Ramblings

Weekly Ramblings, January 23,2017

Nah I’m not coming at you from my vacation. I did this ahead of time and have scheduled it to post now.

I still have two fics that are wallowing in December dates when they were last updated and those are Anything and Young and Beautiful.

Anything is, of course, my story where in one Spock’s universe his bondmate, James Kirk, has died. Devastated by grief, Spock manages to invade the Kelvin universe where he has switched places with the Spock from that universe under the belief that Spock doesn’t want his Jim, so he will not care if he goes to a universe where Jim is dead.He takes his Bones along for the ride. The next chapter will involve what has happened to Kelvin Spock and Bones in the strange, unrecognizable place they find themselves in.

Young and Beautiful is the lustful romance between young James Kirk, just after the incident with Nero, and Ambassador Spock, who has taken up residence on New Vulcan. No doubt about it, Jim is hot to trot for our studious older Vulcan.

These will be the stories I will be updating next. Then I will likely get back to my Tarsus story, When it Began.

I haven’t started my fairytale Cinderella yet. I’d like to get some other stories finished before I tackle that. I still intend to do the winter story at some point as well. Right now I am a little overwhelmed by the amount of stories I have going.

In other news, I’ve been sick all week and it has been quite the struggle too. Everyone I know has been sick this week so it’s made things doubly and triply difficult. I’m going off on my trip anyway and won’t be back until Tuesday night.

This weeks picture is the world famous gif that everyone talks about. Take a look at that look on ZQ’s face and tell me that they haven’t.

That’s it for this week. Have a good one.

January 23, 2017

Weekly Ramblings, Week of 01/16/2017

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I am off today for MLK Day. It’s my last work holiday until Memorial Day.

Once again I had to delete a comment on Who’s the Daddy that upset me. Basically this person called Jim a slut and implied Spock had a right to treat him like crap and said basically how big it was of Spock to apologize. This person has commented on fics of mine in the past and I have had no issues with the comments, but in their effort to defend Spock I guess they have to be extra crude about Jim and I really am offended by it. I either had to delete it or I was in danger of making a really rude response.

I’ll be gone this coming weekend as well as a couple of days after that. I won’t be updating January 21-24. You will have to find someone else to love besides me.

January 16, 2017

If I Could

If you could be anywhere—I’d be in Dromoland Castle
If you could eat anything – I’d eat mashed potatoes and gravy
If you could be anything— I’d be a famous writer living in exile in my mansion looking over the bay in Central California
If you could drink anything – I’d drink Kim Crawford Sauvignon Blanc
If you could be any age – I’d be 25
If you could unsee anything – I’d unsee Dachau Concentration Camp in Germany
If you could sing – I’d sing The Impossible Dream
To dream the impossible dream
To fight the unbeatable foe
To bear with unbearable sorrow
And to run where
The brave dare not go
To right the unrightable wrong
And to love pure and chaste from afar
To try when your arms are too weary
To reach the unreachable star
This is my quest
To follow that star
No matter how hopeless
No matter how far
To fight for the right
Without question or pause
To be willing to march,
March into hell
For that heavenly cause
If you could be any fictional character – I’d be Lancelot from the King Arthur Legend
If you could play any sport — I’d do Olympic diving
If I could be any Star Trek Character – I’d be Jim Kirk
If I could be any Muppet – I’d be Sweetums
If I could be any flavor of ice cream – I’d be Rocky Road
If I could win millions of dollars – I’d buy a big house in Central California
If I could turn back time – I’d be a powerful despot
If I could predict the future – I would have found a way to save the world from a Trump Presidency
If I could spend the night in any celebrity’s bed – this is a no-brainer, Chris Pine

