this is a sacred, ass-free zone
a series of unrelated drabbles that i was surprisingly sober while writing

Notes: I took drabble requests a few days ago. I've written about half of them; basically, the ones I had immediate ideas for. I will continue to work on the others, but I really need to start my fic for aificathon, so it might be a while before the rest of the requests get filled. For now, enjoy... this. In which there is MPREG, drag, tentacles, feathers, and the word 'fingering' way more times than I have ever written it previously (sober).

for wendy: "How about an outtake from your awesome Lance/Justin MPREG?"

( There's just no way he could be pregnant, even if it was like, medically possible or whatever. His voice is way too low for him to ever get knocked up. )

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for mistresscurvy: "Drabble prompt: Adam/Kris, the outfit Adam is rocking above."

( Adam never watches him sleep and has yet to impregnate him with a half-vampire psychic super fetus capable of communicating from the womb, but still. )

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for wutendeskind: "Adam/Kris - WATCHING PROJECT RUNWAY"

( You probably don't even know who Tim Gunn is. That's like, the saddest fucking thing I've ever heard. )

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for cabayuki: "pickle, Adam/Kris or Adam/Cassidy; I'll let you decide ;)"

( Pirates get scurvy, right? Pirates are sexy. Therefore, pickles are the perfect food. )

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for sylum_tru: "AJ/Nick: not necessarily pairing, but I want them to please be mocking JC and his failcatness (and possibly having heard The Cab sing and wonder how the lead singer sounds SO MUCH like JC) like seriously"

( BJ could probably produce a better song than the demo AJ just played them, and she can't boil water without lighting her hair on fire, so that's saying something. )

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for moonmelody: "Adam/Brad, feather"

( He knows exactly what he wants and how to get it, and right now he wants to dress Adam up like the burliest anime school girl ever and film himself fucking Adam with a novelty tentacle-shaped strap-on, wearing nothing but Adam's black feather ruff and a Britney Pink wig. )

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for buildyourwalls: "Give me a Brad/Adam when Brad realized he was madly in love with Adam."

( Brad Bell, Virgin Drama Geek, ceases to exist in the real world and can only be found on page one-ninety-eight of the 2004 Lake Highlands High yearbook. )

So here's the part where I admit that I couldn't write some of the prompts you all gave me. Mainly the crossover ones, which for some reason aren't gelling in my brain right now. But if it makes you feel any better, madame_d asked for Adam/JC porn in return for beta-ing 'Wizard Not Included' and I actually have an IDEA for it, so that will be forthcoming, whenever I actually sit down and write it.

But for now, enjoy these drabbles. Warnings: recreational drug use, alcohol, and my weak impression of Neil Lambert, whose awesomeness cannot be properly replicated.

01. coolwhipdiva asked for: "Kris/Adam, Slip & Slide"
( Aside from maybe going to church with Danny or fucking Joan Rivers, this is pretty much the last thing Adam wants to do. )

02. for wutendeskind: Adam/Kris - the night of Adam's (or Kris's) CD release party.
( He's like the slutty girl from Oklahoma who keeps going back to the guy who's no good for her, because apparently, Kris is just a girl who c'aint say no. )

03. iferion requested: "AI8 - Adam - cheerful like a cheerful thing"
( I hate to tell you this, but you cannot pull off a bikini, Lambert, and I seriously doubt your ability to convincingly show Western wear. )

04. _lisalisa_ asked: "Does a conversation between Adam and Neil count?" And I decided that it did.
( Hey, you big gay freak, it's me. Neil. Your awesome and insanely intelligent brother. )

05. leobrat requested: "Something JC/Chris-ish? Maybe? Set circa 2009?"
( Coffee is for closers. )

06. brighton_girl requested: "JuC...maybe a tease of your wedding planner or some happy/sappy stuff."
( Seekrit preview of Wedding AU fic. JC really would make an awesome cake artist. )

07. moonmelody requested: "Adam/Kris, shopping?"
( Plaid is officially banned. )

08. runzu requested: "Justin/Britney - Getting back to together (FO REALZ) 09"
( It's a brave new world, and Bitsy has to follow the rules. )

The other day I offered ficlets for that alphabet meme thing, and a lot of you took me up on it! So here they are, in an easy-to-read form. There are still a few letters left but I think I'm pretty safe in saying that I have fulfilled all requests!

