A little slow but coming
This month I vow to update all works in progress now that the holidays are behind us once more
First up will be A Heart Needs a Second Chance. I haven’t updated it since September and I am ashamed. Then the others Our So-Called Life, Cosmic Love, and Welcome to the Enterprise haven’t been updated since October. My own fault. I mistakenly signed up for the Advent Calendar thing but I won’t again. Lesson learned as I didn’t have near enough time to work on my own things that needed doing. I need to plan better this year if I’m going to get new stories and all that. No special challenges for me this year, 2023, unless it’s my own special challenge
I’ll get another flash up in a day or so. Going into the physical office Wednesday (today) so work is interfereing!
Spirk (with a small dose of Pinto) 
January 4, 2023 at 5:07 am
Ugh. Work ruins everything. Boo.
But yay on the updates! I’ve been looking forward to them but also content to wait. I know what you’ve been doing over there. Heh. Loving everything and definitely anticipating updates!
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January 4, 2023 at 6:55 am
thanks, I am anticipating them too!
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January 4, 2023 at 7:57 am
“Slow” – LOL
I look forward to them. Especially So-Called Life. I was thinking about it the past couple of days for …no reason at all that I know of. Kaiidth.
The spring fever thing is being pushed now – the one you wrote for last year. Same people running it, I think, as the Advent. So since I’ve been permanently banned from it for being a bully (lol), I’m assuming I’m banned from anything that (those) person runs.
Anyway, it doesn’t matter.
My New Year’s Resolution is that I’ve permanently hung up my writing hat. I hadn’t written that many anyway over the almost 6 years I’ve been posting a little. But I’m so done with that part. I’ll just be a fan and read. That’s the best part anyway.
I will do some sort of images or thing for PdM. I was working on a fic for it but it wasn’t good anyway, so I deleted it. But I’ll always do some little something for it. Not on tumblr any more to inundate them with pleadings and reminders for the Pinto crowd to write for it – that they just completely ignore. They pretty much all quit. There are several Pinto fics out there just abandoned in the past 3 years, so obviously they no longer give a **** about the guys. I thought when ST 4 got busy it would help, but obviously there’s not going to be a ST4. I’m sure someday there will be more ST movies. But not with our guys.
Oh well, like you say, they’d probably just screw it up anyway and do what the canon comic book hinted at – what? Over 4 years ago, I think, that Nyota and Spock were getting married.
So – ON TO A NEW YEAR AND A NEW PURPOSE! Or….lack thereof! lol
(But I really enjoyed your Advent fics. They were great and you let us know you were focusing on those so we were emotionally prepared for no updates on your others. And it’s exciting to have flashes in January. I remember not long ago you took all of January off from writing, and I kinda figured that’s what you’d do this year too. A sweet serendipity! Happy Spirk NY to us all!)
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January 4, 2023 at 8:13 am
Technically it’s still listed on Chris’ IMDB but I stopped holding my breath long ago from turning purple, lol
And God yes, NO ONE wants a married Spock and Uhura. That’s revolting. So 3 movies it is. Still manages to give me plenty of inspiration to write obviously.
Yeah they can plan the spring thing all they want. Ain’t happening for me. As I said, I am done following prompts for people who don’t give a crap anyway. I’m glad I wrote the stuff I wrote for spring and advent but I have no burning need to write more for either.
I started off as a fan reading others stuff and it was a great experience. I miss finding new stories that I read breathlessly. Not many do that for me these days as I have read them all, the good ones anyway, and now I write them.
You know what I think of those ex-Pinto writers. And what they write now as well. Or don’t write. Because I am sure they are just as flaky and mean wherever they go.
Definitely HNY to all
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January 4, 2023 at 8:25 am
I am shocked that there are STILL writers who filled prompts who have never heard a word out of the person who posted the prompt. They’re not very motivated to join them again either.
And the thing is – all those fics were revealed during the time of year people are the busiest, have the least time to read anything, and have their focus on many OTHER things. (except me of course – but I’m a solitary situation).
So the idea of getting NEW readers who didn’t necessarily pay attention to one’s work before – is utter nonsense. The same people read each other and commented on each other – and at the end of the month went ahead and filled each others’ prompts that had been ignored by others. It’s – well, for lack of a better term – definitely a clique there too. Which is fine. Just – it’s the WORST time of year to try to get people to read anything. But there were some absolutely brilliant fics there. I enjoyed them immensely. Some of them anyway.
and I will readily admit – I had openly mocked some of those prompts. And some really good writers took them and made something special out of them – just took them in a round-about way.
And that can certainly be said for my Nyota/baby prompt – that was just a hot mess (not in the good way) that you took and made something intelligent and brilliant out of. The best writers can do that!
I’ll enjoy it over and over as time passes.
