Fanfic Recommendation Challenge

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Claim: Nsync: general
Prompt: 20 Fight
Title: A Space Odyssey
Author: Hammerhead, at FuBitch Academy and hammerhead22
Rating: sex
Length: long
Brief summary: I'm a complete sucker for space AUs. In this one Chris has just thrown Jason out of his fighting team and they're now in desperate need of a new coordinator. Is Lance the one who can fill the position? Great group interactions and lowkey suspense.
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Link to the story: A Space Odyssey


Claim: Nsync: general
Prompt: 49 Reccer's Choice
Title: Maybe
Author: Genee Li, at sparkle and shine and geneli4
Rating: mention of sex
Length: short
Brief summary: A lovely glimpse of JC's thoughts during a photoshoot. Written in Genee's wonderfully sensual prose.
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Link to the story: Maybe

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Claim: Nsync: general
Prompt: 43 Denial
Title: Something More
Author: Sola Fiamma, at When Wrong Feels Right and sola_fiamma
Rating: R-ish
Length: long
Brief summary: Chris is such an ass in this story and so completely in denial about his real feelings for Lance. Funny and a little angsty and with wonderful interactions between all the guys.
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Link to the story: Something More


Claim: Nsync: general
Prompt: 48 Reccer's Choice
Title: Song of the Sea
Author: Rhys, at Experiment V and rhyssj
Rating: explicit sex
Length: epic
Brief summary: Joey, JC, Justin, and Chris are pirates, Lance is the rich boy sent to the New World by his father. This is an absolutely lovely story. Detailed, rich, and sensual with a lovely period feel.
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Link to the story: Song of the Sea

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Claim: Nsync: general
Prompt: 06 Anger
Title: Alpha
Author: Lois Lane, at Lois Lane Archive
Rating: sex
Length: short/medium
Brief summary: The break with Lou and how Chris' anger infects the group. A strange and fascinating story.
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Link to the story: Alpha or here


Claim: Nsync: general
Prompt: 14 Loss
Title: Graduation
Author: Arsenic Jade, at every rose has a thorn and arsenicjade
Rating: PG-13
Length: long
Brief summary: It's the beginning of the hiatus and Lance decides to go to college. This is a quiet and understated story about dealing with loss and trying to find your own way, and the portrayal of the growing closeness between Lance and JC is sweet without being cloying.
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Link to the story: Graduation (there is also a sequel, Long Distance)

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Claim: Nsync: general
Prompt: 12 Humor
Title: There And Back Again
Author: Mercutio, at Mercutio's Stories and bard_mercutio
Rating: -
Length: medium
Brief summary: Chris and Justin awakes one day to discover that they're Merry and Pippin in the film version of The Lord of the Rings. As the story continues, one after another the rest of Nsync and also the Backstreet Boys turns up. This story is hillariously funny without loosing the dark undertone of the original story.
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Link to the story: There And Back Again part 1 and part 2 or here


Claim: Nsync: general
Prompt: 47 Reccer's Choice
Title: A Habitation of Dragons
Author: No pSeud Attached, at nO PsEUD aTTACHED - a pOPSLASH fICTION aRCHIVE and nopseud
Rating: -
Length: short/medium
Brief summary: Justin has turned into a dragon, but of course the guys are still his best friends and of course Nsync will continue to perform. A story that manages to be both wierd and strange, funny and sweet, and a bit scary too, all at the same time.
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Link to the story: A Habitation of Dragons or here

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Claim: Nsync: general
Prompt: 02 AU
Title: Death On The High Seas
Author: TNL, at Sweet Torture and tnl
Rating: -
Length: long
Brief summary: It will take all of M. Hercule Poirot's gray cells to solve the mystery of who killed the well-known film magnate L. J. Pearlman. Was it his bitterest rival, Mr Kirkpatrick of F-M-S Pictures, or perhaps Miss Jean Spears, the celebrated film star, or even the First Class steward, Howard Dorough, who was the last to see the murdered man alive? This is an absolutely delightful pastiche of an early Agatha Christie crime story! Everything, the writing, the dialogue, the whole atmosphere, feels completely right and the sparkly boys and girls fit seemlessly into this very original setting.
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Link to the story: Death On The High Seas


Claim: Nsync: general
Prompt: 22 UST
Title: Packaging
Author: Mercutio, at Mercutio's Stories and bard_mercutio
Rating: -
Length: short
Brief summary: Nsync and their hapless publicist. An hilariously funny little story.
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Link to the story: Packaging or here

