Not a whole lot to report that you don’t already know. It’s back to work today after my long weekend. Bummer.
I’m still trying to decide what to write for the T’hy’la Bang. I’d like to start it sooner rather than later. I have an issue here at work with Word now. I can send files back to myself at home that open just fine, but if I work at something at home and try to send it here, they won’t open. This is going to be challenging on a longer fic like I have to write here.
They have a new chat room set up with this group of participants and I did get a nice comment from someone on there saying they were a fan. From the introductions so far everyone will be working on TOS, sigh. I’d like to see mylochkatee sign up as an artist because I am sure she would be amazing but I haven’t seen her on tumblr in sometime, so bummer.
Next up for updating when I get to it is The Vulcan Who Fell to the Earth. I did get my Friday flash done but it’s pretty short. I need to get my February stuff done too so other updates might take a backseat to that while I get those done. I have one Valentine flash done and scheduled but I need one more. Since I am restarting Wednesday flashes in February I think I have seven still to write.
I may revisit the two times a week flashes in the future if it starts interfering with my writing for the T’hy’la thing, but we shall see.
Spirk (with a small dose of Pinto) 
January 21, 2020 at 8:49 am
Yeah, I was gonna say, with the more stringent restrictions and requirements of this bang, I’d be (very reluctantly) willing to sacrifice Wednesdays. It stings, but still, good grief. You have a life. And I still haven’t won the lottery so I can hire you fulltime to just write for us. Or trust me, I’d have my lawyer in negotiations with your lawyer. And we’d be producing the REAL Star Trek 4, 5 and 6. I think we can do it right for, say, $750M.
Anyway, that’sa nicea compliment from the TOS crowd. I don’t remember it being such an involved deal before when you wrote for it, but then I hadn’t known about you guys long when you did it before and I’d have no reason to catch details like chat room stuff.
And my one hesitation is that this timeframe runs smack dab up to and including pinto de mayo, which of course I was hoping you’d write for again this year.
Good luck, whichever and whatever. Hopefully you can msg mylochka on tumblr or maybe in a comment on one of her ao3 works. She did say she’d be back but life stuff was calling her away a short time. At that time, though, she sounded like she was coming back sooner than this. But my fingers are all crossed for ya.
Yeah, they need to know AOS is alive and kicking, if only in our hearts (and that grieves me to put it that way).
15,000 words is really kinda short for you – it’s just the time frame. (I’m thinking My Devotion).
But that thing where you can’t Word back and forth, that’s frustrating. Can you just wordpad (or even, ick, notepad) back and forth and just reformat at home? Cause I think they open much easier across platforms (probably the wrong term, but hey).
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January 21, 2020 at 8:50 am
(Oh, and I was gonna say, it’s nice to see a picture like that across the distance with no flames or smoke! It’s beautiful.)
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January 21, 2020 at 9:10 am
That was from the cousin’s house one day as the sun was going down, it was very nice!
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January 21, 2020 at 9:15 am
If I could have the 15,000 done by May without any of the excessive check-ins that require I have a whole bunch of it done at that time, I would be okayish but those check-ins are gonna be crazy.
Well, and it’s all done anonymously for who does your art, so I wouldn’t get her possibly anyway, but I’d love to see whatever she comes up with regardless, if she participates.
The chatroom is new and I’m not a huge chatter to be honest, but it was recommended that you sign up to get updates from the mods so that’s why I did it. I probably won’t spend a whole bunch of time on there! 😀
But yes with all those TOS folks I feel like I need to represent AOS in it. So we will see. I have a vague idea that COULD include both of them but it’s very very bare at this point.
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January 21, 2020 at 10:05 am
WILD AND THUNDEROUS APPLAUSE! 👏👏👏
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January 21, 2020 at 9:55 am
I’d rather not have to use something like wordpad or any of that, so we shall see. It’s going to be a pain. I think it’s supposed to update my computer here in the next few weeks so maybe that will resolve it, we shall see.
Not sure about Pinto de Mayo. I am hoping to have OM already finished by then, at least.
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January 21, 2020 at 2:34 pm
Word can be a fickle fickle ting.
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January 21, 2020 at 2:39 pm
And I hit the button too fast!
Why’s it always TOS? AOS is better and we know it.
So looking forward to double flashes. But if you need to not do it that way in order to write us the bang then that’s totally fine. Bc yeah the big fic needs the attention! I mean if I’m being completely honest, it doesn’t matter what you write as long as I get to keep reading your stuffs!
And yay for the good comment! Isn’t that super boost??!! 🙂
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January 21, 2020 at 2:49 pm
The super weird thing is that most of them posting that are writing TOS are young and say things like, I just started watching Star Trek last year, I just started watching Star Trek three years ago, etc. It makes no sense. But okay. I’m old. Watched Star Trek way back in the 70s (and some I know watched it when it was first on, etc), but I still want to watch young hot guys not old geezers! LMAO. Oh well. I’ll probably be the only one writing AOS.
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January 21, 2020 at 2:50 pm
Yours was gonna be the best anyway!
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January 21, 2020 at 4:54 pm
HA HA
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January 21, 2020 at 2:47 pm
Fickle indeed!
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January 21, 2020 at 3:51 pm
That “I just started watching” drives me positively out of my mind, when they support TOS and diss on AOS. Grrrrrrrrr!