( B: is for boyfriends, Justin/JC (popslash), for brighton_girl )

( C: is for candy, Jensen/Jared (cw rpf) for wendy )

( D: is for drag, Ryan/Sharpay (hsm) for balefully )

( F: is for frenetic, JC/Chris (popslash) for sylum_tru )

( H: is for hands, Jared/Jensen (cw rpf) for popmusicjunkie )

( I: is for invidious, Harry/Draco (HP), for ccmom )

( K: is for King, JoeJo/Zefron (teerlove) for lerah99 )

( M: is for Magic Ron Weasley/Nick Jonas (HP/JoBros) for musicboxgirl )

( O: is for ocean, Chris/Lance (popslash) for why_me_why_not )

( P: is for picture, Joey/Britney (pop) for leobrat )

( Q: is for Quiff, K-Jo/Zefron (teerlove) for th_esaurus )

( R: is for records, JC/Chris (popslash) for musiclover03 )

( S: is for Sleep, JuC (popslash) for wutendeskind )

( T: is for truth, JuC (popslash) for brighton_girl )

( U: is for uninvited, Chuck/Dan (gossip girl) for seedyapartment )

( V: is for vindicated, Ashley Tisdale/Britney, (teerlove) for call_me_loca )

( W: is for water, Chad/Ryan (HSM) for lazy_daze )

( X: is for x-ray, Joey/Lance (popslash) for kira_j )

( Y: is for yo, Justin/Britney (popslash) for llamabitchyo )

One of Those Prisoner People

Fandom: pop
Pairing: it's britc, bitch!
Rating: Adultish

Warnings: Depictions of mental illness; allusions to past trauma (ie Sam Lutfi)

Comments: Written for the annual word2urmomma challenge, which is still the best challenge around, even if I am the lone participant. Many thanks to sylum_tru and kira_j for the betas. Sometimes I listened and sometimes I didn't, so all remaining stupidness is my fault.

( His hand is lying palm up on the table like he's about to get a reading, and there are words scrawled in black between the creases of his skin, things he wants to remember, things he can't forget. You trace the delicate blue stream of vein along the inside of his wrist and frown, trying to make out the smudged black words, but all you can see is, I'm telling you stories, which doesn't seem like something he'd need to remember in the first place. Everyone is telling stories. )

So, I haven't started writing my BritC for word2urmomma yet, but only because I can't decide where to start. I did, however, put together a mix. For inspiration. Because I am a giant dork. OH WELL.



( It's a complicated relationship between two people who could really use therapy. Lots of it. )

Yesterday I met a new person, wutendeskind, and you all know how I love new people, and how I like to make them read all my favorite fic even if they're resistant to my fandom/pairing/whatever. Well, wutendeskind has admitted to reading lots of JuC, but has only just started to expand her horizons with other pairings. So I decided to make her a recs list of Non-JuC. For the record, all my recs can be found:

+at my delicious page
+via my recs tag
+at Popsoundboard's recs tag
+Recs by Characters from turps33, who solicited recs from everyone ever.

And now for some recs. I tried to rec classic must-reads in all the non-JuC pairings. Now, she's not much of a Joey slasher, so I only have a very few Joey pairing fics. And she's read lots of Sandy, so I refrained from my usual "read all of these!" comments.

As always, feel free to add to this list via comments and I will edit the post accordingly. If you rec a fic I am not familiar with, please give the pairing and say why you like it!

