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In the Silence of the Green Garden, 2024. Bat Ella. Acrylic, oil and pigments on canvas.
why does this have 32k notes? it’s just a picture of a knife in a ranch bottle, is there some unspoken joke that 32 thousand people share? what is going on here, i dont get it. it’s just a fucking picture of a knife in a ranch bottle. is there some spiritual connection people have to this picture? is there some ominous and mystical reasoning that this has 32 thousand notes? do people reblog this because it makes them look like some indie blogger? or is there just something funny to this? someone please explain
no one tell him
you know how it goes
https://archiveofourown.org/works/76590411/chapters/200448096
How to Build a City (1998 words) by Alsike Chapters: 1/5 Fandom: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (TV) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Christine Chapel/T'Pring, T'Pring & Herself Characters: T'Pring (Star Trek), Christine Chapel Additional Tags: T'Pring's perspective on Erotic Vulcan Love Poetry, Poetry, Philosophy, Exile, Depression, Recovery Series: Part 13 of Trekkerverse Summary: “Is it getting boring?” Christine asked, lying in sweaty hotel sheets, trailing jetstreams of Vulcan incense making the air taste of black licorice, which had somehow become an immediate turn-on for her. “Since how you feel about me is less complicated now?” T’Pring lifted her head and rested her chin on her hands, staring across the too large bed at Christine, an oddly thoughtful expression on her face. “You have begun with a flawed premise,” she said. “Oh.” Christine thought hard, trying to remember the exact words T’Pring had used. “Is less erotic not the same as boring—” But T’Pring cut her off. “If anything . . . my feelings for you are more complicated than they were before.” Here's to complicated feelings.
Chapter 2!
How to Build a City (4686 words) by Alsike Chapters: 2/5 Fandom: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (TV) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Christine Chapel/T'Pring, T'Pring & Herself Characters: T'Pring (Star Trek), Christine Chapel Additional Tags: T'Pring's perspective on Erotic Vulcan Love Poetry, Poetry, Philosophy, Exile, Depression, Recovery Series: Part 13 of Trekkerverse Summary: “Is it getting boring?” Christine asked, lying in sweaty hotel sheets, trailing jetstreams of Vulcan incense making the air taste of black licorice, which had somehow become an immediate turn-on for her. “Since how you feel about me is less complicated now?” T’Pring lifted her head and rested her chin on her hands, staring across the too large bed at Christine, an oddly thoughtful expression on her face. “You have begun with a flawed premise,” she said. “Oh.” Christine thought hard, trying to remember the exact words T’Pring had used. “Is less erotic not the same as boring—” But T’Pring cut her off. “If anything . . . my feelings for you are more complicated than they were before.” Here's to complicated feelings.
Chapter 3!
How to Build a City (9508 words) by Alsike Chapters: 3/5 Fandom: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (TV) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Christine Chapel/T'Pring, T'Pring & Herself Characters: T'Pring (Star Trek), Christine Chapel Additional Tags: T'Pring's perspective on Erotic Vulcan Love Poetry, Poetry, Philosophy, Exile, Depression, Recovery Series: Part 13 of Trekkerverse Summary: “Is it getting boring?” Christine asked, lying in sweaty hotel sheets, trailing jetstreams of Vulcan incense making the air taste of black licorice, which had somehow become an immediate turn-on for her. “Since how you feel about me is less complicated now?” T’Pring lifted her head and rested her chin on her hands, staring across the too large bed at Christine, an oddly thoughtful expression on her face. “You have begun with a flawed premise,” she said. “Oh.” Christine thought hard, trying to remember the exact words T’Pring had used. “Is less erotic not the same as boring—” But T’Pring cut her off. “If anything . . . my feelings for you are more complicated than they were before.” Here's to complicated feelings.

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How to Build a City (1998 words) by Alsike Chapters: 1/5 Fandom: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (TV) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Christine Chapel/T'Pring, T'Pring & Herself Characters: T'Pring (Star Trek), Christine Chapel Additional Tags: T'Pring's perspective on Erotic Vulcan Love Poetry, Poetry, Philosophy, Exile, Depression, Recovery Series: Part 13 of Trekkerverse Summary: “Is it getting boring?” Christine asked, lying in sweaty hotel sheets, trailing jetstreams of Vulcan incense making the air taste of black licorice, which had somehow become an immediate turn-on for her. “Since how you feel about me is less complicated now?” T’Pring lifted her head and rested her chin on her hands, staring across the too large bed at Christine, an oddly thoughtful expression on her face. “You have begun with a flawed premise,” she said. “Oh.” Christine thought hard, trying to remember the exact words T’Pring had used. “Is less erotic not the same as boring—” But T’Pring cut her off. “If anything . . . my feelings for you are more complicated than they were before.” Here's to complicated feelings.
Chapter 2!
