Spirk (with a small dose of Pinto)

Tag: Star Trek

  • Another Video I Love

    This one is Jim rather than Spirk but it has some great shots of Jim (and therefore CP)

    I’ll Be Good

  • Videos I love

    So my favorite Spirk video maker has a new video out. Check it out here

    I make a copy for myself with every one she does and this one will be no exception. I was waiting for her to do one with Beyond footage so I was very excited when I received notification.

     

  • Ramblings of the Week of October 17

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    I spent this past weekend in Mammoth. If you don’t know what Mammoth is you should google it. Mammoth Lakes. It’s beautiful. It was a long drive there Friday night after work and we didn’t get there until about 1 AM. Anyway we had a great time though it was cold and as we were leaving Sunday morning snow was on all the mountains and hills around us.

    While I was there I got an idea for a new fic. I intend to start it today but don’t know when I will begin posting it. No details as yet because I want it to be a surprise.

    I have to wonder at celebs sometimes. Why would you adopt a dog right before going away on a week long road trip with your buddies?

    I’m having a little get-together this coming Sunday. I intended to serve hot tea and coffee but since they are now predicting it is going to be about 85 I guess I will be serving iced tea. I am ready for it to be cool. I got spoiled in Mammoth where I was freezing. I really don’t know how you people who live on the East coast do the snow every damn day thing in the winter. Brrrrr

    Edit: I took out my complaint. It was clear to me it didn’t work as I intended it to and probably made ME look bad.

  • In Limbo…

    As the title says there, I am sort of in limbo about what’s coming next in the updates. I am working on the next chapter of My Devotion, You are the Light That’s Leading Me, the One-Shot and Young and Beautiful. None are finished. Not sure if I will have anything finished but my goal is to get something finished and updated on Friday.

    I’m still working on my Old Married Spirk story but I have all of November to post that, though like I said before I intend to post it sooner rather than later.

    I’ll be away all weekend so there won’t be any updates. In fact that’s sort of going to be a pattern going forward through the end of the year. This is my busy time with parties, plans, family, friends, and holidays.Through October I have plans every weekend and into November as well. I expect December to be likewise busy, so just expect me to take most weekends off posting wise.

    Because my plate is super full (got one story finished thankfully) and Christmas stories will be coming up soon, I expect THE WINTER STORY not to get going before January. It’s going to have angsty sad elements for sure. I am hoping to get a story or two completed before I get working on that too much.

    Because he’s beautiful, I must conclude with a Chris picture. Oh look, Zach got in there too.

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  • Ramblings of the Week October 10

    I’ve been writing. Sort of. I wrote two little parts of Young and Beautiful. Which I posted. And I started the next chapter of My Devotion and the One-Shot Collection 5 but I didn’t get very far on either. I didn’t post anything this past weekend on AO3 and I am not sure I will have anything to post today. I’m sort of…I don’t know. Blah.

    I want to delete my account sometimes as you know. Just make it go away and never post another word. Another story on there. I haven’t and I am not sure I will. Because that’s happened to me on there and I know it sucks. I’ve been that reader that goes…oh no…

    Sometimes it’s not enough though.

    I don’t kid myself that someone else won’t come around to fill the gap I would leave. New writers of the Star Trek reboot movies come along all the time. The whole Spock/Bones thing seems to be catching on way too much since Beyond but whatever. I lament the lack of Kirk/Spock fics on there but alas that’s the way it is.

    And I refuse to ever return to the K/S Archive.

    Anyway, if I ever did delete, the fandom would go on. Springing up new life all the time and new fans. And some of them are really good, so I don’t think I’d be missed for long, really. There are those I adored to read who don’t publish anymore, so it happens.

    I do have people tell me I am their favorite and that’s lovely, really. I had a reader make such a comment today. And I guess that’s why I still haven’t deleted my account there. But I can’t say the thought doesn’t occur to me still, because it does.

    What’s the gist of this? I don’t know. This is called rambling for a reason.

    My current desktop background.

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  • PAIRS

    So I saw this on tumblr and decided to put a post on here with my thoughts on it.