January 15, 2017

30 Things You Didn’t Know About Me (Maybe)

I’d never read Tolkien in school though many of my peers had. My first experience with it was when I saw Lord of the Rings. I fell in love with Hobbits, Elves, Humans, and Dwarves and ended up going to see the trilogy more than once. I own all three films. I actually read the books after I saw the movies and slogged through them. It was difficult but I found it a rewarding experience. I never did read The Hobbit nor have I seen the Hobbit films. I tried to watch part of the first one on Television and grew quickly disinterested.
I had never read the Harry Potter books prior to seeing the first movie. I loved the movies though. I preferred Richard Harris as Dumbledore, but alas he had to go and die. I thought he was a fabulous actor in everything he did and to me he was a more sympathetic and whimsical Dumbledore. I own all of the movies from this series too. I bought the books but in all honesty I found them nearly impossible to read.
I’ve always loved Star Trek. I can’t say I initially shipped Kirk and Spock but I certainly did later and well before the reboot movies. I’ve loved and watched all versions of Star Trek except I still haven’t seen Voyager or Enterprise. My plan is to someday. Like most, I hated the movie Generations for what it did to Kirk (And Spock, really, because of the whole Antonia nonsense).
I was ecstatic when the first Star Trek reboot movie came out and I loved it. Seeing it multiple times. When I first saw it, though I agreed Jim was cute, I didn’t go crazy for him. It wasn’t until I owned the movie on DVD that my obsession with Chris began. I also began taking note of Zach. Once I did that, my fanfiction “career” began. I never ever liked the Spock/Uhura pairing because I already shipped Kirk and Spock from TOS.
I’ve probably seen every episode of Ironside, Colombo, McMillan & Wife, and Murder She Wrote
I had a gigantic crush on Rutger Hauer in Ladyhawke. He was so badass with his armor and giant sword and turning into a wolf. Such a romantic, tragic tale. But it annoyed the crap out of me that she only ever called his hero, Etienne Navarre by his last name.
I liked the first three Star Wars movies well enough but I still wonder what the fuss is about
I own Halloween and Halloween 2
I didn’t learn to drive until I was in my 30s
I loved the show The Wonder Years
I loved the mystery and weirdness of Twin Peaks until they made it about demon possession
I drink cream with a little coffee (this is referred to by me as the Coffee of Love)
I like beer and wine but I am not much of a mixed drink drinker
I love every kind of seafood but tilapia. I even eat it hardcore raw like sashimi
I’ve tried frogs legs (sorry Kermit), snails, and rabbit (didn’t like any of them)
I do not like ham but I love bacon and pork chops
I’ve needed glasses since the 9^th grade
I’ve considered the FBI, acting, journalism, and historian as careers in the past
I prefer Stephen King over Dean Koontz but have widely read both
My favorite move used to be The Godfather. I still like it a lot but it’s been taken over a long time ago.
I took German in high school
Eeyore once pinched my butt
I used to voraciously read books on the mob (Lucky Luciano, Myer Lansky, Bugsy Segal)
I freaking love the first 6 seasons of Midsomer Murders
I loved the first two seasons of American Horror Story (Zach was in both, coincidence? I think not), but haven’t been able to stomach the gore and horror of any other seasons
I actually liked the movie Agent 47: Hitman with Zach and own it. He looked hot in it
I think the first two Spiderman’s with Toby Maguire were the best superhero movies ever made. Next comes the first Avengers.
I love the main theme from Cider House Rules (it’s also the theme for the commercials for Michigan’s “Pure Michigan” tourist commercials narrated by Tim Allen)
I sometimes just sit and play Spirk videos for hours
I love role playing video games and was a huge fan of Final Fantasy

January 6, 2017

Ramblings of the week, Week of January 02, 2017 Edition

As part of my weekly ramblings, you get a picture. Isn’t he pretty?

Well here we are in 2017.

The year didn’t start out well for me. I got a nasty comment on my fanfiction, When It Began, which basically questioned my whole scene with the teens, implying I was going “too fast” with the story, that the teens shouldn’t be kissing (who knows why), and worst of all, that Spock was completely out of character in the story. In fact they said he was so out of character “it hurt”. I am admittedly “Jimcentric” but I still try hard to get everything right with Spock. That was the New Year’s Day comment I woke up to.

To say I almost threw in the towel on that story as well as my entire account on AO3 would be an understatement. I put so much effort into those stories, not just for me, but for everyone else, and I was discouraged and disappointed.

