Hello friends
I am soooooo behind on flashes right now, so please forgive me I cannot update or write anything else until I finish June flashes. I literally only have this Friday’s done and then…yeah
So for the next little while that’s what I am doing. That’s like 10 flashes. Please forgive me while I panic.
Look at this pretty pic. That’s my Jim from Bitter Frost.

Okay calmer now.
So I will get it done. And then when it’s done, I’ll get something else done. So we are allowed to do promo now for the T’hy’la Bang. I created a post for Tumblr per their guidelines, but I thought I’d also post something here.
Here is an itty bitty excerpt for “The Closer I Get to You” (think Roberta Flack)
Oh…wait…summary
After Kirk and Spock from the Kelvin Universe get together, they are engaged in a mission that requires them to time travel to save the life of a Starfleet Commodore. But their traveling doesn’t quite go as planned and they end up traveling not just to another time, but another universe, where they meet their TOS counterparts. Jim assumes their counterparts are a couple, just like he and Spock are, but he is surprised to learn from TOS Kirk and Spock that they are not. Before he and Spock head back to their own universe/timeline, he sets out to change the relationship of their counterparts, or as Spock would say, violate the Prime Directive.
Now Excerpt:
The minute his feet hit the ground, Jim dropped to a crouch, and rolled away from his attacker, narrowly missing being kicked in the head. He stood up, panting, quickly looking for his first officer.
“Spock?”
“Here, Captain,” Spock called out, just as he took a punch to his stomach. Anyone else would likely have lost their breath from such a punch, but Spock merely grunted, picked up the perpetrator, and tossed them away.
“Uh, this doesn’t seem like the right time.” Jim ducked as a chair was thrown at his head. “Hey!”
“You are correct, Captain. This is clearly the mission on Tevis 3.”
“Tevis 3,” Jim repeated. “Ah, crap. I remember that. I got my nose broken.”
“It took Doctor McCoy considerable work to restore—”
“My good looks. Yeah, I know. Damn. Spock, look out.”
“And back!”
Jim blinked, swayed, hand going to his head as he felt the strange disorientation of the time travel. Okay and maybe that fist to the head had something to do with it too. But yeah, at least his boots were firmly planted on the transporter pad. And there was no hot blood pouring from his nose. That counted as a win.
“Fuck.”
“Captain.”
“Geez, Scotty, what the hell was that?”
“Er, a wee miscalculation, Captain,” Scotty said, sheepishly.
Spock, who stood next to him, bristled.
In the room besides the two of them and Scotty were Bones and Uhura and Sulu.
Bones frowned. “What time were you in?”
“That mission on Tevis 3 a year and a half ago.”
“Damn it, Jim, do you know how long it took to make you pretty again?”
“I may barf,” Sulu said.
Uhura rolled her eyes. “I may join you. Monty, that’s too far back.”
“I know it, lassie. Let me try again.”
“Bones, it wasn’t like I had a choice where we were. And my nose is fine, by the way.”
“Wait,” Bones said. “All this shooting back and forth to another time, is this harming them?”
“I don’t think so,” Jim said.
“Well, maybe I should be the judge of that.”

Coming June 22, 2010
June 4, 2020 at 4:13 am
Oooh! That sounds so good! I’m excited for you and for us Bc we get to read it!
And yay for flashes. You know they’re the highlight of my day. Happy to wait for the rest while you get them done.
Go you!!
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June 4, 2020 at 7:41 am
thank you ❤
they are the highlight of mine too haha
I was against promo at first because I was like promo is usually to make money but I went ahead and did some anyway! 😀
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June 4, 2020 at 4:47 am
Super excited for the big bang!
June flashes! Can’t wait and then comes July flashes! 🙂
That is a pretty pic of Pine 🙂 and I loved your bitter frost story
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June 4, 2020 at 7:39 am
LMAO July….Dude I am not even done with June. But oh yeah there’s a birthday in July 🙂
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June 4, 2020 at 5:16 am
Oh, that sounds exciting! I’m very grateful you did some promo here since I don’t understand tumblr 😉 and would’ve missed it.
Also, yay for flashes. I have never been a big fan of “short” fics, but your flashes have definitely changed that for me. So I’m all for flashes :).
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June 4, 2020 at 7:38 am
thanks so much
I am a rather short fic writer in the scheme of things. Some of these folks on AO3 write stories well over 100,00 words. So far only one of mine has ever made it that long, Going Boldly, and many many more way less! the flashes are cool but can be frustrating if you want more
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June 4, 2020 at 7:28 am
Sent you an email.
Did Sam create the thumbnail also or did you? I like it!
I can’t wait for everyone to get to read it. I love this story.
I was so excited yesterday to see you get to start promoting it. It’s a great time to be a spirk/Ivanw fan!
Hey – I have more prompts. There’s that “brojects” one that’s pinto. I know you forgot that one. (On purpose!) heh heh
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June 4, 2020 at 7:36 am
I created it. The artist is not on tumblr and the bang people had listed a site where you could create a graphic so I just went ahead and did it. It was sorta easyish. They wanted us to use a graphic. I seem to recall now that we had to have one before too way back when I did Who Am I to Say but I think the artist did that one.
And thanks for the heads up on the typo 😀
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June 4, 2020 at 7:48 am
(Uh, shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. You weren’t supposed to out me that I missed it TWICE before! 😳
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June 4, 2020 at 8:02 am
Oh and it’s a tiny thumbnail because when I first created it, the darn thing was HUGE and I was like What The Heck…so I made it smaller and then of course I made it too small and went whatever, I am not changing it again LOL
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June 4, 2020 at 8:32 am
Thanks to Borealisblue for teaching me – 1 minute flat you can easily change the size here:
https://postimages.org/
The top dropdown (there are only 2) says “do not resize my image.” Click on that and it gives you 8 size options.
Choose your image and the next page, copy the “direct link” and you got it.
Seriously – even IIIIII, the old guy, can do it easily. If I can do it, heck, Lib the cat could do it. On his way to duck under the bed at every noise.
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