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Works in Progress:

• Untitled - paused
      Harry Potter: Harry/Draco, Crabbe, Goyle, Pansy, Hermione, Ron

( Challenges )

( Stamps etc )

 

Fiction - One-Shots:

• First Contact - 08.2009
      Kirk/Spock, Mitchell
• Sunrise - 16.08.2009
      Kirk/Spock
• Promoted - 30.07.2009
      Mitchell/Kirk
• Feathered Things - 02.07.2009
      Mitchell, Kirk (Mitchell/Kirk, Kirk/Spock)
• Ruthless - 03.06.2009
      Kirk/Spock
• An Enterprising Affair - 28.05.2009
      Kirk/Spock, Kirk/Enterprise
• Dangerous - 23.05.2009
      Uhura/Rand
• Man Trap - 22.05.2009
      Kirk/Spock

Fiction - Challenges:

• Fanfic100 - ongoing
      General Series

Graphics - Icons:

• The Naked Time - 10.08.2009
      76 icons
• The Naked Time - 03.08.2009
      76 icons
• Where No Man Has Gone Before - 05.07.2009
      68 icons
• Charlie X - 22.06.2009
      115 icons
• The Man Trap - 08.06.2009
      54 icons

Other - Discussion:

• Episode Discussion - 05.09.2009
      The Naked Time, Balance of Terror, What Are Little Girls Made Of
• Episode Discussion - 09.08.2009
      The Corbomite Maneuver, Mudd's Women, The Enemy Within
• Book Discussion - 08.08.2009
      Star Trek: The New Voyages
• Book Discussion - 04.07.2009
      Star Trek Academy: Collision Course
• Episode Discussion - 28.06.2009
      The Man Trap, Charlie X, Where No Man Has Gone Before
• Book Discussion - 11.06.2009, friends only
      Soliloquy (poem)
• Fannish Thoughts - 01.06.2009
      Musings on K/S

 

Title: First Contact
Fandom: Star Trek TOS
Characters/Pairings: Jim Kirk/Spock, Gary Mitchell
Rating: PG-13
Words: 26,948
Challenge: startrekbigbang
Beta: Thanks to gorynna for the read-through.
Summary: A false accusation at Starfleet Academy brings Jim & Spock together.
Disclaimer: Not mine; just playing.

Please check out the two wonderful pieces blacklily28 created for this piece here. I'll also be adding a link to a music mix created by bozaloshtsh once our timezones align ;)


Part One     :     Part Two     :     Part Three

 

( First Contact - Part Three )

 

( First Contact - Part Two )

 

Title: First Contact
Fandom: Star Trek TOS
Characters/Pairings: Jim Kirk/Spock, Gary Mitchell
Rating: PG-13
Words: 26,948
Challenge: startrekbigbang
Beta: Thanks to gorynna for the read-through.
Summary: A false accusation at Starfleet Academy brings Jim & Spock together.
Disclaimer: Not mine; just playing.

( First Contact - Part One )

 

Some more notes n' quotes. As always, my inner shipper is showing.

( 01.06 – The Naked Time )

( 01.08 – Balance of Terror )

( 01.09 – What Are Little Girls Made Of? )

 

Title: Sunrise
Fandom: Star Trek: TOS
Characters/Pairing: Kirk/Spock preslash
Rating: G
Fanfic100: 031. Sunrise
Wordcount: 1,143
Summary: Yet another mission gone wrong
Disclaimer: Not mine; just playing.

