I am fortunate enough to be able to rec pieces by two of the best writers we have in popslash, nopseud and pensnest.

nopseud was taking part in a meme where she offered up either a short prequel or sequel to any of her popslash stories. I asked for a sequel to “The Wedding Cake Theory,” and this is what she wrote for me.

In February/March of last year pensnest created the ( Read more... )

I looked around trying to pick one story for this topic, and finally decided on Sandy Keene’s utterly awesome Many-Roomed Houses of Wood series. Three of the five chapters are named for song titles: John Mellencamp’s “Your Life Is Now,” Melanie Thernstrom’s “Lighted Windows,” and Robbie Williams’ “You Think That I’m Strong ( Read more... )

Sooner or later I’m going to get caught up on this meme! Really! Anyway, for Day 14 we’re searching for a “Wonderful Kiss.” I’ve always loved the first kiss between AJ and JC in Love and Other Miscommunications by pierson. Both of them are, shall we say, widely experienced, but the difference is that AJ is now looking for stability whereas JC is ( Read more... )

What does it say about the wide range of popslash that all the gender-swapping and Mpreg and morphing into animals and cloning and so on don’t count as fantasy AUs? Anyway, for this day I’m offering a Lance/JC story I’ve read more than a few times: Slave to Love by CrimsonQuills (also known as Nix). In this fiction JC is a frightened, older ( Read more... )

My first rare pairing is JC/Rufus Wainwright - two great things that taste great together, as they used to say in the chocolate/peanut butter commercial debate. The stories are:

New Brand-Name Black Sunglasses, I Love Ya and Whatever, and Opera by queenofhell (also known as Proserpina ( Read more... )

I don’t know enough about canon to know whether or not Theresa is a real person who is a member of their PR team, or a "great original character." She is bitchy and funny and wonderful in What Makes You Different (Makes You Beautiful) by Lois (Howie followed him inside, meekly showing the fake ID Theresa had gotten him. To the Fairvilla staff he ( Read more... )

pensnest happened to mention that she was looking for plot along with her porn, so I started looking through my bookmarks to see what might meet that criteria. Popslash is overflowing with group sex scenes and some fairly inventive orgies, but I found GSF stories that manage to be angsty and sad at the same time. (BSB writers in particular like to punish ( Read more... )

I have 2 recs for this theme, but no excerpts.

The first is onetwothree by Jae. This clever use of perspective begins on the three-man bus, and first views Chris and Justin’s new relationship from JC, Chris and Justin’s points of view individually, then views a mutual relationship from all three perspectives at the same time. She does this by ( Read more... )

I’m stumbling a little bit with this day’s topic. My first rec features a fandom that I know, but the the other two are fandoms that I more or less know of. They’re so prevalent in pop culture that it’s impossible not to have heard of them or to have known a little about them, but I can’t really call myself a fan. So does that mean I’m cheating ( Read more... )

There are so many excellent dialogue crafters in this fandom that’s it’s hard to just pick one story from one author but I am well and truly behind once again, so I’ll control myself and only offer Not the Reel Nsync by nopseudThis is the story where Chris has Lance, Joey and a diabolical JC dubbing bad German porn during hiatus. Justin finds out and of ( Read more... )