Well the Vet and us hoped Luna had treatable hyperthyroidism but it was not to be. It is likely she has blood cancer. She’s in her 14th year and we don’t think she should be put through a lot of treatments she won’t understand and will separate her from us. Right now we are keeping her comfortable and she still wants to be with us and purrs. She is not in any acute distress and until the time that changes, if it does, we will keep her here with us until the time she passes. It’s the worse news, obviously. But we’ve had her since she was about 3 months old and it’s very tough but we love her and want her with us for what she has left. I think she wants that too. If her condition worsens we will make an even more difficult decision.
It’s that time of year again where I start contemplating my future in writing fanfic for Spirk. This past August I reached 12 years of writing and posting on AO3. That’s a long time.
I’ve seen a lot of readers come and go. A few have been reading maybe as long as I’ve been posting, but not many.
I’m left wondering if there’s anything left for me to write about AOS Spirk. I don’t know. I still have a few ideas in my brain ruminating but should I eventually write them or just conclude my “career” at the end of the current WIPS I have going.
I’ve seen the first season of Strange New Worlds and I don’t hate it, but not sure there’s anything for me to write about it for Spirk. They’ve done their best to heterosexualize Ethan Peck’s Spock to the point he even has a real relationship with T’Pring and even Christine Chapel. I’m not entirely crazy about Paul Wesley’s Kirk either. I don’t think he’s bad acting-wise but there’s an odd look to him that I can’t quite figure out that makes him not as cute as I’d like. Makes me shallow I guess but he’s no Chris Pine or William Shatner. Sometimes he looks okay but other times just weird. I never watched Vampire Diaries but I have seen scenes from it where he looked fairly normal so I’m not quite sure what it is about his Kirk that seems odd. Anyway, given that Spock’s leanings and my uncertainty about that Kirk, I don’t see me creating anything in that area.
Other than the occasional TOS fic, I don’t feel I can add much to that that others don’t already add.
So that’s where I’m at. Should I continue to create more AOS Spirk fics until I croak over (ha ha) or when the four WIPS I have going are done, do I give it up?
Never fear I will have a flash for Friday done. I promise that.
But I am trying to get a hundred other things done right now in life and at work where we just got a new system this week and then the holiday weekend is upon us and I’m just behind on everything. Those of you following my stories on AO3 I promise nothing is abandoned or forgotten and I will get to them again. Hopefully soon.
But again there will be a flash Friday and I even have one in mind!
Here are the boys waiting anxiously for that flash! LOL
First, I have to say that this site can be a real pain in the butt. Every single day I have to delete multiple spams regarding using AI or monetizing my site, etc. They really need help with the spam at WP.
Now on to the point, I am working on finishing up my two Advent Calendar entries. Yeah I dropped down to two. One has turned out to be longish and so it’s taken up more of my time than it should have. I hope to get the second one done too but I hope it will be much shorter. They are both due 11/20 and I gotta say it’s going to be close. My desire to write has STALLED a lot. I don’t exactly have writer’s block, I’d call it writer’s disinterest. And I have so much I have to write coming up. Ack.
And the next part is not going to help me get it done. I am going away on an extended weekend beginning Thursday afternoon. I’m seeing Rick Springfield/Ricard Marx and Pattie Labelle. I think I mentioned that. And am going into San Diego as well. I won’t be back until Sunday evening.
The good news is I have US Thanksgiving week off. The bad news is that it’s past the 20th so that doesn’t help me at all with the advent stuff. I am going to make a pumpkin basque cheesecake for this year’s dessert.
Luna the cat gets her cone off today as they will be removing the staples today. To make a long story short, she had been barfing and seemed to have trouble going to the bathroom so we took her to the vet *by then she was better of course*, but then the vet decided she had two loose teeth and had to have them removed as she was certain they hurt her. So we went ahead with it against our better judgement as she is 12 and the older they are the riskier it is putting them under anesthesia. She also had a fatty lipoma on the top of her head that they’d always sort of ignored when we brought it up. Just said, oh yeah that’s nothing. But we figured since she would be out anyway, have it removed. They did, which is why she has the staples and the cone. They biopsied it and it turns out it was cancerous. So yeah. The lump is gone and we are supposed to watch her to make sure it doesn’t grow back because sometimes they do, rather slowly. Anyway, that’s the deal and it’s coming off today (the cone and stitches) and we all can’t wait. I am sure she’s thinking ‘why do I have to wear this now?’ poor thing. See how sad she looks?
