Key to the Pairing Information:
Name1 and Name2 = Friendship Fic
Name1 + Name2 = Romantic Interest (No Sex)
Name1/Name2 = Sexual Relationship

PopFic

Disney Princess 'Verse
1) My Big Gay Disney Courtship (Joey + JC; 12,800 words)
2) Rainbows Come Smiling Through (Joey/JC; 6,000 words)
3) Put Them Together and What Have You Got? (Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo) (JC/Joey/Kelly; 3,700 words)

+Girl Stuff (Britney + Lynn, Britney/Justin, and a surprise; 8,100 words)
+Make-Up and Kiss (JC and Lance, implied Justin/Chris; 7,500 words)
+The Tailor and the Beautiful Men of Somewhat Normal Stature (A JC-centric Fairy Tale; 2,300 words)
+[digital-age remix, the same old story] (JC/Chris; 6,100 words)
+The Amazing Tale of JC, the Lunch Lady of Warehouse D (AU with BSB, too; 5,200 words)

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I just rec'd puszysty's remix of turps33's evil lamp fic.

http://community.livejournal.com/crack_van/3203614.html

Read the fic. The Lamp compells you!

I don't read "women's" magazines unless I'm stuck somewhere, right?

So, I'm sitting there with all the chemicals in my hair for the perm and reading Redbook--which I've always considered young-housewifey-ish. Well, it's obviously more gossipy than I expected, but also way late on the gossip.

REDBOOK JULY 2008
on a page titled: Your Life Now, what's on our radar

CELEB TREND
the bromance
They're seen everywhere together and the paparazzi can't get enough. Angie and Brad? J.Lo and Marc? Not quite. The new twosomes in town are more likely to have matching Y chromosomes--think Lance and Matt [the photo is of Lance Armstrong and Matthew McConaughey jogging (not all that close to each other)], Owen and Woody, J.C. and Chace. These fellas have found in each other a drinking buddy, a fitness partner, and, perhaps, a broad shoulder to cry on. And to that we say, bro for it!

...

One, Redbook, you're so fucking behind the times. And, two, how scary and emasculating is that? (There's no way I'm going to believe they are seriously gay positive.)

The first album I ever bought? Was either something Steely Dan or James Taylor as a gift for my mother. It was on vinyl.

The first album I ever bought for myself? Um. It was a tape. I think it would have been Whitney Houston's debut album. Slight chance it was Lionel Richie's Dancing on the Ceiling, though. That would have been Jr. High. Don't listen to them anymore because tapes die. I do have "Dancing on the Ceiling" as an MP3, I think...

The first CD I owned? Was a Cure single given to me by my brother. I didn't have a CD player quite then. It was... um... I so want to say it was "Just Like Heaven" but the timing is totally wrong. It must have been "Friday, I'm in Love"? I still have it at home. Must check.

And no, I don't really pull my CDs out anymore, but I still listen to the Cure quite a bit. Kinda stuck at about the Mixed Up point with listening to them. That was one of the three tapes that were pretty much the constant background music of my college experience.

First CD I bought? Um. *cringe* I dunno, but there's a huge chance it was Christian or Country because I bought my first CD player during my brief infatuation with that sort of music. Highly likely it was Garth Brooks. ... I've given all of my Country CDs to my mother.

I recc'd vaudevilles Callus.

http://community.livejournal.com/crack_van/3193059.html

Mmm, toppy!Lance. Mmm, Chris and his dick.

*happy thoughts*

(Go give vaudevilles lots of love!)

Usual warning (re: my stupid sense of humor) applies.

Breakdown:
6 Chris
2 Choey
2 Lambs
2 Bassez (if you squint)
1 JuC
5 JC
3 Justin
1 Joey
7 Lance

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I just recc'd zelda_zee's Phoenix Rising over in the crack_van.

http://community.livejournal.com/crack_van/3192183.html

If you haven't read her fics, please do. She's pretty amazing! (And I want her to write a lot more pop fic.)

