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.

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[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!