(And if anyone didn’t read it: https://archiveofourown.org/works/42936057/chapters/107871051 )
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January 4, 2023 at 8:40 am
I quite enjoyed the ones I read too. There were some gems there but you wouldn’t know it from the people posting the prompts that ignored them. Ah well. live and learn for sure. I had such a more positive experience with the last spring fever so I thought I’d do the advent. But just like the T’hy’la Bang and the OMS challenge, they will live on in the past for me 🙂
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January 4, 2023 at 8:28 am
Can you believe it’s been almost A YEAR since the actors were stunned at the report JJ Abrams gave that it was on the table and would start filming by the end of the year? Literally almost a year. If I hated him before – and I did – I do even more now.
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January 4, 2023 at 8:36 am
I know right? Idiot
Oh and I just checked out the prompts for Spring Fever and not a single one was of any interest to me. NOT ONE lol
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January 4, 2023 at 8:48 am
(I don’t know if you ever read comments on my stuff, but one of the writers read my Kirk’s Gamble and excoriated it. And then said they didn’t mean to discourage me! LOL So then they deleted that comment and wrote another almost as discouraging. The bottom line was Shat/Kirk is their all-time fave and I wrote him as a jerk, weak, etc. and they wouldn’t read stuff like that. Which – they DID, but they wouldn’t again!)
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January 4, 2023 at 9:00 am
I did not read that and I usually DO read comments on your stories. Somehow I missed that. Wow, People need to STFU. If you don’t like it, move on and read something else. God people are just the worst
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January 4, 2023 at 9:02 am
It was someone I respected their opinion too.
and if one LOVES Shat/Kirk, I guess I’m NOT the one to read!
Though I thought I handled him respectfully in other TOS things I wrote.
Maybe I’m just blind to it.
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January 4, 2023 at 9:04 am
I am looking now and I will say that given what that person normally writes (extreme torture and rape) I seriously wouldn’t worry about her opinion that much. And for all her love of Shat/Kirk that’s generally who she tortures etc.
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January 4, 2023 at 9:15 am
None of her stuff for the Advent was rape/torture though. (absolutely I told her I’d not be able to read those). Her advent stuff was quite sweet and lovely and fun. (except for the car wreck – but that was what brought Spock/Kirk together so….I could handle that one.)
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January 5, 2023 at 9:55 am
My fave quote from a Perry Mason episode:
“Nothing can be learned from the 2nd kick from a mule.”
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January 4, 2023 at 9:20 am
OH OH OH! Happy minus 210 years old for AOS Jim Kirk today! January 4, 2233.
Not having tumblr any more, it’s much harder to keep up with these things. But I had lots of dates in my aos story to remind me.
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January 4, 2023 at 9:28 am
Oh yes I forgot the 4th was supposed to be his birthday. I never understood why the change from TOS Kirk since it was just supposed to be an alternate universe I would have thought it was all supposed to be the same. LOL What do I know?
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January 4, 2023 at 9:31 am
(LOL – I TOLD you why in my story! )
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January 4, 2023 at 9:34 am
No I KNOW that’s what the explanation IS, I just don’t know why they went that way, that’s all. There was no reason he had to be premature and in fact I don’t even think it’s clear in the scene that it wouldn’t be her regular time to have had the baby. It’s been a while since I watched that scene, does it SAY or does George say, wow, right now? are you kidding? LOL
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January 4, 2023 at 9:39 am
OR EVEN why couldn’t have Nero attacked in March lol
I know it had to be dramatic. I know I know
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January 4, 2023 at 9:47 am
Well – you have to admit it makes every bit as much sense as Riverside, Iowa erecting a statue and plaque to James T Kirk commemorating his future birth there – and spending who knows how many THOUSAND$$$$$ for it – and then listing his birthdate there as March 22, 2228. And they’ve left it without correction even after 2233 became canon.
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January 4, 2023 at 9:51 am
LOL you got me there!
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January 4, 2023 at 2:34 pm
No worries on slow updates! I know how RL and work slows things down. Pesky RL!!
I enjoyed your advent flashes as I do all your stories! I just read your Christmas flashes that you posted on a03. They are all so well done. Kudos to you on them.
I’m still sick, but at least I’m on meds that the doctor subscribed. I’m tired of the whole bronchitis routine!
Happy New Year! ❤️💚🖖😘
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January 4, 2023 at 6:10 pm
Glad you got medicine and hope it helps!
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January 5, 2023 at 2:39 am
Typo^ Prescribed not subscribed… but at this rate Maybe I should subscribe to sinus infection medicine of the month club
I’m hoping to feel better soon. 🙏🙏
RL is just killing me. Among other things. My Oldest daughter, the 24yesr old, is still looking for a room and a job in Brooklyn- tells me she finds an apartment, a studio apartment for $1750… however she does not have a job at present because she’s currently in New Jersey and can’t get a job in Brooklyn and she doesn’t even drive a car and doesn’t have reliable alternative transportation. I don’t have 1750. Can I just run away?
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January 5, 2023 at 7:22 am
😦
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January 5, 2023 at 6:46 pm
Happy for any and all updates to come 🙂
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