fellas, is it gauche to be excited as hell about one's own recently-published fic? wait, i don't care; this is my blog so here's some lore
part 4 :)
Okay, first of all, @reject-tiefling'S GOTDAMN ART I AM NEVER GONNA GET OVER IT (that will be its own post later today, actually, because I need to geek out about all the beautiful details)
But besides that... we're gonna get a smidge personal.
Like Jim, I am absolutely the bitch who will blast The Beatles and shake my booty while cleaning the kitchen. I used to be in a relationship with someone who was genuinely embarrassed by my goofy dancing - in public and in private. I remember one time when we walked through a mostly-empty lobby, "Can't Buy Me Love" came on, I involuntarily started singing and boogeying along, and they covered their face in sincere mortification. I internalized their shame-filled gaze; I literally cringed while writing Jim dancing. But writing Spock adoringly watching Jim dance honestly healed something inside me.
The 21st century Terran translation controversy chat was literally because I was like "they need an attempted sex scene, but they're not just gonna jump right into sex, they're gonna flirt first. how are they gonna flirt? oh yes, by being nerds." I would like the record to show that I wrote the implicit reference to Emily Wilson before all the kerfuffle about Nolan's Odyssey adaptation and her delicious takedown. My DMs with @thesarosperiod prove it.
And the small bit about Spock loving the changing shape of Jim's body⦠this will be its own post one day, but TL;DR I need the Trek fandom to get more normal about Jim's body. Against the distortions I see, I wanted to write a short but meaningful corrective: fatness is a part of the whole that is older Jim, whom Spock loves, and thus Spock loves his constituent parts, including his fatness.
Read the chapter and see the art at this link, then please gush with me about the gorgeous details Tiefling drew; I've been going feral for weeks wanting the world to see it!