I know I have a pretty vigorous readership on there. Many of whom never comment. And others who only comment sporadically. But all I could see was the negative.

I’m still struggling to “get over it”.

Like my friend, Kris, I don’t make resolutions. Not anymore. But I do have a few things I’d like to do this year and that includes the dreaded losing weight. I am too old at this point to worry about being hot or anything, but I do want to be healthier and that is probably more my goal than necessarily a number on a scale. I’d also like to be better with money. Later this year I will be going to Yellowstone (June) and how I will afford it is still a mystery. I spent way too much at Christmas, though it made ME happy to do so, so that’s important too. Still I need to better control my spending. I need to be better to myself too.

That’s about the extent of my ramblings this week. I am still going to the hospital on a daily basis. I’ll be there again tonight. The latest is that they’ve determined she has A-Fib as well as all kinds of infections. She’s having swallowing and speech therapy though and is doing quite well with those. She has no paralysis and her movement is fine. It also seems like most of the sundowner’s syndrome has faded. But yeah, still in the hospital and likely for a few more days.

January 3, 2017

When to Keep Quiet, Do I Know?

‘Tis the season for weird offenses.

People who get offended by “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas” are annoying. There are all kinds of holidays. What in the hell is wrong with wishing someone well, which is what “Happy Holidays” is. People seem to think “Happy Holidays” is something new that came about because of the “War on Christmas” (laughable) but Andy Williams sang a song called “Happy Holidays” in the early 60s. Truly people, get over it.It’s not offensive to be told Happy Holidays even if you are Christian.

Someone posted on AO3 complaining that all the Spirk Christmas fics ignore that Spock is Jewish. Well, I don’t. But here’s the thing. Roddenberry was an Atheist. As far as I know what “religion” anyone was on Star Trek was not discussed. I don’t recall it. I know Leonard Nimoy was Jewish and was allowed to incorporate much of the Jewish religion into things we now know as Vulcan today. No one is disputing that. I admit I haven’t read any Spirk fics that show Spock being Christian, but I guess it’s possible there are. Usually in my own fics I leave Jesus out of the whole thing because I treat Christmas as a secular thing as I am at best agnostic. Anyway this person complained that a lot of it came from the people writing about the 2009 movie and onward. First of all, if you ARE new to the fandom, welcome. I would never ever think you should be made to feel unwelcome. And second, I know for a fact Spock’s religion is never brought up then. Winona Ryder who plays Spock’s mother, too briefly in my opinion, is Jewish. Zachary Quinto is not. So if you came to the fandom for the more recent movies, of course you aren’t going to know. I don’t know, it just seems something entirely too silly to get bothered over.

Right after that, I saw someone’s comment on a fic where the author did mention Spock being Jewish, and she made a comment that no other fics do that. Since I have and have seen others, I couldn’t help shaking my head and wondering when I became invisible.

Anyway, I have always been taught when you are different religions (or not at all religious as applies to me) you compromise on celebrations and the like. But what do I know?)

I guess I should keep my mouth shut as usual.

Happy Holidays!

December 23, 2016

Weekly Ramblings, Week of December 19

So, this is the last week before Christmas. My plans have altered somewhat. I thought I was going to get to have Christmas Eve with just the two of us. There was hope for a half a second. Ever since we met a certain friend, many years ago, we have spent Christmas Eve with her and her family. It’s kind of a drag always doing it.

This year she made plans to be in Vegas with her boyfriend for the whole weekend. And we were going to do our Christmas get-together on Thursday the 22nd. But well then her boyfriend remembered suddenly that his family would throw a fit that he didn’t come for Christmas and those plans changed. And so did mine. So much for the Christmas Eve with just the two of us plans.

He doesn’t understand of course. He sees me every day and so he thinks the holidays are about spending time with family and friends not with each other. So I have to grin and bear it, as usual.

I have to work all week. We will get off early on Friday. I’m going to try like hell to get all my holiday stories done by Christmas, but I am only one person. Worse, was I thought of an idea for another but I am seriously resisting. Seriously.

That’s it. Merry Christmas and see you on A03

December 19, 2016