teacher.fic The teacher/student aspect of this story has always bothered me.
I've been thinking about this. While I do think the humor is key, Anton is up to more here than just charming us into enjoying her story. Like canon, there is exactly 12 years' age difference: Justin is now 29, and Brian is 17. That made me queasy in canon, and here Justin is in a position of authority over Brian, which ups the ante. What makes the developing relationship more palatable to me in teacher.fic is that Justin acknowledges that fucking Brian would be...should be...taking advantage of his authority over Brian. He understands that a teacher/student relationship is inherently unequal and he worries about it. S1 Brian never suffers a qualm. It took me most of S1 to rationalize the Brian-Justin dynamic, but I got comfortable much more quickly with Justin-Brian. I don't think it was because I'd already mustered my rationalizations, either. FanSee