Once upon a time there was an icon, created by brianslave68 :



I commented that it looked to me like Brian was figure skating, and an amusing discussion ensued in which it was generally agreed that any fic in which Brian was a figure skater would have to be crack.

An opinion I shared, but my muses, it appears, did not. They seized my keyboard and typed the fateful words, "I can write that." And thus this fic was born. A non-cracky AU in which Brian Kinney is a figure skater.

I normally let my stories stand for themselves, but in this case I want to warn all the figure skating fangirls out there that I do not write serious real person fic. There will be no overt or hidden "real people" in this story. Don't try to figure out who anyone is supposed to be, or what famous competitions these are. This story is set in a world in which none of the Olympics or other other competitions that we know took place. as far as the skating world itself goes, it's all as accurate as I could make it (with the unknowing assistance of my professional figure skater sister-in-law), but like QAF itself, you may need to just accept a few things for the sake of the story and move on. I hope not, but it's possible. No one is perfect except, of course, Justin Taylor, and he did not write this fic.

My bitch muses did.

Thanks so much to brianslave68 for inspiring this story and also for making its beautiful banner and matching icons (which I'll share later), and totestdog65 , who did a bang-up beta job and made this story much better.

One last thing: I have a lot of new readers (HELLO!), and you might not know this, so I'll tell you: I love all the regular characters, including Michael, Melanie and Lindsay, so if you don't, that's fine, but please don't bash any of them in the comments to this fic. It makes me sad to read that stuff. THANK YOU!

( Feeling Good, Chapter One, by Xie... )

Project Runway, you are dead to me now.