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Claim: Nsync: general
Prompt: 05 Sex
Title: Something Like Myself
Author: Loey, at fictitiously.i-heart-sam.net and enoughoflove
Rating: NC17
Length: medium
Brief summary: This is a scorchingly hot GSF from the early days in Germany. I love this Lance who's both entranced and worried, wanting to let go but still a little scared of what the future will bring.
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Link to the story: Something Like Myself


Claim: Nsync: general
Prompt: 08 Friendship
Title: Just Like That
Author: Ephemera, at index page and ephemera_pop
Rating: -
Length: medium
Brief summary: I love how the music runs through this story, everything intertwining, the singing, at first apart and then together, bringing them all back in sync. A wonderful reunion story.
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Link to the story: Just Like That

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Claim: Nsync: general
Prompt: 17 Jealousy
Title: Always Known.
Author: Terri, at Terri's popslash stories and turps33
Rating: sex
Length: long
Brief summary: Chris is being so very Chris in this story, fun and impossible and complicated, and crushing on Lance. It's a kind of reunion story and it has puppy piles and drunken orgies (well, not really, but there is sex and it's lovely :-) and lots of group-togetherness. And some seriousness too amid all the love and fun.
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Link to the story: Always Known.


Claim: Nsync: general
Prompt: 32 Secrets
Title: Something To Talk About
Author: Mary the Fan, at marythefan
Rating: -
Length: long
Brief summary: Chris finds out Lance is gay. It's sweet and awkward and very lovely and I just want to hug and squish this Chris and Lance and tell them that everything really is going to be alright. This story explores the ramifications of Lance's coming out and the history of Nsync and uses canon in a wonderfully deft way that grounds the story without bogging it down.
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Link to the story: Something To Talk About

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Claim: Nsync: general
Prompt: 09 Hurt/Comfort
Title: Clairvoyant
Author: Em, at nslashmirror
Rating: NC-17
Length: short
Brief summary: This Lance-centric GSF paints insightsful portraits of the guys and shows us why Joey is Lance's favourite.
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Link to the story: Clairvoyant


Claim: Nsync: general
Prompt: 31 Discovery
Title: A Little Less Conversation
Author: phaballa, at DEFINITION and phaballa
Rating: R
Length: short
Brief summary: Four phone conversations highlighting Justin's reaction to discovering that Lance is gay. This story is simply hilarious and the conversations Justin has with the other guys feel spot-on.
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Link to the story: A Little Less Conversation

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Claim: Nsync: general
Prompt: 16 Teamwork
Title: Not The Reel Nsync
Author: No pSeud Attached, at nO PsEUD aTTACHED - a pOPSLASH fICTION aRCHIVE and nopseud
Rating: -
Length: long
Brief summary: This is the funniest thing to have been written in the fandom in a long time. The story of how Chris, Lance, and Joey started dubbing gay porn in Chris' basement studio just for the fun of it, roping in (a very eager and willling) JC along the way, the subsequent feud with Justin, and what the final outcome was, is absolutely brilliant and not to be missed by anyone who loves popslash and Nsync. In addition to being totally hilarious it's wonderfully written, has some lovely subtle characterisations - JC and Kelly comes especially to mind, and it's long. Seriously, I can find nothing wrong with this story. If you haven't read it yet you should run and do so at once!
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Link to the story: Not The Reel Nsync


Claim: Nsync: general
Prompt: 18 Light
Title: The Abdul Theory (Extended Behind the Scenes Two-for-the-Price-of-One Rhinestone Romance Remix)
Author: torch, at the flambeau factory and flambeau
Rating: R
Length: medium/long
Brief summary: This story bubbles with fun! The dialouge is like bursts of sparkly fireworks, the courtship of Chris and Lance, prodded on by Justin and aided and abetted by JC and Joey, and the budding romance between a clueless Justin and a seemingly-innocent JC is popslash at its lightest, fluffiest best. And don't forget to check out the original story, Hayley's adorable The Abdul Theory.
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Link to the story: The Abdul Theory (Extended Behind the Scenes Two-for-the-Price-of-One Rhinestone Romance Remix)

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Claim: Nsync: general
Prompt: 29 Intoxication
Title: Wasted Away
Author: Allen_sama, at ghostoftheyear
Rating: so very very nc-17.
Length: medium
Brief summary: The rest of them get very, very drunk on national televion. JC is incensed. But not for very long... This story really is the essential PWP, lots of hot sex and hardly any plot at all. Rawr!!
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Link to the story: Wasted Away



Claim: Nsync: general
Prompt: 42 Holiday
Title: Holiday
Author: Mercutio, at Mercutio's Stories and bard_mercutio
Rating: sex
Length: short
Brief summary: The one thing they all agreed on was that they couldn't have sex. Or perhaps they could, but only on major holidays... This is such a fun and silly little romp!
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Link to the story: Holiday