How to Build a City (4686 words) by Alsike Chapters: 2/5 Fandom: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (TV) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Christine Chapel/T'Pring, T'Pring & Herself Characters: T'Pring (Star Trek), Christine Chapel Additional Tags: T'Pring's perspective on Erotic Vulcan Love Poetry, Poetry, Philosophy, Exile, Depression, Recovery Series: Part 13 of Trekkerverse Summary: “Is it getting boring?” Christine asked, lying in sweaty hotel sheets, trailing jetstreams of Vulcan incense making the air taste of black licorice, which had somehow become an immediate turn-on for her. “Since how you feel about me is less complicated now?” T’Pring lifted her head and rested her chin on her hands, staring across the too large bed at Christine, an oddly thoughtful expression on her face. “You have begun with a flawed premise,” she said. “Oh.” Christine thought hard, trying to remember the exact words T’Pring had used. “Is less erotic not the same as boring—” But T’Pring cut her off. “If anything . . . my feelings for you are more complicated than they were before.” Here's to complicated feelings.
Trekkerverse Christine Chapel/T’Pring series fic rec
Alsike is one of my favorite authors, but I had not read any of their Christine Chapel/T’Pring fics until recently as I had never watched Strange New Worlds. In late December they published an AU that sounded like fun and I overcame my reluctance and I read it (after all I had watched other Star Trek before). I did not regret it as I was able to get into this hilarious story and I loved it. (Hint: read The One Where They’re Professors)
After that I was hooked on the ship and continued to read this series of T'Pristine stories, and I couldn’t stop.
They blend philosophy, Star Trek and a beautiful love story into a spectacular fanfiction trilogy.
Trekkerverse Series by Alsike
Fandom: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (TV)
Ship: Christine Chapel/T'Pring (f/f)
The Trekkerverse series also includes a couple of loosely connected stories for another ship, but the three Christine Chapel/T’Pring stories form a trilogy
1) A Hermeneutics of Ass-Fucking by Alsike
Complete, 1 chapter, 6k words, 2022
Mature; No Archive Warnings Apply
“So far as I can tell, most worthwhile pleasures on this earth slip between gratifying another and gratifying oneself. Some would call that an ethics.” Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts
Dr Christine Chapel always figured that T'Pring was a Vulcan’s Vulcan, and never expected to find her here, on Betazed, living a very different life than she’d had before. But, no one gets out of a relationship with Spock unscathed. And sometimes the ways you tried to change yourself to keep him end up showing you who you want to be.
2) Erotic Vulcan Love Poetry by Alsike
Complete, 1 chapter, 7k words, 2022
Teen and up; No Archive Warnings Apply
It had just been a one time thing–sex to soothe the hurt feelings and lingering resentments between them. But both being attached to universities and the good old conference circuit means that Dr Christine Chapel and T'Pring are still in each other’s orbits. And well–good sex is good sex, right? No reason to turn it down.
There’s no way this could become feelings.
Fuck.
3) Like a Sea Turtle to their Beach by Alsike
Complete, 9 chapters, 38k words, 2022
Teen and up; No Archive Warnings Apply
Vulcan calls.
Things have been going well for Christine and T'Pring, negotiating how to be together and feel settled in their relationship. But both good things and bad things can make things harder. The emergent telepathic bond should be a good thing: it’s a connection, a sign of intimacy. But it’s also a reminder of everything T'Pring has lost.
When the family that disowned her after the disaster of the kaliffee requests her return, T'Pring is certain that they won’t want her back, not who she is now–who she’s _with_ now. But she needs to go anyway and find a way to leave her past behind so she can fully move forward.
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My Thoughts
This is an amazing series of fics that you should definitely read if you are into Star Trek and femslash fanfiction.
It is very well written and the characters are beautifully flashed out (really great for someone who did not watch this show). Ultimately this is a enemies to lovers story; maybe more of an “I hooked up with the ex of my ex and fell in love” story.
The 3rd part is the longest and explores T'Prings past, her struggle as an outcast and the possible reconciliation with her family.
It takes place mostly on Vulcan and dives deep into Vulcan society and its issues with (non)conformity. And it does wrap up T'Pring’s and Christine’s love story when they finally overcome their insecurities.
This is an incredible trilogy of fics, an amazing love story and one of the best Star Trek stories that I have ever experienced. And that includes a lot of official novels and canon shows and movies.
Quote from A Hermeneutics of Ass-Fucking
Christine was both out of her depth and really in her depth at the same time. She felt herself smiling, a little manically. This was definitely not okay. “Yeah, you want to spank me or something? Because I really don’t think this is the best way to handle emotions. Which, as human, talking to a Vulcan, is kind of a hilarious thing to say.”
“Do you want to be spanked?”
Christine froze.
“I had not thought of that. But if that is something you enjoy, we can include it as part of our pre-sexual negotiation.”
