I'm so behind on comments, but yay, I'm glad you're finding these (especially Chasez Lake which was a classic back in the day!) I think kaelie has her JuC online at AO3 now, if you haven't already read her stuff. Also very classic. I'm not even sure I bookmarked her stuff because I just knew it by heart.
And my NSYNC days were split -- I'd gone with my friend and all of our kids to see BSB and we'd had okay seats, but nothing great, and then when PopOd came to town, my friend (who seriously knows how to spend money) did a ticket broker and we ended up right by the runway, so that when JC came down in his tulip pants and sanggggggg, we were RIGHT THERE. (Of course, we're screaming at our kids, "wait, wait, WHICH ONE WAS THAT?!?" so you might have noticed that we weren't really into them at that point.) It was later that I found the RPF--I came into it by way of LOTR RPF, which was just a crazy fandom back in the late 90s/early 2000s (aided and abetted by the hours and hours of behind the scenes footage on the DVDs.) People wrote a lot of great stuff in popslash, partially because we were sort of out of the focus of the rest of fandom (much of which was rabidly anti-RPF, at least until SPN and the Js kicked down so many of the barriers.)
Is Flesh Mechanic still online? That was mind-blowing.
The fandom had its ups and downs, with lots of inner drama and all -- there was a distinct difference between JuC and joshtin, for example, and half the fandom generally wasn't speaking to the other half (usually because of Justin, because you either loved or hated the kid and people got ugly when he and JC had solo albums coming out.) And then the Hiatus never ended, sadface.
But it was a super place for me; my flist is still full of popslashers who I've been friends with for more than a decade.
(And my all-time OTP is my icon--threemanbus all the way. :D)
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Date: 2013-11-10 09:34 pm (UTC)And my NSYNC days were split -- I'd gone with my friend and all of our kids to see BSB and we'd had okay seats, but nothing great, and then when PopOd came to town, my friend (who seriously knows how to spend money) did a ticket broker and we ended up right by the runway, so that when JC came down in his tulip pants and sanggggggg, we were RIGHT THERE. (Of course, we're screaming at our kids, "wait, wait, WHICH ONE WAS THAT?!?" so you might have noticed that we weren't really into them at that point.) It was later that I found the RPF--I came into it by way of LOTR RPF, which was just a crazy fandom back in the late 90s/early 2000s (aided and abetted by the hours and hours of behind the scenes footage on the DVDs.) People wrote a lot of great stuff in popslash, partially because we were sort of out of the focus of the rest of fandom (much of which was rabidly anti-RPF, at least until SPN and the Js kicked down so many of the barriers.)
Is Flesh Mechanic still online? That was mind-blowing.
The fandom had its ups and downs, with lots of inner drama and all -- there was a distinct difference between JuC and joshtin, for example, and half the fandom generally wasn't speaking to the other half (usually because of Justin, because you either loved or hated the kid and people got ugly when he and JC had solo albums coming out.) And then the Hiatus never ended, sadface.
But it was a super place for me; my flist is still full of popslashers who I've been friends with for more than a decade.
(And my all-time OTP is my icon--threemanbus all the way. :D)