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Best Laid Plans by Lucy Hale (PG-13)
I'm Steph, and I'll be driving the popslash tour bus this month. I have to admit that I'm completely an NSYNC girl, so that's pretty much all you're getting this month. However, I'll try to vary the genres and pairings as best I can.
Fandom: POPSLASH
Pairing: Chris Kirkpatrick/JC Chasez
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lucyhale
Author Website: FuBitch Academy
Why this must be read:
I've noticed in my years in the popslash fandom that the AUs are particularly good. I think the reason for this is that since it's RPS, and therefore the characters are real, fully formed people, it's easy to imagine them with the same personalities in a different setting. This story is a high school AU, and if you know anything about popslash, you know that high school AUs can be their own subgenre in the world of fanfic. Lucy's story is the best one I've come upon, and I've come upon many.
The story, told primarily from Joey's perspective, starts out by referencing The Breakfast Club, a movie that many writers of this subgenre owe their thanks to. The premise is that Joey grows up in Brooklyn where there really aren't strict social cliques, and everyone mingles with everyone else. Then he moves to Orlando during his junior year of high school, and steps right into, as he puts it, The Breakfast Club. The audience meets the young, pretty, impressionable jock Justin, the reluctant book geek Lance, the spacy art and choir freak JC and the angry, vulnerable outcast from the wrong side of the tracks Chris. Joey, ever the nice guy, can't abide by these social strictures.
Lance answered in a low voice. "Chris Kirkpatrick."
Joey kept his eyes on the guy. He sat at an empty table. No one looked at him, he looked at no one. Huh. "So what is he?"
Lance hesitated.
Joey turned to him.
"Well. It's hard to…you know how sometimes when you're really down about stuff, you can see someone else who's got it bad and feel better, 'cause you're not as bad off as that person?"
Joey shrugged. "I know what you're talking about, sure."
"That person's Chris." Lance turned back to his food.
Joey turned back to Chris. Interesting. His eyes wandered to JC, and then over to the jock table, where Timberlake's curly hair stuck out.
He had himself a project.
Lucy loves Chris as much as I do, and it's obvious through her fond, sympathetic characterization of him. If you aren't familiar with his history, Chris' mother raised him and his four younger sisters alone, and they lived in poverty for most of his childhood. I can really see Lucy's representation of Chris as an alternate outcome of his life if he didn't have his quick wit and loud mouth to gain the respect of his peers.
Best Laid Plans
Fandom: POPSLASH
Pairing: Chris Kirkpatrick/JC Chasez
Author on LJ:
lucyhaleAuthor Website: FuBitch Academy
Why this must be read:
I've noticed in my years in the popslash fandom that the AUs are particularly good. I think the reason for this is that since it's RPS, and therefore the characters are real, fully formed people, it's easy to imagine them with the same personalities in a different setting. This story is a high school AU, and if you know anything about popslash, you know that high school AUs can be their own subgenre in the world of fanfic. Lucy's story is the best one I've come upon, and I've come upon many.
The story, told primarily from Joey's perspective, starts out by referencing The Breakfast Club, a movie that many writers of this subgenre owe their thanks to. The premise is that Joey grows up in Brooklyn where there really aren't strict social cliques, and everyone mingles with everyone else. Then he moves to Orlando during his junior year of high school, and steps right into, as he puts it, The Breakfast Club. The audience meets the young, pretty, impressionable jock Justin, the reluctant book geek Lance, the spacy art and choir freak JC and the angry, vulnerable outcast from the wrong side of the tracks Chris. Joey, ever the nice guy, can't abide by these social strictures.
Lance answered in a low voice. "Chris Kirkpatrick."
Joey kept his eyes on the guy. He sat at an empty table. No one looked at him, he looked at no one. Huh. "So what is he?"
Lance hesitated.
Joey turned to him.
"Well. It's hard to…you know how sometimes when you're really down about stuff, you can see someone else who's got it bad and feel better, 'cause you're not as bad off as that person?"
Joey shrugged. "I know what you're talking about, sure."
"That person's Chris." Lance turned back to his food.
Joey turned back to Chris. Interesting. His eyes wandered to JC, and then over to the jock table, where Timberlake's curly hair stuck out.
He had himself a project.
Lucy loves Chris as much as I do, and it's obvious through her fond, sympathetic characterization of him. If you aren't familiar with his history, Chris' mother raised him and his four younger sisters alone, and they lived in poverty for most of his childhood. I can really see Lucy's representation of Chris as an alternate outcome of his life if he didn't have his quick wit and loud mouth to gain the respect of his peers.
Best Laid Plans
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