( It's like drinking cum from a cock! )

And when I get home from work I will add my crossover pairings and my Advanced Placement pairings, and everyone else's suggestions.

Selfish
the one where JC is a selfish asshole and he knows it

Fandom: popslash
Pairing: jc/lance
Rating: Adultishy
Comments: This is for llamabitchyo, who requested bassez and something about shoes (but probably just Lance's missing shoe during that one dance he did), for her birthday, which I think was actually a couple months ago. BUT. I did write it! Better late, etc etc. Also, there aren't really shoes, but the theme, it is there. And thanks to everyone who commented on what asshole shennanigans JC would get up to. It was very inspiring!

( The best part about this new selfish asshole philosophy is that nothing is ever his fault; it's just other peoples' inability to understand. )

Papa Was A Rodeo

Fandom: popslash
Pairing: JC/Chris
Rating: Adult
Comments: Written for Make the Yuletide Gay as a present for the lovely and talented musicboxgirl, with many thanks to my betas: wendy, madame_d, llamabitchyo, and nopseud. Special thanks to Wendy for telling me that this is the first popslash fic she's really connected with in a long time, which made it all worth it.

Summary: JC and Chris get married, have kids, and move to Connecticut. Also, there's a reunion. No, really.

( Chris always says they ended up together because Lance wouldn't have either of them, but that's not really how JC thinks of it. )

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Continue on to part two.

I'll repost the actual fic to my journal later, but for now, here's the mix I made. (Yes, I do this for every story. Well, every story over 20,000 words.)



( Papa was a rodeo, mama was a rock n roll band... )

I've made it through all of the NSYNC fic so here is my recs list! Well, when I said "made it through"... here's where I admit that if the dialogue was too stilted or I didn't like the characterizations, I pretty much stopped reading. I decided to be picky this year, and not force myself through fics that weren't my thing. So this is a very picky recs list catering pretty much only to my tastes, which are apparently really different from y'alls, judging by the recs lists I've seen. So! Here's a highly biased recs list:

+When You're Up to Your Ass in Alligators (chris/jc) // Man, this fic. Is so fucking amazing and I don't think I've really seen it rec'd anywhere and I don't know why because it's definitely in my top two of everything I've read so far. I'm pretty sure I know who wrote it, too (and no, I didn't just check the admin site. I'm not a cheater!). Anyway, it's one of those distopian AUs where the world is scary and weird but the guys are the same. This writer has AUs down to an art, and really manages to do something that very few people can do with AUs, which is keep the characters and their relationships to each other the same as in a non-AU, and yet perfectly fit them into a world which is incredibly different from the real world. She also builds an entire universe in the space of a short-ish fic (for a distopian future-verse, it's short, anyway), and does so seamlessly, without over-explaining or doing fact dumps or anything as clumsy as that. This is a well-written, scary fic, but it's also funny and sweet at times. She creates a clear picture of this world in such a short space of time. I could read so much more of this universe, and yet I'm satisfied with just this piece as well.

( More recs. Yummy. )

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And that's all for now. I have only just started on the crossovers, so more later.

Since I sort of think I am never going to finish these, I figured I might as well post them for posterity, at the very least. And hey, if someone feels the desire to finish them for me, you have my permission to do what you will with them.

( Harry Potter fic based on the Nanny Diaries. )

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( Jensen is a governess fic. No, I don't even understand what I was trying to do here. If anyone else can figure it out... )

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( A popslash AU based on 'Gone' that I started for Autumn Challenge a million years ago and never finished. It's pretty good actually. Hmm. )

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( A tiny bit of a skater AU I was going to write for a JuC something-or-other. I had just watched the X-Games. Yesterday the World Championships were on and the PLG won again and Bucky didn't even place, very sad. He tried the 720 though and almost made it, but he didn't stay on so. Anyway. Fic. )

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( I started writing this for the Dragon challenge. JC convinces Lance to join his World of Warcraft guild. This is actually pretty hilarious. But so much research! Luckily, my friends are all fonts of WoW knowledge. Maybe I will finish it someday. I can't even remember what pairing it was going to be, though. )

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And that's it. And now my laundry is done! YAY.