Addendum: How much Star Trek do you need to know?
Of course, you’ll be fine if you watched Strange New worlds, but I think there are also other ways to enjoy this trilogy if you did not watch this show but have some prior knowledge of Star Trek and Vulcans.
I have never watched Strange New Worlds but I have watched a lot of the older Star Trek shows and movies and read a lot of the novels from the 80s and 90s. I really loved the ones focused on Vulcan society, Vulcan culture and Human & Vulcan interaction (and not just Spock) and I felt right at home when I read this trilogy.
Even if you know very little about Star Trek, it is worth doing some googling to read this story.
Update (added after the original post):
The author wrote more excellent fics in the series and more stand alone fics for this ship. Check them out!
Also: There is podfic now by twtd
Notes:
This was cross-posted to tumblr and my WordPress blog. Check it out for more femslash fanfic recs.
What a lovely thing to see today, on my birthday! Especially since I've just started adding another installment. :D
How to Build a City (1998 words) by Alsike Chapters: 1/5 Fandom: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (TV) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Christine Chapel/T'Pring, T'Pring & Herself Characters: T'Pring (Star Trek), Christine Chapel Additional Tags: T'Pring's perspective on Erotic Vulcan Love Poetry, Poetry, Philosophy, Exile, Depression, Recovery Series: Part 13 of Trekkerverse Summary: “Is it getting boring?” Christine asked, lying in sweaty hotel sheets, trailing jetstreams of Vulcan incense making the air taste of black licorice, which had somehow become an immediate turn-on for her. “Since how you feel about me is less complicated now?” T’Pring lifted her head and rested her chin on her hands, staring across the too large bed at Christine, an oddly thoughtful expression on her face. “You have begun with a flawed premise,” she said. “Oh.” Christine thought hard, trying to remember the exact words T’Pring had used. “Is less erotic not the same as boring—” But T’Pring cut her off. “If anything . . . my feelings for you are more complicated than they were before.” Here's to complicated feelings.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/76590411/chapters/200448096
How to Build a City (1998 words) by Alsike Chapters: 1/5 Fandom: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (TV) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Christine Chapel/T'Pring, T'Pring & Herself Characters: T'Pring (Star Trek), Christine Chapel Additional Tags: T'Pring's perspective on Erotic Vulcan Love Poetry, Poetry, Philosophy, Exile, Depression, Recovery Series: Part 13 of Trekkerverse Summary: “Is it getting boring?” Christine asked, lying in sweaty hotel sheets, trailing jetstreams of Vulcan incense making the air taste of black licorice, which had somehow become an immediate turn-on for her. “Since how you feel about me is less complicated now?” T’Pring lifted her head and rested her chin on her hands, staring across the too large bed at Christine, an oddly thoughtful expression on her face. “You have begun with a flawed premise,” she said. “Oh.” Christine thought hard, trying to remember the exact words T’Pring had used. “Is less erotic not the same as boring—” But T’Pring cut her off. “If anything . . . my feelings for you are more complicated than they were before.” Here's to complicated feelings.
Birthday Fic, coming up!
christmas eve what about christmas adam
happy christmas adam to all men’s rights activists
Please stop pestering us with things like this. This has nothing to do with men fighting for their rights. Eve is short for ‘evening’. Please don’t turn activism into a joke. Thanks.
Someone isn’t having a good christmas adam
Christmas Adam: December 23rd. Comes before Christmas Eve and is generally unsatisfying.
Happy Christmas Adam everyone

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (TV) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Christine Chapel/T'Pring Characters: Christine Chapel, Anne Sophie Chapel Additional Tags: Parent-Child Relationship Series: Part 4 of Collegetown Comics Summary:
Another timestamp in Collegetown Comics-verse.
Things are going fine. Christine and T'Pring are settling into their lives and relationship. Then, of course, Anne Sophie comes for a visit.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Christine Chapel/T'Pring Characters: Christine Chapel, T'Pring (Star Trek) Additional Tags: First Dates Series: Part 3 of Collegetown Comics Summary:
It's Friday, and Christine has a date.
Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (TV) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Christine Chapel/T'Pring Characters: Christine Chapel, T'Pring (Star Trek), Sevet | Father of T'Pring (Star Trek) Additional Tags: Family, Divorce, Parent-Child Relationship Series: Part 2 of Collegetown Comics Summary:
A timestamp from the Comic Book Shop AU, in T'Pring's POV.
After the revelations at the elementary school, T'Pring goes home to sort out her divorce. Her dad is there. But maybe, finally, the past isn't as important as the future.