If you follow my stories on AO3, I have temporarily put Beauty and the Beast on hiatus. Likely won’t get back to it until after the new year. I’m not sure what I am doing next with it and rather than stress myself out forcing a chapter I’m not prepared to write, I put it aside for now. It’s not abandoned.
I updated The Wrong Captain. I am going a slightly different direction in that story than I think I wanted to originally but it’s just evolved this way and I’m going with it. I am actually liking it more than I had been for a while so I think it’s the right choice.
I’m madly working on one of my advent stories I claimed and I think it’s going very well. I had claimed one related to the Great Bakeoff show in Britain because I love that show but I don’t actually think I have time for it and I’m already signed up to do two other stories by the same requestor so I think I’m good to drop it.
Don’t have another update on the ChessMaster and TooSexy yet but probably early next week.
As I think I mentioned I have a Halloween flash scheduled for here on Halloween and it’s exclusive to the blog. And I mean that.
Once I get the three stories I am still claiming for Advent (and it’s not anonymous so you could see the ones I claimed) finished, I’ll get cracking on my own holiday story.
So I started posting the chess guys on AO3. Mostly because I might want a sexy moment in there. Still I figured the story can’t go on forever so I marked it as having at the most 3 chapters.
The Advent Calendar prompts are up for this year and I “claimed” 3 of them but honestly I’m not sure I won’t drop most of them. There’s someone on there I don’t read who has gone around and claimed like every prompt that was interesting and while two people can do the same prompt or even three (there’s no real limit) I just found it a bit off-putting. Plus I have my own plans for a Christmas story but if I can make the three I “claimed” short enough I might actually write them.
I’ve been updating all the rest of the stories and have updated all of them during the month of August (and one in September I think) so I’ll keep plugging away on that when I get inspiration. But this comes my busy time for stories due to a number of factors so we will see how that goes.
Not sure if I will get to any Fall themed stories this year. We will see.
Today is the last day of our excessive heat wave, so I will have some relief on that.
I still want to write a story where Prince Jim of Earth finds a frozen Spock statue during space exploration and brings it with him (which would be the second part of my “Cursed” series). But I have to manage to finish a few other things first.
I’m back to also contemplating quitting writing Spirk, perhaps in 2025, so it seems counterproductive to start another story given that. But we will see. I have been writing and posting Spirk stories for 12 years (in 2025) and that seems long enough by anyone’s standards. But again…we will see. If I want to continue, why not?
I’ll be decorating for Autumn this coming weekend.
I hope to write something soon. But it’s been an interesting week.
Since I got back from my cruise the first weekend of August, we learned M’s beloved aunt passed away. Though we knew she was in hospice, we thought she had more time. She didn’t. This was someone we’ve both known most of our lives. It’s tough. And she lived in another state, Idaho, so M has to go back there and deal with her belongings/estate as her husband predeceased her.
They did a ton of layoffs at my company. I escaped them this time but it was a little scary and eye-opening. I am by no means the type who thinks I am not expendable. Everyone is. A few years back one of the best employees they ever had who was brilliant and highly regarded by everyone was laid off. It was a shock to everyone who knew him and his work ethics, so yeah I know if he could be gone, me too. I have 19 years with this company and I’m well thought of, but since others around me did get the axe, it was a bit jarring.
M’s relative and my friend who we had been expecting to visit for a week and half later this month, it had been planned for months, we had all kinds of things going on with it, suddenly told us they couldn’t come after all. It was a big disappointment, especially to M, but to me too. We hadn’t had a visit from her since 2021, and had so much planned around M’s birthday, and now…nothing.
Today they are cutting down a tree next to our townhome and to say it is super noisy is an understatement.
I am quite unmotivated to write at the moment. It’s bad. I am depressed and not feeling it. I’m mostly staying off writing sites so I don’t act rashly and delete works in progress. I think I can work through it and get more done but for now that’s where I am.
This post is a little self-indulgent and has nothing to do with MY work or Star Trek.
But I have always been a fan of the old poets, poetry you seldom hear these days, ignored mostly by younger generations. But here are three of my favorites if you care to watch and listen
I stumbled across If I Could Tell You I Would Let You Know when searching for other poems and I fell in love
And, ah, Robert Frost….
This is from one of my all time favorite movies called A River Runs Through it (directed by Redford). This scene is the oldest son, Norman, coming in as he hears his father quoting Wordsworth’s Splendor in the Grass. I love the back and forth reciting.
Anyway, Just felt like sharing some things that move me other than Star Trek! LOL
Spirk (with a small dose of Pinto) 