5 X 5

[jain]

Surveyish, just for fun.

Top five underrated popslash authors
1. Bartleby
2. Gwen
3. Hetre Z.
4. Kris Dow
5. Mary Borsellino

Five authors whom everyone absolutely has to read--and already does (aka, the more pointless part of this exercise)
1. Amber
2. Betty Plotnick
3. Calico
4. Jae
5. Lesa Soja

Best five LiveJournals
1. apetslife
2. eponymous
3. libertyginger
4. popfantastic
5. thebitchtrolls
Incidentally, all of these authors might easily have fit into one of the above categories. But I don't double up in surveys, because I'm obsessive like that.

Favorite five popslash stories
1. Five Years by Dale
2. Bitter and Smiling by Julad
3. A Familiar Feeling by Matthew Haldeman-Time
4. Refraction by Silvia Kundera
5. Tomboy by Wax Jism

Five best popslash stories
1. Cigarettes and Alcohol by Cappuccino (only nominally related, but I simply couldn't choose between them)
2. Break by Jane St. Clair
3. You Can Read In Whatever You're Needing To by Kel
4. By a Thread by Lizzie Mills
5. In the Faces of Men and Women I See God by Rachel

Comments

[fluffontop.livejournal.com]

I liked that survey, although it drove me mad trying to narrow it down to five of each. Yes, I gacked it for our lj, but I forgot to credit it to you at first. It's all amended now, though, but again, very sorry.

-Capp.

[jain]

I liked that survey, although it drove me mad trying to narrow it down to five of each.

Oh, I know. I'm very impressed that you managed to do it so quickly; I worked on mine off and on for the past two days. And don't worry about the (extremely temporary) lack of accreditation. I'm just pleased that someone else went to the effort of filling it out, and I loved seeing all of your answers.

Something to say about the stories.... =(

[(Anonymous)]

I really was disappointed when I found out that every single good story was about 'N Stink!!!!!!!!!!
I miss those stories which are starring the KING group of boy bands, THe Backstreet Boys!!!!!!!!!!
That's what I think and I'm sure that many other does too! That's all.
To write a good story, it definitely needs those Boys I suggested!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
End of discussion.

[jain]

If you'd taken a look at my next entry, you would have noticed that I also felt I'd been remiss in not including more Backstreet Boys recommendations, and did my best to rectify the situation. Additionally, most of the authors I recommended have written BSB or crossover stories that I might have recced, were it not for the fact that--as mentioned above--I don't double up on surveys.

That said, I maintain that the stories I recommended are, in my opinion, among the finest popslash stories I've ever read.