wip game: The Shifting Sands of Time KAKSAKU LONGFIC????? 👀
Okay this is a story concept I started forever ago in August 2020. I made it about 166 words in before stopping and moving on to something else. At the time, I didn't have the skill set necessary to complete it.
It's a time-travel AU. Starting out with 30-year-old Sakura who divorced Sasuke about three years prior due to spousal abandonment. Two years after the divorce, she and Kakashi were married and he adopted Sarada. (It's all very cutesy in the beginning).
I never got to write down how it happened, but somehow they *both* traveled into the past. Sakura deals with the guilt of leaving behind Sarada. She has to grapple with who she feels is more important in her life. Is it more important to her to continue to follow Kakashi and try to 'fix' the timeline? Or is it more important to return to Sarada? I think, a lot of questions like that have no right answer. Sarada doesn't exist if the timeline changes, and that's something Sakura realizes in this story. So what do you do if your child doesn't come to be? What does that guilt do to a person? Because either way there will be guilt.
Later on, Kakashi and Sakura become separated as the time continuum shifts again. I was thinking a dark Sakura and white knight Kakashi as the end game. Like the grief drives her mad and she tries to 'unfix' all that Kakashi has done in order to try and bring Sarada back, to try and make her exist again.
...I also started it with smut. lol Angst and smut, my favorites.
(Thank you for the ask! Sorry for the ramble)
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I Read Still Another K/S Zine So You Don't Have To
But maybe you should, anyway.
You may remember that a while back I reviewed Alien Brothers, and said that if I got my hands on any other zines I would review them as well. Well, here we are! This is the first of eight zines I currently own physical copies of, and those reviews should come out over the rest of the year.
Still Another K/S Zine was published in July of 1984 and was the fourth issue of Another K/S Zine. First impressions are difficult, as my copy is a homemade reprint on green paper which was stapled together and has no cover. It's also almost 40 years old, so it has seen better days.
Despite all this, it is quite pretty. The fics all have different trim designs and most of the artwork is of flowers. It doesn't have any full page drawings, nor drawings of Kirk and/or Spock. The italics are all in cursive which is only slightly difficult to read and may or may not have been hand written. The rest of the text is standard typewriter font, which, by the thanks, has been typed by hand. I'm very glad that's no longer necessary.
Warnings: light discussion of sex, one mention of non-con, spoilers for the fics in this zine.
Disclaimer: everything written here is my interpretations and opinions of this zine and the works within it. None of it is meant to offend or diss any of the creators.
Editorial
Apparently, fans didn't like the Search for Spock. Personally, I don't see why. There's a little comic that I find quite humourous.
Folly
by Vivian Gates
Very interesting concept. I never thought I would ship Spock and Finnegan, and to be fair, going exclusively by canon, I still don't. However, despite the changes that had to be made for this story to work, both Finnegan and Spock are still surprisingly in character. Vivian Gates seems to have a tendency to leave stories open ended, as she does it again with The Air is the Air two years later. It's a well written and constructed story, and I enjoyed it. 4.5/5
Protecting the Captain's ASSets, or, the Danger of Ignoring ScuttleBUTT.
by Sharon Fetter
This fic starts with the worst poem I have ever read and it's spectacular. A new yeoman on the Enterprise tries to use it to get Kirk to sleep with her but Spock catches her and she turns into one of many who got kicked off the Enterprise for this. I love the funny ones. 5/5
Altered Perceptions
by Shawn Masters
Boooooring. It's a pon farr fic but it has no smut in it, Spock tries to jump off a cliff and Jim is mad a lot and when he's not mad he's basically forcing himself onto Spock. Not the worst by far, but definitely a skip on my part. 3.5/5
Hold Me Till the Morning Comes
by Janus
What if Jim held on to Spock's katra instead? I wouldn't know, this story is barely a page and a half long, and it's technically listed as a poem in the table of contents. It's fine. 4/5
At this point everything stops for a bit to bring you: poems written after SFS! They aren't very good. Back to our regularly scheduled programming.
