when we come together in the big bang generation

[aruan]

I know there are a few people who, it's fair to say, have expert-level knowledge about this on my friendslist, but please anyone who's ever been rubbed the right way by a story contribute your $0.02.

Your definitive Bassez story.

For whatever reason, deep or fluff. I'm trying to congeal the concept in my head but don't feel like I have any real understanding of it. It's this shifting, works-today-but-not-tomorrow-and-only-maybe-on-Wednesday thing, and I think an anchor would help.

Comments

[giogio.livejournal.com]

*friendsfriends drive-by*

Can I have more than one? The Wedding Cake Theory (http://www.nsa.slashcity.org/nsa/fic/closet1.html) by nopseud, The Baffled King (http://www.kekkai.org/sarahq/king.html) by sarahq, Sex Sells (http://www.because-yes.com/kittenfic/sexsells.html) by without_me and slimslash, and Twentythree (http://www.kekkai.org/synecdochic/twentythree.html) by synecdochic.

All of them cater to my kink for well-written denial and difficult coming out experience to a certain extent and while there's a fair bit of angst and so on, the guys both are very clearly men.

[icebun.livejournal.com]

Just one? /whine

One story that I think is utterly amazing and definitely in my Top 5 is wearemany's A Slow Beating Between Them (http://wearemany.net/tiff/slowbeating.html).

It's an AU, but as with all good A/U's, there's never any doubt that this is Lance and JC, exactly how they would've been if things had been different.

As with all Tiffany's stories, it's sensual and emotive and sexy and it draws the reader in so much that it makes it very easy to
be so completely in love with both of them.

[liz-w.livejournal.com]

I'm not a Bassez fan as a general rule, but these two I really enjoyed:

Disarm by Jae
I have great love for stories about JC's "transformation" (the way his look changed from NSA to Celebrity), and this is a great one. It deals with how all of them had to learn to deal with public scrutiny, and how to learn which face to show to the public and what to keep hidden, and it contains one of my favorite Justin-related snippets ever:

Justin hadn't chosen the press, the pictures, the applause and the adoration that haloed him in a hard opaque glare. It had come to him so smoothly and covered him so seamlessly that even Lance sometimes had to blink and stare to see him through it. Once Lance had been jealous of the way that Justin had slipped inside that veil, yet another dance step that he'd learned effortlessly while Lance sweated and wept over it. But Lance had caught him more than once gazing at his reflection in the bus window, flashing different smiles into the smoky glass, and had known that Justin wasn't running through his repertoire or exercising his charm, but looking for the smile that was real.

Anyway, I love this story because the characters seem so real to me, from JC's complete lack of fluffy kittenness, to Lance's hard edges.

Run Smooth by Slim and Without Me
The characterization is a little odd in places (as they say themselves, the characters are "GIRLY SEX ADDICTS"), but. um. HOT!

[taz4lance.livejournal.com]

I first came across a Basez on [Unknown site tag] and her site called Legal Ladies (www.legalladies.net) from there I came across two WONDERFUL stories that have everything from heartache and loss to wonderful endings. They are A Different Life (http://www.legalladies.net/ADL.htm) and Illusions (http://www.legalladies.net/illusions.html)

[taz4lance.livejournal.com]

crap, i hate you can't edit comments the lj user is learn_me

[raaone.livejournal.com]

Just Push Play by without_me and slimslash.

Without a doubt. Still one of my all-time favorite stories overall, even though that pairing isn't necessarily all that intriguing to me.

Enjoy!

[tallories.livejournal.com]

My tastes in 'fic seem to be different from that of most LJers, but I enjoy Em's It Knows Not How It Sounds (http://www.geocities.com/nslashmirror/em/itknowsnot.html) and the serials written by Karen and LB, especially Forever Young (http://giblet10.tripod.com/series.htm).

[beatpropx.livejournal.com]

I think the others have given great recs, ones I would have definitely sent myself. But I can't seem to resist pushing fic on people so here are a few more.

The first two are early ones that started my Bassez appreciation and the third is one that just rubs me the right way.


Escort (http://www.glassonion.org/cecilia/escort.html) and Sushi (http://www.glassonion.org/cecilia/sushi.html)

Ode (http://www.mediageek.ca/arsenicjade/writing/ode.html)