Justin Month, Day One

[aruan]

I only pretended to think twice about jumping on board. With thanks to walkingshadow for the icon because he is, yo.



From this year's All Star game. Inside the unabashedly confident, undeniably talented international supahstah lurks this goofy, darling goober whose first priority remains having fun. He's fantastic at what he does as La Timberlake, but he's also damn good at being just Justin, too.

Fic rec - I'm going to try valiantly not to rec the Sandys with too alarming a frequency this month, but it will be very, very difficult, and today is definitely not the day to start:

Your Life Is Now - Sandy Keene (first in the Many Houses of Wood series)

The doctor tells you the same thing the doctors back at the hospital said. You'll be scarred for life, except for the ones on your head that will fade. Your headaches will maybe never go away and they can only give you some medication for the occasional migraines. Your amnesia is a combo platter of physical damage and psychological trauma and you might never remember anything else. Other than that, you're fine.

I adore this series. Justin struggling to get back to himself and evolving into a (yes, Sandy-skewed, but my point stands) sort of 'purer' version thereof, in particular less the muck his life has built up on him. Discovering the others through Justin's relearning them was beautiful, too. I love the compassion in the Sandys' pieces, that their Justin is good (and not just at some subversive core) because I believe he sincerely is the lovely things they attribute without sweeping (if not actively incorporating) his faults under the rug. Justin so often gets shortchanged in fandom, pigeonholed or scapegoated or marginalized for whatever reasons, but some of the times I'm always reminded how wrong those who do are are when I'm watching him in footage or reading the Sandys' stuff.

Comments

[gjstruthseeker.livejournal.com]

*g* It's one of mine as well. He's just so gosh darn irresistible sometimes - how do you not love a grown man who can aptly sing one of the most badass revenge songs in music history and still have the some of the dorkiest good humor about the rest of life in general?