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May I present the best apple:

This is a horrifying indictment of the health system in this country

VOTING FOR THE MIRROR WEEK 2026 PROMPTS IS NOW LIVE!

There are three prompt lists: SFW, NSFW, and a Dark Prompts List. The SFW list is general, safe for work prompts that are Star Trek or mirror universe adjacent. The NSFW list is just that—prompts meant to inspire more explicit works. The dark list is full of prompts that fit a darker theme for those that wish to explore that side of the mirror universe.

Please note: The dark category contains prompts that may be upsetting for some. Use your own discretion. You do NOT have to engage with the dark prompts at all either to vote or to participate in the event.

Vote for ALL the prompts that interest you! The top seven from each category will be selected as the prompts for this year's Mirror Week.

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Trek: The Original Series (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: James T. Kirk/Leonard “Bones” McCoy/Spock Characters: Leonard “Bones” McCoy, James T. Kirk, Spock (Star Trek) Additional Tags: Shore Leave, Smut, Humor, Bottom Leonard “Bones” McCoy Summary: For @mcspirkevents​ 2026 Reverse Big Bang

I am so excited to finally be sharing my piece for the @mcspirkevents 2026 McSpirk Reverse Bang!

Here is the amazing fic by kurgaya that was inspired from it

Thank you @majormiles for choosing my art! You are such a talented writer and it’s been a joy being your collab partner.

It's that time of year again Spones lovers~!

Out fourth ever Spones Day is coming in just a few weeks on June 26th, as decided by our zine committee!

As always you are free to create anything that you would like for the event! Fic, art, edits, meta, anything you'd like to do in the way you want to do it! Wthe AO3 collection for the event will be linked below for you to add your works to as well.We will be tracking the tags #sponesday and #sponesday2026 so don't forget to tag your posts so we can reblog it onto here! You're also free to ping us @sponeszine so please so so we won't miss it!

We're looking forward to seeing what everyone creates~!

and then thinking about all the people who call her cold or uncaring or clinical about what she has to do to save earth. eva stratt, who had silly t-shirts and vodka and favorite meals stored in the Hail Mary and treated with the same level of importance as the finely tuned equipment and the centrifuge the entire planet relies on for salvation.

and then thinking about eva stratt nodding and saying, “yeah, I’m pretty awful. that’s why i’m in charge” with a neutral expression and even believing it. as if crafting the most beautiful coffin and homage to her soon-to-be dead friends won’t haunt her always.

thinking about eva stratt being the first person on the “eva stratt is a monster” train, welcoming ryland grace aboard and knowing she believed in him more than anyone else.

I work at a library. We do this thing where, every so often, we weed the collection. It hurts to see books go, but it's necessary to make sure there's room in the library for new materials.

I have seen so much support for the library in text, and I've seen folks pass around those beautiful "queer your library" flyers. Keep doing that. That's great. Nothing wrong with that. But you HAVE to turn your words into action. We MUST remember to actually go to our local organizations and libraries and actually, with our own fucking hands, interact with these materials we want to see more of.

My branch is medium-sized for a library, maybe a little small. We don't have as many materials as I'd like, but we have fundamentals. Tell me why, even with all the verbal support I've gotten from my local community for the library as a resource for our LGBT+ community, every single trans biography and a good chunk of our vaguely queer theory books were on the list. This isn't a scheme to take the books off the shelves, it isn't another bigoted American governmental push. The only thing we look at when we weed is how long it's been since the last time the item was checked out.

Three years.

No one in my community interacted in any meaningful way with the few books on trans life and history we physically had on the shelves for three fucking years.

I promise you the materials you want and need are there, but this isn't a horde. This isn't a static safety net. You have to use them. You MUST use them or, in the future, maybe in three years, they *won't* be there anymore.

I'm also a librarian and queer books are almost always cut first when we have to weed for space or prioritize new releases over old items because no one reads them

I will say, when I worked at a large downtown location, we had a "browsing card" that we would check out items we found taken off the shelf and left on a table, as an example of a book that had clearly been read, just not checked out by anyone

it's possible queer books do actually get a bit of unfair treatment in this regard because people may be nervous or outright scared to check them out onto an account with their name on it. so they get browsed at a much higher rate, but if a library doesn't have a specific system in place (or need for it) to count browsed items, then it looks like they aren't being used and they get weeded

for other librarians, a browsing card is a great idea if you have enough staff for the extra work / enough items left out to justify it

for patrons, check out queer books even if you don't read them! you're not lying or committing any type of fraud. you're keeping books on the shelf long enough for pride season when people are interested in checking them out again and for people scared to use their own accounts or who don't have library cards

for anyone nervous about using their library card, libraries do not keep search histories of what you check out!! this means even if the government does come back with a warrant, *wet farting noise* too bad! it doesn't exist!

It feels like such a small thing, but all movements are made up of small things! We have this mindset that in order to get everything done, everyone must be doing their (or *the*) absolute best at all times. But not everyone can do the same things, to the same degree, with the same amount of productivity or success. Not everyone can; sometimes, they're the ones that need help. Sometimes people just need help.

This post is very much so intended for the people who can. I've seen a lot of replies from folks who say they don't have to (or don't think about) checking out or requesting queer books from the library specifically because they *can* buy them, can pirate them, or already have them in their house or on their computers or phones. But in instances like that, keeping these books in circulation is less for you and more for the people who can't. The folks who come to the library, who don't have access to internet--or even electricity--at home and would never--have never--been able to interact with this "ubiquitous queer community" we have here online who has made so many of these. materials so avaliable to the rest of us.

And... if I can be a little frank. Sometimes the hyperaccessibility of these materials online (through pirating, cheap e-book copies, etc) gives people a false sense of security. It implies that these things are an infinate resource, good for "When I get around to it".

And often, you won't. There's so much to read and so much to do. So much to download and so much to sit down and stare at for hours. That kind of mental scope puts books in people's hands (or phones), but never in their heads.

I live in a province that is currently trying to ban queer books from libraries, and as a library patron, this is terrifying. 95% of the books I read are from the library and a lot of them are way out of my budget to buy personally.

Making Queer History would not exist without the school library I skipped class in to write articles. It would not exist without my friends with library cards for their universities sharing them and getting me access to rare texts. I would not be able to read as much as I do without Libby and Hoopla. If I have ever given you a book recommendation, know that I likely got it from the library first.

I cannot overstate the importance of protecting libraries and checking out queer books. And I want to say thank you to everyone above for being as passionate as I am about queer books in libraries.