he really is), it'll be only too easy to blame Brian for everything that goes wrong (which he is doing.) I don't think he really gets Justin, or at least doesn't see it. He doesn't understand that part of him thats a bit of an exhibitionist, or that gives and receives love the Debbie way (which makes me think he's pretty much oblivious to the real parts of Justin's past), and maybe even the importance of art in his life, what it means to him. He also reminds me a bit of Brian (after the bashing) when he says "I thought we hashed all this out..." like its done, move ( ... )

just_for_kicks April 26 2004, 08:48:41 UTC

I just reread this part again, and still love it. And I've decided I would love to see a Dan going to Babylon part. I can just picture it, going in and Dan being kind of horrified while Justin is right at home, Brian pulling Justin out to dance while totally high and drunk, and Ted or Emmett or Mikey trying to tell Dan it means nothing but making it worse, so he cuts in and has even less rhythm than Brian which is really saying something, and when Brian goes off to the backroom Dan is like thats horrible while Justin kind of looks longingly in that direction because he does kind of miss that part of his life. =0) Its Justin's intensity I miss, when he's with Dan. Five minutes with Brian and he's ranting and angry, and feeling, being the passionate, bit of a queen guy that he is. With Dan he seems sort of complacent. And though its not his fault, because he doesn't know, Dan isn't really looking below the surface of what Justin shows. Whereas Brian is all you're not the person your pretending to be, and he's kind of right.

myrna1_2_3 April 27 2004, 05:16:23 UTC

Thanks so much for the thoughtful comments!

it'll be only too easy to blame Brian for everything that goes wrong (which he is doing.)

Right now, Dan just thinks Brian is messing with Justin--purposefully upsetting him and making him doubt himself. Dan objects to Brian mistreating Justin more so than meddling in the relationship Dan and Justin have.

I think Brian counted on Justin's resilience to bounce back, and that's not what happened.

Absolutely. If someone had taken Brian aside and shown him the future before he dumped Justin, I think he still would have dumped him, but in a less hysterical, frenzied way.

I love that he's admitting he fucked up though, that he thinks Justin is so much better, worth so much more than what he is doing right now. That he gets him.

The problem with temporary insanity is that it's temporary! Now Brian has to face what he did and try to figure out a way to redeem himself!

He needs to make decisions for himself, not to make Dan or Brian happy, or to spite either one of them but for himself ( ... )

qafhappy April 25 2004, 20:52:31 UTC

I was just thinking in the last 2 days that I hoped there would be another chapter out... and here it is! It happened the same way with the last chapter... I must be tuning in to your wavelength.

I think that Justin is realizing who he is, and coming out of his period of needing caregiving, and entering into one of discovering himself.

I also think that the fire between him & Brian can't be denied. I wish I didn't like Dan as much as I do. Because he has to go.

myrna1_2_3 April 27 2004, 05:19:47 UTC

I wish I didn't like Dan as much as I do.

Hee! I feel that way too!

nightsister April 25 2004, 21:06:56 UTC

I guess I'm just old and I see this WAY differently than other people, but is Dan's suppression of his PDA for Justin worse than Brian's overt maneuvers? Because really, it feels that Brian only kissed Justin in public to get a rise out of Dan, not because he actually wanted to display his feelings for his Sunshine, right ( ... )

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nightsister April 26 2004, 21:06:14 UTC

He was in that murky age range-somewhere in his 30's, mid- to late" (Myrna's description...hardly the old man that Brian constantly refers to in a nasty tone...actually only a couple of years older than Brian himself).

Yep, most of the "old man" cracks are made by Brian, who really isn't *that* much older, lol. And I can hardly see where Debbie can comment, given how much older Dr. Dave was to Michael...

Hm. Dave ultimately wasn't good for Michael. It took Deb a while to realize that Ben was good for Michael. Ben is older than Michael, and thus older than Brian, and so Ben's probably only a year or two younger than Dan...

It's great when you have to really think about different characters and their POVs, and whether those POVs are reliable or not. Even if I don't agree with the character's assessment of a situation, this is amazing writing.

Brian, as written, seems to be a pretty shallow fellow, driven to get Justin back in the fold because of petty jealousy.I think it's worse: Brian is envious. He not only wants what Dan has, he ( ... )

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