The curious, intertwined history of climate and digital rights activism
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I am an environmentalist, but I'm not a climate activist. I used to be – I even used to ring strangers' doorbells on behalf of Greenpeace. But a quarter of a century ago, I fell in with the Electronic Frontier Foundation and became a lifelong digital rights activist, and switched to cheering on environmental activists from the sidelines of their fight:
https://eff.org
Over the decades, there've been many moments where I've been struck by the parallels between climate activism and tech activism. In both cases, the foundational challenge is getting people to care about the looming catastrophic effects of bad policies. In both cases, those policies and their effects are highly abstract and technical, and are downstream of a huge, weird, cross-cutting set of contingencies and circumstances, which makes it hard for anyone to truly take their measure. You don't just have to master the technical issues – you have to get your arms around the economic, social and political issues, too. Bad tech policy and bad climate policy are both wicked problems, hard to define and even harder to solve.
Whether we're talking about tech or the climate, there is a surefire way to get people to care about these issues: simply do nothing, allow these problems to get worse, and worse still, until millions of peoples' lives have been ruined. Then, of course, people will care. If we do nothing about fire debt and rising temperatures, then everyone who lives in the urban-wildlife interface will lose their homes and possibly their lives to a wildfire. And if we do nothing about surveillance, manipulation and monopoly, then eventually everyone will find their pay slashed, their freedoms curtailed, their identities stolen, and their pockets picked by a tech monopolist or an opportunistic predator living off of the monopolist's weakened, vulnerable victims.
In some important sense, the job of an activist is to raise the salience and convey the urgency of these issues before those consequences are upon us. Both climate and tech activists use storytelling to do this, and I've written novels that are cautionary tales about what happens if we get climate wrong and if we get tech wrong, as well as novels that are meant to inspire hope for the kind of world we could have if we get them right.
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Schlocktober: A Fake Event Where Anything Goes
While other people are out here dropping Kinktober prompt lists with 9000 stipulations, I bring you this.
It's not a real October event, but it could be if you believe. The prompts are here for anyone to enjoy anyway.
Why "schlock"?
It means trash/junk, and that's the quality of content I'm striving for with these prompts. It's also fun to say.
But, y'know, if you want to take a prompt and turn it into a masterpiece of a whumpy longfic, go for it.
What fandom is this for?
Whatever fandom you want.
What ships can I write/draw?
Any of them.
Even [my fandom's most despised ship]?
Especially [your fandom's most despised ship].
What if I want to combine prompts? What if I want to write or draw things out of order? What if...
Go for it.
Are crossovers okay?
Do. Whatever. You. Want.
What if I want to create something problematic?
Send me the fucking link.
What does [prompt] mean?
You tell me. It's all open to interpretation.
Are there any rules at all?
Sure.
No AI use. If you need an LLM to write your schlock for you, consider a long walk off a short pier. If you need it to do your editing for you, use a beta reader instead. A stick figure drawn on the back of a napkin is better than soulless AI art.
Tag appropriately. 'Creator Chose Not to Use Archive Warnings' means anything goes. 'No Archive Warnings Apply' means your work is guaranteed not to contain any of the major archive warnings (non-con, major character death, graphic violence, or underage sex).
No irl bigotry. Your characters can be problematic as all get out, but if you try to post a weird pro-JK Rowling essay or something you're not going in the collection, bud. Don't kill the vibes.
What are the vibes?
Just have fun.
But other people are having fun wrong!
Shut the fuck up.
Are you going to be doing this?
Probably not.
How do I participate?
There's an ao3 collection right here:
Schlocktober on ao3
Otherwise, just hashtag #schlocktober or something, idk. I don't expect anyone to actually do this.
Text version of the prompts under the cut.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 7/7 Fandom: Star Trek, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Christine Chapel/T'Pring, and negatively, Christine Chapel/Spock, Spock/T'Pring (Star Trek), Christine Chapel/Roger Korby Characters: Christine Chapel, T'Pring (Star Trek), Spock (Star Trek), Khosa (OC), Erica Ortegas, Joseph M'Benga, Rukiya M'Benga, Roger Korby Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Human, Graduate School, Abusive mentorship relationships, Comic Book Shop AU, Marriage, Cheating, Self-harm with sex, Mental Health Issues, Parenthood, Characters Play Dungeons & Dragons, Children of Characters, this is just my sort of jam of people being people and that being awful for everyone, Cat Ears, Spock is a huge shit in this, if you don’t like Spock being a huge shit this is not for you, Privilege, Vulcans as an orthodox sect, Alley Blow Jobs, Rooftop Make-outs, Poor Life Choices Series: Part 1 of Collegetown Comics Summary:
Christine Chapel is in the process of washing out. Grad school turned out to be too much for her–for a lot of reasons–but admitting she’s dropping out is also too much. So these days she’s working at the downtown comic book shop, and trying not to think too hard about how she’s not keeping her shit together.
Then a hot dad and his kid walk in, and she starts to daydream about a different sort of life. One that’s not so hard.
Unfortunately, that’s not reality. Reality bites.