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We're three chapters in!

Don't forget to check out The Rest of Your Life, @gunstreet's When Harry Met Sally Spirk AU! I am illustrating each chapter, and I hope you enjoy reading as much as we have been enjoying the work on this one!

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Article | NBC Insider

Zachary Quinto Returning for Brilliant Minds Season 2 on NBC: Details

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uh oh. is that an unhealthy obsession I feel coming on?

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by selfmadepurgatories

Spock writes a final love letter saying goodbye to James T. Kirk. Four different times.

This is a FINISHED PIECE in four chapters. A new chapter will be posted every day for four days.

Words: 1948, Chapters: ¼, Language: English

Fandoms: Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The Original Series (Movies)

Rating: Mature

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Relationships: James T. Kirk/Spock

Additional Tags: Pining, Accidental Bonding, Vulcan Bond (Star Trek), T'hy'la (Star Trek), Angst, Desperate Spock (Star Trek), Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Spock Loves James T. Kirk, Emotional Spock (Star Trek), Canon Compliant, POV Spock (Star Trek), POV First Person, Minor Spock/T'Pring (Star Trek), Toxic T'Pring, My First Fanfic, My First AO3 Post, Vulcan Mind Melds (Star Trek), Teen Sexual Awakening (no teen sex just teen desire), Old Married James T. Kirk/Spock, Tarsus IV (Star Trek), Traumatized James T. Kirk, Minor James T. Kirk/Others - Freeform, Episode: s02e05 Amok Time (Star Trek: The Original Series), Episode: s03e03 The Paradise Syndrome (Star Trek: The Original Series), Episode: s03e21 Requiem For Methuselah (Star Trek: The Original Series), Movie: Star Trek I: The Motion Picture (1979), Movie: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), Epistolary, Love Letters

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Today I joined the ranks of generations of fan writers and published the beginning chapter of my very first K/S fanfic. In this piece, Spock writes a last love letter to James T. Kirk at four different times in his life.

In today's installment, Spock, as a young teen, is hiding a dangerous secret. (This is is a FINISHED piece in four chapters; I will be posting one chapter per day until Sunday.) I would be honored if you read it.

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Jim Kirk, in what he believes must be Pike’s idea of a joke, ends up trapped on a long shuttle journey with a stuffy Vulcan named Spock. Spock is equally perturbed at having to spend his journey with an impertinent, baffling human. At least they’ll probably never see each other again. Probably.

I am illustrating @gunstreet's wonderful When Harry Met Sally AOS Spirk AU. Read it here!✨

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1987 10 24 - LA - His Mother's Ring

De: You didn’t see it. It must have fallen under like this, because I never took this ring off.

Audience Member: Really? It seems like in some of the later ones you weren’t wearing it anymore.

De: Oh, yes, I’ve never taken it off, it was in every Star Trek. Yes. You know this was, this ring was my mother’s ring and as a child, I used to admire it. It used-the prongs used to set way up high with a stone in it, you know, it had a diamond in it. And we, we used to, we were living in the South and we raised a lot of chickens, and she was feeding the chickens one day and the stone came out of it and it broke everybody’s heart. But we ate a lot of chicken, we were very poor folks. It’s true. She was cleaning the chicken and the- she was cleaning the craw out one day and there was her diamond. So when she passed away, they asked me what I wanted of her belongings, and I said, I don’t want anything except one thing, and that’s that ring that she wore. Which is now, from washing and ironing and working, it’s all smooth, it doesn’t, you know, it not standing up like that. But it’s a very sentimental thing. And when I went into Star Trek, they said, you’ll have to take that ring off and I said, you’ll have to take me off with it. And so that’s the reason I kept it.

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Spirk Fic Recs: Vulcan Kisses

Ngl these types of fic have a special place in my heart-- cuz they're so freaking cute and, in my vernacular, SUPER KILIG MOMENTS. Yiee haha. It's the intimacy behind the gesture that really establishes the mood of these fics <3

So, here are some of my fave Vulcan kisses centric fics I was able to read within the last month:

this and that of you (TOS/AOS, 1500 words) by schweet_heart

In which Captain Kirk attempts to seduce a Vulcan, and Spock is confused. Or: five times Kirk kissed Spock and one time Spock reciprocated in kind.

Just One More (It Couldn't Hurt) (TOS, 2521 words) by summerofspock

Spock starts sneaking Vulcan kisses from his captain and once he starts he can't seem to make himself stop.

Sometimes, A Feeling (AOS, 1359 words) by BeautyGraceOuterSpace

“Hey, Spock?”

“Yes, Jim?” Spock stood at attention near the door, anticipating that they would soon be leaving for the mess.

“Don’t take this the wrong way, because I am totally fine with it--- that sounds bad, what I mean is… just… why do you kiss me so much?”

