how do you choose not to feel?

↬ rating: not-rated ↬ word count: 10,307 ↬ tags: timeline travel ↬ warnings: creator chose not to archive warnings 「 read on ksarchive 」 A transporter malfunction brings AOS Kirk and Spock into the TOS universe. To both of their surprise, their counterparts are in a romantic relationship.

↬ rating: mature ↬ word count: 207,623 ↬ tags: canon divergence, kid fic ↬ warnings: creator chose not to archive warnings 「 read on ao3 」 Jim Kirk is nine when a massacre on Tarsus IV leaves him without a family and without a home. Spock is twelve when a strange boy in the desert saves his sehlat. Families aren't born; they're made. The look in mother’s eyes at his correction remained a mystery long after the colors of the night sky and the complex patterns of distant nebulae had become translatable by means of distinct and relatively straightforward equations.

↬ rating: teen ↬ word count: 14,770 ↬ tags: body swap, misunderstandings 「 read on ao3 」 "Illogical" wasn't a word that ever should have come out of Leonard McCoy's mouth, so when it happened, he looked up through a narrowed pair of Vulcan eyes and into his own face.

↬ rating: teen ↬ word count: 10,927 ↬ tags: romance, first time 「 read on ao3 」 In which Spock contemplates the laws of attraction and realizes what a slippery slope that is only after he has already fallen. There’s no help for him now.

Kirk is a secret astrophysics genius who publishes under a pseudonym; Spock sends him fanmail. Shenanigans ensue.

↬ rating: general ↬ word count: 3,378 ↬ tags: canon divergence, fluff 「 read on ao3 」 Spock knows he has no right to refer to Jim as any sort of endearment, even in the privacy of his own thoughts. If he had only listened to this logic he wouldn't find himself in this position, standing on the bridge having just called his captain "ashayam".

The holidays are approaching and Jim is left entirely Spockless aboard the Enterprise when his First takes shore leave on New Vulcan. After some midnight pining, Jim sends a text he instantly regrets. That is, until Spock responds and willingly continues their textual communications to an inevitable conclusion.

↬ rating: mature ↬ word count: 262,788 ↬ tags: pov jim kirk, alternate universe - royalty, arranged marriage 「 read on ao3 」 S'chn T'gai Spock of Vulcan, engaged to Prince James Tiberius Kirk of Earth through an arrangement made by their parents many years ago, writes to his intended on the day of his birth in the interest of diplomacy. Jim is not interested in diplomacy. Though there is no precedent set for the commencement of a written correspondence begun due to these specific parameters, I will strive to maintain, to the best of my abilities and with ample preparatory research previously conducted, the appropriate level of formality between us, based on a number of factors, primarily examples of a similar nature.