Or even, they’ve only watched a few episodes but I know all I need to know and TOS is better than AOS.
Or – I’ve never actually watched star trek but I know all about it from reading fan fiction! That KILLS ME! I actually saw someone said that! Uh, no, you don’t even know that you don’t know SQUAT!
It’s like, I picked up Tale of Two Cities once, so I know all about it, even though I didn’t actually open it and read it. But I know enough to criticize your ideas about it.
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January 21, 2020 at 4:55 pm
I’ve seen that too! Or they saw Amok Time or Journey to Babel and they know it all. Ah well, sigh.
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January 21, 2020 at 5:38 pm
I’ve freakin’ watched all the TOS episodes so many times now in the past 53 years that I couldn’t even begin to count them.
And I’m STILL LEARNING STUFF every time I watch.
Like right now, I have Wink of an Eye on. And I swear, I feel snail slow because NOW is the first time it hit me – don’t phasers shoot out their light at light speed? And when Kirk shoots his phaser at Deela, the energy moves very slowly toward her, and right before it gets to her, she moves aside.
Now – that means they’re sped up faster than the speed of light?
Uh – if their atoms were vibrating that fast, they’d be moving MUCH faster than the show indicates. They can hear them like a buzz. The speed of sound is MUCH slower than than the speed of light. Good grief! They’d have all burned out within…….nano-seconds. Not just be sped up a little like the episode shows.
Over and over and over I’ve watched that scene…
and just NOW that obvious fact hits me.
Kirk would be long dead, his body burned up and burned out, before the Enterprise crew ever noticed him missing. And that’s just one of the things wrong.
But it’s a cute and spirky episode.
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January 21, 2020 at 5:56 pm
Part of the fun of all the Treks is watching it over and over and analyzing it and going ha ha that’s ridiculous or that’s so cool or omg NOT AGAIN (that’s for Shat) and if you never watch the series or the movies or AOS you never get to have that fun!
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January 21, 2020 at 5:50 pm
(plus – the only reason for speeding up Kirk was to impregnate Deela. So obviously she and Kirk have sex, because it shows Kirk sitting on the edge of her bed, pulling on his boots, and her up in front of her mirror straightening up her hair. So I’m sure he didn’t wear protection. So he probably has a child with her out in the universe too. Or progeny, considering their accelerated speed.)
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January 21, 2020 at 5:58 pm
Oh! is that the episode where he’s putting on his boots. I knew there was one and yes that’s definitely the implication is that they have sex.
True but wasn’t there the part at the end where they figure out that they are extinct because the pictures are old and no longer around or something like that. Because doesn’t she even say they are dooming them to extinction because they won’t help them to survive? Some such nonsense
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January 21, 2020 at 6:33 pm
She does say that. So….I guess it didn’t take? I mean, they aren’t human. Humanoid, yeah, but not human. Maybe something wouldn’t work genetically between them. But all she wanted was for Kirk to get her pregnant. So……
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January 21, 2020 at 6:35 pm
Which is also dumb, because if McCoy came up with a way to slow Kirk and Spock down, it would have worked on them too, so they could have their own children with each other and save their own species, plus cross pollinate, as it were with other species haha They didn’t even offer that as a solution. If they were slowed down, they wouldn’t be hijacking anyone else’s ships!
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January 21, 2020 at 6:54 pm
RIGHT!!! On the one had it would be interesting to have some kid show up one day to Kirk and say hey Deela is my mother and you’re my father, you know for a fan fic, but I have no idea how I’d make that happen for him to have the ability to come to Kirk and declare that
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January 21, 2020 at 5:08 pm
Lovely picture!
I always look forward to your updates. They are the highlight of my days 🙂
And I sort of feel called out now with the whole only seen amok and babel episodes LOL
Looking forward to what you come up with for it.
It honestly has me thinking of trying it out. we shall see though
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January 21, 2020 at 5:15 pm
You’ve seen the AOS movies too though right? So you are ahead of them. They ONLY right TOS and after barely having seen it.
Keep in mind if you do there are a heap of rules this time I don’t remember them having before. Probably to keep folks from flaking but still…
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January 21, 2020 at 5:58 pm
I read the rules. It has scared me a bit. I’m going to see if I can get something started though before registration ends in Feb.
Yes, I’ve seen the new movies and a few of the old ones 🙂
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January 21, 2020 at 6:00 pm
Yeah the rules are definitely more strict this time. When I participated in 2017 there wasn’t the word count requirement for one (or at least not that high)
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January 21, 2020 at 6:20 pm
The word count is what’s getting me. I can write that much but for like a chapter story. Just writing and writing a long fic, I’d rather break it into chapters.
But I do have an idea floating in my head. I may just run with it and see what happens.
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January 21, 2020 at 6:51 pm
You can break it up into chapters, they just have to all be posted at once.
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January 22, 2020 at 8:53 am
Nice view. I like the sky all aglow like that.
Looking forward to seeing whatever you write. I love seeing your flashes, but do what you can. It is indeed a bummer that the computer at work is not cooperating with you. Technology can be so frustrating!
Looking forward to reading more Ivan Spirk, whatever the form.
❤️💚🖖
It’s true about TOS episodes. Although Star Trek is more scientifically based than SW, sometimes science is thrown out the window to create a story! 🤷🏻♀️
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January 24, 2020 at 7:10 am
Indeed! 🙂
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