Feb Festival Day 21
Feb. 21st, 2012 10:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pensnestReal world with added weirdness... you know, based in canon (they're popstars!) but with supernatural or otherwise inexplicable extras, like, magic is real, there are vampires in the audience, they have superpowers, they swapped bodies, etc.
Oh boy. It feels as though fully half of all the popslash stories ever written would qualify for this one. There's the one where Chris shrinks, and the sudden telepathy between Lance and Chris after a lightning strike, and the Lance/Justin bodyswap *fans self* and the JC/Britney bodyswap, and any number of 'wakes up as a girl' stories, and, and...
I'm going to go with something that won't immediately spring to mind, namely A Sheepish Kind of Love by Natalie. In which the people who fall in love with Chris... turn into sheep.
I also seem to have written a few of these... okay, Round Dance is my body-swap story, only I didn't want to write one in which two people swap with one another and exchanged information at once. I decided to write something in which four people swapped, but in a sort of pass-it-on exchange, and didn't realise they hadn't done a straightforward swap... There's not a lot of precedent for multiple body-hop-swap stories, and as I've written one, I know why. Inevitably, it turned into Trickyfish. Oh, what the heck—also Horny, which features a unicorn.
Oh boy. It feels as though fully half of all the popslash stories ever written would qualify for this one. There's the one where Chris shrinks, and the sudden telepathy between Lance and Chris after a lightning strike, and the Lance/Justin bodyswap *fans self* and the JC/Britney bodyswap, and any number of 'wakes up as a girl' stories, and, and...
I'm going to go with something that won't immediately spring to mind, namely A Sheepish Kind of Love by Natalie. In which the people who fall in love with Chris... turn into sheep.
I also seem to have written a few of these... okay, Round Dance is my body-swap story, only I didn't want to write one in which two people swap with one another and exchanged information at once. I decided to write something in which four people swapped, but in a sort of pass-it-on exchange, and didn't realise they hadn't done a straightforward swap... There's not a lot of precedent for multiple body-hop-swap stories, and as I've written one, I know why. Inevitably, it turned into Trickyfish. Oh, what the heck—also Horny, which features a unicorn.
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Date: 2012-02-21 11:27 pm (UTC)*bows to your greatness*
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Date: 2012-02-21 12:28 pm (UTC)HI. ♥
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Date: 2012-02-21 11:49 am (UTC)I'm going to read yours, too -- four-way bodyswap, awesome -- but it's late and I got a bit confused in my sleepy head about who was whom. I'll tackle it tomorrow. I did read far enough to giggle about JC's grooming habits, though. He so would.
I'd also be interested in reading the Lance/Justin and JC/Bobbie bodyswaps, if you remember who wrote them. I was thinking the lambs was Sandy, but the one of hers I remember is popstar!Justin swapping with college!Justin (still lambs, of course).
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Date: 2012-02-21 03:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-22 02:07 pm (UTC)(Also, general link list of popslash bodyswap stories.)
I couldn't find the JC/Bobbie, hmm.
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Date: 2012-02-22 06:58 pm (UTC)I've put up a request on
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Date: 2012-02-28 07:21 am (UTC)I particularly like the way Lance just copies Justin's last performance over and over, although, interestingly, when I saw Justin live on his Justified tour, I became obsessed with how rehearsed everything seemed. (To the point that I kept turning to a friend, who'd also seen him a few days before, and saying, "Did he do that in Melbourne? How about that?") I missed the spontaneity of the 'N Sync concerts I'd watched footage of, where there were obviously set pieces but at least there where moments of interaction that seemed fresh. Solo!Justin seemed to have planned out every single moment in advance.
Round Dance was also a lot of fun, though I have to admit I was glad you provided a cheat sheet! (I was just at the point of writing one down when I came to the AN in your story.) It must've been awfully confusing to try to write.
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Date: 2012-02-28 08:49 am (UTC)Doing the POV stuff in Round Dance was quite the challenge—I was always very aware that whoever was reading it didn't know as well as I did who was in which body, so I not only had to remember who was who, and who thought who else was in which body, I had put reminders in so that the person reading wouldn't keep thinking, "But I thought Justin was Chris now", etc. So yes, it was fun but also pretty hard work!
By the way, that JC/Britney bodyswap turns out to be The Other Half by bitterchick. If you don't have bitterchick's stories, there's a shareable folder of them all which I'll be happy to pass along.
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Date: 2012-02-21 02:32 pm (UTC)You know, you could make an entire month's rec challenge based just on 'added weirdness' stories :-)
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Date: 2012-02-21 03:20 pm (UTC)There was a WTF challenge several years ago, which I started to participate in but never finished all the categories. I bet we could have had a February WTF asking for stories in all kinds of bizarre categories. One day definitely isn't enough!