    OTP – Obvious isn’t it? Kirk/Spock

    Favorite canon pairing: I think this is supposed to be an “actual’ pairing in fandom, not a created one, so if that’s the case I’d go with Arwen/Aragorn from The Lord of the Rings trilogy. But if that isn’t what it means, I say Kirk/Spock again.

    Worst Pairing Ever: Spock/Uhura, duh, just so wrong,  although for me a close second is Spock/Bones

    Guilty Pleasure Pairing: Kirk/Spock Prime

    A Pairing I want to see more of: Always Kirk/Spock, to me there aren’t enough

    That pair that everyone likes but you’re like “no, lol”: Kirk/McCoy

    Favorite Non-Romantic Pair: Kirk/McCoy

     

     

  • My Own Favorites

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    Chris Pine plays Kirk in Star Trek Beyond from Paramount Pictures, Skydance, Bad Robot, Sneaky Shark and Perfect Storm Entertainment

    We all have our favorites of work we’ve written. Or maybe that’s just me, but I don’t think so.

    I was talking to my dear bff Kris about this and she shared with me her favorites of mine. I started talking about it because I was mentioning a particular story of mine that is popular and the reason why always eludes me. I don’t hate the story but it’s not in my top 5 of what I’ve written. Maybe not even top 10. Yet it has the most Kudos of any story I have out there.

    So here is my list of my own favorites in no particular order and I am keeping it at 5

    Not in Love

    Not an Ordinary Life

    Somewhere Else

    In Another Life

    A Spirky Christmas Carol

     

    It was hard for me to choose A Spirky Christmas Carol over Going Boldly because I adore my longest fic, but A Christmas Carol is my all time favorite story and the tale told from Spock’s angle/POV is particularly poignant for me.

    So there you have it, my top 5 COMPLETED works. I have a few favorites in the new stuff.

     

  • It’s Me, Again

    This is my contemplative face

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    Okay really it’s his, but it works for me.

    I’m feeling much the same way he probably is in this shot.

    Due to the success of Professor Spock I had decided to write a sequel, Runaway Groom. I thought given the themes of the first story where Jim was uncertain about bonding with Spock, who made his initial disdain for Human Jim very clear, that the sequel would be well received. I didn’t expect it to be be as popular. It’s rare that sequels ever are. But I didn’t expect the crash and burn I got either. I guess the so-called “sequel fatigue” isn’t just for movies.

    The truth is, I should have kept it short and sweet. Maybe a one-shot where Spock found Jim quickly and ta-da the end. But I got it in my head that it had to be complicated and I ended up introducing Leonard McCoy Prime and really it just went down from there. I’m not surprised no one cares about it because I don’t even care about it. At this point all I want to do is delete it and call it a failed experiment.

    I had plans that they would go to the Nexus and Jim would meet his father there and want to stay and for Spock Jim would be fully bonded with him and not have any doubts and so he’d want to stay. And they’d have to fight to get back to their real lives.

    Only I just don’t give a rat’s ass anymore. I really don’t.

    And so I want to just make it go away and pretend it never happened.

    My contemplative face is do I really just delete it without comment? That’s what I want to do. It’s just not working for me or for readers. I am sure there will be some readers who will be “Oh I liked that story” but for the most part I don’t really believe it will be missed.

    So there you have it.

  • Ramblings of the Week 09/26

    I admit I saw this gif on tumblr and couldn’t resist adding it to my site. It’s pretty cool.

    So I spent the last three days wining and dining in San Diego. It was beastly hot this weekend even though it is fall and I cannot wait for at least reasonable weather. I think it’s supposed to be reasonable beginning in October. I hope so!

    I need to continue working on my old married Spirk story so I can have it ready for November. And I have told myself I will not begin writing THE WINTER STORY (notice all the caps there, which is what it’s known as until a title occurs) until the old married spirk story is finished.

    I am also hoping to get some closure on a couple of other stories soon. I have too many WIPs going and soon I will want to write holiday stories. Anyway those are today’s and this week’s ramblings!