Fanfic Recommendation Challenge

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Claim:*NSYNC, JC Chasez
Title: The Way We Grow Old

Author: Rhys (rhyssj and at Experiment V)
Characters: JC Chasez, Joey Fatone, Brianna Fatone (note: spelled "Briahna" in real life but "Brianna" in this story)
Prompt: 24. Future fic
Rating: R
Length: long (14,084 words)
Summary: Joey and JC try their hands at a relationship that didn't work in the past and settle into happy domesticity, along with Joey's kid. Set seven years in the future (although it was farther away when it was written). Rhys has many great JCs to choose from, and this story is nominally a Joey story, but I love this particular characterization of JC because it emphasizes the nurturer in him. JC in this story is steadfast and loving, two aspects of his personality that I fully believe in, and they rarely get highlighted in a way that doesn't lapse into full-blown stereotypicality. This JC isn't over-the-top, but is exactly as patient as he needs to be, and he's rewarded at the end with Joey's realization that growing old doesn't mean losing the things you love. And yes, this made me cry a bit. What?!
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Link to the story: The Way We Grow Old

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Claim:*NSYNC, JC Chasez
Title: Easy Come, Easy Go

Author: Helenish (helenish and at Oh, the humanity)
Characters: JC Chasez, Lance Bass, Joey Fatone, Chris Kirkpatrick, Justin Timberlake
Prompt: 26. Death
Rating: R
Length: long (15,935 words)
Summary: Also known as the gangster AU where everybody . . . well, but I won't ruin it for anyone who hasn't read it. Joey's a gangster who owns a nightclub. JC's his bit on the side, the jazz singer at the club. Chris is Joey's contract killer. Lance is Joey's right-hand man. And Justin is Chris's whore. And it all works, it really, really does. There's just enough detail to let you picture it in your head and everyone speaks just as much as they should, and the POV changes are just long enough to slip you inside their heads. There is deep angst and deep love, and JC is a jazz singer in rumpled shirt-sleeves and fraying khakis turned up at the ankle, and he keeps his heart in his throat. If JC lived in this world, this is exactly who JC would be, which is just about as high as praise gets for characterization in AUs.
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Link to the story: Easy Come, Easy Go

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Claim: *NSYNC, JC Chasez
Title: "twentythree"

Author: synecdochic (synecdochic and at Venus In Furs)
Characters: JC Chasez, Lance Bass, Chris Kirkpatrick
Prompt: 23. Time
Rating: R
Length: long (15,036 words)
Summary: Lance comes to visit JC for a single day – for twenty-three hours, actually – because what good is being rich and famous if you don't take advantage of the ability to do that? As the hours pass, both JC's POV and Lance's POV recount their history and their future, and it's just a comfortable and familiar slice of life. They go out to dinner, they have sex, JC gives a radio interview while Lance gives him a footrub, and there's lots of thinking and reminiscing interwoven into the narrative. What's wonderful about this story is how the exposition fits into the internal monologues of both JC and Lance. You can see the possibilities as they see them, and you can feel the night passing as they experience it. JC's characterization is a great blend of random, intelligent, freaky, artistic – everything we love about JC, expressed through his thoughts and actions, and through the lens of Lance's observation.
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Link to the story: twentythree

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Claim: *NSYNC, JC Chasez
Title: "Joshua Chasez Diary: The Edge of Raisin" (aka valiumbitch) [can be considered a WIP]

Author: Cappucino (fluffontop and at Fluff On Top)
Characters: JC Chasez, Lance Bass, Chris Kirkpatrick, Justin Timberlake, Joey Fatone, Britney Spears, Jesse Tannenbaum, assorted miscellany of supporting characters
Prompt: 12. Humor
Rating: generally PG-13, sometimes NC-17
Length: incredibly epic, can be considered WIP
Summary: An amazingly inspired spoof of "Bridget Jones's Diary", this fake LiveJournal of JC's recounts his love affair with Chris Lance cigarettes coffee himself coffee. Loosely following real-life events and alternately side-splittingly hilarious and touching, JC sleeps with half of gay LA, insults ¾ of gay LA, marries a bandmate, screws a bandmate's boyfriend, travels the world, enters therapy, cannot cook, and does everything that we would totally do if we were JC. No one's writing has better comedic timing than Capp. This is the funniest shit out there. Seriously.
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Link to the story: Joshua Chasez Diary: The Edge of Raisin

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Claim:*NSYNC, JC Chasez
Title: Murder

