More ST fic recs, edition People I Know (and others)
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jade_dragoness (WIP)
K/S pre-slash. On the really-really off-chance someone hasn't encountered it yet, probably the best of all the "aliens chibified them" stories the kink meme grew (why??). Though IMO actual Kirk, Spock and McCoy watching The Princess Bride would be a bit more, je ne sais quoi, MST3K?
The 80/20 Theory As Applied to Cats on the Bed by![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
lazulisong
K/S pre-slash. It took me an unreasonably long time to realize the cat's name was "Tribble". XD
Similar Activities bymithrigil and puella_nerdii
A Wrong Turn at Albuquerque
The Watch Cycle 1 | 2 (WIP)
Kirk/Spock/Uhura. Mith and Puel are the only ones thus far who went about extrapolating how shiz would go down if T'Pring survived (but not gonna lie: the #1 reason I'm reccing this is the Old Spock Beams Aboard scene, which is A++ WOULD LOL AGAIN).
(Though this is a take on the episode proper, w/ soup. BTW I'm sure I'm not the 5,409th person to point this out, but the canon ending made no sense.)
It's the Grammar of Skin 1 | 2 byvaingirlfic (WIP)
Kirk/Spock/Uhura, not the direct-to-Hell one (that would be this).
K/S/U is interesting because the dominant fanon dynamic is, basically, poly; I think because one assumes Spock and Uhura would canonically have that communication style anyway. Now poly stories that intend as such (as opposed to ~*O HAI OT3 SPARKLY*~) often slip into a sort of didacticism reminiscent of zine-era slash (there is a joke here somewhere re slippery slopes) that I've always found a tad off-putting, but I don't get that sense with the K/S/U fics I've read.
And Years Went By bykeelywolfe
Wished Me Well (WIP? getting to be a theme)
...And K/S/Mc fics tend not to have that communication style to begin with. XD;
City Lights byatomicskull
Kirk/McCoy, the-Enterprise-is-a-NYC-fashion-mag AU. IDEK ok, there are illustrations. XD;
You Know he Looks so Good Tonight bycuriouslyfic
Kirk/Sulu, Sulu/everyone, yes it's a sex pollen fic, the original request (what I linked to) is pure genius as proven by the fact that THE FILLS KEEP COMING. "Cupcake" is an underrated character tbh. Also completely lost my shit at Cannabis kumaris.*
Genesis by Eclectic Muse
Spock/Uhura. This is pretty much how I think it would've gone down.
Conditional Tense, Subjunctive Mood byineptshieldmaid
I have to say this, though: I dug Spock/Uhura in the movie, but by the same token the fic makes me uncomfortable. XD; OSHI TOO CLOSE TO REALITY BRING BACK THE SEX POLLEN
Penal as in Penalty bysubterrain
Janice Rand/Helen Noel, based on a TOS episode I haven't reached. I've developed a fondness for Janice "we're going to die horribly in ten minutes so I made coffee with a phaser" Rand though: like the animu OL neesan who seems like a sane normal until you realize she's probably as nuts as the rest of the cast, or why else would she be there. Also she looks EERILY LIKE CHLOE OUT OF 24. If Chloe out of 24 were in Mad Men. In space.
The reboot movie would actually have passed Bechdel if Kirk hadn't been under the bed, which pretty much says everything ever.
For Stars byayalesca (art by arboretum!)
Kirk+McCoy gen. Not that I really need to rec this but. In order what I find amazing about this fic is 1) the characterization; reading the STvi novelization as a kid I was terrified by McCoy's reactions of NEGATIVITY MORASS** on Rura Penthe, this brings the flashback big-time, 2) the granularity of the planetary setting, which ficcers seem to ignore on their way to the sex pollen (to be fair atmospherics are not what the kink meme is for, and the original series is all foam rocks and silk plants), and 3) THE STARS.
Iowa Was No Place for Heroes byblcwriter
Kirk, Uhura, that alien sitting between them at the bar, gen. It's hilarious to me that someone would have written this fic, because even the first time I watched the scene in question I was looking at that alien and thinking s/he had hir "you've gotta be kidding me" face on.
* I keep wondering if there's, like, a Harold and Kumar macro that says One of these stoners is in the Obama administration, the other one is piloting the starship Enterprise, what have you done with your life lately.
** Always sort of wondered if I'd be one of those people hugging a plank in the freezing water until sunrise, or if I'd give up. I don't think you can know until it happens. I'd bet on give up, except for aforementioned instinctive upset.
