Fowler's Five Stages and How They Relate to Your Sexual Identity Crisis (The Peanut Gallery Remix)

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Title: Fowler's Five Stages and How They Relate to Your Sexual Identity Crisis (The Peanut Gallery Remix)
author: lls_mutant
Summary: Brendan Costanza always assumed he was straight, and not the brightest bulb in the bunch, either. So falling in love with Felix Gaeta requires some serious re-evaluation.
Characters: Brendan "Hot Dog" Constanza, Felix Gaeta

Comments

[lorrainemarker]

I haven't had a chance to read, but I want lovely Anonymous Author who remixed my absolutely favorite Trovia fic ever to know I'm looking forward to a lovely Saturday morning of reading all three parts in a single sitting.

[trovia]

This is so wonderful. I'm sitting on my balcony and the sun is shining and I'm trying hard not to be sick, and reading this lovely story, knowing in advance that all about it is going to be a treat. Right now, I'm in love with the idea that Hot Dog would go to his viper to cry. :)

Thank you so much for writing this (I'll try and act like I have NO CLUE who wrote this :p), and I'll be back with a long comment later, but now I need to read on!

[lorrainemarker]

I really like the idea of Brendan being attracted to Gaeta for ages before he does anything about it. You've really captured the uncertainty he felt about his sexuality, being in love, his worth compared to others it just shines with every word. You also captured that sense of awareness you get when you fall in love, how suddenly you go from 'huh' to 'wow' in a single second.

I love Brendan going to his viper to cry. It really brings home both his pain and the complete lack of privacy on Galactica.

Also, this bit, "No, they aren't. Believe me- back before I joined up, I spent the days sitting on a carrier and basically shivering in fear. I did what I could, but I didn't have anything to do. Even during New Caprica, I still was a pilot. I don't want to go back to that nothing again.", captured perfectly what most of the fleet probably felt - helpless terror almost every second. There's absolutely nothing I can think of worse than having nothing useful to do.

[safenthecity]

May I just swoon over this for a moment? Yes? Ok good.

I love How To Live And Love, and I'm so delighted it got remixed! And with this section, a lovely, glorious prequel section! Brendan is really pretty precious here, with his pining and his coming to terms with his bisexuality. I kind of adore the observation that he should actually consider it a good thing that Felix isn't attracted to him, since Felix has such a history of falling for people who are all wrong for him.

And the jokes they tell each other are fun and sweet, and then when Brendan was telling Felix the really bad chemistry nerd jokes... :(And it hurt when Brendan tries to convince Helo to get Felix back to Galactica. My heart broke for both of them.

[millari]

So I have to say this remix generated some awesome fic that it totally got me out of my non-fic-reading slump I've been in ever since Gaeta died. My heart just hasn't been in it all that much, to be honest. And it wasn't just him dying, it was the show ending, and maybe a just general decline in my reading of any kind, real life in general, I guess.

But really, this remix reminded me of what was so much fun about reading good fic. And this is a *great* one.

You do a really great job with setting up this explanation of why Brendan was on the Demetrius and how the attraction to Gaeta totally took him by surprise. I'm not the hugest fan of Narcho or Hoshi, but I really enjoyed them as a couple in this fic. :) They made such smart, sensitive and yet also very lolariously male mentors for Brendan. I love how their exit is triggered by Narcho needing to frak. ;) It also makes for a nice contrast with Brendan, who is really serious in his attraction to Gaeta and searching for an identity as a bisexual man, one that he knows doesn't quite