Fic: Weightless Things

[theredwepainted]

Fandom: QAF US
Rating: R(ish).
Spoilers: Nothing, really.
Author's Notes: Definitely for britfacexx and dontyouwaitup. I've been writing it since BEFORE THE WINTER BREAK, grah. And it's not even that long! Rather lighter in tone than my normal stuff, I think.
Specifics: Brian/Lindsay. 5,500 words. Pre-Series.
Summary: The development and evolution of a romance (of

Comments

[veryshortlist]

There are several things I love about this. Linds's talcum powder voice. Michael's outrage. The fact that she dumps Brian for Rebecca Tucci. How you can tell that Brian's whole ideology was pretty much solidified in college.

Right here Neither of them makes it to their next class. , you left out a word. And there's a place I noticed where there's a space missing between two lines of dialogue. Tiny things, I know.

[theredwepainted]

Ooh thanks for the corrections. And for the comment! Yay.

[flashfly]

or God help him, Journalism.

:D Why did he decide to take Women's Lit?

I loved how he spent his time in class:

You never know what those bourgeois cunts do with their time.

At the very end of his list, Brian jots down, Check out glory holes.

This was my favorite bit in the whole fic:

With every word, she opens a world he's heard of but never seen, and Brian doesn't know if it's inspirational or depressing but he knows he wants to touch it - make it bend to him, make it his.

And this made me laugh out loud:

This is the why he likes to say shit just to say shit - tell Michael things that makes his mind stop working for a second or two.

Brian's snark when combined with the description of Deb's glassware is sublime:

"Yeah, Mikey, I marry everyone I fuck, didn't you know that?" Brian rolls his eyes, grabs the plainest glass he can find, snuggled soundly between the cat shaped mugs and red water glasses, complete with confetti colored paint splotches. Deb's picked up a terrifying collection of multicolored coffee mugs with

[theredwepainted]

:D Why did he decide to take Women's Lit?

HAHAHAH! I figure it was a convenient time on his schedule. I actually got the idea from the old Showtime site - it said Brian and Lindsay met in a women's lit course that he took for the easy A and she took to meet girls. ;)

Merkin, AHAHAH, UH that's kind of a shoutout to The L Word, honestly. Because there's a character on the L Word named Merkin and one of the others was all, YOU KNOW WHAT A MERKIN IS? IT'S A VAGINA WIG!

...

So I looked it up on wikipedia and so an obscure reference was born.

(Thanks!)

[flashfly]

Brian and Lindsay met in a women's lit course that he took for the easy A

I hope he got a C even after fucking the professor.

[theredwepainted]

ROFLMAO!!!

[ex_black_be]

I had great expectations for this fic; since you mentioned you were writing it, I was excited about the idea. And God, I respect your fics so much, they are so beautiful and accurate in some many ways. The "plot" flows easily, and I'm always surprised by the way you manage to capture the essence of the characters.

I loved it. I really did.

Thank you so much for sharing, it became, without doubt, one of my favorite fics.

[theredwepainted]

Oh dear, high expectations scare me. I don't even like this one that much, ahahha. Although in part that's because it caused me tortuous pain for a month. :|

But I'm thrilled that you liked it. :D:D:D

[winterweathered]

I HAVE NOT EVEN STARTED TO READ BUT I ACTUALLY JUST MADE A "SQUEE" NOISE WHEN I SAW THIS.

WILL RESPOND IN A SECOND.

You and your WORDS, woman.

[winterweathered]

he sees this universe inside her
Oh, that's just an incredible way to put it. That one line explains everything, the way he'll stand and take it from her, why he "jerked off into the cup", why he paid for the lawyer...

she weaves tapestries in her talcum powder voice
Oh, for fuck's sake, Ariel, stop hogging all the SKILL.

I like that she says "elder sister" and he says "older sister". It's a small but telling distinction.

"That depends. Are you a cunt?" He grins a little, and sticks out his tongue.
And here, you have the difference between Brian at twenty and Brian at twenty-nine. Old(er) Brian would have said it, and stared. Young Brian - playful Brian, that Lindsay knew but Melanie never did - would grin.

I've only met one parent that gave a shit about her kids at all, and she's a freak.
Oh, but he LOVES her for it.

If Brian weren't so hot for cock, he'd be sure he'd met the woman of his dreams.
You are killing me slowly, dude. I love that she's the woman of his dreams and he's gay. THEY'RE gay. Hahaha.

"Well, what

Re: You and your WORDS, woman.

[waterlanding]

Sorry for butting in, but I agree with basically everything you're saying, Cam. I also wanted to add:

You know that scene, in like... 213 or 214, a few episodes after Lindsay & Melanie's wedding? When they pretend to be Mr. and Mrs. Kinney (Does that mean Gus's last name is Kinney? Hmm) for Gus to get into playschool? And she says that she used to think that's how it would end up? And he says no, and she looks crushed? And he says "It doesn't mean I don't love you."I? LOVE this scene. After she asks him if he ever thought they'd end up this way and before he says no, he pauses for a second and has this *look* on his face. And it could be me bullshit theorizing too much, but I have this thing where I think that sometimes Brian's expressions say more and, a lot of the time, contradict the words that actually come out of his mouth. So, I think that part of that pause and his look of nervousness/sadness/relief/whatever could show that maybe once he HAD thought they'd end up together with a kid, etcetc. However, if he said that to Lindsay

Re: You and your WORDS, woman.

[theredwepainted]

GRAH I HAD THIS WHOLE LONG REPLY AND THEN I ACCIDENTALLY CLOSED THE TAB *CRIES*

um, the jist of it is like:

1. The Brian/Lindsay thing is interesting because canon supports multiple interpretations, many of which contradict each other entirely. But it never made sense to me that it could be a one time drunken fuck, because of Lindsay's What Ifs in whatever episode number you're referencing 'cause I don't remember exactly either but yeah around there somewhere, and because of Jack remembering her as the girl Brian went out with. Plus there's just a vibe with them, like they always represent a big What If, to each other. I think Brian's always going to think of her as the woman he would have ended up with in an alternate universe where they weren't gay

[booboosheep]

see, i actually love this fic, and their relationship (yes!), and i say this as someone who is not a huge lindsay fan in general. but then you went and made me remember that i liked her sometimes when she's with brian, so that's pretty cool.

for the rest of the comment, see icon. :D

[theredwepainted]

That is because they have awesome chemistry, for realz.

Every time I see that icon I squeak inside.