So as you may have noticed, month long hiatus in December plus a new year’s holiday weekend. I might have been just a tiny bit burnt out from NaNo. I’ve got so many plot bunnies in my head breeding away but no motivation nurture them. Also, depending on how crazy everything is, I think I may be doing these entries every other week, or twice a month. And as always, my work is a mess so I’ve been sleeping away my weekends again. This is me apologising and making excuses for the scarcity of blog posts.
Moving on to more relevant things, I’ve cycled back to my Star Trek hyperfixation. I’m trying to watch Enterprise, but seeing Scott Bakula just makes my brain think we are watching Quantum Leap. I’m wondering if I can just skip it and go straight to watching Discovery. I’m eager to see the mirror universe episodes, tumblr has spoilers all over the place and they are fanning my interest. I’m already enamoured of Hugh Culber without having even watched the show. I never did finish all of The Next Generation, Voyager, or all of the TNG movies, so the Picard series will have to wait for a while. I’m probably going to end up bingeing the original series again before everything else only because it’s always so satisfying to watch.
Let’s talk about shipping and the original ship couple. I’m still not a big spirk fan, James T. Kirk just doesn’t do it for me. I adore the Spock McCoy banter, I live for their witty repartee. I will always love DeForest Kelly’s Leonard McCoy, so as far as the original series goes, I’m a spones fan. However, AOS mcchekov will always be my number one ship. Despite the almost nonexistent interaction, I cannot help but pair my two favourite actors. Tangentially relating to this, the new movies all have very different feels to them. The 2009 reboot is mckirk all the way, Jim meeting Bones on the shuttle to Starfleet –chef’s kiss-. However, with Into Darkness, spirk is the flavour I get, the Spock Uhura relationship notwithstanding. In an inverse of the events of Wrath of Khan, it was nice to see Spock lose his shit over Jim’s death, even if it was temporary. It’s such a shame that Hollywood gave us yet another tired heterosexual relationship when there was so much queer potential there already. Beyond tried to make up for it with the Sulus, but I think the most redeeming aspect of the third movie was the Spock and McCoy interplay. We finally got some spones action! Saving each others lives, a heartfelt one on one, and kicking ass together, I was over the moon.
Well, enough of that for now, as my shipper heart might not be able to take it. Circling back to rare pairs and my fanfiction, in December I managed to post chapter two of “What Happens in Vegas“. I am planning to finish/expand “She’s Got Legs” at some point. I’ve updated the writing schedule to this effect, but don’t hold your breath. January is already a third of the way over and I haven’t posted anything except for this blog entry. On another note, since I’m revisiting the Star Trek fandom again, I’ve got a few new ideas. Only about half of them are SS Sam stories, the other half are mostly Star Trek centred, or at the very least Karl Urban characters centric. I’m thinking of making up another google doc of all the stories ideas I have yet to post. Speaking of which, feel free to comment on any of the existing shared prompt docs (SS Sam) I have up. Wishing everyone success in crushing their WIPs, until next time y’all!
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