( Sunrise )

 

[001-065] Star Trek TOS: "The Naked Time"
[066-076] Star Trek TOS: "The Naked Time" quote icons




Part two of two. Next up will be one of my least favourite episodes, so I promise the batch will be much smaller ;)

( 76 icons )

 

As always, commentary is pretty slash-focused :)

( 01.02 – The Corbomite Maneuver )

( 01.03 – Mudd's Women )

( 01.04 – The Enemy Within )

 

The Book: Star Trek: The New Voyages, edited by Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath

The Review: This is a collection of short stories written by fans that was professionally published with a foreword by Gene Roddenberry and individual story introductions written by the TOS cast members. The quality is a bit up and down, but the better pieces are well worth a read, and not only for the enormous amounts of slashy content that made it into publication :D

The Fannish Stuff: I just can't get past how fantastic it is that the Trek folk embraced fandom and fanfiction in this way. As someone who has been involved with fandom for over a decade but who came to the Trek fandom extremely late, it's hard to believe that this precedent was set right back in the beginning and thoroughly ignored by so many copyright holders ever since. Fandom makes money, not takes money, and it's about time that this message should sink in.

( Individual Stories – Spoilers Included )

[001-076] Star Trek TOS: "The Naked Time"




Part one of two - I love this episode so much that I ended up with FAR too many icons *g*

( 76 icons )

 

Title: Promoted
Fandom: Star Trek: TOS
Characters/Pairing: Gary Mitchell/James Kirk
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 100
Summary: Jim is promoted
Disclaimer: Not mine; just playing.

( Promoted )

 

Meme stolen from turps33:

List five of your own stories that you love the most. Not the five best, but the ones that mean something to you.

5. We Go Together - Grease, Danny/Kenickie. Because it's Grease and because I put so much more effort and research into it than I normally did.

4. Think About You - Comfest 2000. This is not a 'best' piece at all. It's a bunch of men acting like women, it's full of clichés, it's melodramatic and by god I love it :D Every time I re-read it, it puts the silliest smile on my face.

3. But Only In Our Dreams - Harry Potter, Draco/Bellatrix. This one was a remix of another writer's piece, and it was something I never would have written on my own. Somehow, despite this, it became one of the pieces I'm most proud of.

2. Like a Child - Backstreet Boys/*NSYNC, Nick/Justin & AJ/Howie. It's not an original concept, and it's enormously fluffy, but I had so much fun writing it and re-reading it recently still made me just as happy as it did way back when.

1. Best Enemies - Okay, so that's not so much a story as a series, but I'm not sure how I could pick one from the whole. Harry Potter, Harry/Draco, and it was my baby... to the point that I couldn't write it any more because I was so worried I'd ruin it.


 

( Little Damn Table )

 

[001-064] Star Trek TOS: "Where No Man Has Gone Before"
[065-068] Star Trek TOS: "Where No Man Has Gone Before" - quotes




The colouring and lighting in this episode is quite different (and rather less attractive) than that of the rest of the series. Still, I guess it makes these look appropriately 1960s ;)

( 68 icons )

 

(A post on the K/S comm reminded me that I'd meant to post this yonks ago.)

The Book: Star Trek Academy: Collision Course, by William Shatner with Judith Reeves-Stevens and Garfield Reeves-Stevens

The Review: I have to admit that I wasn't expecting much from this, but I ended up really enjoying it. Not so sure about the whole "Stretch" thing, but it was a believable enough take on teenage!Jim and teenage!Spock, with an interesting story to tie it all together.

The Fannish Stuff: Good exploration of a possible beginning to Kirk and Spock's friendship. There's not much slashiness here, but they are only seventeen and nineteen respectively. The key is really the development over the book of their understanding of each other, with the visible beginning of the way they'd later complement each other perfectly.

 

Title: Feathered Things
Fandom: Star Trek: TOS
Characters/Pairing: Gary Mitchell, James Kirk (implied Mitchell/Kirk and Kirk/Spock)
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 2,407
Summary: Scenes from Mitchell & Kirk's friendship
Spoilers: For "Where No Man Has Gone Before"
Credits: The title is taken from the poem quoted within the above episode.
Disclaimer: Not mine; just playing.

( Feathered Things )

 

( 01.05 – The Man Trap )

( 01.07 – Charlie X )

( 01.01 – Where No Man Has Gone Before )

 

[001-110] Star Trek TOS: "Charlie X"
[111-115] Star Trek TOS: "Charlie X" - quotes




( 115 icons )