Author: Julad (julad and at temporary insanity)
Characters: JC Chasez, Lance Bass, Chris Kirkpatrick, Joey Fatone, Justin Timberlake
Prompt: 20. Non-con
Rating: PG-13
Length: longish (5 sections)
Summary: So I'm using an alternative definition of non-consensual for this rec, because honestly, no one consents to losing this game – no one except JC, really, and the grace and depth of his acquiescence is a perfect counterpoint to everyone else's fight and surrender. The five sections of this story come together to create a cohesive portrait of the group dynamic while they play variations of Murder – you know, the one you played in kindergarten. This story is about so much more than passing the time when you're bored and in a boyband. This is about relationships and friendships and fear of failure and fear of love. JC here has a tenuously steady confidence in himself, but a remarkable confidence in everyone else, and he doesn't want to lose, but it's lovely when he does and it's lovely when he doesn't.
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Link to the story: Murder, part one / Murder, part two / Murder, part three / Murder, part four / Murder, part five

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Claim:*NSYNC, JC Chasez
Title: Come One, Come All

Author: Dacey (dacey and at Pretty Boys and Daydreams)
Characters: JC Chasez, Justin Timberlake, Joey Fatone, Chris Kirkpatrick, Lance Bass
Prompt: 16. Teamwork
Rating: NC-17
Length: medium (5029 words)
Summary: The boys are young and cold in their German hotel room. There is but one solution: everyone spoon up on one bed, get hard, and hump each other 'til sweet, warm release! It's Justin's first circle-jerk equivalent, and he's crushing on JC, who stays very sweetly focused on him throughout the whole thing, keeping him relaxed, in the moment, and not letting Joey make him feel too young. You've got a JC who's patient here, but who is still keenly invested in getting off and helping Justin get off, and that, my friends, is very hot.
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Link to the story: Come One, Come All

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Claim:*NSYNC, JC Chasez
Title: a person of simple tastes

Author: stubbleglitter (stubbleglitter and at unaware)
Characters: JC Chasez, Joey Fatone, Lance Bass, Justin Timberlake, Chris Kirkpatrick
Prompt: 11. Character study
Rating: NC-17
Length: medium (5110 words)
Summary: I chose this story for JC's character study because the whole thing explores the most important thing about fannish!JC – how he interacts sexually with his bandmates. It's funny and it's hot, and JC's contemplative and reckless and careful and careless and new-age and thinks he knows what's going on. He's looking for The One For Him, and he goes about it in such a classically JC way that there was no other choice for this prompt but this story.
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Link to the story: a person of simple tastes

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Claim:*NSYNC, JC Chasez
Title: Perfect Fit

Author: Liz W (liz_w and at Bedroom Eyes)
Characters: JC Chasez, Joey Fatone, other *NSYNC members
Prompt: 8. Friendship
Rating: hard R
Length: medium (2502 words)
Summary: The guys are all together, but JC's feeling apart and alone, so he goes out to the garage to brood. Joey comes out and makes him feel less alone. They talk first! I love this JC/Joey, because the conversation is so real. You can really hear it happening. And the way JC thinks about how things have changed, and the way Joey commiserates with him, it's all very organic and natural and comfortable. There's the promise of a burgeoning relationship at the end, but really, it's just two friends taking care of each other.
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Link to the story: Perfect Fit

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Claim:*NSYNC, JC Chasez
Title: Catch and release

Author: Torch (flambeau and at the flambeau factory)
Characters: JC Chasez, Justin Timberlake
Prompt: 13. Established relationship
Rating: NC-17
Length: short (913 words)
Summary: JC and Justin go to a barbecue at Chris' house and do not have sex – but they would, if JC wanted them to. This is definitely not torch's most recced JC, but JC is often deliciously written as in control, especially in a JC/Justin story, and this is one of the finest, most acute examples of JC's mastery over his and Justin's relationship. He's not negatively domineering; he's just JC and he. is. in. control. And it's ungodly hot.
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Link to the story: Catch and release

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Claim:*NSYNC, JC Chasez
Title: bitchy!barista!JC (aka coffeeshop AU)

Author: Cappucino (fluffontop and at Fluff On Top)
Characters: JC Chasez, Chris Kirkpatrick, Lance Bass, Justin Timberlake, Joey Fatone, Nick Carter, etc.
Prompt: 2. AU
Rating: mostly PG-13, at times NC-17
Length: epic (11 chapters)
Summary: Ah, bitchy!barista!JC, the quintessential JC AU. JC is a – wait for it – a bitchy barista who hooks up with quirky Chris the office worker while crushing on Chris' co-worker Lance, and it sort of turns out to be love, sort of. Joey is JC's roommate and Justin is JC's friend turned Chris' roommate, and all sorts of random things happen, like lots of sex, and STD testing, and dinner parties and Halloween parties and New Years parties, and the way JC and Chris' relationship unfolds is the most entertaining and heartwrenching thing. I've never pulled so hard for someone so gorgeously, frivolously careless as JC in this story. And they go to a dildo party.
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Link to the story: bitchy!barista!JC