Jain

Addendum to this survey, because the lack of BSB representation on my list was weighing on my conscience.

Five best Backstreet Boys slash stories
1. Edging Toward Enough by Arsenic
2. Four Nights in Amsterdam by Chris J
3. Martyr by Jericho
4. Healthy Enough by Nyn
5. Procrastination by Zoicite

Amongst all this pimping of TrickC stories, it occurred to me that, despite the fact that it's my favorite of the 'N Sync pairings, I've never completed a Chris/JC story.

In fact, I've never written a single story slashing any of my favorite pairings. Some of the pairings I've written have become my favorites since the time that I wrote the stories (Howie/Brian; Howie/JC), and others had been my favorites previously but fell out of favor before I wrote the stories, but I've never sat down and completed a slash story about my favorite pairing*.

Which, considering the dearth of stories for some of those pairings, is not a very good tactical move on my part. So far as I know there's a grand total of eight Howie/JC stories** out there--one of them mine--and nearly as few Howie/Brian***. The situation's even worse in a couple of media fandoms that I follow: I've only been able to find one Spike/Oz story, and no Remus/Draco at all.


*Starting a slash story about my favorite pairing is a whole 'nother thing; I have a number of stories in progress for pairings that were my favorites at the time that I began them--including a Chris/JC and a couple of Howie/Brians and Howie/JCs--but God knows if I'll ever finish any of them.

**( Howie/JC links )

***( Howie/Brian links )

It's come to my attention that some of my friends don't really...understand the whole obsession with sparkly danceboys and certain of their female coevals. In response, I bring you the Boyband-Buffy Outreach Project. Inducting angsty pagan lesbian neo-Goths into popslash since 2002.

There's even, according to Granitite, a canonical precedent: In "I Was Made To Love You" Giles says, "Um, well, we listened to aggressively cheerful music sung by people chosen for their ability to dance."

So, without further ado...the boyband/Buffy crossover links!

Singing with the Radio by Lucy Hale. Oz and 'N Sync: working the "musicians" angle.

Once Bitten by Gwen. JC's much prettier than Buffy, anyway.

Revenge by Granitite. Probably won't make sense to the Buffy half of the project community, but...Spike and Jamie Foxx and a meeting that many will agree ought to take place.

And, because the series is phenomenal and contains some Buffy references, Many-roomed Houses of Wood by Sandy.