Day Thirty-One - Closing Ceremonies
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aruanHome again, and just in time. Day Thirty, and finally:
What can I say about this picture? I don't know where it's from, or when. It looks like TRL, fairly early-on, but that's as good as my estimate gets. But it's one of the most darling pictutes I've ever seen of him. He's sitting Indian style on the studio floor! He's pointing at the camera like he's prompting you to do something not even vaguely interesting but that will make the hordes of teenage girls who've become a fixture in their lives scream anyway. He looks a bit tired, or maybe uncomprehendingly accepting of everything swirling up around them like so much dust in a sandstorm. He looks too young to be on top of the world and knows it, can sense how ludicrous the whole phenomenon surrounding them is. Maybe he believes the hype, maybe he doesn't, but it ain't gonna keep him from sitting on the floor like any other seventeen-year-old. Love to you for having your head on straight, Lance.
Today we have a whole list of recommendations: stuff I didn't get to before, ones that others recced before I got to them, the stories that keep me firmly devoted to this fandom. Not yet having read everything (even some of the oft-mentioned "classics"), this is by no means meant to be an exhaustive list. But it's good stuff, and plenty of it.
As Lucid As Hell by Sandy Keene - So smart. I want to have the little ubergenious babies of this story.
Be Your Own Best Friend - by Betty Plotnick - She's one of the people I'd follow over the edge of a cliff if she said jumping was a good idea. This story is seriously beautiful - she explores the dynamics in every direction but TrickyFish is true north.
Coldhearted by Jae - Only Lance. Let's play Bed the Backstreet Boy! *tsk tsk* Then again, it sounds like an absolutely famous idea at the time.
Everbody Has Secrets by Sandy Keene - Baby!Lambs! Driven was the PTB's gift to fandom, man.
Fever by Lise - It's the wacky sex-hijinx-inducing virus from outer space! Go read. Like, now.
Fragile by Julad - He only seems more trouble than he's worth is the concensus.
Glimmering Amber - And then he goes and has to melt my every cell with his sweetness.
Madchen by Tiffany Rawlins - Chris tries, even when he doesn't need to. Deceptively innocent, that Bass man.
Murder by Julad - This lets Lance shine in all his keenly shrewd glory. Julad writes him incomparably competent, clever, and self-assured in a way that only feels strange because there's so much fic to the contrary out there. Read the whole series.
Somnambulist by Synchronik - Lance can't sleep and Joey's being silly again. I really do love that Synchronik's stories end well - I don't think I could take all the madness otherwise.
Stick Shift Reverse by Rhys - These two can't seem to do things in order. This story made me a believer in the funniest little pairing name ever.
Walk Like A Camelidae by Lise - It's just as crazy, cute, and witty as it sounds.
There are a few more I can't remember titles for. Lance putting Justin back together in New York after the solo thing fails. There are the ones I want to rec on general principle but that aren't really Lance-centric: For Love or Money, Easy Come Easy Go, Remember, Round and Round, the Many-Roomed Houses of Wood series. We have so many talented people in all fields within this fandom, and also some of the most generous and witty ones that it's an absolute joy to be here every day. Thanks, kids.
What can I say about this picture? I don't know where it's from, or when. It looks like TRL, fairly early-on, but that's as good as my estimate gets. But it's one of the most darling pictutes I've ever seen of him. He's sitting Indian style on the studio floor! He's pointing at the camera like he's prompting you to do something not even vaguely interesting but that will make the hordes of teenage girls who've become a fixture in their lives scream anyway. He looks a bit tired, or maybe uncomprehendingly accepting of everything swirling up around them like so much dust in a sandstorm. He looks too young to be on top of the world and knows it, can sense how ludicrous the whole phenomenon surrounding them is. Maybe he believes the hype, maybe he doesn't, but it ain't gonna keep him from sitting on the floor like any other seventeen-year-old. Love to you for having your head on straight, Lance.
Today we have a whole list of recommendations: stuff I didn't get to before, ones that others recced before I got to them, the stories that keep me firmly devoted to this fandom. Not yet having read everything (even some of the oft-mentioned "classics"), this is by no means meant to be an exhaustive list. But it's good stuff, and plenty of it.
As Lucid As Hell by Sandy Keene - So smart. I want to have the little ubergenious babies of this story.
Be Your Own Best Friend - by Betty Plotnick - She's one of the people I'd follow over the edge of a cliff if she said jumping was a good idea. This story is seriously beautiful - she explores the dynamics in every direction but TrickyFish is true north.
Coldhearted by Jae - Only Lance. Let's play Bed the Backstreet Boy! *tsk tsk* Then again, it sounds like an absolutely famous idea at the time.
Everbody Has Secrets by Sandy Keene - Baby!Lambs! Driven was the PTB's gift to fandom, man.
Fever by Lise - It's the wacky sex-hijinx-inducing virus from outer space! Go read. Like, now.
Fragile by Julad - He only seems more trouble than he's worth is the concensus.
Glimmering Amber - And then he goes and has to melt my every cell with his sweetness.
Madchen by Tiffany Rawlins - Chris tries, even when he doesn't need to. Deceptively innocent, that Bass man.
Murder by Julad - This lets Lance shine in all his keenly shrewd glory. Julad writes him incomparably competent, clever, and self-assured in a way that only feels strange because there's so much fic to the contrary out there. Read the whole series.
Somnambulist by Synchronik - Lance can't sleep and Joey's being silly again. I really do love that Synchronik's stories end well - I don't think I could take all the madness otherwise.
Stick Shift Reverse by Rhys - These two can't seem to do things in order. This story made me a believer in the funniest little pairing name ever.
Walk Like A Camelidae by Lise - It's just as crazy, cute, and witty as it sounds.
There are a few more I can't remember titles for. Lance putting Justin back together in New York after the solo thing fails. There are the ones I want to rec on general principle but that aren't really Lance-centric: For Love or Money, Easy Come Easy Go, Remember, Round and Round, the Many-Roomed Houses of Wood series. We have so many talented people in all fields within this fandom, and also some of the most generous and witty ones that it's an absolute joy to be here every day. Thanks, kids.
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Date: May 31st, 2003 10:57 pm (UTC)That sounds like Jae's Failure.
I can't believe I forgot to rec that one. Although I think of it as more of a Justin fic.
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