Once Upon a Night....
by Melanie Athene
Spock has a nightmare, wakes up his neighbours, one of which is Jim, of course. Then the lights cut out and it's plenty cold so you know what that means! Huddling for warmth in Spock's bed. Jim cries about his brother and then they have a tickle war which inevitably devolves into hot, steamy sex - which we aren't shown. Frankly, I'm becoming a little disappointed with the lack of smut in this zine, especially considering every fic so far (except for one) has been leading up to it. 5/5
On the Matters of Being Very Fat and Purple, and Enjoying It
by C.J. McNally
Now, here's the smut I've been waiting for! And while it wasn't overly detailed it was well worth the wait, with a little bit of Bones on the sidelines. This one was a lot of fun, and probably my second favourite fic in this zine. Also, gotta love that title. 5/5
Rub-A-Dub-Dub
by Devery Helm
I would never in a million years step into a bathtub made of velvet, no matter how water resistant it apparently is. It sounds like the worst sensory experience ever. However, Spock doesn't know what a rubber duck is and he's scared of bubbles, so at least there's that. A solid bit of light-hearted fun. 4/5
Old Friends
by Toni Cardinal-Price
There are a few cons of reading printed zines, and one of them is that when I read an absolutely spectacular fic and I want to share it with all my friends, I can't. This is one such fic.
It all starts when Jim's old friend from the Farragut gets assigned temporarily to the Enterprise and hugs Spock as soon as he comes on board, and Spock hugs him back! Turns out they roomed together at the Academy and may or may not have been lovers. So now they spend all their time together and Kirk gets increasingly jealous while this new guy does everything in his power to make Jim and Spock confess to each other. It's spectacular and I love it. This zine is worth getting if only for this fic. 5/5
Art and poetry
There isn't really a lot of art in this zine, and the art that is in there is fairly simple, though some is quite detailed. They compliment the works well, at least.
As for poetry, most of it wasn't to my taste, but there were a handful of good ones.
Final thoughts
This was nowhere near as bad as Alien Brothers, but to be fair that's because I specifically selected this zine out of 30-ish offered to me, based on the Fanlore page of each one, reading about the fics in them. I went into Alien Brothers knowing it was going to be bad, and I went into this one knowing I had selected it, but also knowing that someone was clearly quite willing to get rid of it, if the price tag was any indication (let's just say, I spent more on shipping). Still, I can't say it's a bad zine. It has plenty of fun stories, and even if I've read better ones for free online, the experience of actually holding a zine, a piece of history, was well worth it. Old Friends was on par with some of my favourite modern stories, and Being Very Fat and Purple had that classic charm I quite enjoy. All of these stories are somewhat products of their time, but none of them have aged poorly. I also read the whole thing in one day, as it's only 106 pages long. All in all, this was a very enjoyable zine.
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A great start to the Only friends Ep 1, looks like they are delivering on the messy and complicated bit.
But and it's a huge but, I am not at all convinced that the main 4 are very close friends or even real friends tbh.
Like who abandons their drunkard friend without checking up on them later at least? A big no no for me. Also when Ray called Mew in the morning to know what exactly happened, Mew just straight up ignored him to carry on his little date with a very questionable trying to hookup with you guy. I mean this does not sound like friends at all.
Even the way Boston is dissing everyone it's just not what friends do.
They are trying to sell hard that they are friends but I am not buying it.
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Voltron Tweet AU!
It has officially started and suggestions are going to be open from start to finish! So here are the profile pictures, Twitter name, and usernames! Thought about these for what felt like forever 🥲
Twitter name: Adam S.
Twitter username: @thesavvyadam
Verified or no: Not surprisingly yes
Twitter name: Allura’s Dreams ❣️
Twitter username: @alltimep_allura
Verified or no: No, but very well known!
Backstory of name: Pidge surprisingly helped her make her account after she was asking what the memes were and meant that Lance had sent her. Also, it’s pretty self explanatory when looking at it and she’s the only one with a backstory for their username.
Twitter name: Hunky the Yellow Paladin 💛
Twitter username: @unforgettablehunk
Verified or no: No, but somewhat known
Twitter name: Katie, but they call me Pidge
Twitter username: @theycallmepidge
Verified or no: Surprisingly yes and no
Twitter name: KAK/Keith.
Twitter username: @originalkogane_k
Verified or no: Yes, but not surprising
Twitter name: Lavishing Lance
Twitter username: @thecubanntailor
Verified or no: No, but well known/liked
Twitter name: Tired Father of V
Twitter username: @tiredoldmanshiro
Verified or no: Yes, but not surprising
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