Dear Goodbye

Fandom: popslash
Pairings: Justin/Nick, Justin/Chris
Rating: Adult
Notes: Written for bittybang!

( Cut for my beautiful artwork, omg. )

Comments and Acknowledgments
I have a lot of people to thank. First and foremost, my betas: wendy (for being willing to read it at all); kira_j, who is responsible for everything awesome and gorgeous about this fic, including some of my favorite lines, and who read it probably more times than I did in various incarnations; to musicboxgirl, who probably had no idea what she was getting into, offering to read this, and who caught some very glaring concept errors; and to llamabitchyo for giving me a wonderful beta, for thinking this is any good, and for listening to me whine. I also want to thank vaudevilles, who beta'd the ficlet this originally stemmed from and really helped me flesh out this world and these ideas at the very beginning. And of course, thanks to bubbleforest for running the challenge, and to semijocund, who did my artwork! I want to add here that this poor woman had to sit through me trying to figure out what the hell I was going to call this fic. I just couldn't decide on a title. I had extreme title angst. Ugh.

Warnings
I started writing this before I watched Generation Kill, but once I had, I realized I needed to go back and really try to capture the language and the peculiar culture of the marines. As a result, there's probably a few things you might not get, so for your edification, here's the wiki of marine corps acronyms and phrases. Most notably: "oscar mike" = on the move, FUBAR = fucked up beyond all recognition, and so on. There's some strong language in this fic that might be offensive. They're marines. That's just how they talk, so please don't hate me forever. Stay frosty, y'all. ( Spoilery warnings; please read if you have triggers relating to PTSD. )

This is probably the hardest story I have ever written. By which I mean, it was hard for me to write, and I think it's not that easy to read either. I have never felt so much angst about a fic, or so much nervousness. I am, honestly, genuinely freaked out by it. But I also kind of love it and I think it's one of the best things I've ever written, so I hope you all kind of love it, too.

Justin remembers the sand most of all. Miles and miles of it, the lightest tan, coarse and grainy, extending in all directions to meet the fluorescent blue of the sky at the horizon in an endless line that waved in the heat of the desert sun. He remembers the dirt roads between villages and the only slightly better roads between cities; he remembers that first sip of water, sweet and cold, the best damn thing he ever tasted even after only ten minutes under the sun. He remembers riding in the back of the jeep, pressed hip-to-knee with his company and wondering if today was the day they'd all get fucked to hell by a roadside bomb.

But mostly, Justin remembers the sand. The sand, and Nick.

Dear Goodbye
+Part 1: Stay Frosty
+Part 2: All the King's Men
+Part 3: Semper Fidelis
+Artwork: Dear Goodbye, the Art by semijocund
+Fanmix: A Fine Dusting of Sand

Note: Please read the warnings on the index page if you are a person who needs warnings!

Dear Goodbye
Part 1: Stay Frosty

Justin remembers the sand most of all. Miles and miles of it, the lightest tan, coarse and grainy, extending in all directions to meet the fluorescent blue of the sky at the horizon in an endless line that waved in the heat of the desert sun. He remembers the dirt roads between villages and the only slightly better roads between cities; he remembers that first sip of water, sweet and cold, the best damn thing he ever tasted even after only ten minutes under the sun. He remembers riding in the back of the jeep, pressed hip-to-knee with his company and wondering if today was the day they'd all get fucked to hell by a roadside bomb.

But mostly, Justin remembers the sand. The sand, and Nick.

