In my city

[horizon_greene]

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.



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.

Comments

[myalexandria.livejournal.com]

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/

[soupypictures.livejournal.com]

It's a good thing Marco was there to supervise, or else WHO KNOWS what could have happened.

o_O

[sophia-helix.livejournal.com]

Uhhh, I will second loving that trope, though I was never into NSync. Any recs?