Deja Voodoo by kira_j (Adult)

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Hello all, I'm phaballa, and I will be your popslash driver for August. This month, I am going to attempt to rec authors who have never been rec'd at crack_van before. These are people and fics that are mostly new to popslash and have some really interesting points of view in fic writing that maybe the classic popslash fic doesn't really portray. Like Momma fic. And Lamp. Because if there's one thing I know, it's that popslash's crackfic brings all the llamas to the yard.

Fandom: POPSLASH
Pairing: Britney/Justin, Chris/Lynn, JC/Lynn, JC/Joey, Justin/Chris
Length: 8,772
Author on LJ: kira_j
Author Website: Memories
Why this must be read:

This fic is utterly amazing for many reasons, but first and foremost because she took some crazy pairings and made them utterly believable and right and THIS IS HOW IT HAPPENED. When you can make me cheer for Chris/Lynn, that's when you know you've written something brilliant. And the writing is brilliant. There are passages of description that are so sparse and yet gorgeous, and I can picture these things happening so perfectly and clearly in my head. And the third thing about this fic that's just amazing is the characterizations. She gets everyone down so amazingly, and yet manages to write these people in a way I've never read before, from Justin, who's the more typical Justin and yet more vulnerable and messed up than average, to Diane freaking Bass, who's thoughts about Lynn are so right on the money. The most fascinating characterization for me in this is definitely JC, who's sort of predatory and sexy and awful at the same time.

The day before Lynn first kissed Chris, she overheard Joey asking JC and Chris which mom he thought was hottest and JC said her name.

Lynn was in the back of a Volvo station wagon, the back seats down so they could put the surfboards in. She loved the smell of Diane’s car; sand and rotting wetsuits and stale bread. JC had his elbows on his knees, topless and in large shorts. He smiled at her and the spontaneity of it almost made her blush so she looked away only to notice that she could see down the leg of his shorts. He wasn’t wearing underwear. She looked away and looked at his ankle where there were still traces of sand so that it looked like that was what she had been staring at the whole time. When she looked up, JC was saying something to Chris. Chris laughed loudly and when she looked back at JC, JC was looking at her, quiet and impassive and then he extended his legs and crossed his ankles. His stomach barely creased at all and his nipples were hard. He looked serious and suave.

And one more, because this fic is that good.

When Lynn met Paul, she was unemployed. A friend introduced them at a party and she remembered wearing a purple velvet dress and her black work shoes that she used to wear when she waitressed, but the sheer pantyhose she had on meant they fell off every time she had to negotiate a stair. She remembered looking at Paul’s expensive suit and excusing herself to go to the bathroom so she could remove all her gold plated and cubic zirconia jewellery because she didn’t want him to think she was poor. If he noticed she was suddenly sans earrings, necklace and bracelet he didn’t say anything.

When Chris stopped cracking jokes about how young she looked and started complimenting her on her clothes Lynn went to the bathroom and wiped off her lipstick because she didn’t want Chris to think she was coordinating her clothes with her make-up.

link: Deja Voodoo

Comments

[llamabitchyo.livejournal.com]

Brings all the llamas to the yard!

Yay for crackfic! (And since I was one of the betas for Deja Voodoo, it's great to see it here!)

[phaballa.livejournal.com]

The llama fixation is relatively recent... but I think it's a particularly awesome quirk of popslash. Actually, did the llama 3manbus porn ever get finished? I've been so out of it lately with all the moving and new job stuff...

[llamabitchyo.livejournal.com]

Nope, it's still hovering around 6000 words and not nearly finished.

[phaballa.livejournal.com]

Oh man, it's epic! It needs closure :P

[llamabitchyo.livejournal.com]

But I still need to get through the entire sex scene. It's like... 3000 words of intro and 3000 words of llamaporn foreplay right now. :D Well, Justin got off, but no one else.