So the Backstreet documentary finally came out here this weekend and we rounded up a small fangirl posse to go and see it. Super-glad I’d allowed myself to be spoiled beforehand, because I think I would’ve been wrecked by all the personal stuff if I hadn’t had the chance to mentally prepare myself first.

Or, as I said: I’d been planning on ( Read more... )

Late last year, I started thinking about Nick and Justin.

Then I started thinking about a story I tried to write in 2003 about the year Justin turned thirty. Which would've been last year. I went back and read the beginning, which had been horribly jossed by reality -- unless Justin's released four solo albums and is married to Alicia Keys, ( Read more... )

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This morning, I declared it was Only Talk About Happy Things Monday.

About twenty minutes later, I read that Kevin is re-joining Backstreet. I guess that counts as a happy thing, yeah.

(Whee!)

February Fesival :: 18 :: Breaks your heart

Only one of these stories has a traditionally unhappy ending. The other three deal with sacrifice, and how sometimes you have to give up what you want for the sake of somebody else, and that, my friends, makes me bawl like a baby.

Handkerchiefs are by the door.

All That You Can't Leave Behind by Lois ( Read more... )

February Festival :: 17 :: Makes you laugh

The Saga of Godboy and the Freak by allecto (Brian/Chris, AJ/JC, Justin/Nick)
Brian, newly-divorced, keeps running into Chris everywhere he goes. Chris is pretty sure Brian's stalking him, until Brian points out he was at all these places first.

The Chris here is great, but the Brian is even greater. ( Read more... )

March Festival. It's just like February Festival, only Marchier.

February Festival :: 16 :: A story someone wrote specifically for you

I've been very fortunate.

Under Glass by Calico (JC/Nick)

A British public school AU in which JC is an outsider, but Nick notices him anyway. There's so many lovely elements to this story, quiet moments that ( Read more... )

On Saturday, I went to the Sydney slashers cocktail thing, which probably has an actual name without "thing" in the title, and was talking to folks about the fun pop snippets I've come across since I've been back. Several people encouraged me to post them, so here we go.

First up: JC! I'm breaking him into two posts, because it turns out, he's ( Read more... )

February Festival :: 14 :: Wonderful kiss

Ahh, baby!juni. The prettiest boys in all of prettidom.

Dance Party and After Party by Pet (Justin/Nick)

A pair of stories from a larger series, but these two follow directly on from each other. In the first, Justin and Nick snort E (yes, snort it), and it's all giggles and adorableness, and in the ( Read more... )

I fell a little behind there, didn't I?

February Festival :: 13 :: Fantasy AU

The Nature/Nurture of Things To Come by Isilya (Chris/Nick)

Nick Carter, Generation 8, tries to be the best Nick Carter he can be.

The prose is sparse and lovely, and the worldbuilding's marvellous, but it's the themes that make this such a wonderful story for me, the ( Read more... )