A ritualistic form of affection (AOS, 3193 words) by thesoundofnat

Jim starts checking out books about Vulcans in order to understand Spock better. The results are a mix of panic, food, and Jim thinking slightly too much about Spock’s hands.

In the Right Hands (TOS, 1902 words) by summerofspock

Kirk is ashamed of his fetish for hands, but when he finds out that Vulcan hands are erogenous zones, he has a bit of an epiphany.

A Habitual Affection (TOS, 7998 words) by plaidshirtjimkirk

Living in 1930s New York with the Vulcan you're secretly in love with is no simple thing. But Jim never liked anything simple. And then, the big snowstorm hit…

Happy reading!

-M

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McCoy-Centric Fic Rec List

Long as hell and split into slightly nonsensical sections because I have too many bookmarks :/

Episode/Movie-Centric Codas/AUs

Lots of "Mirror, Mirror"/"The Empath"/Post-TSFS stuff in here for Obvious Reasons.

Fal-Tor-Pan or: How to Accidentally Get Married on Vulcan by mymetalphantom - 5.7k, Spones. Lighter than the usual Post-Fal-tor-pan fic, very silly premise and excellent execution.

Oh, sinners, let's go down by raven (singlecrow) - 4.7k, Gen. The best Post-Fal-tor-pan angst I've ever read, bar none. Angst with a bittersweet, ambiguously hopeful ending.

Seven Times by SwissArmyKnife - 2k, Gen. Seven times McCoy got telepathically violated and it's all canon 😭

For This Space Would Be Hollow If You Were Gone by releni - 4k, Pre-Slash Spones. FTWIH has SUCH great angst potential, and this fic takes full advantage of that.

The Cause is Sufficient by Cirth - 2.5k, Spones. They're talking about the whole katra deal! They're talking about the whole martyr complex! They're kissing!

bad luck and broken soul by Rev (apathetic_revenant) - 12k, Gen. There are SO MANY Post-"Mirror, Mirror" fics, but this one is hands down one of my favorites.

Memories Are Made of This by GenuineSnoof - 6.5k, Gen. Another post-"Mirror, Mirror" fic, I really like how creative the reveal part is in this one.

Evasive Action by kcscribbler - 2k, Gen. "Space Seed" episode coda with some wonderful hurt-and-kinda-grumpy-about-it McCoy.

Incubation by SwissArmyKnife - 9k, Gen. Post-"The City on the Edge of Forever", featuring McCoy working through illness and really going through it and Spock being worried and protective.

something bright, traveling fast by inkatesbush - 7.5k, Spones. Mostly a Spock character study post-Fal-tor-pan, but when McCoy gets there his parts are really, really good.

Plotty/Case Fic (mostly McCoy Getting Hurt And Being Awesome)

I won't say these genuinely resemble actual ST episode plots but they're plot-centric ig.

40 Miles From The Sun by slash4femme - 10k, Spones. Didn't know whether to put this here or in the shipfic section, but it's mostly the BEST rape recovery fic in the fandom and only very slowly Spones. Excellent fic.

The Dogs Days Are Most Certainly NOT Over by ThatSassyCaptain - 35k, Gen. Pure episode-style casefic and a great one. Get adopted, idiot 😆

Rate of Exchange by scioscribe - 9k, Gen. Bulletproof premise of "get captured by Mysterious Bad Guys, get forced to hurt each other, get out and have Feelings about it". Perfect.

all in by milostollbooth - 13.5k, Spones. Spock gets to be in charge of the Enterprise and things Get Complicated. Like 50% casefic and 50% developing Spones.

A Hippocratic Proof by stillwaters01 - 5k, Gen. Less plotty, more of a friendship fic. McCoy doubts his abilities and Spock goes about reassuring him in the most logical way possible 🥰

it ends or it doesn't by Muir_Wolf - 28.5k, McSpirk. Bones being a martyr! Time loop shenanigans! The complicated process of getting together when you're also under an insane amount of pressure! I love them your honor.

Mudd in Your Eye by Avirra - 61k, Gen. Ok, it's an alternate take on "Space Seed", but it does its own thing so effectively that i'm putting it under plotty fic. Really big fan of how competent Bones is and his relationships with the various OCs in this one.

Shipping-Centric (mostly Spones)

Some McSpirk as well ig. There's some overlap with the previous two categories, but these are more shipping than plot.

Surgeon's Mate by belmanoir - 4.5k, Spones. It's the most-kudos'd Spones fic for a reason, and that reason is an EXCELLENT Spock POV with impeccable characterization.

Holocene by greenbloodedcomputer - 4.5k, Spones. Old Married Spones on Vulcan dealing with the in-laws :)

Traditions of Intimacy by swimmingwolf59 - 8.5k, Spones. Spock and McCoy sharing meals and slowly getting closer to each other. Just fantastic.

