queerasfcuk:
Queer as folk + friendships
candlewinds:
So I’m doing a rewatch and I just really need to talk about this moment. This scene is from episode two of the show. Upon first watch, it’s really easy to brush it off, to think it’s just “Brian being Brian,” based off what you think you already know about who Brian “is.” Everyone in the show is telling you, the viewer, that Brian is selfish, that Brian only cares about himself. So this scene just gets written off as a silly little outburst - Brian trying to evade responsibility, yet again.
You’ll forget all about this scene by the time you watch Brian cry himself to sleep, thinking about how when he handed an envelope of money to his father who was “short on cash again,” his father reminded him of how much he regretted ever starting a family. But he tells his son he’s a “good boy” when he’s got a hand full of money.
You’ll forget about it when Brian finally comes out to his father - because everyone told him he owed it to him, he owed the truth to his dying dad - and then Jack Kinney turns around and says “you’re the one who should be dying instead of me.”
It’ll be a distant memory by the time you realize that Brian spent his entire youth escaping to Mikey’s household just to ensure he could survive the night, by the time you understand that one of his worst fears is turning into the man who used to beat the body that Brian now refuses to let anyone else own.
Brian Kinney went to college and became a huge fucking success because he needed to in order to survive. To protect himself. So that he could live his life without debts, so that he would never ever have to owe anything to anyone but himself ever again.
Brian Kinney is not selfish. He cares about the people he loves more than anything, and will make sacrifices for them again and again. But do not - do not - tell him who or what he should make those sacrifices for.
Because when you say that to him, he hears it in Jack Kinney’s voice.
ssammys:
‘Besides, it’s just four walls and a floor. And top-of-the-line appliances, and stainless steel countertops, and imported Italian fixtures…’
candlewinds:
I love how other people’s tragic marital plight makes you romantic.
candlewinds:
You’re unbelievable.
I know.
