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‘Mardi Gras,’ by Karen and LB (PG-13-ish to Lite R)
Fandom: POPSLASH (SYNCSLASH)
Pairing: Lance/JC.
Author on LJ: Karen (only) is on LJ, at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lady_angst.
Author Website: Karen and LB’s Fiction.
Why this must be read: As stated, I am finishing us out for the month with recs that have a common theme, harking back to something we discussed mid-month: that canon keeps changing on us as the corporations decide what we are told from time to time and The Lads’s images are reinvented. Again, the stories I will leave you with are full of all the usual merits, but are especially chosen as being snapshots of the canon-redacted-in-fanon at specific points in the evolution of the popstars we slash.
This rec is pure retro Basez. Karen and LB are quiet, unassuming veterans of the fandom, dating back to before LJ really took off, and are mistresses of the hook-up story in all its possible variations, permutations, and fugues. ‘Mardi Gras’ contains the elements that brought many of us into popslash, back in the Good Old Days when there was an air of (factitious) innocence to it – and to its subjects. The Lance and JC in this work are the ‘old school’ Lance and JC archetypes, Platonic in every sense save the consummation of their affections, that we had to work with at that period. There are those, no doubt, who will believe that the cast and the fics have become more ‘sophisticated’ since those innocent days, as they have, admittedly, gotten grittier and more Chandlerian and noir. Tastes differ; but there is always a place for the Jane Austen approach as much as for that of, say, a Jim Thompson. And to see this fic as ‘unsophisticated’ is to show oneself just that: the hesitancy, the inarticulateness (notably male) of dangerous young love in a fishbowl, are subtly limned. If only as a walk down memory lane and a snapshot of the fandom at a particular point in canon, you owe yourself this read.
READ … ‘Mardi Gras.’
Pairing: Lance/JC.
Author on LJ: Karen (only) is on LJ, at
lady_angst. Author Website: Karen and LB’s Fiction.
Why this must be read: As stated, I am finishing us out for the month with recs that have a common theme, harking back to something we discussed mid-month: that canon keeps changing on us as the corporations decide what we are told from time to time and The Lads’s images are reinvented. Again, the stories I will leave you with are full of all the usual merits, but are especially chosen as being snapshots of the canon-redacted-in-fanon at specific points in the evolution of the popstars we slash.
This rec is pure retro Basez. Karen and LB are quiet, unassuming veterans of the fandom, dating back to before LJ really took off, and are mistresses of the hook-up story in all its possible variations, permutations, and fugues. ‘Mardi Gras’ contains the elements that brought many of us into popslash, back in the Good Old Days when there was an air of (factitious) innocence to it – and to its subjects. The Lance and JC in this work are the ‘old school’ Lance and JC archetypes, Platonic in every sense save the consummation of their affections, that we had to work with at that period. There are those, no doubt, who will believe that the cast and the fics have become more ‘sophisticated’ since those innocent days, as they have, admittedly, gotten grittier and more Chandlerian and noir. Tastes differ; but there is always a place for the Jane Austen approach as much as for that of, say, a Jim Thompson. And to see this fic as ‘unsophisticated’ is to show oneself just that: the hesitancy, the inarticulateness (notably male) of dangerous young love in a fishbowl, are subtly limned. If only as a walk down memory lane and a snapshot of the fandom at a particular point in canon, you owe yourself this read.
READ … ‘Mardi Gras.’