Dreamer's Sanctuary

Well, it’s been another tough week in the fandom.  I’m getting tired of writing these posts, but once again, I’m reminded of how strong the BSB Army and the Backstreet Boys themselves are.  Rose wrote a great post about this on her site The Dark Side yesterday that reminded me of one of my all-time favorite BSB lyrics:  “We’ve been through days of thunder.  Some people say we don’t belong.  They try to pull us under, but here we stand together, and we’re millions strong.”  The media can try to cancel them based on an opportunistic and completely unsubstantiated claim by one person who’s been manipulated by another, but the Boys will keep going, and we the fans will continue to band together to support them.  As far as Nick goes, I don’t have time to write all that I want to say right now, but if you’ve read my stories and my recent tweets, you already know how I feel about him and this situation.  The short version is:  I support Nick and don’t believe he or the group deserve to be “cancelled” over an alleged incident that may or may not have happened over twenty years ago when there is absolutely no proof or evidence that he did what he’s been accused of.

Nick has a small part in Chapter 10 of The World Will Be Waiting, which is now online.  You know things are bad when one of my chapters is happier and more light-hearted than reality, LOL.  While my stories are fictional, I try to infuse them with as much reality as I can, and I genuinely believe that Nick has a good heart, would do anything for his brothers, and would never take advantage or abuse someone with disabilities.  I sincerely hope that the companies who were so quick to cancel him without digging deeper into this claim will do some investigating and reconsider their decisions, but even if they don’t and we’re left disappointed by the lack of appearances we’ve been looking forward to, we – and the group – will survive.  This, too, shall pass, and we’ll all be even stronger at the end of it.  Sending lots of love to Nick, Kevin, Brian, Howie, AJ, and all my friends in the fandom.  Hang in there, BSB fam. 🖤💙

Well, I’m not, but Kevin and the Boys are in Chapter 9 of The World Will Be Waiting, which is now online for your reading pleasure.  I wish I was going somewhere to see one of their Christmas performances in person, but I will have to settle for watching them on TV/YouTube.  The JCPenney Holiday Spectacular on Thursday was so much fun!  If you missed it, you can watch it here.  Enjoy!

I hope my friends in the U.S. had a happy Thanksgiving and are enjoying the holiday weekend!  Also, happy birthday to Baylee Littrell today and Elliott (Ava) McLean tomorrow!

Chapter 8 of The World Will Be Waiting is up!  This is probably my favorite of the chapters I’ve posted up to this point because it’s just a feel-good chapter featuring the five guys and no other characters.  I hope you enjoy it, too!

We got our first real snowfall this week, so it finally feels appropriate to be listening to the Christmas album.  Don’t think I haven’t been listening to it for the past month anyway, but it was funny driving around during spooky season, singing “Winter Wonderland” while looking at the colorful leaves, pumpkins, and Halloween decorations.  The snow here has melted, but I’m sending warm thoughts to my friends in Buffalo who are dealing with six feet of it!

I’m back to my regular Saturday updates, so Chapter 7 of The World Will Be Waiting is up!  This is a happy little group-centered chapter.  Hope you enjoy the fluff!

If you saw this update on Twitter and did not also receive an email notification, you may want to subscribe to site updates.  You can do that on the sidebar, which shows up at the bottom of the layout if you’re on a mobile device.  I don’t currently use any other social media besides Twitter for fandom/fanfic stuff, but if Twitter goes down in the midst of all this Elon Musk drama, I will create new accounts to stay connected and share those here.  In the meantime, subscribing to my mailing list means you’ll get an email whenever I update.  Thank you to everyone who has already subscribed!

It’s weeks like this past one that remind me just how much of a family the BSB fandom is.  While I hate the circumstances it happened under, I love to see the Boys, their families, and my fellow fans come together to support each other.  I’m happy for my friends in the UK and Belgium that the last few shows of the European leg of the DNA World Tour went on as planned and was glad to see how the fans who attended lifted Nick up with love and support.  I’m also happy he and the other guys are headed home for a few weeks off with their families before the Christmas shows begin.

Back to our regularly scheduled updates…  After postponing this one, I decided to post Chapter 6 of The World Will Be Waiting a day early, since I had the day off work due to Veterans Day.  (Thank you to all the veterans who have served their country!)  As I mentioned in my post last Saturday, this chapter does include a scene about Nick dealing with Leslie’s death, which may be triggering given Aaron’s recent passing, but that’s not what the majority of the chapter is about.

I’m working on Chapter 20 now, and the story is over 200 pages long and nearing the 100,000 word mark, so writing is still going well, and you can expect regular updates to continue.  I have a feeling this is going to be a long story, probably quite a bit longer than My Brother’s Keeper, considering it’s already almost half as long and nowhere near the middle of the plot I’ve planned… and so far, I am really only plantsing (half planning, half flying by the seat of my pants) this one.  I don’t see it becoming By My Side long, but I now remember how and why BMS got to be as long as it did, LOL.  So hey, hope you like long stories!  But I guess you probably wouldn’t be here if you didn’t, since that’s kind of my thing.  Thanks for reading!