First Impressions by swimmingwolf59 - 16.5k, Spones. Y'all KNOW I love Sarek and McCoy being awkward buddies, and this fic has an emphasis on the AWKWARD. Love it!

Two Thirds of a Whole by sleepymccoy - 18.5k, Spones. Alternate universe Spock is such a sweetie and Prime Universe Spock is UNHINGED near the end, this whole premise is excellent and the Spones is immaculate.

Courtship Rituals by fangirlandiknowit - 30k, McSpirk. I love love love fake relationship shenanigans that become way too real partway through.

wish i was a better liar by Muir_Wolf - 17.5k, McSpirk with an emphasis on the McKirk. Uhhh, "The Enemy Within" dubcon threesome. Also Spock's there and being protective. Also it's HOT.

Symbiosis by weekend_conspiracy_theorist - 6.5k, Spones. Diplomatic function fake relationship! That very, very quickly becomes less fake lol, Spock's kind of a mess emotionally in this one.

i've seen time tell tales by Rusoe - 1.5k, Spones. Old Married Spones my beloved. Domestic fluff with a hint of angst.

Off-Beat/Stuff I Can't Fit Anywhere Else

For all your confused-by-how-the-author-got-there fanfic needs.

Bones - A Biography by Spock Grayson by AlyssiaInWonderland - 4k, McKirk and Spones. Early First Contact AU where Vulcan first interacts with Earth during WWI. The premise is excellent and the whole vibe of it is heartbreaking, I honestly wish this were longer because I want to live in this universe for like 100k words.

Nothing Unreal Exists by eigenvectrix - 16k, Gen. EXCELLENT fic. Transfem Spock, lots of examination of Vulcan culture, McCoy being both competent as a doctor and generally trying his best during difficult conversations as a friend. 10/10, it made me give up on the trans Spock fic I was kicking around in my head because tbh I could never live up to this.

AOS

I don't even like the characterization in the AOS movies, but these fics are great :)

Lessons by madwriter223 - 1.5k, Spones. Honestly, I always forget this is an AOS fic. Love Spock being so methodical in his romantic intentions/techniques.

Honorable Enemies by Zauzat - 24k, Spones. McCoy being sad, war being hell, Spock being surprisingly emotionally astute in his own way. Gets plotty in the last third. What more do you need from a fic?

Now the Sons Look For Their Fathers/ But Their Fathers Are All Gone by Straight_Outta_Hobbiton - 30.5k, Gen. McCoy taking care of Vulcan kids post-Star Trek (2009). Has great versions of Sybok and T'Pring for the Kelvinverse.

Fortunate Son by mardia - 50.7k, McKirk. I'm usually not a fan of putting anyone except Kirk on Tarsus, but it sometimes works with AOS since we don't get anything on that whatsoever. This is easily the best "McCoy on Tarsus" fic out there!

The Tribunal of Lieutenant Commander Leonard H. McCoy, MD PhD by stealthestars - 3.5k, slight McSpirk. I love fics where everyone's being all official while internally freaking out ♥️

This Must Be The Place by therev - 38k, Spones. A really sweet, existential look at the absolute mindfuck of finding out just what alternate universe you was getting up to and slowly realizing you want something somewhat like that as well.

Shameless Self-Recs

Just a couple of my fics that I'm personally very fond of. Because I'm shameless lmao.

some people crash to earth three times (and then learn from their mistakes) - 8k, Gen. Dropping TOS characters into a shortly post-First Contact scenario for shits and giggles. I loved writing street medic McCoy and his teenage bullshit.

the wind counts lost goodbyes - 2.8k, Gen. Look, give me an opportunity to write some Vulcan culture and angst and I'm bound to go all in. MCD warning.

sing for the damage we've done (and the worse things that we'll do) (2k, Gen) and i speak in smoke signals (and you answer in code) (6k, Gen) - Uhhh, the inherent limitations of the Prime Directive, Federation politics, McCoy being ride or die for his patients, Spock being ride or die for his friends.

strike another match (let's start anew) (3k, Spones) and hearing a voice i'd known (a couple of lightyears ago) (4.7k, Gen) - These are both post-Fal-tor-pan AUs where it, like, Goes Wrong in different ways. I love doing a little fal-tor-pan AU, mostly because I don't think it was given nearly enough focus in canon.

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PLEASE LET THIS BE TRUE!!

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“They’re going through all of their internal deliberation processes. We have presented a Season 2 overview for Brilliant Minds and a Season 3 overview for Found and got great response from the creative teams on both. We’re optimistic.”

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things i draw in the middle of the night while i'm waiting for my painkillers to kick in

(or: one of the scenes that made me fall in love with him)

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THINGS ARE LOOKING GOOD. HERE WE GO.

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