A New Obsession is Born...

[sisabet]

I got the job. Yay me - a demotion opf sorts, but the transfer comes with more money, less responsibility and a moving package that will either go into the savings account (smart girl) or a new PC (foolish choices). I rewarded the apparent fact that I did not say "fuck" in the interview with the season 2 Queer As Folk DVDs. I started watching at 10 pm last night. I finished a few hours ago and I'm rewatching season one as I type this.

I need help getting season 3 - any newsgroup or IRC info would be appreciated (email is sisabet@yahoo.com).

I am fascinated by Brian Kinney. I am more than fascinated - I am obsessed/besotted/taken/intimidated and just plain feeling the "guh" over Brian Kinney. He is everything I look for in a leading man: he has the intimacy issues of Angel and the emotional maturity of Fox Mulder, or vice versa. It has to be more than the "pretty" reaction. I think it is also the arrogant asshole factor - figure in pretty and tall and I am a goner. What this says about my relationships in general, I won't go into - this is LJ, not therapy, although sometimes it is hard to tell the difference. LJ Therapy. Has a sort of ring to it.

Okay - let me get this out of the way as well: *yells* Justin -N- Brian 4-Eva!!!

I have never been much of a shipper. Almost all of my favorite pairing have been pretty much confined to the subtext. I was feeling a slight Spike/Buffy vibe this year after Beneath You and Chosen aired - didn't really last long in either case. I was hardcore Buffy/Angel back in the day, but I am over that...really. I am. For the most part. Other than that, few of my 'ships have been depicted onscreen... and then I saw this show and one was and now I am really freaking myself out. At one point today I began to resent *all* non Brian/Justin scenes. Well, all except for the Brian scenes - cause It Is All About Brian right now. Is this how the Spuffy people feel? Cause it really, really sucks. I mean - I was getting fed up with my beloved Emmett today for taking up valuable J/B screen time and that is just wrong cause Emmett is precious. I need to step back and reaccess... but the J/B relationship is just so hot and fucked up and just a freaking train wreck...I may be ruined for subtext now, as consequence.

Comments

*throws sparkling confetti in the air*

[miss-tress.livejournal.com]

Yay for you and your new jobness! And I think rewarding yourself for not saying "fuck" during your interview was wonderful.

[beamer242.livejournal.com]

I need help getting season 3 - any newsgroup or IRC info would be appreciated

Ooh! if you ever find anything out... let me know?

I'm tried of waiting for my best friend's tapes to fill up before she loans them to me. And then I have to wait forever just to get them from her. I didn't see season two until the week before season three started.

[sparkledark.livejournal.com]

I am so with you with the shippery thing. It's so freaking weird being obsessed with a relationship that's actually *happening*! On screen! For real! With hot, explicit sex scenes! This has never happened to me before. So so weird.

I've downloaded all the season 3 eps from kazaa, but I also found a site with just the Brian/Justin scenes for download which is much quicker and a good deal for the B/J obsessed, though it's a little hard to tell what order they go in. Anyway, it's here:

http://www.the-areopagus.com/media/Sandstorm/

[jainieg.livejournal.com]

>>though it's a little hard to tell what order they go in.<<

As best I can tell, they have the most recent ones at the top, in order as they appeared in the episode, so - start from the bottom and just work your way up! :)

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

so - start from the bottom and just work your way up! :)

And I have to smile at the imagery.

[jainieg.livejournal.com]

Hee! I know - my bad.

And, y'know, I was mistaken - they aren't in order at all, really! Serves me right for not looking at the more closely! BUT - just go by the dates - with the earliest one being the first, etc.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

It's so freaking weird being obsessed with a relationship that's actually *happening*! On screen! For real!

I am just reeling over this - I feel bad for being so cold to the Spuffy people if this is what they were going through... At one point I stopped watching with Brian as Angel and Justin as Spike and Mike as Wes and just started watching it as "Brian and Justin" and now I am just... wow.

[sparkledark.livejournal.com]

At one point I stopped watching with Brian as Angel and Justin as Spike and Mike as Wes...

Bwah! That's exactly what I was doing till...I dunno, probably somewhere around the prom episode. Too funny.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Well - at prom I was all "How very Angel/Buffy" when Brian shows up...then I shut my mouth but good. Actually my mouth was hanging open during the dance sequence which was good cause it helped with the screaming during the parking garage sequence and then the crying at the hospital sequence. That ep...just a real kick in the gut.