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( JC hands him a joint and says, 'Man, you need to learn how to relax.' )

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Links: Part 2: All the King's Men | Part 3: Semper Fidelis | artwork by semijocund | Fanmix: A Fine Dusting of Sand | Index: Dear Goodbye

Dear Goodbye
Part 2: All the King's Men

In the eleventh grade Justin took an anatomy class. It was the sort of class where you spent all your time in the lab dissecting dead cats because supposedly, cats were the closest thing to people the biology department could get approved, even at TAMS. But one day they got to go over to the medical school and observe the med students working on cadavers. Justin could see everything inside the man they were working on—organs and bones and ligaments and bits he couldn't even name but should probably know anyway. Later, they were supposed to write a paper comparing cat anatomy to human anatomy and talk about their evolutionary similarity and all Justin could think was, that's not what people are made of.

( In Iraq it was easy to see what people were made of, and it had nothing to do with the parts involved. )

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Links: Part 1: Stay Frosty | Part 3: Semper Fidelis | artwork by semijocund | Fanmix: A Fine Dusting of Sand | Index: Dear Goodbye

Dear Goodbye
Part 3: Semper Fidelis

When Justin got back from the desert, they let him go to Florida to give Nick's family the news. Justin wanted to do it; he said he was fine with how things went down but he needed to be the one to tell them about Nick. They lived in small, rundown house on the outskirts of Jacksonville, and the heat here was nothing like the desert, air so thick with water it felt like Justin was drowning just to step outside. A small blond boy and a dark-haired girl were playing on the over-grown front lawn, chasing each other through one of those tall, waving sprinklers like the kind Justin's mom used to water her garden with and shrieking every time they ran through the jets of water falling back and forth over the tall grass. Justin's dress uniform was hot and itchy, tight around the neck and he thought, this was a bad idea. He thought, nothing good will come of this.

( The kids ran up to him, stopping short a few feet away to stare at his dress blues and the medals pinned to his chest, the girl a little farther back than the boy, her long dark hair covering half her face. )

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Links: Part 1: Stay Frosty | Part 2: All the King's Men | artwork by semijocund | Fanmix: A Fine Dusting of Sand | Index: Dear Goodbye

Because I am me and I always have a soundtrack when I'm writing, I made a mix. These are the songs I was listening to during the ridiculously long process of writing Dear Goodbye. First, watch this video, because yes:



And now you are ready for the music! Enjoy.

( Track listing. Yes, there are 22 songs. Hush. )

So I was talking with randomling yesterday and she was telling me all about the porn she is planning on writing, and it was decided that I should make a list of awesome popslash porn. So! Here it is. I will not go into detail about why each fic is awesome. It's just a list. But I will choose a quote that demonstrates said awesomeness. To view the list without my commentary, here's my pornish delicious tag.

( In no particular order, here, have some porn recs. )

And there are a few more on my list but I am out of time at work. TIME FOR HOME. So, enjoy your porn!

catviret asked for recs of long popslash fics. She likes Justin, so I tried to focus on him, which really is not hard to do. He's quite the attention-whore. *beams* She's read barely anything, so if you see something obvious missing from this list, comment with a link and a little bit about why you like that fic, and I will add it.

+The Hackery AU by Georgina (Justin/Nick) // Because it's long, it has an adorable Justin/Nick story, and is generally enjoyable all around. They're hackers! YAY!

+The Seahorse Story by Betty Plotnick (Justin/Trace) // Justin lays eggs! But it's really good. This fic could only happen in popslash, and it's one of my favorites. You can tell because I rec it every other week.

+21st Century Love Story by jewelianna (lambs) // Oh man. I know I have recc'd this before but it's one of my absolute favorite lambs fics. Not an AU, but not so much resembling real life, either. They go shopping! They buy sheets! I love this story.

( Recs! YAY. We loves them. )

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So if you know of any epic-length fics that are Lambs, Timbertrick, Timbertone, Choey, Trickyfish or Bassez that I am forgetting about, let me know! YAY READING. I think reading is the most important thing a popslasher can do to become a better writer and also to understand and immerse yourself in a fandom's particular culture. Hurrah!