Throwback Thursday #13: Top Five Favorite Millennium Era Fanfics

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Can you believe it? Not only are we halfway through 2025 and this series of twenty-five retrospective blogs for Dreamer’s Sanctuary’s twenty-fifth anniversary, but we’re just one day away from the release of Millennium 2.0 and the start of the new residency! To commemorate the occasion, I’m throwing it way back to the Millennium era for this week’s blog. The Millennium era will always be one of my favorite BSB eras, as it’s when I went from a casual fan to a die-hard fan, attended my first concert, discovered fanfic, and eventually started writing it myself. My first stories took place during the Millennium era, too. Considering I was fourteen when I started writing fanfic, these fics are far from my best work and don’t hold a candle to my adult writing. But I’ve kept them online for all these years because they show where I started and how far I’ve come since then. They also serve as a time capsule, giving younger fans a glimpse into a bygone era. With that being said, here are my top five “favorite” Millennium-inspired stories – and what to read instead of them!

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TWWBW Update!

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I’m back with an actual story update!  Sorry, I know updates on The World Will Be Waiting have been slow lately.  That’s due to a combination of factors:  long chapters, slow writing speed, external distractions, and, at times, a lack of internal motivation on my part.  To be clear, I love this story, and there is not a doubt in my mind that, barring some kind of tragedy that takes me out of commission, I will keep writing it to completion.  But, after working on it literally every day for the past three years, I’ve definitely run out of steam and slowed down some.  It happens; no one stays in the “honeymoon phase” of a novel forever, but working through the inevitable slumps is a part of the process of finishing one.  While I do have a few other incomplete novels to my name, I usually finish what I start and am 100% committed to completing this one.  I just want to reassure my readers of this, so you don’t assume that a lack of updates means a lack of commitment on my part.

With that being said, Chapter 73 of The World Will Be Waiting is up!  This chapter has actually been finished for a while, but I’ve been holding onto it while I worked on the next one, which is almost done as well.  This one revolves around the big Frick & Frack fight from the documentary.  I’ve written a one-shot about that from Brian’s point of view, but it was interesting to look at it from Kevin’s point of view, especially through the unique lens he has in this particular story.  I hope you enjoy it!  Thanks for reading and for being patient with me!

 

Throwback Thursday #12: Top Five Favorite Sex Scenes

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Summer has officially started, and things are heating up here at Dreamer’s Sanctuary! This week, I’m blogging about my favorite “hot and steamy” scenes. I put that in quotes because I don’t write many sex scenes, and the ones I do write aren’t usually very sexy compared to what you’d read in a typical romance novel or smut fic. Admittedly, sex and romance are not really my forte as a writer, but I do enjoy writing romantic subplots and include sex scenes when I feel they will contribute to character development and/or further the plot. Here are my five favorites!

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Throwback Thursday #11: Top Five Favorite Fatherly Moments

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THE COUNTDOWN IS ON! It’s June, and that means we’re just a month away from the release of the Millennium 2.0 album and the start of the residency! I would say I can’t wait, but I refuse to wish my summer away. Love you, Boys, but I can wait!

In the meantime, the twenty-fifth anniversary celebration continues here at Dreamer’s Sanctuary!  One of the cool parts of being a BSB fan for over twenty-five years has been watching these five “boys” grow into men. They’ve graciously shared snippets of their lives with us through photos, videos, articles, and social media, giving us a glimpse at the small moments and huge milestones they’ve experienced over the past three decades. Through these windows, we’ve watched them fall in love, get married, and start families. It’s been a joy to see all five of them become dads and celebrate the birth of each Backstreet baby. Father’s Day is this Sunday in the United States, so for my first Throwback Thursday blog this month, I’m looking back on fics that feature the Boys as fathers.

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Musical May

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Between the release of Nick’s new album last week and “The Perfect Fan” demo dropping yesterday, May has been a great month for BSB fans, especially us Frick & Frack girlies!  I’m loving all this new (and old) music!  “Storms” is my current favorite track on Nick’s album.  It’s such a beautiful song, both musically and lyrically, and it’s both poignant and deeply personal.  Sometimes I listen to songs and immediately think, This will inspire a story someday.  “Storms” is definitely one of those.  I’m also enjoying the all-Brian version of “The Perfect Fan.”  I know the fandom has mixed feelings about Brian and this song, but I’ve always loved both.  To have this previously unheard recording of Brian’s beautiful voice in its prime is such a precious gift!  I appreciate every note of it.

In other news, my school year is winding down, and I’m already getting into summer mode with my writing.  I had an amazingly productive writing weekend last weekend and am finally getting ahead of myself with The World Will Be Waiting again.  Chapter 72 has been posted!  This chapter revolves around the recording of one of my favorite BSB singles, “In a World Like This.”  I drew inspiration from one of the deleted scenes from the documentary.  Enjoy!