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horizon_greene ([personal profile] horizon_greene) wrote2013-08-31 02:12 pm
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In my city

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I'm not sure how many more times we're going to see this; it felt very precious and wondrous and somehow fragile. Right up until Tim decided he Did Not Like the mound, which turned into 10 minutes' worth of tomfoolery, with half a dozen groundskeepers wielding every available groundskeeping tool under the sun, scurrying around while Tim and Marco Scutaro looked on, awkwardly.

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But yeah. These two.

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I've been reading a lot of NSYNC fic the last week or so, mainly because so much of it is surprisingly amazing. It doesn't hurt that plenty falls under the beloved "pretty, talented boy gets systematically overwhelmed by the guy who's older, more experienced, and determined to completely take him over" trope. That's not exactly how it goes in my own personal Justin/JC headcanon, but I think, actually, that I like it better—bulletproof kink. etc.

If I'd known all this good fic was out there, I think my fandom trajectory would have been quite different. But my NSYNC days predated my slash days by a couple of years, which in the end is kind of too bad. I have no use for present-day Justin whatsoever, but that boy at 19? Goodness. It makes me think so many thoughts.

[identity profile] myalexandria.livejournal.com 2013-09-01 01:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Interesting! NSync was my first RPF fandom (it was *everyone's* first RPF fandom, RPF was so taboo until then) and I strongly associate it with fandom's explosion of really, really, really good writing. There was a lot of experimental flair (so and so turns into a girl, so and so is a hooker, they're all guerrillas in an unnamed South American country, AUs galore, the invention of holiday fic exchanges) and also a lot of really good solid love stories. Have you found Helen yet?

http://helenish.talkoncorners.net/stories.html#pop

then there's

http://www.waxjism.org/jaesepha/stories.html (especially "Coldhearted")

and

http://strangeplaces.net/torch/boybandstories.html

and

http://yearningvoid.net/insanity/

[identity profile] horizon-greene.livejournal.com 2013-09-01 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I love that I'm learning this about you! I've been pleasantly surprised by the quality of the fic, but have mostly been trolling around AO3 and I've pretty much tapped it at this point, so thank you very much for the recs. I will be making my way through them this evening, for sure :)

[identity profile] horizon-greene.livejournal.com 2013-09-02 04:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay, goodness. I'm making my way through the South American guerilla warfare fic right now, bit by bit. I don't understand how this is even a thing, but I am helplessly intrigued. Last night I mainlined the gangster AU; I didn't realize just how much I needed hooker!Justin in my life, but I guess I shouldn't bee TOO surprised by my affinity for that little trope. Also, my heart has never been so gloriously broken.

Onwards!

[identity profile] myalexandria.livejournal.com 2013-09-02 04:58 pm (UTC)(link)
oh dear -- I should have warned you that if you read all those pages you will lose, like, two years of your life. Which I pretty much did, between slash and concertgoing.

The world needs more hookerfic, always. :-)

[identity profile] horizon-greene.livejournal.com 2013-09-02 08:17 pm (UTC)(link)
How many times did you see them?

Totally agree re: hooker!fic. Are there any other good ones that I should be aware of?

[identity profile] myalexandria.livejournal.com 2013-09-02 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
well, you've seen Synchronik's Lance-is-a-hooker stories, right? Those are the main ones. (And Em's, which he was riffing off of.) They're all at the bottom of his page -- http://tehomet.net/joeseats/fiction.html -- just in case you hadn't seen them. :)

[identity profile] horizon-greene.livejournal.com 2013-09-03 12:03 am (UTC)(link)
I read a couple of Synchronik's NSYNC fics a few days ago, but it's on my list to go back and do a much more in-depth dive. I did see the hooker fics, although I haven't yet read them—Lance as a hooker isn't quite as intriguing to me as Justin as a hooker, but I will most likely give it a go :)

[identity profile] myalexandria.livejournal.com 2013-09-02 11:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, and some truly embarrassing number -- well, no, I'm not that embarrassed, I had a fantastic time. And I actually can't remember how many times. In the vicinity of five or six, I think? I was drunk on having disposable income for the first time in my life, just out of college when they did the Celebrity tour. It was awesome.

It occurs to me that you are probably younger enough than me that you were actually in the age range to be a fan of the band rather than a fan of reading about gay sex who then got into the band later :)

[identity profile] horizon-greene.livejournal.com 2013-09-03 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
That does sound incredible. Their shows were amazing—I only saw them once, during the NSA tour, but it was one of the concert-going highlights of my life!

I was 17 when I saw them, and yeah, young enough that my fandemonium was more innocent than it is now ;) But the aging of the fanbase is part of what gives me hope that they may someday do a legit reunion album and/or tour. We've all grown up now—even the fans who were teenies back then—with earning power and mobility and they could make a killing off of us. I hope they do, before they're too old to handle the choreography.