Wow, these writeups are getting longer, aren't they.
jade_dragoness (WIP)K/S pre-slash. On the really-really off-chance someone hasn't encountered it yet, probably the best of all the "aliens chibified them" stories the kink meme grew (why??). Though IMO actual Kirk, Spock and McCoy watching The Princess Bride would be a bit more, je ne sais quoi, MST3K?
The 80/20 Theory As Applied to Cats on the Bed by
lazulisongK/S pre-slash. It took me an unreasonably long time to realize the cat's name was "Tribble". XD
Similar Activities by
mithrigil and puella_nerdiiA Wrong Turn at Albuquerque
The Watch Cycle 1 | 2 (WIP)
Kirk/Spock/Uhura. Mith and Puel are the only ones thus far who went about extrapolating how shiz would go down if T'Pring survived (but not gonna lie: the #1 reason I'm reccing this is the Old Spock Beams Aboard scene, which is A++ WOULD LOL AGAIN).
(Though this is a take on the episode proper, w/ soup. BTW I'm sure I'm not the 5,409th person to point this out, but the canon ending made no sense.)
It's the Grammar of Skin 1 | 2 by
vaingirlfic (WIP)Kirk/Spock/Uhura, not the direct-to-Hell one (that would be this).
K/S/U is interesting because the dominant fanon dynamic is, basically, poly; I think because one assumes Spock and Uhura would canonically have that communication style anyway. Now poly stories that intend as such (as opposed to ~*O HAI OT3 SPARKLY*~) often slip into a sort of didacticism reminiscent of zine-era slash (there is a joke here somewhere re slippery slopes) that I've always found a tad off-putting, but I don't get that sense with the K/S/U fics I've read.
And Years Went By by
keelywolfeWished Me Well (WIP? getting to be a theme)
...And K/S/Mc fics tend not to have that communication style to begin with. XD;
City Lights by
atomicskullKirk/McCoy, the-Enterprise-is-a-NYC-fashion-mag AU. IDEK ok, there are illustrations. XD;
You Know he Looks so Good Tonight by
curiouslyficKirk/Sulu, Sulu/everyone, yes it's a sex pollen fic, the original request (what I linked to) is pure genius as proven by the fact that THE FILLS KEEP COMING. "Cupcake" is an underrated character tbh. Also completely lost my shit at Cannabis kumaris.*
Genesis by Eclectic Muse
Spock/Uhura. This is pretty much how I think it would've gone down.
Conditional Tense, Subjunctive Mood by
ineptshieldmaidI have to say this, though: I dug Spock/Uhura in the movie, but by the same token the fic makes me uncomfortable. XD; OSHI TOO CLOSE TO REALITY BRING BACK THE SEX POLLEN
Penal as in Penalty by
subterrainJanice Rand/Helen Noel, based on a TOS episode I haven't reached. I've developed a fondness for Janice "we're going to die horribly in ten minutes so I made coffee with a phaser" Rand though: like the animu OL neesan who seems like a sane normal until you realize she's probably as nuts as the rest of the cast, or why else would she be there. Also she looks EERILY LIKE CHLOE OUT OF 24. If Chloe out of 24 were in Mad Men. In space.
The reboot movie would actually have passed Bechdel if Kirk hadn't been under the bed, which pretty much says everything ever.
For Stars by
ayalesca (art by arboretum!)Kirk+McCoy gen. Not that I really need to rec this but. In order what I find amazing about this fic is 1) the characterization; reading the STvi novelization as a kid I was terrified by McCoy's reactions of NEGATIVITY MORASS** on Rura Penthe, this brings the flashback big-time, 2) the granularity of the planetary setting, which ficcers seem to ignore on their way to the sex pollen (to be fair atmospherics are not what the kink meme is for, and the original series is all foam rocks and silk plants), and 3) THE STARS.
Iowa Was No Place for Heroes by
blcwriterKirk, Uhura, that alien sitting between them at the bar, gen. It's hilarious to me that someone would have written this fic, because even the first time I watched the scene in question I was looking at that alien and thinking s/he had hir "you've gotta be kidding me" face on.
* I keep wondering if there's, like, a Harold and Kumar macro that says One of these stoners is in the Obama administration, the other one is piloting the starship Enterprise, what have you done with your life lately.
** Always sort of wondered if I'd be one of those people hugging a plank in the freezing water until sunrise, or if I'd give up. I don't think you can know until it happens. I'd bet on give up, except for aforementioned instinctive upset.
Wow, these writeups are getting longer, aren't they.