[eliade.livejournal.com]

Hee. Your entire post just made me nod yes yes YES. And then giggle like a girl. {g}

Okay - let me get this out of the way as well: *yells* Justin -N- Brian 4-Eva!!!

Yes, I think I did that *exact* same thing in one of my first, awed posts on the show.

At one point today I began to resent *all* non Brian/Justin scenes.

And I've been *there* too.

but the J/B relationship is just so hot and fucked up and just a freaking train wreck...I may be ruined for subtext now, as consequence.

It really is a whole different world--men having actual sex and relationships. Not UST but RST, or maybe one should just say LUST.

If I could wave my hand and command "once more, with feeling" I'd love to see BtVS replayed as a Showtime series. Just fucking imagine it...sigh.

But in this post-BtVS world, it really is all about Brian Kinney.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

But in this post-BtVS world, it really is all about Brian Kinney.

It really, really is. I feel extremely disloyal to the Jossverse right now - perhaps this is only the honeymoon period, but I watched season 3 today and I don't think so. I think I am *ruined* for any other show. There just won't be any comparison.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

I was 22 when I first started watching the show. Spike and Angel sucked me in, I loved Xander and somewhere along the way Buffy sending Angel to hell broke my heart. When Graduation Day II finally aired (it was delayed in the US) I had a semi-nervous breakdown. I don't blame Angel walking away in the siren light, but it sure didn't help.

shipper

[truthseekersara.livejournal.com]

I'm a shipper at heart. But I don't really ever want the two people to get together, because then that whole flirting/sexual tension/innuendo thing is over. Could just be lack of personal experiences on my part, but it just seems like couples that break up and get back together are not as interesting as the couples you root for to get together in the first place. Also, all the shows I've had shipper feelings for- Moonlighting, X-Files, etc. went totally downhill once the ship actually sailed. Haven't seen QaF though. I went through my fag hag phase early and haven't felt the call recently.

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[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Apparently, I am hap, hap happy to have my ship sailing along and smoothly at that - although the amount of angst and pain generated in season 1 and 2 is just incredible. Must be that. I am a sucker for the pain and an incredibly hot guy with pain in his eyes. Ya gotta see this...

[darlulu.livejournal.com]

Hi, I caught your username in passing in relation to QAF on bonibaru's LJ, and was compelled to follow the link since I, too, have become freakishly obsessed with the show, and Justin and Brian in particular, in just the last year.

In fact, I just posted the link to my first B/J vid on my LJ (and am already working on my second!). Yes, I am *that* obsessed!

As far as shipping goes, I've never been much of a 'shipper' with respect to TV shows - I liked Spuffy, and was somewhat disappointed their non-relationship ended the way it did, though I suppose it kinda had to conclude that way for Spike to reemerge next year on Angel without Buffy.

Anyway, it would appear B/J has now lured me in, relegating me to this simpering, full-fledged addict of a shipper, who inevitably rolls her eyes anytime an 'irrelevant' character (anyone who is *not* Brian or Justin) pops up. I have become a sad, sad person.

Okay, I’ll stop rambling already; it's just nice to 'hear' from someone who has come to adore the B/J goodness as much as I do. Sorry for crashing your LJ!

Oh, and - Justin -N- Brian 4-Eva!!!

Damn straight they're forever!

Keely ;)

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

We should start a support group for the previously non-shippy people that have been entrapped (Entrapped I say!) by the beauty of B/J. Please continue to crash the LJ as long as your heart desires.

[cerdd-gwen.livejournal.com]

I need help getting season 3 - any newsgroup or IRC info would be appreciated (email is sisabet@yahoo.com).

I finished my season 2 DVD's the other day and immediately went out to download all the season three episodes I could find. I searched for "Queer as Folk S3" on kazaa and it came up with all the aired episodes (1-11) in 50 MB WMV format. They're not beautiful, but they're definitely watchable. And they're well propagated so they should download pretty fast.

Also, check out the Queer as Folk newsgroup (alt.binaries.multimedia.queer-as-folk). It looks like they've been reposting previous episodes, and I'm going to assume that the new ones will be up there as they air (I think there's a new one tonight, and then for another two weeks -- season three only has fourteen episodes).