4 AM: Hey, the Kitty Alarm Clock let me sleep an hour later than she usually does. Stumbling around in the kitchen, need coffee, step in large damp spot (my damn kitchen is carpeted) and wonder what I've done to make Mer-kitty mad. Discover that the 2 gallon water dispenser in the fridge leaked like crazy last night. At least it's not cat pee. At least the dehumidifier was running? Dispenser is fairly new and not to be trusted. No coffee was made because that distracted me.

5 AM: Step out of shower. Kitty who is always, always, always sitting right outside the bathroom door, looking in at me and mewing a bit and feeling abandoned during my shower is: sprawled comfortably on the lino next to the toilet and pretending to pay no attention to me.

6 AM: Drop big Tupperware canister of cat food, spill a ton of kibble. Kitty says: OMG, Yay!!! Leave it there!!! But that will definitely attract ants, so I have to disappoint her by sweeping it all up.

7 AM: Much crying ensues because OMG, the human is about to leave for work and didn't give the kitty enough attention. I open the blinds. "OMG! Birdies!!! Fuck off, human."

A bit of e-conversation with samikitty, who's a dear because she's not into our sparkly pop boys, but she sure listens to a lot of it from me.

Sami: In Nsync:
Pick one person to be:
Second cousin that you'd maybe only see once a year
Brother
Friend
"lover" (sorry, I super hate that word too)
Husband

Me: 2nd cousin: Justin
Brother: um... I suspect Chris is the best at being a big brother, though he's only a year older than me... but my answer is so Joey
Friend: Chris (I'd like to answer that for the remaining two, but... you'll see)
"lover": well, JC is prolly really kinky, so... yeah. JC. Definitely.
Husband: I'd like to say Chris, but as I'm not really straight, Lance is so totally the way to go.

Sami: Well, I always pick the person who'd be most stable to be the "husband". Haha. so I don't know that I would have gone with Lance. Haha. somehow I think that Chris is actually surprisingly normal when he’s off camera.

Me: but see, I wouldn't have to have marital relations with him, so that's a good choice. but otherwise I want Chris. I like Chris, lots. :)

Sami: Ah haha. but you'd have to have "relations" with your "lover". Haha. Silly llama~~

Me: JC is totally a lesbian in disguise. I am convinced of this. *COUGH*

Sami: Ah haha~~~ Fair enough!

I went out for lunch and bought my paint. :)

There's nothing like annoyance with Mom to motivate me.

Well, real life got in the way of my doing what I wanted to do for Jammin' July today. Instead, all I can offer is a couple of JC icons and a pic spam with a few of my favorite Chris pics along with the reasons why I like those particular pics. (40 counts as "a few," right?)





( Chris picspam )

I'm not even going to ask why, when I opened the ice machine, the first thing I noticed was what looked like ( cut to spare the squeamish )

Ya know, I don't need ice in my water that much.

New curtain rods and miniblinds have been purchased. I seriously hope Mer was able to break the last set of miniblinds because they were quite aged and not because she has special miniblind-breaking powers. We shall see.

The old curtain rods were in place when I got here. 65-inch span, no middle support. Crazy. I bought extra supports because it's stupid that with all my clutter, one of the things that bothered me the most was the damn, wonky curtain rod. (Which has only beome more wonky with Mer's help, of course.)

On a related note, I glanced at the backside (the inside? the wrong side?) of my curtains the other day. In the past two or three months, Mer has finally figured out how to pull the edge of the curtain from the wall and squeeze herself in between the blinds and the window. There's enough cat hair on the inside edge to make a toupee for a small llama.



(Thanks to graculus) for the pic!)

You know, when your wireless mouse is operating kinda funny, so you flip it over to see if there's dirt or something keeping it from moving smoothly? I like to think of the flashing red light on its underbelly as sort of its scream of fear...

I'm mentally unbalanced in my head.

Okay, I'm not really doing the history of July 3 thing, but I do think I should share this bit of wisdom from July 3, 2003. It's still just as true today, y'all.

Hard as it is to believe, the Jedi really do use the Force for more than just gaydar.

*g*

Get to leave work in an hour. Have lots of ficcing to do this weekend. Hope you all have a wonderful weekend whether it's a holiday or not.