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

*kisses you. hard.*

Thank you so very much! I just finished up season 3. Whoa. I am so very happy.

[missmurchison.livejournal.com]

Yay! about the new job!

the transfer comes with more money, less responsibility and a moving package

Sounds like whatever the official status of this transfer is, they really want you out there! Well, duh--everyone wants Sisabet. It's the natural order of things.

Congratulations.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

I think they think that I will come into this office - sit down at my new desk and get to work immediately. Which I will, so damn straight give me more money! Hee. I am so relieved.

[mlyn.livejournal.com]

Is this how the Spuffy people feel?

Maybe some. I'd like to think I'm less rabid...this is how Spuffy shippers have gotten a bad name. Although the same goes for any shippage, like B/A.

Still, it sounds like you have a healthy understanding of your feelings. Most rabid fans are just in DenialLand. :D

I only watched as much QAF as I could get living in a house with cable for 6 months. I miss it so!

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

I only watched as much QAF as I could get living in a house with cable for 6 months. I miss it so!

Poor, dear sweet girl. I just tried to order Showtime and can't until Monday (those Bastards!). Dawn has suggested finding a motel that shows Showtime so we won't have to wait until tomorrow to download the new episode.

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[mlyn.livejournal.com]

Poor, dear sweet girl.

To make matters worse, I don't have a DVD player to even rent the seasons that are out on disk. God hates me.

Dawn has suggested finding a motel that shows Showtime

Just be careful of where you sit. ;D

congrats on the job! i think? :)

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

Hope the job is what you wanted! Or want - or may want, at some time!

I finally got ljmatch to work for me today and you came out as my top match, at 98% - and we've never even "spoken"! So cheers, to my match LOL

Re: congrats on the job! i think? :)

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Cool - we are so compatible. Yay - even though we are strangers we are destined to be friends by the great and Powerful LJMatch Gods.

Yes - this is the job I interviewed for Monday and getting it is a massive relief as it will allow me to move back home. I am sick to death of Memphis.

[gobi-rex.livejournal.com]

Sisabet, congratulations on getting that job. More money and less responsibility, huh? Good for you.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I feel kinda weird about it - apparently the position I have taken is no longer viewed as a step down form the one I hold now - but still...it is easier by far. Unfortunately, the thing that makes my job interesting to me now is the difficult stuff, while what I will be doing puts me in a coma - but at least that coma will be in a city I like. Yay!

[lasheremaleth.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the job! I used to be so obsessed with B/J on Queer as Folk, but I got somewhat distracted in season two and stopped watching for a bit; now I'm waiting for S3 to start (in Australia). But, gah, I don't want to admit how many times I rewound the end of S1 ep3, where they're dancing together at Babylon, or the prom - the prom! eee!, or any scene with them in it, basically.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

I just spent the last couple of hours "reviewing" the BJ scenes from early season 2. It was research for a maybe vid. That is my story and I'm sticking to it.

[luvs-phoenix.livejournal.com]

We really need to get some kind of a "group" thing going for us hopeless devoted to the pretty, pretty boys of QAF.

Until 2 months ago I never even HEARD of this show. Then ladymoluk sends me a link to a music video with B/J (Freak was the video).

I immediately ran to my iMesh and started downloading everything. You can usually get the newest eppy by Wed there.

Not the best quality but when you have nothing it's bloody wonderful!

There is just .... something to the way Gale plays Brian that brings out the lover/mother/friend in so many of us. One moment I want to kick his ass...next I want to lick it. Mostly though I want to be the peanut butter in a B/J sandwhich.

My family thought I was crazy when I started watching Buffy and talking about it nonstop.

They thought I was nuts when I found fanfic and slash.

Now they've just given up hope. My sons are scared to death that I'm going to "turn" them gay. LOL. I kid you not.

A conversation with my 11 year old:

Me: "You know Xander if you were gay I'd be okay with it. I'd march with you and be supportive."

Xander: "give it up mom. I like girls. Maybe Hunter will go gay for you. He's 5. You have time".

:D

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Too funny - but actually so important that your kids know that the unconditional love thing doesn't come with conditions.

Brian is the best example I can find of this *type* of character that just affects me at a very base level. I need to write an essay on it....

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[luvs-phoenix.livejournal.com]

Yeah....he's my favortie by far. The most complex of all the men. Doesn't hurt that he's easy on the eyes either, LOL.